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Sometimes, I want something to actually be MINE.
It can be: use streamripper or something similar and download your streamed music.
I for one don't download music through P2P or "pirate" sites (which in fact don't really exist anymore) anymore, but I download music from net radio streams, and quite a few tracks from Youtube too. Why? Because it shifts the blame away from me. When I rip a stream, it's undetectable. When I extract audio from a Youtube video (shitty, granted), it's undetectable. Not that there's much of a risk using P2P anyway, but when using high-profile sources, there's ZERO risk.
IMHO, that is the real reason why people seem to like net radios so much: they rip tracks just like they used to record radio hits on cassette in years past.
Sometimes, I want something to actually be MINE.
Then create your own music. You don't need a license to do that (yet).
Perhaps you're confusing owning a physical representation of data with owning the rights to do whatever you want with those data. Obtaining and storing the data is trivial. It's the rights ownership issue that's pernicious.
Obtaining and storing the data is trivial.
Not for me. Despite the 210k mp3s I have in my hard drives, the p2p networks, music streaming sites and online and traditional music stores, I have lists of hundreds of albums I cannot find anywhere.
Not only that, part of the music I own* doesn't meet what I consider a minimum of quality. But I cannot obtain it with a better encoding.
Music is a form of art and, as such, it should be considered, if not a patrimony of the humanity, at least something culturally valuable.
So it is significant how you store the data, how you rip, encode, tag and sort the music, in order to make it accessible and preserve its quality.
* I can manipulate it, delete it and listen to it whenever and wherever I want.
This looks to me like just the next step beyond DRM.
With DRM, you possess a copy but can only use it ways the copyright holder lets you. With this "streaming" model, you don't even possess the copy.
Probably the "industry insiders" think this is a way to get people to rent music instead of buying it (you pay for what you listen to, every time you listen). Good luck with that.
I'm SJ Zero
No hero
I'm Nero
On my violin drinking beer yo
third time this year, oh
Your shit burns when I'm near, bro.
I battle rap like yu-gi-oh
I set my trap
While you yap
At the gap
I attack
With magic black
1 2 mic check
On this track
I stack
lyrics whack
so step back
You're filled with fear though.
You know, maybe I'll just let the professionals deal with this...
Sometimes, I want something to actually be MINE.
"This is MY elevator, and we're stopping at EVERY floor!"
What do you think? Was this quote from the movie CrimeWave or from a Sony executive?
>>>"This is MY elevator, and we're stopping at EVERY floor!"
This is why I don't like public transportation. Because the train keeps stopping at every station, it takes forever to reach your ultimate destination, whereas if I take my Personal People Mover (aka car) I can eliminate all those stops & get there much faster.
A train doesn't have to wait for traffic, stop for red lights/stop signs or obey most traffic laws. You can read, play games, sleep or carry a real conversation on a train. You don't have to be sober or alert. You also don't have to circle around city blocks looking for parking for half an hour or pay outrageous fees to park. On top of it all, it doesn't pollute the environment as much as it would if everyone were driving cars.
I think trains *do* have to stop for red lights/stop signs, judging by the amount of uproar in the media, grieving relatives etc, when they don't.
A train doesn't have to wait for traffic
But has to slow down in certain residential areas, near crossings etc.
stop for red lights/stop signs
They do if it's a red light on the track.
You can read, play games, sleep or carry a real conversation on a train.
You can also end up standing for 8 hours because they didn't provide enough carriages, or get attacked by marauding soccer hooligans on their way home from the away game.
You don't have to be sober or alert.
You don't actually have to be sober or alert in a car
But has to slow down in certain residential areas, near crossings etc.
And so do cars, and there's still the problem of cars having to sit in traffic.
They do if it's a red light on the track.
Red lights on a train journey are significantly less frequent than in a car journey.
You don't actually have to be sober or alert in a car, although it does help.
Is that supposed to be some sort of rebuttal? You are significantly safer in a train than you are in a car if you are not sober or not alert.
Oh, and have you see
We can talk conjecturally all we wish, but here's a real-world comparison. My boss tried to get me to ride a train to work when I first started here, but I ignored him once he described his commute: 10 minute drive to the station; 10 minutes wait; 40 minutes on the train; 10 minute drive from the station to the workplace. Repeat when he goes home. Total - Almost two-and-a-half hours.
It only takes me 25 minutes in my car. Total - Under an hour.
I think I'll stick with driving my 85-90 mile per gallon Hond
I just ran the numbers for mass transit vs. automobile transport.
I'll pay $6000 on my car loan this year, $2100 on insurance, and about $1200 on fuel (assuming I want to hit year 5 with my waranty intact and limit my driving to 20,000km/yr), and 4 oil changes at 50 dollars(yes, the manufacturer schedule drastically over-maintains the vehicle, but as you can see, maintenance is about the least expensive part of the vehicle). Total cost of using a vehicle for a year will be $9500. By contrast, a year of bus p
>>>I'll pay $6000 on my car loan this year, $2100 on insurance, and about $1200 on fuel
That's stupid. Not you, but your approach to servicing your car. I pay $0 on my car loan (don't have one), $200 on insurance, and I don't know how much on fuel but since my hybrid gets 85-90 MPG it isn't much. Maybe $300. I change my oil on a 10,000 mile schedule since I'm using synthetic, so that's a trivial cost as well.
But more importantly I have *flexibility*. If my mom calls me in the middle of the n
Syracuse, NY to Boston, MA.
Plane 1.5 hours
Car 5 hours
Train 11.5 hours
Trains combinethe worst of planes(layovers) with the worst of cars(top speed of 60mph on average)
I don't know about you but my time is worth more than that. If trains took roughly the same time as a car then yes a train would be better. But you have to play games on a train as they take so long.
I live in Europe and the trains seem to work a lot better here. Planes are faster and the price is the same but they're a lot less comfortable.
Train [eurostar.com]: 2hrs 25mins (plus check-in times: 30mins for regular punters, but can be as low as 10 mins)
Plane: 1hr 25mins (plus travel to the airport, plus a check-in delay of 2hrs, plus transfer time to centre of Paris (at least 40mins))
Car: 5hrs 17 mins plus traffic delays
It all depends on the trip you're making and the infrastructure that's in place to service that trip. The above is a moderately similar distance trip to yours.
>>>Syracuse, NY to Boston, MA.
Plane 1.5 hours
Car 5 hours
Train 11.5 hours
I'd take the car for two reasons: (1) A plane is 1.5 hours but you can add another 1.5 for wait times, going through security, and finding a rental car. So figure 3 hours total. (2) My employer reimburses me around 50 cents/mile, so I get to pocket the additional money. In essence I'm getting paid to drive which is a sweet deal.
When I had to make a trip from Oklahoma City to Minnesota I chose to drive. My cowor
>>>A train doesn't have to wait for traffic, stop for red lights/stop signs
Neither does my car since I drive I-95 every day and it doesn't have stop lights. Yes there is some backup at 8 p.m. but it's easily avoided by starting work earlier at 6 or 6:30 and beat everyone into the office.
>>>A train doesn't have to obey most traffic laws.
You're wrong about that. Trains have traffic laws to follow too, and often times those laws are more onerous than road laws, like requiring the train to s
Sometimes, I want something to actually be MINE.
I wouldn't worry as the conclusions are "according to industry insiders." so it is almost certainly wishful thinking rather than rigorous, peer reviewed research.
Sometimes, I want something to actually be MINE.
Then write yourself a song or a novel.
Why do you actually need to have something downloaded on your PC? The streaming idea is really the future.'"
idk, because you're not always connected to the internet?
because possession is 9/10ths of ownership (if it's not, it should be).
Exactly. I would ask the inverse rhetorical question: "Why do you actually have to be connected to the net to listen to music? Download, store and play on demand is really the future."
Higher speed connections, cheaper and physically smaller solid state storage. Downloading with the ability to resume if the cable gets pulled or you go through a long tunnel. It's much better than having to be always online, IMO.
File under fad that fades.
No, people will choose.
Now, you can bet the industry will try and fob them off with the highest capital gain for themselves at the expense of the general public, but that doesn't mean people will always bite.
If they make it completely inexpensive and always convenient for people, then they stand a good chance of getting a buy in, but that's not always the case (laserdisk et. al.).
What'll be interesting with streaming is that they'll have to face up to long term survival of the music (it'll be better for the
My entire compressed music collection fits in 11GB. It's not a large collection, granted. Let's say it's half the size of the average one, and round up to the nearest USB Flash drive, 32GB.
32GB flash drives start at about £45 here. Since I always work at a computer, this, plus a 1GB player that I've had for years, is more than enough. Much cheaper than a 32GB iPod touch at £400, reliable, shockproof, waterproof, portable, and most importantly, not subject to disconnection at the whim of any numb
I'll file it under fake fad that never comes to be.
Unless they give us free mobile internet, I seriously doubt that streaming will overtake downloading.
Sites will now pay the PRS 0.085p per track, compared to the 0.22p they paid previously.
