Wed Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on June 29, 2005 at 3:29:05 PM
I'll be posting a review of a BTX case tonight. I also plan on posting a few video card reviews with in the next week or so. Stick around, stuff happens.
India makes the $100 PC. If you can call it a PC.
Supreme Court stupidly and unanimously agreed that Grokster can be held liable for what its users do! The Supreme Court system in this country is absolutely appalling! Judges should NOT be giving a lifetime term. This was done when life spans were only 30-40 years. All of the justices on the current Supreme Court are all over 50 years old. Where do the past few generations come on the Supreme Court? I'm sorry, most people over 50 years old do not have sufficient understanding of technology to impose litigation on this type of issue. REVISE THE SUPREME COURTS NOW!
Another angle on the above ruling.
The shuttle still unsafe to launch. There is no perfect safety! Let's get back into space already.
Titan may have lakes.
India makes the $100 PC. If you can call it a PC.
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In about three months, a little-known company called Novatium plans to offer a stripped-down home computer for about $70 or $75. That is about half the price of the standard "thin clients" of this kind now sold in India, made possible in part by some novel engineering choices. Adding a monitor doubles the price to $150, but the company will offer used displays to keep the cost down.
Supreme Court stupidly and unanimously agreed that Grokster can be held liable for what its users do! The Supreme Court system in this country is absolutely appalling! Judges should NOT be giving a lifetime term. This was done when life spans were only 30-40 years. All of the justices on the current Supreme Court are all over 50 years old. Where do the past few generations come on the Supreme Court? I'm sorry, most people over 50 years old do not have sufficient understanding of technology to impose litigation on this type of issue. REVISE THE SUPREME COURTS NOW!
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The first task at hand is understanding how Monday's landmark ruling against Grokster and StreamCast Networks will change the landscape for file swapping and for the music and movie industries. While far from a death knell for unregulated peer-to-peer networks, the decision has certainly cast a dark cloud over the future of companies seeking to profit from swapping software.
Another angle on the above ruling.
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Two lower courts had previously ruled that the Grokster and StreamCast could not be held responsible for copyright infringement carried out using their software. This was based on a precedent set by another Supreme Court decision, in 1984, which absolved Sony from liability for copyright infringement carried out using Betamax video tapes, because the tapes also had legitimate uses.
The shuttle still unsafe to launch. There is no perfect safety! Let's get back into space already.
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The CAIB also recommended NASA eliminate all foam and ice that comes off the external fuel tank during launch. A suitcase-sized chunk of foam from the tank ultimately caused the Columbia accident when it punctured a hole in the orbiter's wing during launch. Hot gases flooded in and blew up the orbiter when it re-entered the atmosphere on 1 February 2003.
Titan may have lakes.
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The feature measures about 230 kilometres long and 70 km wide and, intriguingly, lies below Titan's cloudiest region. "It might not be surprising for a methane-filled lake to persist for a long time," says team member Tony Del Genio of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, US.