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Submission + - 'Floating Bridge' Property of Water Found (physorg.com)

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eldavojohn

on Friday September 28, 2007 @10:05AM

eldavojohn writes: "When exposed to high voltage, water does some interesting things. From the article, ' When exposed to a high-voltage electric field, water in two beakers climbs out of the beakers and crosses empty space to meet, forming the water bridge. The liquid bridge, hovering in space, appears to the human eye to defy gravity. Upon investigating the phenomenon, the scientists found that water was being transported from one beaker to another, usually from the anode beaker to the cathode beaker. The cylindrical water bridge, with a diameter of 1-3 mm, could remain intact when the beakers were pulled apart at a distance of up to 25 mm.'"

Submission + - Motley Fool : RIAA hitting brick wall

Submitted by

NewYorkCountryLawyer

on Thursday September 27, 2007 @05:24PM

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "The Motley Fool business site says that the RIAA's litigation campaign is in the end game. Monday it reported that "the music industry's lawsuit crusade against defenseless college students and housewives appears to have hit the skids", predicting as to the RIAA's tactics that "that's all about to change". Today it writes that "the change is happening in Internet time, which is somewhere between "instantly" and "yesterday"", noting that the RIAA's abandonment of its "making available" theory shows that the end is near: "In a nutshell, that claim used to be a central pillar in the RIAA strategy, because it's fairly easy to show that some files were made available for download from a given IP address. Easy money if the lawsuit were to go anywhere. But few of them ever did, and many suits have been thrown out because it isn't actually illegal to have a pile of files ready for others to download. Someone actually has to download them, which is a much harder point to prove.""

Submission + - Google May Blur Canadian Faces and License Plates

Submitted by KingK on Thursday September 27, 2007 @01:56PM

KingK writes: "Google is considering a Canadian launch of its Street View map feature, which offers street-level close-ups of city centers, but would blur people's faces and vehicle license plates to respect tougher Canadian privacy laws..."

Comment Re:Jeez some of my code might infringe... (Score 1) 663

by Phoenixwcu on Monday February 09, 2004 @03:10PM (#8228253) Attached to: SCO Complaint Filed -- Including Code Samples

As an experienced professional, I'm sure anyone can agree that similar function sometimes dictates similar structure in the code.

As a CS student I see a lot of this. Often times after an assignment has been turned in the students in the class get together to compare their code. All to often 9 out of the 10 of us there will have almost identical code despite the fact we never saw each others code during development. For us it is a inevitable consequence of being given the same assignment after being tought to solve problems the same way by the same proffessor. I mean there are only so many ways to make a for loop.

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