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>> Warners was expecting to have "Happy Birthday" under copyright until 2030. At which time Disney would have extended copyright another 30 years.

The Microcorruption folks are in beta for 'Jailbreak' along the security angle again. They are also doing Stockfigher a trading simulator. https://www.stockfighter.io

Odd and interesting to read. I would have guessed a larger percentage of Russians got their views online. I would also think that most online news written in Russian would be under…

It's real and in 'development' http://www.imdb.com/news/ni56219676/

14 year old boy is going to meet POTUS and he can bring his cool clock. https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/644193755814342656

>> Disclosure: Jeff Bezos is an investor in Business Insider through his personal investment company Bezos Expeditions. Meh.

Agreed, it would make more sense to use the EU apparatus. The change org was promoted through German pirate party (according to link I followed from here https://juliareda.eu/2015/…

There is a petition against it on Change.org .. currently 192,000 signatures.... Now 193.... https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-save-the-freedo...

>> This thoughtless behaviour reminds me of the thousands of websites which include a "(c) YYYY" copyright notice in their footers, despite this being completely irrelevant in mode…

Your value to a company is not only what you can do now, but what you can do in the future - If you get acute back ache, burn out and RSI in both paws - you'll be taken out back, l…

>> "When the data speeds in both directions — downloading and uploading — were the same, there was a lot of electrical interference that slowed data traffic to a crawl. >> ... such…

So the op has stopped drinking coffee and was clear of headaches which he thinks is due to Dandy Blend. However, he is still getting a considerable fraction of the caffeine he got …

Avoiding processed food should be what Cartman would call 'hippy nonsense'. Unfortunately, many food processors are interested in removing, expensive, nutritious food and replacing…

Authoritative source of information, thanks ;-) I will evaluate it on my next project.

Is Rethink going to stay in the community? Or is there a chance that it could be bought out? I don't want to spend time learning something and have it go private like FoundationDB.…

As of last year about 12,000 mines - they are trying to close smaller mines which are often illegal and have high death rates. However, they are still expanding capacity [2] - so t…

So, taking the office of national (UK) statistics - in 2013 the growth rate of the population is 0.6%, on 64 million. Giving you 384,000 extra per year - about half of the growth i…

The article summaries as 'we eat too much sugar', 'here's some science that suggests it can be bad in rodents', and finally 'maybe you should swear off sugar'. I agree, we eat too …

I saw Mail Chimp at $200 a month for 10,000 and thought.. really? However, when I look at Mail Chimp it seems to be $75. So: 10K subscribers, Monthly charge, Unlimited sendlimit Ma…

It's a move that makes sense - his business of allowing you to share and download files puts him at odds with authorities. Given this nature of this business his clients would moti…

Evergreen, now there's a euphemism. :-) I appreciate, in the end you have to do what gets you the most views, however, from my perspective missing out the date means you prefer to …

His work was ignored, ironically, through a lack of scientific reasoning - by which the critics meant there was no theoretical basis for his evidence. It was taken seriously when P…

From Doc linked from the page: "Dr. Czeisler received royalties from McGraw Hill, Penguin Press/Houghton" [1] It's shaming of the BBC not to have dealt with the findings more criti…

A major problem for the military is the availability of guns (and people who are effective at firing them). In the UK we used to kill ourselves with gas from the stove (it had carb…