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Comments: 8 +-   Hulu and Warner Music Sign Deal For Music Content on Thursday December 24, @04:11AM

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 24, @04:11AM
from the all-in dept.
business
adeelarshad82 writes "A month after signing a deal with EMI for music video content, Hulu has reached an agreement with Warner Music Group to add its content to the video site as well. The deal will allow Hulu to post music videos, artist interviews, live concerts, and behind-the-scenes footage from artists on WMG labels like Atlantic Records, Rhino Records, and Warner Bros. Records."
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Comments: 49 +-   Helping Perl Packagers Package Perl on Thursday December 24, @01:06AM

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 24, @01:06AM
from the dress-it-up dept.
perl
jamie writes "chromatic has a great post today on the conflict between OS distributions' and CPAN's installations of perl modules, along with some suggestions for how to start resolving this maddening problem: '[Though Debian has] made plenty of CPAN distributions available as .debs, I have to configure my CPAN client myself, and it does not work with the system package manager. There's no reason it couldn't. Imagine that the system Perl 5 included in the default package... had a CPAN client configured appropriately. It has selected an appropriate mirror (or uses the redirector). It knows about installation paths. It understands how to use LWP...' The idea of providing guidelines to distros for how to safely package modules is a great one. Could modules request (a modified?) test suite be run after distro-installation? Could Module::Build help module authors and distro maintainers establish the rules somehow?"
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Comments: 145 +-   BBC's Plan To Kick Open Source Out of UK TV on Wednesday December 23, @10:16PM

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 23, @10:16PM
from the how-can-you-have-any-TV-if-you-don't-eat-your-meat? dept.
media
bluec writes "Generally speaking, the BBC isn't allowed to encrypt or restrict its broadcasts: the license fee payer pays for these broadcasts. But the BBC has tried to get around this, asking Ofcom for permission to encrypt the "metadata" on its broadcasts – including the assistive information used by deaf and blind people and the 'tables' used by receivers to play back the video. As Ofcom gears up to a second consultation on the issue, there's one important question that the BBC must answer if the implications of this move are to be fully explored, namely: How can free/open source software co-exist with a plan to put DRM on broadcasts?"
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Comments: 40 +-   The Best Robots of 2009 on Wednesday December 23, @08:59PM

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 23, @08:59PM
from the best-of-show dept.
robot
kkleiner writes "Singularity Hub has just unveiled its second annual roundup of the best robots of the year. In 2009 robots continued their advance towards world domination with several impressive breakouts in areas such as walking, automation, and agility, while still lacking in adaptability and reasoning ability. It will be several years until robots can gain the artificial intelligence that will truly make them remarkable, but in the meantime they are still pretty awesome."
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Comments: 50 +-   NASA and Space Station Alliance On Shaky Ground on Wednesday December 23, @08:10PM

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 23, @08:10PM
from the in-space-nobody-can-hear-you-disagree dept.
nasa
coondoggie writes "Even as the latest shift of astronauts arrived at the International Space Station, challenges with the orbital outpost on the ground are threatening its future. Those challenges include the pending retirement of the space shuttle but also the way NASA and the ISS are managed. A report issued this week by the Government Accountability Office said NASA faces several significant issues that may impede efforts to maximize utilization of all ISS research facilities."
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Comments: 199 +-   Girl Gamers More Hardcore Than Guys on Wednesday December 23, @06:42PM

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 23, @06:42PM
from the takes-time-to-collect-all-those-pretty-hats dept.
games
TheClockworkSoul writes "Scientific American reports on a study published this month in the Journal of Communication, which found that women who engage in a role-playing game online actually commit more time on average than the male players do. The authors surveyed 7,000 players logged in to EverQuest II (PDF), and found that the average age of the gamers surveyed was 31, and that playing time tended to increase with age. Interestingly, however, the female gamers not only tended to log more time online (29 hours per week versus 25 for the males), but were also more likely to lie about how much they really play."
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Comments: 337 +-   Best Filesystem For External Back-Up Drives? on Wednesday December 23, @05:55PM

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 23, @05:55PM
from the just-mirror-to-the-internet dept.
storage
rufey writes "I've recently embarked on a project to rip my DVD and CD collection to a pair of external USB drives. One drive will be used on a daily basis to access the rips of music and DVDs, as well as store backups of all of my other data. The second drive will be a copy of the first drive, to be synced up on a monthly basis and kept at a different location. The USB drives that I purchased for this are 1 TB in size and came pre-formatted with FAT32. While I can access this filesystem from all of my Windows and Linux machines, there are some limitations." Read on for the rest, and offer your advice on the best filesystem for this application.
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Comments: 124 +-   AT&T Wins Gizmodo 3G Bandwidth Test on Wednesday December 23, @05:03PM

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 23, @05:03PM
from the avoid-the-mountains dept.
cellphones
ink writes "Gizmodo has completed a 12-city test of 3G cellular bandwidth speed. Verizon won four of the twelve, however AT&T scored higher with six: 'Let's get this straight right away: We didn't test dropped voice calls, we didn't test customer service, and we didn't test map coverage by wandering around in the boonies. We tested the ability of the networks to deliver 3G data in and around cities, including both concrete canyons and picket-fenced 'burbs. And while every 3G network gave us troubles on occasion, AT&T's wasn't measurably more or less reliable than Verizon's.'"
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Comments: 108 +-   VLC Team Announces Video Editor In the Works on Wednesday December 23, @04:11PM

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 23, @04:11PM
from the just-crazy-enough-to-work dept.
media
eldavojohn writes "Despite news that VLC might not have anyone to work on the Mac release, Lifehacker brings word of a video editor that the VLC team is working on dubbed VideoLAN Media Creator. It hasn't been released yet (git clone git://github.com/VLMC/vlmc.git) but a pre-release is due out soon."
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Comments: 85 +-   OLPC Unveils Plans For Tablets By 2012 on Wednesday December 23, @03:19PM

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 23, @03:19PM
from the take-two-they're-small dept.
displays
adeelarshad82 writes "The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative outlined its product roadmap for the next three years, a plan that includes the release of tablet-based OLPC by 2012. During the next three years, OLPC plans on releasing two laptops, the first two years' priced around $200 and $150 respectively, before launching a tablet in 2011 for less than $100."
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