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Comment Re:I repudiated copyright, and recommend others do (Score 2, Insightful) 275

by Gyppo on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @06:59PM (#25461415) Attached to: Learning To Profit From Piracy

Willing to put in the time and being able to put in the time are two very different things. I have a full time job, house and family. There is no way I could take off more than a few days to tour to promote my band's album. Saying if you don't tour you don't deserve to be paid for your music is ridiculous. True that just because we created an album, we don't necessarily deserve to be paid for it, but if somebody wants to own our music, that also doesn't mean they get it for free. Of course they need to pay for an album. XTC has not toured for over 10 years. So you think people should just be able to take their music because they don't tour?

Submission + - Free Pascal 2.2 has been released (freepascal.org)

Submitted by

Daniel Mantione

on Monday September 10, 2007 @03:24PM

Daniel Mantione writes: "Free Pascal 2.2 has been released. Several new platforms are supported, like the Mac OS X on Intel platform, the Game Boy Advance, Windows CE and 64-Windows. Free Pascal is now the first and only free software compiler that target 64-bit Windows. These advancements were made possible by Free Pascal's internal assembler and linker allowing support for platforms not supported by the GNU binutils. The advancement in internal assembling and linking also allow faster compilation times and smaller executables, increasing the programmer comfort. Other new features are stabs debug support, many new code optimizations, resourcestring smartlinking and more.

Further, Free Pascal has become extremely powerfull in developing portable software over the last years. The release article explains why."

Police Busted When Tracking Device Found On Car 367

Posted by kdawson on Sunday September 09, 2007 @02:12PM from the george-orwell-meets-the-keystone-kops dept.

uh oh notes a story from Down Under where a police investigation came to a screeching halt as a man being investigated by the police found tracking devices in two of his cars, ripped them out, and listed them on an auction site. "Ralph Williams, of Cromwell, said he found the devices last week in his daughter's car, which he uses, and in his flatmate's car after the cars were seized by police and taken away for investigation."

Submission + - No More TV Listings For MythTV Users 1

Submitted by

Ryan Brown

on Sunday September 09, 2007 @01:37PM

Ryan Brown writes: "Since September 1st, the free XML TV guide service at zap2it labs has shut its doors due to misuse issues as well as internal business issues. Now that Linux users, and most PVR users for that matter, are nearing the end of their last fetched TV guide, what free alternatives exist that can replace this much needed service?"

Submission + - English Wikipedia passes two million article mark (wikinews.org)

Submitted by

reybrujo

on Sunday September 09, 2007 @01:34PM

reybrujo writes: "Today saw the English language Wikipedia pass the two million article mark. The article in question is El Hormiguero and covers a Spanish TV comedy show. Wikipedia user Zzxc created it at 8:21 UTC, with another 104 articles being created within a minute of it. (Text taken from Wikinews)"

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