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Submission + - NASA Claims China Will Beat US Back to the Moon (cnn.com)

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eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "NASA's deadline for a return trip to the moon is 2020. But NASA Administrator Michael Griffin gave a lecture in Washington stating ' "I personally believe that China will be back on the moon before we are. I think when that happens, Americans will not like it. But they will just have to not like it." It sounds a bit like the taikonauts will arrive first."
Music

Submission + - Kwik-Fit sued over staff radios (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A car repair firm has been taken to court accused of infringing musical copyright because its employees listen to radios at work. The action against the Kwik-Fit Group has been brought by the Performing Rights Society which collects royalties for songwriters and performers. Guess we'd better be careful no-one hears any of your downloaded music now either.
Power

Submission + - Global Warming Can't Be Stopped (foreignpolicy.com)

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tcd004
tcd004 writes: "An article in Foriegn Policy argues that it is already to late to stop major climate change.

The mounting scientific evidence, coupled along with economic and political realities, increasingly suggests that humanity's opportunity to prevent, stop, or reverse the long-term impacts of climate change has slipped away....it would be irresponsible for us to count on an energy technology miracle to save the day.
The authors suggest that world governments begin taking drastic actions to prepare their populations for "a new world." What do you think?"
Security

Submission + - SPAM: House OKs bill to prosecute contractors

Submitted by kellyabbot
kellyabbot writes: WASHINGTON — The House passed a bill Thursday that would make all private contractors working in Iraq and other combat zones subject to prosecution by U.S. courts. It was the first major legislation of its kind to pass since a deadly shootout last month involving Blackwater employees.
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The Courts

Submission + - "Making Available" Argument at RIAA Trial

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NewYorkCountryLawyer
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "We received this intriguing report from one of our 'citizen journalists' camped out at the RIAA's jury trial in Duluth:

After Wired and Ars Technica reports left the courtroom for the afternoon the Judge and Counsel discussed the proposed jury instructions. In regards to jury instruction #14 Mr. Gabriel [RIAA lawyer] tried to add that "Making Available" was an infringement of plaintiffs exclusive rights. Mr Gabriel cited many cases in his verbal discussion and a 2002 letter to congress by Mary Beth Peters of the Copyright office supposedly supporting his point that current U.S. law holds "making available" for distribution as infringement. Mr. Toder [Defendant lawyer] did not concur with the objections and stated he would like the jury instruction to remain as it stands. Judge Davis said he would take the objection under advisement and meet counsel at 8:15 tomorrow morning to discuss any final objections and making his rulings. The closing statements will begin at 9:30 AM tomorrow morning.
This indicates to me that the judge, after reading the proposed jury instructions submitted by both sides' attorneys prior to the trial, disagreed with Mr. Gabriel's proposed instruction that "making available" would be a copyright infringement. And this evening, he gave both attorneys a copy of the instructions he was planning to give the jurors, which excluded "making available", in order to give the attorneys an opportunity to file any objections. And Mr. Gabriel objected. So now the Judge will allow further discussion tomorrow morning. But it suggests that the judge preliminarily rejected Mr. Gabriel's argument. It is not surprising that Mr. Gabriel is still beating the drum for his novel "making available" argument, even though he has abandoned it in his Complaints, because it would be much easier to try to prove "making available" than it would be to try to prove copyright infringement."
The Courts

Submission + - Federal Judge tells Thompson to stuff it

Submitted by navygeek
navygeek writes: What week would be complete without a Jack Thompson story to bring laughter to our lives. It would appear that now even a Federal Court Judge is telling Mr. Thompson to shut up.

Mr. Thompson is hereby advised that the number of documents he has filed in this lawsuit is unreasonable and will not be tolerated... in the last week alone, Mr. Thompson filed 13 different documents in response to a single show cause order.


Thompson [speaking of himself] is akin to Flounder in Animal House, when he is told by the brothers, "Hey, you screwed up. You trusted us.

Who knew Jack was such a fan of the arts too!
Google

Submission + - Google Earth Spills Secret Chinese Submarine Beans

Submitted by techavenger
techavenger writes: A new Chinese nuclear ballistic missile submarine is evident in Google Earth imagery. The submarine appears to be about 35 feet longer than the unsuccessful Xia-class sub because of an extended midsection that houses the missile launch tubes and part of the reactor compartment, said Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project for the Federation of American Scientists.
Biotech

Submission + - Scientists link Autism to Digestive System (www.cbc.ca)

Submitted by rla3rd
rla3rd writes: Compounds produced in the digestive system have been linked to autistic-type behaviour in laboratory settings, potentially demonstrating that what autistic children eat can alter their brain function, say scientists from the University of Western Ontario.
AMD

Journal Journal: ACPI, M$'s Power Management Poison. 5

Journal by twitter

This is where I'm going to write about the damage M$ has done to power management in commodity computing, something that has wasted the world's time, effort and electricity. M$ helped make both APM and ACPI, but their involvement has been bad news for everyone, espe
Censorship

Submission + - MoveOn.org Becomes Parody of Self

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The L.A. Times has an opinion piece about MoveOn.org in which they discuss attempts by MoveOn.org to squelch dissenting speech that incorporates their trademarks. T-shirts with phrases critical of MoveOn.org and that include the name MoveOn.org were demanded removed by MoveOn.org because they supposedly infringed on their merchandising rights. I hope MoveOn.org doesn't send a cease-and-desist letter because this post includes the name MoveOn.org.

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