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Submission + - Court rules book scanning is fair use, suggesting Google Books victory (arstechnica.com)

concealment writes: "Now a judge has ruled that the libraries who have provided Google with their books to scan are protected by copyright's fair use doctrine. While the decision doesn't guarantee that Google will win—that's still to be decided in a separate lawsuit—the reasoning of this week's decision bodes well for Google's case.

Most of the books Google scans for its book program come from libraries. After Google scans each book, it provides a digital image and a text version of the book to the library that owns the original. The libraries then contribute the digital files to a repository called the Hathitrust Digital Library, which uses them for three purposes: preservation, a full-text search engine, and electronic access for disabled patrons who cannot read the print copies of the books."

News

Submission + - US DOE Sees Fossil Fuel Costs Mounting Toward $4 (chemicalsinfomart.com)

binarypower7 writes: "The North American nation same on Wednesday it expects domestic fossil fuel costs to rise in 2013 as use for the fuel is anticipated to climb in residential, business and industrial sectors at the side of continued high consumption among utilities.
In its monthly short energy outlook (STEO), the Energy info Administration (EIA) same it expects the terms for North American nation fossil fuel to average $3.35/MMBtu in 2013, a rise of sixty four cents from the expected 2012 average terms of $2.71/MMBtu.
The EIA is that the information assortment and analysis arm of the Department of Energy (DOE)."

Android

Submission + - Nexus 7 & GALAXY Nexus Android 4.1.2 Factory Image available (blogspot.de)

An anonymous reader writes: Just recently, Google had for the Nexus 7 tablet the latest Android 4.1.2 version rolled out. As it stands, Android 4.1.2 for the Nexus 7 is not yet available for all of us. But now Google has released the Android 4.1.2 factory image, not only for the Nexus 7, but also for the american GALAXY Nexus “takju”.
Privacy

Submission + - Government Censors Draft Snooping Laws (delimiter.com.au)

coolstoryhansel writes: Stating that release of the draft legislation is not in the public interest [PDF] because it would prejudice decision making processes already in train, the Attorney General's Department has denied the release of the draft laws that would see wide-scale dragnet surveillance implemented along with an expansion of law enforcement powers for the purposes of 'national security'.

Serkowski, speaking for the Pirate Party who lodged the FOI request labelled the Department response as "disgraceful and troubling" saying the decision is "completely trashing any semblance or notion of transparency or participative democratic process of policy development."

Comment Re:how about high speed rail instead? (Score 1) 244

Most cities, Atlanta is a perfect example, don't have the local mass traffic infrastructure to support hi speed rail between cities. When you get there you either have to hire a cab or rent a car which ends up costing far more. The billions it would take to build underground mass transit (no available above ground space) will never be invested by short-sighted politicians.

Comment Re:That's the way the cookie crumbles (Score 5, Interesting) 455

Depends on the local jurisdiction whether they can issue an injunction. The good news is that Adnan Oktar aka Harun Yahya probably will not answer a complaint in a local small claims court therefore you would win a default judgment of up to $5,000 or more (amount depends on jurisdiction) which would be all that YouTube would need to take it down and you could also try to seize any advertising funds generated (if any) by YouTube on behalf of Harun Yahya. Plus it might be sufficient cause to get the YouTube user banned since they submitted an affidavit under threat of perjury that they were entitled to use video.

Downsides: 1) They could answer charge and have it dismissed in favor of moving it to a Federal court. 2) Filing fee of ~ $50 (amount depends on jurisdiction)

But then I've always like tilting at windmills.

Another idea is that maybe they have done this numerous times and it involved 5 or more people then maybe you could sue under RICO statutes which might entice a lawyer working on a percentage basis to take the case. Then again, my "limited knowledge" of the RICO statutes make me believe it is under utilized by private citizens which leads me to wonder if I know just enough to sound ignorant.
Android

Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7 Rooted 62

An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday, XDA Developers forum users kinfaus and pokey9000 were discussing how the latest devices from Amazon (the second-generation 7 Kindle Fire and the 7 Kindle Fire HD) come with more sophisticated protection than their predecessors, including locked bootloaders and 'high security' features offered by their OMAP processors. Today, the devices have been rooted." Using a known bug in busybox dating to April even.
Sony

Sony Announces 'Superslim' PS3 165

Sony kicked off the Tokyo Game Show today by announcing a new, even smaller version of the PlayStation 3. It's 25% smaller than the PS3 Slim and half the size of the original PS3. It will be available next week. The company also announced that the PlayStation Plus subscription service will finally be added to the PS Vita in November, providing automatic game updates and extra storage. "Sony also revealed that the long-awaited PlayStation Mobile service will launch via the PlayStation Store on October 3, with support from Sharp and Fujitsu who have both joined the PlayStation Certified license program."

Comment Re:who the hell picked that name?! (Score 2) 155

ARM processors are developed by ARM Holdings but they don't actually manufacturer them; they licensed to many different manufacturers. That's why you see different manufacturers with the same product because they license the technology and implement it in their own proprietary ways.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex

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