Comment Re:never ever ever (Score 1) 155
>> speedo swimsuits,
Have you ever been to a European beach? I think we could have done without these.
Comment Re:Walled garden (Score 1) 111
Despite not owning any Apple products, I could imagine them pushing a silent update to all devices that simply blocks the site in question. Or starting to sign their software cryptographically, and making sure their systems only accept valid signatures. Or any other way, actually...
That would be one way to start a myriad of lawsuits. Apple, or any other hardware/software manufacturer, can not start blocking sites willy-nilly. It would be considered a free-speech violation most likely, but particularly, in this case, anti-competitive. The Feds would be on them in a second. And talk about the bad PR. Even for iOS products, while they may make it very difficult to get 'non-Apple approved' software on the devices, there are jail-breaking methods available. I think Apple may always keep a back-door open like that, to get around any future anti-competitive, or anti-free market claims.
Comment But will it come with a cassette recorder (Score 1) 339
to load the programs?
Comment But will it... (Score 1) 203
translate geek-to-English? THAT would be magical!
Hand Written Clock 86
a3buster writes "This clock does not actually have a man inside, but a flatscreen that plays a 24-hour loop of this video by the artist watching his own clock somewhere and painstakingly erasing and re-writing each minute. This video was taken at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009."
Comment Re:If the Apollo Program would have continued . . (Score 1) 389
Thankfully Steve Dahl and his Insane Coho Lips army dispatched Disco for the most part on July 12th 1979 at Comiskey Park, with "Disco Demolition" (or as he now calls it DD). Saving the youth of America.
Comment Re:typo in summary (Score 1) 575
You had street corners! Lucky guy. I had to sit in the muddy tracks left by passing horses and rant about topics that came to other peoples minds!
And oh, if only I had a lawn.
Comment Re:Tunguska Clouds an Indication? (Score 1) 110
moves on a giant space turtle.
I had wondered where Gamera has been.
Comment Re:The study isn't sufficient. (Score 1) 95
Just mentioning the possibility of it being a disability means there are going to be a lot of lawyers for the loud Great Tit special interest group clamoring for special perching rights (closer to the park) at the next City meeting.
Comment Re:The study isn't sufficient. (Score 1) 95
See what happens when someone acts like an adult. We learn stuff.
Man, I hate to learn stuff.
Comment Re:Irony (Score 1) 118
And I thought irony was what my wife does to my shirts!
Comment Re:A little math (Score 1) 216
Actually, the "1" in 141 should be 0 in 140. The one child had unfortunately died came to Houston from Mexico. So far 0 US citizens, or even people living in the US, have died from 2009 H1N1.
Comment Re:FOXP2 (Score 1) 229
This makes it more likely that they had proper speech rather than just "grunting" sounds.
Wasn't this already proven with the GEICO commercials?
Comment Re:I see your free software and raise you? (Score 1) 417
The best workaround being....Write bug-free code! (Then you only had to worry about finding/getting around the bugs in the MFC libraries)
Comment Re:useless in 10 years. If you are the parent (Score 1) 409
However if I were I would view $1000 now and say $500 a year an unbelievable value gamble.
My wife and I did save our son's cord blood. I do not remember the initial outlay, but it is only $95 a year for storage. Happily, we have not needed it, but it is good to know that *if* something develops that the cord blood will help, we have it. The company we use is "CorCell".
