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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! - Wiktionary

Translations

* Afrikaans: Geseënde Kersfees en ‘n voorspoedige Nuwejaar
* Arabic: عيد ميلاد سعيد (Eid Milad Saeed)
* Armenian:  (Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand)
* Azeri: Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun
* Basque: Eguberri on
* Belarusian: Сзцзаслівыцг Каліадау (Szczaslivych Kaliadau)
* Bosnian: Sretni praznici, Srećni praznici
* Breton: Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat
* Bulgarian: Честита Коледа (Chestita Koleda), Честито Рождество Христово (Chestito Rozhdestvo Hristovo)
* Catalan: Bon Nadal i Feliç Any Nou
* Chinese: 聖誕快樂, 圣诞快乐

Mandarin: (shèng dàn kuài lè)
Cantonese: (Sing Daan Fai Lok)

* Cornish: Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth
* Cree: Mitho Makosi Kesikansi
* Croatian: Sretni praznici
* Czech: Veselé Vánoce a šťastný nový rok
* Danish: Glaedelig Jul
* Dutch: Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar
* Esperanto: Gajan Kristnaskon
* Estonian: Rõõmsaid Jõulupühi
* Finnish: Hauskaa joulua ja onnellista uutta vuotta
* French: Joyeux Noël et bonne année
* Frisian: Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier
* German: Frohe Weihnachten und ein glückliches Neues Jahr
* Georgian:  (gilosavt khrist shobas)
* Greek: Καλά Χριστούγεννα (Kalá Christoúyenna)
* Hawaiian: Mele Kalikimaka me ka Hauoli Makahiki ho
* Hebrew: חג מולד שמח (khag molad same’akh)
* Hindi: शुब णय बरस (Shub Naya Baras)
* Hungarian: Kellemes Karácsonyi ünnepeket
* Icelandic: Gledileg Jol
* Indonesian: Selamat Hari Natal
* Irish: Nodlaig mhaith chugnat
* Italian: Buon Natale e felice Anno Nuovo
* Japanese: クリスマスオメデト (kurisumasu omedeto), シンネンオメデト (shinnen omedeto)
* Korean: 숭탄축하 (sungtanchukha)

* Latvian: Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus un laimīgu Jauno gadu
* Lithuanian: Linksmų Kalėdų
* Luxembourgish: Schei Chreschtdeeg an e gudde Rutsch an d’neit Joer
* Manx: Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa
* Maori: Meri Kirihimete
* Malay: Selamat Hari Krismas
* Marathi:  (Shub Naya Varsh)
* Norwegian: God Jul Og Godt Nytt Aar
* Persian: (Noel mobarak baad), (Noel Mobarak)
* Polish: Wesołych Świąt Bożego Narodzenia i szczęśliwego Nowego Roku
* Portuguese:

Europe: Boas Festas
Brazil: Bom Natal e Feliz Ano Novo

* Romanian: Craciun Fericit
* Russian: С Рождеством Христовым и с Новым годом (S Rozhdestvóm Khristóvym i s Nóvym gódom)
* Samoan: Maunia Le Kilisimasi ma Le Tausaga Fou
* Scots: Nollaig Chridheil agus Bliadhna Mhath Ur
* Serbian:

Cyrillic: Срећни празници
Roman: Srećni praznici

* Slovak: Vesele Vianoce
* Sinhala: (Subha nath thalak Vewa) (Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa)
* Slovak: (Vesele Vianoce a stastlivy Novy Rok)
* Slovene: (Vesele Bozicne Screcno Novo Leto)
* Spanish: Feliz Navidad y próspero Año Nuevo
* Swedish: God Jul och Gott Nytt År
* Tagalog: (Maligayamg Pasko) (Masaganang Bagong Taon)
* Tamil: (Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal)
* Thai: สวัสดีปีใหม่ (sàwàtdee peemài)
* Turkish: Noeliniz ve yeni yılınız kutlu olsun
* Ukrainian: Щасливого Різдва Христового (Schaslyvoho Rizdva Khrystovoho)
* Urdu: نايا سال مبارک هو (naya saal mubarak ho)
* Vietnamese: Chúc Mừng Giáng Sinh
* Welsh: Nadolig llawen a blwyddyn newydd dda
* Yoruba: E ku odun keresimesi
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RIAA Petitions Judges to Lower Artist Royalties Aggressively litigious group has claimed to protect musicians in the past. Now believes musicians deserve less for “innovative” music distribution.

