The cracked UserROM code was allegedly sent to an NDS division located in California, who supposedly gave it to the 3rd-party website "House of Ill Compute" (also hosted in California and allegedly funded by NDS) to publish it.
It will be very interesting to see whether the U.S. Attorney in California tries to prosecute NDS-America under the DMCA, 17 USC 1201 b.
The Secure Audio Detention Device will consist of a special earplug that decrypts the audio content, and plays it back at a low volume, to ensure that only a single licensed listener can hear it.
A body-temperature sensor and an earwax-detector will both ensure that the device is not used outside of the ear canal, where illegal signal capture might take place.
The chemical signature of the user's earwax will also be monitored, to ensure that the device is not being shared by multiple users, in violation of the License Agreement.
}}} If I've checked my facts correctly, Kipling's }}} "The Jungle Book" was published in 1899.[1] }}} The U.S. copyright statute that would have }}} controlled at expiration would have been the }}} 1909 copyright act, which provided for a }}} 56-year copyright term (28, plus another 28 }}} on renewal). This would have Kipling's }}} copyright expire in 1955.[2]
}} According to the Internet Movie Database, }} Disney's "The Jungle Book" was released }} in 1967, eleven years after the Kipling }} copyright expired.[3]
} My bad. I had written down 1957 for the film.
So, assuming the above is all accurate, Disney waited 11 years, not 1, after the 56-year Kipling copyrights expired. The point still remains, that if the current copyright term had been in place, Disney could not have created the film until ~2007 instead of 1957.
At least one company claims to have a workable
ethanol fuel cell, which would not have
the toxicity problems of methanol.
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010713S0075
They reportedly demo'd it running off plain vodka.
"Stewardess! I need a refill, for, um, my laptop!"
In 1932, physicist Leo Szilard read an H.G. Wells novel,
The World Set Free (1914) which described an imaginary world-war using atomic weapons. According to Szilard, this novel was responsible for his
interest in in nuclear physics (despite Lord Rutherford's proclamation that atomic power was impossible). A year later, he realized how to set up a fission chain reaction and create atomic power.
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The cracked UserROM code was allegedly sent to an NDS division located in California, who supposedly gave it to the 3rd-party website "House of Ill Compute" (also hosted in California and allegedly funded by NDS) to publish it.
It will be very interesting to see whether the U.S. Attorney in California tries to prosecute NDS-America under the DMCA, 17 USC 1201 b.
The Secure Audio Detention Device will consist of a special earplug that decrypts the audio content, and plays it back at a low volume, to ensure that only a single licensed listener can hear it.
A body-temperature sensor and an earwax-detector will both ensure that the device is not used outside of the ear canal, where illegal signal capture might take place.
The chemical signature of the user's earwax will also be monitored, to ensure that the device is not being shared by multiple users, in violation of the License Agreement.
This mis-anecdote originated from the following exchange, on http://www.cni.org/Hforums/cni-copyright/2000-02/0 428.html:
}}} If I've checked my facts correctly, Kipling's
}}} "The Jungle Book" was published in 1899.[1]
}}} The U.S. copyright statute that would have
}}} controlled at expiration would have been the
}}} 1909 copyright act, which provided for a
}}} 56-year copyright term (28, plus another 28
}}} on renewal). This would have Kipling's
}}} copyright expire in 1955.[2]
}} According to the Internet Movie Database,
}} Disney's "The Jungle Book" was released
}} in 1967, eleven years after the Kipling
}} copyright expired.[3]
} My bad. I had written down 1957 for the film.
So, assuming the above is all accurate, Disney waited 11 years, not 1, after the 56-year Kipling copyrights expired. The point still remains, that if the current copyright term had been in place, Disney could not have created the film until ~2007 instead of 1957.
In a mere 3 billion years, the Andromeda galaxy will slam into the Milky way. Ouch, and possibly curtains for life on Earth.
People have done stunts like this, for various reasons, since the dawn of time. For example:
An 173 day dance marathon in 1930, to set a Guinness World Record.
A 2 year treesitting vigil to protest against logging.
A continuous 100 day ride on a roller coaster.
etc. etc. etc. These guys have merely concocted a new category.
At least one company claims to have a workable ethanol fuel cell, which would not have the toxicity problems of methanol. http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010713S0075 They reportedly demo'd it running off plain vodka. "Stewardess! I need a refill, for, um, my laptop!"
In 1932, physicist Leo Szilard read an H.G. Wells novel, The World Set Free (1914) which described an imaginary world-war using atomic weapons. According to Szilard, this novel was responsible for his interest in in nuclear physics (despite Lord Rutherford's proclamation that atomic power was impossible). A year later, he realized how to set up a fission chain reaction and create atomic power.