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Yoo wins Kraft Nabisco after Kim’s 1-foot miss – Atlanta Journal Constitution
Apr 1st
 Atlanta Journal Constitution |
Yoo wins Kraft Nabisco after Kim's 1-foot miss
Atlanta Journal Constitution Hee Kyung Seo, of South Korea, hits her tee shot on the eighth hole during the final round of the Kraft Nabisco Championship golf tournament, Sunday, April 1, 2012, in Rancho Mirage, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) Sun Young Yoo, of South Korea, … Yoo downs Kim to win Kraft Nabisco Sun Young Yoo wins Kraft Nabisco in playoff after IK Kim misses 1-footer |
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Yoo wins Kraft Nabisco after Kim’s 1-foot miss – Albany Times Union
Apr 1st
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Yoo wins Kraft Nabisco after Kim's 1-foot miss
Albany Times Union (Chris Carlson / AP) Hee Kyung Seo, of South Korea, hits her tee shot on the eighth hole during the final round of the Kraft Nabisco Championship golf tournament, Sunday, April 1, 2012, in Rancho Mirage, Calif. (Chris Carlson / AP) Yani Tseng, … |
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K-pop before and after Seo Taiji & Boys – The Korea Herald
Mar 22nd
 KpopStarz |
K-pop before and after Seo Taiji & Boys
The Korea Herald Debuting on March 23, 1992, Seo Taiji & Boys ruled the Korean pop world with a string of hit songs including “Nan Arayo (I Know)” and “Come Back Home.” Exactly 20 years have passed, and interest in the legendary group is still very much alive. Will Beatles of Korea Come Out Again? |
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Microsoft’s Photosynth App Goes Worldwide After 6 Million US Downloads
Mar 12th
Microsoft’s Photosynth iOS app, which has been available to US users for almost a year, is now available worldwide and includes a couple updates. In its blog post today, Microsoft says the app has passed six million downloads since its US-only launch last April. The app is now in version…
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Anonymous Takes Out Interpol Website After Hacker Arrests
Feb 28th
Two Twitter accounts associated with Anonymous have claimed responsibility for a denial of service attack on the Interpol website, which is currently out of commission. The international law enforcement agency arrested 25 suspected hackers in more than a dozen cities across Europe and Latin America today. Interpol’s “Operation Unmask” followed what it called “a series of coordinated cyber-attacks originating from Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain.”
The @anonopshispano account called for the attack at 1:54 p.m. Pacific time. The worldwide news account @AnonOps first tweeted “TANGO DOWN” at 2:43 p.m. Pacific time. It published a second message five minutes later, proclaiming that “#Anonymous is not a criminal organization.”
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Interpol’s statement on Operation Unmask cites attacks on Colombian government websites, Chile’s national library and a Chliean electric company, among other targets. Police from Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain carried out the arrests, seizing 250 computers and mobile phones, as well as credit cards and cash. Suspects ranged in age from 17 to 40.
At press time, the Interpol site is struggling to recover, but it is no longer completely down.
- #LibertadAnon TARGET: www,interpol.int WEBHIVE: tinyurl.com/73v56og/ FIRE! THIS IS A WORLDWIDE CALL! #Anonymous
— Anonymous Hispano (@anonopshispano) February 28, 2012
interpol.int TANGO DOWN >> FREE INTERNATIONAL ANONS! #Anonymous
— AnonOps (@anonops) February 28, 2012
interpol.int TANGO DOWN II 404 Interpol, #Anonymous is not a criminal organization.
— AnonOps (@anonops) February 28, 2012
See also: Anatomy of an Anonymous Attack on the Vatican
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Where’s It Hurt? After You Search For A Symptom, New Google Health Search Results Suggest Causes
Feb 13th
Roughly 100 million people in the US search for health information on a monthly basis, according to 2011 comScore data. Google has seen these queries up close and recently concluded that it doesn’t do a great job of servicing them. The company is thus introducing improved results that shorten…
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So Yeon Ryu leads after 2nd round – ESPN
Feb 10th
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So Yeon Ryu leads after 2nd round
ESPN AP MELBOURNE, Australia — US Women's Open champion So Yeon Ryu shot a 4-under 69 on Friday to take a one-stroke lead over fellow South Korean player Hee Kyung Seo after the second round of the LPGA Tour's season-opening Women's Australian Open. Ryu, Seo take charge at Australian Open Ryu leads Women's Australian Open Korean Ryu leads Women's Aust Open golf |
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People Are Actually Paying For Spotify After All
Jan 27th
When Spotify first launched in the U.S. over the summer, few doubted that the service would be popular among music fans. The real question has always been whether the company’s freemium business model would manage to convert enough users to paying subscribers. It’s still relatively early, but so far things look promising.
