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Parts of Hester Rumberg's Ten Degrees of Reckoning (Putnam Books) are almost too painful to read. The nonfiction work tells the story of Judy Sleavin, her husband Mike, and their two kids, Ben and Annie. Sixteen years ago, inspired by their love of the sea and each other, the family set off on an around-the-world adventure on their sailboat. At each port they found welcoming cultures and experiences that taught their children more than they could ever learn in a classroom. Their adventures came to an abrupt end one night off the coast of New Zealand when a ship hit their boat. The sea quickly claimed the lives of Ben, Annie, and Mike, leaving Judy alone and broken both physically and mentally. But the story that Rumberg tells is about much more than the accident; it is about loss and recovery, about reinventing oneself after tragedy, and about living without regrets. (photo by Jim Allen)
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A half hour is all you need to mix up this colorful crowd-pleaser. Offering plenty of shrimp, artichoke hearts, olives, peppers and a host of herbs, it's a tasty change-of-pace from pasta salads. "The recipe completes any buffet," notes Ginger Johnson of Farmington, Illinois.
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Prep/Total Time: 30 min.
1 package (16 ounces) orzo pasta
3/4 pound cooked medium shrimp, peeled, deveined and cut into thirds
1 cup finely chopped green pepper
1 cup finely chopped sweet red pepper
1 can (14 ounces) water-packed artichoke hearts, rinsed, drained and quartered
3/4 cup finely chopped red onion
1/2 cup minced fresh parsley
1/3 cup chopped fresh dill
1/3 cup chopped pimiento-stuffed olives
1/2 cup white wine vinegar
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon dried basil
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/4 cup olive oil
Cook pasta according to package directions; drain and rinse in cold
water. Place in a large bowl; add the shrimp, peppers, artichokes,
onion, parsley, dill and olives.
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) Sean Mannion passed for 414 yards and a school-record six touchdowns and Oregon State won its fourth consecutive game Saturday with a 44-17 victory over Colorado.
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Two longtime trustees of the Village of Port North, Edward "Charlie" Ratkoski and Gary Levi, are seeking re-election in next Tuesday's election, running on the Environmental Party ticket. Peri Sue Zausner and Janet Orloff are challenging them for the trustee positions, running on the New Millennium Party line.
Incumbent Mayor Tom Pellegrino also seeks re-election, running unopposed on the Environmental Party ticket.
Recently, the current board rezoned the Lewis Oil Company property from Economic Development A to business, thereby allowing Lewis Oil to redevelop the site into an expanded Delco Shopping Center. Ms. Zausner and Orloff wanted a full environmental impact statement on the property. The incumbents maintain that one is not necessary and promise that any contamination that exists on the site will be cleaned up, with Lewis Oil being responsible for any costs related to the remediation of the property.
The possible rezoning of the now-vacant Dallas Realty 41 acres is also under contention. An application to rezone the property from Economic Development A to allow senior housing to be built there has been submitted to the board. The challengers say that, if elected, they will vote against rezoning the site to residential.
The challengers also criticize last year's 20 percent village tax increase. The incumbents counter that for years they kept the taxes low, claiming that at times they have been amongst the lowest in the county. Last year, they explain, the increase came from a combination of over $100,000 in tax certioraris and the certiorari negotiator's fee.
Election Day is Tuesday, March 20 from noon-9 p.m. at Village Hall, (Chase Bank Building) One Soundview Drive.
Mayor Thomas Pellegrino--Running Unopposed on the Environmental Party ticket for Mayor
Mayor Pellegrino has spent the last 30 years as mayor, after serving one year as a trustee. In a partial list of accomplishments, he included: removal of oil tanks at Lewis Oil site; reclaiming the waterfront; Halloween curfew; Pooper Scooper ordinance; annual program for planting trees; sidewalk replacement for those residents whose tree roots up-ended their sidewalks; anti-noise ordinance; forcing LILCO to underground its wires on Shore Rd.; establishing a code of ethics for village officials; passage of the toughest building zone codes in New York State; keeping a low tax rate, which at several times was one of the lowest of the 64 villages in Nassau County.
The mayor is proud of his party's vision for Port North. He says, "Our never ending discussions with village residents, the elected officials of other villages, the Town of North Hempstead, Nassau County and the state, businesses in the village, and top-notch professionals (such as the planners our village board retained) are part of our vision. This is to maintain a safe and attractive community, and to plan for the use of village properties through the application of our zoning laws judiciously.
During the next two years, he says, the current board expects to resurface two more village roads, continue with the village's sidewalk replacement program and continue to work on tax abatements for seniors and veterans. "We are also meeting with the management of Soundview Marketplace and Blockbuster Video with the aim of moving their film drop box to another location in the center which would do away with the dangerous condition existing today. He adds, "In the next few months, we will put together a team of professionals and residents to assist us in planning the overall development of our waterfront property."
Edward "Charlie" Ratkoski- Environmental Party Candidate for trustee
Mr. Ratkoski was born, educated and married in Port Washington. He also raised his kids here. "I love Port Washington and feel I want to return something to it for all it has given to me and my family." He has been a trustee and superintendent of public works for Port North for eight years. As superintendent, he is responsible for roads, sidewalks, street sweeping, snow removal, and tree trimming and replacement. Prior to being elected trustee, Mr. Ratkoski was the superintendent of public works in Sands Point, retiring in 1992.
He has been a volunteer fireman for 51 years and last year was named Citizen of the Year by the Polish American Society of New York.
On taxes, he says, "I always strive to cut taxes without cutting all the important services that we provide our residents and businesses.
Gary Levi- Environmental Party Candidate for trustee
"For most of my adult life, I have been a public servant. My idea of a good American is to be involved in government. I am currently a trustee of the village. Before that, I was a member of the Board of Appeals of the village. He is currently the president of the Intrac Group, a company he started in 1990. It is an international media, marketing and financial service.
Mr. Levi notes that his involvement in government goes back some years. His activities include: a member of the board of directors of the Jacob Javits Convention Center; a Special assistant to the New York Secretary of State; a special assistant to the New York City Commissioner of Sanitation; a community liaison officer for the New York City Environmental Administration and a vice-chairman of the New York City Industries for the Blind.
The two candidates feel that there are urgent quality of life issues that must be addressed. "There must be a full environmental impact statement on both the Lewis Oil and 41 acre properties," they say. They feel that new development should be researched fully with its impact on and with surrounding areas and other development projects.
Noting that traffic has become more and more congested, they insist on keeping any increased traffic to a minimum. Janet and Peri want to initiate breast cancer studies in Port Washington, especially in Port North.
In general, they feel that the interests of the residents have not been protected.