I assume that one p means 0.01 UK pounds but I could be wrong about that.
Can't load it onto your iPod.
Unless you are tied to a PC all the time, (or have a fancy-schmancy iPhone or touch), this idea won't be as universal as good old MP3/WMA/AAC.
or have a fancy-schmancy iPhone or touch
This article is about Britain. Our mobile phone networks are a bit behind the rest of Europe, and a lot behind Japan, but even so most phones sold in the last few years have supported streaming music, as long as your contract provides enough bandwidth, and pre-pay phones increasingly provide cheap(ish) data. My last two phones have both come with a media player that supports Internet radio stations and I generally get about 50KB/s transfers which is a lot more than you need for streaming music (most strea
I have at least 5 different devices that cannot stream that I use weekly. Also why waste the bandwidth playing the same songs over and over again [..]
There's a difference between true streams and streams with cache. Applications like Spotify lets you choose whether you want to cache the songs you're listening to or not.
Slow connection? Use caching.
Running out of space? Disable caching!
Slow connection and low on disk space? Well, then this service is not aimed to people like you.
You'd be very unlikely to be streaming FLAC; it would take you quite a few days to reach 2G streaming at 128kbps 24 hours a day.
What do they know? If there was some knowledge in the industry about the future we wouldn't have the mess we have right now.
Yes, we would. To be a "knowledgeable industry insider", you have to find out what the company(s) you are working for want.
In a lot of these industry insider situations, if they don't hear what they want to hear you're not going to be in the industry for long.
So, the future will be something a lot of people don't like? With the result being the same "mess" we have now (e.g. downloading of illegally distributed music).
And, if the insiders are only going to predict what the companies what to hear, then what's the use in the first place. Why not simply buy parrots.
What do they know? If there was some knowledge in the industry about the future we wouldn't have the mess we have right now.
Same reason we're letting the banks and the Federal Reserve solve the problem they didn't see coming and initially assured us was contained.
While I like my CD collection, I have to admit that Spotify is really really handy for casual listening. I have a jukebox of ridiculous proportions at my disposal, for the relatively cheap price of a few audio ads a day. (Which I could also get rid of with the subscription option.)
Streaming has the additional benefit of making it impossible to lose / delete what you don't story anyway.
I don't really think a lot of people will find the buying option very attractive once 3G cell phones acquire this ability... I'm waiting for Spotify for my phone, (they already hired an S60 developer,) but then again I live in Finland.
You know, in a world without iPods - these insiders might be right. However that's not even remotely like the real world we live in. It does seem to bear a striking resemblance to the world U.S. cellphone company executives are trying to pretend we live in, though - that world where we pay them some amount of money to buy a service that duplicates what we can do for free without their hardware (yeah, Verizon, I'm looking at YOU).
I for one listen to a heck of a lot more music while I'm out and about than when I'm sitting at/near my computer. I realize I'm probably in the minority in that regard - but I think it's a safe bet that almost everyone that purchases music nowadays wants to listen to it on the go at least part of the time. Without ubiquitous, unlimited, cheap internet access that's not going to be music that's streamed.
I for one listen to a heck of a lot more music while I'm out and about than when I'm sitting at/near my computer.
I also listen to music when I'm travelling around town, etc. but I actually spend more time at work listening to internet radio. If this article, which is undoubtedly astroturf, defines satellite radio as streaming, then that will also draw millions of more people into the streaming category. Like everyone at 24 hour Fitness is listening to the satellite radio service piped through the speakers..
The BBC looked at the business reality of spotify the other week on Radio 4. They came to the conclusion that it could never be profitable and was burning through its cash very fast indeed.
Its a great service, it works brilliantly but the advertising won't cover the costs and users won't pay subscriptions.
Without ubiquitous, unlimited, cheap internet access that's not going to be music that's streamed
And with ubiquitous cheap Internet? Most Internet Radio streams are around 128Kb/s. The government wants 2Mb/s broadband everywhere by 2012, so that takes care of all home and office users. That just leaves mobile. UMTS gives around 400Kb/s in real-world use, and most networks are now deploying some kind of HSPA, which gives at least five times that. A cheap (£10/month) mobile broadband connection gives 3GB/month, which is enough for about two hours of streaming per day. If you pay a bit m
Why do you actually need to have something downloaded on your PC? The streaming idea is really the future.
Wait a second. What goes for bandwidth issues that has been a hot topic lately regarding BitTorrent traffic, how will this be any better? If every song you hear through your PC is streamed, my guess is it would choke internet more than the current BitTorrent traffic.
Let's say you've got 24 employees working at your company. You've got a T1 line, but the only thing it's being used for is e-mail and a little light web surfing, so the bandwidth is sufficient.
Now half the staff starts streaming Internet radio. Your T1 line is now completely saturated, so you have to get another one. This doubles your monthly bill!
Sure, you could get a cable modem instead and save a bundle, but cable modems are unreliable compared to a T1. You could keep one T1 and add a cable modem, but your one part-time IT guy doesn't know how to set up the network to route Internet radio over the cable modem while keeping everything else on the T1. He explains to you, using a lot of technical-sounding words you don't understand, why it would be very difficult to get that to work reliably, and even though it's theoretically possible, it would require a lot of hands-on babysitting to make sure it kept working the way it's supposed to.
So what do you do? You either cough up the dough for a second T1 line, or you institute a company-wide no-Internet-radio policy, which will make the staff think the IT guy's only source of joy in life is the unhappiness of others.
(Internet radio is usually streamed over standard HTTP on port 80. Because everybody keeps changing stations, it's not practical to keep track of every stream everyone might want to listen to and add static routes for those IPs. The streaming URLs may not have any sort of identifiable pattern, so the only way you can identify streaming audio is by MIME type, which isn't available until after the request is made. You should be able to set up a proxy server that would check the MIME type of every URL requested, and hack it to reroute through the cable modem if it matches, but that's an enormous pain in the ass. You could route all HTTP traffic over the cable modem, but then you need some sort of failover in case the cable modem goes down. All of this is possible, but it's not simple.)
you institute a company-wide no-Internet-radio policy, which will make the staff think the IT guy's only source of joy in life is the unhappiness of others.
Which, while true, is obviously not satisfied with such obvious methods.
"Oh, you forgot your password? I'm so sorry; there's simply no way of recovering your data, it's all encrypted and, for security reasons, you were the only one to know the key.
But don't worry. The server's online so you can try all possible passwords during the weekend. It shouldn't take you too long."
I didn't see what part of streaming is going to surpass digital downloads - shear data transfer, unique tracks transferred, money made, etc. I don't doubt that they'll transfer more data, since if someone wants to listen to a song 3 times in a week, they have to download it 3 times. Maybe even unique tracks will be higher, since people would be more likely to listen to a song they don't know if they'll like or not if they don't have to pay anything extra (free or flat monthly fee). However I'm not sure stre
'Why do you actually need to have something downloaded on your PC? The streaming idea is really the future.'"
I don't have any numbers to back this up, but surely the majority of music is listened to off line at the moment, on mp3 players etc? The whole point of portable devices is that you aren't tethered to your PC to listen.
For this to change, it needs to become much easier and cheaper for portable devices to stream music "on the go".
worse then the head of Government Motors saying that US citizens are going to purchase those small cars he wants to force on everyone.
Clearly I have not been paying enough attention, there I was thinking that one of the causes of the demise of GM was the decline of sales of their gas guzzlers in favor of smaller more efficient vehicles...
The future of "radio" is on the Internet, period. Although we'll probably never be fully free of the copyright cartel's grasp when it comes to music, the Internet levels the playing field and gives independent artists and stations equal footing and gives the listener a potentially unlimited amount of choice. And really, it's already happening. You can find sites and streams playing really good music by independent artists that meets or exceeds the quality of any professionally-produced stuff, just like open source software tends to best proprietary offerings because the creators are focused first on quality and their own idea of what's "good" instead of rushing to meet deadlines or achieve monetary gain.
After all the crap that the RIAA has pulled over the last decade, I try very to find music and streams that don't fund them or their artists every time I listen to or buy a song. On of my favorite "stations" is scenesat.com [scenesat.com]. They play music only from demoscene artists who give their work away freely. If you're into electronica, you'd do well to give them a listen. It's not all chiptunes and rehashed trance, some of it beats the pants off the offerings of similar commercial artists. I'd like to see more stations like this around. If the RIAA and PRS aren't careful, they could start to see some real competition in the near future from musicians who do what they do not because they want a phat paycheck someday, but because they love what they do and want to share their art with anyone who cares to listen.
If you know of more stations that stream independent royalty-free music, please share with the rest of us.
If you like transcoded quality, buy your streams all you want. The quality is very low, unless your hearing is as bad as your sight then you may not notice how bad it is.
