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Comment How do they justify those chile porn charges? (Score 1) 804

How is it that teenagers are getting child porn charges for simple nudity or partial nudity? Nudity alone isn't generally considered porn. There are a number of movies a person can rent from a regular video store or buy on Amazon that have minors nude. (Pretty Baby, American Beauty, Zeffirelli Romeo & Juliet etc)

Comment Ipod Touch fulfills that function and many more (Score 5, Insightful) 139

An Ipod Touch can receive Internet radio through various apps, and it can fulfill many other functions as well. Why bother buying these one-purpose devices that usually cost almost as much, if not more than an 8GB Ipod Touch? There are probably smartphones (including the iPhone) that can do it, as well.

Comment Comedy goldmine (Score 1) 115

I can't wait to see what the Daily Show and Colbert Report can do with this. They'll sometimes run footage of politicians contradicting themselves, such as a "debate" between Candidate Bush and President Bush. This should give them even more material to work with and call them on their bullshit.

Comment Hobbyists already have small UAVs (Score 4, Interesting) 522

RC airplane flyers already have planes with real-time video feeds and some of them even have head-tracking goggles. Of course, they tend to be much smaller and short-range than a military drone.

You can search Youtube for 'fpv flight': http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fpv+flight&search_type=&aq=f
One guy already weaponized one for the 4th of July: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBn1h0x-37E

Comment 10 sucks, controls are on top of the video (Score 1) 469

I can't stand the latest Quicktime Player. They've moved the controls so they're on top of the video you're watching, and you can't move them off of it. Any time you use the video controls, part of the video is obscured. It's maddening, I'm always shifting the controls to where they're least objectionable, and enlarging the video so they don't block as much of it.
Science

DARPA Aims for Synthetic Life With a Kill Switch 295

jkinney3 writes to mention that DARPA's mad scientists have undertaken a new program designed to create synthetic organisms, complete with a "kill switch." The project, dubbed BioDesign, is dumping $6 million into "removing the randomness of evolutionary advancement" by creating genetically engineered masterpieces. "Of course, Darpa's got to prevent the super-species from being swayed to do enemy work — so they'll encode loyalty right into DNA, by developing genetically programmed locks to create 'tamper proof' cells. Plus, the synthetic organism will be traceable, using some kind of DNA manipulation, 'similar to a serial number on a handgun.' And if that doesn't work, don't worry. In case Darpa's plan somehow goes horribly awry, they're also tossing in a last-resort, genetically-coded kill switch."

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