Janet Orloff- New Millennium Party Candidate for trustee
Janet Orloff has been a community-minded citizen and environmental activist for 23 years in Port North. Janet is co-founder of the Port Washington North Civic Association and its past secretary. She was instrumental in the effort to stop the incinerator and worked closely with Residents for a More Beautiful Port Washington to that end. Janet was vice president and president of Citizens Promoting Recycling. Orloff represented the Soundview area as a Democratic Committee person for 10 years. A past nursery school teacher, Janet was also president of the Guggenheim PTA and active on numerous committees. The "soccer Mom extraordinaire" was PW Soccer Club administrator. She was inducted into the Port Soccer Hall of Fame. Janet Orloff has been attending many Port North Village and school board meetings over the years both as a resident and writer for the PW Sentinel. A caseworker for the Nassau County Department of Social Services, Janet is now enrolled in a Master's program in public administration at C.W. Post College. Janet Orloff has lived in Port North with her husband, Howard, for 23 years. They raised two sons, Scott and Stephen, both graduates of PW schools
Peri Sue Zausner- New Millennium Party Candidate for trustee
Peri-Sue Zausner is co-founder and was president of the PW North Civic Association until she stepped down to better serve the residents of Port North as trustee. Peri also represents Port North as vice president of the General Council of PW Homeowners, where she has also been a member of the Committee for Responsible Development. Zausner, a Soundview Democratic Committee person, has represented citizens for many years. Deeply involved in civic and environmental affairs, Ms. Zausner has worked closely with local legislators and other elected officials in the Town of North Hempstead. She spearheaded the campaign for timely, responsible development in the PW peninsula. A member of Residents for a More Beautiful PW, Ms. Zausner has been affiliated with many environmental groups.
Ms. Zausner attended Skidmore College, the Art Students' League, and the Fashion Institute of Technology, and is an award-winning multi-media artist. She lives with her husband Fred and their two sons, both PW high school students, Alex, 14, and Eric, 18. They have lived in Port North for over 18 years.
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An almost-ready version of Windows 7 retains a feature from Windows NT which expedites a well-known hacker trick, according to net security experts. Win 7 RC omits a fix for a long-standing security shortcoming in Windows Explorer. As with previous versions of Windows, dating all the way back to windows NT, the version of …
@Greg Fleming
At the same time, there are files that may look similar to each other internally but are actually used very differently practically. Consider that a program trying to inspect a CBZ (Comic Book Archive), an XPI (Firefox extension), and a JAR (Java Archive) could easily mistake each of them for a ZIP. Little surprise--all three are themselves ZIP archives with particular files within them.
How about this for a proposal: Since icons and names can't be trusted (since people may delete exposed extensions AND be suckered by hidden ones--no win here), how about color-coding the name of the program. IIRC, compressed files and folders in XP and up are shown in blue text. How about make all executable programs show up in red text, to indicate that they're executable? Now, even with extensions hidden, they're clearly visible, and the malware can't change the color of the text (since it's not subject to the program itself).
@Jason Togneri
I did have a slight feeling that the newer Windows OSs might have done that, and that's why I didn't dismiss or confirm it.
Even so, your point (and mine) is still valid... if it automatically highlights only the file name then there is only one reason left to hide it in newer windows, vanity.
It's bad enough they want use to use "Tiles" where the icon is huge and the file name you can only read the first 10-20 chars... List View FTW!
Hidden file extensions and super-hidden file extensions
After reading a lot of the comments here, there seem to be many saying just how easy it is to enable the viewing of file extensions. Of course, in doing so, those commenters have shown themselves to be just as ignorant as the idiots they're complaining about. If you don't believe me, then go ahead and go to the folder options and uncheck the option to hide file extensions. Then take a look at your desktop, scratch your head, and wonder why your shortcuts DON'T show the ".lnk" extension (or ".url" extension for Internet links). Then look in your WINDOWS folder, scratch your head, and wonder why the "_default" file doesn't show the ".pif" extension.
There are quite a few extensions that Windows will continue to hide even after you tell it to NOT hide file extensions. The only way to fix that is to add a registry setting for each super-hidden file type you want to show the extension for. There is no global "Yes, I really do want to see ALL file extensions" checkbox.
Using those super-hidden extensions, it would be easy to create a seemingly innocent file which will execute a malicious file, even when you have your system set to view file extensions (for example, by creating a file called "My_picture.jpg.pif" which is a PIF file that loads "delete_c.exe").
It IS a Problem
90% or more of my users wouldn't have the faintest clue how to change that setting - no matter how many times they were told or shown. However, they either want to know where their file extensions are or readily agree when I explain the reasons for changing the setting. I have yet to meed a single user who preferred not to see the file extensions.
The Microsoftheads who persist in keeping this setting as the default are idiots - pure and simple.
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"[Linux] keeps track of the file type by the associated flag that the FS assigns to it when it is created. The file type is NOT in the header (text files have no 'header' for example) yet the OS knows what it is by keeping track of the app that created it or the permissions that are assigned to it by the user."
No. Neither permissions nor the creating app have anything to do with this: you can use cat to create a shell script or sed to modify a text file. Or you could use, say, emacs or joe or nano.
"For example: a shell script is just a text file but if I've marked it executable it will run in the shell. But only for ME, It WON'T execute on another login unless it [is] root."
Wrong again. There's that bit of identification stored in at the start of the file: that "#! /bin/sh" line. Also, you've not said that it isn't readable by others; if it is, that's enough to allow a shell run by any of them to interpret it ("sh ~foo/bar.sh"). Execute permission would allow them to do this implicitly, with the kernel running the executable named in the #! line ("~foo/bar.sh").
File type information is determined by content and/or the extension part of the filename. Content takes precendece.
Hide or don't hide -
it makes no difference at all. Windows is insecure by design and no amount of fiddling with file extensions is going to fix that. There's only one way to make Windows secure - run something else.
Tsk ...
You are all missing the point: the file extension is NOT IMPORTANT.
Any OS that is _still_ fooled by the *.jpg.exe 'trick' is unfit for purpose. END OF. There is no justification for this stupidity continuing.
Reading some of the comments here make me despair. Anyone who is still discussing this hiding/showing file extensions nonsense is missing the obvious problem. That is, Windows has consistently been fooled by this for years and STILL falls for it. That to me proves this product is an OS unworthy of even being called an OS -- its a piece of garbage.
Totally, utterly unbelievable anyone can find this remotely acceptable. Far less PAY MONEY for it. It _does_ prove that there is one born every minute. Oh wait: that's Miscrosoft's actual business model!
Tsk ...
You are all missing the point: the file extension is NOT IMPORTANT.