This is how it works. Take a mp3. Let's call it 128 kbps. Serve is up as various rate streams: 32, 64, 112, 192, 256, 320. All from the same 128 kbps mp3. That's what is done. And no, a 320 kbps transcoded from 128 kbps mp3 is not better, it's likely much worse: the 128 kbps encode removed 90% of the matrial. The 320 kbps transcode
I still prefer physical media, like CDs, but I'm warming up to the idea of downloads (legal)..
Now, why not have streaming AND downloading? They both serve a purpose..
Take Spotify; I like having a lot of music at my fingertips, being able to try new stuff, find new stuff by pure coincidence, etc..
The only black cloud on the music-sky is really the labels.. They insist on regions for music. Wait a minute.. regions? I can buy a CD from whichever country I want (unless there's some embargo-crap going on), but o
'Why do you actually need to have something downloaded on your PC?
So I can put it on my PSP?
Music companies would love to see digital downloads to disappear. It's destroying thier business model and it seems they are trying a new approach.
If they push the idea that digital downloads are now 'old hat' or 'not needed' and 'persuade' people that streamed music is the 'future'/'cool way' of listening to music then they can retain far more control of the format. Sure lock the vendor(e.g. radio station) into a 3-year deal - when the deal expires hike up the fees and/or the record companies force vendors to stream music directly from record company controlled servers only - thus full control of music property is preserved, artificial scarcety remains and profits increased for record companies.
This has already happened to the newspaper industry here in the UK. A central body controls all publishing rights to newspaper articles.
Of course mobile phone companies like this scenario as well.
I want my music (paid for) to be available for MY convenience to listen to not the other way round.
This stinks of serious astroturfing and a feeble attempt to change consumer's attitudes to ownership.
Just say NO!
Personally I would to see something like; offer a 'lossy compressed' track for very low cost or free. If you really like it - buy a pristine copy of the music (e.g.lossless compressed - flac) the difference in sound quality is obvious. Of course DRM would kill this idea.
Then again record companies seem to be risk adverse or just don't get the nature of the Internet.
Out-of-touch music executives (looking at you Sony!) are hurting the music industry more than anybody else and you cannot blame pirating of music for the decline of an industry. Ultimatly, pointing your finger and blaming something else is not your answer. You need to take stock of your business and figure-out how can you change to meet the ever-changing state of the market. If you think it should be the other way round - well you are doomed to failure - it's inevitable.
There must be "internet savvy" executives out there who can do something credible and create a workable solution.
1) You might not always have a network connection but still want to listen to music (for example, if you are traveling or your network is down).
2) You might want to take your music with you on a portable device.
3) Streaming kills battery life on mobile devices, especially if embedded in flash.
4) Your streaming music provider might not have, or might stop carrying, a song you really want to listen to.
5) Streaming providers may not have that eclectic genre of music you like.
6) You will likely have to pay subscription fees at some point, which means you keep paying for the same music over and over again.
7) Streaming does not necessarily provide music at its highest quality (in fact, it likely does not). If you want to listen to a recording at its original fidelity, streaming is a bad way to do it.
8) Streaming makes you dependent on whatever technology your streaming provider chooses to use. If you don't want to, or can't use that technology, you are out of luck.
9) You can't sell your copy of an audio stream to someone else when you no longer want it.
10) Streaming often takes much more CPU than local playback (for example, Pandora, which uses Flash)
11) Streaming often has advertisements in it, but you don't want to listen to ads or see them so you can listen to music.
12) Streaming may eventually come to be dominated by companies such as clearchannel, which will provide streams that cater to the largest groups of listeners, but exclude what you really like.
Okay... so if i rejig kazaa to stream the mp3 to 1,000 people instead of transferring it, the RIAA can only sue for the loss of revenue of a penny instead of £20,000 or so?
Streaming really is the future! Where are my coding trousers and hat?
I use itunes all the time, and rip my own CDs (and download the albums I own on vinyl), in total I think my library is around 140 gigs. Streaming as an alternative would suck because I would NEVER be able to remember all those albums and artists! I love to browse through the music that has taken years to accumulate and spot something I haven't heard in ages and play it.
If someone deleted my iTunes library I would never be able to get it all again precisely because I would never be able to recall everything in there.
Having said that, streaming services like Spotify are fantastic for their own niche. A lot of people I know that are maybe not as into music as some, use spotify as their sole music source and find that satisfactory. Then you have the great ability to just type in some artist or famous song that you wouldn't like enough to buy or even download, but want to check out.
and there are the communal aspects of it, like making a playlist for a party that anyone who is invited to can add songs to. This is a very useful service I've used a few times to great effect.
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> PC? The streaming idea is really the future.'"
If you download that file you can play it multiple times without needing to pay for any more network bandwidth.
If you have to stream it to your computer you'll not only have to pay for the bandwidth each time, but you'll have to pay to listen to it each time.
Streaming is only the "future" of music on the Internet if you believe that in the past you could only liste
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Yeah, and they monitor their networks 24x7 but missed someone hacking in through the very few computers that didn't have the software, not touching any others that did have the software, rooting around to figure out things, issued certificates and then sent malware to their customers. Right.
Ironic but not new. Also applies to the "most critical" systems: military systems, banking systems, power infrastructure including nuclear power plants, Los Alamos National Laboratory where nuclear weapons are simulated on supercomputers and so on. The US Army uses Vista. The Fed was recently hacked. We all know about the malware and exploits circulating for SCADA that does power plant control, and the published hard wired root passwords for the systems including routers and firewalls. Los Alamos has a
Even better:
Buy HSMs. Issue new keys with the private keys stored in the security modules, and the access to who gets access to sign data tightly restricted and audited.
Any production security outfit storing private key material on something that is not a hardened appliance is just asking for it.
Meh, there hasn't been an OS level remote root exploit in *nix's in eons
Just having a service on a commodity *nix PC which only has a single open port to take data, signs it and spits it out would be secure against network attacks.
No it wouldn't, you idiot.
If it were like you say, then anyone who hacks the network it is connected to can then send requests to it to be signed, and you're just as insecure as if you had the private keys stolen.
Revoke the keys and issue new ones. Contact all your former clients and try to convince them that you aren't total morons, and that they should continue to be your customers. Give the new kews to the handful that are stupid enough to stay.
Let me guess: these Bit9 geniuses are all ex-RSA employees?
Because 11 is better than 10 or even 9!
I thought 'bit11' is the same as '11b', or 3.
Why was this system connected to the internet either directly through the main lan or an unsecured vlan?
We have basic white papers and common sense security plans to stop this kind of thing.
Because admins want to ssh into it with their home laptops they browse for porn with?
Why was this system connected to the internet either directly through the main lan or an unsecured vlan?
Well, having just finished Ghost in the Machine, my bet is some genius in big9's IT dep't got a phone call that went "Hi, this is Bob from AccountTemps and I need you to change your password on the repository server so we can verify our updated security patch is working..."
Not Eaten Here
There is no indication that this was the result of an issue with our product.
Well... technically right, but the "product" people buy is not just the software: It is the whole package, which includes the on-going maintenance of whitelists, signing binaries and whatnot. And that appears to have been badly compromised.
We are continuing to monitor the situation.
Surely, if the product is that great, then you can relax, right? Isn't that what you're selling to your customers? "Security in a box?" (I know. Security is an on-going process, but not if you ask sales)
While our investigation shows our product was not compromised, we are finalizing a product patch that will automatically detect and stop the execution of any malware that illegitimately uses the certificate
Repetition Repetition... "product not compromised"
I think I'm getting my head around doublespeak - will be useful when I respond to bugs...
I had a long chat with one of their sales types a couple weeks ago. The sales person had to talk to backline engineering, but confirmed the next day that yes, the bypass I outlined in under two minutes to evade the tool completely would in fact work and their software was designed in precisely the way as to make support from OS and hardware vendors very difficult on Linux.
I tried to push them into the more useful area of logging what is done rather than trying to declare a known whitelist. Under their current scheme, a sysadmin couldn't write a custom shell script to their home dir and run it without going through twenty blessings first. Tweak that shell script? Won't run, even without privilege. I was not impressed.
I think that's how they discovered the issue...
" The attackers then sent signed malware to at least three of Bit9's customers"
What a shame. The truly bullshit "security" companies (as opposed to the moderately bullshit ones line bit9) will go on making money with AV software, while someone who sort of tried to do things right (whitelists) is utterly clobbered. But they did fuck up.
Ok, so you didn't run your own wares, kind of like back when (and maybe this is still the case) OpenBSD was hosted on Solaris systems.
Beyond that, though, we see another failure here, and it's one that it also shared by most of today's HTTPS proble
CAs keep getting hacked recently. How can I place my trust on CAs these days? Perhaps the browser should inform the users about certificate change for individual websites, similar to SSH?
When folks don't use their own products it's because the product is shit. Do you think Microsoft compiles Windows with Visual Studio?
Firstly, regardless of what I think of Windows, I actually believe they do use Visual Studio, see the discussion here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7381392/compiler-used-to-build-windows-7 [stackoverflow.com]
Secondly, Visual Studio is a quite acceptable IDE, and could very well be the best software product they ever made.
