As a kid, I have killed both eels by knocking their heads on the countertop and crabs by twisting their legs until their shell popped, as was the traditional way to prepare them. And they were the most delicious I've ever had. I've never bought into the "what if you had to kill your own meat", and have made peace with my meat eating decades ago. Writing this post made me hungry for some seafood!

The future of ALL computer communicati- oh crap my call dropped again, gotta restart my file upload, again.

Within a few years, a synthetic-skins rights activist group forms demanding for the stop to the "abusive treatment of synthetic skin" and demanding for these tests to be done on people instead.

Only if you purchase a computer with a software bundle that provides this. Perform a clean install of Windows 7 and try your Blu-Ray again. You'll find that it's suddenly a whole lot harder than before.

WMDs are only a danger to the united states if they're being soaked in crude oil for storage. It makes them more... explodey or somesuch.

They've never required official american "citizenship" identification for the rest of the world before, is what I'm saying.

The US wants to become the World Police.

So you get a new laptop with a DVD burner. How do you use it? Insert DVD, autorun starts, you're watching your movie. The same experience with Blu-Ray? Insert Blu-Ray, get error that the disc format isn't valid. Huh-oh. You've run into yet another trade dispute - Microsoft doesn't bundle BR codecs with their software because Sony wants to be paid and MS says "nuh huh." The rest of the experience will be the computer user (assuming he even understands that this is a codec issue and not a defective BR player) searching left and right for a software that allows BR playback. Hopefully he'll get lucky and find the correct PowerDVD version that allows BR playback and not just give yet another error even though the installer promised BR compatibility...

Do botnets even use browser attacks anymore? I was under the impression that most of these attacks were done with direct PING requests.

Looks like Luthor reactivated the Heart of Darkness.

So I'm gonna guess mine isn't.

It's a trap!!!

Basically, not letting the copyright lawyers set the "laws" themselves and move the goalposts every single time something happens that they don't like. Sounds like a step in the right direction to me.

When you accidentally drop it down the sink later?