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  1. Re:i interviewed with Gator a few months ago on Gator Files for IPO to Raise $150 Million · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Google does use a GET type form submission which means the CGI arguments sit right in the
    URL. more private submissions should use POST or better yet https.

  2. Re:They're not playing fair... on PlayFair Pulled Due to DMCA Request · · Score: 1

    Sorry it is not "Fair Use". Fair Use involves parody, criticism, and education. Personal copies are cover by the "Home recording act"
    See Stanford's Copyright Page

  3. Re:They Just Don't Get It on Downloaded Music Gets More Expensive · · Score: 1

    If you loike the New Pornographers, you may want to check out Neko Case (Female Singer for the NP), A.C. Newman (Falsetto Male Singer and Main songwriter), and Destroyer (Secret Member, wrote and sang Chump Change, Comeback Kid, and Youth in Verse, but start out with Streethawk, as the others are for people used to Bejar's voice, Misra records has mp3s)

  4. Re:They Just Don't Get It on Downloaded Music Gets More Expensive · · Score: 1

    Maybe that tells you something, open your minds and listen to more music, other than the crap they feed you on MTV TRL. there are plenty of free streams (kexp, kusf, etc) where you can sample deep cuts.

  5. Re:They Just Don't Get It on Downloaded Music Gets More Expensive · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Vanilla Ice "To the Extreme" is the highest selling Rap album of all times. Thus by your reasoning since it is the most popular it must be the best.

  6. Re:They Just Don't Get It on Downloaded Music Gets More Expensive · · Score: 1

    Best != most popular.

  7. Re:Oh, like ABBA is the shiznit? on 2003 CD Sales Officially Down 7.6 Percent · · Score: 1

    You forgot the Super Friendz dude.....

  8. Re:7.6% is one number but there are many reasons on 2003 CD Sales Officially Down 7.6 Percent · · Score: 1

    US Constitution Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8. If you are not American, there probably exists similar section of your own constitution.

  9. Re:7.6% is one number but there are many reasons on 2003 CD Sales Officially Down 7.6 Percent · · Score: 1

    It's all very simple, you are getting something from the artist, you are being entertained when you listen to their music/watch their movie, whatever. If you aren't being entertained then stop listening/watching, otherwise honor their rights, they have provided you with a service, entertainment. They have a CONSTITUTIONALLY given right to be paid, so pay them. BTW everytime an album is sold an artist is paid, that artist is the songwriter. Stop bitching about people getting paid to sit on their ass, if you had any talent, or money you could be paid for sitting on your ass. It sounds like you are the greedy one, you want something for nothing.

  10. Re:7.6% is one number but there are many reasons on 2003 CD Sales Officially Down 7.6 Percent · · Score: 1

    First of all bestbuy carries a very small range of CD's (How many of the bands that bestbuy stocks are sitting and selling records themselves after the show), most of which I'm not all that interested in (OK Outkast's new album was fun). I also won't shop at best buy because I have friends who work at record stores (music only stores that do not sell albums at a loss), and they make it worth my $5 to buy from them (they steer me clear of sucker albums, they turn me on to stuff I would never find elsewhere). And fuck bestbuy is not all that pleasent a place to enter, it has bright lights and garrish colors, $5 isn't all that much money, about the cost of a beer at a bar, which is worth about the same as avoiding a visit to bestbuy. That said I looked more into wholesale/MAP pricing and the markup is 31% for the top of the line "artists" $9-$12 wholesale, with a $13-$19 MAP price.

  11. Re:7.6% is one number but there are many reasons on 2003 CD Sales Officially Down 7.6 Percent · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually it isn't. When you buy from a retail store a good percentage (about 40%) goes to the store. When you buy a CD at a show, that 40% goes to the band, generally bands that sell CD's at small shows have really good record deals. This is due to the fact that the label and distributer don't do all that much for them. They do some publicity, and front some money for recording. Because there is not much money involved the label isn't taking much risk and the artist can take a larger chunk of the profits.

  12. Re:7.6% is one number but there are many reasons on 2003 CD Sales Officially Down 7.6 Percent · · Score: 1

    So don't buy it, but don't enjoy being entertained by a good CD unless you do it in a non infringing manner.

