Vista?!! My eyes!! Everywhere I look everything is framed in translucent frames with a weak-ass Northern Lights rendition! And I have a date tonight! WHAT AM I GONNA WEAR??!!!!
I'm not saying Unions were innocent little angels, but blaming them for everything is wrong. Personally I feel that far too long we have a had a confrontational relationship between management and labor. They both need to realize they need each other and that they both have the same goal: to make money.
A friend of mine just took a buyout offer from Ford. He worked the assembly line for 13 years, meaning he weaseled his way into the cooshy positions and did the least work for the most pay he could. He is now 33 yrs old, plenty of road ahead of him.
So what would you pay this guy to not work for you anymore?
pause for effect..
$100,000 plus full pension.
Love my friend, more power to him, but fuck unions.
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Similar to my frequent dilemmas as a sound tech for live shows, balancing the needs of the musicians vs the needs of the venue/promoter. Do NOT get me started.
Biodiesel is a dubious thing. You can take any viable vegetable oil, including waste fryer grease, filter it and it will run fine. The original diesel engine ran on peanut oil.
However, proper biodiesel is vegetable oil treated with pretty heavy chemicals, so that it specs the same as petroleum diesel. Yet for practical purposes, you can run a diesel vehicle on any vegetable oil that has been filtered extensively, and the means to do so do not require any harsh chemicals.
I don't have time to prep a thorough post, but look into DieselCraft centrifuge filters. Long story short, you spend about $1k on a homemade rig that heats the oil/grease up to 180F and a pump that pressurizes the centrifuge up to 80-90psi, and it spins the centrifuge up to ~7000rpm, which sends all unwanted elements flying to the walls of the centrifuge and clean usable fuel flows out the bottom.
It gets out all particulate down to 0.5 microns, all dissolved water which wrecks fuel pumps, and even most of the gelatin. The hitch with gelatin is that in cold weather the gelatin congeals and clogs fuel lines.
With well-filtered grease you only need to add thinners at about 50F, and ironically a good thinner is regular unleaded gasoline, quite easy to come by. Not the premium stuff either, the lower the octane the better. Ideally stale unleaded gas they pay to get rid of at shipyards and yacht clubs is great thinner.
I'd post a bunch of links, but really, you gotta learn about this on your own and develop relationships with people because there are no standards. Google "WVO diesel" for info on runing diesel cars on Waste Vegetable Oil, and hit www.dieselcraft.com
Also search for proper biodiesel processes to see how redundant it is to treat vegetable oils with such harsh chemicals to avoid burning petro.
In every arts related job, there are the expressive parts that you love and the administration jobs that you hate. Every game maker is founded by people that just want to make great games. Then they have to deal with the bullshit that is required to make their games a success. Is it any surprise that game makers, the RIAA, and every other arts related industry has shit the bed when it comes to marketing their products.
Let's face it, for every pirate out there, there are 100 people who are qualified to devise a way to market artistic digital media in a way that makes everyone happy. One problem stands in their way:
NOBODY IS PROVIDING ANY INCENTIVES TO MAKE THE JOB ATTRACTIVE, AND IT'S A SHITTY JOB TO BEGIN WITH.
I could go on for days, but most readers here have some insight into the situation, how much would you have to be paid to attempt to devise a reasonable scale for game makers to be reimbursed for their efforts?
Think about it, who wants that job? Worse yet, who's willing to pay for it? Everyone acknowledges it has to be done, but it's the ugliest job in a sexy industry. "Hi, I want to work for your modeling agency, got any grease traps you need cleaned?"
I record my own albums, book my own shows, drive the tour van, set up the stages, sometimes run sound myself, make my own posters, etc etc etc, and if I can do all that at age 34 and still run a successful studio, house tech at a local venue, AND still write good music, then these pukes who call themselves artists but can't deduce a way to bring their art to market can eat my shit. In fact, I happen to have a nice fluffy one brewed up just for EA.
Screw Photovoltaic cells. A sealed solar-thermal turbine generator would kick ass and be easier to maintain than a nuke.
But with zero atmosphere and no ozone layer, I wonder how much electricity a radiometer array could generate. Remember those sealed light-bulb-like gadgets where light makes them spin because photons bounce off the light side and are absorbed by the dark side? Now those would be extremely easy to ship, install, and maintain. It'd probably take a half-acre to generate 40kW, but it's not like they're shy on square-footage, and on the light side of the moon, it's high noon 24/7.
