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Submission + - Court grants RIAA Sum Judg Motions vs Limewire (blogspot.com) 1

Submitted by NewYorkCountryLawyer
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: District Court Judge Kimba Wood has granted some of the RIAA's key summary judgment motions in Arista Records v Lime Group. In her 59-page decision (PDF) she found Lime Group itself, as well as its CEO and a separate company, liable for intentionally inducing Limewire users to infringe plaintiffs' copyrights. The decision was not a final judgment, so it is not appealable. Additionally, it denied summary judgment on certain issues, and did not address any possible damages.
Space

Submission + - John Carmack to Cut Space Tourism Prices 50% (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Looks like John Carmack, "through Armadillo Aerospace, "will be battling Burt Rutan and Richard Branson to make space affordable, and more Alan Shepard than Chuck Yeager: 'Space Adventures is going to use an Armadillo Technologies rocket to launch amateur astronauts 62 miles into the sky. Nothing new, except that they will do it at half the price of Virgin Galactic's ticket, and in a real rocket!' Like the article says: Perhaps I'll visit space, after all.

Submission + - Internet uprising in Spain against proposed change (google.com)

Submitted by [rvr]
[rvr] writes: Last Monday, the Spanish Goverment published the latest draft for the Sustainable Economy Act, which would enable a Commission dependent of the Ministry of Culture to take down websites without a court order, in cases of Intellectual Property piracy. On Wednesday, using Google Wave, a group journalists, bloggers, professionals and creators composed and issued a Manifesto in Defense of Fundamental Rights on the Internet, stating that "Copyright should not be placed above citizens' fundamental rights to privacy, security, presumption of innocence, effective judicial protection and freedom of expression". Quickly, more than 50,000 blogs and sites re-published the manifesto. On Thursday morning, the Ministry of Culture Ángeles González Sinde (former president of the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) organized a meeting with a group of Internet experts and signers of the Manifesto. The meeting was narrated in real time via Twitter and concluded without any agreement. On Thursday afternoon, the Prime Minister's staff had a private meeting with the Ministry of Culture and some party members (who also expressed their oposition to the draft). Finally, Spain Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero announced in a press meeting that the text will be changed and court order will continue to be a requirement, but still will search for ways to fight Internet piracy. However, many activists remain skeptic about this announcement.
Businesses

13-Year-Old CEO Steals the Show At TiECON 259

Posted by kdawson
An anonymous reader tells us about a 13-year old Silicon Valley CEO with a plan to change the way kids learn chemistry. Yesterday he stole the show at TiECON 2007, the big entrepreneur conference held in Santa Clara, CA. VentureBeat has the story and a video interview. The company's VP of sales is the CEO's sister. She's 11. They're looking for $100K to ramp up production and distribution.
Wine

Journal Journal: "Cheese" the new junk food (in the UK) 6

Journal by Le Marteau

TV ban on adverts for cheese, the latest 'junk food'
Cheese is to be treated as junk food under new advertising rules for children's television.

Commercials promoting it will be banned during children's TV programmes and those with a large proportion of young viewers.

The rules, which come into force this month, are part of a Government drive to reduce children's exposure to foods high in fat, salt and sugar.
Operating Systems

Submission + - Why do we use x86 CPUs?

Submitted by bluefoxlucid
bluefoxlucid writes: With Apple having now switched to x86 CPUs, I've been wondering for a while why we use the x86 architecture at all. The Power architecture was known for its better performance per clock; and still other RISC architectures such as the various ARM models provide very high performance per clock as well as reduced power usage, opening some potential for low-power laptops. Compilers can also deal with optimization in RISC architectures more easily, since the instruction set is smaller and the possible scheduling arrangements are thus reduced greatly. With Just-in-Time compilation, legacy x86 programs could be painlessly run on ARM/PPC by translating them dynamically at run time, similar to how CIL and Java work. So really, what do you all think about our choice of primary CPU architecture? Are x86 and x86_64 a good choice; or should we have shot for PPC64 or a 64-bit ARM solution?
AMD/OSTG

Journal Journal: OLPC Gearing Up for Prime Time

Journal by OSTG Marketing
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project will begin to ship its XO laptops worldwide this July. The machines are being produced by Quanta Computer Inc. and powered with a 366-megahertz AMD processor. "At the core of the XO interface, developers are now announcing the first details of Sugar, the OLPC Human Interface. Sugar provides chat and sharing functions for the core applications featured on the OLPC. Christopher Bli
User Journal

Journal Journal: My Favorite Freak, and why 13

Journal by Marxist Hacker 42
Since I can no longer post in Bethannie's journal, this is my response to her latest one. I have to wonder if she's completely misread her STB-ex-hubby's signals. Maybe he just doesn't want more CHILDREN- or at least, no more children right now. The problem is that our incredibly stupid society insists that sex is about the health of the relationship. It isn't. It's the act that creates children. It's about PROCREATION, not RECREATION. For that reason, I'm glad she's foe'd me- she's obvio

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