More than 3 million people are now paying to use Spotify, according to the Financial Times. That’s a conversion rate of more than 20%, a figure that has reportedly increased by 5% since the service hit 1 million users last year. In other words, not only is Spotify itself growing, but the rate at which people sign up for a premium or unlimited account is also increasing.
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This overall growth has been fueled in no small part by the company’s partnership with Facebook, which enables the kind of super-tight, frictionless integration that the social networking giant has been pushing since f8 last March. The flood of “so-and-so listened to such-and-such” news ticker updates may be too much for some people, but the partnership has succeeded in putting Spotify’s brand and functionality in front of millions of potential new users.
It also doesn’t hurt that the six-month window of unlimited, free streaming music for new users has begun coming to a close for the service’s earliest U.S. adopters. As that happens, those who are truly hooked on the service are forced to either put up with listening caps or cough up $5 per month to remove them. The company hasn’t said what percentage of those paid users have opted for the pricier “Premium” account, which allows for mobile streaming in addition to stripping out ads and listening caps.
This isn’t to say that there aren’t still major, outstanding questions about Spotify and the viability of the all-you-can-stream model it shares with the likes of Rdio and MOG. The music labels are evidently happy enough with the arrangement to stay on board for now, but the artists are a different story.
The streaming services pay out notoriously low royalty fees to artists, some of which have begun to question the value in being on the service. Sure, it’s a great way to promote one’s music, but it may not be economically advantageous for artists, especially if it ends up hurting record sales.
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After SOPA’s Death, Anti-Piracy Advocates Scramble for a Way Forward
Jan 23rd
The effective success of grass-roots efforts to stall anti-piracy legislation in the U.S. Congress now has people whose lives and careers are impacted by piracy worried about their futures. With Congress unable to launch a successful dialog about proper methods to combat piracy; the entertainment industry having tried out for, and landed, the role of the villain; and with “Anonymous” launching somewhat successful attacks against U.S., Polish, and other governments’ Web sites in defense of the “right to piracy,” content creators appear worried that any effort to resume a positive dialog might make them targets of public criticism.
At the moment, it’s hard to have been anti-SOPA and yet appear proactive against piracy.
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“Phantom issues”
Making some of the first public statements in favor of restarting a pro-active dialog are individuals speaking out on behalf of artists and musicians, including one group whose members were already instrumental in the anti-SOPA protests last Wednesday.
The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) is continuing to advance this statement, released last week, concerning Web sites that led Wednesday’s protest: “They are taking a unilateral action to make their content unavailable. However, under current law, A2IM members whose copyrights are infringed upon cannot take similar action. Our independent labels and their artists have no practical way of taking down illegal links to their music from rogue foreign Web sites accessed via U.S. search engines.
“The media has portrayed the issue as that of two giant industries (movies/music and technology) in conflict, as though this was a battle solely between very rich businesses,” the A2IM statement goes on. “In fact, our members are small- and medium-sized independent businesses that invest in the creation of music and whose very existence is being threatened by the availability of illegal content on line. We look forward to solution-oriented discussions among all parties.”
The public stance of the Association did not stop individual A2IM members such as indie group Wye Oak from signing a letter of opposition to SOPA/PIPA last week.
A2IM’s statement echoed the sentiments of Brian Philips, CEO of Viacom-owned cable music channel CMT. Over the weekend, Philips’ pro-SOPA/PIPA sentiments appeared in The Tennessean – too late, of course, to keep PIPA from being indefinitely tabled.
“Opponents of this legislation… are raising phantom issues, through vague threats of censorship and other unspecified dangers,” Philips wrote. “Unfortunately, their arguments are based more in fear than in truth. No domestic Web sites would be shut down by this legislation. Plain and simple: The target is overseas piracy Web sites. Creative endeavors are not alone as targets of piracy.”
A fate worse than SOPA
An examination of the Justice Dept.’s indictment of the proprietors of cyberlocker site Megaupload led the CTO of Sydney, Australia-based Web advertising firm Pinion to wonder whether squashing the SOPA bill could spark the creation of a worse alternative that could do even more damage than had been feared. David Banham was inspired by having used Megaupload to distribute files to clients, only to find the site taken down last week.
