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  • Aug 14th, 2009 @ 5:49pm

    Exactly (as Joe)

    I found this site linked numerous times from other sources, found the articles well written and with a lot of thought. The community discussions are generally intelligent, and eventually became a regular.

    The point Mike makes in this post is exactly what the AP, etc. don't seem to grasp. I dare say this is one of the best posts I've read here simply because it so clearly explains the linking culture mentallity.

  • Jul 14th, 2009 @ 12:56pm

    (as Joe K)

    I see this more as play by Pandora to ultimately get the new rates thrown out or lowered.

    If Pandora is successful in convincing the right people that all broadcasters, regardless of method of broadcast should pay the same rate, the traditional broadcasters more powerful lobby would have more luck in negotiating lower rates.

    I'm probably way off, but that's how I would like to see it play out.

  • Mar 26th, 2009 @ 8:18am

    Re: Re: (as Joe)

    From my admittedly modest familiarity with whole disk encryption, they can take the laptop and boot it, but without the passwords are unable to login (except of course if they brute-force their way in). the encyrption will prevent someone from connecting the drive to a different machine and reading it, or using one of the utilities that read Windows passwords and display them on the screen.

    Assuming they are using decent encryption.