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Comment Re:Actual Science Books? (Score 1) 1419

by WobindWonderdog (#24111895) Attached to: Sci-Fi Books For Pre-Teens?
pft, You can still find wonder and awe in well written non-fiction. As a teen I highly enjoyed reading about Richard Feynmann and about chaos theory and the like.

James Gleick has a fantastic writing style that portrays the normally dry material in a engaging style.

Otherwise, books on logic, astrophysics etc can all be found in some books that present the information in a format edible for younger kids.
Patents

Submission + - Amazon Patents Including a String at End of a URL

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theodp writes: "On Tuesday, Amazon search subsidiary A9.com was awarded U.S. patent no. 7,287,042 for 'including a search string at the end of a URL without any special formatting.' In the Summary of the Invention, it's explained that 'a user wishing to search for 'San Francisco Hotels' may do by simply accessing the URL www.domain_name/San Francisco Hotels, where domain_name is a domain name associated with the web site system.' Here's the flowchart that helped cinch the deal."
The Courts

New Attorneys Fee Decision Against RIAA 144

Posted by Zonk from the maybe-you-should-reconsider-your-strategy dept.
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA has gotten slammed again, this time in Oregon, as the Magistrate Judge in Atlantic v. Andersen has ruled that Tanya Andersen's motion for attorneys fees should be granted. The Magistrate, in his 15-page decision, noted that, despite extensive pretrial discovery proceedings, 'when plaintiffs dismissed their claims in June 2007, they apparently had no more material evidence to support their claims than they did when they first contacted defendant in February 2005.....' and concluded that 'Copyright holders generally, and these plaintiffs specifically, should be deterred from prosecuting infringement claims as plaintiffs did in this case.' This is the same case in which (a) the RIAA insisted on interrogating Ms. Andersen's 10-year-old girl at a face-to-face deposition, (b) the defendant filed RICO counterclaims against the record companies, and (c) the defendant recently converted her RICO case into a class action"

Xbox Live Disallows Linux, Unix As Keywords 281

Posted by kdawson from the way-beyond-childish dept.
shafty023 writes "The Xbox Live online service disallows screen names like LINUXRULES, L I N U X, and other variations of these kinds. Other bloggers are reporting that variants of 'Unix' also result in the message: 'Your motto contains inappropriate language. Please try again.'" If this is an extension of Microsoft's anti-Linux campaign, perhaps it's time they gave it up.
Space

Sharpest Images With "Lucky" Telescope 165

Posted by kdawson from the palomar-ascendent dept.
igny writes "Astronomers from the University of Cambridge and Caltech have developed a new camera that gives much more detailed pictures of stars and nebulae than even the Hubble Space Telescope, and does it from the ground. A new technique called 'Lucky imaging' has been used to diminish atmospheric noise in the visible range, creating the most detailed pictures of the sky in history."

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