December 7, 2006 - The RIAA rose to public prominence around the year 2000 when the growth of internet file sharing and music piracy was blamed for rapidly declining album sales at the time. The RIAA’s subsequent highly publicized and aggressive litigious action against those the group identified as distributors of copyrighted music, which has famously included grandmothers, single mothers in economic hardship, and children, won the organization little sympathy from the general public. While protecting copyrights is a fully legitimate concern, many believe the piracy that blossomed in first blush of the Napster and KaZaa was primarily due to the fact that there were no viable legal means to acquire music in mp3 format via the internet. That changed when Apple launched the iTunes Music Store, the subsequent massive success of which would seem to illustrate consumers’ willingness to pay for music files on the internet if they are conveniently available.

In publicly defending its strong arm tactics and stated desire to scare consumers into absolute compliance, the RIAA has long cited the negative repercussions of piracy and lost revenue upon the recording artists that pour their talent into making the music that people like to hear. It’s a sympathetic defense, yet in the past week the RIAA has made it quite clear whose profits the group is truly out to defend, and it’s certainly not the artists who actually make the music.

On December 1 The Hollywood Reporter revealed that the RIAA is currently petitioning the panel of federal government Copyright Royalty Judges to lower the rates paid to publishers and songwriters for use of lyrics and melodies in applications like cell phone ring tones and other digital recordings. The last time the American government set the rate was in 1981, but since that time, the RIAA argues in its petition, a lot has changed.

Malaysia to Use RFID Number Plates Next Year. durianwool wrote in with a story about Malaysia’s plans to introduce RFID number plates. It reads: “‘The first thing thieves do after a car theft is change the registration plates,’ Road Transport Department Director-General Ahmad Mustapha was quoted as saying. The microchips, using radio frequency identification technology, will be fixed into the number plates and can transmit data at a range of up to 100 meters (yards), the report said. They will have a battery life of 10 years, it said. ” [Slashdot: Your Rights Online]

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Malaysia’s government, hoping to thwart car
thieves, will embed license plates with microchips containing
information about the vehicle and its owner, a news report said
Saturday.

With the chips in use, officials can scan cars at roadblocks and identify stolen vehicles, the New Straits Times reported.

The “e-plate” chip system is the latest strategy to prevent car
thieves from getting away with their crimes by merely changing the
plates, the report said.

Dead Musicians Signing Media Rights Petitions. 
epeus writes  “Following from the Gowers coverage and the Musicians’ ad in the FT, Larry Lessig admits he was wrong about term extension:
‘If you read the list, you’ll see that at least some of these artists
are apparently dead (e.g. Lonnie Donegan, died 4th November 2002;
Freddie Garrity, died 20th May 2006). I take it the ability of these
dead authors to sign a petition asking for their copyright terms to be
extended can only mean that even after death, term extension continues
to inspire. I’m not yet sure how. But I guess I should be a good sport
about it, and just confess I was wrong. For if artists can sign
petitions after they’ve died, then why can’t they produce new
recordings fifty year ago?’” [Slashdot: Your Rights Online]

For almost 10 years now, I’ve been waging a war against
retrospective term extension. My simple argument has been that
copyright is about creative incentives, and you can’t create incentives
retrospectively.

I now see I am apparently wrong.

As reported yesterday,
there was an ad in the FT listing 4,000 musicians who supported
retrospective term extension. If you read the list, you’ll see that at
least some of these artists are apparently dead (e.g. Lonnie Donegan,
died 4th November 2002; Freddie Garrity, died 20th May 2006). I take it
the ability of these dead authors to sign a petition asking for their
copyright terms to be extended can only mean that even after death,
term extension continues to inspire.

I’m not yet sure how. But I guess I should be a good sport about it,
and just confess I was wrong. For if artists can sign petitions after
they’ve died, then why can’t they produce new recordings fifty years
ago?

Though critics say high-tech documents put travelers’ privacy at risk, 3M moves into a growing global market with its ePassport devices.

The Government Printing Office reached a landmark this week when it produced its millionth electronic passport.

At
the beginning of the year, GPO began producing the passports for the
State Department, which then personalizes the blank documents.

“We
are very proud to reach this milestone,” said Ben Brink, assistant
public printer for security and intelligent documents. “In the
post-[Sept. 11] era, many documents require new levels of security,
from their creation to the distribution.”

The passports contain
controversial radio frequency identification tags that contain a
document holder’s personal information and can be scanned remotely.

At
the Black Hat conference in early August, a German researcher
demonstrated how a remote RFID reader could be used to clone a
passport. Members of the Smart Card Alliance industry group said that
the multiple security layers in the American e-passport can reduce such
risks.

Virginia Partners With MySpace.com to Propose E-mail Registration of Sex Offenders. “We require all sex offenders to register their physical and mailing addresses in Virginia, but in the 21st century it is just as critical that they register any e-mail addresses or IM screen names” [GT: Security and Privacy]

Congress passes ban on phone record pretexting. Congress late last week passed a bill making it illegal to use pretexting to gain access to private phone records. [Computerworld Privacy News]