Today on the nerdy comic-strip User Friendly — a new version of the Canadian national anthem, in honour of the terrible proposal for a Canadian version of the US DMCA, a copyright law that has led to 20,000 lawsuits against music fans, terrible damage to innovation and free speech, all without paying artists or preventing infringement. Link (Thanks, Bruce!)

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O Canada! The Canadian DMCA version of the national anthem

I found this while surfing around and if you are planning on a new Hard Drive in the near future you might want to check it out,Baldy

wtansill writes “Seagate’s Free Agent series of drives are not intended to be compatible with the Open Source operating system Linux. The Inquirer reports on the problem: an unhelpful power saving mode. ‘The problem is to do with the power-saving systems on Seagate’s latest range of drives and the fact that it is shipped already formatted to NTFS. The NTFS is only a slight hurdle to Linux users who have a kernel with NTFS writing enabled or can work mkfs. But the “power saving” timer is a real bugger. It will shut shut the drive off after several minutes of inactivity and helpfully drop the USB connection. When the connection does come back it returns as USB1 which is apparently as useful as a chocolate teapot.’ Via Engadget, though, there is a solution!

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New Seagate Drives Have Real Difficulties With Linux