There's no indication whether or not the song is paid for through the standard licensing. To assume it is, is as unjustified as to assume it isn't. Politicians tend to assume everything they do is fair use as in http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/01/29/2015203/romney-invokes-fair-use-in-dispute-with-nbc-over-campaign-ad. Unfortunately, without that information, the article is pointless.

Artist with existing contract doesn't like what happened to his song, with no information about existing contract.

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Passwords can be stored encrypted and online with 2-factor for access with Symantec Personal Identity Portal. The 2-factor was the point at which I became willing to store the passwords online. Sorry if it's spammy, but it's a free product that works well for me. Online encrypted storage, second factor token software.

I don't necessarily trust Symantec, and half expect them to discontinue this in the most inconvenient way possible, but it works for me for now.

I like to read my wife's novels. She has participated in National Novel Writing Month for the last few years, besides writing all her life before that, and amazes me with her fiction. I am the luckiest man alive.

Have you got a citation for this? I had heard that Matthew Brady was famous for traveling with the armies. I'd love to read more about it.

I remember when there were more gopher sites than websites. Gopher's licensing wasn't bad, but they reserved the right to change it, so HTTP took over because it was free.

Hyperlinking isn't rocket science; there would have been a free implementation, and it would have won.

ADSI is Analog Display Services Interface, an interface standard for extending the interface on analog phones. So there are phones that support a standard interface as mentioned in the first point above, they're just hard to find. With an ADSI phone and an Asterisk server, you oould just conceivably do this by bringing in your landline to Asterisk and then back out to your analog sets with whatever additional info you chose. Manufacturers don't really talk about whether their phones are ADSI compliant, and there's very little documentation on ADSI. I personally gave up on this project because of the difficulty of finding a cheap ADSI phone, and the cost of going analog-VoIP-analog.

I think the process of reading a lot of online forums has damaged my spelling. In order to read Slashdot, you have to be able to scan over random misspellings and typos. Consequently, they don't jump out at me in my own writing anymore. That's my excuse for my own deterioration, anyway.