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Comment Re:Flawed Analogy? (Score 1) 398

Fashion is an interesting case because it's exempted from copyright laws

Actually, it's not completely exempt because there have been numerous cases of copyright in the fashion industry.

And if you listen to the talk, she mentions that the original designer loses most of those cases. (It's from 4:40 to 5:02 on the video, for those interested).

Comment Re:Don't forget: (Score 1) 258

I'll post instead of modding

Except, most areas I have been push the flu shot for everyone, not just the weakened. I'de much prefer they phrase it in such a way as - If you have a weak immune system, get this shot. Instead, it seems it's presented as a way to prevent a mass outbreak.

agreed... it creates the same potential problems as 'antibacterial' soap.

CVS now advertises on their street sign "Flu shot while you wait"..... ? who gets the shot without waiting? Here's my arm, I'll be right back, just making a quick run to Starbucks for a double latte.

Oh Christ, now we'll have idiots, driving, texting, and drinking coffee with ONE ARM!

Seriously, though (in case anyone doesn't know) the "While you wait" is intended for people getting prescriptions filled, film developed, etc.

Comment Re:Idiocy (Score 1) 638

Of course, I've read about a U.S. system where there is a UHF radio antenna on certain missile silos, and if communication is cut to that silo, the antenna becomes active.

Yes you heard that because you watched the fictional movie "wargames" circa 1980.

A better design is to install some kind of like that would permit the weapon to go boom... you could call it a "permissive action link". Then pseudo-secretly set the activation code to all zeros so it may as well be a copper jumper cable. It would work basically like the Soviet "secret" that is not really news, anyway. Now that would be a story, wouldn't it?

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

The Media

News Corp Will Charge For Newspaper Websites 453

suraj.sun writes "Rupert Murdoch says having free newspaper websites is a 'flawed' business model. Rupert Murdoch expects to start charging for access to News Corporation's newspaper websites within a year as he strives to fix a 'malfunctioning' business model. Encouraged by booming online subscription revenues at the Wall Street Journal, the billionaire media mogul last night said that papers were going through an 'epochal' debate over whether to charge. 'That it is possible to charge for content on the web is obvious from the Wall Street Journal's experience,' he said."
Medicine

Stem Cells From Fat Create Beating Heart Cells 198

Amenacier writes "Melbourne scientists recently discovered that stem cells isolated from human fat could be made to turn into beating heart muscle cells when cultured with rat heart cells. This discovery may lead to the use of fat stem cells in repairing cardiac damage, or fixing such cardiac problems as holes in the heart. It is proposed that culturing the stem cells with rat heart cells allows them to differentiate into heart muscle through signals from the rat cells. In the future it may be possible to inject/transplant the stem cells into the damaged area and have them naturally differentiate into the type of cell required, with only the natural stimuli provided by surrounding cells, without any danger of rejection by the body. Quoting: 'The next step is to implant the human heart cells onto the damaged heart of a laboratory rat to see whether they repair the heart. Then they would be trialled in higher species such as sheep and pigs before human applications could be considered. Clinical application could be five years away ...'" The Age has a multimedia treatment (Flash) of the discovery.
Government

Submission + - Governor orders return of Nativity scenes to parks

An anonymous reader writes: In apparent disregard for the separation of church and state, Ohio's governor, Ted Strickland has ordered that nativity scenes removed from two state parks be put back up.

Strickland spokesman Keith Dailey says the governor decided last week that the Nativity scenes should be restored to the state parks because they're appropriate and traditional.

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