Just a minor correction. the scientists did use interferometry but it was not "very long baseline interferometry". The "very long" term applies to the telescopes being separated by extreme distances, say over the entire United States as is the case of the VLBA. Also, the VLBA can only function in radio wavelengths because the data can be taken at the individual telescopes an recombined later. With near-infrared interferometry, what the authors of this study were using, requires that the light from each telescope be sent down an optical tube with mirrors and recombined at a central location which constrains the IOTA telescopes to be close together.

IOTA was dismantled a few years ago, geiven that a new optical/near-infrared interferometry was coming online, CHARA http://www.chara.gsu.edu/CHARA/

. . . they have a mighty frighteningly patent portfolio. If someone crops up, and slaps a ten page patent on their desk, claiming infringement . . . IBM slams a stack of patents the size of 50 Manhattan telephone books on their heads, and says, "Well, let's take a look at YOUR infringements."

It's all part of the patent game that corporations play today. Patent trolls can shake down small companies, but not the big ones.

Most of the weapons at Ben Gurion airport are concealed, worn by very attractive officers as it happens. Sexy and deadly.

I saw plenty more German Shepherds and machine guns on display at Heathrow and Frankfurt airports, where the security was nowhere near as good when it all comes down to it. All show and no go.

that depends - it could have been a placebo bat, or even a homeophatic one

Is Windows sold or licensed?

From November's ruling:

[MacOS...] are covered by software license
2 agreements that provided that the software is “licensed, not sold to [the user] by Apple Inc.
3 (“Apple”) for use only under the terms of this License” (Chung Exh. 26 at 1). Apple’s license
4 agreements restricted the use of Mac OS X to Apple computers, and specifically prohibited
5 customers from installing the operating system on non-Apple computers.

wow. I own a software company and we have a mixed use cube area as well. If anyone tried to remove music from our team I would remove them from the company. It's been a while since I developed but I certainly did my best work listening to music, even when it wasn't to drown out others. It's impossible for developers to operate in a distracting environment - the minute a person nearby is on the phone, they are pooched without some way to muffle sound. We tried earmuffs even for some sensitive folks, but music was the solution.

This case gives us a great window into what a world without copyright protection would look like: everyone ripping off everyone else's code. There got to be a compromise that works for both the GPL and the RIAA, so end users (us) win.

Plus it's ironic that Microsoft, the "king" of software development is having all those problems with subcontractors writing code for them.

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you don't need to be in silicon valley to start a startup anymore

This would also certainly lower the bank administrative fees that I always have to pay in advance to my Nigerian business partners!

Was using the term "rapped" in the summary of the article necessary? It gets rather old watching the word used so flippantly. Good Job bhagwad, you just surpassed Kdawson as the worse /. editor.

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In my opinion, what sets it apart is with this phone, not only do they get all your search, email, and website data, but they also get your full name, address, and credit card number.