Sir Patrick Stewart 324
david.emery was one of a few folks who noted that Patrick Stewart can now be referred to as Sir Captain as he will be knighted by the Queen. This should bring balance to any future X-Men movies.
Court Says Fair Use May Hold In Some RIAA Cases 145
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, the Boston RIAA case in which the defendant, represented by Charles Nesson of Harvard Law School, admitted liability at his trial, the Court has entered judgment in favor of the RIAA for the monetary award of $625,000 fixed by the jury. However, the Court left open the questions of whether the amount is excessive, and whether attorneys fees and/or sanctions should be awarded, and has scheduled further briefing of those issues. The Court granted the RIAA much, but not all, of the injunctive relief it requested. In an unusual step, the Court issued a 38-page decision (PDF) explaining in some detail the Court's views of the Fair Use defense in the context of cases like this, and indicating that there are some factual scenarios — not applicable in this particular case — in which it might have concluded that the claims were barred by Fair Use. E.g. it declined to rule out the possibility that creation of mp3 files exclusively for space-shifting purposes from audio CDs a defendant had previously purchased might constitute fair use."
Comment Re:No shit, sherlock. (Score 1) 400
> Personally, I'd never trust a lightbulb test done by the blind.
And the doubly blind, doubly so.
And the doubly blind, doubly so.
Comment Re:Where do you put it? (Score 2, Funny) 296
>And where do you put it?
People keep bringing up Texas...
Comment Re:parent not really a troll (Score 1) 618
I used to buy ATI All in Wonder cards, but as of my last one, which I think was a 9600, I just couldn't take the crappy performance and poor implementation anymore, and I was working on Windows. Since then, I haven't even bothered with ATI.
Comment Re:spinal tap? (Score 1) 66
I had to get a spinal tap done when I was younger. I was hospitalized for a little while and I thought I felt fucked up because of the drugs or the illness. When I got sent home from the hospital I still couldn't move around very well and was stuck in bed. But no, years later I had another bout of whatever it was I had, and this time I didn't get a spinal tap, and was up and about in a couple of days after the illness had past. The most horrendous part is that they lost the results of the test for which the spinal tap was taken.
Of course, given the choice between getting Alzheimer's treated early on and being laid up for a week, I think I'd rather avoid the Alzheimer's. My friend's grandmother had it and my grandfather had it. For me, there's hardly anything worse.
Comment Re:It will be interesting to see how this plays ou (Score 1) 255
Since the whole organism converts sunlight into oil, algae can produce more oil in an area the size of a two-car garage than an entire football field of soybeans.
So are football fields of soybeans going to be the standardized measurement for biofuels? I'd prefer hockey rinks of alfalfa sprouts.
Comment Re:Pot, meet kettle? (Score 2, Interesting) 725
And I fail to see how this lawsuit is anything other than a legal attack upon Ray in an attempt to smear his good name and discredit him as a lawyer.
