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"I'm not a business major, but it's my guess that the solution to solving dwindling CD sales is not to piss off your customers." -- Dan Purpura (aka Neutron Zenith, 2005-10-31 (responding to an examination of the virus-like "rootkit" that some DRM-equipped Sony music CDs install on computers running Windows ("about 20 titles", according to The Washington Post) -- see also: the gritty technical details of detecting and dissecting it, and more information about the ) patch Sony issued to reveal the hidden components (but not remove them, which is still tricky), and what the cracking community is saying about the rootkit.

I think I've got a friendslist that skews a little older than the LJ average, so many of you are probably old enough to remember the old Name That Tune television show. It really had one meme of any lingering significange, that being the phrase, "I can name that tune in _____ notes," a phrase that pops into my head every so often when a tune with a particularly catchy opening riff comes on the radio.

How many "notes" does it count as when the identification is a half measure of drumming before any melody instrument sounds?

(The tune that sparked this won't surprise anyone, as it says a lot more about the song than it does about my ability to identify it, I think: I heard a soft "thuh-tuh-tuh-tump thuh-tuh-tuh-tump" pattern and thought, "Oh yeah, I know what this is," then it went on longer than I'd remembered so I thought I'd misidentifed it, but finaly came that guitar "shweaaa" to reassure me ... "Hypnotized", by Fleetwood Mac. Oh, and it fits with simlaril's "songs that contain the word 'story'" game, too!)

It's the same kind of story
That seems to come down from long ago
Two friends having coffee together
When something flies by their window
It might be out on that lawn
Which is wide, at least half of a playing field
Because there's no explaining what your imagination
Can make you see and feel