Any OS that is _still_ fooled by the *.jpg.exe 'trick' is unfit for purpose. END OF. There is no justification for this stupidity continuing.
Reading some of the comments here make me despair. Anyone who is still discussing this hiding/showing file extensions nonsense is missing the obvious problem. That is, Windows has consistently been fooled by this for years and STILL falls for it. That to me proves this product is an OS unworthy of even being called an OS -- its a piece of garbage.
Totally, utterly unbelievable anyone can find this remotely acceptable. Far less PAY MONEY for it. It _does_ prove that there is one born every minute. Oh wait: that's Microsoft's actual business model!
Just a thought.....
But why allow "double extensions" at all?
you should only be allowed one "." in a filename(although you can have them in a directory name, otherwise "content.IE5" won't work /thud)
you can still have your ".exe_old" or whatever.
Seems pretty simple from where I'm sitting.
...they could write the file type under the file name...
It is a pain in the arse, though - non-nerds will often want to not see .exe as they don't care about extensions, they just want something that looks less confusing. Douchebags.
How SLOW are m$ at learning?????!!!
Can't microsoft LEARN faster? or LISTEN more? This has been a problem for years ffs. Give Windoze to Paris to program!!
@ Mark "What about the Mac?"
Quote: "Mac OS X application bundles hide their contents away from the user to the extent that an entire folder full of who-knows-what is hidden behind an innocuous looking icon.
No complete suprise that El Reg isn't up in arms about this, though, is it?"
You are right, it is no surprise. However, that would be because they aren't complete fucking, ignorant tools like you evidently are:
(1) That "who-knows-what" can't do a damn thing to the system without the express permission of the user because Mac OS X is based on *NIX and it has a cast-iron security model by default that "just works" rather than being the idiotic, piece of shit, doomed to fail at every single point that the Windows "security" model is, and
(2) selecting "Show package contents" will show you everything that is inside an application bundle should you want to look there.
Ergo, there is no security risk here beyond any of the typical Trojan and PEBCAK ones that can't be solved other than by people being clued-up.
In response to all the other Wintards here - Jesus, do you folks have no clue at all about things outside the extent of your twisted Windows world. Here is what happens in other OS'es if you try to add (e.g. if it is hidden by default) or change an extension already there: you get a warning that it might do something unexpected or harmful to your system or the file. Wow, that is so fucking hard to comprehend and implement isn't it! Yet MS still hasn't added something like it to their shitty OS for decades and you twats actively celebrate their complete and utter idiocy.
Why allow double extensions at all?
I agree with Trevor - I don't see why Microsoft hasn't fixed this years ago by patching to deal explicitly with double file extensions. The exact form of that is another matter (maybe pop up a dialog for those cases when double-clicked, with the non-executable filetype as the default?), but it should be quite separate from showing those file extensions. In a file system assigning file types based on extensions, a file should only have one extension and when there's more than one that should be acknowledged as a problem! End of story.
@ Quirkafleeg
"There's that bit of identification stored in at the start of the file: that "#! /bin/sh" line."
Not necessary. Make it executable and it still runs. No "#! /bin/sh" directive on the first line is strictly required (though it is common practice) Incidentally, when I then remove the extension .sh from the end of the file name, the script STILL runs fine.
"Also, you've not said that it isn't readable by others; if it is, that's enough to allow a shell run by any of them to interpret it ("sh ~foo/bar.sh"). Execute permission would allow them to do this implicitly, with the kernel running the executable named in the #! line ("~foo/bar.sh")."
Nope. It doesn't. Tried that.
The OS isn't being fooled by 'picture.jpg.exe' - t's an executable, the OS knows it's an executable, and it treats it as an executable. It's the *user* who's being fooled by not seeing the .exe part. Funny thing is, if file extensions are turned off the user wouldn't see the .jpg either were it a real .jpg file, but I digress.
@ AA Tuesday 12th May 2009 12:24 GMT
Good point. Have a doughnut.
Managed Code
Computers can be wierd and stange things, I think that a smaller percentage of people that use computers have the patience and opportunity to learn how to use them as carefully as is required to avoid the dangers of the internet, most people just want to use their computer to do something, they don't want/need to know how it works, or bother with details such as file extensions, these people are not stupid.
The design of the operating systems need to be improved so that most people can use their computers safely. I don't think that displaying file extensions or not is going to help with that effort, since most people don't know or care about file extensions.
How can the design of the operating system be improved?
if a file comes from the internet and is executable, don't let it execute if it can do something harmful, no warnings are UAC type questions, just don't execute it
"something harmful" usually involves writing or reading to certain parts of the hard drive, using code access security, it is possible to determine whether certain types of executable files contain functionality that will write to the hard drive or read certain parts of it
The answer can be found in managed code, if a file is downloaded from the internet and it isn't managed code then by default it should not be allowed to execute, advanced users would be able to enable this at their own risk.
OS X displays a warning if you execute a file that you downloaded from the internet, this is a step in the right direction, but more needs to be done.
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Bruce Nye has a photo of a pointless new warning McDonald's has posted in California stores to avoid litigation. The warning seems to have a side safety benefit: by the time you finish reading it, your coffee won't be hot any more.
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Bruce Nye has a photo of a pointless new warning McDonald's has posted in California stores to avoid litigation. The warning seems to have a side safety benefit: by the time you finish reading it, your coffee won't be hot any more.
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Readers will recall that acrylamide is a naturally occurring substance formed when many foods are browned or otherwise cooked and that (like countless other constituents of common foods) it appears to cause cancer in some animals at high dosages. California attorney general Jerry Brown has now reached a settlement with some large food companies that will require them to revise recipes for potato chips, French fries and other wares to reduce acrylamide content. Fun fact: one of the ways they may accomplish this goal is by artificially adding a chemical (OK, an enzyme) which works to neutralize acrylamide's precursors. (Rosie Mestel, "Booster Shots" blog, L.A. Times, Aug. 4).
More: Bill Childs adds, "Oh, and the companies will pay California around $2.5 million."
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"Proposition 65 deserves to be renamed 'the law of mythological food fears,'" says Sandy Szwarc in Tech Central Station about acrylamide suits. See Aug. 31, Aug. 29, May 26, Apr. 6, 2004, etc.
The San Francisco Chronicle's Debra Saunders is no admirer of California AG Lockyer's new lawsuit (see Ted's Aug. 29 post) charging that restaurants have broken the law by failing to post announcements that french fries and other common foods contain naturally occurring acrylamides (Aug. 30). More: Jonathan Wilson posts here and here.