It is easy to generalize, in the vein of SOPA, that all these smart people working in tech should just make sure that no-one uploads copyrighted material to their services. It’s easy right? If someone uploads a Hollywood movie just delete it! In reality, though, every time any file was uploaded, an extensive search would need to be conducted to determine whether, where, how, and by whom it was copyrighted. The rights holder would then need to be contacted to determine whether or not the use was permitted. In the case of transformative or derivative works, the decision would have to be made (and the associated risk assumed!) by the service.
That burden can never be placed on those shoulders. It would be crippling for Google. It would be completely impossible for any startup out there and would stifle a massive amount of innovation.
SOPA merely (merely!) required that every link be checked against a blacklist provided by the US Government. If the allegations in this indictment are allowed to stand, industry will not only have to enforce that blacklist, but create and curate it.
“Knowledge shall be increased”
Last Friday, the CEO of cable arts channel Ovation, Charles Segars, issued an outright pro-SOPA statement that echoed the expressed sentiment of Vice President Biden back before the entire SOPA debate began. “They’re calling the SOPA bill ‘censorship’ and an infringement of our First Amendment rights. And the entertainment industry is painted as ‘greedy’ for supporting this legislation,” Segars wrote.
“But I wonder… What would happen if all the movie theaters, cable and broadcast channels, book stores and radio stations did the same thing – went completely dark, off the air, closed their doors? Would you miss Wikipedia more than, say, being able to watch ‘American Idol’ or go to AMC theaters and see the latest movie in 3D? Would it take a total shutdown to make the point that entertainment content is something of value and therefore needs protecting?”
Despite Segars’ and Ovation’s public stance, some of the artists participating in Ovation’s own forum ended up supporting the protests instead. “One thing I don’t want to see happen is the old farts in Congress deciding what sites and material are appropriate!” wrote Mark Sean Orr, in response to another member’s request for clarity as to where they should stand as artists. “The Internet is not a corporation or government agency and should never be. What it is, is a network of citizens world-wide sharing and connecting through this awesome new technology.”
That led another member, named Cheryl, to share her view that precisely because the Web is beyond the control of any one government, some government somewhere will see that as a challenge and try to control it anyway. “The Internet and the World Wide Web are not owned by anyone. How do you control something that is a cloud?” she wrote. “How do you tax and fee something if the players involved refuse to participate or if your own dependence can be hacked?”
Perhaps inspired, perhaps depressed, and perhaps both by the prospect of blacklists and whitelists appearing on the Internet in one form or another eventually, another Ovation member closed the thread by citing the Book of Daniel, Chapter 12: “And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book… But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.”
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Red Hat Goes After VMware Hard with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0
Jan 18th
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.0 has been in the works for some time. Today Red Hat took the wraps off the release. Red Hat boasts more than 1,000 new features with RHEV 3.0, including a new user portal for self-provisioning, local storage and converting the management application to a Java application that runs on JBoss. With RHEV 3.0, Red Hat is going straight after VMware for customers.
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RHEV 3.0 has been in beta since last August, and an open beta since September of last year to anyone with a Red Hat Network account.
If you look at many of the major features in RHEV 3.0, you’ll see many come directly from improvements to the Linux kernel and KVM. RHEV 3.0 now has support for up to 160 logical CPUs and 2TB of RAM. The KVM networking stack has moved into the Linux kernel itself and out of userspace for better performance. RHEV 3.0 now supports memory overcommitment, which allows allocation of more RAM to VMs than is present to physical host.
Red Hat has also beefed up its scheduler, live migration, desktop management, storage management, reports and migration tools. But where Red Hat is really getting aggressive is pricing and messaging targeted at VMware’s vSphere Enterprise and VMware View.
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Red Hat offers pricing guides for its RHEV for Servers and RHEV for Desktops that compare the pricing between RHEV and VMwares products. According to Red Hat’s guides, its pricing scenario for 100 virtual guests, using six servers (each with two sockets and 400GB of RAM) will cost nearly $50,000 the first year for VMware vSphere Enterprise Edition. The same setup for RHEV 3.0 for Servers runs just less than $9,000.
The big difference in pricing, of course, is licensing. Red Hat doesn’t charge for licensing – it charges for annual subscriptions and support. The licensing cost for VMware vSphere is nearly $40,000. The annual support/subscription costs for Red Hat and VMware are fairly close: $8,988 for Red Hat, and $9,877 for VMware. Red Hat’s still cheaper than VMware on that, but not by much.
Another scenario with 11 servers for 250 guests is priced at $16,478 (Red Hat) versus $189,742 (VMware) for the first year. Red Hat continues to close the gap in features between RHEV and vSphere, but has a very wide gap in price. The question is, who’s buying? Is RHEV good enough to start displacing VMware vSphere and VMware View?
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