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Comment Re:No Powerboost for Me (Score 1) 287

by jfade (#22479696) Attached to: Comcast Cheating On Bandwidth Testing?
No, I hadn't been running any up till that point that day and don't distinctly remember running any in the days preceding... I was getting ready to upload a file via FTP to my webhost and decided to test my speed for kicks and giggles before starting it, and the result was as I described. (A side point, my FTP upload speed seems somehow capped by them as well. It'll start fast and then can never reach speeds above 46 kbps or so. Truly annoying.)
Music

Submission + - Review of Amazon's DRM-less music download store (blorge.com)

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fdmendez
fdmendez writes: "Amazon's long awaited DRM-less music download store just hit the web, and, for a moment there, I thought it might have become vaporware. Thankfully, that didn't turn out to be the case, giving me a chance to put the store through its paces. Here's my review of the Amazon MP3 Download Store.

Amazon is going out on a limb here, offering DRM-less MP3 tracks at 256kbps at $0.89 per song. DRM-less music download stores have been done before, but they usually lack in music selection. Amazon is looking to change the music download world by giving users the opportunity to do anything they want with their music while offering a huge selection of both popular and unpopular/underground artists, but does it do this well?

Summary: Amazon one-ups the iTunes store in every way except for popularity. Never once did I find an album to be more expensive on the Amazon store in comparison to the iTunes store. The download experience was pleasant, and the lack of DRM truly makes it YOUR music. I don't know of any other download service that could top the Amazon MP3 store.

To read the in depth review, which discusses the Amazon MP3 store in greater detail, click here."
Sci-Fi

Submission + - Klingons to take on Furries in bowling match

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Yes, you read the title right. BoingBoing reports that Atlanta will be hosting an epic bowling match pitting Furries versus Klingons. Who will dominate the pins, the brute or the cute? From the article,

"It's like Quadrophenia with furrs and trekkers instead of mods and rockers."
Censorship

Submission + - Demonoid torrent tracker site shut down by CRIA 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: As of Tuesday, 25th September 2007, Demonoid is currently down, with no prior warnings from any moderators of the site. Both the main torrent page and the forum (fora) are no longer accessible. It is still possible to ping and trace the IP address of the site and it locates itself as in Canada. As of 6:45pm EST on 9-25-07, SSH and SMTP services are no longer active. Torrentfreak.com has since reported this is due to legal actions from the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) who ordered Demonoid's ISP to shut down the site.
Sci-Fi

Submission + - Mission Could Seek Out Spock's Home Planet

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Science fiction may soon become science fact. ScienceDaily reports that astronomers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have recently concluded that the upcoming planet-finding mission, SIM PlanetQuest, would be able to detect an Earth-like planet around the star 40 Eridani, a planet familiar to Star Trek fans as Vulcan. 40 Eridani, a triple-star system 16 light-years from Earth, includes a red-orange K dwarf star slightly smaller and cooler than our sun.
The Internet

Submission + - 12 Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2007/05/ 12_important_us.html

12 Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know: (1) Whether to Disclose Paid Posts; (2) Is Deep Linking Legal; (3) The Legal Use of Images and Thumbnails; (4) Laws that Protect You From Stolen Content; (5) Domain Name Trademark Issues; (6) Handling Private Data About Your Readers; (7) Who Owns User-Developed Content and Can You Delete It; (8) The Duty to Monitor Your Blog Comments, and Liability; (9) Basic Tax Law Issues in Blogging; (10) Limited Liability Laws and Incorporating; (11) Spam Laws and Which Unsolicited Emails are Legal; and (12) Are Bloggers Protected from Journalism Shield Laws"
Operating Systems

No Windows (Officially) On OLPC 179

Posted by kdawson from the thinking-of-the-children dept.
Kadin2048 writes "Despite reports last week in major news sources indicating that the One Laptop Per Child project was in negotiations with Microsoft to bring Windows XP to the low-cost platform, Walter Bender, president of Software and Content at OLPC, said in an interview with Ars Technica, 'We are a free and open-source shop. We have no one from OLPC working with Microsoft on developing a Windows platform for the XO.'"

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