Bill Lockyer has thrown the power of the state of California and its taxpayers behind the litigation lobby's attempt to extract money from just about every food manufacturer over the alleged dangers of acrylamide. We've been covering these suits for years: see Apr. 6, 2004 and links therein. Of course, if every single food product and commercial building structure contains a Proposition 65 warning, the net effect is to make the real important warnings, like those on cigarette packages, less meaningful, rather than to warn people of the uncertain link between french fries and minimally elevated risks of cancer, a risk dwarfed in health effects by the difference between french fries with and without trans-fats. The press coverage universally makes no attempt to parse the studies on the subject. The fact that the press-hungry and politically ambitious Lockyer filed his suit relatively quietly on a Friday—and sued only national fast-food chains, without including two popular local chains that also serve french fries—for Saturday news coverage suggests that he's doing this as a favor for some trial-lawyer buddies and is hoping to avoid public embarrassment. This is a good opportunity for the blogosphere to prove its stuff. And will all the Democrats who claim to be part of the "reality-based community" and correctly speak out against Republican junk science like "intelligent design" raise their voices when it's a Democrat using junk science for corporation-bashing, or is science only to be used when it can embarrass Bush? We shall see. (Tim Reiterman, "Carcinogen Warning Sought for Fries, Chips", LA Times, Aug. 27). Other Lockyer coverage.
There'll always be a California, cont'd: "Buying cereal, olives, potatoes, bread, almonds — even prune juice — at the grocery store soon might come with a cancer warning from the state of California. State officials are considering a requirement that grocery stores, retailers and restaurants alert customers about acrylamide, a carcinogen created when starchy foods like potatoes and breads are baked, roasted, fried or toasted." (Greg Lucas, San Francisco Chronicle, May 25). For more about the naturally occurring compound and the litigation it has already provoked, see Dec. 27-29, 2002, Sept. 19, 2003 (final item), and Apr. 6, 2004. For more on Proposition 65, the bounty-hunting statute under which lawyers will inevitably file more suits against businesses that fail to post signs warning of acrylamide should the proposed regulation become effective, see Nov. 4-5, 2002 and these links.
Approximately forty percent of the food the world eats contains acrylamide, a chemical that is formed by cooking starches and that has uncertain carcinogenic effect. The LA Times reports on the pending lawsuit against fast food vendors in California under Proposition 65 (Sep. 19; Dec. 27, 2002), which requires labeling of all carcinogenic substances with warnings–never mind that if a warning is posted everywhere, it effectively renders all the warnings meaningless, as they essentially are in California, where the warning can already be found in nearly every parking garage. While Burger King and other large corporations are fighting against extending the labeling requirements to french fries, it's hypothesized that smaller mom-and-pop shops will simply cave and post warnings rather than pay lawyers to defend the use of heat in preparing food. (Miguel Bustillo, "Are We Ready to Fret About Our Fries?", LA Times, Apr. 6; Andrew Bridges, "Studies find no acrylamide, cancer link", AP, Mar. 29; Center for Consumer Freedom, "Wayward Warnings", Aug. 5).
At the new multi-author blog Marginal Revolution, Alex Tabarrok writes that he's angry: "The lawyers will get $19 million, the plaintiffs have no damages and I have been involved in an abuse of justice. I received notice yesterday that I was a plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against Bridgestone/Firestone that is about to be settled. I was never injured by Firestone but that's ok because injured people have their own lawsuit the one I am involved in is for people who were not injured. The lawsuit reads 'Plaintiff Does Not Seek To Represent And This Litigation Does Not Involve Any Person Who Alleges That He or She Suffered Any Personal Injury or Property Damage Because Of A Failure Of One Of The Tires' (capitalization in original.) Bear in mind that Firestone has already replaced all four of my tires with a competitor's brand for free and similarly for many of the other plaintiffs." (Sept. 16) Co-blogger Tyler Cowen at the same site isn't any happier to discover that he is a member of the class in a suit against Western Union over its wire-funds-abroad service charging that, according to the legalese, "…the Defendants [made] misrepresentations about or otherwise failing to disclose to customers the fact that they received a more favorable exchange rate for converting U.S. dollars to foreign currency and foreign currency to U.S. dollars than they provided to their customers." "Imagine that" — writes Cowen — "a middleman buying and selling at different prices!" (Sept. 17). (More: see KrazyKiwi, Oct. 8).
Meanwhile, a Wisconsin man has filed an intended class action lawsuit against jam maker J.M. Smucker after the Washington-based anti-business group Center for Science in the Public Interest published a report claiming that Smucker's "Simply 100 Percent Fruit" products were falsely labeled because only a minority of the actual contents of a jar of strawberry or blueberry "Spreadable Fruit" consisted of those berries, the remainder consisting (as Smucker's labeling makes clear) of syrups, concentrates and extracts derived from other fruits such as apple, grape, lemon and pineapple. ("Smucker's Spreads Not All Fruit, Lawsuit Says", AP/FoxNews, Sept. 5 — if you're looking for a deceptive claim, how about the one conveyed by that headline?). The food-industry-defense Center for Consumer Freedom levels an interesting accusation against CSPI, namely that bounty-hunting lawyers suing under California's Proposition 65 law seemed to have mysterious psychic powers to divine in advance exactly what was going to be in a CSPI report on supposed killer french fries — either that, or CSPI shared the information with them before it went public with its allegations. See "We, the jury, find the defendant 'starchy'", CCF, Jul. 17 (third from last paragraph); "CSPI: 100 Percent Litigious", CCF, Sept. 8; "Latest Acrylamide Panic Based on Fudged Numbers" (press release), CCF, Jul. 10. For more on the French fry suit, see Dec. 27-29, 2002.
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Wildlife management, species protection, 2003: "U.K. roundup" (licensing of exotic pet fish), Jun. 12-15. 2001: "False trail of missing lynx", Dec. 18; "Pricing out the human species", Aug. 22-23; "Stories that got away", Jul. 23; "Bush's environmental centrism", Apr. 24. 2000: "Endangered list", Dec. 4; "Snakes' rights not always paramount" (man killed snake in self-defense), Aug. 18-20; "'Imperfect laws add to danger of perfect storms'", Aug. 10. 1999: "Property owners obliged to host rattlesnakes", Oct. 12; "Knock him over with a feather" (migratory bird contraband laws), Sept. 11; "Mow' better ADA claims" (claim of "exotic prairie plants" by resident who didn't want to mow her lawn), Jul. 26.
"Bounty-hunting in New Jersey", Jun. 10-11, 2003.
"'State is suing ex-dry cleaners'" (Calif., Superfund), May 27, 2003.
"Suing 'til the cows come home", May 20, 2003.
