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got another one in the “Duh” parade. According to an item on slasdot, The RIAA is now saying that THEY own all of the royalties to music played on “internet radio”.
Setting aside the fact that I consider “internet radio” to be a nonsense term, I can’t help thinking that unless [...]
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Saw something on slashdot about the new so-called “spyware act”. Turns out that the thing is probably going to be more useless than the infamous “can spam act”. It’s got penalties and so on making it illegal for Joe Sixpack to distribute and use spyware, but it’s also got [...]
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I’m sure most have heard of the monstrous deal Google is proposing to buy DoubleClick for 3.1 Billion dollars.. Well, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has filed a suit to stop the purchace, alleging that because Google and DoubleClick are in the business of collecting exhaustive personal information on [...]
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I just saw an AP news story on iwon.com that talked about Dell’s recent decision to once again give people the option of getting XP instead of Vista. The article said that they did this because on Dell’s Ideastorm site, the “Don’t eliminate XP just yet” idea racked up over [...]
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Well, dispite all that Micro$oft might claim about their being interested in making things easier for users, they’ve once again proved that it just ain’t so.
Seems that some legislation in florida had some language in it advocating open data formats. Before you can say “Greedy Monopolistic Corporation”, three lobbyists from [...]
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I just noticed (ok, this is a tad old, but still worth mentioning) that after 22 months of development since ‘Sarge’ was released as Debian GNU/Linus 3.0, Debian has finally declared ‘Etch’ stable and released it as Debian GNU/Linux 4.0.
Trivia question: what do the codenames of Debian GNU/Linux have in [...]
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There just might be some (more) trouble in the works for Micro$oft. I just saw a story about a lawsuit going on in Japan. Yet another in what’s becoming a long line of them. Dispite what M$ brass say about it, I don’t doubt for one second that [...]
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Every time I read something about vista these days there’s yet another thing wrong with it. This time it’s the PC makers. They’re not getting the response to Vista equipped machines that Micor$oft led them to expect.
Part of the problem is that Vista required enormous amounts of memory and [...]
