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7. August 2006 @ 05:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Good morning all, first cup of coffee I can use a little caffeine high today got the Monday morning drags. However, I am happy about one thing and that is I finally found a program that will convert my DRM protected audiobooks. I am able to dl audiobooks from my local library and was able to burn them to CD/MP3 Player. A few months ago some of publishers stopped all that and you could only listen to them on your PC. Like I really carry that around in the car. They were in WMA format, so I could not get the protection of unless I wanted to rerecord. Considering some of those books have 14/15 parts to them it was not an option. But found a little program that someone talked about in a thread called SoundTaxi and it converted them right over to MP3, now my trips to work won't be boring again.


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And I am enjoying my usual large iced coffee but I can't seem to stop laughing and I'm afraid of aspirating my coffee:

Every monday morning, we have someone come in to write resumes for clients (CVs for our British friends). Well I have accidentally set her up with an appointment to write a resume for a guy with multiple personality disorder and who doesn't seem to stay in any one reality for more than five mins. First he's a Ph.D. in whatever, next he's an undercover operative for the CIA attached to the US Senate. Whenever I walk past the room, the resume writers eyes just follow me and those eyes are all aglow with rage. Oh well.
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You are an evil man gerry.. LMAO!!
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good morning all...



LimeWire in court: one thing leads to another

8/6/2006 7:13:02 PM, by Ken Fisher

Observe the indigenous RIAA in its native environment. Fresh off a kill, its thoughts to turn immediately to its next meal... thus the woolly tusked RIAA embodies the cycle of life.

And so it begins again. Just days after Kazaa settled with the MPAA, the International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI), and the RIAA, the music labels are after another P2P application: LimeWire. Labels owned by studio giants Universal Music, Sony BMG, EMI, and Warner Music Group filed suit against Lime Wire LLC in Manhattan on Friday.

The suit alleges that Lime Wire LLC facilitates the illegal sharing of music on its P2P network. Furthermore, drawing on arguments from the infamous MGM vs. Grokster decision at the Supreme Court, the suit also charges Lime Wire with failing to make any material attempt to stop piracy on its network

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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060806-7431.html
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Age of computing: The PC turns 25

Dell reflects on 25 years of PCs

By Tom Krazit
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
August 7, 2006 4:00 AM PT

The man who founded the world's largest PC company thinks the best is still to come after a quarter-century of the IBM PC.

Twenty-five years have passed since IBM launched its version of the personal computer. Apple may have captured the attention of early computer hobbyists with its first products, but IBM's PC made the business world sit up and realize that personal computers could be much more than toys.

Michael Dell started off using PCs to create homework shortcuts, the way many young people at the time discovered the new devices. Few people, including Dell's parents, realized exactly how large the potential was for the personal computer. More than 20 years after he founded PC's Limited, he admits his parents never quite embraced his decision to leave the University of Texas at Austin to start the company that would eventually bear his name and record $56 billion in revenue during its last fiscal year.
Michael Dell
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As the PC industry looks back on 25 years of growth and success, CNET News.com spoke to Dell about his early experiences with the PC, the factors that led to its rapid acceptance among home and business users, and the future of the device. Here are excerpts from that conversation, and videos can be found on the right side of the page.

Can you start off by telling me a little bit about what your first-ever PC was?
When I was in junior high school, I started playing around with--at the time they were RadioShack PCs--so they were the first PCs that I was able to play around with.

Do you remember how much that cost or what the specifications were?
They were probably $800 or something like that, not super expensive and not very powerful either. They had cassette drives instead of hard-disk drives. It was even before the floppy disks. (I'd) largely do programming with Basic. I was kind of fascinated with the computing power and what that could do and what that would mean. It was just an enchanting device for me.

What were you doing with it? Were you playing simple games or...?
Just my math homework, playing around writing programs. (I was) just fascinated with the machine that could do so many computations so quickly. At the beginning of the genesis of the PC industry, it seemed like there was going to be a lot of excitement with the device like this, as it went into medicine and business and education and entertainment. Of course, nobody knew exactly what would happen, but it was a very exciting time.

