Ok, it is wrong, but i think nobody thought that the guys from PB could get out of the court covered in flowers.
There is too much pressure by the lobby on the political structure to admit that a sentence such in opposition with the actual views on IP could pass.
Remember that the eyes of the world were on that court.
Heck, it even made the frontpage of Italian newspapers.

What do we have to learn is that, even if wrong, it is a MINOR fault. It is not the unforgivable sin nor it does not cause the economical losses major would want us to believe.
It is less then a cent per download. Hey, i'd be more than willing to pay even 10 or 50 cent for every movie/album i were to download!
How would you behave if your uncorrect parking fines were 1$ each?

The second one. Give me something to talk about, a pair of trainers and a shower and next time she'll be mine!

Ok, everybody was dreaming thet they were going to be considered "innocent" and such.
But i personally see this outcome as a *big* win.
If the so colled four "bosses" of the Internet file sharing, accused by the industry of Billion dollars of losses and working as a team, can get away with first verdict of a year in jail and a fine of 750k $ each, this means that the court perfectly recognized the extreme differences between the Industry concept of damages due to not buying the records and the real thing ("Not every downloaded copy is a copy non sold")

From this verdict, we should think that a single individual, with a normal downloading activity, will be never hold responsible for any damage to the music/video industry.

Arduino was featured on the first italian issue of Wired.
It surely is an interesting approach, both from the philosophical side (as a form of open source hardware) but also from a business point of view (it is the perfect project for a noprofit situation, or schools too)

This could be true for poor countries, but i completely doubt that a twentysomething who spends 200 $ for a pair of shoes or goes to a club where entry and drink is 30 $ cannot shell out 10 $ twice a month for a DVD or a record (consider also that you can have old cd/dvd for a couple of bucks through ebay/online sellers).

A new Firefox extension appears!

Faster PCR is to Dna Techniques what Overcloking is to hardware performance.

Sometimes it could be a solution, sometimes it's just a buzzword, sometimes it's the door to your nightmares.
In a lot of applications, PCR speed it's not the bottleneck.