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Help wanted: CTO at Warner Music.

Gill_Bates writes "It looks like Warner music group are looking for a CTO. I'm intrigued by the sentence that reads "Builds prototypes and evaluates alternatives for on-line music delivery, P2P warfare, copy protection, etc." " How many job descriptions include the phrase "Warfare"?

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  1. How about by Dolly_Llama · · Score: 3, Informative
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    Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -- Carl Sagan

  2. Re:Wow, they're doing this overtly? by no+soup+for+you · · Score: 5, Informative
    didn't Congress pass a bill that would give blank checks to allow p2p networks to be hacked by record companies, ie. distributing fake-hashed files to corrupt everything on the network and so forth?
    A bill has been introduced in congress, and hearings are being held, but it has not been passed.
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    If you blog it...
  3. Re:Lots by Scott+Wood · · Score: 2, Informative
    From Article III, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution:
    Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.
    Disobeying an order from the President will likely get a member of the military in a lot of trouble, but unless it meets the above criteria, it cannot be considered treason.
  4. FYI: I suggest you check Webster's Dictionary by tlambert · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's a word originating in 1967.

    It means, in this context, "removing the middleman". The original definition is "removal of the intermediary".

    -- Terry