When do you think you realized that this device was going to go from more of a niche device to something that almost everyone would have at some point?
"That original PC in 1981 was certainly a pivotal moment because it caused this ecosystem to start to flourish and allowed all sorts of companies to participate..."

go here to read the total article
http://news.com.com/2009-1042_3-6099132.html?part=rss&tag=6099132...
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Too bad Dell has the world's lousiest support, you can't get beyond the Bombay techs. If it isn't in the manual they are stumped....but unless your Dell is falling apart they won't move you up the food chain.


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HP is certainly no better. I bought the extended warranty and my hard drive died. First they tell me I didn't get the extended warranty ... faxing it to them once wasn't good enough; I ended up faxing it to them three times. Then they tried to tell me that I only bought phone tech support for three years ... not the computer itself...more faxing underlining the important bits. Only when I started phoning their headquaters in CA and raising serious stink did I get my warranty honored and again, only after more faxing. My guess is they give everyone the run around to save themselves from having to pay out on the warranty you bought. They probably tell everyone they never bought it and if you can't prove it and fax every scrap of paper they sent you initially, you're screwed. Fortunately, I throw nothing away.
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arniebear
in 1981 i was working for RCA in the bread board design dept.on computers..
at that time we were all programmers.....and playing pong....
and we later on had our own internet of about 25 of us..
started working for RCA in 1961......
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My son-in-law just bought a new HP for my daughter. It has the AMD dual core and it is the slowest, I thought they were supposed to be fast. BB gave them the free HP printer with the comp and she could not get the printer to install, called HP and they said it was because it was an older printer and their comps come preloaded with newer drivers that conflict. My daughter said she spent an hour and a half on the phone finally got it installed, but it only half works. You would think HP comps would work with HP printers no matter how old they are.


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started working for RCA in 1961......
You must have been a mere youngster :)


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arniebear
In 1961 i just got out of the us army after serving 4 years..
so ye almost know me age..by the way yesterday was me birthday.

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In 1961 I was just in seventh grade, lol, and just discovering girls :o

Anyways this is belated but.............




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thank ye arniebear


CDRWIN 6.1.1.0 released


Posted by Dan Bell on 07 August 2006 - 14:39 - Source: CDRWIN
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/13779
JackiRipper2000 used our news submit to tell us that a newer version of CDRWin 6.1.1.0 is released. This company has provided a very easy user interface that allows you to perform nearly any burning task in just a few clicks.

Key features are:

* Secure and save recording of redbook compatible Audio-CDs and Data CD/DVDs.
* Support for CD-Text, CD+G, CD-I, Mixed Mode, CD-Extra, Bootable-CDs and the audio formats Wave, WMA and MP3.
* Support for recording of cue sheets (*.cue files)
* Powerfull copy engine for several formats like Audio-, data, video, mixed-mode, CD-Extra or game discs.
* Support for 99min CD-R media.
* Support for ISO9660, Joliet and UDF (with ISO9660 bridge for Video-DVDs) file format
* Support for Disc-At-Once, Session-At-Once and Track-At-Once recording
* Support for various buffer underrun protections
* Internal powerfull caching system

For more information and a trial download, please visit the CDRWIN homepage.


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http://www.engelmann.com/?file=Cdrwin&lang=english
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Warner and Apple close to iTunes DVD extras agreement
Posted by Dan Bell on 07 August 2006 - 14:56 - Source: Macworld

According to Macworld, Warner Pictures and Apple are hammering out an intriguing plan to provide music DVDs loaded with extras, including iTunes versions of the songs. The Wall Street Journal explains that the two companies are very close to an agreement that would allow Warner to produce the DVDs while Apple would provide the FairPlay protected tracks to be placed on the discs.

The report goes on to say that some of the extras will include videos, ringtones and images as well. The original article from the Wall Street Journal, is available here, but requires a subscription.
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original story

Circuit City Copying DVDs

Apparently no one told Circuit City that ripping DVDs is a violation of the DMCA, let alone charging for it.

Fair Use advocates, take notice. Circuit City is apparently putting its neck on the line to provide customers with DVD transfer services. The company is offering a "DVD video transfer service" that for all intents and purposes is illegal. The company will take commercial DVDs and rip them for use on portable devices for $10 for 1 DVD, $20 for 3 DVDs or $30 for 5 DVDs. That is, until their legal department hears what's happening.

