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In The Score , American composers on creating “classical” music in the 21st century. My nine-month old son engages with music in a variety of ways as he moves through his daily life.
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Sony is taking a subtle marketing approach for the launch of its WiFi-enabled portable Internet viewer, the Dash. While announcing the device's availability on Thursday, Sony downplayed marketing plans, saying the device would be highlighted on shows such as "The Dr.Slashdot Stories (10)
We've heard recently of CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act , a bill currently making its way through Congress that many are calling the latest incarnation of SOPA. Reader SolKeshNaranek points out an article at Techdirt explaining exactly why this bill is bad , and how its backers are trying to deflect criticism by using language that's different and rather vague. Quoting: "The bill defines 'cybersecurity systems' and 'cyber threat information' as anything to do with protecting a network from: ' (A) efforts to degrade, disrupt, or destroy such system or network; or (B) theft or misappropriation of private or government information, intellectual property, or personally identifiable information. ' It's easy to see how that definition could be interpreted to include things that go way beyond network security — specifically, copyright policing systems at virtually any point along a network could easily qualify."
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Memory manufacturers are shipping samples of DDR4 memory chips, the next generation of computer memory technology, and preparing to produce them en masse. That means that memory modules based on the faster, more power-efficient memory technology could start shipping on servers (where its benefits are in the greatest demand) by 2013.