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  1. 1 Million Wiis To Be Sold.... by Dannon · · Score: 1 · on 1 Million Wiis To Be Sold in U.S. By December

    But I hear there are only 50 Wiis to leave your lover....

  2. Re:Word by rk · · Score: 1 · on Why Ballmer Should Leave Microsoft

    I prefer Sci-fi Wasabi, myself.

  3. Cibo Matto by yet+another+coward · · Score: 1 · on Chicken Genome Sequenced

    This accomplishment fulfills an important Cibo Matto mandate. You got to "Know Your Chicken."

  4. Uninamed pop stars not associated with the CTEA by yerricde · · Score: 2 · on Power Laws, Weblogs, and Your Given Name

    I would have used Madonna instead; though she's 0wn3d by Time Warner, I couldn't find anything on Google indicating that she has voiced support for copyright term extension or for a ban on circumvention of fair use denial mechanisms.

    Even better: Prince. His name is Prince Rogers Nelson, but he goes by his first name as a stage name and for a while used the unpronounceable[1] symbol O(+>. And he has voiced support of marketing big-label music through online downloads.

    [1] Some people pronounced O(+> as "Frog".

  5. Can't clean-room around a music copyright by yerricde · · Score: 3, Informative · on Ring Tones Will Save the Music Industry

    The record companies have the rights to the sheet music I would guess

    That's true if the record company and the music publisher are owned by the same conglomerate, such as Warner Bros. Records and Warner Chappell Music (owner of "happy birthday to you") both owned by Warner Communications, a unit of AOL Time Warner Inc.

    but they must not have any ownership if I listen to the radio and transcribe it myself.

    No matter how you hear a copyrighted musical work, it's still copyrighted. Unlike with computer program copyright, there's no way to "clean-room reverse engineer" around music copyright. Even if you only unconsciously plagiarize a copyrighted musical work, you're still liable under USA copyright law.

  6. So it's whose fault? by Len · · Score: 1 · on Greene's Grammy Speech Debunked
    "...barely used P2P file-sharing programs at all. Instead, they used AOL's popular Instant Messenger to receive song files from friends."

    So the record companies should sue AOL Time Warner! Um...
  7. Re:The Horror! by bservo · · Score: 1 · on Frankenstein Time
    Very true. But who wants to be in the group that's going to be burned by our poor judgement when using this new technology? Ask the millions of Japanese citizens that died in WWII from our nukes and the hundreds of thousands of people in third world countries diagnosed with cancer due to our testing of so-called depleted uranium weapons if their sacrifice was/is worth it. Woo hoo. Now we've got "clean" energy plants that produce toxic waste that we can bury in our neighbor's yards.

    I know, I know, this sounds a lot like a Don Henley song, but excuse me, I'll pass thankyouverymuch. It's easy to say "Oh, we'll make mistakes. People will die." It's unfortunate that 1) this is true and 2) we even take this attitude. Certainly there are ways to avoid these doomsday scenarios. But this requires people thinking about the situation first, then acting. Quickly. These are hard problems that demand quite a bit from the general population, but nonetheless have to be addressed. If our history is any indication of the future, someone else will do the acting before the thinking. That's all that Katz is trying to say.

    It would seem that a lot of Slashdot readers don't care of Katz's writing...think it's too sensationalistic. Ya know folks, he's just playing the Devil's advocate. He's trying to get us to think about our frickin' world so that we might take part in it someday more than hooking up X10 modules to our lamps and coffee maker. There are people in the world that know far less about technology than us (and don't care) but have enough power to have a major impact on the course of the human race, both in good and bad ways. If we can't find our way into those kinds of positions, we should at least find a way to clue them into doing the Right Thing with our research/code/hardware.

    Okay. I'm a little verklempt. I'll give you a topic. "Third world nation with a hatred for the US gets a hold of genome map and develops a virulent biological weapon. Discretely brought into the country, a distributed attack is made in every major metropolitan area in the US." Next summer's blockbuster or current event in the year 2010? Discuss.