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Comment 2010 (Score 1) 610

by smoondog on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @04:45PM (#34757862) Attached to: NASA Names Best & Worst Sci-Fi Movies of All Time

I largely agree with their list. contact is, imo, the best and gattaca is second. i think, however, that they missed 2010. its way different than the original, but as a realistic sci-fi movie it stands on its own and has aged well

Comment ps3, 360, etc (Score 4, Insightful) 202

by smoondog on Tuesday December 21, 2010 @06:35PM (#34635234) Attached to: Google TV Suffers Setback

the internet has made it to my tv, i get it through my ps3. why would i want another device that basically does the same thing but less of it?

Comment i understand but ... (Score 1) 161

by smoondog on Monday December 13, 2010 @03:19PM (#34537054) Attached to: Righthaven Sues For Control of Drudge Report Domain

I've always been confused about how meta news isn't news itself and therefore constitutionally protected. If the denver post (or the AP) posts a picture, and someone republishes that picture as 'news' because they reported it, how is that not journalism in itself. Is all copyrighted material off limits as 'news'? (headline, 'the denver post published this picture today claiming that ... '

My gut would tell me, although I'm not a lawyer, that since reproduction for educational purposes is 'fair use' (which isn't constitutionally protected), shouldn't journalism be similarly protected as fair use?

Comment Laboratree (Score 1) 328

by smoondog on Friday March 13, 2009 @05:38PM (#27186687) Attached to: Collaborative Academic Writing Software?

You might try Laboratree (http://laboratree.org/). We have built a social networking platform off of OpenSocial and created a document and data set management tool that has Subversion like editing. It is used by a couple of hundred groups currently.

Submission + - Blu-ray won't play Profile 2.0 Discs 4

Submitted by

Reservoir Hill

on Saturday January 12, 2008 @03:15PM

Reservoir Hill writes: "Blu-ray may have taken a commanding lead in the next-generation format war but Betanews is reporting that early supporters of Blu-ray will be left out in the cold when the Blu-ray Disc Association introduces BD Profile 2.0, expected to arrive in October. Unlike HD DVD, which mandated features such as local storage, a second video and audio decoder for picture-in-picture, and a network connection from the very beginning, the companies behind Blu-ray took a different approach to keep costs down. "We should have waited another year to introduce Blu-ray to the public, but the format war changed the situation," said one manufacturer. Representatives at the Blu-ray booth at CES said that the PlayStation 3 is currently the only player they would recommend, due to upcoming changes to the platform. Asked if they were concerned about a backlash from early adopters who supported the format from the beginning, one representative said: "They knew what they were getting into.""

Submission + - Can Govt Study Says P2P Downloaders Buy More Music 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 02, 2007 @05:50PM

An anonymous reader writes: Michael Geist reports that a newly study commissioned by the Government of Canada, which includes some of the most extensive surveying to date of the Canadian population on music purchasing habits, finds what many have long suspected — there is a positive correlation between peer-to-peer downloading and CD purchasing. The Impact of Music Downloads and P2P File-Sharing on the Purchase of Music: A Study For Industry Canada was conducted collaboratively by two professors from the University of London, Industry Canada, and Decima Research, who surveyed over 2,000 Canadians on their music downloading and purchasing habits.

Submission + - Rick Rubin discloses Sony rootkit called home

Submitted by caffeinemessiah on Monday September 03, 2007 @03:15PM

caffeinemessiah writes: Rick Rubin, the legendary music producer, recently signed on as co-head of Columbia Records, which is owned by Sony BMG. In a recent New York Times interview (on pg. 4 of the online version), he discloses (possibly accidentally):

It was the highest debut of Neil [Diamond]'s career, off to a great start. But Columbia — it was some kind of corporate thing — had put spyware on the CD. That kept people from copying it, but it also somehow recorded information about whoever bought the record...
Seems like the rootkit might have been a little more than your vanilla invade-your-rights-DRM scheme.

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