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• Brettspiel commented on Welcome to nationalized Citibank
  greglondon - did you actually call them to disconnect the service? I don't think the cable cos have the same interconnection agreements that telcos have, and converting from one to another doesn't mean they handle the disconnect behind the scenes....
• Joe MommaSan commented on Trying to save orphan works from the Authors Guild monopoly control
  Kind of sheds a bit of a different light on all that high-minded talk about protecting the rights of content creators, doesn't it? Looks like the important part is making sure somebody makes money, regardless of whether or not it's the person who should be....
• Brainspore commented on Google Book Search settlement gives Google a virtual monopoly over literature
  Publishers also try to get the largest possible SHARE of a finite market for books. If you're reading an out-of-print text made available by Google that means that you didn't just pay Scribner for the latest Stephen King novel. It's not a legal defense, but it's a clear motive for existing publishers to try to stop this sort of thing....
• aqeldroma commented on Google Book Search settlement gives Google a virtual monopoly over literature
  I posted an article about the symposium sponsored by the Columbia Law School on the long term implications of the Google Books class settlement here. There are lots of nuances about this settlement that even the publishers aren't picking up on....
• bigalba commented on Alan Gibb's Eclectic, Electric Art
  I was lucky enough to photograph Electrum over the course of two evenings in August 2008 as part of a project out of Zagreb, Croatia exploring the work of Nikola Tesla (http://www.bulaja.com/TESLA/Tesla_about_eng.htm) and attach some links to the shots below. I can definitely say that Electrum is in no way wimpy. The noise it makes fills the entire bay with a high pitched buzz sawing drone each time it fires and the safe distance is around fifty foot from the base. It is an impressive and scary sight, especially manoeuvring in close for some detail shots through a long lens....