He didnt compromise accounts, in the summary it says he tapped into land lines. That can be done with a $5 telephone handset and a pair of aligator clips, and was probably done using an actual linemans handset provided to him by the company. Google "beige box" for more info.
This actually happened to me once. In my area, Bell has installed boxes outside houses with phone jacks anyone can access with a standard corded phone. The purpose is to have customers use it to determine if a problem is inside or outside the residence, to save Bell unnecessary tech calls, but by adding a flagrant vulnerability to the phone service.
So one month, $273 in phone sex charges appeared on my bill at times when I was at work. I had even requested 900 numbers blocked when I ordered the service, which apparently wasn't heeded. Once I discovered the exterior panel, it had clearly been opened, since my landlord had painted over it just after I moved in, and there was even a milk crate under it, presumably used as a chair. It was located in a narrow alley between houses which offered some privacy, but I figure it was just some kids being brats. What locking mechanism does the box use? A hex-head screw, loosened with any small pliers. I sent Bell pictures of the tampering evidence, they still refused to reverse the charges. I had to fax them a letter on my lawyer's letterhead before they did (he lets me do that).
By installing these exterior access points, nobody can prove who places any calls from anyone's service, so by allowing 3rd parties to directly charge a customer's bill, Bell is engaged in willful negligence tantamount to racketeering. The boxes are installed without asking permission of the customer (done at time of installation when permission is obtained to drill holes etc) or even informing them of the access point. They're only informed of them if a problem arises, and they say it's a feature to save the customer technician charges for interior problems.
Best of all, when I demanded they remove the box, even after they reversed the charges, they refused. Thank God VOIP had recently arrived in my area. Even still, when a VOIP adapter is connected to the internal jacks, the external jack becomes active. You have to find where it enters the interior and cut the line there.
Microsoft has no control over the shit quality of drivers released by hardware manufacturers.
Control no, influence yes. XP succeeded as well as it did largely because good drivers weren't as hard to develop as with 95/98/NT, given the wealth of talent available in the workforce.
Vista created too much work for driver developers that had seen drivers need only minor updates as service packs came out. Suddenly they need full rebuilds for existing hardware and new hardware needs programmers that are fluent in Vista's needs. Meanwhile, the best programmers have been less interested in Vista than advancing their careers in any of dozens of fields available to them. Coding Vista drivers is to most a downward career path compared to plush network admin and/or consulting jobs or starting their own businesses.
So the talent pool available to code Vista drivers was lackluster, and because IT demand has exceeded supply for many years, the new talent's ambitions are split between many more fields than when XP emerged. Meanwhile, hardware developers for the mostpart didn't see much cause to devote more money towards driver development for Vista than they did for XP.
This is why a fully integrated hardware/software approach like Apple's won't step on landmines like this. They have not only control and influence, but their survival also demands foresight. They know what their new ventures will entail from 3rd parties, and they provide the necessary incentives before the 3rd parties even dream of it.
OS X was initially as brutal a change as Vista is, and it cost Apple millions of users, myself included. However, it was a necessary fundamental shift to remain competitive and they invested millions in supporting the developers to make the huge change as painless as possible for their end users. Microsoft is spending that money on Jerry Seinfeld to talk about shoes.
I'm already preparing for my next audio workstation to have a Mac as its hub. I only wish the audio industry could handle bumps as well as Apple can.
If I were to setup something like Picasa then I would want to word the TOS in a way such that the ALL rights to uploaded pictures stay with the original owner. I think hijacking those rights (what percentage of users actually look at the TOS?) in a stupid legal document is just about the definition of evil (even if nothing is done with the user content)!
All rights do stay with the original owner. Google simply has a _license_ to them, which is necessary to publish them as search results. If you do not want them to show up in searches, a Google picture service probably ain't the best place to post them.
Furthermore, if you're not remotely interested in the TOS, odds are your photographs aren't worth diddly squat anyway, especially since Google has billions to choose from. Why yours? They suck!;p
In other words, every time you download a binary file, McAfee HQ knows about it and logs it. Was this dreamed up by the RIAA, the NSA, or the anti-child-porno people?
