Are you sure about that comment? Kiwi plants is one sort I know to be flowering and not hermphrodite. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinidia_deliciosa#Flowers )

They are sending up a pretty big permanent magnet to the ISS very soon. It is part of the AMS science experiment http://www.ams02.org/what-is-ams/tecnology/magnet/pmmagnet/ Could we call this a field test ? If the ISS drops out of the sky, i guess we will know.

Dude, no one knows, that is kinda the whole problem of 2257. In the past 6 years it has become so broad that any corner cases can only be decided in court. And that is why Google Yahoo and all those other big internet companies are ignoring those laws. So they can get sued and a judge will tell them the scope of the law.

Sue Gardner, the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Gardner

"moral copyfraud".

Yeah, in this I agree with BasilBrush somewhat earlier in the comments thread. "The law is flawed: The act of photographing a painting with the best quality of reproduction of the original is a technical exercise, not a creative act. It's not essentially different from an experienced photocopier operator making a photocopy."

Indeed. This is not really a case of legal copyfraud, it's more about moral copyfraud. They might have the right to claim and exert their copyright on these photos perhaps, but in the light of their mission, it is a form of moral copyfraud, to do so, when the photos are of art works that are in the Public Domain. I advise people to read: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/26/copyfraud/ and http://blog.librarylaw.com/librarylaw/2009/02/more-attacks-on-institutional-copyfraud.html

You misinterpreted the poll. The poll was only to confirm if the community would follow the position of the WMF, or stand by it's previous guidelines under which these images would not have been allowed because they were from the UK. So the position of the WMF was not based on the outcome of the poll, it predated the poll.

I also really liked this book. The first 150 pages are a bit hard to read due to the number of new words introduced but once you get used to it and understand the important ones (and historical references) it's really enjoyable, a lot more that Cryptonomicon or the Baroque Cycle.

SCNF typically operates TGV North line (Paris-Lille) [1] with two connected single-deck TGVs, to double capacity. As the limiting operational factor is the distance between trains, the more passengers the better. Anyway, I have got to believe that the two locomotives of each halves are running, hence there should be traction from the middle of the train. [1] not always, and probably not only on that one, but that's the one I know :)

I was in the same IRC channel as jon when he was doing this :)