I maintain the database at StreamingRadioGuide.com and watch the "over the air" radio stations rushing to add internet streaming every day. There aren't enough hours in the day to locate and add all of the new streaming stations to the database.
Clear Channel has clearly been taking the lead in internet streaming and is way out in front in adding digital HD to their over-the-air stations.
As of today, there are 5,257 FCC licensed station streams (commerical and non-commerical) that are active... (Several hundred of those are HD2 and HD3 streams), meaning that around 36% of all US/FCC licensed AM/FM radio stations are already streaming on the internet.
Does that sound like impending death to you?
Food for thought - in the next year or so when mobile WiMax begins to roll out commerically and you will be able to have internet access in your car as you drive to work, what will that technology do to the radio business?
[I know I've broken the golden rule of slashdot by injecting facts into a thread]
Florida State University will have access to the source code with the stipulation that the code will not be made public.
Okay, now venture down the path the Florida State is run by one of Jeb Bush's cronies on the Haliburton / Carlisle Group / New World Order payroll...
The President of FSU is Thomas Kent 'T.K.' Wetherell, who was the Speaker of the House in the Florida Legislature, where he served from 1980-1992. There you go!
Oops, he is a Democrat.
Let's have another thread after the independent software testing is complete to review why we think that still doesn't prove anything.
Wouldn't it be the case that the more years of post-secondary education a person has, the more likely that person would have been exposed to Milgram's work?
If you discard those subjects, you are now skewing the sample towards people with less education or people who are not intellectually curious.
So does this mean that "oral history" (verbal accounts of historical events passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth) are not really history?
There are several ways to launch a stream using a web browser including:
- A link to an mp3/realpayer/quicktime playlist (.m3u,.pls,.ram,.qtl) to launch a media player based on the http Content-Type or the file type associations known by the browser - an application definition to embed the media player into a web page - A non-http link directly to the streaming server - typically mms:// for Microsoft Multimedia Streaming Server
The streaming server being used by SFX Motor sports is using the mms:// service.
An http page with an mms:// HREF link launches the client PC's Windows Media Player (or WMP plugin for Mac users)... WMP sends the content request with its file name (and optional DRM information) - but the request does not have referring URLs - since it is not http!
So if the infringing site directly linked using an mms:// URI, the MMS server has no ability to know what web page the request came from, only the IP address of the requester.
Now if SFX motor sports was clever, they would add sponsorship messages as a prestream message on the streaming server, or use the facilities of Windows Media player and the mms protocol to display the sponsorship logos directly in Windows Media Player, or use the DRM protection - but they are not under any obligation to be that clever.
The mms: protocol is proprietary and subject to changes by Microsoft as it sees fit.. this is a place which has tried to document how it functions: http://sdp.ppona.com/
mms: is very useful as it does more than audio streaming - it permits streaming of audio and video together with synchnronization, multicast support, automatic bandwidth adjustment, protocol fallover, etc... It's not a big mystery why most commercial streaming has moved to using this product.
Audio streaming is usually very confortable bypassing firewall restrictions by using port 80, which kind of by definition won't be blocked by dest port number. To some packet overlord snooper, the request to stream looks merely like the client has requested to download a graphics file of unknown size for a web page, and the "http" (streaming) server responds with an extremely big graphics file that takes hours to download...
For Skype, that would not be a great solution, since (as the article mentions), the worst case scenario puts the Skype server in the middle relaying the stream's packets - which introduces both cost to Skype and delay to the stream.
and where does the bulk of the energy needed to create biomass and ethanol come from?
Plants grown using nitrogen based fertilizer which comes from where?
(if you're willing to accept organic crop yields, then you're consuming the non-renewable topsoil and consuming groundwater)
There is no free energy lunch.
If true that we now have a "OMG, we're running out of water Crisis", the US (and Canada) will be glad to sell oil tanker sized ships of Great Lakes water to the Middle East for an appropriate price.
People with clue running and watching a web site can tell the difference between a real web browser and something pretending to be a web browser.
Just the simplest of things as an example... after fetching the HTML code, did the same session retrieve the graphics? Is it handling cookies? Is it running the javascript?
Now some small percent of real browsers might not do any of that (how many lynx hits a day do you get in your logs?) - but if you purchased traffic and 95% of your "hits" match that pattern, it's pretty convincing that the traffic is fraudulent. With the exception of Google and Oveture, almost all of the purchased CPC traffic was clearly fraudulent, which of course they would never admit - even with evidence that would convince a judge...
