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Day of Silence On the Internet 276

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 26, 2007 @03:14PM from the silence-speaks-louder-than-tracks dept.

A number of readers sent in stories about Net radio going dark for a day. Not all of it, but according to the Globe and Mail at least 45 stations representing thousands of channels. The stations are protesting a ruling establishing royalty rates that will put most of them out of business on July 15. "The ruling... is expected to cost large webcasters such as Yahoo and Real Networks millions of dollars, drive smaller websites like Pandora.com and Live365.com out of business and leave a large chunk of the 72 million Net radio listeners in the dark." SaveNetRadio has a page where US residents can locate their senators and representatives to call them today.

Submission + - World of Warcraft ELUA contains malware clause (davis.ca)

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Tuesday June 26, 2007 @02:39PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Read Section 5 of the WOW EULA (End-User License Agreement) and you might be concerned about allowing Blizzard Entertainment to "monitor" your machine for "unauthorized" third party software. Read Section 11 of the WOW EULA and you might be even more concerned because Blizzard seeks to limit its liability to "the total fees paid ... to Blizzard during the six (6) months prior to the time such claim arose". It remains to be seen whether clauses of this nature are in fact enforceable."

Submission + - Woman Wins $29,000 Settlment after Topless Stroll

Submitted by Drachs on Monday June 18, 2007 @04:26PM

Drachs writes: Jill Coccaro, arrested for going topless around NYC, received a $29,000 settlement to settle her civil rights lawsuit due to a 1992 state appeals court ruling that concluded women should have the same right as men to take off their shirts.

Submission + - Why’d we go to war again?

Submitted by

Tanaris

on Monday June 18, 2007 @04:07PM

Tanaris writes: "Ok, despite the fact that the New York Times buried the story on page A8 (although I did enjoy the piece on the ambidextrous college pitcher on the front page), today it became official that Saddam Hussein had no ties to Al Queda. So, by my score card on the reasons for the war in Iraq:

Reason 1: Fear of WMD Did not exist

Reason 2: Ties to Al Queda Did not exist

Reason 3: Spread Democracy Not happening

Reason 4: Oil Supplies are way down

Reason 5: Saddam was a bad man Yes

Thats 4-1 people and if being a bad man gets you the full brunt of the U.S. Military, theres a long list of dictators out there we can target.

In reality, the Bush Administration did not go to war for any of the stated reasons whether that is an impeachable offense I dont know but rather to place the U.S. Military right smack in the Middle East to exact change where diplomacy has failed. The Bush theory was and is with our fighting force right there, Iran and Syria and the Palestinians need to know we can and will use force to dictate policy. I kind of buy this one but it hasnt really worked either. Lets go to the score card once again:

1. Iran: Not scared about capturing British soldiers

2. Lebanon: Hezbollah not scared about war with Israel

3. Saudis: Not scared about calling the U.S. an occupying force in Iraq.

4. Syria: Assad not scared about having tea with Pelosi!!

5. Arabs v. Israel: They are both using positive rhetoric about a two state solution.

Thats 4-1 again! Despite the losing record, I can assure you American troops will not exit Iraq before GW leaves office in January of 09 so lets hope some positive things happen thats the message Im supporting.

Have you supported a message today?

IsupportThisMessage.com"

Submission + - CNET: Your MP3 bit rate says you're a pirate

Submitted by homeward_bound on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @04:12PM

homeward_bound writes: In an odd article, CNET tells us what your choice of MP3 encoding quality says about you, and describes the typical traits of digital music lovers from the childish Limewire freaks to the middle-aged audiophile fanatics, and includes the notion that most people with 128kbps MP3's in their libraries are music pirates.

Submission + - Microsoft Patches Seven Critical Windows Bugs

Submitted by

Broken Window Fallacy

on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @03:39PM

Broken Window Fallacy writes: "F-Secure is reporting that on this Patch Tuesday, we have no less than seven critical vulnerabilities, each of which can lead to remote code execution. Further details can be found in Microsoft's May 7th security bulletin."

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