Comment Re:Anyone else read that as... (Score 1) 147
The accepted terminology is republicrat or one of the many others listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republicrat.
Comment University Nanosats (Score 2) 117
Professor James Cutler: http://aerospace.engin.umich.edu/people/faculty/cutler/index.html
RAX: http://rax.engin.umich.edu/
Prof. Cutler works on novel nanosats and how to streamline the nanosat process. He will probably push you off to his students, but I am sure they can point you in a better direction, what sort of commerical off the shelf (COTS) parts you can get and applicable restrictions.
Comment Re:It will be a shame if our first contact... (Score 1) 247
I cannot even begin to imagine how ASCAP will collect the "royalties" per performance.
Comment Re:Your Car Likely Has A Black Box ALREADY (Score 1) 628
Better call the RIAA and ASCAP, I believe that is an unauthorised recording if I am listening to music.
Submission + - Youtube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music Owned By "Rumblefish" (google.com) 2
eeplox writes: I make nature videos for my Youtube channel, generally in remote wilderness away from any possible source of music. And I purposely avoid using a soundtrack in my videos because of all the horror stories I hear about Rumblefish filing claims against public domain music.
But when uploading my latest video, Youtube informed me that I was using rumblefish's copyrighted content, and so ads would be placed on my video, with the proceeds going to said company. This baffled me.
I disputed their claim with Youtube's system, and Rumblefish refuted my dispute and confirmed that:
"All content owners have reviewed your video and confirmed their claims to some or all of its content:
Entity: rumblefish Content Type: Musical Composition"
So I asked some questions, and it appears that the birds singing in the background of my video are Rumblefish's exclusive intellectual property.
My only option at this point is to lawyer-up and fight it out in the courts, which of course isn't going to happen over a Youtube video that'll only be seen by a few hundred people. More likely I'll just end up deleting the video.
But when uploading my latest video, Youtube informed me that I was using rumblefish's copyrighted content, and so ads would be placed on my video, with the proceeds going to said company. This baffled me.
I disputed their claim with Youtube's system, and Rumblefish refuted my dispute and confirmed that:
"All content owners have reviewed your video and confirmed their claims to some or all of its content:
Entity: rumblefish Content Type: Musical Composition"
So I asked some questions, and it appears that the birds singing in the background of my video are Rumblefish's exclusive intellectual property.
My only option at this point is to lawyer-up and fight it out in the courts, which of course isn't going to happen over a Youtube video that'll only be seen by a few hundred people. More likely I'll just end up deleting the video.
Comment ZA NASZA I WASZA WOLNOSC?! (Score 1) 140
In Poland we have a motto "Za nasza i wasza wolnosc" which roughly translates to "For our freedom and yours."
These politicians have forgotten from where they came.
Comment Hitchhikers Reference (Score 5, Funny) 195
As long as they do not destroy Slartibartfast's fjords then I am "cool" with it.
Facebook Denies Disputed Page To Both Mercks 210
itwbennett writes "In follow-up to yesterday's story about how Merck in Germany is threatening legal action to take its vanity Facebook URL back from Merck U.S., Facebook apologized for its 'administrative error' in reassigning the URL but said that if the two companies can't play nice, no one will get the URL."
Comment Aerospace Engineering Graduate Student (Score 5, Informative) 283
I am an Aerospace Engineering/Mathematics Grad Student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I do more theoretical work now, but I think I can offer a little advice.
If you want to stay state side I would also recommend (in no particular order) you look at U of M, Purdue, Georgia Tech, Cornell (Aero/Mech), Caltech, Stanford (Aero/Mech) and the University of Maryland (more aeronautical).
The biggest thing is to get involved with research projects. Look at current professors and their research interests, see if they have anything related to satellite/rocket design. Do not be afraid to ask/e-mail. Professors and grad students alike love getting undergrads involved, perhaps because they usually come free.
If you do look at Michigan I can recommend looking at Professor Cutler and his RAX project or professors in the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences (AOSS) department. Several people from my graduating class who took Aerosp 483 went on to SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and Bigelow Aerospace, so there is a network.
For more U of M information look at:
Professor Cutler: http://aerospace.engin.umich.edu/people/faculty/cutler/
RAX: http://rax.engin.umich.edu/
AOSS: http://aoss.engin.umich.edu/
Comment Just waiting for a new law with the justification: (Score 1) 252
But think of the police.
Just Months After Jeopardy!, Watson Wows Doctors 291
kkleiner writes "Following its resounding victory on Jeopardy!, IBM's Watson has been working hard to learn as much about medicine as it can with a steady diet of medical textbooks and healthcare journals. In a recent demonstration to the Associated Press, Watson showed a promising ability to diagnose patients. The demonstration was a success, and it is the hope of IBM and many medical professionals that in the coming years Watson will lend doctors a helping hand as they perform their daily rounds."
Comment Re:So Mac Users should expect this? (Score 1) 277
Sorry trademark, not copyright.
Comment Re:So Mac Users should expect this? (Score 1) 277
Due to copyright '*Security Essentials' will not be available, instead it will be the "Apple Security Software Store" or the ASS Store for short.
Chess Games Translated To Music
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An anonymous reader writes "Blogger Jonathan W. Stokes used algebra to map famous chess games onto a piano, and then outputted the results as MP3s. The tunes created are surprisingly listenable."
Comment Mainstream Media (Score 1) 410
Has anyone noticed how most of the mainstream: CNN, BBC, etc. have not picked up on this yet?