This is basically really old news - they have moved on from this to more obnoxious stuff... my home page was getting blasted for a while from this stuff (I haven't purchased CPC traffic in about 2 years)... the only explanation I could come up with was that someone was trying to deflate my Google Adwords (As publisher) by dropping the click through rate by creating 1000s of fake loads of the google ads. I added code to direct those suspicious loads (no referring URL being a big clue) to a window asking people what they had done to get here... and in quick order got many responses from people whose computer was infected with adware...
Another thing plaguing my web server is "referer spamming" - companies are being hired to generate fake traffic with the client's (or their own) URL in the referring URL - hoping that web sites will pick up that URL and have the client URL show up on the target's web site (perhaps webalizer reports that leak, or something like 'last 10 sites that referred someone to this site')... they are sending this through farms of open proxies, making it hard to detect and stop. I now do a DNS lookup on any unknown referrer and compare that IP address to known blocks of weblog spamvertisers and then blocking the IP address that made the request.... (any idea how big the ipchains table can get before it crashes the server?)
A large percentage of Americans have term life insurance policies.
According to acli.com, the total face value of all life insurance policies at the end of 2005 was 18.4 TRILLION dollars. In 2005, 4 million individual life term policies were written with a face value of $1.3 trillion.
The assets they have paid into the policy are sitting in the investment portfolio of the insurance companies, waiting for the small pecentage of policy owners to die or for the policies to expire. Term life policies have no "cash value", so therefore are not an "asset" on the balance statement of the individual who pays the premium (or the person who owns the policy).
Now is that money held by the insurance companies owned by the rich or the poor?
On the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut, the speed limit is 55, traffic generally moves at about 70-80, and most entrance ramps were designed in the 1930s (part of FDR's make work programs) and have not been redesigned since they were built.
At the end of many of the entrance ramps is a Stop Sign.
The entire country is not like California. The rule for survival is to adapt to the behaviors of the locals, not to drive like you never left home and impose your driving style on the rest of the people sharing the road with us.
"Accelerate on the entrance ramp to match the speed of the people in the lane you are merging with and choose the spot where you intend to merge, then clearly signal your intentions" is much better advice than "be going at least 60 mph when you merge".
People in Pennslyvania who are still being taught in driver education to slam on the brakes at the yield sign at the end of the on-ramp should ignore the above advice.
Contrary to the central assertion, the people in Sarasota County did not vote in "straight line" manner where one could reasonably compare different races, and the votes were not dominantly Democratic (votes - not voters).
Total votes cast in Sarasota county: 142,532
Governor: 76,198 (R) vs 60,214 (D) US Senator: 58,339 (R) vs 80,177 (D) (Katherine Harris race) Att Gen: 72,185 (R) vs 64,047 (D) Ag Comm: 79,406 (R) vs 55,653 (D) CFO: 66,965 (R) vs 69,169 (D)
In all of the races above 135-138,000 people voted.
And the race in question: US House 13th: 58,632 (R) vs 65,487 (D)
So there is a ~15,000 vote difference in this race compared to the others...
But which candidate's total seems to be "too low"? (unless you believe that Vern Buchanan was as unpopular with Republicans as Katherine Harris)...
Not to worry - last year Venezuela (aka Hugo Chavez) acquired Smartmatic, a company that makes voting machine software and its subsidiary Sequoia Voting Systems, used in 17 states and the District of Columbia
This will likely be the last thread on Slashdot regarding electronic voting, since Hugo Chavez set the standard for honest elections - just ask Jimmy Carter!
A better analogy would be - when you go out the store's exit door, a guard asks to see your receipt and compares the items in your shopping bags with what the receipt says you paid for.
"COLUMBUS - Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell today halted deployment of Diebold Election Systems' electronic voting devices in Ohio for the 2004 General Election. The decision is based on preliminary findings from the secretary of state`s second round of security testing conducted by Compuware Corporation showing the existence of previously identified, but yet unresolved security issues. Hardin, Lorain and Trumbull counties had selected to use new Diebold equipment this November. Those counties will use their current voting devices in 2004."
I think you have confused Al Franken with Rush Limbaugh.
I would invite provide a specific example of when Rush was threatened with a defamation issue and used "I'm just a comedian" as a defense - or even a quote where Rush Limbaugh says he is a comedian.
