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Submission + - Watermarking to replace DRM? 3

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 16, 2007 @02:54PM

An anonymous reader writes: News.com has an article on the announcement of Microsoft and Universal to introduce watermarking technology into audio files. The technology could serve several purposes including tracking file sharing statistics and insertion of advertisements into audio tracks. The article goes on to suggest that watermarking could possibly replace DRM in the near future.

Feed Satellite duo takes first 3D images of the Sun (pheedo.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Monday April 23, 2007 @05:12PM

NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft snap the first 3D portraits of the Sun, revealing holes and loops in the Sun's outer atmosphere

Comment PFFT! (Score 1) 73

by SnottyRocket on Tuesday June 13, 2006 @02:51PM (#15526501) Attached to: OSVids Shows Video Clips of Linux in Action

Maybe if you're on dialup! Seriously, GCC, KDE, etc all take hours, even on a fast machine (X2 4400+ 2GB) it can take up an afternoon. Unless you're installing X-less, in which case you get to skip (most) of the heavy packages, it's gonna take some serious compile time.

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