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Comment Re: Cue the audiophiles in 3...2.... (Score 0) 77

Just to make things actually clear for people:Audio CDs (MP3) are already a lossy format. MP3 does not capture all the audio in a live recording. This is why audiophiles love vinyl records and why the vinyl industry *grew* in 2016. https://www.lifewire.com/what-... http://fortune.com/2016/04/16/...

Comment Re:In other words: (Score 1) 147

No, *I'm* sorry, but i have to call bullshit on your bullshit. And no, not pre-buyout. I've run/support huge labs of computers for years and years, and even now ATI/AMD drivers suck ass. Driver crashes? Only the ATI cards. BSODs caused by vid drivers? Only the ATI Cards. I have to go replace 2 more computers as of yesterday, due to the ATI drivers crashing on one and causing conflicts on another. *You* may be getting lucky, but when you scale it up, AMD drivers still have waaaaay more problems than Nvidia.

Comment Blame Apple. (Score 1) 1140

The simple reason is marketing. The advanced reason is laptops. The initial reason is...Apple. When Apple started the whole "Watch movies on our new laptop in native widescreen!" trend, that was the start of this whole problem. Then marketing researchers noticed that people were buying widescreen laptops over non widscreen...and were paying a premium while using a smaller monitor. Thus, all laptop makers switched to widescreens. It saves them cash, and they could charge the same or more to consumers. All in all, it sucks bad.

Comment Use a combination of LDAP, Sudo, and a Cron job. (Score 1) 904

Dunno if this would work, but the idea is neat: Policies for running programs can be controlled via the sudoers file, using groups. Once on LDAP, the group memberships can be controlled via the central LDAP server. You could even create a cron job to check/update the sudoers file. You could take it a step further and write a global login script to lock down all aspects of a system, and have it unlock and lock services/devices based on group membership in LDAP.
Privacy

RCMP Won't Go After Personal Filesharers 405

mlauzon writes "The RCMP announced that it will stop targeting people who download copyrighted material for personal use (Google translation). Their priority will be to focus on organized crime and copyright theft that affects the health and safety of consumers, such as copyright violations related to medicine and electrical appliances, instead of the cash flow of large corporations. Around the same time that the CRIA successfully took Demonoid offline, the RCMP made clear that Demonoid's users don't have to worry about getting prosecuted, at least not in Canada. 'Piracy for personal use is no longer targeted,' Noël St-Hilaire, head of copyright theft investigations of the RCMP, said in an interview. 'It is too easy to copy these days and we do not know how to stop it.'"
Google

Submission + - Google Honors Veterans Day

theodp writes: "It took nearly a decade, but Google has done a turnabout and is honoring Veterans Day with a special holiday design for its famous logo. Users who log onto Google's home page are greeted with three World War I-era helmets capping the letters 'o' and 'e' in Google's name. The decoration is a marked departure for the company, which has come under fire from veterans' groups for ignoring American holidays such as Veterans Day and Memorial Day since Google's inception in 1999."
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - UMG Considers iTunes Contract Terms 'Indecent'

Bemopolis writes: "Brace yourselves for a shocking revelation: The CEO of Vivendi, parent company of UMG, is not happy with the current deal with the iTunes Store.

"The split between Apple and (music) producers is indecent ... Our contracts give too good a share to Apple," Vivendi Chief Executive Jean-Bernard Levy told reporters at a gathering on Monday organized by the association of media journalists in France.
I must admit, it is outrageous what Apple is charging them for maintaining an online store that doesn't require the manufacture of physical media; foots the bill for advertising, bandwidth, credit card charges, and software updates; and maintains what must be an incredibly modest server farm (only 6 Msongs in it, after all). In case you've forgotten just how bad Apple has them over a barrel,

At present, UMG, the world's largest record company, gets 0.70 euro ($0.99) out of the 0.99 euro retail price charged by iTunes, Vivendi said.
From what I could read through my tears, the usual argument about older music priced at the same rate as new music is trotted out. No doubt UMG would prefer to make the former cheaper, while maintaining the current pricing for the latter. At least he had the decency not to claim that they were trying to defend their artists against predatory iTunes pricing. Or maybe he just misplaced the index card with that boilerplate on it."
GNU is Not Unix

Submission + - First U.S. GPL Lawsuit Heads for Quick Settlement 1

__aajbyc7391 writes: The first U.S. GPL-related lawsuit appears to be headed for a quick out-of-court settlement. Monsoon Multimedia admitted today that it had violated the GPLv2 (GNU General Public License version 2), and said it will release its modified BusyBox code in full compliance with the license. Monsoon Multimedia has stated that it is currently in settlement negotiations with the BusyBox project to resolve the matter without going to court. The product at the heart of the lawsuit, filed by SFLC, is the Hava, a place- and time-shifting TV recorder that is based on Linux and includes BusyBox in its embedded software stack.
Movies

NYT Confirms Movie Studios Paid to Support HD DVD 441

An anonymous reader writes "The New York Times has confirmed the story that Paramount and DreamWorks Animation were paid $150 million for an exclusive HD-DVD deal that will last 18 months. 'Paramount and DreamWorks Animation declined to comment. Microsoft, the most prominent technology company supporting HD DVDs, said it could not rule out payment but said it wrote no checks. "We provided no financial incentives to Paramount or DreamWorks whatsoever," said Amir Majidimehr, the head of Microsoft's consumer media technology group.'" We discussed Paramount's defection on Monday.

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