*EDIT* Thanks to Paul Driver I did some further digging and found this piece that states that the above is false.

The sign is incorrect and not authorized and we are in the process of making sure the sign is removed
http://hardocp.com/news.html?news=MjA1MjMsLCxobmV3cywsLDE=




Circuit City Clarification.

Yesterday we talked about the practice of Circuit City copying DVD?s for customers. We let you know about the original story and the subsequent debunking, but today I received an email from a CC employee that could help shed some light on the situation. I?m going to share a bit for the sake of clarification.

For us to copy something it MUST NOT be copyrighted. Or if it is copyrighted, you must OWN the copyright to that work (ha, yea right... so basically no copyrighted stuff). So bring in all the home movies on VHS or camcorder tape you want, and we will put it on DVD. If you bring in a VHS movie of say... "Independance Day" (the blockbuster hit movie), we will not copy it, but, bring in your uncle bob's wedding, sure!
http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MjA1NDQsLCwsLCwx
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AOL releases search data on 500,000 users

8/7/2006 10:39:17 AM, by Nate Anderson

While most search engines offer researchers some access to their data (both Google and Microsoft do this, for instance), they also recognize that releasing the complete search history of 500,000 users from March to May of this year might pose certain privacy risks.

Not AOL. The newly-free service posted a complete three-month set of search queries on Sunday, only to take it down several hours later. By that time, though, the data was already in the wild?and what interesting data it was.

AOL did replace usernames with random numbers in a bid to protect privacy, but because each user's queries were given the same random number, it was simple to see a person's complete search history.

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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060807-7433.html
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7. August 2006 @ 08:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Oh thank you, that made my day. Now everybody knows I was the one searching for the Jetson's porn :o

Seriously though I do use AOL and now wonder just how much is out there, dam :(


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Google warns about "badware"

8/7/2006 2:27:22 PM, by Nate Anderson

The Stop Badware Coalition threatened to "call out badware creators of any size" when it was first formed by Google, Sun, and Lenovo. Over the weekend, the calling out began.

Believing that prevention is the best cure, Google now uses data gathered by the Coalition to flag suspicious web sites before users visit them. Clicking on a link to a flagged destination currently results in an interstitial warning page. The Coalition claims that the page should link to this generic warning, but so far that does not appear to be the case. Right now, the generic page warns users about the site and suggests that they try their search again. For users that want to continue, a link to the site is provided.

For less-savvy Internet users, this could be a great help.

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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060807-7436.html
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CinemaNow DRM Crap

p2pnet.net News:- The word CRAP is increasingly being used to describe anything to do with the corporate world's DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) technology.

"Originally, I wanted CRAP to stand for Content Restriction, Annulment, and Protection," wrote ZDNet's David Berlind a whle back. "But Richard Stallman at the Free Software Foundation convinced me to change its meaning to 'Cancellation, Restriction, and Punishment'."

Now, "I'm against people being fleeced by this kind of crap," posted an anonymous optical engineer on Boing Boing. "How can you sell someone content on media that is so heavily compromised, especially on a format that so heavily relies upon its error correction system to maintain playability? It's mind boggling!"

The subject in the above instance was CinemaNow's crappy "Burn to DVD" DRM.

It's great, says CinemaNow. It's crap, says an anonyous engineer on Boing Boing.

"Browse the Burn to DVD section and purchase the movie you wish to download," saiys a Google cache of the launch site, going on, "To watch the movie or burn it to DVD, you will need CinemaNow's easy-to-use DVD Burner software (see below to install). CinemaNow DVDs work with any standard +R or -R blank DVD. Once you have completed the burn process, you can play CinemaNow videos on almost any DVD player."

The trouble was and is, the engineer mentined in Boing Boing found the system was so badly designed that, "it's likely that DVDs burned with CinemaNow are likely to fail in many commercial DVD players".

