Why, god, why bother?

I haven't figured out the point.

"10 million tracks" is not a lot in terms of absolute catalogue. It'll be all the same (popular) content as every other MP3 store, only less of it, as their deals settle in to line. 7digital and iTunes, and even Amazon MP3, have way way more - and still don't cater effectively to the long tail, who has to go to smaller stores such as Beatport or DJDownload to get what they need.

Even then, there's really no point without an effective referral scheme and integration with music discovery websites such as Last.fm or Spotify, where people go to FIND new music.

HMV should have done this ten years ago, or invested in someone who knows what they're doing, like 7digital.

Ah!

I jumped the gun. Turns out they did invest in 7digital after all. A wise move for a company who's primary asset is now their brand, not their stock.

You may be pleased to know

that that particular server (with the 3 year uptime) wasn't affected, as it is in a different data centre.

3 years? try 10:

http://bak.spc.org/dms/archive/dns_id_attack.txt

dates back to 1998 and deals with the same vulnerability.

There are papers on this dating back *ten years*...

http://bak.spc.org/dms/archive/dns_id_attack.txt

Admitedly that deals with weak ID prediction rather than source-port spoofing, but still.

Isn't this just called "stream compression" - like zip/lzh/etc?

LZH and friends are a family of "data deduplication algorithms"; huffman coding and all that jazz are based on well established principles of information theory, which is based around "de-duplicating" repeated data.

So, HP have a tape compression system. What's new about that exactly, apart from the name?

Terminals.

This thing DOES only have 2 terminals. I think this is awesome! Very useful sounding indeed, and unlike anything else out there!

Marine life that navigates by GPS?

How long do you reckon until such a thing evolves?

And then what of the ethical implications of switching GPS off...

Loss leader!

In the same breath he's said that he won't get paid from the music and that his licensing and merchandising is second to none.

Many record labels and acts are actually putting out music as a loss-leader now, knowing that it getting pirated is a good promotional tool, and that the real money is in tours, live shows and performance royalties.

The Federation...

...is a nominal phrase that I, and many others like me, will forever associate with Star Trek and pretty much nothing else.

Strike-back

The Register Episode V: The Register Strikes Through.

why twice every 894 and not once every 447?

erm, if you think about it, it should be obvious!

Uranus goes round the sun, so there will be two times at which it's aligned edge on with the sun (once on each side). But Earth goes around the sun too, so those two points at which earth sees uranus edge on, again once on each side, will vary with an uneven period between them, although definitely twice within a longer period. of 894 years. apparently.

And what about all those times when it's edge on but the sun's in the way?

The most useful FireFox extension...

that does an awful lot of very very useful things, is FireBug, which can definitely be used for this purpose.

Pics...

...or it didn't happen.

"We are not against piracy" ?

Does that mean they're for piracy?

So it's an LG branded Nokia N80 then?

http://nds3.nokia.com/pressphotos/public/global/devices/n80_internet/n80_04_website_low.jpg

I love this review. It reads to me as:

"Hi! It has GOOGLE pre-installed."

*picture of girls*

"It does all the things you'd expect of a phone!"

*picture of girls*

"It's pretty much just like a Nokia!"

*picture of girls with Google*

"Girl's not included."

<3