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Comment BMI/ASCAP (Score 2) 191

There was a music club where I live. The owner was in a band, and into the local music scene. He bought a place where musicians could come to play. That didn't pay the bills, so he got a liquor license. Booze helps paying the bills. Then a food license. Food is good, people like food. Then, someone brought in a Sirius/XM receiver for music during the day. It wasn't a featured attraction, it was just background music. Some BMI/ASCAP undercover agent showed up and billed him for a performance license. Then, looked into a back room and decided that was a "dance space". Yes, BMI/ASCAP has separate licenses for listening to music and dancing to music.

Submission + - SPAM: HP scanner/printer/copier started scanning

pdkrocul writes: My HP M148fdw started scanning without any input from me. The display said something about an update. Power disconnected. Ethernet disconnected. Time to go back to USB.

Submission + - Apps loaded on phone without permission

pdkrocul writes: USA. Motorola phone. Android OS. Tracfone carrier. Games keep getting loaded on my phone without my approval. Anyone else having this problem?

Comment USA Today 15 years ago (Score 1) 110

15 years ago, I sent an email to the USA Today editor. I used wget to pull an article from their website. I ran it through tidy to clean it up. It was 25% the original size. The rest was unnecessary spaces in the html. I assumed it was either sloppy coding, or a deal with the phone companies to create data overages.

Comment What cars can use this? (Score 1) 149

Sounds like a government grant, and a waste of energy tearing up a road. They should build a bumper car system. Ground plate on the road. Power on a grid (or cable) over the road. Vehicles can extend rods to pickup power. Also, I wouldn't want to be a rescue worker trying to free someone from a car that's continually being energized.

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