All of the above. The submissions will be spidered so the users will receive targeted ads from relevant lawyers to help settle the lawsuits.
It's called loss-leading promotions. Bars will sometimes book big touring bands hoping to only break even, mostly for the bragging rights of saying that band played their room.
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1. Microcars are so short that any non-professional driver of any vehicle with an elevated driving position is not going to see them, and you do not want to be hit by a large vehicle in a Microcar.
2. They're pretty much useless in snow or mud.
3. Without adequate alternative electricity sources, plug-in cars run on coal. The energy per unit of pollution is better than gasoline, but when people drive more because they don't have to pay for gas...
a new RFID chip from Verayo claims to be unclonable through the use of the new Physical Unclonable Functions (PUF), sort of an electronic DNA for silicon chips.
DNA is cloneable. In fact, DNA routinely clones itself. Hell, the word "cloning" refers directly to DNA manipulation. Saying uncloneable like DNA is like saying it's unspreadable like peanut butter. The OP should refer to fingerprints, a unique physical assignment that can only be duplicated physically.
The crucial part is that the PUF must be packaged with reading hardware/firmware, such that you can't access the PUF without physically breaking in, disrupting the PUF rendering it invalid. And even if the key was effectively "sampled", the damage should quickly result in the termination of the key's access permissions, before a substitute could do much damage.
Also it would be difficult to clone many original keys, since they would have to come into a hacker's physical possession, though it may be easy to make many copies of one key. Kind of moot when it's been cancelled.
Sounds like a step forward, from magnetic strip cards at least!
The title says "every", the summary says 13,000 objects. Is this really complete, or are there objects that are not tracked (or at least not disclosed)?
If it were 100% complete, Google would be revealing to terrorists when spy satellites are over their training camps.
Holy crap, I missed the perfect example of how ludicrous the situation is.
Bell's main analog telephony switching station in town here is on prime real estate. It wasn't prime real estate back in ~1950 when it was built, but now it is, and they absolutely cannot relocate for obvious reasons. So they are paying top property taxes and drawing huge electricity to provide the crudest phone service.
Meanwhile, a friend of mine runs one of dozens of VOIP providers in town that nets over $8k a month, and the server cluster is in a spare closet, located in his posh pad two blocks from the Bell analog hub.
Take a wild guess which company provides his DSL for a mere $200 a month.
Just to clarify, the ISP market sucks because local governments sell exclusive franchises and forbid competition. The problem is precisely the lack of competition, free markets and capitalism that you rail against in the linked to journal entry. If anybody is screwing the consumers in this case, it's the government, not the ISPs.
I completely agree, but let's look at why they do so. For the most part, it's the telco's that benefit from the exclusive franchising. Telco's that have served those communities for four generations. Telco's, who if bankrupted, could for example suddenly not be able to pay out the retirment packages that lifetime employees and highly respected community members depend upon.
Let's consider a sci-fi parallel situation, where some Bill Gates prodigy geek comes up with an AI that can replace most IT jobs. Imagine working your whole life just to have your pension axed by coded convenience. Think it can't happen? Telco's didn't think the Internet could happen either.
IT jobs barely existed a generation ago. Try four. Telephony was an indestructible industry not 20 years ago. Hundreds of thousands of families were dependent on telco pensions and inhereted telco jobs.
If you blame governments for this, blame them for being humane. They met the needs of their community in a way that does not easily translate to paper. My exposure to the ongoing inevitable death of telco's leads me to believe that they see the end of the road, and for the mostpart put people first as they make the best of the situation. No Micheal Moore documentaries forthcoming.
The BBC may have produced the recordings, but the compositions are copyrighted, generally by the artist's label under contract. I record live bands all the time, and I own the recordings, but I can't sell them without the consent of whoever wrote the songs.
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Vista?!! My eyes!! Everywhere I look everything is framed in translucent frames with a weak-ass Northern Lights rendition! And I have a date tonight! WHAT AM I GONNA WEAR??!!!!
No, it was the plans for the Skynet Terminator CPU.
I'm not saying Unions were innocent little angels, but blaming them for everything is wrong. Personally I feel that far too long we have a had a confrontational relationship between management and labor. They both need to realize they need each other and that they both have the same goal: to make money.
