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Comment Re:How to fight it... Don't (Score 1) 455

As I pointed out in my other post, using some of your video around scientific facts could be construed as satire. However, using your image and name isn't cool, if they haven't identified it as satire. Even if they did, I think this isn't a copyright issue, but a libel issue. The video isn't the issue, but your personal character and reputation. Moreover, I believe libel claims have less gray area than copyright, and even if the video isn't a for profit venture, you can get money out of a libel claim.

Comment Fair use? (Score 1) 455

Not sure why the religious org would lie and claim ownership. After all, I think fair use applies (whether or not you agree with the use):

1) Satire.
2) Did you create the video (looks to be an animated rendering), or is it mashed up? If it's your original content, then there's some protection there, but you can't copyright facts. The same organization could take the source data, and assuming they used the same software you used, would the end product be materially different?

That said, IANAL, but I do believe there are limits on how much of the original content one uses. I can create a satirical derivative of your work all day long, but I don't think I can use the entire thing, only a portion.

Comment Re:That's the way the cookie crumbles (Score 3, Insightful) 455

Public defenders are for those accused of criminal acts. This is a civil case. So no, the OP can't spend tax payer dollars to enforce their copyright.

However, you might be thinking of finding a copyright friendly attorney to do it pro bono, it which case there's no limitations.

Comment Been a developer since 1999, no degree, no cert (Score 3, Informative) 186

1) User groups, conferences: network network network
2) Volunteer to speak, and put that up on your blog
3) Oh yeah, start a blog. Blog regularly
4) Build your own sites/sample sites

Good approach to getting work: build site, find clients later. Most websites aren't that different. Pick an industry (say, air conditioning repair). Build a generic air conditioning repair site. Then go pitch it to those businesses (Google and start with the ones with current ugliest site); they'll always have you make customizations.

Comment Google Chrome insanity (Score 1) 460

I prefer version number, but they rev so fast that it's irrelevant. Not to mention that when they released on iOS (which is merely a wrapper on WebKit, not a full app with some of the original Chrome bits), they didn't start at 1.0. Had Chrome on my phone for a couple of months, and it's telling me I have an update available for 21.0.1180.80.

Businesses

Samsung Opens New Apple Store In Australia 154

An anonymous reader writes "Samsung opened its first retail 'Experience' store in Sydney, Australia today and its design and ethos, even in the most generous light, bear an uncanny resemblance to those of the Apple Store. Now, to be fair, Samsung’s corporate color is blue and there are only so many ways you can design a retail experience. That said, it seems difficult to look at Samsung’s store and not immediately be reminded of Apple’s understated chain of brick-and-mortar retail stores which, at the time it debuted, was considered pioneering. And it’s awfully hard to imagine that the similarities between the two won’t further bolster Apple’s allegations that Samsung is a 'copyist.'" This comes on the heels of both companies claiming the other is "anticompetitive" during Tuesday’s summations in the Apple-Samsung trial.

Comment Re:No, just no. (Score 1) 840

What if we identify the so called "gay gene"? Rest assured that the Fox News crowd will be rejoicing at the idea of "designer babies" at that point.

The random parent out there wants their kids to be successful. What if we can identify whether a kid would be a 6'6" outgoing athlete as opposed to an introverted short kid who excels in math?

Comment Re: Maybe (Score 1) 840

I have CF. I can't play sports, or spend alot of time outside, or do any kind of manual labor. It sucks, yeah, but it also pushed to intellectualism and a career that fits me perfectly (computer programming). Would the world have been better off with another high school jock or construction worker as opposed to a developer?

Mars

UCLA Scientist Discovers Plate Tectonics On Mars 87

A reader links to a press release at UCLA, and excerpts from it another bit of Mars news: "For years, many scientists had thought that plate tectonics existed nowhere in our solar system but on Earth. Now, a UCLA scientist has discovered that the geological phenomenon, which involves the movement of huge crustal plates beneath a planet's surface, also exists on Mars. 'Mars is at a primitive stage of plate tectonics. It gives us a glimpse of how the early Earth may have looked and may help us understand how plate tectonics began on Earth,' said An Yin, a UCLA professor of Earth and space sciences and the sole author of the new research."

Comment Re:Oh dear... (Score 1) 474

Why do we celebrate college dropouts who form spectacularly successful Internet startups then?

Science is wonderful: not just the science that supports our world view. Articles on Slashdot frequently parade movements to challenge the science status quo (people making rockets in their garage, open source approaches to publication, etc. Perhaps his findings are garbage, but most of your post was nothing more than an ad hominem attack; your only reference to his research was a link to someone else's challenge, not any original thought of your own.

I don't care who he works for, his education level, or who may have sponsored him at any time. Plenty of lesser men is lesser circumstances have changed the world. Let's talk about his findings, and not cheat ourselves by using words like "trash" as if they carried any weight.

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