That's a valid point. Also, every technology - and medicine is no different in this - has it's phase of enthusiastic adoption, eventual disappointment when it's found out it's not as good as previously hoped, and then a phase of rational use in indications where it makes sense. I remember the time when surgeons would do 6-hour laparoscopies because it was IN. Later they realized that a 2-hour open surgery is actually better for the patient and laparoscopies were limited to cases where they make sense.

I am a doctor in a university hospital and I recently went out to have beer with a friend of mine from the urology department. He's the chief "robot operator" for our hospital and he hates the machine with a vengence. No only are the operations several times more expensive (and longer), but to get the money they paid for the machine back, the hospital forces him to use the robot even on cases that would be much better done hands-on. Patients with more complications and longer hospital stay are no exceptions. To me this still seems like a technology we are yet to learn to use properly. Use it for remote operations where the surgeon is not physically available, use it in indications where it makes sense, but don't believe in all-saving robotic future of surgery. It's not here yet. The adoption cycle of many older technologies should serve as a warning.

This only works provided that you know how much gallon is (I don't), you use miles (I don't) and you drive about 12,220 miles a year (I certainly don't). :)

Using 100 km is actually quite nice when you need to calculate the cost of driving somewhere, since it's easy to express the journey in some kind of multiple/fraction of 100 km, multiply by fuel consumption (which is a small number; in the case of my car it is conveniently 5 l/100km) and the price/l. So the math is really easy and when I go somewhere with my friends who insist on chipping in for the fuel, I can do the math in my head while parking. :)

Point taken, but you see, the counter does not really update only every 100 km. I bet you don't have to burn a whole gallon to get your reading either, and you don't have to drive for an hour to find out your mph.

Actually, volume/distance is better than distance/volume. When measuring in l/100km, I can get zero (the fuel line is closed) and I can never go to infinity. When measuring in mpg, the value approaches infinity as the consuption approches zero and I can never get zero mpg.

And by the way, 100 km is may be non-standard, but at least we're still talking SI units. :-p

I live in the middle of Europe and we had -30 C (-22 F) last night. Thank you, I'll pass. (Also, I'm not a network engineer.)

On many phones you can group contacts and assign different ringing profiles. You could just program in allowed numbers and set all other calls to "silent".

I personally leave my car in gear (with the reverse locked in if I leave it for extended periods of time), so this would not be very practical. :)

Minor correction: it is spelled "per se" (by itself).

If by Microsoft product you mean Firefox under WinXP, then yes.

I don't have time to reboot to linux to test it now, but see the comment by Art3x above:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1513822&cid=30800384

Try clicking "copy link" (Firefox) and then mouse-over the link again. Your clipboard will contain the long redirected version, which will now also appear on mouse over.

Blocking javascript removes this behavior and leaves you with normal links.

It does do that. For example googling for "Slashdot" returns a link that on mouse over show as "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot" in the status bar, but in fact is http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=3&ved=0CBkQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSlashdot&rct=j&q=slashdot&ei=-FJTS6eACaKmnQOhmKCTCg&usg=AFQjCNEZ2izp-RcQ2rEPNchi1qS-mPpnRA

It does this both logged in and logged out.

We knew that insecticides are harmful. Now we have a GM crop that instead of being sprayed with them actually makes them. Is it a surprise that it's harmful? If you make a crop that produces cyanide, it's going to be poisonous.

This is not really related to GM technology (although TFA does not rule out mutagenic properties of the GM transformation process), rather content of toxic substances.

Codemasters did not make the first one either. They published it. It was made by BIS, who now made ARMA and ARMA2. I loved Operation Flashpoint, the suspense and fear (and eventual reward) was unlike any other game. ARMA2 seems to be more of the same, but plagued with bugs that make it too annoying to play. Shame.

And yet, their budged is several times more than the FDA. Given how many people drugs (and their improper use) kill every year, you'd think that if the US government really wanted to save lives....

Nebojsa is a perfect name for someone attempting a feat like this - it translates as "Fear not".