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RIAA Hearing Next Week Will Be Televised 291

Posted by kdawson on Friday January 16, 2009 @12:38PM from the light-of-day dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "One commentator labels it 'another fly in the RIAA's ointment.' In SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, the Boston, Massachusetts, RIAA case in which the defendant is represented by Harvard law professor Charles Nesson and a group of his students, the Judge has ruled that the hearing scheduled for January 22nd will be televised over the Internet. The hearing will relate to Mr. Tenenbaum's counterclaims against the record companies and against the RIAA. In her 11-page opinion (PDF), District Judge Nancy Gertner labeled as 'curious' the record companies' opposition to televising the proceedings, since their professed reason for bringing the cases is deterrence, 'a strategy [which] effectively relies on the publicity arising from this litigation'."

Birth of the Moon: a Runaway Nuclear Reaction? 355

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 11, 2008 @10:30AM from the that's-not-no-moon dept.

An anonymous reader writes "How the Moon arose has long stumped scientists. Now Dutch geophysicists argue that it was created not by a massive collision 4.5 billion years ago, but by a runaway nuclear reaction deep inside the young Earth."

OpenSolaris 2008.11 Released, Reviewed 87

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @04:46PM from the solar-microsystems dept.

ab5tract writes "2008.11 has been released and can be downloaded here. There's a review at Ars Technica. Also, there's a good overview of the new TimeSlider feature at dZone."

$29M To Start US Satellite Protection Program 74

Posted by kdawson on Friday October 24, 2008 @04:32PM from the space-race dept.

coondoggie sends in a Network World piece that begins "The Air Force laid out $29 million in contracts this week to build space-based sensors that could detect threats or hazards and protect satellites in orbit. Assurance Technologies and Lockheed Martin Space Systems will split $20 million of the two-year contract that the Air Force says should ultimately demonstrate a viable sensing capability, as well as integration with other space systems to offer threat and hazard detection, assessment and notification ... The Air Force is looking to protect satellites from ground based lasers or anti-satellite missiles mostly."

Comment Re:Need a Class C to do BGP (Score 1) 500

by ChuBie on Wednesday October 15, 2008 @03:08PM (#25387449) Attached to: Millions of Internet Addresses Are Lying Idle

I guess this is to limit the size of routing tables. Seems like a waste.

Yes on both. Almost all ISPs will filter out any routing advertisements from their customers that are smaller than a /24 prefix.

Submission + - Microsoft programming contest hacked, defaced (itwire.com) 1

Submitted by

davidmwilliams

on Monday October 06, 2008 @08:05AM

davidmwilliams writes: "Microsoft followed their annual major Tech-Ed event in Australia with a week-long programming contest called "DevSta," to find "star developers." While the quantity and quality of submissions suggest a poor turnout it certainly caught the attention of at least two hackers who left their mark. Here is the low down on the contest, what happened, by who, and screen shots for posterity in case it's been fixed by the time you read this."

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