Actually, what he's saying is if you want to read aloud to your son, you're fine. But if you want to have your Kindle read to your son, you should pay a licensing fee. According to him, there's a difference, and that's where his logic fails.

FTA: "For the record: no, the Authors Guild does not expect royalties from anybody doing non-commercial performances of 'Goodnight Moon.' If parents want to send their children off to bed with the voice of Kindle 2, however, it's another matter."

I, however, see no difference. Mr. Blount is a nut.

Jon Stewart came up with a solution a couple weeks ago. Fast forward to about 4:15 in this video.

This is why we should employ Jon Stewart's idea. Fast forward to about 4:15 in this video.

Obama repeatedly made sure that we knew that his campaign was funded entirely by us the citizens, not lobbyists or businesses. Therefore he should be using the DOJ to protect us from the RIAA, not the other way around. I sure hope he can fix the economy, because this is a strike against him.

For the browser competition, you get the computer it's running on. Or at least that's what I gather; the article accidentally a whole verb. FTA: "CanSecWest organizers plan to Sony VAIO P running Windows 7 as the platform for the contest. The successful hacker gets to keep the machine."

"The precautionary principle is a moral and political principle which states that if an action or policy might cause severe or irreversible harm to the public or to the environment, in the absence of a scientific consensus that harm would not ensue, the burden of proof falls on those who would advocate taking the action. The principle implies that there is a responsibility to intervene and protect the public from exposure to harm where scientific investigation discovers a plausible risk in the course of having screened for other suspected causes. The protections that mitigate suspected risks can be relaxed only if further scientific findings emerge that more robustly support an alternative explanation."

From what I've heard so far, there's a small chance that the LHC will kill us all. And they can't prove otherwise because the underlying theories haven't been proven. If the question is "should we do it?", then the answer is simple: "no." Or at least "not yet."

Oh, I'm sure they don't. I wasn't criticizing the action taken, just the accompanying message. I also forgot the obligatory IANAL disclaimer. :-)

So the message they post is "This video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by all copyright holders"? That's not even legally sound. According to U.S. copyright law, for non-profit, non-exclusive use, it is only necessary to have permission from one co-author. So if you had permission from the songwriter (co-author of the audio) and the director or producer (co-author of the video), you could upload a music video and the record company wouldn't legally be able to do anything about it. Except they would try, and they would probably win. And that's why the system is screwed up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mothman_Prophecies

The list is actually 25, not 15.

Dude, you just pirated that article.

It HAS been investigated, and it HAS been resolved.

The head of the Hawaii Department of Health confirmed on October 31 that Obama was born in Honolulu, saying that she has "personally seen and verified that the Hawaii State Department of Health has Sen. Obama's original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures."

In addition, just a few days ago the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case brought against Obama regarding his citizenship.

It's over. Quit bringing it up.

Actually, the head of the Hawaii Department of Health confirmed on October 31 that Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, saying that she has "personally seen and verified that the Hawaii State Department of Health has Sen. Obama's original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures."