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Web Radio and the RIAA

Posted by timothy on from the duking-it-out dept.

Andrew Leonard writes: "Steve Marks, VP of legal affairs of the RIAA, is duking it out with critics in a point-counterpoint debate focusing on the nitty-gritty details of how artists will be compensated by the new rules on Webcasting royalties."

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  1. Join the Navy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Your mother and I have had it up to here with your lying around the house. You must take responsibility for your life. Son, you need to get up off your backside and join the freakin' Navy!

    The word "monkey" is of uncertain origin; its first known usage was in 1498 when it was used in the literary work Reynard the Fox as the name of the son of Martin the Ape. "Monkey" has numerous nautical meanings, such as a small coastal trading vessel, single masted with a square sail of the 16th and 17th centuries; a small wooden cask in which grog was carried after issue from a grog-tub to the seamen's messes in the Royal Navy; a type of marine steam reciprocating engine where two engines were used together in tandem on the same propeller shaft; and a sailor whose job involved climbing and moving swiftly (usage dating to 1858). A "monkey boat" was a narrow vessel used on canals (usage dating to 1858); a "monkey gaff" is a small gaff on large merchant vessels; a "monkey jacket" is a close fitting jacket worn by sailors; "monkey spars" are small masts and yards on vessels used for the "instruction and exercise of boys;" and a "monkey pump" is a straw used to suck the liquid from a small hole in a cask; a "monkey block" was used in the rigging of sailing ships; "monkey island" is a ship's upper bridge; "monkey drill" was calisthenics by naval personnel (usage dating to 1895); and "monkey march" is close order march by US Marine Corps personnel (usage dating to 1952). [Sources: Cassidy, Frederick G. and Joan Houston Hall eds. Dictionary of American Regional English. vol.3 (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1996): 642; Wilfred Granville. A Dictionary of Sailors' Slang (London: Andre Deutch, 1962): 77; Peter Kemp ed. Oxford Companion to Ships & the Sea. (New York: Oxford University; Press, 1976): 556; The Oxford English Dictionary. New York: Oxford University Press, 1933; J.E. Lighter ed. Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang. (New York: Random House, 1994): 580.; and Eric Partridge A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. 8th ed. (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company): 917.] "Monkey" has also been used within an ordnance context. A "monkey" was a kind of gun or cannon (usage dating to 1650). "Monkey tail" was a short hand spike, a lever for aiming a carronade [short-sight iron cannon]. A "powder monkey" was a boy who carried gun powder from the magazine to cannons and performed other ordnance duties on a warship (usage dating to 1682). [Source: The Oxford English Dictionary. New York: Oxford University Press, 1933.] The first recorded use of the term "brass monkey" appears to dates to 1857 when it was used in an apparently vulgar context by C.A. Abbey in his book Before the Mast, where on page 108 it says "It would freeze the tail off a brass monkey." [Source: Lighter, J.E. ed. Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang. (New York: Random House, 1994): 262.]

    It has often been claimed that the "brass monkey" was a holder or storage rack in which cannon balls (or shot) were stacked on a ship. Supposedly when the "monkey" with its stack of cannon ball became cold, the contraction of iron cannon balls led to the balls falling through or off of the "monkey." This explanation appears to be a legend of the sea without historical justification. In actuality, ready service shot was kept on the gun or spar decks in shot racks (also known as shot garlands in the Royal Navy) which consisted of longitudinal wooden planks with holes bored into them, into which round shot (cannon balls) were inserted for ready use by the gun crew. These shot racks or garlands are discussed in: Longridge, C. Nepean. The Anatomy of Nelson's Ships. (Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press, 1981): 64. A top view of shot garlands on the upper deck of a ship-of-the-line is depicted in The Visual Dictionary of Ships and Sailing. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 1991): 17.

    "Brass monkey" is also the nickname for the Cunard Line's house flag which depicts a gold lion rampant on a red field. [Source: Rogers, John. Origins of Sea Terms. (Mystic CT: Mystic Seaport Museum, 1984): 23.

