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Comment Wrong defense (Score 3, Interesting) 207

by sashang on Friday March 27, 2009 @06:53PM (#27364987) Attached to: Australian ISP Argues For BitTorrent Users

That's a daft argument. You could extend that to say an ethernet frame and say 'oh because ethernet frames are broken up they can't be used to distribute copyrighted data'. Similar argument for reading writing blocks to disk etc... It's pretty obvious bittorent can be used to transmit information copyrighted or not. Their defense should focus on the accuracy identifying weather the information transmitted is copyrighted or not, since people do use bittorrent for legitimate reasons. ISP's probably want to win this case because they are aware of the enormous amount of traffic bittorrent generates, most of it being movies, mp3s etc... Forcing them to curtail this will hurt their revenue. The other side of the coin is that people that create music, movies, software are entitled to license it however they want. If they give it away for free good for you but if they copyright it and require payment for it then that doesn't mean you can just take it from them.

Comment Re:Downright Gibsonian (Score 1) 139

by sashang on Saturday January 24, 2009 @12:21AM (#26585333) Attached to: Network Solutions Under Large-Scale DDoS Attack

You're not old - your slashdot id is greater than 1 000 000

Comment why care? (Score 1) 672

by sashang on Friday January 23, 2009 @05:36PM (#26581279) Attached to: Black Holes From the LHC Could Last For Minutes

Why worry if a black hole eats the planet? It will kill everyone and no one will be around to care.

Intelligent Design Ruled "Not Science" 1497

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday June 25, 2007 @05:06PM from the take-a-religion-course-if-you-want-it dept.

blane.bramble writes "The Register is reporting that the UK government has stated there is no place in the science curriculum for Intelligent Design and that it can not be taught as science. 'The Government is aware that a number of concerns have been raised in the media and elsewhere as to whether creationism and intelligent design have a place in science lessons. The Government is clear that creationism and intelligent design are not part of the science National Curriculum programs of study and should not be taught as science.'"

Blade Runner at 25, Why the F/X Still Matter 454

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 25, 2007 @12:48PM from the beware-the-thighs-that-crush dept.

mattnyc99 writes "Today marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Blade Runner, Ridley Scott's dark vision of the future that changed the future of filmmaking and still stands up today, argues Adam Savage of The MythBusters (and the F/X crews of The Matrix and Star Wars). Between the "lived-in science fiction," pre-CGI master models, futuristic cityscapes and tricked-out cars, don't you agree? And after we got the first official glimpse of him from Indiana Jones 4 this weekend, isn't Harrison Ford still the man?"

American Class Divisions Through Facebook and MySpace 373

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 25, 2007 @11:05AM from the something-to-think-about dept.

Jamie found this paper earlier about American Class Divisions and Facebook and MySpace. The paper talks about the history of the two sites, what groups tend to use what site. They also talk about what proponents of each site think of the other. It's actually an interesting read and worth your time.

Scientist Calls Mars a Terraforming Target 575

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 25, 2007 @09:28AM

Raver32 writes "Mars will be transformed into a shirt-sleeve, habitable world for humanity before century's end, made livable by thawing out the coldish climes of the red planet and altering its now carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere. How best to carry out a fast-paced, decade by decade planetary face lift of Mars — a technique called "terraforming" — has been outlined by Lowell Wood, a noted physicist and recent retiree of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a long-time Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution. Lowell presented his eye-opening Mars manifesto at Flight School, held here June 20-22 at the Aspen Institute, laying out a scientific plan to "experiment on a planet we're not living on.""

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