Monday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on January 23, 2006 at 3:12:30 PM
Abstraction Layers: »http://www.aselabs.com/articles.php?id=189
Video iPod: The DMCA killer. The DMCA is one of the worst pieces of legislation to date.
Talk to the car.
The CEV gets overhauled again.
Video iPod: The DMCA killer. The DMCA is one of the worst pieces of legislation to date.
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Still, some glimmers of hope exist for DMCA reform. At a hearing in November, Rep. Joe Barton, the Texas Republican who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee, seemed to take a common-sense approach. "It boils down to this: I believe that when I buy a music album or movie DVD, it should be mine once I leave the store," Barton said.
Talk to the car.
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Certainly, for car navigation systems has been around for years, as it has for call centers. Many high-end to midrange vehicles like Lexus and Honda's Acura include voice command features for driving directions. But those technologies have long delivered a frustrating experience to consumers, thanks to a limited vocabulary of commands or poor recognition of synonyms and accents.
The CEV gets overhauled again.
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NASA also has dropped plans to power the so-called Crew Launch Vehicle’s upper stage with a Space Shuttle Main Engine modified to start in flight, opting instead to go with an updated version of the J-2 engine that was used on NASA’s Saturn 5 rocket.