  2. Don't let Natalie Down... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Vote For Natalie

  3. I said that first! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't make fun of me, I realy did say it first.

  4. OS News post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    KDE 3.0 Released
    By Eugenia Loli-Queru - Posted on 2002-04-03 17:50:54
    KDE 3.0 was finally released. The official announcement will come soon, but for now, you can download KDE 3.0 for Conectiva, FreeBSD, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, Tru64, YellowDog or the source code. Debian, IRIX, AIX or Solaris packages not available yet.
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    LowEndMac on Why BeOS Failed
    By Eugenia Loli-Queru, submitted by Dan Knight - Posted on 2002-04-03 17:50:52
    "Many low-end Mac users lament Apple's choice of NeXTstep over the BeOS as the foundation of Mac OS X. Many arguments have been made on technical merits, and many blame the demise of Be, Inc., on Apple and Microsoft. The following is an in-depth look at the demise of Be and reflections on Apple's choice of NeXT. Hopefully this will debunk some common ideas about BeOS and lay this debate to rest." Read the editorial at LowEndMac. (sorry, comment section is still down here on OSNews)
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    Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R6 Updated
    By Eugenia Loli-Queru - Posted on 2002-04-03 17:40:22
    This is the sixth revision of Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (codename `potato') which mainly adds security updates to the stable release, along with a few corrections of serious bugs. Those who frequently update from security.debian.org won't have to update many packages. However, most updates from security.debian.org are included in this point release.
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    O'ReillyNet Articles for .NET
    By Eugenia Loli-Queru - Posted on 2002-04-03 00:05:15
    Many interesting articles at O'Reilly's .NET corner, more than twenty articles, most published the last month. Among the very recent ones, you will find "Uncovering Rotor -- A Shared Source CLI", four parts of Web Services essentials, "An Architectural Tour of Rotor", "Get Your Rotor Running" (which includes some compiler speed differenes between FreeBSD and Windows) and many more.
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    Rocklyte Athene 1.3 Released
    By Eugenia Loli-Queru, submitted by Paul Manias - Posted on 2002-04-02 23:44:50
    A new version of Athene has been released this week for Windows and Linux. New features include an installation standard for package distribution, a fast menu system and pkzip compression is now a supported standard. The DML interpreter included with Athene now works for stand-alone development, so you can write DML programs that will run without the Athene desktop. The Internet plug-in for DML is also in development following this release, so that DML apps can be embedded in web pages. A complete change-log is available. OSNews hosted an interview with Rocklyte a few months ago.
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    SkyOS 3.7 Beta Released
    By Eugenia Loli-Queru - Posted on 2002-04-02 23:09:49
    The long awaited SkyOS 3.7 is now released, in a beta form. The new version includes a new networking stack, a media player and more. You can download the 7 MB archive and make sure you send feedback back to Robert if you encounter bugs. Update: A newer, fixed version was uploaded today.
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    Why I Don't Own A Mac - Editorial at Rush Magazine
    By Eugenia Loli-Queru, submitted by Doug Gruber - Posted on 2002-04-02 19:35:04
    This editorial at Rush Magazing talksback to Apple's request to hear from PC users. The author has a problem with the speed, price and "complete hardware" solution Apple is providing. On the pros, the auhor lists the way the machines look and the fact that underneath you are dealing with a BSD UNIX. On a similar editorial at ZDNews: "But as it turns out, our reviews team recently did a hands-on with the fastest Power Mac on the market, equipped with dual 1GHz PowerPC G4 processors. Though it's obviously the fastest Power Mac yet, it's interesting to look at what you get compared with a high-end PC. The system's P133 SDRAM, 80GB hard drive, 64MB Nvidia GeForce4 MX video card, and not-so-SuperDrive all look pretty pedestrian next to the Dimension 8200 and Pavilion 950, yet the Power Mac costs $3,000 without a monitor."
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    iMacLinux Reviews Yellow Dog Linux 2.2 By Eugenia Loli-Queru - Posted on 2002-04-02 19:34:44
    "First of all, I would like to thank TerraSoft for providing me with a free review copy of Yellow Dog Linux 2.2. Yellow Dog Linux is currently the only PowerPC distribution that does not exist for other platforms. Although YDL is based on RedHat, it's a unique distribution and it's understandable that each release of YDL is followed with great interest by the PowerPC Linux community. This review will take a close look at their latest and greatest." Read the review at iMacLinux.
