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IEEE Adds DMCA Clause for Submitted Papers

xpccx writes: "Newsforge has this blurb about the IEEE changing its 'IEEE Copyright Form' for submissions to the 'IEEE Copyright Transfer & Export Control Compliance Form.' From the IEEE site: 'While the IEEE standard manuscript submission process has always required authors to represent that the necessary clearances and approvals have been obtained, the newly revised Form now requires the author's explicit affirmation that the manuscript does not violate U.S. export laws or restrictions.' And specifically from the new form, 'The undersigned further warrants that the publication or dissemination of the Work shall not violate any proprietary right or the Digital Copyright Millennium Act (the "DCMA").' Maybe the IEEE just wants to protect itself from DMCA lawsuits, but I hope their intention is not to abandon authors who get sued."

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  3. Slashdot people: do you believe in ghosts? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I do.

    The House of evil is a Brooklyn Brownstone apartment, that's haunted by evil spirits. Many strange, and unexplained events have happened to me, and my family in the past 10 years. The building is haunted from top to bottom, but the top floor seems to be the center of activity of this house. I have had many encounters with spirits, my first experience happened in the summer of 1990, when i saw strange balls of green lights, moving across my sister's bedroom. In Feb. 1994, after the big snowstorm, my brother-in law, who lived across the street from my house, was looking out of his top floor window that afternoon, and he saw, with his own eyes, an apparition of a 19th- century man, who looked as if he was shoveling snow off the roof. At least a half an hour later, during investigation, by my father, and my brother-in law, they were spooked to find no footprints, or obvious signs of shoveling on the rooftop. My other experience, occured on a hot August night in 1993, my sister, and i were talking, in the living room, and we both heard a door slam shut, as if someone entered our top floor apartment, and we heard it, not once, but a number of times. there's alot more to my true ghost story,

    1. Re:Slashdot people: do you believe in ghosts? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I believe in ghosts when you can prove their existence by a physical measurement and everybody can reproduce the results at will.

    2. Re:Slashdot people: do you believe in ghosts? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      The narrowminded skeptic's answer I expected.

      Take off your scientific blinders and embrace the reality that is vastly more complex than you or any other human could ever understand.

    3. Re:Slashdot people: do you believe in ghosts? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      A skeptic is the exact opposite of narrow minded.

      A skeptic says "prove it"

      Someone narrow minded believes when there isn't proof or disbelieves when there is.