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1. Comment - After Tenenbaum, who will take back the music industry from the RIAA?

   (Aug 1, 2009 - 1:27 AM)

   DS, you shot yourself in the foot... sure it's hard to confront someone so enthusiastic, but you should have simply graciously explained to the waitress that you did her a kindness and didn't really intend to give it away to all her friends. You can look at it as increased exposure for your product... but I say the RIAA should be going after MASS distributors and not individual sharers. You really should have spoken up to the waitress, or how do you expect readers here to take your laments seriously... I don't condone theft, but there needs to be some pushback against corporate middlemen like the RIAA. Individual sharing is exposure for the artists... mass distribution is major theft. Some sharing is inevitable, period... and you can't reasonably brand it as criminal... and analogies to other products just don't hold up. I like to buy trax for 79 or 99 cents... I like to share too... but I don't make dozens of copies. Buying hardcopy music or CD's in stores is going to go the way of the discount bins for movies as more and more people buy online. I've had Liquid Audio in the past... and they went out of business and I lost my trax. I'll never 'rent' music or subscribe with 'strings' attached. Music is not a utility like electricity. I'll never by DRM'd trax that disappear... if I have to, I'll play the trax and put a mike to the speaker and record it. I don't need digitally 'pristine' music... just something melodic or singable that plays reasonable well (I don't live in an audio studio listening booth)... and hopefully, the artists will reap the majority percentage of the revenues. The days of the distribution/promotion middlemen reaping the lion's share are numbered. Kudos to Ms. Gunn for some of the best descriptions of what should happen to the RIAA and others, that I have ever read... my hero ;)

2. Comment - PDC 2008: Windows 7 will add a 'volume knob' to UAC

   (Oct 30, 2008 - 3:29 AM)

   I'm a tech/user and I found that UAC was chronically irritating when it would prompt for simple name changes of files or folders and for moving files or folders. How many malwares want to change folder/file names or move existing files as their primary 'payload' of devastation? Renaming and moving files/folders is a simple user operation, which is not always done only by admins. MS needs to address the context of UAC more... so hopefully this 'volume' knob (bad analogy) will help.