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...encourage illegal downloading (and Yagan steadfastly holds that eDonkey did not), these services lack the resources to fight the RIAA in court. Driven by an arrogance born of its deep corporate coffers, the RIAA is muscling legitimate startups out of business because some users are using the software to commit copyright violations. By doing so, the RIAA will only succeed in driving file-sharing services offshore, where it can’t touch them. It would be better off filing suits only against services that explicitly encourage the sharing of copyrighted materials. The RIAA’s campaign against file...
...editors: Sometimes opinion writers make invalid assumptions, sometimes they needlessly offend people, and sometimes they misuse big words. Alex Slack has managed to commit all three sins in just one article (“The Easy Way to Fix Fly-By,” comment, Oct. 6). First, if he truly believes that all cotton garments are equally non-abrasive, I suggest that he try sleeping on denim sheets for a night. Second, although I myself am a frequent flyer-by, I haven’t seen any evidence of the innate lasagna-spooning inability he reports among short females...
...billion a year, compared with JAXA's current budget of $1.8 billion. Sekigawa doubts such increases will find much political backing. "The government doesn't seem that interested in space at the moment," he says. Johnson-Freese of the U.S. Naval War College sees no evidence that Japan will commit the resources needed to chase China in space: "Technologically, everyone understands that the Japanese could pretty much do whatever they want, but it's the politics that...
...really made myself choose one sport early on,” McKinley says. “I knew I wanted to be great at volleyball, and I knew I needed to commit the time...
Catalano said that HUPD includes the number of larcenies the campus sees each year under the burglary category, while other universities may not report their larcenies at all. A burglary implies forced entry—breaking and entering—into private property in order to commit a crime, while larcenies include situations where items are stolen from an unlocked room. The Clery Act does not require schools to report the number of larcenies, rather, there is only a burglary category...