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CANYON, Texas—Five faculty members at West Texas A&M University have been named Outstanding Professors for 2013-2014 by the University's Mortar Board Senior Honors Society.
The Outstanding Professors are Elizabeth Moore, research associate, College of Agriculture, Science and Engineering; Dr. De'Arno De'Armond, Gene Edwards Professor of Financial Planning, College of Business; Dr. Teri Bingham, associate professor of education, College of Education and Social Sciences; Dr. Robert Krause, professor of music, Sybil B. Harrington College of Fine Arts and Humanities; and Dr. Brenda Cross, instructor and head of the Department of Communication Disorders, College of Nursing and Health Sciences.
Each year Mortar Board members nominate professors who have in some way made them better students. It's called an "Apple Polishing" event and this year, more than 50 professors were named. Members then vote from the nominees for the individual professor from each college to be recognized as an Outstanding Professor.
In addition to the five honorees, the Apple Polishing Award recipients include Alice Upshaw, Ann Wallace, Dr. Brock Blaser, George Fox, Cara Speer, Catherine Bowers, Connie McKee, Dr. Anne Macy Terry, Dr. Ashley Campbell, Dr. Bonnie Roos, Dr. Brenda Cross, Dr. Christopher Meerdink, Dr. David Khan, Dr. David Lust, Dr. De'Arno De'Armond, Dr. Duane Rosa, Dr. Elizabeth Clark, Dr. Guglielmo Manfredi, Dr. Harry Hueston, Dr. Janet Hindman, Dr. Jeffrey Doty, Dr. Jenifer Kunz, Dr. Rex Lee, Dr. John Richeson, Dr. John Pipkin, Dr. Jonathan Shaffer, Dr. Tanner Robertson, Dr. Lance Baker, Dr. Mallory Vestal, Dr. Martin Kuhlman, Dr. Martin Jacobsen, Dr. Maxine DeButte and Dr. Melody Loya.
Also Dr. Mo Cuevas, Dr. Monica Hart, Dr. Pamela Lockwood-Cooke, Dr. Robert Beckley, Dr. Robert Hansen, Dr. Robert Krause, Dr. Rocky Ward, Dr. Stephen Severn, Dr. Syed Anwar, Dr. Trudy Hanson, Dr. Ty Lawrence, Dr. Wade Shaffer, Kimberli Phillips, Elizabeth Moore, Sandra Davidson, Dr. Kenneth Leitch, Rebecca Linke, Dr. Teri Bingham, Vanessa Alanis and William Ambrose. Mortar Board is a national honor society that recognizes college seniors for their achievements in scholarship, leadership and service. The organization provides opportunities for continued leadership development, promotes service to colleges and universities and encourages lifelong contributions to the global community.
Members of the Apple Polishing committee included Jennifer Hightower, Ashley Guinn, Katelyn Gunn, Lindsey Davis, Virginia Froese, Brittany Lasak, Clinton Henriod, Leah Moore, Jordanne Diaz, Brianna Moore, Charlotte Coots and committee leader Lauren Willard.
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- 1 package (12 ounces) fresh or frozen cranberries
- 2-3/4 cups water, divided
- 2 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 1 envelope unflavored gelatin
- In a saucepan, combine cranberries and 2-1/2 cups of water. Bring to a boil; cook gently until all the cranberries have popped, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat; cool slightly. Press mixture through a sieve or food mill, reserving juice and discarding skins and seeds.
- In another saucepan, combine cranberry juice and sugar; cook over medium heat until the sugar dissolves. Remove from the heat and set aside.
- Combine gelatin and remaining 1/4 cup water; stir until softened. Combine cranberry mixture, orange juice and gelatin; mix well. Pour into a 2-qt. container; freeze 4-5 hours or until mixture is slushy. Remove from freezer; beat with electric mixer until sherbet is a bright pink color. Freeze until firm. Yield: about 6 cups.
Originally published as Cranberry Sherbet in Country Woman September/October 1992, p33
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George V. Hernandez, 45, of Big Spring died Saturday Oct. 19, 2013 at his residence. Vigil service will be Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Myers & Smith Chapel. Funeral mass will be Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Holy Trinity Catholic Church with the Rev. Bernard L. Gully officiating. Burial will follow at Mount Olive Memorial Park.He was born March 31, 1968 to Helen Elizabeth and Luis Hernandez in Big Spring. He was a lifetime resident of Big Spring and member of Holy Trinity Catholic Church. He was a 1980 graduate of Odessa High School. He worked with the family business, H & H Donuts, and later worked for Just Peachy Café.He is survived by his parents, Helen and Luis Hernandez of Big Spring; two brothers, Frank Hernandez Jr. and Phillip Hernandez, both of Big Spring; one sister, Elizabeth Hernandez and husband Feliciano of Big Spring; grandmother, Lala Viera; three nieces; three nephews; one great-nephew; one great-niece; and a number of aunts, uncles and cousins.In addition to his grandparents, Dominga and Jesus Hernandez and Jesus Viera, he is preceded in death by one brother, Luis Hernandez, Jr.Arrangements are by Myers & Smith Funeral Home and Chapel. Please pay your respects online at www.myersandsmith.com


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Greenville Police are searching for two suspects they say shot a man in the parking lot of a grocery store.
Officials say that it happened Saturday night around 11:26 in the parking lot of the Mid Town Grocery on 1308 West 14th Avenue. Police say they spoke with the victim, Travis Blow, at Vidant Medical Center where he was being treated.
Blow says that he had been shot after a heated exchange of words with two unknown men. Blow told officers that the suspects pulled two guns and began firing shots when he was struck. The injuries are said to be non-life threatening.
Officials say the suspects fled east on 14th Street in an older white passenger vehicle with four doors.
Both suspects are said to be black males, one around 5' 7'' and weighing around 160 pounds and having a dark complexion. One was armed with a .380 caliber handgun, while the other had a 9mm handgun.
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- 2 cups heavy whipping cream, divided
- 3 egg yolks
- 16 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
- 1/2 cup butter, cubed
- 1/2 cup light corn syrup
- 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 package (10 ounces) frozen raspberries, thawed
- 1/4 cup light corn syrup
- In a large saucepan, combine the first seven ingredients. Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture reaches 160° or is thick enough to coat the back of a metal spoon. Cool.
- In a large bowl, beat cream until it begins to thicken. Add confectioners' sugar and vanilla; beat until soft peaks form. Fold into chocolate mixture.
- Pour into a 9x5-in. loaf pan that has been lined with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 8-10 hours.
- For sauce, place raspberries in a blender; cover and puree. Strain and discard seeds. Stir corn syrup into raspberry puree; refrigerate. Unmold mousse onto a serving platter; serve with raspberry sauce. Yield: 12-14 servings.
Originally published as Chocolate Mousse Loaf in Country Woman Christmas Annual 1998, p43
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This is probably something which is easily rectified but I can't seem to find the answer in your index or elsewhere.
I need to boot an old laptop using floppy discs (yes, that old) as the laptop's CD drive is ignoring CDs. I know the floppy disk drive is working, and I want to use the Rawrite files available on your magazine's DVDs.
I'm using a desk top with an added FD drive and know that this machine's FD drive is working, being able to read an Abiword file from it. This machine is running Ubuntu 12.10.
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Twenty years ago, Main Street in Lexington was a depressing sight for anyone considering opening a small business.
Twenty years ago, Main Street in Lexington was a depressing sight for anyone considering opening a small business. But thanks to the hard work and ingenuity of several dedicated citizens, it is now a bright and exciting place to shop, according to many current business owners and Uptown Lexington Inc. officials.
It all began in 1993 when Lexington was selected as a North Carolina Main Street Community. This designation was the birth of Uptown Lexington Inc.
"I think the past 20 years have been an unqualified success," said Joe Wallace, current chairman of the Uptown Lexington Board of Directors. "With the economic issues we have faced, it is impressive to have the streetscape we have."
Jo Ellen Edwards, former executive director of Uptown Lexington, says it is important for a town to have a vibrant economy and attractive business center.
"Your main street is the welcome mat to potential investors," said Edwards.
Uptown Lexington manages revitalization efforts through the Main Street Program which is a national program created in 1977 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Its goal is to revitalize historic downtowns and protect traditional architecture in core commercial districts. Uptown Lexington receives technical assistance and support from the state and national Main Street programs through a vast network of communities.
Some of the events that Uptown Lexington has sponsored include the Christmas Open House, Pigs in the City, Groundhawgs Day, the BBQ Capital Cook-Off and the Lighting of the Trees at Christmas. This year Uptown Lexington will be organizing the annual Christmas parade. According to Wallace, Uptown Lexington was approached by the Lexington Jaycees to take over after they were unable to continue organizing the event. He says that since it's the first year, the parade will not have many changes from the past.