Rush Limbaugh does not refer to himself as a comedian - in fact, he specifically refutes this assertion when made by callers - made by people who have not listened to the show and just based on their own prejudices and second hand information... or by jealous bitter people like Keith Olbermann who wouldn't know what to do with a clue stick if he tripped over it.
Rush has in the past agreed that he IS an entertainer and a commentator on current events (as opposed to a journalist or a reporter). He views his job is to attract and retain as large an audience as he can for as long as he can - in order to charge his advertisers confiscatorily high advertising rates.... but he makes no claim to be a comedian. That he leaves to Paul Shanklin.
Or perhaps this will accelerate the demands that ICANN and all critical management functions of the Internet infrastructure be done outside the control or jurisdiction of the United States... but that then begs the question - if ICANN and PIR were not in any way subject to an action by a US Court, then what would the process become? Filing suit at the Hague?
Can you cite any examples of a production quality closed source filesystem embedded in a commercial operating system spontaneously failing after the operating system's support is dropped or the manufacturer goes out of business?
Not a screenshot of the log - a digitized scan of a faxed copy of a printed log.
Anyone who has ever used an IM program and has found the chat logs doesn't wonder why the FBI wasn't interested in chasing the "crime" of two consenting adults discussing sex in private in an IM.
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I maintain the database at StreamingRadioGuide.com and watch the "over the air" radio stations rushing to add internet streaming every day. There aren't enough hours in the day to locate and add all of the new streaming stations to the database.
Clear Channel has clearly been taking the lead in internet streaming and is way out in front in adding digital HD to their over-the-air stations.
As of today, there are 5,257 FCC licensed station streams (commerical and non-commerical) that are active... (Several hundred of those are HD2 and HD3 streams), meaning that around 36% of all US/FCC licensed AM/FM radio stations are already streaming on the internet.
Does that sound like impending death to you?
Food for thought - in the next year or so when mobile WiMax begins to roll out commerically and you will be able to have internet access in your car as you drive to work, what will that technology do to the radio business?
[I know I've broken the golden rule of slashdot by injecting facts into a thread]
Sorry to burst your tin hat, but that's exactly what happened.
s ota.pdf
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t 11-06.htm
t 12-06.htm
o rk.pdf
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/
Audit Plan:
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/pdf/auditPlanSara
Parallel Test plan of specific machines with the largest undervote:
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/pdf/parallelTestP
Test Results (11/28/06)
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/excel/ParallelTes
Second Test Results (12/01/06)
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/excel/ParallelTes
Analysis of Software and Security Statement of Work (12/15/06)
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/pdf/FSUstatementW
Florida State University will have access to the source code with the stipulation that the code will not be made public.
Okay, now venture down the path the Florida State is run by one of Jeb Bush's cronies on the Haliburton / Carlisle Group / New World Order payroll...
The President of FSU is Thomas Kent 'T.K.' Wetherell, who was the Speaker of the House in the Florida Legislature, where he served from 1980-1992. There you go!
Oops, he is a Democrat.
Let's have another thread after the independent software testing is complete to review why we think that still doesn't prove anything.
Was that Superior Jursidiction Al Gore?
c ial/campfin/stories/op030797.htm
(Al Gore is the head of the Special Committee that reported this "exoneration")
After all, there is no Controlling Legal Authority over Al Gore and his integrity in financial matters.
see:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/spe
for those who aren't familiar with or have forgotten what that phrase means...
So if someone goes into a bank and robs it and gets caught - and agrees to give the money back - then nothing wrong happened?
Did Jobs give the options back, or did Apple cancel them?
Wouldn't it be the case that the more years of post-secondary education a person has, the more likely that person would have been exposed to Milgram's work?
If you discard those subjects, you are now skewing the sample towards people with less education or people who are not intellectually curious.
Kind of like jury pools.
So does this mean that "oral history" (verbal accounts of historical events passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth) are not really history?
I didn't know that Michigan existed that long ago.
You have figured out part of the problem...
.pls, .ram, .qtl) to launch a media player based on the http Content-Type or the file type associations known by the browser
There are several ways to launch a stream using a web browser including:
- A link to an mp3/realpayer/quicktime playlist (.m3u,
- an application definition to embed the media player into a web page
- A non-http link directly to the streaming server - typically mms:// for Microsoft Multimedia Streaming Server
The streaming server being used by SFX Motor sports is using the mms:// service.
An http page with an mms:// HREF link launches the client PC's Windows Media Player (or WMP plugin for Mac users)... WMP sends the content request with its file name (and optional DRM information) - but the request does not have referring URLs - since it is not http!