A friend of mine just took a buyout offer from Ford. He worked the assembly line for 13 years, meaning he weaseled his way into the cooshy positions and did the least work for the most pay he could. He is now 33 yrs old, plenty of road ahead of him.
So what would you pay this guy to not work for you anymore?
pause for effect..
$100,000 plus full pension.
Love my friend, more power to him, but fuck unions.
Similar to my frequent dilemmas as a sound tech for live shows, balancing the needs of the musicians vs the needs of the venue/promoter. Do NOT get me started.
Biodiesel is a dubious thing. You can take any viable vegetable oil, including waste fryer grease, filter it and it will run fine. The original diesel engine ran on peanut oil.
However, proper biodiesel is vegetable oil treated with pretty heavy chemicals, so that it specs the same as petroleum diesel. Yet for practical purposes, you can run a diesel vehicle on any vegetable oil that has been filtered extensively, and the means to do so do not require any harsh chemicals.
I don't have time to prep a thorough post, but look into DieselCraft centrifuge filters. Long story short, you spend about $1k on a homemade rig that heats the oil/grease up to 180F and a pump that pressurizes the centrifuge up to 80-90psi, and it spins the centrifuge up to ~7000rpm, which sends all unwanted elements flying to the walls of the centrifuge and clean usable fuel flows out the bottom.
It gets out all particulate down to 0.5 microns, all dissolved water which wrecks fuel pumps, and even most of the gelatin. The hitch with gelatin is that in cold weather the gelatin congeals and clogs fuel lines.
With well-filtered grease you only need to add thinners at about 50F, and ironically a good thinner is regular unleaded gasoline, quite easy to come by. Not the premium stuff either, the lower the octane the better. Ideally stale unleaded gas they pay to get rid of at shipyards and yacht clubs is great thinner.
I'd post a bunch of links, but really, you gotta learn about this on your own and develop relationships with people because there are no standards. Google "WVO diesel" for info on runing diesel cars on Waste Vegetable Oil, and hit www.dieselcraft.com
Also search for proper biodiesel processes to see how redundant it is to treat vegetable oils with such harsh chemicals to avoid burning petro.
In every arts related job, there are the expressive parts that you love and the administration jobs that you hate. Every game maker is founded by people that just want to make great games. Then they have to deal with the bullshit that is required to make their games a success. Is it any surprise that game makers, the RIAA, and every other arts related industry has shit the bed when it comes to marketing their products.
Let's face it, for every pirate out there, there are 100 people who are qualified to devise a way to market artistic digital media in a way that makes everyone happy. One problem stands in their way:
NOBODY IS PROVIDING ANY INCENTIVES TO MAKE THE JOB ATTRACTIVE, AND IT'S A SHITTY JOB TO BEGIN WITH.
I could go on for days, but most readers here have some insight into the situation, how much would you have to be paid to attempt to devise a reasonable scale for game makers to be reimbursed for their efforts?
Think about it, who wants that job? Worse yet, who's willing to pay for it? Everyone acknowledges it has to be done, but it's the ugliest job in a sexy industry. "Hi, I want to work for your modeling agency, got any grease traps you need cleaned?"
I record my own albums, book my own shows, drive the tour van, set up the stages, sometimes run sound myself, make my own posters, etc etc etc, and if I can do all that at age 34 and still run a successful studio, house tech at a local venue, AND still write good music, then these pukes who call themselves artists but can't deduce a way to bring their art to market can eat my shit. In fact, I happen to have a nice fluffy one brewed up just for EA.
Fire in the hole.
I agree, poster beware. It's like women who wear low-cut tops and short skirts then complain that guys check out their gear.
Seinfeld's gonna have to sell Gates some nice wingtips in retaliation.
Screw Photovoltaic cells. A sealed solar-thermal turbine generator would kick ass and be easier to maintain than a nuke.
But with zero atmosphere and no ozone layer, I wonder how much electricity a radiometer array could generate. Remember those sealed light-bulb-like gadgets where light makes them spin because photons bounce off the light side and are absorbed by the dark side? Now those would be extremely easy to ship, install, and maintain. It'd probably take a half-acre to generate 40kW, but it's not like they're shy on square-footage, and on the light side of the moon, it's high noon 24/7.
He didnt compromise accounts, in the summary it says he tapped into land lines. That can be done with a $5 telephone handset and a pair of aligator clips, and was probably done using an actual linemans handset provided to him by the company. Google "beige box" for more info.
