25-year-old royalties due?
And we’re not talking about the Queen’s Royal Family. A group of 23 students is suing Pink Floyd over unpaid royalties to the song Another Brick In The Wall. The album sold more than 12 million copies. The students’ chorus:
We don’t need no education,
we don’t need no thought control,
no dark sarcasm in the classroom-
teachers leave them kids alone
justifies royalties for the record, radio airtime, and any other licensed use. Read more at www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/14980155?source=Evening%20Standard.
What baffles me, though, is how a 25 year old song can have disputed royalties. It’s like a hand is reaching from the past to pull back Pink Floyd. Isn’t there a statue of limitations for copyright infringement?
Helix: Knoppix Live CD
Helix is a customized version of thje Knoppix Live CD distribution. Just pop in the CD and you have your own Linux running, specifically customized for computer forensics. Go download it, and verify against this MD5: 33edf10f635207b4f913380170035b8e.
It includes a host of security tools, focused around incident reporting, response, and forensics. If you’ve been rooted, pop this in and kick those haX0Rz out!
Civilian 737 -> Navy Bomber
www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65817,00.html
Boeing is gearing up to modify its ubiquitous twin-jet, single-aisle airliner into a Navy patrol bomber called the Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft, or MMA. The plane will have a variety of sensors to pinpoint a submarine’s location: anti-submarine radar, an electro-optical-infrared camera and Magnetic Anomaly Detection, or MAD. Rotary magazines will drop sonar sonobuoys.