It's based on the deliberate introduction of errors caused by Digital Sum Value (DSV), a sum that represents the ratio of land to pits on the surface of the DVD, says the story, going on:

"The DVD spec notes the possibility of DSV errors and instructs implementers to take care to avoid them, as these errors can cause a host of problems with reading and playing discs."

Also, "the introduction of DSV errors is indiscriminate and uncontrollable - the multitude of possible combinations of DVD burners' chip-sets, blank media, and other variables means that any attempt to introduce DSV errors will produce unpredictable outcomes".

Boing Boing's source, "also believes that this technique infringes on several patents, including this one," says the post, continuing:

"My source sums it up neatly in this outraged paragraph: 'I'm against people being fleeced by this kind of crap. How can you sell someone content on media that is so heavily compromised, especially on a format that so heavily relies upon its error correction system to maintain playability? It's mind boggling!'

"Update: Tian sez, "Recently, my local news crew has tested out the service and found it to be crap. I have also wrote about the crappy service especially CinemaNow's Burn To DVD's DRM. Even though my local news crew was able to burn one DVD successfully, CinemaNow's 'one copy only' DRM can be easily defeated'."

Meanwhile, "CinemaNow shot back stating that the service has been 'well received by our customers and studios alike,' (ah, isn't that the trick?) and that tests had the burned DVDs working on '94 percent of DVD players'," says Engadget.

"Which tests and using what DVD players we don't know, but somehow we don't expect to have that data readily divulged. Guess there's only one way to find out though, right? Download a marginally overpriced flick for about ten bucks, get yourself a spindle of DVD-Rs, and go to town."

That's one way to waste your time and money. And anyhow, WGAS?
http://p2pnet.net/story/9518
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AOL data release debacle
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AOL data release debacle

p2pnet.net News:- AOL's public release of well over half-a-million search records comprises one of the Net's worst privacy violations ever.

Data have been online for about 10 days but the appalling phk-up escaped notice until this weekend.

Details of the search histories, gathered between March to May this year, were revealed in what AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein describes as, "innocent-enough attempt to reach out to the academic community with new research tools".

But, "This was a screw up, and we're angry and upset about it," Weinstein admits in a statement.

"Although there was no personally-identifiable data linked to these accounts, we're absolutely not defending this," he says. "It was a mistake, and we apologize. We?ve launched an internal investigation into what happened, and we are taking steps to ensure that this type of thing never happens again."

AOL, "must have missed the uproar over the DOJ's demand for 'anonymized' search data last year that caused all sorts of pain for Microsoft and Google," observes TechCrunch, going on:

"The data includes [sic] all searches from those users for a three month period this year, as well as whether they clicked on a result, what that result was and where it appeared on the result page. It's a 439 MB compressed download, expanded to just over 2 gigs."

It was, "only a matter of time before someone put up a simple web interface to the 20 million search queries published by AOL last week," says Michael Arrington on a Tech Crunch update.

He's talking about Danny who on item 135 posted, "Here's something you guys might like. I whipped this up to help those of you who don't feel like grepping your way through 2 gigs of files. it?s a searchable mySQL database of these searches (most of them, anyway, I'm not done indexing yet) with all redundancies removed, searchable by categories. Hopefully this should make for a few hours of fun.

"Although a legal expert told the news agency that the incident did not violate AOL?s privacy policy as the data did not include personally identifiable information, bloggers have pointed out that users often search for their own names," says e-consultancy, adding, "At least one mirror site, which is still live at the time of writing, was set up before the data?s removal, according to TechCrunch. 'Combine these ego searches with porn queries and you have a serious embarrassment. Combine them with 'buy ecstasy' and you have evidence of a crime. Combine it with an address, social security number, etc., and you have an identity theft waiting to happen,' said TechCrunch?s Michael Arrington. 'The possibilities are endless'."

http://www.gregsadetsky.com/aol-data/ has a mirror, and a link to AOL's original U500k_README.txt file, which we've reproduced in full below.

500k User Session Collection


go here to read the article as the rest is Copyright (2006) AOL
http://p2pnet.net/story/9515
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Gallery: A Porsche to Die For

The sixth generation of Porsche's 911 Turbo remains faithful to its illustrious predecessors -- on the outside. Inside, it's a different story. What you have here is basically a racing car in the guise of a street-legal sports car.

