http://www.fluffblog.com Musings of an Internet Traveler Sat, 26 Jan 2008 06:55:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Warner Music Group has just sued music search engine SeeqPod. For those unfamilar SeeqPod is a music search engine that also allows users to stream music from the site once they have found the song. According to the EFF(they also have the complaint available if you're interested), the SeeqPod case ... http://www.fluffblog.com/2008/01/25/warner-sues-seaqpod-free-the-music-not-if-thats-what-you-mean/ Yesterday(1/24), the much anticipated auction for the 700-MHz band began. The licenses for these frequencies are being returned from television broadcasters who are being required to switch from analog to digital in 2009(the licenses will be turned over in February of next year). The New York Times called these licenses ... http://www.fluffblog.com/2008/01/25/the-700-mhz-auction-what-does-it-mean-for-you-and-me/ Jeff Jones, a Strategy Director in the Microsoft Security Technology Unit, has just released a Vista one year vulnerability report. According to the report Vista is said to have less security vulnerabilities that needed to be fixed in the first year. Microsoft released 17 security bulletins and patches affecting Vista ... http://www.fluffblog.com/2008/01/24/vista-said-to-be-more-secure-than-any-other-os-in-its-first-year-i-still-say-save-xp/ ReadWriteWeb(and really no one else) is reporting that Microsoft's David Treadwell, a VP at Windows Live, is joining the Data Portability Working Group(to be fair Microsoft hasn't officially announced it, but that doesn't stop every blog and their brother from picking up the unconfirmed stories usually). Come on Microsoft, pretending ... http://www.fluffblog.com/2008/01/23/microsoft-joins-dataportabilityorg-no-one-notices-more-proof-that-no-one-really-cares-about-data-portability/ So the initial speculation that CBS owned Last.fm was adding a video service proved false(for now). Instead Last.FM has announced, in a post entitled, 'Free the Music', that, As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website. The news has hit the blogosphere hard ... http://www.fluffblog.com/2008/01/23/is-this-really-going-to-free-the-music-lastfm-allows-users-to-stream-full-songs-but-havent-we-seen-this-before/ I wrote a few days ago about Google hosting terabytes of scientific data for free. But its not all sunshine and lollipops for scientific data, a recent Op-Ed piece in the New York Times by Andrew Vickers some of the most important data, that of cancer studies, is not being ... http://www.fluffblog.com/2008/01/23/science-news-round-up-3-its-all-about-the-genes/ TechCrunch is reporting that today may be the last day for Scrabulous, with the application either being forced to shut down by the end of the day today or sell itself to Electronic Arts. They are also saying that it may not end there, as I said earlier Hasbro is ... http://www.fluffblog.com/2008/01/22/scrabulous-is-this-the-end-my-friend/ I've been meaning to write about the passing of Bobby Fischer for awhile. I used to be quite the avid chess player, and while I was never any good, Bobby Fischer always fascinated me. While not someone to be emulated(his erratic behavior often included anti-semitic comments), his match with 1972 ... http://www.fluffblog.com/2008/01/22/bobby-fischer-cold-warrior-how-individual-events-shape-our-world/ A recent Gallup poll showed that two-thirds of Americans have given "quite a lot" of thought to the 2008 Presidential election, the highest number recorded by Gallup in January of an election year since 1992. The number is higher with Democrats at 70% and lower with Independents, 58%, and exactly ... http://www.fluffblog.com/2008/01/21/obama-vs-clinton-battle-royale/ Please Save Scrabulous, Join the Save Scrabulous Facebook Group, Hasbro Sends DMCA Notice to Facebook, Sign This Petition to Save Scrabulous: As of this post the group is up to 45,047 members and 1,109 wall posts and a heated thread that talks about not saving Scrabulous.Mike Huckabee, The Elephant in ... http://www.fluffblog.com/2008/01/21/weekly-story-update-3/