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Decryption Keys For HD-DVD Found, Confirmed 473

Posted by kdawson on Saturday January 13, 2007 @02:14PM from the house-of-cards dept.

kad77 writes "It appears that, despite skepticism, 'muslix64' was the real deal. Starting from a riddle posted on pastebin.com, members on the doom9 forum identified the Title key for the HD-DVD release 'Serenity.' Volume Unique Keys and Title keys for other discs followed within hours, confirming that software HD-DVD players, like any common program, store important run-time data in memory. Here's a link to decryption utility and sleuthing info in the original doom9 forum thread. The Fair Use crowd has won Round One; now how will the industry respond?"

UN Official Says UN Not Taking Over Internet 104

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday January 13, 2007 @12:05PM from the our-hands-are-clean dept.

kaufmanmoore writes "Hamadoun Toure, the new head of the UN's International Telecommunications Union says that he does not plan to take over governance of the internet and leave it up to groups like ICANN. In his statement he says that the ITU will instead focus on bridging the digital divide, internet security and standardize broadband communications. When asked about Chinese censorship Toure said that issue is beyond the mandate of the ITU."

Submission + - Famous music-producer steals from demoscene musici

Submitted by

gloom

on Saturday January 13, 2007 @10:16AM

gloom writes: "In 2000 the finnish demoscene musician Janne Suni (also known as Tempest) won the Oldskool Music Competition at the Assembly demoparty with his four channel Amiga .MOD entitled "Acid Jazzed Evening". A Commodore 64 musician called 'grg' remade the song on the C64 (using the infamous SID soundchip) which is what was stolen. The producers name is Timbaland, one of the hottest names in american music these days, and the track in question is called 'Do it' and is featured on the Nelly Furtado-album 'Loose'.

Getting nowhere with Geffen, the demoscene has now risen to he aid of Tempest, first by creating a stirr at SomethingAwful (files downloadable from the forum), and later at the news-site Digg.com as well as on YouTube, with a video demonstrating the blatant rippoff.

Being an online-posting musician myself — what rights do I have if this should ever happen to me, and what can be done to raise awareness about such things?"

How Can We Convert the US to the Metric System? 1487

Posted by Cliff on Saturday January 13, 2007 @07:23AM from the worthwhile-but-pigs-are-likely-to-fly-first dept.

thesolo asks: "Despite past efforts of the 1970s and 1980s, the United States remains one of only three countries (others are Liberia and Myanmar) that does not use the metric system. Staying with imperial measurements has only served to handicap American industry and economy. Attempts to get Americans using the Celsius scale, or putting up speed limits in kilometers per hour have been squashed dead. Not only that, but some Americans actually see metrication efforts as an assault on 'our way' of measuring. I personally deal with European scientists on a daily basis, and find our lack of common measurement to be extremely frustrating. Are we so entrenched with imperial units that we cannot get our fellow citizens to simply learn something new? What are those of us who wish to finally see America catch up to the rest of the world supposed to do? Are there any organizations that we may back, or any pro-metric legislators who we can support?"

Comment Bad summary (Score 5, Interesting) 131

by Knights who say 'INT on Wednesday December 06, 2006 @08:06PM (#17139318) Attached to: The Math Behind PageRank

The article specifically says the PageRank eigenvector is only recalculated once a month, approximately. Even though Google uses some clever numerics to calculate the eigenvectors to a 25 billion by 25 billion matrix by iteration, it still takes several hours to finish.

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