"U.K. roundup" (global warming suits), Jun. 12-15, 2003; "Tort suits over global warming", Feb. 6-9, 2003; "Global warming suit?", Jul. 31, 2001 (& Aug. 10-12); "Plus extra damages for having argued with us", Aug. 19, 1999.
"California's hazardous holiday" (fireplaces), Dec. 27-29, 2002; "Chestnuts-roasting menace averted", Dec. 24-27, 2001; "Put out that match" (agricultural burning, residential wood burning), Feb. 28-Mar. 1, 2001.
"Right to know" laws, 2002: "California's hazardous holiday" (acrylamide), Dec. 27-29; "'Lawyers who sue to settle'", Nov. 4-5; "Chocolate, gas-pump fumes, playground sand and so much more", Oct. 15; "'Greedy or Just Green'", Mar. 13-14. 2001: "There'll always be a California" (chocolate and Prop 65), Dec. 4; Letter to the editor (lutefisk exempted from toxic-substance status in Wisconsin), Nov. 29; "Be somewhat less afraid" (nuclear plant terrorism), Nov. 30-Dec. 2; "'U.S. Debates Info on Chemical Hazards'" ("right to know" and terrorism), Nov. 12; "Chemical-plant vulnerabilities: read all about them", Oct. 1. 1999: "Lockyer vs. keys" (California attorney general declares brass a toxic hazard), Nov. 2.
"How much did you say that Indian legend was worth?", Sept. 25-26, 2002; "Final innings for Kennewick Man", Sept. 27-28, 2000; "Free Kennewick Man!" (pre-Columbian remains), Oct. 11, 1999.
Low exposures, 2002: "A breast-cancer myth", Sept. 3-4; "'Unharmed woman awarded $104,000′" (Canada), May 6. 2001: "There'll always be a California" (chocolate and Prop 65), Dec. 4; "'Incense link to cancer'", Aug. 27-28; "'Candles might be polluting your home, EPA says'", Jun. 19; "While you were out: the carbonless paper crusade", Apr. 25 (& letter to the editor, May 18); "Hunter sues store over camouflage mask", Jan. 12-14. 2000: "'Airbag chemical on trial'", Aug. 14; "Multiple chemical sensitivity from school construction", Jul. 3-4; "Feelings of nausea? Get in line" (Baton Rouge chemical spill), Jan. 26-27. 1999: "Lockyer vs. keys" (California attorney general declares brass a toxic hazard), Nov. 2.
Zoning, land use, 2002: "How much did you say that Indian legend was worth?", Sept. 25-26; "'Preserving' History at Bayonet Point", Feb. 15-17; "Planners tie up land for twenty years", Jan. 18-20. 2001: "Columnist-fest" (John Tierney on NYC battle over IKEA site), May 25-27; "Lessons of shrub-case jailing", May 17; "Perils of regulatory discretion", Jan. 24-25. 2000: "Cornfield maze as zoning violation", Oct. 30. 1999: "Great moments in zoning law" (rescued pets from storm, charged with running unlawful animal shelter), Nov. 22.
"Mercury in dental fillings", Jul. 16-17, 2002 (& Nov. 4-5, 2002).
"Going to blazes" (logging and Western fires), Jul. 1-2, 2002; "Credibility up in smoke?" (same), Jul. 12-14, 2002; letter to the editor, Oct. 23.
Industrial farming: "'Tampa Judge Tosses Out Class-Action Suit Against Hog Company'", Jul. 3-9, 2002; "RFK Jr. blasted for hog farm remarks", Apr. 15, 2002 (& Apr. 17, Apr. 19-21, letter to the editor and editor's response, Apr. 19); "Chickens are next", Feb. 6-7, 2002; "Judge throws out hog farm suit", May 7, 2001; "Trial lawyers vs. hog farms", Dec. 7, 2000; "This little piggy got taken to court", Sept. 12, 2000; "Not so high off the hog", Oct. 4, 1999.
"'San Francisco Verdict Bodes Ill for Oil Industry'", Jun. 11-12, 2002.
"'Legal fight over chemical spill ends with whimper'" (W.V.), Jun. 7-9, 2002.
"Flowers, perfume in airline cabins not OK?" (Canada), May 17-19, 2002; "Scented hair gel, deodorant could mean jail time for Canadian youth", Apr. 24, 2000.
"The mystery of the transgenic corn", May 14-15, 2002.
"Erin Brockovich", 2002: "'Erin Brockovich, the Brand'", Apr. 29-30. 2001: "Exxon Brockovich vs. Erin Valdez", Nov. 15; "NBC mulls Brockovich talk show", Nov. 6, 2001; "Brockovich a heroine? Julia really can act", Mar. 23-25. 2000: "Errin' Brockovich?", Dec. 21, 2000; "'All about Erin'", Oct. 12; "More woes for 'Brockovich' lawyers", Jun. 22-25; "Brockovich story, cont'd: the judges' cruise", Apr. 18; Brockovich story breaks wide open", Apr. 17; "Plume of controversy", Apr. 14-16; "Hollywood special", Mar. 30. 1999: "A Civil Action II?", July 7.
Trial lawyer/enviro alliance? "RFK Jr. blasted for hog farm remarks", Apr. 15, 2002 (& Apr. 17, Apr. 19-21, letter to the editor and editor's response, Apr. 19); "'Working' for whom?" (Environmental Working Group), May 23, 2001; "Judge throws out hog farm suit", May 7, 2001; "'Bogus' assault on Norton", Jan. 18, 2001; "Trial lawyers vs. hog farms", Dec. 7, 2000.
"'Former clients sue attorney O'Quinn'" (Kennedy Heights case), Apr. 8-9, 2002.
"Arsenic: one last dose?", Mar. 22-24, 2002; "The view from Arsenictown", Sept. 11, 2001; "'The arithmetic of arsenic'", Aug. 17-19; "Bush's environmental centrism", April 24; "Tempest in an arsenic-laced teacup?", Apr. 18; "'Bogus' assault on Norton", Jan. 18; "The Times vs. Gale Norton", Jan. 15; "Ecology and economy", Jan. 5-7, 2001.
"Liability concerns fell giant sequoia", Mar. 12, 2002.
"Environmental lawsuits vs. military readiness", Jan. 2-3, 2002.
"Overlawyered schools roundup" (environmental impact statement for teacher layoffs?), Dec. 7-9, 2001.
"Infectious disease conquered, CDC now chases sprawl", Nov. 9-11, 2001.
"States lag in curbing junk science", May 29, 2001.
"'Family awarded $1 billion in lawsuit'" (Louisiana land contamination), May 24, 2001.
"Prospect of $3 gas", May 10, 2001.