So if the infringing site directly linked using an mms:// URI, the MMS server has no ability to know what web page the request came from, only the IP address of the requester.
Now if SFX motor sports was clever, they would add sponsorship messages as a prestream message on the streaming server, or use the facilities of Windows Media player and the mms protocol to display the sponsorship logos directly in Windows Media Player, or use the DRM protection - but they are not under any obligation to be that clever.
The mms: protocol is proprietary and subject to changes by Microsoft as it sees fit.. this is a place which has tried to document how it functions:
http://sdp.ppona.com/
mms: is very useful as it does more than audio streaming - it permits streaming of audio and video together with synchnronization, multicast support, automatic bandwidth adjustment, protocol fallover, etc... It's not a big mystery why most commercial streaming has moved to using this product.
Is ABC news credible enough?
r y?id=1123495&page=1
http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/HurricaneKatrina/sto
Audio streaming is usually very confortable bypassing firewall restrictions by using port 80, which kind of by definition won't be blocked by dest port number. To some packet overlord snooper, the request to stream looks merely like the client has requested to download a graphics file of unknown size for a web page, and the "http" (streaming) server responds with an extremely big graphics file that takes hours to download...
For Skype, that would not be a great solution, since (as the article mentions), the worst case scenario puts the Skype server in the middle relaying the stream's packets - which introduces both cost to Skype and delay to the stream.
Are new species are being created all the time, or have all the species that will ever exist already been created?
Think carefully before you answer that question.
and where does the bulk of the energy needed to create biomass and ethanol come from?
Plants grown using nitrogen based fertilizer which comes from where?
(if you're willing to accept organic crop yields, then you're consuming the non-renewable topsoil and consuming groundwater)
There is no free energy lunch.
If true that we now have a "OMG, we're running out of water Crisis", the US (and Canada) will be glad to sell oil tanker sized ships of Great Lakes water to the Middle East for an appropriate price.
Isn't water vapor a greenhouse gas?
People with clue running and watching a web site can tell the difference between a real web browser and something pretending to be a web browser.
Just the simplest of things as an example... after fetching the HTML code, did the same session retrieve the graphics? Is it handling cookies? Is it running the javascript?
Now some small percent of real browsers might not do any of that (how many lynx hits a day do you get in your logs?) - but if you purchased traffic and 95% of your "hits" match that pattern, it's pretty convincing that the traffic is fraudulent. With the exception of Google and Oveture, almost all of the purchased CPC traffic was clearly fraudulent, which of course they would never admit - even with evidence that would convince a judge...
This is basically really old news - they have moved on from this to more obnoxious stuff... my home page was getting blasted for a while from this stuff (I haven't purchased CPC traffic in about 2 years)... the only explanation I could come up with was that someone was trying to deflate my Google Adwords (As publisher) by dropping the click through rate by creating 1000s of fake loads of the google ads. I added code to direct those suspicious loads (no referring URL being a big clue) to a window asking people what they had done to get here... and in quick order got many responses from people whose computer was infected with adware...
Another thing plaguing my web server is "referer spamming" - companies are being hired to generate fake traffic with the client's (or their own) URL in the referring URL - hoping that web sites will pick up that URL and have the client URL show up on the target's web site (perhaps webalizer reports that leak, or something like 'last 10 sites that referred someone to this site')... they are sending this through farms of open proxies, making it hard to detect and stop. I now do a DNS lookup on any unknown referrer and compare that IP address to known blocks of weblog spamvertisers and then blocking the IP address that made the request.... (any idea how big the ipchains table can get before it crashes the server?)
Here is another major omission/oversight.
A large percentage of Americans have term life insurance policies.
According to acli.com, the total face value of all life insurance policies at the end of 2005 was 18.4 TRILLION dollars. In 2005, 4 million individual life term policies were written with a face value of $1.3 trillion.
The assets they have paid into the policy are sitting in the investment portfolio of the insurance companies, waiting for the small pecentage of policy owners to die or for the policies to expire. Term life policies have no "cash value", so therefore are not an "asset" on the balance statement of the individual who pays the premium (or the person who owns the policy).
Now is that money held by the insurance companies owned by the rich or the poor?
On the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut, the speed limit is 55, traffic generally moves at about 70-80, and most entrance ramps were designed in the 1930s (part of FDR's make work programs) and have not been redesigned since they were built.
At the end of many of the entrance ramps is a Stop Sign.
