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Comment Re:Bad consequences (Score 1) 758

by consultant on Saturday September 11, 2010 @04:56AM (#33543272) Attached to: Court Says First Sale Doctrine Doesn't Apply To Licensed Software

So does that mean that software retailers can now be sued for false advertising when they ask you to "buy" software with licence agreements like this, since, as an earlier poster said you are technically renting it. Will the Best Buy's and Amazons of the world be happy to "rent software" to people even if it is "in perpetuity" because of the conditions?

Does this invalidate the Amazon one-click "Buy it Now" since you're not really buying it?

Obviously it throws up a bunch of questions....

Comment Been in the UK a While (Score 1) 206

by consultant on Thursday March 25, 2010 @10:16AM (#31610192) Attached to: Google Wants To Be Your Electricity Meter

AlertMe have been doing this with Google for a while now. http://www.alertme.com/products/alertme-energy/

Rumour has it that they may be setting up operations in the USA too soon.

Submission + - First quantum chips made

Submitted by holy_calamity on Thursday September 27, 2007 @07:34AM

holy_calamity writes: The first quantum computer chips have been made by two US groups, New Scientist reports. Both NIST and Yale demonstrated chips where information was transferred between two superconducting qubits using a 'quantum bus'. The bus is made from a cavity that traps a single microwave photon as a standing wave — the NIST group also managed to use the bus to store data from one qubit for a short time.

Feed ACE Inhibitors Provide Greater Heart Protection (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Sunday April 22, 2007 @11:12AM

The blood pressure-lowering drugs called ACE inhibitors provide almost ten percent greater protection against coronary heart disease, compared with angiotensin receptor blockers, says new research published in the Journal of Hypertension by The George Institute for International Health.

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