Who needs power anyway?: "Sweetness and light from Bill Lockyer", Jun. 1-3, 2001 (& see June 8-10, June 22-24); "California electricity linkfest", Mar. 26, 2001; "Brownout, Shivers & Dim, attorneys at law", Oct. 11, 2000; "Worse than Y2K?" (EPA/DOJ suit against coal-burning utility plants), Nov. 18-19, 1999.
"Seventh Circuit rebukes EPA" (Superfund search and seizure), Apr. 23, 2001.
Attorneys' fees: "Stories that got away" (Endangered Species Act suits), Jul. 23, 2001; "Losers should pay" (columnist Thomas Sowell; injunctions, bonding requirements), Aug. 4-7, 2000; "Marbled Murrelet v. Babbitt: heads I win, tails let's call it even" ("one-way" fee shifts), Sept. 8, 1999 (& see National Law Journal, Dec. 14, 1999).
"Enviro litigator: debate belongs in Congress, not courts", Dec. 29, 2000-Jan. 2, 2001.
"Federal power over mud puddles?" (wetlands case), Nov. 28, 2000.
"From the evergreen file: cancer alley a myth?", Nov. 8, 2000.
"'A Civil Action' and Hollywood views of lawyers", Jun. 20, 2000.
"Don't cooperate" (lawyers' advice re local health survey), Jun. 9-11, 2000.
"EPA's high courtroom loss rate", May 26-29, 2000; "When agencies like getting sued", Dec. 6, 1999.
"After the great power-line panic", May 24, 2000; "Another scare starts to fizzle" (endocrine disrupters), Aug. 19, 1999.
"This side of parodies" ("dihydrogen monoxide" parody), May 10, 2000.
"Diapered wildlife?" (animal emissions as environmental problem), Apr. 10, 2000; "Backyard trash burning" (suspected as major dioxin source), Jan. 6, 2000.
"Emerging campaign issue: 'brownfields' vs. Superfund lawyers", Apr. 4, 2000; "Mayors: liability fears stalling 'brownfields' development", Feb. 26-27, 2000.
"Lawyers for famine and wilderness-busting?" (anti-biotech), Jan. 3, 1999.
"Weekend reading: evergreens" (Race car great Bobby Unser's snowmobiling rap), Dec. 3-5, 1999.
"Leave that mildew alone" (EPA considers mildew-proof paint to be pesticide), Nov. 30, 1999.
"Flag-burning protest requires environmental permits" (one for smoke, one for fire), Nov. 3, 1999.
"A mile wide and an inch deep" (EPA considers Platte River impaired because sun heats it up), Oct. 15, 1999.
"Careful what you tell your lawyer" (feds demand waiver of lawyer-client confidentiality in environmental cases), Sept. 14, 1999; "Overlawyered skies not always safer" (environmental audits and other "self-critical analysis"), Jul. 19, 1999.
"Tainted cycle" (class action over infectious bacterium in Milwaukee water supply), Sept. 2, 1999.
Articles by Overlawyered.com editor Walter Olson:
"Hollywood vs. the Truth" ("Civil Action" movie), Wall Street Journal, December 23, 1998.
"Don't Steal This Book", review of Property Matters by James DeLong, Wall Street Journal, April 2, 1997 (property rights).
"Lawyers with Stethoscopes: Clients Beware", Manhattan Institute Civil Justice Memo # 26, June 1996.
Archived entries before July 2003 can also be found here (food) and here (beverages).
Food, 2003: "Give me my million", Jun. 20-22; "Lawsuit's demand: stop selling Oreos to kids", May 13 (& update May 16-18: suit dropped); "Fast-food opinion roundup", Mar. 25-30; "They'll be back for seconds", Feb. 19; "Claim: marriage impaired by tough bagel", Feb. 3; "Judge tosses McDonald's obesity case", Jan. 23 (& Jan. 27-28); "U.K.: coercive campaign to constrain Cadbury", Jan. 20; "Anti-diet activist hopes to sue Weight Watchers", Jan. 13-14.
2002: "California's hazardous holiday" (acrylamide), Dec. 27-29; "Scourge of the Super-Size order", Nov. 7; "WHO demands pretzel de-salting by law", Nov. 1-3; Letter to the editor, Oct. 23; "Personal responsibility roundup", Sept. 12; "Fat suits, cont'd", Jul. 26-28; "'Ailing man sues fast-food firms'", Jul. 25; "Sin-suit city", Jun. 10; "McArdle on food as next-tobacco", May 27 (& Jun. 3-4); "Nader credibility watch" (calls fast-food restaurants "weapons of mass destruction"), May 24-26; "The mystery of the transgenic corn", May 14-15; "'Targeting "big food"'", Apr. 29-30; "'Woman sues snack food company for spoiling diet'", Apr. 23-24; "No more restaurant doggie bags", Mar. 20-21; "Fast-food roundup", Mar. 11; "King Cake figurine menace averted", Feb. 1-3; "McMouse story looking dubious", Jan. 25-27; "Life imitates parody: 'Whose Fault Is Fat?'", Jan. 23-24. "'Hot-dog choking prompts lawsuit'", Jan. 2-3.
2001: "There'll always be a California" (chocolate and Prop 65), Dec. 4; Letter to the editor (Wisc. exempts lutefisk from toxic-substance status), Nov. 29; "Disposable turkey pan litigation", Nov. 23-25; "'Diabetic German judge sues Coca-Cola for his health condition'" (candy bars too), Nov. 18; "'Baskin-Robbins lawsuit puts family in dis-flavor'", Aug. 2; "'Couple sues over flaming Pop-Tart'", July 30; "Feeling queasy?" (E. coli), July 27-29; "'Man sues Rite Aid over stale jelly bean'", July 20-22; "By reader acclaim: 'Vegetarian sues McDonald's over meaty fries", May 4-6; "Woman settles hot pickle suit with McDonald's", April 16 (& Oct. 10, 2000); "Putting the 'special' in special sauce" (alleged rat in Big Mac), March 29.
2000: "You deserve a beak today" (McDonald's chicken case), Dec. 6.
1999: "Are they kidding, or not-kidding?" (proposal for suits against makers of fattening foods), Nov. 15; "Toffee maker sued for tooth irritation", Nov. 5-7; "More things you can't have" (unpasteurized cider), Sept. 27; "Not just our imagination" (calls for class actions against fast food, meat industry), Sept. 25-26; "Taco Bell not liable for Ganges purification pilgrimage", Aug. 30.
