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Feed New York Times: General Motors Says It Could Lead Electric Car Race (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Saturday August 11, 2007 @03:12AM

The automaker has signed an agreement with a battery maker that could propel it ahead of Toyota in the race to bring plug-in hybrid and electric cars to market.

Submission + - Judge Permits eBay's 'Buy It Now' Feature

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stalebread

on Saturday July 28, 2007 @03:53PM

stalebread writes: "The Associated Press reports: A federal judge denied on Friday a request from a small Virginia company to stop the online auction powerhouse eBay from using its "Buy It Now" feature, which allows shoppers to purchase items at a fixed price. Judge Jerome B. Friedman of Federal District Court denied a motion by the Virginia company, MercExchange, for a permanent injunction to stop eBay from using the feature. The Supreme Court ruled last year that, although eBay infringed upon MercExchange's patent for the service, it was up to the lower court to decide whether eBay had to stop using it. "MercExchange has utilized its patents as a sword to extract money rather than as a shield to protect its right to exclude or its market share, reputation, good will, or name recognition, as MercExchange appears to possess none of these," he wrote."

Comment Re:--Yahoo-- is not suing anyone (Score 1) 647

by stalebread on Saturday July 21, 2007 @01:50AM (#19935877) Attached to: Slot Machine with Bad Software Sends Players To Jail

Yahoo has a new option: perhaps the users are criminally liable for using the software.

I assume the poster meant to say "opinion", not "option".

It's not Yahoo's option or opinion. First of all, the article was written by AP, the news service that Yahoo buys articles from. Second of all, even the AP was just reporting on what the prosecutor was considering doing. The AP wasn't providing an opinion.

How Hot Would a Light Saber Really Be? 410

Posted by Cliff on Saturday April 01, 2006 @01:45AM from the whizzz-vroom dept.

Datagod asks: "Has anyone ever calculated the temperature you would need to be able to slice through steel like it was thin air? How hot would a light saber really need to be? Also, I am assuming that at least some of the metal would be vaporized and the expanding gas would fling bits of molten metal at the saber wielder. Wouldn't your average Jedi be horribly scarred from all this."

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