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innocent_white_lamb writes:
Red has announced the availability of their Redray player (4k resolution video player) as well as Odemax, which is a distribution system for independent filmmakers to get their movies into both homes and movie theatres.
The hardware aspect of this is neat, but the distribution system could be disruptive to the current Hollywood studio system (and the MPAA)
An official announcement regarding the Odemax distribution system will be made at the Sundance Film Festival.
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innocent_white_lamb writes:
Japanese researchers have shown that looking at photos of cute baby animals improves your productivity.
37495609
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innocent_white_lamb writes:
The first color movies, taken in 1902, have recently been restored by the British National Media Museum.
37401235
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innocent_white_lamb writes:
A Canadian musician put an image of a penny on his album cover. Now for every 2000 copies of the album he creates he has to fill out an application, wait for approval and be charged $1,200.
I never realized that images of a coin would be covered by copyright.
33907933
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innocent_white_lamb writes:
While a US Congressional investigation found over 1800 cases involving over one million counterfeit parts from China in American-made military equipment, the Canadian defence minister isn't concerned, even though Canada purchases its military equipment from the same contractors as the US does.
32758611
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innocent_white_lamb writes:
My wife got a pacemaker last Thursday and now that she's home we are finding
that we have to make a few changes.
She (and I) spend a lot of time on our computers. She told me that she felt
dizzy after sitting in front of her computer for several minutes, and I figured
out that it was her wireless Microsoft mouse that was at fault, probably
because she has her hand right on a radio transmitter when using the mouse. I
removed that and replaced it with a wired mouse. She felt much better
immediately after I removed the wireless mouse, so that was obviously at least
part of the problem.
I am also thinking that I could move her computer far away from her if I
have to, using USB extension cables and a monitor extension cable. I haven't
done that yet, though — I'm not sure if it will be necessary or not.
I did get her a wired phone for her today to put on computer desk to replace the
wireless phone that she has been using up to now.
This all amounts to ongoing experimentation to find out what's going to work
and be beneficial, and what won't.
Do any of you folks have any experience with this pacemaker stuff? Any
suggestions for what I can do to minimize or eliminate anything that might
affect her pacemaker?
It's a whole new world of learning for both of us.
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innocent_white_lamb writes:
Can you tell when you're talking to a robot telemarketer? They will even ask for you by name!
26053454
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innocent_white_lamb writes:
Emily Cier writes books about making quilts. Manufacturers send her free samples of their fabrics in the hope that she will use their materials in her books. Now a fabric designer is threatening to sue her for "tens of thousands of dollars, plus lawyer fees, destroying all copies of the book, etc." for including a photo of a quilt made with their fabric design in one of her books. Amazing, considering that the fabric was provided to her by the manufacturer for, apparently, that exact purpose.
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innocent_white_lamb writes:
A Canadian judge has ruled that the mere act of browsing a website constitutes binding agreement with that website's terms of service. Open a webpage and you've just signed a contract.
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innocent_white_lamb writes:
Make it easy to self-publish books and the spammers will be right along too. Amazon's Kindle marketplace has been deluged by low-quality "books" selling for 99 cents each.
21341554
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innocent_white_lamb writes:
Two men attempted to use pinhole cameras and wireless transmitters to cheat on a medical school admission exam. They had three people who thought they were training to be tutors providing the answers to the questions via telephone.
19483200
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innocent_white_lamb writes:
A woman's lawyer in New Brunswick (Canada) was ordered by a judge to hire another lawyer to summon her to a meeting without telling her what it was about and, when she arrived at the meeting, she was ordered to log into her Facebook account and hand over her photos immediately. The judge was concerned that if she had notice of this action she might delete the photos before they could be seized, so he ordered the woman's own lawyer to take this action, and he did!
18808246
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innocent_white_lamb writes:
Prospective candidates for the New Democratic Party in the Canadian province of British Columbia are being asked by the party brass to hand over their usernames and passwords for all social media accounts, blogs and everything else that may be posted by them in any private forums on the Internet.
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innocent_white_lamb writes:
Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc., EMI Music Canada Inc., Universal Music Canada Inc. and Warner Music Canada Co. have agreed to pay songwriters and music publishers $47.5 million in damages for copyright infringement and overdue royalties to settle a class action lawsuit.
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innocent_white_lamb writes:
Due to a particular type of brain damage a woman has lost her sense of fear, though she knows what fear is and remembers being afraid of things when she was a child.