Beverages: "Litigation good for the country?" (Carl T. Bogus), Aug. 19, 2002; "British judge rejects hot-drink suits", Mar. 29-31, 2002 (& Aug. 10, 2000); "'Diabetic German judge sues Coca-Cola for his health condition'", Nov. 18, 2001; "'Group sues Starbucks over tea ingredient'", Sept. 10; "By reader acclaim" (maker of cup holder), Jan. 11, 2001; "'Court says warning about hot coffee unnecessary'" (Nevada Supreme Court), July 18, 2000; "Now it's hot chocolate", April 4; "Next on the class-action agenda: liquor?", March 22, 2000; & see Sept. 10, 2001. For burns from hot beverages that were under the control of the complainant, see also personal responsibility page.
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Corpus Christi, Texas, is 1,040 miles and a couple of cultures away from Chattanooga.
It's a seaside city with a large port on Corpus Christi Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico. Chattanooga, on the other hand, sits snugly in an area of ridges, waterfalls and mountains.
Corpus Christi's population is nearly double Chattanooga's. And it has the triple influences of the Southern United States, Texas (which residents insist is its own special world) and its next-door neighbor Mexico.
But the cities have a few things in common.
For starters, they both claim cute nicknames: Chattanooga is known as the Scenic City and Corpus Christi promotes itself as the Sparkling City by the Sea.
And leaders in the Texas port city of more than 300,000 are eyeing our city. Specifically, they're studying the revitalization of the 1980s that took Chattanooga from a smoggy drive-through to an attractive destination and desirable place to live.
They hope Chattanooga's waterfront revival will be a model for proposed redevelopment of Corpus Christi's bayfront area.
The Texans hope to turn land along their city's waterfront into a recreation area and, in turn, revitalize their downtown, a place where "dozens of vacant storefronts remain," according the local newspaper.
Because that's pretty much what happened here a few decades ago, the Corpus Christi Caller Times sent a reporter to Chattanooga to examine whether our city's transformation could be a blueprint for Corpus Christi. The Texas newspaper published a package of stories and photos last Sunday.
The stories start with an unflattering description of Chattanooga as a "polluted, industrial wasteland of a city" that transformed itself in the 1980s.
"Residents knew the city would fade away if they didn't do something," the story states.
The reporter, Jessica Savage, interviewed locals, including Times editorial page editor Harry Austin. She wrote not just about the revitalization that started in the '80s and the second wave of redevelopment in 2005 — the 21st Century Waterfront plan — but about the things that make Chattanooga unique (and maybe even a little bit trendy): ArtsMove, GeekMove, the Gig Tank completion, as well as public art, super-fast Internet, entrepreneurs helping startup companies, efforts to reverse the city's brain drain and lure local kids back after college.
Over the years, Chattanooga's redevelopment has been reported in various magazines and newspapers, including by The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. And it has been studied by a number of cities.
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Private and/or group applied lessons are basic areas of study for all music majors and approved minors. All other students, including freshmen and transfer students entering in an undeclared major status, who desire applied instruction will be accommodated after declared majors and minors have been scheduled and if time permits. Permission to register must be obtained from the coordinator of the respective applied area:
Small Group Lessons
MUAP 113. 1 credit.
Two hours per week. May be repeated.
MUAP 115. Group Voice for Theater/Dance Majors. 1 credit.
May be repeated for up to four credits.
Applied Lessons
MUAP 200-level. 1 credit.
One half-hour lesson per week. Five hours minimum practice per week. May be repeated.
MUAP 205. Small Group Voice for Keyboard Majors. 2 credits.
A practical introduction to singing technique and musicianship designed for future choral music teachers and accompanists. Concludes with Vocal Proficiency Examination. Limited to maximum of 8 students. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing in Music or permission of the instructor.
MUAP 300-level. (See below for credits.)
One hour lesson per week. Ten hours minimum practice per week for two credits; 14 hours for three credits. May be repeated.
Music Ensembles
Student performing ensembles sponsored by the School of Music provide unique musical experiences for music majors and any other university students who wish to continue developing their performing skills. The numerous large and small choral and instrumental ensembles encompass a wide range of musical styles and repertoire. Although participation in most ensembles requires an audition, several only require the permission of the director. All ensembles must be taken for credit and may be repeated. Students new to JMU should contact the music office during the registration periods for additional information.
MUAP 237. Marching Band (Fall Semester). 2 credits.
The Marching Band will perform music and drill which is artistically structured. The repertoire will be representative of all styles of music. The Marching Band is required for two years of wind and percussion majors in the music education degree program.
MUAP 238. Concert Band. 1 credit.
Open to all interested participants. A wide variety of music is utilized to acquaint the student with different types of band literature.
MUAP 239. Symphonic Band. 1 credit.
The JMU Symphonic Band is a select group of brass, woodwind and percussion students who are dedicated to the performance of both traditional and contemporary band literature. The ensemble performs music of all periods and is open to any university student by audition.
MUAP 344. Chamber Orchestra. 1 credit.
Open to all university students. Membership is determined by audition. Music written for chamber orchestra from all periods is studied and performed.
MUAP 345. Symphony Orchestra. 2 credits.
The JMU Symphony Orchestra is a participating member of the American Symphony Orchestra League. Membership is determined by audition and is open to all university students. Literature performed is from the standard symphonic repertoire.
MUAP 346. Wind Symphony. 2 credits.
The JMU Wind Symphony is a highly select group of brass, woodwind and percussion students who are dedicated to the performance of wind orchestra music and chamber music for winds. The ensemble performs music from all periods and is open to any university student by audition in the fall of each academic year.
MUAP 347. Jazz Ensemble. 2 credits.
music performance ensemble of the standard "big band"
instrumentation whose repertoire reflects jazz styles from the swing era
to contemporary jazz. Admission is by audition.
MUAP 348. Jazz Band. 1 credit.
Instrumental ensemble, performing the standard and contemporary repertoire of American music with emphasis on the jazz idiom. Jazz band is open to all JMU students by audition.
MUAP 350. String Ensemble. 1 credit.
A rehearsal and performance ensemble where students of similar technical and musical ability are grouped in traditional string or piano trios, quartets and quintets and present public performances of important compositions from the chamber music literature of all historical periods.
MUAP 351. Woodwind Ensemble. 1 credit.
Woodwind ensembles consisting of quintets or other smaller and larger combinations, limited to specially selected personnel through auditions. Concerts and other performances are prepared from a variety of literature from the classical period to the present.
MUAP 352. Brass Ensemble. 1 credit.
Open to JMU students by audition. Literature ranging from the Renaissance to the 20th century will be performed using varied instrumentation. Performance experiences range from formal concerts to service-related events.
MUAP 353. Guitar Ensemble. 1 credit.
The performance of guitar music from Renaissance to 20th century for duos, trios and quartets.
MUAP 354. Percussion Ensemble. 1 credit.
