Interesting. Cuz here, it seems traffic lights are timed by street length, so that if you go anywhere less than /20 over the speed limit/ you will be hit with red after red after red...
The only way to get a string of greens is to go 20 over or 30 under.

" The scientists didn't permanently remove the subjects' moral sensibilities "

I think they mean " The scientists /don't think/ they permanently removed the subjects' moral sensibilities "
If ever there was a question about ethical experiments...

how long it takes for the authors guild or whatever they're called to brand this as a purely copyright infringement machine.

where the $2/hr helpdesk will promptly throw it in the bin.

If teenagers playing games in darkened rooms threatens your way of life, you should probably change to a better way of life...

So newspapers admit only 56% of their articles that even make it to the top page are worth spending 30s in reading.
Better improve your articles then?

So dolphins keep children safe on the net. Did you know they also get in trouble in real life? Where will the dolphin be then? Instead of this half baked approach, we need a real solution. What I propose, is a GPS tracking chip and button combo to be implanted into every child's wrist. It will also be shaped like a cute dolphin button, but will be useful on and off-line! While we're at it why not give all our children tasers, in case they get into trouble?

too bad nobody wants to fix 99.9% of open source bugs
"the code is here, fix it yourself" and "get off my lawn"
are the most common responses to a support request

agree with this completely.
Had a vaio with bluetooth bought in 2003. It didn't work with my other bluetooth stuff. Sony support told me that vaio bluetooth was only guaranteed to work with sony bluetooth products. That doesn't sound like bluetooth to me.

Fixed the issue finding the bluetooth hardware maker and getting generic drivers so I didn't need sony's drivers. Then everything worked fine.

So again, standard hardware, crippled by sony software. THey actually spent money getting someone to develop crippled drivers when the generic drivers were free and could easily have been badged for sony.

my 10" netbook almost has enough plastic around the display to fit a 12" screen, I'd jump at a 12" netbook at/near 10" netbook prices. Until that happens, I won't upgrade my 10".

I can read paid and free ebooks on a variety of devices that are all NOT kindle, and for the past 5 years.
Tell me again why I want a kindle?

you can give it to a friend w/o authorizing your passport, retina scan, and fingerprints. RIAA will prolly still go after you tho.

sounds like good old CD-key. Many online games had this already - 1 play per account.

why to companies pay fines for felonies, while individuals have their lives ruined and serve jail time?
surely a corporation has enough individuals to at least put a couple behind bars for good effort?

But it's not the same product. Price Discrimination describes same product diff prices due to

1) student/vip discounts
2) amazon's "detect how much extra you'd pay" patent
3) end of season discounts (for fashion, etc)

Amazon's one is the best, but they promised not to do it again.

There is a 99.9% Link between violent crime and schooling. 99.9% of all perpetrators of violent crime have a history of going to school, whether it is preschool, kindergarten, primary, secondary, tertiary, private, or public schools, whether for long or short periods. Therefore I urge you all to Think of the Children, and immediately BAN all forms of school, where no doubt violent criminals of the future are being trained.