The entire country is not like California. The rule for survival is to adapt to the behaviors of the locals, not to drive like you never left home and impose your driving style on the rest of the people sharing the road with us.
"Accelerate on the entrance ramp to match the speed of the people in the lane you are merging with and choose the spot where you intend to merge, then clearly signal your intentions" is much better advice than "be going at least 60 mph when you merge".
People in Pennslyvania who are still being taught in driver education to slam on the brakes at the yield sign at the end of the on-ramp should ignore the above advice.
Hi,
This is the New York City Board of Health, and we are here to protect your children.
We have a search warrant to see if you use any transfats in your kitchen. Please open the door now, or 50 bullets are headed your way.
Contrary to the central assertion, the people in Sarasota County did not vote in "straight line" manner where one could reasonably compare different races, and the votes were not dominantly Democratic (votes - not voters).
a rchive/enight.asp
Total votes cast in Sarasota county: 142,532
Governor: 76,198 (R) vs 60,214 (D)
US Senator: 58,339 (R) vs 80,177 (D) (Katherine Harris race)
Att Gen: 72,185 (R) vs 64,047 (D)
Ag Comm: 79,406 (R) vs 55,653 (D)
CFO: 66,965 (R) vs 69,169 (D)
In all of the races above 135-138,000 people voted.
And the race in question:
US House 13th: 58,632 (R) vs 65,487 (D)
So there is a ~15,000 vote difference in this race compared to the others...
But which candidate's total seems to be "too low"? (unless you believe that Vern Buchanan was as unpopular with Republicans as Katherine Harris)...
Source:
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/elections/results
You left out Canada.
Not to worry - last year Venezuela (aka Hugo Chavez) acquired Smartmatic, a company that makes voting machine software and its subsidiary Sequoia Voting Systems, used in 17 states and the District of Columbia
l lot.html?_r=1&bl&ex=1162270800&en=ce373aa6462524ce &ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/washington/29ba
This will likely be the last thread on Slashdot regarding electronic voting, since Hugo Chavez set the standard for honest elections - just ask Jimmy Carter!
A better analogy would be - when you go out the store's exit door, a guard asks to see your receipt and compares the items in your shopping bags with what the receipt says you paid for.
Two problems with your tin-foil hat theory.
In 2002, there was no presidential election. George Bush was elected in 2000, and the second election was in 2004.
The second problem with your theory, is that there were *** NO DIEBOLD MACHINES *** used in Ohio in the 2004 election.
http://www.sos.state.oh.us/News/Read.aspx?ID=102
"COLUMBUS - Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell today halted deployment of Diebold Election Systems' electronic voting devices in Ohio for the 2004 General Election. The decision is based on preliminary findings from the secretary of state`s second round of security testing conducted by Compuware Corporation showing the existence of previously identified, but yet unresolved security issues. Hardin, Lorain and Trumbull counties had selected to use new Diebold equipment this November. Those counties will use their current voting devices in 2004."
I think you have confused Al Franken with Rush Limbaugh.
I would invite provide a specific example of when Rush was threatened with a defamation issue and used "I'm just a comedian" as a defense - or even a quote where Rush Limbaugh says he is a comedian.
Rush Limbaugh does not refer to himself as a comedian - in fact, he specifically refutes this assertion when made by callers - made by people who have not listened to the show and just based on their own prejudices and second hand information... or by jealous bitter people like Keith Olbermann who wouldn't know what to do with a clue stick if he tripped over it.
Rush has in the past agreed that he IS an entertainer and a commentator on current events (as opposed to a journalist or a reporter). He views his job is to attract and retain as large an audience as he can for as long as he can - in order to charge his advertisers confiscatorily high advertising rates.... but he makes no claim to be a comedian. That he leaves to Paul Shanklin.
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Or perhaps this will accelerate the demands that ICANN and all critical management functions of the Internet infrastructure be done outside the control or jurisdiction of the United States... but that then begs the question - if ICANN and PIR were not in any way subject to an action by a US Court, then what would the process become? Filing suit at the Hague?
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Can you cite any examples of a production quality closed source filesystem embedded in a commercial operating system spontaneously failing after the operating system's support is dropped or the manufacturer goes out of business?
Not a screenshot of the log - a digitized scan of a faxed copy of a printed log.
Anyone who has ever used an IM program and has found the chat logs doesn't wonder why the FBI wasn't interested in chasing the "crime" of two consenting adults discussing sex in private in an IM.
Be careful what you ask for.