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You Can’t Sue Disney Sadly, unless you have money to burn,...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:05:34 -0400

You Can’t Sue Disney

Sadly, unless you have money to burn, even if you can prove © infringement they will bury you with an army of lawyers. They have a history of fighting claims (when they were clearly at fault) for years just to discourage any one from coming after them.

katiewoodger:

DISNEY HAVE STOLEN MY ARTWORK

I don’t know what to do. I am so upset. Can anyone help me?

My painting was created back in 2010, (see it HERE) and since then so many people have expressed their love for it, not just on tumblr, but in many places. At least 9 people had it tattooed on their bodies. It’s one of my favourite images I created at University and I was proud of it in many ways.

Disney have used it on a cosmetics bag HERE (look at the back)
and they have produced a Tshirt HERE with a really similar design clearly modeled from my painting

I’m so mad because I have no chance at getting Disney to do anything about it. I had so much respect for the company and now I am just SO upset and disappointed.

Any help, advice or signal boosting would be amazing. And thank you so much to the kind person who messaged me about this.

Are bionic superhumans on the horizon?

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:58:51 -0400

Are bionic superhumans on the horizon?: We’re in the midst of a bionic revolution that could...

Val Kilmer reprises his role as Batman…poor Val

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:50:00 -0400

Val Kilmer reprises his role as Batman…poor Val

Giant God Warrior Appears In Tokyo

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:39:35 -0400

Giant God Warrior Appears In Tokyo: Giant God Warriors Appear in Tokyo ( Kyoshinhei Tokyo ni Arawaru...

parislemon: laughingsquid: Yeah Yeah Yeahs Post Sign at...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:28:26 -0400

parislemon:

laughingsquid:

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Post Sign at Concert Asking Fans to Put Away Phones & Cameras During Show

Fightin’ words. (Meanwhile, I saw about 1,000 Instagrams and Vines from this very show.)

futurescope: Interspecies telepathy: human thoughts make rat...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 22:30:47 -0400

futurescope:

Interspecies telepathy: human thoughts make rat move

Snip from NewScientist:

Telepathic control of another person’s body is a small step closer. By linking the technologies of two brain/computer interfaces, human volunteers were able to trigger movement in a rat’s tail using their minds. Recently, researchers linked the brains of two rats so that they worked together to accomplish a task. Such techniques are unlikely to be applied to humans any time soon because they require invasive surgery to implant electrodes into the brain.

Now Seung-Schik Yoo of Harvard Medical School in Boston and colleagues have created a system that connects a human to a rat via a computer, without the need for the human or the rat to have brain implants. The human volunteers wore electrode caps that monitored their brain activity using electroencephalography (EEG). Meanwhile, an anaesthetised rat was hooked up to a device that made the creature’s neurons fire whenever it delivered an ultrasonic pulse to the rat’s motor cortex.

Yoo says it should be possible for two humans to use a similar system in the foreseeable future. Such a system could, for instance, be used to help a paralysed person relearn to use their limbs by having their therapist initially move them with their mind.

[via nerdcore] [read more @newscientist] [Seung-Schik Yoo] [paper]

lawcommentator: #Luke1L #comic #lawschool #lawschoolproblems...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:22:36 -0400

lawcommentator:

#Luke1L #comic #lawschool #lawschoolproblems #onlyinlawschool #barreview

The Future of the Internet and IP Law

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:49:34 -0400

The Future of the Internet and IP Law: lichka: The Justice Department’s massive copyright case...

emergentfutures: Ban social media as a distraction? No, it...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 22:16:31 -0400

emergentfutures:

Ban social media as a distraction? No, it boosts productivity

Far from diverting employees from their jobs, social media and smartphones actually make staff more productive - and employers should learn to deal with that new reality.

Access to social networks via mobile devices gives staff a “virtual co-presence” with direct benefits for the business in which they work, according to a new study.

Full Story: TechRepublic

ABA-IPL Law Student Action Group (LSAG): Bios of Our #IPLSpring Law Student Reporters

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 22:15:56 -0400

ABA-IPL Law Student Action Group (LSAG): Bios of Our #IPLSpring Law Student Reporters:...

What I wish for during 99% of law school...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:54:26 -0400

What I wish for during 99% of law school classes.

lawcommentator:

#lawschool #lawschoolproblems #comics #addisonmartinez #jakecraven #southwesternlawschool

mzambrana: patriciareee: chanzero: “Before Watchmen” Prequels...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:10:00 -0500

mzambrana:

patriciareee:

chanzero:

“Before Watchmen” Prequels // Darwyn Cooke, Adam Hughes and more

Look at these creators. I was wondering what guys like Jae Lee were up to! DC’s really trying to make this legit.

