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Comment It could have been worse (Score 1) 307

by aaronwormus on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @07:49PM (#39718227) Attached to: Snoozing Pilot Mistakes Venus For Aircraft; Panic, Injuries Ensue

at least he didn't dive to avoid hitting Uranus

Yoko Ono/EMI Suit Exposes Fair Use Flaw 409

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 09, 2008 @06:57AM from the I-hope-someday-you'll-sue-us dept.

Ian Lamont writes "Yoko Ono and EMI Records have backed down from their suit against the makers of a documentary film who used a 15-second fragment of a John Lennon song — but only after a Stanford Law School group got involved. Even though the use of the clip was clearly Fair Use, the case exposed a huge problem with the doctrine: It's becoming too expensive for people to actually take advantage of what is supposed to be a guaranteed right. Ironically, the song in question was Imagine."

Misc Slashdot Anniversary: West Palm Beach, FL, US

Submitted by aaronwormus on Tuesday October 09, 2007 @05:08PM

Get more information about the Slashdot Anniversary Party at Roxy's Pub.

Comment Re:Google doesn't, but it's possible (Score 1) 180

by aaronwormus on Monday March 12, 2007 @06:12AM (#18314359) Attached to: Googlebot and Document.Write

If google were to index javascript, they would probably create their own interpreter which only interpreted content that was meaningful to a search engine.

If googlebot had to interpret every fade-in menu and every roll-over effect it would take substantially more resources for google to crawl the web. Googlebot would also be vulnerable to malicious scripts - or scripts built to waste its time.

Submission + - BBC strikes Google-YouTube deal

Submitted by

twofish

on Friday March 02, 2007 @06:50AM

twofish writes: "Google's YouTube video site will soon be showing content from the BBC in a deal announced today. Content will include adverts, clips from popular programs and news items. The deal is likely to be controversial, particularly since the BBC is paid for by a compulsory tax system (the license fee) rather than through advertising or subscription"

Spacecraft Crashes Into Satellite 343

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 17, 2006 @11:25PM from the coming-or-going dept.

Juha-Matti Laurio writes "A robotic NASA spacecraft designed to rendezvous with an orbiting satellite instead crashed into its target. Unbeknownst to engineers at the time, DART's main sensor mistakenly believed it was flying away from the satellite when it was actually moving 5 feet per second toward it, investigators found."

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