This actually happened to me once. In my area, Bell has installed boxes outside houses with phone jacks anyone can access with a standard corded phone. The purpose is to have customers use it to determine if a problem is inside or outside the residence, to save Bell unnecessary tech calls, but by adding a flagrant vulnerability to the phone service.
So one month, $273 in phone sex charges appeared on my bill at times when I was at work. I had even requested 900 numbers blocked when I ordered the service, which apparently wasn't heeded. Once I discovered the exterior panel, it had clearly been opened, since my landlord had painted over it just after I moved in, and there was even a milk crate under it, presumably used as a chair. It was located in a narrow alley between houses which offered some privacy, but I figure it was just some kids being brats. What locking mechanism does the box use? A hex-head screw, loosened with any small pliers. I sent Bell pictures of the tampering evidence, they still refused to reverse the charges. I had to fax them a letter on my lawyer's letterhead before they did (he lets me do that).
By installing these exterior access points, nobody can prove who places any calls from anyone's service, so by allowing 3rd parties to directly charge a customer's bill, Bell is engaged in willful negligence tantamount to racketeering. The boxes are installed without asking permission of the customer (done at time of installation when permission is obtained to drill holes etc) or even informing them of the access point. They're only informed of them if a problem arises, and they say it's a feature to save the customer technician charges for interior problems.
Best of all, when I demanded they remove the box, even after they reversed the charges, they refused. Thank God VOIP had recently arrived in my area. Even still, when a VOIP adapter is connected to the internal jacks, the external jack becomes active. You have to find where it enters the interior and cut the line there.
Like Ma Bell I got the ill communication indeed.
Microsoft has no control over the shit quality of drivers released by hardware manufacturers.
Control no, influence yes. XP succeeded as well as it did largely because good drivers weren't as hard to develop as with 95/98/NT, given the wealth of talent available in the workforce.
Vista created too much work for driver developers that had seen drivers need only minor updates as service packs came out. Suddenly they need full rebuilds for existing hardware and new hardware needs programmers that are fluent in Vista's needs. Meanwhile, the best programmers have been less interested in Vista than advancing their careers in any of dozens of fields available to them. Coding Vista drivers is to most a downward career path compared to plush network admin and/or consulting jobs or starting their own businesses.
So the talent pool available to code Vista drivers was lackluster, and because IT demand has exceeded supply for many years, the new talent's ambitions are split between many more fields than when XP emerged. Meanwhile, hardware developers for the mostpart didn't see much cause to devote more money towards driver development for Vista than they did for XP.
This is why a fully integrated hardware/software approach like Apple's won't step on landmines like this. They have not only control and influence, but their survival also demands foresight. They know what their new ventures will entail from 3rd parties, and they provide the necessary incentives before the 3rd parties even dream of it.
OS X was initially as brutal a change as Vista is, and it cost Apple millions of users, myself included. However, it was a necessary fundamental shift to remain competitive and they invested millions in supporting the developers to make the huge change as painless as possible for their end users. Microsoft is spending that money on Jerry Seinfeld to talk about shoes.
I'm already preparing for my next audio workstation to have a Mac as its hub. I only wish the audio industry could handle bumps as well as Apple can.
If I were to setup something like Picasa then I would want to word the TOS in a way such that the ALL rights to uploaded pictures stay with the original owner. I think hijacking those rights (what percentage of users actually look at the TOS?) in a stupid legal document is just about the definition of evil (even if nothing is done with the user content)!
All rights do stay with the original owner. Google simply has a _license_ to them, which is necessary to publish them as search results. If you do not want them to show up in searches, a Google picture service probably ain't the best place to post them.
Furthermore, if you're not remotely interested in the TOS, odds are your photographs aren't worth diddly squat anyway, especially since Google has billions to choose from. Why yours? They suck! ;p
In other words, every time you download a binary file, McAfee HQ knows about it and logs it. Was this dreamed up by the RIAA, the NSA, or the anti-child-porno people?
All of the above. The submissions will be spidered so the users will receive targeted ads from relevant lawyers to help settle the lawsuits.
It's called loss-leading promotions. Bars will sometimes book big touring bands hoping to only break even, mostly for the bragging rights of saying that band played their room.
