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EMI May Remove DRM From Parts of Catalog 161

Posted by Zonk from the almost-too-good-to-be-true dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Ars Technica is reporting that EMI may announce on Monday that it will be freeing much of its catalog from the shackles of DRM. The Wall Street Journal, in a subscription-only portion of its site, is saying that that Apple CEO Steve Jobs will be present at the announcement in London and that the music will be sold through the iTunes Store and possibly other online outlets. In early February rumblings were heard that EMI was thinking about ditching DRM, but EMI was unable to entice the likes of Apple, Microsoft, and others. As it turned out, EMI wanted a considerable advance payment to offset what it perceived as a risk: selling DRM-free music online. EMI's position was simple: if they sell music without DRM, then users will find trading it that much easier." There's also rumours of an Apple/Beatles announcement sometime today, perhaps tied into this drm decision.

How Hackers Identify Their Targets 95

Posted by Zonk from the drawing-a-bead dept.
narramissic writes "In a recent article, security guru Brent Huston writes about research he did to get inside the minds of spammers and expose some of the processes they use to identify potential targets. Huston says that among the four common ways that spam is spread, the most common method that spammers use is via open relays. Huston's research also revealed that 'they were doing much more server analysis' than he had expected and that they take a multi-step approach: 'They scan the server for proper RFC compliance, and then they send a test message to a disposable address. Only after these are complete did they adopt the tool to dump their spam.'"

PostgreSQL Slammed by PHP Creator 527

Posted by Zonk from the yay-luge dept.
leifbk writes "'The Web is broken and it's all your fault' says Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP. He talks about not trusting user input, and the brokenness of IE, which is all fine. Then he makes a statement about MySQL vs PostgreSQL: 'If you can fit your problem into what MySQL can handle it's very fast,' Lerdorf said. 'You can gain quite a bit of performance.' For the items that MySQL doesn't handle as well as PostgreSQL, Lerdorf noted that some features can be emulated in PHP itself, and you still end up with a net performance boost. Naturally, the PostgreSQL community is rather unimpressed. One of the more amusing replies: 'I wasn't able to find anything the article worth discussing. If you give up A, C, I, and D, of course you get better performance- just like you can get better performance from a wheel-less Yugo if you slide it down a luge track.'"
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Comment Re:Best final exam? (Score 1) 247

by Matheo (#14324041) Attached to: Your Best Exam Stories?
I also brought a bottle at my last exam but it was champagne. Had it in pitcher full of ice to keep it cool. Once done, there was still plenty of people in the room and they all heard the noise when I opened the bottle. That was nice.

Comment This is in fact a Milestone (Score 1) 308

by ROunofF (#10940435) Attached to: E17 Available From CVS
This news is much more a milestone in the development of the e17 WM... During the last year the EFL was the part developed, a wonderful set of library to do many things(did I mention many?), in the scope of building a WM based on them. The code "that just work" that raster talks about is only the base of the window manager based on the EFL, most features are still to implement but nonetheless this represent a step in the E development... Stay Tuned

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