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by RedMagic (#36260278) Attached to: Poland's Prime Minister Goes For Open Government
Don't rely on Google Translate for precision :) The Polish text says, that once the provisions are in place, everything will be public and free *by default*, aside from a limited amount of categories, like classified files or financial analysis, which the government relies on in negotiations with other parties.
Google

+ - Google not losing $1.65M/day on YouTube after all ->

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secmartin
secmartin writes "A report by Credit Suisse released earlier this year claimed that Google was losing up to $1.65M per day on YouTube. This was widely considered to be a huge overestimate; now a new report by research firm RampRate provides a better estimate that takes into account that 73% of Google's traffic flows via peering agreements, leading to a more realistic figure of $477k/day.

What both analysts appear to be missing it the fact that Google is working hard to create a completely transit-free IPv6 network; as Google puts it in their IPv6 FAQ:

To qualify for Google over IPv6, your network must have good IPv6 connectivity to Google. Multiple direct interconnections are preferred, but a direct peering with multiple backup routes through transit or multiple reliable transit connections may be acceptable.

What do you think? Do these new figures sound more realistic, and would it be a good or a bad thing if Google didn't have to pay for their internet bandwidth at all?"
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Music

+ - MPAA responsibility regards to liability tools

Submitted by Taelnayael
Taelnayael writes "I have a Time Capsule where I am storing all of my data and I am wondering my liability if someone hacks my wireless network. I use WPA encryption with a fairly strong key. All of my songs have come from personal rips. What is my liability if the MPAA decides that my songs have been placed out on the network for consumption? I guess my main worry is that the burden of proof that I was only using these files on an internal network is up to the judgement of the MPAA. There is no assumption of reasonable attempt to dissuade any more. To keep myself and others from a major lawsuit, I guess my question is this. If the MPAA is the final judicator for what constitutes file sharing, should they not be responsible for putting out a tool that lets people know if they are breaking the MPAA's law?"
Security

+ - First Ever Conference on Cyber Warfare->

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MadMatt
MadMatt writes "Academics, experts from private companies and government officials are meeting this week in Tallinn, Estonia, at the first-ever Conference on Cyber Warfare. It's hosted by the Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence (CCDCOE), launched in May 2008 to help NATO countries deal with ever-growing cyberthreats. The Taliban and Al Qaeda have created Web sites in order to spread ideology, recruit members and teach bomb-making techniques, but experts claim NATO has been focused on cyberdefense rather than offense. Full story at http://www.cio.com.au/article/307894/industry_military_experts_discuss_murky_cyberwar_issues"
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Patents

+ - Microsoft Patenting Avoiding Bad Neighborhoods

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theodp
theodp writes "When a white friend told comedian Chris Rock that he was on a street called Martin Luther King and asked what he should do, Rock answered, 'Run!' Such predicaments are addressed by the six inventors of Microsoft's patent-pending Pedestrian Route Production technology, which covers the production of direction sets for the purpose of 'avoiding unsafe neighborhoods.'"
AMD

+ - SLI on Life Support on the AMD Platform-> 2

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JoshMST
JoshMST writes "For years AMD and NVIDIA were like peas and carrots, and their SNAP partnership proved to be quite successful for both companies. Things changed dramatically when AMD bought up ATI, and now it seems like NVIDIA is pulling the plug on SLI support for the AMD platform. While the chipset division at AMD may be a bitter rival to NVIDIA, the CPU guys there have had a long and prosperous relationship with the Green Machine. While declining chipset margins on the AMD side was attributed to AMD's lackluster processor offerings for the past several years, the Phenom II chips have reawakened interest in the platform and they have found a place in enthusiasts' hearts again. Unfortunately for NVIDIA, they are seemingly missing out on a significant revenue stream by not offering new chipsets to go with these processors. They have also curtailed SLI adoption on the AMD platform as well, which couldn't be happening at a worse time."
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PC Games (Games)

+ - America's Army 3 developer team canned

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incognito84
incognito84 writes "The development team responsible for the developing of the freeware game, "America's Army 3" has been canned, days after the launch of the highly flawed game which was distributed mostly via Steam.

The anonymous America's Army 3 developers in touch with Kotaku unsurprisingly didn't sound too pleased with the current situation, venting that "a lot of good people [worked] insanely long hours on this game that was butchered by outside sources."

The game's launch was plagued by massive server authentication issues which are inhibiting most players from playing it two days after the game's official launch."
The Internet

+ - The Homeless Stay Wired

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theodp
theodp writes "San Franciscan Charles Pitts has accounts on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. He runs a Yahoo forum, reads news online and keeps in touch with friends via email. Nothing unusual, right? Except Pitts has been homeless for two years and manages this digital lifestyle from his residence under a highway bridge. Thanks to cheap computers, free Internet access and sheer determination, the WSJ reports that being homeless isn't stopping some from staying wired. 'You don't need a TV. You don't need a radio. You don't even need a newspaper,' says Pitts. 'But you need the Internet.'"
Music

+ - Software Enables Re-Creation of 'Lost' Instrument

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Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes "BBC reports that the Lituus, a 2.4m (8ft) -long trumpet-like instrument, was played in Ancient Rome but fell out of use some 300 years ago. Bach's even composed a motet (a choral musical composition) for the Lituus, one of the last pieces of music written for the instrument.. But until now, no one had a clear idea of what this instrument looked or sounded like until researchers at Edinburgh University developed software that enabled them to design the Lituus even though no one alive today has heard, played or even seen a picture of this forgotten instrument. The team started with cross-section diagrams of instruments they believed to be similar to the Lituus and the range of notes it played. "The software used this data to design an elegant, usable instrument with the required acoustic and tonal qualities. The key was to ensure that the design we generated would not only sound right but look right as well," says Professor Murray Campbell. "Crucially, the final design produced by the software could have been made by a manufacturer in Bach's time without too much difficulty." Performed by the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (SCB) the Lituus produced a piercing trumpet-like sound interleaving with the vocals in an experimental performance of Bach's "O Jesu Christ, meins lebens licht" in Switzerland earlier this year giving the music a haunting feel that can't be reproduced by modern instruments. The software opens up the possibility that brass instruments could be customized more closely to the needs of individual players in the future — catering more closely for the differing needs of jazz, classical and other players all over the world. "Sophisticated computer modelling software has a huge role to play in the way we make music in the future.""

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