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Music Decoded From 600-Year-Old Carvings
RulerOf writes "Musicians recently unlocked a 600 year old mystery that had been encoded into the walls of the Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland, the one featured in The Da Vinci Code. The song was carved into the walls of the chapel in the form of geometric shapes that a father-son team — both are musicians and the father is an ex-Royal Air Force code breaker — finally matched to so-called Chladni patterns (see the Wikipedia article on cymatics). The recovered melody was paired with traditional lyrics (translated into Latin) and recorded; the result can be heard in this video (also linked from the musicians' website). The video also gives a visual representation of how the engravings match up to the cymatic patterns." From the Reuters article: "'The music has been frozen in time by symbolism... [The carvings] are of such exquisite detail and so beautiful that we thought there must be a message here.' The two men matched each of the patterns on the carved cubes to a Chladni pitch, and were able finally to unlock the melody."
around the middle of April i got an invitation from them to join their trials and use their new tv-via-p2p internet tv channels.
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I go to their site, at https://www.joost.com/download/ to download the installler... and what do i get ? a slap-in-the face license.
I took the time to actually read the license they display (i know...wow factor) and what i read in that license gave me the willies..
They display it in a tiny window... i had to select it all, copy into clipboard and paste it into another program to view it properly.
Practically it says they can install and any software they want without asking me, provided that the software they install claims to display a license and that license is accepted.
Here are the relevant quotes:
2.1.1 Joost and the Joost(TM) Software will, and will permit third parties to, display advertising and other information within the interface of the Joost(TM) Software and/or in connection with the display of content and programming, in all cases without compensation to you. Joost or the Joost(TM) Software serves, and permits third parties to serve, advertisements within or adjacent to the content and programming delivered to you by the Joost(TM) Software. You understand and agree that Joost or the Joost(TM) Software, or applicable third parties, may include content-targeted advertisements or other related information, as further described in the Joost Privacy Policy. Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers found on or through the Joost(TM) Software, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertiser.
all clean, right ?? WRONG. here's what comes next a bit further:
4.1. You hereby acknowledge and agree that the Joost(TM) Software may be incorporated into, and may incorporate itself, software and other technology owned and controlled by third parties. Any such third party software or technology that is incorporated in the Joost(TM) Software falls under the scope of this Agreement. Any and all other third party software or technology that may be distributed together with the Joost(TM) Software will be subject to you explicitly accepting a license agreement with that third party. You acknowledge and agree that you will not enter into a contractual relationship with Joost or its affiliates regarding such third party software or technology and you will look solely to the applicable third party and not to Joost or its affiliates to enforce any of your rights.
4.2.3. When installed on your computer, the Joost(TM) Software may periodically communicate with Joost servers and/or Joost(TM) Software installed by other users. Additionally, third party software installed on Your computer may periodically communicate with third party servers for the purposes described in the license agreement or privacy policy between you and that third party.
what ?! third party software may communicate with third party servers ??? isn't this the core definition of spyware ??
12.8. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Waiver of Claims. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Luxembourg, without regard to conflict of law rules thereof. The parties hereto expressly understand and agree that any action brought by you against Joost arising out of this Agreement shall be brought exclusively in the courts located in Luxembourg, and any action brought by Joost against you arising out of this Agreement shall, at the election of Joost, be brought in either the courts located in Luxembourg, or the applicable courts of the jurisdiction in which you reside. The parties hereby consent to, and irrevocably submit themselves to, the exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of such courts as set forth in this section. You further agree not to bring claims on
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If it's free why do you care if it injects code into your yahoo! messenger? As if yahoo messenger isn't spyware already . .
around the middle of April i got an invitation from them to join their trials and use their new tv-via-p2p internet tv channels.
I go to their site, at https://www.joost.com/download/ to download the installler... and what do i get ? a slap-in-the face license.
I took the time to actually read the license they display (i know...wow factor) and what i read in that license gave me the willies..
They display it in a tiny window... i had to select it all, copy into clipboard and paste it into another program to view it properly.
Practically it says they can install and any software they want without asking me, provided that the software they install claims to display a license and that license is accepted.