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    At Microsoft, Security Trumps App Compatibility
    By Eugenia Loli-Queru - Posted on 2002-04-02 05:00:44
    "In a sea change of philosophy, Microsoft Corp. is working to put security ahead of not just features and functionality, but also legacy application compatibility. In a meeting with eWEEK last week, several Microsoft executives responsible for security software development said the company is also changing the way it ships some products to make them safer and will begin developing its own line of security software." Read the rest of the report at ExtremeTech. In related news, a pair of Office XP bugs were uncovered while more security updates can be found here.
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    User Level Clicker32 Apps can now Launch Other Clicker32 Apps
    By Eugenia Loli-Queru, submitted by Sylvain Martin - Posted on 2002-04-02 02:23:00
    OSNews reader Sylvain Martin writes: "The Clicker Operating system is moving forward. With last release 0.8.0, the system is now able to start user-level programs from another user-level program! This is a major advance if you consider that versions 0.7.x required the user-level program to be embedded within a system module. A pre-compiled demonstration package of 0.8.0 should be made available in a very soon future."
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    IBM Q&A on Grid Computing
    By Eugenia Loli-Queru, submitted by Jeff - Posted on 2002-04-02 02:19:27
    In this interview with a top VP at IBM Grid Computing, an old idea coming back, is defined as the next emerging technology. Specifically, cheap bandwidth and interoperable standards have created an environment where Grid Computing is not only possible but also "the natural evolution of the Internet".
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    Interview with Stardock's Brad Wardell
    By Eugenia Loli-Queru - Posted on 2002-04-01 07:30:33
    I met Brad Wardell, Stardock's CEO, two weeks ago in San Fransisco. Stardock are mostly known for creating WindowBlinds. But Stardock has a long history, going back to the OS/2 days, releasing not only the most 'successful' OS/2 application ever, Object Desktop, but also a number of games. Today Stardock still releases games and UI enhancement tools for Windows, but the main focus is still Object Desktop. Read more for our interview with Brad, his views on theming, the future of UIs and more.
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    ADO.NET Primer & Custom Code Generation in .NET Visual Designers
    By Eugenia Loli-Queru - Posted on 2002-04-01 07:24:04
    "The purpose of this paper is to provide a concentrated, yet pragmatic, overview of ADO.NET by highlighting the performance and usability benefits of using ADO.NET with Microsoft SQL Server 2000. The intended audience is architects and developers who are familiar with ADO and are interested in learning about data access in the Microsoft .NET Framework." Read the article at MSDN. "When developing the design-time architecture for the .NET Framework, Microsoft chose to use source code as the persistence mechanism for user code rather than a binary or other private solution. Code persistence allows users to learn from the code that the Designer outputs as well as be able to easily build projects outside of the Visual Studio .NET environment if desired. It also allows understandable and accessible customization for advanced scenarios and components." Read the article at MSDN.
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    Web Services: Why Care?
    By Eugenia Loli-Queru - Posted on 2002-04-01 07:23:38
    "Anyone made leery by the unfulfilled promises of the dot-com era may feel skeptical, or at least confused, about Web services, the latest wave of innovation on the Internet. Sky-high expectations and reams of hype are too often the death knell for emerging technologies. Will this one be any different?" Read the rest of the story at C|Net News.com.
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    SoftwareMarketSolution Interviews Don Rosenberg
    By Eugenia Loli-Queru, submitted by the Three Dot Anonymous - Posted on 2002-04-01 07:17:35
    "As visitors to SoftwareMarketSolution.com know, we've reviewed Don Rosenberg's Open Source, 'The Unauthorized White Papers' (Wiley), and think it's an excellent look at the business, marketing, and legal issues surrounding the Open Source movement. If you have any interest in the Open Source movement we strongly recommend you purchase a copy and keep it close by. Don is a Ph.D. and the president of Stromian Technologies, a highly respected and well known consulting firm in the industry." The interview is mainly about the success and failures of Linux and open source in general.
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