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Detecting the source of old audio?

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Scohop
Scohop writes "I'm in the process of archiving my music collection with FLAC. For lots of my old, burned CDs, I have no idea if the original source was lossy. If it was, it seems pointless to archive it with lossless compression (I'd prefer to track down the original). There must be detectable artifacts or signatures on these audio files. Is there a way to detect the source of old audio?"
Spam

Telemarketing Victims - Revolt!

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r3gx
r3gx writes "I just received a telemarketing call from "The Dove Foundation" http://www.dove.org/ asking to speak to the woman of the house. I stated that there was no woman of the house and the kind female asked to speak to the man of the house. "Speaking I said". "Ok is there a time I can call back to speak to the man or woman of the house?". Frustrated "You are speaking with the man of the house, and I am on a do not call list so you are breaking the law!". The telemarketer went on to explain that they are a non-profit and not subject to the Do-Not-Call Implementation Act. Even more frustrating is that whenever I asked a question the telemarketer would say "Ok" and then continue on with the telemarketing script, without answering my question. I finally asked if I was speaking with a human at which point the telemarketer apologized and then continued with the schpeel. It turns out the telemarketer I was talking to is a script named Kami, and the Dove Foundation has been taking heat for their telemarketing practices. They are also accused of fudging their survey reports and soliciting for a third party see wikipedia -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dove_Foundation So this is a call to action to visit their home page and spam their poll http://www.dove.org/opinionpoll_takeit.asp. Personally I do not think the poll results page is even tied to the poll. Since they are advocating censorship and bettor TV ratings vote the opposite, that you are happy with the rating system, no content offends you etc. And lets see if the poll results change. But most importantly you will be spamming the spammers!"
Data Storage

How do you choose your CD/DVD media?

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An anonymous reader writes "Ever burn something to CD or DVD, and go back to it six months later and find all your irreplaceable data gone? Its happened more to me more times than I'd like to admit. Ad Terras Per Aspera has written a guide on how to choose better CD/DVD media for archival purposes, and explains how burnable media works, and what the differences between DVD-R and DVD+R are in plain English."
The Internet

Online Automotive Enthusiasts Police Their Own

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An anonymous reader writes "What happens when an Audi driver posts video of himself driving 150MPH on a public highway? The folks at nasioc.com, a Subaru Impreza enthusiast site, don't let him off the hook very easily. If you are going to do something stupid, you are a lot better off keeping the evidence to yourself."
Spam

Disposable email addresses with browser extensions

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Raprezent
Raprezent writes "TemporaryInbox.com is maybe one of the best disposable email address services. You don't have to register the account. You can choose any name you want @temporaryinbox.com and many other domains. Why other domains? So the webmasters can't block every domain ;) The greatest thing is, that you can download a Firefox extension or an IE toolbar. So you can create some random email addresses and check them directly without visiting the website first. All mails will be deleted after 6 hours. Time enough to read or delete the mail manually. There is also a temporary forwarding. All mails will be forwarded to your private email address. As soon as you recognize that you receive spam, you can delete the forwarding and create a new one."
Software

Should Wikis really use a non-standard syntax?

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Django Dude
Django Dude writes "Back in the 90s when the concept of Wikis was being developed, perhaps it made sense to use a different syntax than HTML. But now that the web has been around for awhile, does it make sense for Wikis to use another format? With BBCode for forums, Texturize for blogs, and Wikipedia's popularity making their syntax a "standard", the question is do we need another syntax? Can't we assume that HTML is almost like knowing your ABC's by now?"
The Internet

Yahoo Pushing IE 7 on FireFox Users

Submitted by El Lobo
El Lobo writes "Looks like things are heating up again in the browser wars.

Google has been openly supporting Firefox, so now Yahoo is displaying a new feature at the bottom of search results pages for FireFox users. Checkout the screenshot on:

http://searchviews.com/archives/2006/12/yahoo_push ing_i.php

It appears that Yahoo is pushing downloads of the new IE 7 from Microsoft and including itself as the default search engine installed in the file menu area."

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