358707 - neowin rss feed fails to load

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[Henrik Gemal]

the neowin rss feed fails to load most of the time:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/neowin-main

Error: not well-formed
Source file: http://neowin.net/backend.php?page=main
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        <item><guid>http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35887</guid><title>UK Urged to Update Copyright Laws</title><link>http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35887</link><description><![CDATA[ <span id="ctl00_MainContent_lblBody">In the United Kingdom burning CDs and DVDs for personal use is common. Now the ministers of the UK are being urged now to modify copyright laws to allow users to legally rip CDs and DVDs! The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) wants users to have a "private right to copy" digital content.  The IPPR acknowledged that the music and film industries are justified in battling illegal file sharing.  But the IPPR argues that making copies for personal use does not have significant impact on copyright holders.<br />  <br />         Millions of Britons are violating current copyright laws by ripping CDs onto their MP3 players and/or PCs.  Currently, Britons are violating an outdated 300-year-old law when copying CDs and DVDs.  The British Phonographic Institute has already stated that <a href="http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2792">it will not pursue its rights to bring private copying cases</a> against users if the copying truly is for private purposes only.<br />  <br />    An independent research study reports that around 59 percent of Britons believe copying CDs and DVDs to other devices is legal.  The chairman of the culture, media and sport select committee inquiry admits that he and his children are in violation of the law.    <span style="font-style: italic;">"My own view is that the current laws are unsatisfactory as it is difficult to say to consumers that this bit of the law matters and this bit doesn't matter,"</span> Conservative MP John Whittingdale was quoted as saying.<br />  <br />    <img border="0" alt="" class="icon" src="http://www.neowin.net/images/icons/souricon.gif" /> News source: <a target="_blank" href="http://dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4735">DailyTech</a><br />  <br />   <br /><br /><a href='http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35887'>Read full story...</a>]]></description><dc:creator>Enan Hawk</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 23:31:39 +0000</pubDate></item><item><guid>http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35886</guid><title>Scientists Research Brain Implant Chip</title><link>http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35886</link><description><![CDATA[University of Washington researchers are working hard on an electronic chip that may help establish new nerve connections in the part of the brain that controls movement. This implantable chip strengthens weak connections and may rehabilitate patients with brain injuries, stroke, or paralysis.<br /> <br /> When awake, the brain continuously governs the body's voluntary movements. This is largely done through the activity of nerve cells in the part of the brain called the motor cortex. These nerve cells, or neurons, send signals down to the spinal cord to control the contraction of certain muscles, like those in the arms and legs. The possibility that these neural signals can be recorded directly and used to operate a computer or to control mechanical devices outside of the body has been driving the rapidly expanding field of brain-computer interfaces, often abbreviated BCI. The recent study suggests that the brain's nerve signals can be harnessed to create changes within it.<br /> <br /> The researchers tested a miniature, self-contained device with a tiny computer chip. The devices were placed on top of the heads of monkeys who were free to carry out their usual behaviors, including sleep. Called a Neurochip, the brain-computer interface was developed by Mavoori for his doctoral thesis.<br /> <br /> The researchers said that a likely explanation for these changes is the strengthening of pathways within the cortex from the recording to the stimulation site. This strengthening may have been produced by the continuous synchronization of activity at the two sites, generated by the recurrent brain-computer interface. Timing is critical for creating these connections, the researchers said. The conditioning effect occurs only if the delay between the recorded activity and the stimulation is brief enough. The changes are produced in a day of continuous conditioning with the recurrent brain-computer interface, but last for many days after the circuit are turned off.<br /> <br />  <img border="0" alt="" class="icon" src="http://www.neowin.net/images/icons/souricon.gif" /> News source: <a target="_blank" href="http://dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4709">DailyTech</a><br />  <br /><br /><a href='http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35886'>Read full story...</a>]]></description><dc:creator>Enan Hawk</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 23:25:30 +0000</pubDate></item><item><guid>http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35885</guid><title>Sound Exchange Posts Deadline</title><link>http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35885</link><description><![CDATA[For years, it seemed as if SoundExchange, the nonprofit organization that handles royalty payments for musicians whose work is streamed over the Internet and broadcast on satellite radio networks, didn't know. The group insists that it tried hard to find the choir and about 9,000 other artists who still hadn't been paid. A few months ago, SoundExchange posted the list on its Web site, giving artists a deadline of Dec. 15 before they lose their money forever.