Atnevon - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:10.5% of the yearly revenue? (Score 1) 284

by Atnevon on Wednesday September 24 2008, @08:09AM (#25134009) Attached to: RIAA and Net Radio Broadcasters Reach Agreement

While the replies are correct here, there's something *major* that's been overlooked in the article they linked. The DiMA agreement actually makes a *huge* breakthrough for non-interactive streams and *excludes them* from having to pay license fees for the recordings. This allows stations that broadcast without interaction directly (ie - a shoutcast style station) to operate exactly like AM/FM stations and only pay royalties to the songwriters and not the the RIAA (Soundexchange). It's *great* news that I had trouble believing, but I went to the source: http://www.digmedia.org/content/release.cfm?id=7243&content=pr

Cell Phone Signal from Miners-> 0

Submitted by

Jimmy Blake

on Friday August 17 2007, @08:34AM

Jimmy Blake writes "I work for a wireless internet company in Michigan, and the recent issues with the mine collapse in Utah have brought an interesting question to mind for me. We keep hearing on the news why cell phone type communication with workers underground just isn't possible because of the insane amount of rock that the signal would have to travel through, and I don't debate at all that this is the case. Most cell phones are broadcasting at 1/3 or 2/3 of a watt, which has nowhere near enough 'oomph' to get through that much solid material. However, once you have a hole drilled all the way down through into the mining chamber, there are a good number of possibilities that come to mind. It should be possible to drop a directional antenna down that drill hole to a near enough range where it could possibly pick up signal from the miners. By swinging the antenna 360 degrees and looking for signal hits from cell phones and looking at the strength of those hits if you do get any, it should be possible to get a pretty good idea just where in the mine the workers are. Granted, with the current Utah case it is most likely that too much time has passed and all miner cell phones have gone dead by now, but should this ever happen in the future would this be a workable solution to quickly locate workers trapped inside a mine shaft once a hole has been drilled to them, if any of them are carrying cell phones?"
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