Satellite digital radio has captured the attention of consumers and investors with its billions spent and millions of paying subscribers. But a quiet digital revolution has hit the AM and FM dials as well: more than 450 stations in the United States now broadcast one or two digital channels alongside analog ones. At least 2,000 of the more than 12,000 stations in the country are committed to adding the format.

Yay.

Digital Terrestrial Radio Finally Getting Deployed

Acidus wrote:
teh h4x0rs R 3vi1!

It sounds like what's going to happen is the existing copies
are going to be re-rated "adults only" and pulled from shelves in
most places and Rockstar is going to cut a new release sans the "hot coffee" minigame which ESRB said would get the old "M" rating back.

I can't feel much sympathy for Rockstar ... if it was dead code
that you had to patch to get into, that would be one thing, but apparently its also accessible on the PS2 version via a cheat code. For once, I can't really blame the folks that got outraged over this when it was rated without consideration of this submarine content.

RE: Penny Arcade on GTA fluff

Japan may allow terrestrial digital TV programmes to be broadcast on fibre-optic networks via the Internet to help speed the transition from analog services, a government source said on Thursday.

Japan to test video over IP

]
] The Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is designed to
] securely extend the single-sign-on approach from internal
] systems to external business partners and suppliers.

IBM Rolls Out Federated ID-Management Software

] This is the homepage of the revived GPLFLash, and is
] based on Olivier Debons original work, which hasen't had
] a release since June 2000. This project hope to bring
] GPLFlash back as a free, portable and useable alternative
] to the flash-decoder released by Macromedia
] The project contains a decoding library, a player and
] (perhaps most importantly) a mozilla/netscape plugin.

I just built and installed v0.4.13 on my work machine with
Epiphany and uninstalled Macromedia's plugin. I'm really sick
of flash allowing ads to lock out the controls, etc, etc.

U: Definitely not without issues. Sound only supports
open(/dev/dsp) (not esd, etc). Plugin crashes the browser, etc.

GPLFlash - Flash decoder, player and plugin

] monotone is a free, distributed version control system.
] it provides fully disconnected operation, manages
] complete tree versions, keeps its state in a local
] transactional database, supports overlapping branches and
] extensible metadata, exchanges work over plain network
] protocols, performs history-sensitive merging, and
] delegates trust functions to client-side RSA
] certificates.

v0.17 is out. In the aftermath of the BitKeeper stink that's going down with Linux, Linus is saying that Monotone is looking like the
most plausible alternative, at least for him, right now. Apparently it has some performance problems for Linux-size source trees.

My chief beef with it is that they roll their own crypto rather than using something off-the-shelf like OpenPGP or X.509 which IMHO is a Cardinal Sin.

monotone: distributed version control

] DragonFly is an operating system and environment designed
] to be the logical continuation of the FreeBSD-4.x OS
] series. These operating systems belong in the same class
] as Linux in that they are based on UNIX ideals and APIs.
] DragonFly is a fork in the path, so to speak, giving the
] BSD base an opportunity to grow in an entirely new
] direction from the one taken in the FreeBSD-5 series.

Another BSD fork...

The DragonFly BSD Project

] Luxtera, a small start-up based on technology pioneered
] at the California Institute of Technology, plans to
] announce today a new class of silicon chips that blur the
] line between electronic computing and optical
] communications.

Newest Chip Is Combination of Fiber Optics and Electronics

] A self-replicating 3D printer that spawns new, improved
] versions of itself is in development at the University of
] Bath in the UK.

!!!

New Scientist Breaking News - 3D printer to churn out copies of itself

] NSD is an authoritative only, high performance, simple
] and open source name server. The current stable release
] is NSD 2.2.1.

I don't think I'd ever heard of this one before. It implements
dnssec and has no bind code.

nlnetlabs.nl - Name Server Daemon (NSD)