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Antarctic's First Plane, Found In Ice 110

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @10:11AM from the ice-tractor-cometh dept.

Arvisp writes "In 1912 Australian explorer Douglas Mawson planned to fly over the southern pole. His lost plane has now been found. The plane – the first off the Vickers production line in Britain – was built in 1911, only eight years after the Wright brothers executed the first powered flight. For the past three years, a team of Australian explorers has been engaged in a fruitless search for the aircraft, last seen in 1975. Then on Friday, a carpenter with the team, Mark Farrell, struck gold: wandering along the icy shore near the team's camp, he noticed large fragments of metal sitting among the rocks, just a few inches beneath the water."

Whatever Happened To Second Life? 209

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @07:30AM from the i-blame-ralph dept.

Barence writes "It's desolate, dirty, and sex is outcast to a separate island. In this article, PC Pro's Barry Collins returns to Second Life to find out what went wrong, and why it's raking in more cash than ever before. It's a follow-up to a feature written three years ago, in which Collins spent a week living inside Second Life to see what the huge fuss at the time was all about. The difference three years can make is eye-opening."

Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex 272

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 17, 2009 @09:40PM from the nice-feed dept.

When an UK man was asked to be the best man at a friend's wedding he agreed that he would not pull any pranks before or during the ceremony. Now the groom wishes he had extended the agreement to after the blessed occasion as well. The best man snuck into the newlyweds' house while they were away on their honeymoon and placed a pressure-sensitive device under their mattress. The device now automatically tweets when the couple have sex. The updates include the length of activity and how vigorous the act was on a scale of 1-10.

Hand Written Clock 86

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 14, 2009 @02:11PM from the up-to-the-minute dept.

a3buster writes "This clock does not actually have a man inside, but a flatscreen that plays a 24-hour loop of this video by the artist watching his own clock somewhere and painstakingly erasing and re-writing each minute. This video was taken at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009."

Comment Re:Which of the following are illegal ? (Score 1) 289

by Keetorca on Monday September 11, 2006 @06:02PM (#16084902) Attached to: Interview Lawyers Who Defend Against RIAA Suits

IANAL but my guesses in Bold
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Which of the following are illegal and why? Which of the following are in a legal grey area?

1) Trading CDs via US Mail - As long as they are original discs, legal

2) Ripping CDs that I own to mp3, and playing them on my computer. - Legal(Fair Use)

2a) Backing up CDs to mp3 on my computer - Legal(Fair Use)

3) Ripping CDs that I own to mp3, and then putting them on my mp3 player for my own personal use.
- Legal, it's still your own copy.(Fair Use)

3a)Loaning the mp3 player to my friend with the ripped music from question 3
- Tricky, if it was a CD player with the original discs, it would be okay,
but since you are still retaining the originals and only giving them a copy... dunno

4) Borrowing a CD from the library, ripping the CD to my computer and listening to the music on my mp3 player,
and deleting the music when I return the CD to the library.
- Legal, as long as you have the original.

4a) Never deleting the music from the computer/mp3 player
- Not Legal, you don't have the original anymore

5) Emailing an mp3 from question 2 to one friend to listen to, and requesting that he delete it once he is finished.
- I would think it's 'Not Legal'. it would be like burning a copy and giving it to someone, don't think it matters if you ask them to destroy it afterward

5a) emailing an mp3 to 10 friends and asking them to delete it once its been listened to? - Not Legal, same as 5

5b) ...not asking them to delete it. - Not Legal, see 5

6) Using a p2p service to trade mp3s from CDs they own with mp3s from CDs you own - Not Legal, you aren't exchanging the original discs with those mp3's

7) Using allofmp3 to download music
- Don't know, I'm not familliar with their system, i think it's legal if they are actually paying royalties

8) Stripping copy protection from iTunes or PlaysForSure music files, to play them on your mp3 player
- A twisted one, 'Fair Use' says that it's legal to make personal copys of music you own. But the DMCA says it's illegal to break things like DRM and encryption...

9) How does the RIAA show that the music you have on your computer are not backup mp3 files from CDs that were destroyed or lost by you?
- Dunno that one... Obviously if you have like 5000 mp3's, they might ask that you prove you had the finacial means to buy that many CD's

9a) Can I use a p2p service to acquire a song I legally owned from a CD I owned, but was destroyed or lost?
- Maybe... Another tough one

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