Key players
Rochelle Grubb was the one person who started the discussion about the Main Street program and the ultimate creation of Uptown Lexington, said Wallace. Grubb was one of a five-member committee that recommended that Lexington apply for membership in the state program. She spoke with business owners and asked them to accept a special tax levy to create the uptown district.
"Finding a funding source was crucial to the creation of Uptown Lexington," Wallace said. "It was a defining moment for the organization."
Grubb died from ovarian cancer in May of 2005. Uptown Lexington named their highest award, the Rochelle Grubb Main Street Champion award in honor of her legacy for being the driving force behind getting the district started.
"She was instrumental at getting the concept to city and business leaders," said Wallace.
Uptown Lexington has had a few executive directors over the years. Liz Parham was hired as the first executive director of Uptown Lexington in January 1994. The streetscape project was the initial undertaking for the group, which included new sidewalks, planting of trees and burying utility lines.
"The streetscape project was the first tangible project the citizens could see," Wallace said. "It increased the visual appeal of the district."
After nearly 12 years as executive director Parham resigned in July of 2005. She is currently the head of the North Carolina Main Street Program and Director of the Office of Urban Development in Raleigh.
"Liz taught us so well what it means to have a healthy main street district," said Edwards.
She said that Parham was the one who got her involved with Uptown Lexington in the first place.
"She was great person who could convince anyone to do anything," Edwards said. "She talked me into joining the promotions committee and I was still there years later."
Edwards recalls that her work with Uptown Lexington has brought some interesting days. She said that when Parham showed up with two blank pigs that needed a coat of primer, she was a bit perplexed.
"I was driving these pigs around to people asking if they could paint them," she said with a laugh. "They thought I had lost my mind."
Edwards served as interim executive director twice after Parham left, but was hired as the full time executive director in 2008. She replaced Wade Nichols, who left the post after two years to become the Main Street manager in Shelby. Edwards was instrumental in expanding many of the successful projects and events. She announced her resignation from as executive director in February for health reasons.
During it's annual meeting in June, Uptown Lexington named Salisbury native Rob Crawford as its new executive director. Crawford has an extensive background in historic preservation and has served as historic preservation commissions coordinator for the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office in Raleigh from 2010 to present. He is set to begin at his new position Aug.1.
One of the most integral parts of Uptown Lexington is their relationship with businesses in the area. Many of the events and programs have centered around bringing in more customers to their stores.
Greg Taylor, a manager at Lanier's Hardware, said that Uptown Lexington has benefited local businesses.
"Just the fact that they keep bringing in new businesses is great," Taylor said. "If Main Street would have dried up, it would have been the end of Lanier's."
Toby Prince, owner of All About Education, said that he felt welcomed as a business when Liz Parham asked him to participate in the Pigs in the City art project shortly after he opened in 2005.
"Uptown Lexington has been a huge part of our success," Prince said. "It is definitely an asset to this community"
Frank Nance, owner of the Army Navy store, said that Uptown Lexington supports the things he had been doing for a long time.
"We are always open late on Friday, but with the Summer Strolls there are more people around," Nance said.
The Backyard Retreat has only been open a little over two years and says that they believe that Uptown Lexington has been effective in bringing customers to the district.
"They work with local businesses and are willing to listen to new ideas," said Jeff Miller co-owner of the Backyard Retreat. "I wish they would do more events, but overall they do a good job."
Edwards says that the current state of the uptown district is a testament to the work of the original board and that even though the process has been slow it has come so far in the 20 years.
Edwards said, "I challenge anyone who hasn't come to Uptown Lexington in the past few years to come and see how things have changed in your own backyard."
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The Batavia softball team went 9-19 last year in the first season under coach Lupe Castellanos, and this year's Bulldogs are less experienced and without graduated standout Katie Ryan.
Factor in how strong the Upstate Eight Conference is in softball, and there's little doubt the Bulldogs' prospects this season will be greeted by plenty of skepticism.
But Castellanos insists it's an entirely different story within the Bulldogs' dugout.
Even after Batavia managed only one hit in Monday's season-opening loss to Kaneland, Castellanos said he has no intentions of lowering expectations for his team, which includes only two seniors.
"I want them to have high standards and high goals for themselves," Castellanos said. "I don't want to just use the excuse that they're young or there's a lot of kids that don't have a lot of varsity experience. I do have a lot of high expectations as far as how we compete out there on the field. I kind of coach them just like any other group that I would coach."
That's an admirable but ambitious approach to take this season.
Six of the Bulldogs' 14 players are freshmen or sophomores. Batavia's projected top pitcher, Rachael Lovestrand, is a freshman. Other than junior Ryanne Rokos, there isn't much proven offense in the Bulldogs' lineup.
All of those factors will make Batavia a decided underdog most times out this season, but that's fine by Castellanos.
"I don't expect teams to overlook us but I hope us obviously having a down year last year, probably not a lot of teams are looking at us or kind of worried about us," Castellanos said. "I'm the kind of coach even if I have a team that's real good, I like to try and stay under the radar, not to try to sneak up on teams, but I feel like when you put yourself out there, you put the bull's eye on yourself. I'm one of those coaches, I like to fly under the radar and do what we need to do as a team to compete, and let everything else fall where it may."
Even with few returnees who have much of a high school track record, Castellanos said Batavia has plenty of talented travel softball talent that is ready to break out.
"I think really the biggest challenge is probably just them learning to play at the varsity level, trying to limit our mistakes, as far as we usually have like one inning that kind of gets away from us," Castellanos said. "If we can limit that one big inning, I think we'll have a lot of success."
This is a tough year to have to teach players to win on the fly.
St. Charles East and St. Charles North are not only favorites in the UEC River but legitimate contenders to advance downstate. If the Bulldogs can play competitively with the rest of the teams in the UEC River and win a few crossover games against a strong pool of UEC Valley teams, this season would have to be considered a successful bridge to the future.
Castellanos said pushing Batavia softball back onto a winning trajectory will be "a process."
Credit Castellanos for his reluctance to lower the bar for his team, but this might be a season in which the Bulldogs are best served measuring their progress in ways other than wins and losses.
• Jay Schwab is sports editor of the Kane County Chronicle. He can be reached at 630-845-5382 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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What, you ask, has Sharon been duing, besides getting mud and manure on her? (I feel like there's been a theme to some of my recent posts, no?) I'm sure you have nothing but this on your mind – the doins a'transpirin at my house being the focus of whole tens of people (well, maybe…


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The Forest Way
History of the Forest Way railway The railway line was
opened by the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway in
1866 as an extension of the Three Bridges to East Grinstead
branch line. Forest Row was the busiest of the intermediate
stations, dealing in minerals and general goods. It was
finally closed as part of the Beeching cuts in 1966.
The 10 mile (14.5 km) route runs from Forest Row in the west close to the River Medway in Ashdown Forest towards Groombridge in the east the path runs along the route of the old East Grinstead to Tunbridge Wells railway (and the path continues to East Grinstead and Crawley to the West) the path passes thorugh many villages, such as Hartfield, from which refreshments are provided in a local pub. Forest row is more like a small town, with shops and servies. bike hire is also avaliable at Forest Row.
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TAMPA (May 23, 2014) – With the NOAA Climate Prediction Center announcing their forecast of a normal to below-normal Atlantic hurricane season yesterday, the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) urges residents not to let predictions keep them from preparing for the season.
"Early-season predictions do not always come to fruition," said Julie Rochman, president and CEO of IBHS. "In fact, the 2012 season was initially forecast to be below-average, partially because of a predicted El Nino event. The El Nino did not develop as expected, and the season was extremely busy, with 19 named storms and 10 hurricanes, including Sandy, which slammed several Northeast states."
It only takes one hurricane to significantly damage an entire region. Hurricane Andrew was the first storm during the 1992 season, which resulted in devastating damage to south Florida.
While the Gulf and Atlantic states are the most at risk of damage from a tropical system, hurricanes and tropical storms can travel far inland, causing high winds, heavy rain and tornadoes in areas not expecting the damage. Hurricane Hugo, which struck 25 years ago in South Carolina, maintained high winds all the way inland to Charlotte, North Carolina, and caused damage in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Connecticut. More recently, Hurricane Ike made landfall in 2008 on the Texas coast and traveled all the way to Ohio, where it caused $1 billion in damage.
IBHS encourages residents to be prepared, and start their hurricane protection efforts now. A variety of resources on strengthening buildings against the high winds and wind-driven rain of tropical systems, can be found at www.DisasterSafety.org (direct links below).
IBHS Hurricane Preparedness Resources:
- Five Recommendations to Protect Your Home from Hurricane Damage
- DIY Hurricane Home Protection Projects
- 5 Ways to Protect Your Home From Water Damage During Hurricane Season
- Keeping a Roof Over Your Head: Hurricane Season Ready
- Business Emergency Preparedness for Hurricane Season
- 10 Business Protection Lessons from Sandy
- Getting the Roof Right Animation Video
- Building a Continuous Load Path Animation Video
Additional information and recommendations are available on IBHS' hurricane resources page.
