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Comment Worry about FCC, CE, UL cost first. (Score 1) 262

by Spaceball_3000 on Friday March 27, 2009 @10:50PM (#27367189) Attached to: Circuit Board Design For a Small Startup?

First think about your costs. FCC, CE, UL, etc.. certifications can end up more than the cost to develop a new product (one man operation.) Patentable, forget this, you can't afford to patent it yet, get the product first out, then worry about patenting it.

Lie Detector Company Threatens Critical Scientists With Suit 367

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 29, 2009 @05:18PM from the slapp-ing-them-around dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Swedish newspaper DN reports that the Israeli company Nemesysco has sent letters to researchers at the University of Stockholm, threatening legal action if they do not stop publishing findings (Google translation). An article called 'Charlatanry in forensic speech science: A problem to be taken seriously' was pulled by the publisher after threats of a libel lawsuit." Online translations can be a little wonky; if your Swedish is as bad as mine, this English-language article describes the situation well.

Entire Transcript of RIAA's Only Trial Now Online 315

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 28, 2008 @07:12PM from the give-us-this-day-our-daily-fix dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The entire transcript of the RIAA's 'perfect storm,' its first and only trial, which resulted in a $222,000 verdict in a case involving 24 MP3's having a retail value of $23.76, is now available online. After over a year of trying, we have finally obtained the transcript of the Duluth, Minnesota, jury trial which took place October 2, 2007, to October 4, 2007, in Capitol Records v. Thomas. Its 643 pages represent a treasure trove for (a) lawyers representing defendants in other RIAA cases, (b) technologists anxious to see how a MediaSentry investigator and the RIAA's expert witness combined to convince the jurors that the RIAA had proved its case, and (c) anybody interested in finding out about such things as the early-morning October 4th argument in which the RIAA lawyer convinced the judge to make the mistake which forced him to eventually vacate the jury's verdict, and the testimony of SONY BMG's Jennifer Pariser in which she 'misspoke' according to the RIAA's Cary Sherman when she testified under oath that making a copy from one's CD to one's computer is 'stealing.' The transcript was a gift from the 'Joel Fights Back Against RIAA' team defending SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, in Boston, Massachusetts. I have the transcript in 3 segments: October 2nd (278 pages(PDF), October 3rd (263 pages)(PDF), and October 4th (100 pages)(PDF)."

Comment More details. (Score 2, Informative) 603

by Spaceball_3000 on Monday December 22, 2008 @07:41AM (#26198703) Attached to: EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor

For more details on this, and people who have analyzed all the current data on in check out --> http://www.theeestory.com/
I've checked it out about once a week, for updates on it, but over the past year, it's heading towards vaporware.

Comment This questions again. (Score 1) 669

by Spaceball_3000 on Saturday December 13, 2008 @12:25PM (#26103417) Attached to: Long-Term Personal Data Storage?

Seems like ever year we this this same questions on Slashdot. There is no perfect solution that doesn't require some maintenance down the road. Personally I just keep two 500gb HD in software raid-1 mirror, on an free\cheap old pc (from craigslist) and boot once ever year, make sure both drives work, if once fails, swap. Then when future tech changes enough move the data to that equivalent format.

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