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Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed 1352

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 16, 2010 @01:58PM from the fair-balanced-and-simple dept.

A survey of American voters by World Public Opinion shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. One of the most interesting questions was about President Obama's birthplace. 63 percent of Fox viewers believe Obama was not born in the US (or that it is unclear). In 2003 a similar study about the Iraq war showed that Fox viewers were once again less knowledgeable on the subject than average. Let the flame war begin!

Submission + - New AACS crack. This one is undefeatable.

Submitted by Tuoqui on Wednesday May 02, 2007 @09:09PM

Tuoqui writes: With all the focus on the infamous hexadecimal number people may be ignoring the biggest weakness in the AACS armor. Apparently some hackers have figured out how tocrack AACS in an undefeatable way that revoking all the keys would not protect against.

Journal Journal: Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn far from perfect....

Journal by LWATCDR on Thursday April 26, 2007 @10:09PM

Just finished installing Ubuntu Feisty Fawn x64. I had the typical 64 bit problems but I also had some that are really annoying and frankly just shouldn't be problems.
The first problem is that Ubuntu just couldn't detect my monitor. Now the thing that I find unacceptable is that OpenSuse's SAX2 can find and configure it. Opensuse isn't perfect but SAX2 seems to be the best X configuration tool around. It is also FOSS so here is the big question. Why doesn't Ubuntu use it?
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Feed Onkyo's new receivers feature both XM and Sirius satellite radio (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @09:52PM

Filed under: Home Entertainment

Onkyo has the loot for you if you want to hear Oprah and Howard back-to-back, with announcements of five receivers featuring both XM and Sirius satellite radio compatibility. The TX-SR575, TX-SR705, TX-SR805, and TX-SR875 models all support both formats for your radio jones, while the high-end TX-NR905 model also adds support for HD Radio digital broadcasts and an Ethernet jack for Internet radio and multimedia streaming. The receivers all have the usual collection of video ins and outs, and sport 1.3a HDMI connectors with Deep Color capability for switching between sources up to 1080p resolution. No pricing or dates were announced for the TX-SR575, but the TX-SR805 will ship in May for $1099, the TX-SR875 in June for $1699, the TX-SR705 in July for $899, and the TX-NR905 in August for $2099.

Read - Onkyo THX Certified Receivers
Read - Onkyo TX-SR575

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Feed Yahoo Licenses Lyrics... Meaning More Pressure Coming To Unofficial Lyrics Sites (techdirt.com)

From feed by techdirtfeed on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @09:12PM

We've never quite understood why music publishers have been so vehemently against various lyrics web sites often shutting them down. Lyrics sites only help serve to promote the music further -- but when you have an industry that believes everything (even promotional uses) deserves to have dollars coming back (even if it shrinks the overall market) that's what you get. The situation is about to get worse for various independent music sites with Yahoo announcing that it's officially licensed the lyrics to 400,000 songs. That really isn't that many and plenty of unofficial lyrics sites have a lot more. However, with Yahoo willing to pay, publishers will use it as an excuse to shut down more of these other sites. Again, though, this seems short sighted. It limits how widely available the lyrics are. It makes it more difficult for people to figure out what song it was that they heard (and which they might want to buy). All because the industry needs that immediate dollar for licensing the lyrics.

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