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Comment Reduce risks? Kinda sorta. (Score 2, Insightful) 96

by fname on Tuesday December 25, 2007 @08:14PM (#21817604) Attached to: Robots To Control Oil Drilling Platforms

It reduces risk to the human crew operating the platform. But if something goes wrong on the rig, I think that the risk of a minor accident turning into a major problem is much larger. What if there's a fire? Damaged by a passing ship? Sabotaged? With no human crew on board, the ability to improvise and solve new problems is seriously hampered.

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Submission + - Help me fight the swiss dmca. (no-dmca.ch)

Submitted by

pyalot

on Sunday December 02, 2007 @12:31PM

pyalot writes: "The swiss goverment has passed a law that would make it impossible to cirvumvent effective copy protection measures. I have created a page to inform and organize a resistance against this law. If we collect 50'000 signatures until the 24th of January however, we can force a national vote on this law. Help me in any way that you can fight this law. I was first made aware of this two days ago by this article on slashdot."

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Submission + - RIAA Wants the Internet Shut Down

Submitted by

jibberia

on Thursday November 30, 2006 @01:39PM

jibberia writes: "The Inquirer reports that "one of the lawyers involved in defending cases bought against people by the RIAA claims that if the music industry wins a crucial case, the Internet will have to be switched off... The RIAA argued that by merely making files available on the Internet Barker was making a copyright infringement." The original transcript of the statement is available here."

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Charge in 5 minutes, Drive 500 miles? 319

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday September 26, 2006 @07:34AM from the shocking-discoveries dept.

ctroutwi writes "In the wake of rising gasoline costs there have been plenty of alternatives seen on the horizon. Including Hybrids, Biofuels, fuel cells and battery powered all electric cars. CNN has recently posted a story about a company (EEStor) that plans on offering Ultra-Capacitor storage products. The claim being that you charge the ultra-capacitor in 5 minutes, with approximately 9$ (~$.45 a gallon) of electricity and then drive 500 miles."

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Journal Journal: Time for a Copyright offensive

Journal by fname on Wednesday June 22, 2005 @12:11PM

Enough.

Reading Boing Boing this morning, I was flabbergasted as I read the comments of Marybeth Peters, the United States Register of Copyrights. The circular logic and specious reasoning she employed made me question if she has the intelligence required to hold such a position. She raises the ugly specter of terrorism when she says, "although the information is sketchy at best, there have been a series of rumored ties between pirating operations and terrorist organizations." This sup

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