The 2007 Porsche 911 Turbo's exterior remains faithful to its predecessor. Inside, though, a 3.6-liter variable geometry turbocharged engine can muster a maximum horsepower of 480 and 457 pound feet of torque, which represents an extra 65 horsepower and 45 pound-feet of torque compared to the fifth-generation Porsche 911 Turbo. What this means when it comes to driving is a top speed of 193-mph and zero-to-60 mph acceleration in less than four seconds.

Photo: Bruce Gain

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http://blog.wired.com/porsche911/
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HD DVD for the Xbox 360

HD DVD for the Xbox 360
August 8, 2006 9:39 AM PDT

Kevin Collins, a Microsoft senior program manager, prepares to demonstrate the company's HD DVD drive built for the Xbox 360. The new hardware is expected to be offered to consumers in time for the holidays.

Credit: Greg Sandoval/CNET News.com

* Photos: Tuning in to GlobalComm
* Images: Home run simulcast in 'Second Life'
* Photos: Listening in on Pandora
* Images: Ultrasound heads for battle
* Photos: Will America drive small and Smart?



pixs and more here
http://news.com.com/2300-1041_3-6103208-1.html?part=rss&tag=61032...
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Can a EULA trump fair use?

8/8/2006 12:27:32 PM, by Eric Bangeman

End User License Agreements are so commonplace that most of us just click on the "Agree" button to get rid of the darn things and finish the software installation process. We do so despite the fact that the EULA may have some provisions that are repugnant to us, like the ability to change the terms of the agreement after the software has been installed. Whether EULAs are ultimately enforceable are another matter entirely?the courts have sent mixed messages on that subject.

A recent decision (PDF) by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Wall Data vs. the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department sends a rather unwelcome message: that a software developer's EULA can trump fair use rights.

The dispute between Wall Data and the LA Sheriff's Department hinged on RUMBA Mainframe, a terminal emulation program developed by Wall Data. RUMBA is part of the Department's default desktop image, but the law enforcement agency did not have enough valid licenses to cover the entire installed base. That's ok, argued the Sheriff's Department, because none of those copies were usable due it its security setup. Instead, they were more like backup copies permitted under fair use.

Wall Data disputed that and said that its EULA prevented such installations, even if the extra copies were never activated, licensed, or available for use. The RUMBA license specified that the application could be used "on a single Designated Computer for which the software has been activated." According to Wall Data, that means that extra, unused copies?even as backup?are prohibited.

A jury found that the LA Sheriff's Department had in fact violated the EULA, and the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld that verdict. In its decision, the Appeals Court found that the Sheriff's Department was not entitled to a fair use defense under Section 107 of the Copyright Act. "In considering the four fair use factors?the purpose and character of the work, the nature of the use, the amount and substantiality of the portion used, and the effect on the plaintiffs' market?none militate in favor of the Sheriff?s Department's fair use defense," wrote the Court. "We therefore hold that the Sheriff's Department is not entitled to a fair use defense..."

Interestingly enough, the Ninth Circuit handled a similar case, MAI v. Peak, that also centered on fair use. More importantly, it upheld the view of software developers everywhere that we users only own a license to use the software, and not a copy of the software itself. The Ninth Circuit used that decision as the basis for the Wall Data case, reiterating that in the license vs. ownership debate, "license" is the clear winner in its jurisdiction.

Ultimately, this case could wind up in the Supreme Court. In a similar case (Krause v. Titleserv) (PDF) heard in the Second Circuit, the court decided that if you buy an application, you own a copy, rather than a mere license to use it. As a result, all fair use and other rights outlined in the Copyright Act still apply.

As a result of the more recent Ninth Circuit decision, we're left with conflicting interpretations of how far a EULA can reach and what effect an overly?restrictive one can have on our fair use rights. Until the Supreme Court decides to step in and lay down the law, all we're left with is conflicting interpretations and bad software licenses.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060808-7447.html
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BOX OF PROX..........Great! Highly configurable free proxy to protect your privacy.....(free).....GO THERE!

http://www.boxofprox.com/

another one here
http://www.proxylord.com/

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