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Submission + - Quirkology: the science of human behaviour

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10, 2007 @05:51AM

An anonymous reader writes: Did you know that fruit and vegetables have personalities? Or that women van drivers are most likely to cheat in the grocery checkout queue? Or the science secrets of chat-up lines? It's science meets the weirdness of people.

Journal Journal: Terraforming Earth, Kazakhstan Building Greenhouse Downtown

Journal by twitter on Saturday December 09, 2006 @04:11PM

The BBC is reporting an ambitious project to tent it's frigged capital, Astana. Their President, who created the city, will build the Norman Foster designed tent in less than a year.

Submission + - Mobile phones last only two years says Nokia

Submitted by superswede on Wednesday December 06, 2006 @06:08PM

superswede writes: The Swedish Dagens Nyheter and Norwegian VG Nett reports on a court case in Norway between mobile phone maker Nokia and Norwegian insurance group Forbrukerforsikring ("Consumer insurances"). Whereas Forbrukerforsikring claims that consumers have, by law, the right to make a complaint on products up to five years after buying the product, Nokia defends itself and claims that its phones should not be expected to last longer than two years. The background to this story is a Nokia 6100 phone where the keyboard broke after two years and three months and Nokia denied the customer any service. Both Nokia and Sony Ericsson were heard and both said that there phone last at most three to four years. They said that today's mobile phone are used much more than an few years ago; they are not only used for making calls, but also for text messaging, as a camera and a music player.

Submission + - UK Report Suggests "Modernizing" Copyright

Submitted by

danpsmith

on Wednesday December 06, 2006 @05:25PM

danpsmith writes: "The BBC has an article about a government report which proposes new powers against copyright infringement. Interestingly, however, it also: "says private users should be allowed to copy music from a CD to their MP3 player" and further "recommends the 50-year copyright protection for recorded music should not be extended," saying, "The ideal IP system creates incentives for innovation, without unduly limiting access for consumers and follow-on innovators."

While satisfied with most of the report, The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) says, "it would continue to press for the copyright extension.""

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