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by FWSquatch (#28382221) Attached to: In Round 2, Jammie Thomas Jury Awards RIAA $1,920,000
I'm voting Civil Disobedience on this one as well. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that 80,000 per song is excessive. After the first case was tossed, the judge even made a point of how ridiculous the first verdict's damages were and begged congress to do something about it. The jury wanted to send the message that she was guilty but wanted to add something to it that might help change the laws. Stealing music is wrong, but our copyright laws that set the damages are way out of whack!
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Finnish Guy Gets Prosthetic USB Finger Storage 113

Posted by samzenpus
from the I'd-still-choose-a-shotgun-leg dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Jerry had a motorcycle accident last May and lost a finger. When the doctor working on the artificial finger heard he is a hacker, the immediate suggestion was to embed a USB 'finger drive' to the design. Now he carries a Billix Linux distribution as part of his hand."
Security

Bastille linux hijacked

Submitted by fathertedgrinch
fathertedgrinch writes "The Bastille-linux project's registration has apparently been hijacked by a cyber-squatter. See http://isc.sans.org/ for information. note that there are two articles there — one describes the discovery, and the second shows the new url for bastille."
Hardware Hacking

How to make submarines invisible to sonar

Submitted by holy_calamity
holy_calamity writes "Chinese researchers have figured out how to make objects invisible to sound. All you need is a "a periodic array of rubber-coated gold spheres along with spheres of water containing air bubbles, all embedded within an epoxy resin." Acoustic metamaterials are the sound-wave version of the much-hyped 'invisibility cloak' [slashdot.org], and are probably already on the US Navy's shopping list."
Linux Business

Linuxfest NW 2007: "The Mother of All Conventi

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lisah
lisah writes "Linuxfest Northwest will be getting underway this weekend in Bellingham, WA. All the usual suspects will be there (Red Hat, Google, Novell) of course, but this year's stable of presenters will also include Rob Lanphier of Linden Labs (Second Life) and chromatic of O'Reilly Media. Organizers have arranged bus transportation to the venue and also brought back the popular April Brews Day post-event fundraiser. Plan to attend the free conference and fInd out why past presenter Matt Hartly calls it "the mother of all Linux conventions.""
Power

The Truth about Plug-in Hybrids

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FloatsomNJetsom
FloatsomNJetsom writes "Forget hydrogen — bring an extension cord instead. Popular Mechanics has an exhaustive survey on electric cars, including a special report on plug-in hybrids, such as the (not yet built) GM Volt. From the article: "Garage tinkerers have been turning hybrids into plug-ins for years, but somehow no one paid attention. Other clean-car alternatives (like those below) got all the love. But, really — hydrogen? Maybe, someday. Now, the carmakers say plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) are coming, if the engineers can get the batteries right. They will. Because it's hard to argue with 100 mpg." Plus, lots of video test drives..."

ATI's Radeon HD 2900 XT benchmarked, trumps NVIDIA's GeForce 8800 GTS->

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Filed under: Desktops, Gaming

Although preliminary testing proved that ATI's R600 architecture wasn't messing around, DailyTech added another layer of proof to the pudding as it benchmarked a bonafide Radeon HD 2900 XT against NVIDIA's 640MB GeForce 8800 GTS. The DirectX 10-capable card is a notch above the HD 2600 XT that was snapped in the wild, and the tested unit featured 320 stream processors, 512MB of GDDR3 RAM, a dual-slot "blower-type heat sink," dual dual-link DVI ports, and a serious desire to crank out impressive FPS numbers. While the marks weren't the end-all answer to the ATI vs. NVIDIA question, the Radeon managed to best its opponent in every single trial, including Call of Duty 2, Company of Heroes, F.E.A.R., Oblivion, 3DMark06, Maya 02, Cadalyst C2006, and a few more for good measure. Of course, we're sure NVIDIA will be hitting back with something of its own, but feel free to hit the read link if you take pleasure in graphical beat downs with ATI escaping victorious.

[Thanks, Mathieu]

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Nanotubes May Improve Solar Energy Harvesting 93

Posted by Zonk
from the just-put-in-a-direct-nuclear-tap dept.
eldavojohn writes "Scientists are hoping that the 'coaxial cable' style nanotube they developed will resolve energy issues that come with converting sunlight to energy. The plants currently have us beat in this department but research is discovering new ways to eliminate inefficiencies in transferring photons to energy. Traditional methods involve exciting electrons to the point of jumping to a higher state which leaves 'holes.' Unfortunately, these electrons and holes remain in the same regions and therefore tend to recombine. The new nanotubes hope to route these excited electrons off in the same way a coaxial cable allows a return route for electrons. End result is fewer electrons settling back into their holes once they are elevated out of them yielding a higher return in energy."
Businesses

How an Email Rant Jolted a Big HMO

Submitted by Radon360
Radon360 writes "From the WSJ Article:

On a Friday morning last November, Justen Deal, a Kaiser Permanente employee, blasted an email throughout the giant health maintenance organization. His message charged that HealthConnect — the company's ambitious $4 billion project to convert paper files into electronic medical records — was a mess.

Mr. Deal signed the email. Before sending it, he says, he printed out a copy and handed it to his boss. Soon afterward, his office phone was ringing off the hook. IT staffers later arrived to seize his computers, and Mr. Deal was placed on paid leave from his $56,000-a-year job.

Despite Kaiser's efforts to squelch and downplay the incident, the email episode shows that, in the digital age, flicking away whistle-blowers isn't as easy as it once was."

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