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If you think the government should do something about the cramped legroom on airplanes, you’ve got a friend in a federal appeals court. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., on Friday ordered aviation regulators to consider setting minimum standards for the space airlines give passengers. “This is the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat,” Judge Patricia Ann Millett wrote on behalf of the three-judge panel. “As many have no doubt noticed, aircraft seats and the spacing between them have been getting smaller and smaller, while American passengers have been growing in size.” The court found in favor of Flyers Rights, a nonprofit advocacy group, which had argued that steadily shrinking legroom and seat size created a safety hazard and the Federal Aviation Administration should impose new restrictions. Read Article: http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/07/28/incredible-shrinking-airline-seat-gets-u-s-court-rebuke-2/ We see hundreds or even thousands of images a day, and almost all of them have been digitally manipulated in some way. Some have gotten basic color corrections or simple Instagram filter effects, while others have received full on Photoshop jobs to completely transform the subject. It turns out humans aren’t very good at recognizing when an image has been manipulated, even if the change is fairly substantial. Hany Farid is a professor of computer science at Dartmouth College who specializes in photo forensics, and while he can’t share all of his fancy software tools for detecting editing trickery, he has shared a few tips for authenticating images on your own.
Read Article: www.popsci.com/use-photo-forensics-to-spot-faked-images It’s natural to fear that your idea might be stolen. But you can’t turn your vision into reality without the help of others. Sooner or later, you’re going to want to ask an industry expert to evaluate your product or service. You’re going to need to collaborate with a manufacturer or distributor. But patents cost thousands of dollars and take years to be issued. You can’t afford to wait that long to start bringing your product to market.
Thankfully, there are creative ways to actively protect your idea without applying for a patent. Here are four affordable strategies that will protect your business idea from being stolen: Do your research. Before you begin working with anyone new, be it an individual or organization, do some research online. Do they have a good track record? Can you find any complaints about their business practices? Try to get a sense of what they’re all about. If you find cause for concern, consider asking about it. As we all know, not everything you find online is true. But if their business practices seem sketchy before you’ve even begun to work with them, that’s not a good sign. Read Article: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/226595 Read about the complex history and recent legal problems of the news fact-checking site Snopes.7/26/2017
Very interesting video covering 70 years of flight research by NASA
The newly proposed planetary shape is called a synestia Synestia
\sin-es-ti-ə \ n.A large spinning hunk of hot, vaporized rock that forms when rocky, planet-sized objects collide Earth may have taken on a jelly doughnut shape early in its history. The rocky planet was spinning through space about 4.5 billion years ago when it smacked into a Mars-sized hunk of rotating rock called Theia, according to one theory (SN: 4/15/17, p. 18). That hit may have turned Earth into a synestia, a blob of mostly vaporized rock with an indented center, resembling a slightly squished jelly doughnut, new simulations suggest. This synestia wouldn’t have had much of a solid or liquid surface. And the structure could have spread to about 100,000 kilometers across or more, much larger than its original 13,000 kilometers or so. The added girth would have come from rock vaporizing and continuing to spin quickly, which would puff up and flatten the shape. Read Article: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/earth-might-once-have-resembled-hot-steamy-doughnut?tgt=nr HOUSTON – Our Verify team is looking into a question a lot of us have asked – is it legal to share passwords for things like Netflix, Hulu or HBO Go?
Link to article: http://www.wfmynews2.com/news/local/verify/verify-is-it-legal-to-share-your-streaming-service-password/458785891 Losing a legal case can be a devastating thing. While a decision by a judge or jury may seem final, it is not the end of the road. Before giving up, you need to ask yourself, “what is an appeal?” and consider whether you have a reason to appeal the decision rendered by the judge or jury.
At the simplest level, an appeal is simply a request that a legal judgment be changed. When you go to court as a plaintiff or a defendant, the judge or jury will render a binding legal decision. You must either comply with the terms of that decision or appeal the decision. If you appeal, you are submitting a formal legal motion that requests the court to reconsider the binding verdict. Read Article: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Are+Placebo+Controls+Ethical+in+Antidepressant+Clinical+Trials%3F&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj53LPH1pnVAhUB72MKHS63BWsQgQMIJjAA Formal systems of laws have existed since Hammurabi erected his code in the courtyards of temples during his reign as ruler of the Babylonian empire early in the 18th century B.C.E., and since then there has been a need for individuals to study and interpret those laws. However the history of attorneys, those who are professionals dedicated exclusively to the study, interpretation and application of the law is much more recent.
The sophists of ancient Athens were probably the first who existed as a class of people who were considered as something akin to lawyers. However, there were some societal situations that inhibited the development of a legal profession. One was an Athenian law requiring citizens to plead their own cases. This eroded over time as more and more requested friends to act as an advocate for them. More importantly, though, was the law the disallowed anyone from exacting a fee to plead for someone else, thereby preventing anyone from presenting themselves as a legal expert. Read Entire Article: http://www.superpages.com/em/attorneys/ |
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