Music Travels - reconstructed a nearly extinct music for wooden flute

"Not content with current statutory damages, the RIAA is pushing for higher damages for infringement(1), damages that would total $1.5 million for copying a CD with ten songs. It's all part of debate over the proposed PRO-IP Act. William Patry, a lawyer who wrote the seminal seven-volume reference on US copyright law(2), called it the most 'outrageously gluttonous IP bill ever introduced in the US.'"

Book Review: Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil and Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction and Tech Girls Are Chic

"The Kickoff Webcast with Karen Ellis" webcast.

NetHappenings Headlines: Holy War! Researchers say EEs have a 'terrorist mindset',Details of Scots on stolen laptop, New data security breaches come in fours, Industry experts question $6 billion Bush cybersecurity plan.

SECURE WEB SERVERS: PROTECTING WEB SITES THAT ARE ACCESSED BY THE PUBLIC

"CIPA does not require the tracking of Internet use by minors or adults."

For compliance, schools are required to address the safety and security of minors when using email, ... But, that does not prescribe the logging of activity.

Source: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/cipa.html

 From http://www.ifea.net/cipa.pdf

TITLE XVII--CHILDREN'S INTERNET PROTECTION
   SEC. 1701. SHORT TITLE.
    This title may be cited as the ``Children's Internet Protection Act''.
   SEC. 1702. DISCLAIMERS.
    (a) DISCLAIMER REGARDING CONTENT.--Nothing in this title or the
amendments made by this title shall be construed to prohibit a local
educational agency, elementary or secondary school, or library from blocking access on the
Internet on computers owned or operated by that agency, school, or library to any
content other than content covered by this title or the amendments made by this title.
    (b) DISCLAIMER REGARDING PRIVACY.--Nothing in this title or the
amendments made by this title shall be construed to require the tracking
of Internet use by any identifiable minor or adult user.

Sec 1702(b) indicates that it doesn't need to be tracked. If it doesn't
need to be tracked, then, logically, it cannot be archived.

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Only 29 percent said that college transcripts were either very or fairly useful to them in assessing an applicant's skills and knowledge. At the very bottom of the heap were multiple-choice and general-knowledge tests, which most business executives dismissed as ineffective means of assessment.

The Web address for the map and other information about the Corruption Perceptions Index

Each copy of the Daily News on Super Bowl Sunday, February 3rd and Grammy Sunday, February 10th will include an insert printed with a unique access code that will allow readers to search and download the music of their choice by visiting www.NYDailyNews.com.

CARIBOU RANCH By the mid '70s, the staff at Caribou Ranch was pretty blase about having big names around. But when John Lennon visited for four days in July 1974, everyone struggled to keep their cool.

Find out how to contact online librarians and get help for free. See if your library is online and participates. It's better than Google!!! Youth Vs. Adults in Gadget Wars

The nation's premier database of biomedical research contains as many as 200,000 questionable publications, ranging from possible outright plagiarism to researchers recycling their own work, Dallas scientists have found.

This claims to be an annotated leaked document outlining the marketing methods to be used (which are used?) by the British government to "coerce" the public into accepting national ID cards.

In order to "protect america" from people who might have destroyed it they threw all the Japanese into camps. The country regretted that decision. BUT in order to protect america from other agents of terror they have thrown all the people under surveillance with technology. Is it any different? I don't think so.

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The Metasploit Project announced today the free, world-wide availability of version 3.1 of their exploit development and attack framework. The latest version features a graphical user interface, full support for the Windows platform, and over 450 modules, including 265 remote exploits. "Metasploit 3.1 consolidates a year of research and development, integrating ideas and code from some of the sharpest and most innovative folks in the security research community" said H D Moore, project manager. Moore is referring the numerous research projects that have lent code to the framework.

Follow the Drinking Gourd - This Song is not 'Authentic' It is not "traditional." The signature line in the chorus, "for the old man is awaitin' for to carry you to freedom," could not possibly have been sung by escaping slaves, because it was written by Lee Hays eighty years after the end of the Civil War!

Music bloggers do it for the love of music. They can be trusted. Profit is secondary. Are blogs the new radio? If not quite, they show a pathway to the future, where it's about being turned on by love, not hype.

Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History. The Glenbuchat Ballads. Edited by David Buchan and James Moreira. The Folklore of the Jews. By Angelo S. Rappoport. Performing Dark Arts: A Cultural History of Conjuring. By Michael Mangan. Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend. By Gary L. Roberts.

Lily Vasquez, a marketing manager from Clifton, New Jersey, spent nearly eight years trying to break into the music business as a singer before she stumbled across SellaBand.com.

On Monday, January 28, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) begins the hearing that will determine mechanical rates for every songwriter and music publisher in America. It will be the most important rate hearing in the history of the music industry because in addition to setting rates for physical products, rates will be set for the first time ever for digital products such as digital downloads, subscription services and ringtones.

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