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Comment Re:What about public domain music? (Score 3, Informative) 270

by wikki on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @10:13PM (#28631381) Attached to: Experimental Fees Settle Royalty War For Internet Radio

This would only apply to record labels or artists covered by SoundExchange.

Basically it's part of the RIAA so you have the Big 4. Sony EMI, Universal, and Warner.

There may be some others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundExchange#Business_structure_and_oversight

Comment What are they paying now? (Score 1) 270

by wikki on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @10:07PM (#28631339) Attached to: Experimental Fees Settle Royalty War For Internet Radio

What are smaller broadcasters required to pay now? $2100 per month doesn't seem like a terrible amount. I guess if you are a super small station you are going to be in trouble. What about SomaFM?

Submission + - SPAM: Satellite glitch rekindles GPS concerns

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coondoggie

on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @12:39PM

coondoggie writes: "News today that Air Force is investigating signal problems with its latest Global Positioning System satellite are likely to rekindle the flames of a congressional report last month that said the current GPS coverage may not be so ubiquitous in the future. The Air Force stated that routine early orbit checkout procedures determined that the signals from the Lockheed-built GPS IIR-2 (M), which was launched in March, were inconsistent with the performance of other GPS IIR-M satellites. The Air Force said it has identified several parameters in the GPS IIR-20 (M)'s navigation message that can be corrected to bring the satellite into compliance with current GPS Performance Standards. [spam URL stripped]"
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Comment Re:Ha......ha, ha.....ha...another lame April Fool (Score 1) 211

by wikki on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @11:26AM (#27418093) Attached to: The Guardian Shifts To Twitter After 188 Years of Ink

It may be a lame april fools joke, but in the long term I wouldn't be surprised if stuff like this starts to happen. There are already a lot of news organizations that put out updates via Twitter. 140 characters a little hard to fit an entire news story in, but people are giving less and less attention to the news these days anyway.

Major Study Concludes That Cloud Seeding Is Effective 81

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @02:02PM from the not-so-sure-about-the-dancing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A 45-year Australian trial is the best evidence yet that cloud seeding — the practice of artificially inducing clouds to make rain — really works."

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