The study and preparation for public performance of percussion ensemble literature. The ensemble is open to all university students by audition.
MUAP 355. Jazz Chamber Ensemble. 1 credit.
Open by audition to students demonstrating a high degree of skill in jazz improvisation. Concerts and other performances are prepared from a variety of literature from early jazz to the present day.
MUAP 356. Flute Choir. 1 credit.
Ensemble of multiple flutes, including alto and bass flutes and piccolo, which will rehearse and present concerts each semester. Flute choir is open to any flute player by audition.
MUAP 360. Opera/Music Theatre Orchestra. 1 credit.
This ensemble will serve as the accompanying ensemble for staged productions within the School of Music and the School of Theatre and Dance. Enrollment in this course will be open to all students at the university by audition.
MUAP 234. Men's Chorus. 1 credit.
Performs music of various styles, but with primary focus on the lighter genres. It is open to the entire male student body without audition. The director reserves the right to limit membership because of balance or space considerations.
MUAP 235. Chorus. 1 credit.
Acquaints students with a variety of choral music including music that is suitable for use with school groups and through this singing helps develop choral techniques and general musicianship. Students may participate in this ensemble without audition. However, the director reserves the right to determine its membership.
MUAP 236. Women's Chorus. 1 credit.
Performs music of various styles, but with primary focus on the lighter genres. It is open to the entire female student body without audition. The director reserves the right to limit membership because of balance or space considerations.
MUAP 340. Chorale. 1 credit.
A highly selected, 60-voice mixed choir that performs repertoire from the Renaissance to the contemporary era, both sacred and secular. There are opportunities to perform on and off campus. Membership is by audition.
MUAP 341. Madison Singers. 2 credits.
Madison Singers is a highly select choral chamber ensemble that performs the best of representative choral music from the Renaissance to the present. The ensemble is open to any university student by audition in the fall of the academic year.
MUAP 343. Opera Theater. 1-2 credits.
The preparation and public performance of grand opera, light opera and musicals. Work will include coaching of both music and acting. Credit may vary with permission of the instructor depending on the amount of time commitment. Admission is by audition only.
MUAP 357. Piano Accompanying and Piano Ensemble. 1 credit.
A course in basic accompanying skills and style characteristics required for two semesters (one fall, one spring) of all piano majors. Students will be assigned to vocal or instrumental studios and have the opportunity to perform in master class and private coaching sessions.
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Moonlight plans video-patent police beater for Linux
The open-source version of Microsoft's Silverlight is adopting hardware-based decoding for video, a move that will boost multimedia on Linux devices. Moonlight is adding support for Nvidia cards to offload the work of H.264 and VC1 decoding from the software player to the actual hardware. Nvidia features the Video Decode and …
What a fucking mess. It's all an absolute farce. So I can use H.264 video through Moonlight but only if I download it from Novells site? If Ubuntu package it into the distro and I use Moonlight to decode the same video the MPEGLA can come after me?
Another classic 'throw the community in the shit' from Novell and their undercover Microsoft operative Miguel de Icaza. Nobody wants Mono, nobody wants Moonlight, let Microsoft fight it out on their own.
I can't decide if I want Silverlight to succeed so Adobe gets one in the ass for the years of crap Linux support and refusal to remove the single barrier to entry to Linux for a lot of people (Photoshop) or Silverlight to fail so Microsoft aren't allowed to just bully themselves into another market sector by leveraging lock-in.
what a tangled web we weave
When in Intellectual Property we believe.
Why is the word unfree inquotation marks? Is it some being used here in a way that is somehow distinct from its dictionary, or commonly used definition?
VDPAU NVidia driver is still "unfree"
So free-as-in-speech-tards still lose :(
mplayer nvidia vdpau
huh? it's taken them this long to catch on? there's an mplayer version which uses the newer nvidia drivers to get h264 accel.
"project leader Miguel de Icaza told us"
... "Speed is the driver."
Did he also happen to mention whether rhythm is, indeed, a dancer?
No offense, but they can all go bugger each other...
I buy a disk labeled with the DVD/BluRay logo, that means it is playable on any device that also carries the DVD/BluRay logo.
It doesn't matter if it's a Windows / Mac / Linux machine, a portable DVD/BluRay player, the deck in the dashboard of my car, the stand-alone player in the entertainment center with the tv, etc.
I've paid for it, there's nothing they can do to stop me playing it on any device I own capable OF playing it.
So the fact that I run Linux is beside the point, the fact that they are artificially restricting my ability to use something I've already paid for (by claiming I need to buy codecs so the *software* can do what the *physical device* already is intended on doing, namely *playing the disk*) means I get to give them The Finger.
I'll exercise my Fair Use Rights, as well as the DMCA itself, in using any means necessary to bypass your artificial restrictions so that I can play my legally obtained movie.
Don't like it?
It's mine, I paid for it, and I'm trying to play it on my Player.
Oh, wait, I *AM* playing it on my player, because there's not a damned thing you can do to stop me.
Pirate Logo because evidently I am one for exercising my Rights.
Not as bad as people think
There's a common - but false - misconception about the codec licensing which this article perpetuates.
Codec licensing doesn't "only appl[y] to Moonlight users who download the player from Novell's site". Moonlight from Novell's site has no codecs at all. The codec licensing comes as part of a closed-source codec library, silverlight-media-pack-linux-$ARCH-$ABI.so (the "Microsoft Media Pack"), which can only be downloaded from Microsoft. This is the unredistributable part with the "must come from one site" requirement, not Moonlight itself.
Whether Moonlight comes from go-mono.com/moonlight, or packages in the 8 or so distributions which make them available, the MS Media Pack is not included - however, Moonlight will offer to download it for you if & when it deems the install necessary. Some of those distributions compile against FFmpeg, and therefore have (non-patent-licensed) media support WITHOUT the closed-source Microsoft Media Pack (but the MMP can still be added subsequently at user option).
To repeat, in case the above isn't sufficiently clear: Moonlight has no codecs; Moonlight's licensed codecs are unredisributable and available only from microsoft.com; Moonlight will offer to download/install those codecs on demand; and you get full patent coverage on those codecs as long as your Microsoft Media Pack came from microsoft.com, regardless of where you got Moonlight from
"What's still unclear is whether those who download the Fluendo and Cyberlink codecs are allowed to use them, and whether Fluendo and Cyberlink can actually pass on their rights."
Eh? The codecs cost £25/€28. Does the above sentence mean that, even though you pay for the codecs, you still don't have the required license to use them? Surely not...?
"a move that will boost multimedia on Linux devices"
It is a move that will boost adoption of another bloody Microsoft proprietary technology that we don't actually need.
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