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8th July 2012 Archive

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  • Lowery: The blue-collar musician at the eye of the copyright storm

    Interview The first generation to love the Man and hate grungy artists

    A few days after we linked to his long, exhaustive talk about the state of the music business, musician and songwriter David Lowery hit the headlines in the USA. In a blog post replying to NPR intern Emily White, Lowery summed up how the 'don't pay for music' argument sounded to him: "Networks: Giant mega corporations. Cool! …

    Music and Media 8 Jul 09:00

  • Global warming: It's GOOD for the environment

    Don't forget: CO2 is PLANT FOOD

    Climate change, this global warming thing, it's going to mean that the tropical forests frazzle up and then we all die, right? It will mena the death of the "lungs of the planet" – such as the miles upon miles of Amazon jungle – which turn CO2 into the O2 that we inhale. It's titsup for humanity, basically. Except, according to …

    Energy 8 Jul 10:03

  • Oz gov cyber-safety unit loses punters' info IN THE POST

    Updated: AUSCERT mislaid DVD of hashed passwords

    In an outstanding example of data-loss stupidity, a DVD containing email addresses and encrypted passwords for Australia’s Stay Smart Online Alert service has gone astray in the mail during a handover between contractors. An e-mail sent to subscribers on 6 July and passed on to The Register by a reader states “the Department …

    Security 8 Jul 20:55

  • Finding the Twitter psychopath ratio

    New research looks for links

    The accidental psychological foibles of celebrities and colleagues are entertaining by-products of social media. Now a new study aims to nail a link between various psychopathic behaviours and tweeting. A "small group of expert volunteers, called The Online Privacy Foundation, has used Kaggle, an Australian crowdsourcing and …

    Bootnotes 8 Jul 21:05

  • Japanese boffins demo EV on-the-move charging

    Except it’s low-powered and inefficient

    Electric vehicles have two problems: to make them “zero emission”, they need to be recharged from “clean” sources; and range remains a challenge. A Japanese proposal would, if it worked, address the second – but probably exacerbate the first. A team from the Toyohashi University of Technology has demonstrated an electric field …

    Science 8 Jul 23:01