1. Microcars are so short that any non-professional driver of any vehicle with an elevated driving position is not going to see them, and you do not want to be hit by a large vehicle in a Microcar.
2. They're pretty much useless in snow or mud.
3. Without adequate alternative electricity sources, plug-in cars run on coal. The energy per unit of pollution is better than gasoline, but when people drive more because they don't have to pay for gas...
a new RFID chip from Verayo claims to be unclonable through the use of the new Physical Unclonable Functions (PUF), sort of an electronic DNA for silicon chips.
DNA is cloneable. In fact, DNA routinely clones itself. Hell, the word "cloning" refers directly to DNA manipulation. Saying uncloneable like DNA is like saying it's unspreadable like peanut butter. The OP should refer to fingerprints, a unique physical assignment that can only be duplicated physically.
The crucial part is that the PUF must be packaged with reading hardware/firmware, such that you can't access the PUF without physically breaking in, disrupting the PUF rendering it invalid. And even if the key was effectively "sampled", the damage should quickly result in the termination of the key's access permissions, before a substitute could do much damage.
Also it would be difficult to clone many original keys, since they would have to come into a hacker's physical possession, though it may be easy to make many copies of one key. Kind of moot when it's been cancelled.
Sounds like a step forward, from magnetic strip cards at least!
FTA: He is currently working on a new device which will record telephone calls and send the audio file via email.
My VOIP already does this. I check my voicemail by playing .wav email attachments.
BOOOOOM!!!
Please come again!
It's gonna really sting when you start questioning why you don't end rl conversations with them.
And when you hit rock bottom, only then will you finally realize the divine wisdom of the age-old Cannuck affectation:
eh?
The ultimate failure of DRM was predicted a few years ago on these very forums.
Please. Back when it was called "copy protection," its ultimate failure was predicted 25-30 years ago on forums that are now defunct and lost to time.
30 years ago predates even usenet. What medium did these forums ulitilze? Smoke signals?
It's Apples that are delicious. Windows are transparent.
The title says "every", the summary says 13,000 objects. Is this really complete, or are there objects that are not tracked (or at least not disclosed)?
If it were 100% complete, Google would be revealing to terrorists when spy satellites are over their training camps.
So I give your question a relatively firm "NO".
Holy crap, I missed the perfect example of how ludicrous the situation is.
Bell's main analog telephony switching station in town here is on prime real estate. It wasn't prime real estate back in ~1950 when it was built, but now it is, and they absolutely cannot relocate for obvious reasons. So they are paying top property taxes and drawing huge electricity to provide the crudest phone service.
Meanwhile, a friend of mine runs one of dozens of VOIP providers in town that nets over $8k a month, and the server cluster is in a spare closet, located in his posh pad two blocks from the Bell analog hub.
Take a wild guess which company provides his DSL for a mere $200 a month.
Just to clarify, the ISP market sucks because local governments sell exclusive franchises and forbid competition. The problem is precisely the lack of competition, free markets and capitalism that you rail against in the linked to journal entry. If anybody is screwing the consumers in this case, it's the government, not the ISPs.
I completely agree, but let's look at why they do so. For the most part, it's the telco's that benefit from the exclusive franchising. Telco's that have served those communities for four generations. Telco's, who if bankrupted, could for example suddenly not be able to pay out the retirment packages that lifetime employees and highly respected community members depend upon.
Let's consider a sci-fi parallel situation, where some Bill Gates prodigy geek comes up with an AI that can replace most IT jobs. Imagine working your whole life just to have your pension axed by coded convenience. Think it can't happen? Telco's didn't think the Internet could happen either.
IT jobs barely existed a generation ago. Try four. Telephony was an indestructible industry not 20 years ago. Hundreds of thousands of families were dependent on telco pensions and inhereted telco jobs.
If you blame governments for this, blame them for being humane. They met the needs of their community in a way that does not easily translate to paper. My exposure to the ongoing inevitable death of telco's leads me to believe that they see the end of the road, and for the mostpart put people first as they make the best of the situation. No Micheal Moore documentaries forthcoming.
The BBC may have produced the recordings, but the compositions are copyrighted, generally by the artist's label under contract. I record live bands all the time, and I own the recordings, but I can't sell them without the consent of whoever wrote the songs.