  13. Re:No registration! on Google Offers Personalized Search · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They don't need a registration, they know who you are already. Probably more about you than you would feel comfortable with. One question. Is there any way for me the user to erase my user trails on google?

  14. Re:so is it ok.. on Mozilla Cracks Down On Merchandise Sellers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wanna bet, what is thgat big advertising banner? Subscription fees?

  15. Re:Smoke & Mirrors on Top Web Businesses Oppose Utah Spyware Law · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Problem with AdAware and the like is that they do not actually block programs/controls by their own published guidelines. They also do not respond at all to any sort of dialog to inquire why they choose to block the programs that they do, yet not other toolbars which have the exact same functionality, privacy statements, uninstaller, and installer.

  16. Songwriting royalty's on Intellectual Property Laws bad for business · · Score: 1

    Actually songwriters are paid pretty well compared to the musicians, as they should be, since there are many more good musicians than there are good songwriters. As it is songwriters are paid 8+ cents (price depends on song length) for every copy of a song that is sold. This is before recoupment of making the album and does not go through the record company, and is a statutory royalty, ie anyone can cover any song as long as it has been publicly released or performed and they pay the "Mechanical Royalty"

  17. Re:THIS planet is your only home on Europe Joins Race To Send Humans To Mars · · Score: 1

    Dude, population isn't growing exponetially, in fact it is expected to plataeu at about 8 Billion. However the best way to curb population growth is to educate women and girls in the third world. If what we would need to spend on a mars mission was spent on educating women we would have no problems with population.

  18. Re:Now that's journalism on Googling For Prospective Date Unmasks Fugitive · · Score: 2, Funny
    Oh yeah, its slashdot. Nobody ever reads the articles.


    Not even the editors

  19. Only the top .1% make money playing live on Gabriel and Eno Start Digital Music Artist Union · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Most unknowns don't make money playing music at all they make music by having another job, sometimes it is in the music industry, but usually it's doing something like tending bar, or writing software. Playing live makes them almost nothing. Most venues will only pay about $100 for an opening band, which rarely covers expenses if they had to travel at all. However if they wrote their own songs they make at least 10 cents a song sold (for a 12 song album, thats a $1.20 an album). Most unknowns also have very good contracts, because; they don't spend that much on production, they generally pay their own production costs, and their label just does distribution. If you want to know more about the costs of playing live see this article about playing Irving Plaza in NYC and Playing All Ages Shows and the econmics of venues by Man or Astroman?.

  20. Re:Um on Space Tug to Save the Hubble? · · Score: 1
    Great then we get something like the shuttle, that does everything poorly. The thing about space travel is that it goes through such extreams. Think about it, high vibrations, heavy accelerations, extream cold, near vacuum, high temperature, and high stress. Some things are better off single use, single purpose.

    see Gregg Easterbrook's shuttle series for these words written by someone much smarter than all of us.

    This one was written around 1979

    this one was the cover of time after the columbia blew up, but it is now only available as a copyright infringement.

  21. Re:Pay foreigners US minumum wage! on Tech Firms Defend Moving Jobs Overseas · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They usually do. I was in Vietnam a couple of months ago, and I asked a guide if there was anyplace that I could get US goods that "fell off a truck". He said not for US factories in Vietnam as they pay their workers very well and nobody wants to lose their job with the US companies. He went on to say that I could easily find Japanese or Korean Goods as they paid half as much.

    This whole bitch session is so funny as isn't a common rationality for p2p that selling music is a broken business model and the record companies (and record shops who are getting hurt the most) should evolve. Well we should all evolve, get a job in the service sector, Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists, Police, and Firefighters will always find work.

  22. Re:Infamous? on Internet Archive Opens Crawler Code Under LGPL · · Score: 1

    It easier than that, you just ask them nicely and they take it down.

  23. Sorry to burst your bubble on 20 Years of Virii · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is no way there is a double in the plural of virus, even in latin the plural nominative would probably either be viri, or viruses. In english though it is definitely viruses see what the dictionary has to say

  24. Re:More ads on Magnetic Induction Technology Headset Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I did click on it and the request timed out. (Maybe in the future they should have a link to the product on the companies home page, so they spread the load)

  25. More ads on Magnetic Induction Technology Headset Reviewed · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Do us a favour, stop posting "reviews" hosted from the products own websites.