Casiello Family Weblog

Some folks with a little too much time on their hands.

You’ll have to get up early, 1 1/2 hours before sunrise, to catch a glimpse of Comet Pojmanski: Sky and Telescope – A Surprise Comet in the Dawn

According to Nature magazine, researchers at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have designed a quantum computer where you don’t have to run a program for it to give you answers.

Does this mean Quantum Windows won’t crash? Probably not, but at least it may be crashing in somebody else’s universe.

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“Joke” Conversation Thread in which the 🙂 Was Invented

Cook an egg with two cellphones.

(from EFF via IP)

RIAA Says Ripping CDs to Your iPod is NOT Fair Use

RIAA filing to Copyright Office:
“Nor does the fact that permission to make a copy in particular circumstances is often or even routinely granted, necessarily establish that the copying is a fair use when the copyright owner withholds that authorization. In this regard, the statement attributed to counsel for copyright owners in the MGM v. Grokster case is simply a statement about authorization, not about fair use.”