Here are the relevant quotes:
2.1.1 Joost and the Joost(TM) Software will, and will permit third parties to, display advertising and other information within the interface of the Joost(TM) Software and/or in connection with the display of content and programming, in all cases without compensation to you. Joost or the Joost(TM) Software serves, and permits third parties to serve, advertisements within or adjacent to the content and programming delivered to you by the Joost(TM) Software. You understand and agree that Joost or the Joost(TM) Software, or applicable third parties, may include content-targeted advertisements or other related information, as further described in the Joost Privacy Policy. Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers found on or through the Joost(TM) Software, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertiser.
all clean, right ?? WRONG. here's what comes next a bit further:
4.1. You hereby acknowledge and agree that the Joost(TM) Software may be incorporated into, and may incorporate itself, software and other technology owned and controlled by third parties. Any such third party software or technology that is incorporated in the Joost(TM) Software falls under the scope of this Agreement. Any and all other third party software or technology that may be distributed together with the Joost(TM) Software will be subject to you explicitly accepting a license agreement with that third party. You acknowledge and agree that you will not enter into a contractual relationship with Joost or its affiliates regarding such third party software or technology and you will look solely to the applicable third party and not to Joost or its affiliates to enforce any of your rights.
4.2.3. When installed on your computer, the Joost(TM) Software may periodically communicate with Joost servers and/or Joost(TM) Software installed by other users. Additionally, third party software installed on Your computer may periodically communicate with third party servers for the purposes described in the license agreement or privacy policy between you and that third party.
what ?! third party software may communicate with third party servers ??? isn't this the core definition of spyware ??
12.8. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Waiver of Claims. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Luxembourg, without regard to conflict of law rules thereof. The parties hereto expressly understand and agree that any action brought by you against Joost arising out of this Agreement shall be brought exclusively in the courts located in Luxembourg, and any action brought by Joost against you arising out of this Agreement shall, at the election of Joost, be brought in either the courts located in Luxembourg, or the applicable courts of the jurisdiction in which you reside. The parties hereby consent to, and irrevocably submit themselve
That's my definition of being owned, where
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All your data are belong to them
around the middle of April i got an invitation from them to join their trials and use their new tv-via-p2p internet tv channels.
I go to their site, at https://www.joost.com/download/ [joost.com] to download the installler... and what do i get ? a slap-in-the face license.
I took the time to actually read the license they display (i know...wow factor) and what i read in that license gave me the willies..
They display it in a tiny window... i had to select it all, copy into clipboard and paste it into another program to view it properly.
Practically it says they can install and any software they want without asking me, provided that the software they install claims to display a license and that license is accepted.
Here are the relevant quotes:
2.1.1 Joost and the Joost(TM) Software will, and will permit third parties to, display advertising and other information within the interface of the Joost(TM) Software and/or in connection with the display of content and programming, in all cases without compensation to you. Joost or the Joost(TM) Software serves, and permits third parties to serve, advertisements within or adjacent to the content and programming delivered to you by the Joost(TM) Software. You understand and agree that Joost or the Joost(TM) Software, or applicable third parties, may include content-targeted advertisements or other related information, as further described in the Joost Privacy Policy. Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers found on or through the Joost(TM) Software, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertiser.
all clean, right ?? WRONG. here's what comes next a bit further:
4.1. You hereby acknowledge and agree that the Joost(TM) Software may be incorporated into, and may incorporate itself, software and other technology owned and controlled by third parties. Any such third party software or technology that is incorporated in the Joost(TM) Software falls under the scope of this Agreement. Any and all other third party software or technology that may be distributed together with the Joost(TM) Software will be subject to you explicitly accepting a license agreement with that third party. You acknowledge and agree that you will not enter into a contractual relationship with Joost or its affiliates regarding such third party software or technology and you will look solely to the applicable third party and not to Joost or its affiliates to enforce any of your rights.
4.2.3. When installed on your computer, the Joost(TM) Software may periodically communicate with Joost servers and/or Joost(TM) Software installed by other users. Additionally, third party software installed on Your computer may periodically communicate with third party servers for the purposes described in the license agreement or privacy policy between you and that third party.
what ?! third party software may communicate with third party servers ??? isn't this the core definition of spyware ??
12.8. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Waiver of Claims. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Luxembourg, without regard to conflict of law rules thereof. The parties hereto expressly understand and agree that any action brought by you against Joost arising out of this Agreement shall be brought exclusively in the courts located in Luxembourg, and any action brought by Joost against you arising out of this Agreement shall, at the election of Joost, be brought in either the courts located in Luxembou