<br /><br />Some people have criticized SoundExchange saying it has sat on its hands. Who, they ask, doesn't know that the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is in Utah? And how hard can it be to find the Olsen twins? The list has received a lot of publicity online, and the Olsens, the Mormons and others have been paid, but not without criticism directed at SoundExchange.<br /><br />After a quick glance, the following artists were still on this list:<br />* <b>Clint Mansel</b>, from Requiem For A Dream soundtrack<br />* <b>Coolio</b>, from Gangsta's Paradise fame<br />* <b>Fat Joe</b>, the fat one<br />* <b>Flintstones</b>, Hanna-Barbera Productions might know<br />* <b>'N Sync</b>, Justin Timberlake might know<br />* <b>Run D.M.C.</b>, MTV and/or Aerosmith might know<br />* <b>Sir Mix-a-lot</b>, MTV knows where the booty is shaking<br />* <b>Ugly Kid Joe</b>, the Cats In The Cradle robbers<br /><br /><img src="http://www.neowin.net/images/icons/viewicon.gif" border="0" alt="" /> View: <a href="http://mail.plays.soundexchange.com/jsp/unpaidArtistList.jsp" target="_blank">SoundExchange Unpaid Arist List</a><br /><img src="http://www.neowin.net/images/icons/souricon.gif" border="0" alt="" /> News source: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/28/business/28online.html" target="_blank">New York Times: Anyone Seen the Mormon Choir?</a><br /> <br /><br /><a href='http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35885'>Read full story...</a>]]></description><dc:creator>Nas</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:48:27 +0000</pubDate></item><item><guid>http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35882</guid><title>Mozilla: Firefox reaches 2 million downloads in 24 hours</title><link>http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35882</link><description><![CDATA[Mozilla recently posted that just <b>24 hours</b> after releasing Firefox 2.0 (reported by Neowin <a href="http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=35802" target="_blank">here</a>) to the public on 24th October, <b>2 million</b> people downloaded it - that is 30 downloads a second. To compare this figure with Microsoft's IE7 release of only half a million downloads in the first 24 hours, it becomes clear there is a active community that follows Mozilla and anticipates new versions.<br /><br />Looking back on previous Firefox milestone releases:<ul><li>Firefox 1.0: 1 million downloads in the first 24 hours.</li><li>Firefox 1.5: 1.5 million downloads in the first 24 hours</li><li>Firefox 2: 2 million (actually slightly more) people using Firefox 2 in the first 24 hours.</li></ul>"<i>Maybe we should jump straight to Firefox 10 and see if we get 10 million users in the first 24 hours.</i>"<br /><br /><img src="http://www.neowin.net/images/icons/softicon.gif" border="0" alt="" /> Download: <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-2.0&os=win&lang=en-US" target="_blank">Firefox 2</a><br /><img src="http://www.neowin.net/images/icons/softicon.gif" border="0" alt="" /> Download: <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx" target="_blank">Internet Explorer 7</a><br /><img src="http://www.neowin.net/images/icons/souricon.gif" border="0" alt="" /> News source: <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2006/10/firefox_2_milli.html" target="_blank">MozillaLine</a> <br /><br /><a href='http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35882'>Read full story...</a>]]></description><dc:creator>Lee®</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 21:30:30 +0000</pubDate></item><item><guid>http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35879</guid><title>Top U.S. court intervenes in Microsoft patent dispute</title><link>http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35879</link><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court will intervene in a patent dispute between Microsoft Corp. and AT&amp;T Corp. over Windows programs distributed overseas that contain AT&amp;T &quot;speech codecs&quot;. An appeals court had already ruled that Microsoft had infringed on an AT&amp;T patent and Microsoft has already admitted liability for domestic sales of Windows.<br /><br />The Supreme Court will hear whether or not Microsoft will be liable for international sales. A judgment in AT&amp;T&#39;s favour could cost Microsoft up to &#036;1 billion U.S. dollars.<br /><br />The crux of the case comes down to whether or not the courts of the United States have the jurisdiction to extend U.S. patent protections to overseas transactions. Some worry that such a ruling could drive software development out of the country.<br /><br />Needless to say, AT&amp;T has another opinion: &quot;Congress&#39;s congressional authority is to protect the rights of U.S. inventors, not U.S. infringers.&quot; <br /><br />Chief Justice John Roberts took no part in the court&#39;s decision to hear the case. The court offered no explanation, but Roberts&#39; most recent financial disclosure shows that he owns between &#036;100,000 and &#036;250,000 in Microsoft stock.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.neowin.net/images/icons/souricon.gif" border="0" alt="" /> News source: <a href="http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&amp;c=Article&amp;pubid=968163964505&amp;cid=1161943027487&amp;col=968705923364&amp;call_page=TS_Business&amp;call_pageid=968350072197&amp;call_pagepath=Business/News" target="_blank">The Toronto Star</a> <br /><br /><a href='http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35879'>Read full story...