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About The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS)
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(CNN) -- In the radio biz, if the buzz is good, the listeners will come. But now a suicide that followed an Australian radio prank is forcing American radio broadcasters to look in the mirror.
"It was a feeding frenzy last week when the prank first happened," said Paige Nienaber, a radio consultant for about 100 stations. "We thought, 'This is the greatest thing ever!' Then, of course, it became a tragedy."
Although the story is Topic A on U.S. airwaves, where pranks and stunts are all too common, it's hard to know what's being said off the air -- when studio microphones are not live.
The blame is widespread, says 40-plus-year radio veteran Bruce Kelly. "Most of the industry people I've talked to are saying it's not the DJs' fault. But it does make radio as a whole look pretty stupid."
UK media attacks Australian DJs
Radio network: 'Witch hunt' against DJs
Nurse Jacintha Saldanha's apparent suicide after Australian DJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian fooled her into thinking they were Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles has triggered American station owners to take a new look at their policies concerning pranks and stunts, industry insiders say.
"There is no way they could have anticipated this," said Nienaber. Now station owners, he said, are reviewing policy and reminding their talent to toe the line when it comes to stunts and pranks. "My advice: it's a tragedy, but just calm down."
"The DJs should not blame themselves," wrote CNN commenter Marci Richardson, who described herself as a paralegal. "No one commits suicide over a prank."
But another commenter, identifying as yokohamacat, wrote that "without their prank, she would probably be alive now. DJs can not go claiming total innocence as long as there is a clear sequence of suicide and the prank call."
Related story: Prank call radio station donates to nurse's family
When it comes to prank phone calls on American radio -- believe it or not -- there are rules. In fact, the Aussie prank never would have happened in the United States, broadcasters say, because the FCC dictates that anyone featured on air must give their permission before their voice is broadcast. Some stations take this so seriously that they produce fake prank phone calls by hiring impromptu actors to play the roles of unwitting listeners.
Radio has been successful partly because it has realized April Fool's Day doesn't have to happen once a year, Nienaber said.
He should know. The stunts he's helped stations promote are creative to say the least.
Jacintha Saldanha died after being hoaxed by an Australian radio show.
--Hundreds of listeners were fooled into thinking they were appearing in a Brad Pitt movie.
--A station promoted a "baby giveaway" contest by offering the winning couple free treatments for in vitro fertilization.
--A contest dubbed Swap Your Wife for a Brand New Life offered several couples prizes after they switched partners.
The tragedy has morning shows nationwide thinking twice. "Those of us in the media forget the impact we have on people's lives, both positive and negative," Kelly said.
"Personally, I think anytime you publicly embarrass someone it doesn't sit well with me," said 31-year radio veteran Kevin Robinson, who programs 106-5 The Arch in St. Louis.
Related story: Opinion: DJs broke 'no harm' rule
Is there a line that should not be crossed? "The line is, don't do it if it endangers the public directly," Kelly said.
The suicide dredges up memories of an American radio stunt that ended tragically: a 2007 contest that left 28-year-old Jennifer Strange dead from acute water intoxication. Strange entered the contest sponsored by Sacramento, California, station KDND. The contest promised a free Wii video game system to the person who could drink the most water without going to the bathroom or vomiting. Promoters dubbed the contest, "Hold Your Wee for a Wii." Strange's family was awarded $16.5 million in a wrongful death suit against the station owners.
"Sacramento really seemed to validate what a lot of people already believe: that we are this dangerous medium," said Nienaber. But he also calls it the "intestinal gas, fart joke medium," because "a lot of the people are emotionally stuck in the eighth grade." People who own radio stations, he says, see DJs as "children playing with explosives."
What's the payoff for radio pranks? In a word, buzz. Pressure from programmers often forces talent to go to extremes to "make noise" in the market, insiders say. Get listeners talking.
What about ratings? Are pranks a direct result of trying to win a ratings war? Not necessarily. "I don't think there's a correlation," Nienaber said. DJs would devise pranks regardless, he says. "At the end of the day, it's just fun."
But like every medium these days, radio is changing. Will the Aussie DJ's scandal leave a permanent mark? Will your favorite morning DJs change their tune in the aftermath of the tragedy?
"I don't think radio pranks will ever go away as long as there are 'funny' morning shows," said Lee Abrams, an industry pioneer and consultant who's legendary in the business. "The Australian prank was a fluke ... though the hosts and their employers will probably think twice" in the future "and that's probably a good thing."
Phone pranks like the one in Australia have become "old and boring" Kelly said. Much of radio's fun with pranks has roots in the 1950s with shows like "Candid Camera" and in the '80s with Scott Shannon's "Morning Zoo" at New York's Z100.
"I think it was something that was happening more in the '80s and '90s," said Jim Denny, morning co-host at Indianapolis' WFMS. "I think you hear more mean stuff on the sports radio and news-talk stations, where they're beating up on the listeners sometimes."
Pranks and stunts appear to be moving from radio to reality TV, Kelly said, leaving radio with a few basic formats that he calls "shut-up-and-play-the music"; "I-hate-Obama-I-love-Obama" aka talk radio; or an "ensemble of human interaction with Morning Zoo-like overtones, without the snarkyness."
If radio ends up becoming more predictable as a result of the controversy, it will disappoint many broadcasters as well as listeners. It's radio's unpredictability, they say, that makes it great.
"Anything can happen," Nienaber said. "But should this stop us from doing everything? No."


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Come up with a springy guitar-pop tune about a girl who doesn't know she's beautiful in 2012 and you've got a global boy-band sensation. Do the same thing in 1985 and you're doomed to cult obscurity. Such was the fate of Big Dipper, who called it quits seven years after their power-pop gem "She's Fetching." "Big Dipper Crashes on the Platinum Planet," the Boston band's first album since 1990, opens promisingly with "Lord Scrumptious," a catchy blast of weirdness about a world-devouring god wracked with insecurity that features unhinged riffing and a delightfully cockeyed chorus. Later, "Pitbull Cruiser, Blue" rolls on super-tight rhythm guitars with a stereo separation that throws the listener neatly off-balance. But most tracks sound too D.I.Y.-dinky to matter, with minimal dynamic variation and components that sound disconnected not just from each other — that's often the point — but from the songs themselves. Still, while Big Dipper may crash on "Platinum Planet," the wreckage offers a few scraps worth salvaging. (Out now)
ESSENTIAL "Lord Scrumptious"


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In 2006, a lawyer for Jose Padilla, the accused dirty-bomb plotter, made an explosive claim in a federal court filing: the "enemy combatant" was "given drugs against his will, believed to be some form of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) or phencyclidine (PCP), to act as a sort of truth serum during his interrogations."
But what Seymour failed to disclose, reported here for the first time, was that Padilla was given the flu shot during an interrogation session and told by his interrogators the injection was "truth serum," according to a declassified Department of Defense (DoD) inspector general's report that probed the use of "mind-altering drugs" during the interrogation of war on terror detainees.
Sanford Seymour, the technical director of the US Naval brig in South Carolina where Padilla was held, however, vehemently denied the charge during a 2006 hearing to determine whether Padilla, a US citizen, was competent to stand trial. Seymour asserted Padilla was injected with an influenza vaccine.
The inspector general's investigation determined that although Padilla was not administered mind-altering drugs (such as LSD), "the incorporation of a routine flu shot into an interrogation session ... was a deliberate ruse by the interrogation team, intended to convince [redacted] he had been administered a mind-altering drug."
Truthout obtained a copy of the report prepared by the DoD's deputy inspector general for intelligence in September 2009, under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request we filed nearly two years ago. (Read our in-depth story on the inspector general's investigation here.)
The probe, which was initiated after the publication of a 2008 Washington Post report and a letter sent to the Department of Defense watchdog by Democratic lawmakers, was unable to substantiate any of the allegations by current and former detainees that, as a matter of government policy, they were given mind-altering drugs "to facilitate interrogation."
But the watchdog's report provides startling new details about the treatment of detainees by US military personnel and raises important questions about the veracity of the intelligence interrogators gleaned from certain prisoners captured in the "war on terror." The investigation found detainees were interrogated while drugged with powerful antipsychotic and other medications that "could impair an individual's ability to provide accurate information," subjected to "chemical restraints" and hydrated with intravenous fluids while they were being interrogated.
A section of the report focused on the alleged administration of so-called "truth" drugs, which are administered for their presumed mind-altering effects.
Since the start of the "war on terror," intelligence officials have publicly said drugs like sodium pentothal, which has mind-altering effects, should be introduced in interrogations as a way of getting "uncooperative" detainees to talk.
"We ought to look at what options are out there," former FBI and CIA Director William Webster told reporters in 2002.
The inspector general's report pointed to instances in which top military officials had considered introducing "truth" drugs during interrogations. The watchdog cited an October 2, 2002, meeting of Guantanamo interrogation command and legal staff where the use of "truth serum" on detainees was discussed as having a "placebo effect."
