The move is part of a plan by the clubs industry to avoid higher music licence fees.

Clubs Australia has now announced a scheme to play and promote music by independent artists, instead of those registered with the PPCA, in a bid to avoid the higher fees.

A spokeswoman for the PPCA says the licence fees are set by the independent Copyright Tribunal, and she has described them as fair and reasonable.

"Power holders feel they need to be superior and competent. When they don't feel they can show that legitimately, they'll show it by taking people down a notch or two," says Nathanael Fast.

Flattery seems to temper the aggressive urges of insecure leaders. When Fast and Chen coaxed the egos of these volunteers by praising their leadership skills, their aggressive tendencies all but disappeared. This is proof that leaders are aggressive because of a hurt ego, not simply a threat to their power, Fast says.

Speaking to Bloomberg in an interview on Monday, Dell revealed that he is planning more deals within a variety of service industries, including healthcare.

The PC maker hopes that this will help it better compete with HP and IBM, according to Bloomberg.

A Ministry of Defence guide to preventing information leaking into the public domain has leaked into the public domain.

The Defence Manual of Security was issued in October 2001 and is marked "Restricted". The three volumes, which appear in their entirety on Wikileaks, cover: protective security, personnel security and IT security.

At the heart of the auction are 24 pre-war televisions - the largest collection ever assembled for sale - with the oldest dating back to 1930.

It also comprises a vast and unfeasibly diverse collection of scientific instruments, gramophones, early looms, computers - even a medieval set of thumbscrews.

"There are all the important pieces that are firsts: you have one of the first bedwarmers, one of the first food processors, one of the world's first microscopes and one of the first light bulbs - seeing it all together gives a general impression of awe."

They complain that without new business models journalism itself is doomed. Leave aside how ridiculous all of that is (and, yes, it's totally ridiculous), when a new project comes along that will enable more reporting in the San Francisco Bay Area, via a partnership between radio station KQED and journalism students at Berkeley, along come the professional reporters complaining about how this is the death of journalism and must be stopped. That's the view of the East Bay Express's Robert Gammon. Why? Well, because it involves students instead of pro journalists, and thus is unfair competition.

CPCC claims that its brought in over $150 million from the blank CD levy, and handed it out to 97,000 rights holders "most of whom would not be able to continue their careers without this revenue."

At $150 million over ten years for 97,000 rights holders, you're talking about $160 per year on average.

I think it's safe to conclude that "most" of the 97,000 rightsholders aren't relying on CPCC money for any kind of career.

Their aim was to examine the potential for cascade failures, where a major power outage in a subnetwork results in power being dumped into an adjacent subnetwork, causing a chain reaction of failures.

"An attack on the nodes with the lowest loads can be a more effective way to destroy the electrical power grid of the western US due to cascading failures," Wang says.

"A determined attacker would not fool around with the electricity inputs or whatever - they need only a bunch of guys with some Semtex to blow up the grid lines near a power station."

Any time a person crosses the US border, the Department of Homeland Security assigns travelers with a "risk assessment" score to divine their likelihood of any involvement with a terrorist cell or criminal activity.

While portions of the document are redacted by the Department, it still reveals the ATS records include: credit card numbers and their expiration dates, IP addresses used to make travel arrangements, birth date and passport numbers, frequent flyer numbers (including those not used for the trip), travel agent information, hotel reservation data, and even travel preferences specified in the airline reservations (Window seat eh? Very suspicious).

At 0600 local time (1700GMT) sirens sounded and drivers were told to move from the right side to the left.

Bus drivers have also protested that their doors will now open on the wrong side, in the middle of the road.

It hopes that Samoan expatriates in Australia and New Zealand will now ship used, more affordable vehicles back to their homeland.