RORSCHACH (4 issues) – Writer: Brian Azzarello. Artist: Lee Bermejo

MINUTEMEN (6 issues) – Writer/Artist: Darwyn Cooke

COMEDIAN (6 issues) – Writer: Brian Azzarello. Artist: J.G. Jones

DR. MANHATTAN (4 issues) – Writer: J. Michael Straczynski. Artist: Adam Hughes

NITE OWL (4 issues) – Writer: J. Michael Straczynski. Artists: Andy & Joe Kubert

OZYMANDIAS (6 issues) – Writer: Len Wein. Artist: Jae Lee

SILK SPECTRE (4 issues) – Writer: Darwyn Cooke. Artist: Amanda Conner

Amazon’s Lending Library Now Holds Over 66,000 Ebooks

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:34:44 -0500

Amazon’s Lending Library Now Holds Over 66,000 Ebooks: infoneer-pulse: When Amazon launched its...

Image from the Great Gastby. This suit is sharp. It also further...

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:42:15 -0500

Image from the Great Gastby.

This suit is sharp. It also further demonstrates that blue an orange together is very aesthetically pleasing.

If you don’t believe me about blue and orange take a look at movie posters next time you are in a theatre. I bet at least 1/3 of them use this color scheme.

New trailer for Pixar’s Brave! It’s going to be a...

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:01:57 -0500

New trailer for Pixar’s Brave!

It’s going to be a good summer for movies.

herochan: The Rocketeer - by Rodrigo Pascoal

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:57:35 -0400

herochan:

The Rocketeer - by Rodrigo Pascoal

cwnl: Life May Exist Within A Super Massive Black Hole Despite...

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:20:08 -0400

cwnl:

Life May Exist Within A Super Massive Black Hole

Despite being considered the most destructive force in space and absolutely uninhabitable, the conditions for life exist inside supermassive black holes, a Russian cosmologist has theorised.

Going out on a scientific limb somewhat, Vyacheslav Dokuchaev has even suggested that if life did exist inside the SBH, it would have evolved to become the most advanced civilisation in the galaxy. Supermassive black holes are such powerful gravitational forces that they suck in everything around them, including light, and nothing that crosses the black hole’s ‘event horizon’ is ever seen again.

But now Dokuchaev, of Moscow’s Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, says existing evidence combined with new research throws up intriguing possibilities for certain types of black holes. Inside a charged, rotating black hole there are regions where photons can survive in stable periodic orbits. Dokuchaev specialises in studying those orbits and their dynamics.

He speculates, in a paper published in Cornell University’s online journal arXiv, that if there are stable orbits for photons, there is no reason why there could not be stable orbits for larger objects, such as planets. The problem is that these stable orbits would only exist once you have crossed the threshold of the event horizon, where time and space flow into one another. The event horizon, at the lip of the black hole, is known as the point of no return. However, beyond the event horizon is another domain, known as the Cauchy horizon, where time and space return to stable states.

It is inside the Cauchy horizon that life could exist, Dokuchaev argues in a paper published in Cornell University’s online journal arXiv, However, the type of life that could exist in those conditions - where they would be subject to massive fluctuating tidal forces - would have evolved beyond ours. The life that could exist there would likely be a civilisation ranked as Type III on the Kardashev Scale. There are three levels to the scale with one being the lowest and three the highest. Humanity is still looking to attain Level 1 status; mastery of its own planet.

‘Interiors of the supermassive black holes may be inhabited by advanced civilisations… invisible from the outside,’ he says. Though that is a spine-tingling thought, Dokuchaev’s proposition can only ever remain theoretical. Because nothing can ever escape from a black hole due to its enormous gravitational pull, we will never know if it is true.

emergentfutures: Why Did Amazon Profits Take A Hit? It Is...

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 03:35:58 -0400

emergentfutures:

Why Did Amazon Profits Take A Hit? It Is Investing In The Future

Amazon is ramping up investments in the backend infrastructure to support all the digital media it expects people will want to consume on their Kindles, especially their Kindle Fires. It is spending a lot of money on both technology and content. Amazon spent $769 million on “technology and content” in the quarter, up 74 percent from a year ago. And it invested nearly $1.6 billion on “fixed assets, including internal use software and website development,” which is double the amount it spent a year ago, according to one of its investor slides.

Paul Higgins: I think that the battle of the big innovative companies like Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook is going to be fascinating over the next couple of years. Big bets are being made.

Full Story: TechCrunch

laughingsquid: The Walking Dead

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:58:28 -0400

laughingsquid:

The Walking Dead

The Future of Entertainment

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:21:50 -0400

Entertainment as we know will be substantially different in the future. Everything from movies, TV,...