George Bimmerle discussed the use of placebos as ersatz "truth drugs" in a classic 1961 CIA text on "'Truth' Drugs in Interrogation." Bimmerle wrote that placebos are "most likely to be effective in situations of stress." The drugs are described as acting upon "a subject's sense of guilt," absolving a prisoner under interrogation of responsibility for giving up information, because it is assumed the effect of the drug was to blame.
Interrogators utilized the "placebo effect" when they questioned Padilla. Investigators from the inspector general's office reached that conclusion after a visit to the Naval Brig where they reviewed records and interviewed Brig officials about Padilla's claims. Padilla's name is redacted from the report, but it's clear based on the detailed descriptions of the allegations that the inspector general is referring to him
"We conducted an on-site examination of daily logs maintained by the security force of the brig and confirmed that [redacted] received an influenza immunization on December 5, 2002," the report says. "We interviewed the Navy corpsman who described the process for preparing the vaccine and administering the immunization. The Navy corpsman stated that [redacted] did not complain of any post immunization reactions that might have been related to LSD or any other psychoactive drugs. However, the Navy corpsman stated that one of the interrogators instructed him not to inform [redacted] of the nature of the immunization."
The FBI and Joint Task Force 170, the "predecessor organization" of Joint Task Force Guantanamo, interrogated Padilla from June 2002 through October 2002. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) took over his interrogations from October 2002 through March 2003, at which point the FBI and DIA jointly conducted the interrogations, according to the inspector general's report.
The inspector general's office viewed some of Padilla's interrogation videotapes where Padilla "expressed concern about the possible use of drugs to induce him to cooperate with the interrogators."
"The most detailed discussion of truth serum occurred on November 14, 2002, after [redacted] declined to take a polygraph examination," according to the inspector general's report. "The interrogation video recording depicts that following the polygraph declination, [redacted] and the interrogator had a discussion of other techniques which could be used to verify [redacted] statements. Among the techniques described by the interrogator was the use of a 'truth serum.'"
At the end of the tape, according to the inspector general, the interrogator told Padilla, "There is no such thing as a 'truth serum.'" But the initial suggestion apparently affected the detainee when he was given a flu shot during his interrogation session about three weeks later. Padilla asked his interrogator why he was given a shot.
"It was necessary," the interrogator said, "and proceeded to ask [redacted] what kind of shot he received."
Padilla said he was told it was a flu shot, but as the interrogation wore on he said he did not feel well and asked, "what did you shoot me with? Did you shoot me with serum?"
Gregg Bloche, the author of the book "The Hippocratic Myth" and a health policy expert and Georgetown University law professor, said the ruse interrogators pulled on Padilla "sounds like a juvenile prank."
"But it's a serious breach of medical ethics," Bloche said. "It undermines trust in military physicians and it's an unfair insult to the integrity of the vast majority of military doctors, who quite rightly believe that this sort of thing is contrary to their professional obligation."
The inspector general rebuked a government agency - possibly the DIA or FBI - involved in Padilla's interrogation for failing "to follow legal review procedures" established by US Joint Forces Command. The government agency singled out by the inspector general responded to the conclusions, but it's redacted from the report.
Padilla was convicted of terrorism support charges in 2007. Recently, the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal Padilla filed against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other Bush administration officials. The high court let stand an appeals court ruling, which dismissed Padilla's complaint related to his treatment at the Naval Brig. Caruso, Padilla's federal public defender, did not return messages left at his Miami office for comment about the inspector general's conclusions.
But just a few months after the deception on Padilla, according to the inspector general's probe, an unnamed DIA "representative" came up with a list of 40 techniques at the request of a Pentagon "working group" overseen by Rumsfeld that met between January and April 2003 to discuss interrogation methods to use on detainees captured in the global war on terror.
The "DIA representative" was identified in a declassified 2009 Senate Armed Services Committee report that probed the treatment of detainees in custody of the US military as Dave Becker, the Interrogation Control Element (ICE) Chief at Guantanamo. Becker recommended to the "working group" the use of drugs, "such as sodium pentothal and Demerol," which was number 40 on the list of interrogation methods presented to the "working group." Becker said those drugs "could prove to be effective" and "relaxes detainee to a cooperative state."
When Senate Armed Services Committee investigators interviewed him about the list of interrogation techniques, Becker said he had recommended the "use of drugs" to Rumsfeld's panel because he'd heard "a rumor" that another agency "had used drugs in their interrogation program."
The inspector general's report went on to say the working group ultimately rejected the use of drugs. But the report failed to mention an important document: a March 2003 legal opinion sent to Pentgaon general counsel William "Jim" Haynes by Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel attorney John Yoo, which said drugs could be used in interrogations as long as they did not "disrupt profoundly the senses or personality."
Yoo's memo was cited in the senators' letter to the inspector general calling for the investigation. It's unclear why it was not mentioned in the watchdog's report.
Responding to the completion of the inspector general's investigation in August 2009, J. Alan Liotta, the principal director in the office of detainee policy, warned in a letter to the inspector general signing off on the document, "The release of this report is likely to generate media attention."
"Please keep our office informed as to when it will be released and efforts to craft talking points regarding the release," Liotta wrote, signing off on the report.


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Cooler Master is announcing a new entry into their High Air Flow [HAF] line of PC enclosures. The HAF line was introduced to the world by the HAF-932 a full tower sized case with massive yet quiet air flow for the enthusiast to stuff all kinds of goodies into.
Now thinking a little smaller but maintaining the same design and build quality Cooler Master is launching the HAF-922. The 922 will be the Mid-Tower entry and while smaller will be no less of a performer.
Supporting up to seven fans ranging from 200 mm to 120 mm the HAF can still keep the cool air moving through even in the most cramped system. The included fans [One venting out the top of the case and a second pulling cool air in from the front] spin at 700RPM and have a noise level of only 19dBA. As with the HAF-932 the HAF-922 is ready for water cooling; you can remove the top mounted fan and slide a dual 120 radiator up there with plenty of headroom for your system. A bottom mounted PSU with an external air intake vent under the case helps maintain a cool interior environment.
The tool free drive installation that was so popular on the HAF-932 returns with the 922 with a total of 5 5.25-inch and 5 3.5-inch drive bays. An included cable management system helps to keep the clutter down while an innovative 7+1 PCI expansion slot design give you more room to grow.
The front I/O panel will contain 2 USB 2.0 ports, the usual microphone and speaker ports [supporting both AC97 and HD audio] and an e-SATA port.
Cooler Master has been improving their offerings on an ever increasing schedule with the HAF-932 and 922 they now have two great cases for the air-cooling enthusiast and for anyone looking for a quite system. The HAF-922 should be on the shelves in the first part of May and will only run you about $129.00 which is not bad for what you get.


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Kind of new to javascript. I'm wondering why I get "INDEX_SIZE_ERR: DOM Exception 1" when I first load the page, but not if I reload afterwards.
The error is from this line:
function saveDrawingSurface() {
console.log ("saveDrawingSurface "+context.canvas.width+" "+context.canvas.height);
drawingSurfaceImageData = context.getImageData(0,0,context.canvas.width,context.canvas.height); <=== this line
It prints that the canvas is 300 x 0 at first, so I can see why that would produce an error. But I thought this function would only be called once the context was valid. In my javascript file I have this:
window.onload = init();
and the context is obtained in init(). Also saveDrawingSurface is called from there too.
From HTML I have this at the end of my HTML, within the <html> tag after the <body> tag.
<script src='myscript.js'></script>
I thought that the onload statement would ensure that the javascript which set the context would not be called until after the page had loaded. I'm not sure where the canvas size is going wrong. I have this for its CSS and no reference to the size in the tag declaration. Yet that 300 x 0 number is weird, I would think it would at least be the default which is 300x200 right?
#canvas {
background: #ffffff;
width: 100%;
height: 85%;
Thanks for any help!


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text: Part of the deal offered to Eddie by Zuffa was a co-headlining fight at UFC 159, right under the Bones/Chael fight. With the PPV bonus structure already offered he stands to make $850,000 in addition to the $70k/$70k show/win money he would make if 159 does 700K buys, which is clearly could. His PPV structure would be as follows: ~$1 per buy between 200,000 and 400,000 buys. -escalation to $2 per buy between 400,000 and 600,000. ~escalation to $2.50 for each buy over 600,000. With these PPV bonuses involved, there is no possible way that Bellator could match Zuffa's offer. I just see no way that Eddie fights for Bellator again. And honestly, he's a great fighter, but I'm not sure if him leaving will have much impact on Bellator's bottom line. I think Zuffa is seriously overpaying him at those numbers. There must be a lot of pissed off UFC fighters after seeing what was offered to Eddie.


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Man shot in foot after confrontation
Published 10:20 am, Friday, January 11, 2013
BRIDGEPORT -- A 58-year-old man was shot in the foot Thursday after a confrontation with two men on Grove Street, police said.