</a>]]></description><dc:creator>fred666</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:31:19 +0000</pubDate></item><item><guid>http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35878</guid><title>Will Vista RTM be Build 6000?</title><link>http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35878</link><description><![CDATA[<b>With the way previous build numbers have stacked up, I don't see why this would not happen. Microsoft has always kept things nice and even in the past. What better way to release Windows "6.0?"</b><br /><br />In the source article Paul Thurrot writes, "According to my Microsoft sources, the current internal Vista build is now 6.0.5920.16384. Whenever Microsoft finalizes Vista--and I'm told it will be on or before November 8--the company will artificially increment the build number to 6000, as in "6.0," which is Vista's version number (aka Windows 6.0). Come on, admit it: You knew Microsoft would pull something silly like that."<br /><br />Thanks to <b>Novawin™</b> for the heads up in the forum.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.neowin.net/images/icons/viewicon.gif" border="0" alt="" /> View: <a href="http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=507082" target="_blank">Neowin Discussion</a><br /><img src="http://www.neowin.net/images/icons/souricon.gif" border="0" alt="" /> News source: <a href="http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/ArticleID/94037/94037.html" target="_blank">Windows IT Pro</a> <br /><br /><a href='http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35878'>Read full story...</a>]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Davis</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:08:30 +0000</pubDate></item><item><guid>http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35877</guid><title>NASA's Self-Taught Satellite</title><link>http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35877</link><description><![CDATA[The Indonesian volcano Talang on the island of Sumatra had been dormant for centuries when, in April 2005, it suddenly rumbled to life. A plume of smoke rose 1000 meters high and nearby villages were covered in ash. Fearing a major eruption, local authorities began evacuating 40,000 people. UN officials, meanwhile, issued a call for help: Volcanologists should begin monitoring Talang at once.<br /><br />Little did they know, high above Earth, a small satellite was already watching the volcano. No one told it to. EO-1 (short for Earth Observing 1) noticed the warning signs and started monitoring Talang on its own. Indeed, by the time many volcanologists were reading their emails from the UN, "EO-1 already had data," says Steve Chien, leader of JPL's Artificial Intelligence Group.<br /><br />EO-1 is a new breed of satellite that can think for itself. "We programmed it to notice things that change (like the plume of a volcano) and take appropriate action," Chien explains. EO-1 can re-organize its own priorities to study volcanic eruptions, flash-floods, forest fires, disintegrating sea-ice-in short, anything unexpected. <br /><br />Is this real intelligence? "Absolutely," he says. EO-1 passes the basic test: "If you put the system in a box and look at it from the outside, without knowing how the decisions are made, would you say the system is intelligent?" Chien thinks so.<br /><br />And now the intelligence is growing. "We're teaching EO-1 to use sensors on other satellites." Examples: Terra and Aqua, two NASA satellites which fly over every part of Earth twice a day. Each has a sensor onboard named MODIS. It's an infrared spectrometer able to sense heat from forest fires and volcanoes-just the sort of thing EO-1 likes to study. "We make MODIS data available to EO-1," says Chien, "so when Terra or Aqua see something interesting, EO-1 can respond."<br /><br /><img src="http://www.neowin.net/images/icons/viewicon.gif" border="0" alt="" /> View: <a href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/26oct_sensorweb.htm?list27315" target="_blank">The full story</a><br /><img src="http://www.neowin.net/images/icons/souricon.gif" border="0" alt="" /> News source: <a href="http://science.nasa.gov/" target="_blank">NASA</a> <br /><br /><a href='http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35877'>Read full story...</a>]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Davis</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:25:52 +0000</pubDate></item><item><guid>http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35876</guid><title>Blue Jean Dye Kills Cancer Cells</title><link>http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35876</link><description><![CDATA[The dye in your blue jeans could soon be used to kill cancer cells, say scientists.<br /><br />UK researchers are employing tiny gold "nanoparticles", 1/5000th the thickness of a human hair, to deliver the chemical compound directly into cancer cells, tearing them apart instantly. The common dye found in blue jeans and ballpoint pens is called phthalocyanine and is a light-activated, or photosensitive, agent with cell-destroying properties.<br /><br />This has been known for at least 15 years but, until now, scientists have not been able to successfully deliver it into cells; hence there's no harm in wearing blue jeans. The University of East Anglia (UEA) team used the gold particles as "trojan horses". Their small size enables them to easily enter cells, and the phthalocyanine is taken up along with them.