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Maximum Prophet writes:
While Redigi is illegal, Aereo isn't. “We conclude that Aereo’s transmissions of unique copies of broadcast television programs created at its users’ requests and transmitted while the programs are still airing on broadcast television are not ‘public performances’ of the plaintiffs’ copyrighted works..."
Of course both decisions are going to be appealed.
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Maximum Prophet writes:
If you've ever had your eyes scanned, be sure to install new ones every 90 days.
35212391
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Maximum Prophet writes:
Only rich people will be able to pay for a completely automous car. Auto-autos will only go the speed limit. Rich people don't like to go slow. Ergo, there won't be any market for automatic cars.
Wait, I hear you say. The rich guy will just modify his car to go faster. But, if you go over the limit it's a fine, but to mess with the safety systems of even your own vehicle is probably a felony. Much more likey: The rich will get new laws passed to make it legal for automatic cars to go much, much faster than human driven vehicles.
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Maximum Prophet writes:
A while ago, Amazon caved on paying individual states sales taxes. Now we know why. Amazon is setting up same day delivery warehouses, *everywhere*. They will put most normal retailers out of business.
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Maximum Prophet writes:
After taking board exams, doctors have been routinely getting together to remember and reproduce as much of the exam as they can. These notes are then bound and reproduced. According to the American Board of Dermatology the exams are protected by copyright laws, and any reproduction, not approved by the board, is illegal. While I have no doubt that the Board believes this, and pays lawyers to believe it as well, I don't think they understand copyright. Perhaps they should invest in better testing methods.
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Maximum Prophet writes:
Apparently, Naked Mole Rats don't get cancer, get when zapped with Gamma Rays or fed 50 times the carcinogens that would kill a mouse. (or us)
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Maximum Prophet writes:
As usual, xkcd gets it right: http://xkcd.com/651/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/business/27fires.html?_r=1&hpw
"More than half of the 22 battery fires in the cabin of passenger planes since 1999 have been in the last three years. One air safety expert suggested that these devices might be "the last unrestricted fire hazard" people can bring on airplanes."
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Maximum Prophet writes:
First it stopped the Superconducting Super Collider. Now it's throwing monkey wrenches into the Large Hadron Collider. It's the particle that doesn't want to be discovered.
This happened in the science fiction story, "Einstein's Bridge", now Holger Bech Nielsen, of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, Japan, are theorizing that it's happening in real life.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?em