The victim told police that he was confronted as he got out of his car by the suspects, who he said grabbed him and began to go through his pockets.
When he tried to get back into his car, the victim said he heard a shot and found that he'd been shot in the right foot. The suspects ran away and the victim was treated for the gunshot wound at St. Vincent's Medical Center, police said. Detectives are investigating the incident and have recovered ballistic evidence, department spokesman William Kaempffer said.


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Filed under: Capitalism, Democrat Corruption, Economy, Liberalism, Politics, Progressivism, Taxes | Tags: Administration Lies, Dishonest Negotiation, Phony Spending Cuts
No wonder the White House hates Fox News so much. They ask real questions and don't accept administration prevarication. Awkward. This administration has an unusual propensity for getting caught telling whoppers, and the media arm of the White House usually tries to cover up.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner appeared on Fox News Sunday yesterday to talk about the rude and uncooperative Republicans who were not agreeing promptly to raise taxes on the rich the way Obama wanted.
The problem is that Chris Wallace is usually very well-informed. He challenged Tim Geithner on the lack of real spending cuts in the proposal he brought to Capitol Hill last week. Geithner objected, claiming that the White House has trillions of cuts in their proposal — from ending the wars.
Wallace reminded Geithner that no one planned to keep fighting those wars in the first place. Geithner lost his cool and started complaining about Republican gimmicks. That's funny. These are the people who double count the same savings, create imaginary ones, anything in order to keep from cutting spending at all. They have no intention of cutting spending. None.
WALLACE: Or they now say because you're not willing to cut spending enough.
GEITHNER: No, but that's not true. Again, if they want to do more on the spending side than the $600 billion we proposed on top of the trillion already enacted, in top of the savings from the wars, then they can tell us how they propose –
WALLACE: Savings in the wars that we were never going to fight?
GEITHNER: No, that's not true. We're — as you know, we're winding down two wars.
WALLACE: I understand that.
WALLACE: And you are thinking savings that nobody thought that you were going to spend that money anyway. It's a budget gimmick, sir.
GEITHNER: No, that's not right. You know, let me say it this way, those were expensive wars, not just in Americans lives but in terms of the taxpayers' resources. And when you end them as the president is doing, they reduce our long term deficits and like in the Republican budget proposals, the world should reflect and recognize what that does in savings.
And we propose to use those savings to reduce the deficits and help invest in rebuilding America. We think that makes a lot of sense.
WALLACE: But it was money that wasn't going to be spent anyway, and –
GEITHNER: If those wars have gone on, they would be spent.
WALLACE: I understand. But you're not saving — you're not ending the wars for budget purposes. You're ending the wars because of a foreign policy decision. The wars weren't going to be fought. You're not really saving money.
GEITHNER: Chris, we all agree –
WALLACE: I mean, it's a budget gimmick, but it's money never intended to spend.
GEITHNER: No, it's not a budget gimmick unless you are — when Republicans propose, it's a budget gimmick?
WALLACE: Sure, absolutely.
GEITHNER: And you should address that to them. But what it does is –
WALLACE: Well — so, I'm addressing it to you.
Watch for the attempt to use the $716 billion that Obama already took out of Medicare payments to providers, and the funds saved by not invading Canada. That should be a lot. Geithner has already insisted that there will not be a fiscal-cliff deal unless Republicans agree to hike taxes on the Rich. How embarrassing to have to try to sell this phony stuff. Geithner knows better.
The rich already pay far more than their "fair share." The top 10% of taxpayers pay 70.5% of all taxes.The bottom 90% of taxpayers (the rest) pay 29.5% of all taxes. The bottom 50% of taxpayers pay just 2.3% of all taxes. So who's not paying their "fair share?" American income taxes are among the most progressive in the world.
The problem is not a lack of revenue. It is the spending habits of this particular president. He is way out of his depth, and it becomes more obvious every day. Better go back to the drawing board, Mr. Secretary.
Maybe if the House could revoke that $4 million the president is going to spend on his vacation, it would get his attention.


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Catholic Church sways Scottish faithful away from Labour
When one considers the meaning of the Mass, the belief in and adoration of the real presence, and the theological centrality of the act of transubstantiation, to use the mesmerism of religious devotion in order to inculcate a political message is appallingly manipulative. This fusion of the religious with the political is certain to endanger Labour's electoral hopes. They are already trailing in the polls, and are likely to lose control of the 129-member parliament to the Scottish Nationalists, who have now made a pledge to exempt Catholic adoption agencies from the Government's legislation.
Now that David Cameron has come down in agreement with the Government (albeit accompanied by a free vote), there is little likelihood that the Scottish Conservatives will emit any pro-gay-discrimination utterances in favour of the church, so the SNP has become the last refuge of Scotland's Roman Catholics.
This is quite convenient, considering Cardinal Keith O'Brien's recent pronouncements in favour of Scottish secession from the Union. By directing the faithful towards nationalism, the Roman Catholic Church is making a politically aggressive manoeuvre towards the break-up of the United Kingdom. Such actions undermine the Throne, move to deprive Her Majesty of her title to the Crown of the United Kingdom, and are an affront to her dignity and privilege. Pope Pius V must be jubilant.


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Will he play for peanuts?
The transformation of the Eagles continues. Veteran defensive tackle Cullen Jenkins, part of the much-balleyhooed 2011 Dream Team free-agent class, was released Monday.
Jenkins, 32, was set to make $5.5 million this season. He would have earned a $1 million bonus if he was on the roster March 15.
Jenkins restructured his deal last year. He was paid an $825,000 base salary, but received a $5 million fully guaranteed roster bonus. He will now count $1.5 million this season against the Eagles' salary cap.
The Eagles informed Jenkins of his release Monday. The decision is a combination of money and performance. Jenkins, who started all 32 games in his two years with the Eagles, had 9.5 sacks combined in the two seasons. He was a non-factor however for much of 2012.
"I had a chance to speak with Cullen today and let him know of our decision," general manager Howie Roseman said. "It's one of the most difficult parts of the job. He has been a very productive player in this league for a long time but we felt it in our team's best interests that we go in a different direction. By releasing him at this point, it gives he and his agent more time to sign on with another team. We wish Cullen and his family all the best as he continues his NFL career."
From the 2011 free-agent class, only Nnamdi Asomugha, Evan Mathis and Derek Landri remain. Gone are Jenkins, Jason Babin, Vince Young, Ronnie Brown, Steve Smith, Donald Lee, Ryan Harris, Anthony Hargrove and Jarrad Page. Asomugha could be next. His future is likely contingent on him agreeing to a substantial pay cut.
Jenkins had been in limbo. There was a strong belief after the season that his time with the team was over. The hiring of a new coach and the subsequent house cleaning the Eagles are in the midst of doing didn't bode well for an aging defensive end with a sizable salary, even if Jenkins did excel in a 3-4 defense in Green Bay. The Eagles are expected to switch to a version of the 3-4 defense this season.
It's clear now the Eagles will be looking for defensive ends in free agency or the draft. While last year's first-round pick Fletcher Cox projects well as a DE in a 3-4 defense, the Eagles don't appear to have anyone else other than possibly Mike Patterson on the roster capable of filling the role now that Jenkins was released.
Will he play for peanuts?
IBSSSTB (In Before Someone Says Sign This Beast)
@AdamSchefter: Hours after releasing DL Cullen Jenkins, Eagles now have released former first-round pick Mike Patterson, who intends to continue playing.
Patterson isn't healthy.
I'm very familiar with Jenkins being he played here but if there were a way the Jets would be able to sign him for a cap friendly salary? he'd be a very good pick up.
We got Coples and Wilkerson who will play on passing downs, where Jenkins is most effective. He wouldnt add much and is on the downside.
Godzilla Big Jenks was another beast entirely. If only he stayed healthy. Hoping Ellis could make the step and be Godzilla-lite
Do I make myself clear to both you and Nike now? lol


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I took a look at the driver download page you posted.
I think you are right and they are a copy of the same drivers already mentioned before.
For some people, Catalyst 8-3 for Windows XP work just fine on their HD2xxx agp card.
For others, not.
Same story for the Linux drivers.
There seem to be too many variables involved (motherboard chipset, motherboard RAM, 64-bit or 32-bit, Intel or AMD) for a consistent picture to emerge.
The writing on the wall that says "you're on your own with this one for now" is the fact that AMD/ATI have still not anounced official Windows XP, Vista or Linux (32-bit or 64-bit) support for the HD2xxx series AGP cards
Until that wonderful day comes, your mileage may vary.
In my own case, my 2600xt 512 MB AGP works flawlessly in XP 32-bit with the Catalyst 8-3 driver package, yet refuses to do anything usefull in Linux unless I turn all Direct rendering (and therefore, accelleration) off.
I'm on the open-source radeonhd driver in Linux which still has it's own problems (xrandr not working in the 1600x1200 resolution that I want on my two monitors despite preallocating a massive virtual of 3200x2400 for it. So RandR is off for now.)