<br /><br />When pulsed with laser light, the compound produces a highly reactive form of oxygen which causes the cancer cells to commit suicide. UEA's Dr David Russell explained: "Because this compound does not dissolve in water, it is difficult to get it into cells. But this 'fat soluble' property is precisely what makes it a great potential therapy. "We have shown using nanotechnology that we can get phthalocyanine into the cancer cells where it binds and, on activation, causes substantial cell death," he told the British Association's Science Festival. <br /><br /><img src="http://www.neowin.net/images/icons/souricon.gif" border="0" alt="" /> News source: <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5323704.stm" target="_blank">BBC News</a> <br /><br /><a href='http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35876'>Read full story...</a>]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Davis</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:20:05 +0000</pubDate></item><item><guid>http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35875</guid><title>Underage BitTorrent Admins Fined &#3660,000 Each</title><link>http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35875</link><description><![CDATA[Four out of eight administrators of the Finnish BitTorrent tracker "Finreactor" have been declared guilty in court and have to pay damages totaling 60,000 dollars each.<br /><br />The lawsuit against Finreactor has just come to a close. This is believed to be only the first of many filed against the site.<br />Three of the four administrators found guilty are under the age of 18. It is unclear how they are going to scrape together enough money to pay their fines.<br /><br />With a little help from Finland's National Bureau of Investigation (Keskusrikospoliisi), the Finnish equivalent of the RIAA shut down Finreactor in late 2004. It was, at the time, possibly the largest Finnish BitTorrent tracker with more than 37,000 registered members.<br /><br />The Keskusrikospoliisi, after getting the go-ahead from Teosto, raided the administrators' homes and seized computers and hard drives. The evidence they found was condemning.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.neowin.net/images/icons/souricon.gif" border="0" alt="" /> News source: <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/underage-finnish-bittorrent-admins-fined-60000-each/" target="_blank">TorrentFreak</a><br /> <br /><br /><a href='http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35875'>Read full story...</a>]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Davis</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:39:07 +0000</pubDate></item><item><guid>http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35874</guid><title>YouTube: A New Kind of Spam?</title><link>http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35874</link><description><![CDATA[A new Wendy's "campaign" on YouTube shows commercials that "masqueraded" as videos on the site. There was considerable exposure apparently, with some users responding positively and others critical of the spots.<br /><br />Even though these spots may have been clever, edgy or entertaining, they're effectively video spam because they were put there by an ad agency on behalf of Wendy's. Get ready, there's going to be a lot more of this once marketers clue in to how effective (and cheap) YouTube and online video sites are as an alternative to conventional TV advertising.<br /><br />What's the danger, what's the opportunity?<br /><br />The opportunity is pretty clear for marketers, unless they kill the goose. But rather than flooding sites like YouTube with TV-like spots, they should create video campaigns elsewhere that build a fan base. And then let the fans upload those commercials to YouTube. Then it's not spam but viral marketing.<br /><br />The dangers are pretty obvious for YouTube (and Google). If YouTube doesn't police commercial video spam, users will be alienated. Google, for its part, will lose part of the revenue opportunity it bought YouTube to capture - brand marketing via online video. But policing this will be challenging.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.neowin.net/images/icons/souricon.gif" border="0" alt="" /> News source: <a href="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?p=3950" target="_blank">Search Engine Journal</a> <br /><br /><a href='http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=35874'>Read full story...</a>]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Davis</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:33:06 +0000</pubDate></item>

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Could you maybe go into just a tiny bit more detail? For instance, what build, and trunk or branch? Where is it failing to load, as a live bookmark, or by clicking a link to the feed to get preview, or by bookmarking the feed URL and opening it to get a pseudo-reader from preview? What actual error message/display do you get? What do you expect to happen, when you do whatever you did with that not-well-formed XML (note the "Underage BitTorrent Admins Fined &#3660,000" title)? Basically, the whole Bugzilla Helper thing of build id, summary, steps to reproduce, actual, expected, that you're expected to do even if you don't use it to file.

As filed, invalid: yes, the feed parser stops parsing when it hits not-well-formed XML, and yes, live bookmarks (which are not this component) do not load not-well-formed XML, because that was supposed to be the point of XML over HTML: follow a few simple rules, or you get nothing rather than getting something random.