Comment Regardless of this military largesse (Score 1) 362
Regardless, cutting welfare is the most appropriate way to balance the budget.
Comment Re:Natural correlation (Score 1) 446
*they're* in a real plane... gah!
Comment Re:Natural correlation (Score 1) 446
That's why the US military has been training their recruits on video game simulations of bomb dropping runs.
Once their in a real plane, jacked on amphetamines, dropping bombs via video screen is just like a video game... easy peasy.
Comment Re:Other effects of a pig shortage... (Score 1) 293
Buy Spam stock now.
Comment Another opiate of the masses? (Score 1) 633
"Give my people plenty of beer, good beer and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them"
- Queen Victoria
Comment Preventing drive-bys... (Score 2) 515
While clearly not an anti-malware program.... run Firefox with No-Script and let it block all links on any given webpage, with you allowing or temporarily allowing specific sites on an as-needed basis. This should prevent cross-site scripting attacks. Free, easy to manage, etc.
But yes, you also want MSE or another active anti-malware program in addition to this.
Comment IP is clearly killing healthy gadget evolution (Score 5, Insightful) 190
All these microscopic patents on tiny "innovations" are preventing the positive evolution of excellent devices. Our devices should be getting better (easier to use, more capable, etc) by using the earlier innovations that truly work better. Yet these copyright battles force companies to create clunky workarounds... Windows GUI is a great example. Why can't we find a way to credit the creator, and still make the best and widespread use of the innovation? Gaah!
The 10 Most Absurd Scientific Papers 127
Lanxon writes "It's true: 'Effects of cocaine on honeybee dance behavior,' 'Fellatio by fruit bats prolongs copulation time,' and 'Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull?' are all genuine scientific research papers, and all were genuinely published in journals or similar publications. Wired's presentation of a collection of the most bizarrely-named research papers contains seven other gems, including one about naval fluff and another published in The Journal of Sex Research."
Dying Man Shares Unseen Challenger Video 266
longacre writes "An amateur video of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion has been made public for the first time. The Florida man who filmed it from his front yard on his new Betamax camcorder turned the tape over to an educational organization a week before he died this past December. The Space Exploration Archive has since published the video into the public domain in time for the 24th anniversary of the catastrophe. Despite being shot from about 70 miles from Cape Canaveral, the shuttle and the explosion can be seen quite clearly. It is unclear why he never shared the footage with NASA or the media. NASA officials say they were not aware of the video, but are interested in examining it now that it has been made available."
Comment Preminitory Gibson again (Score 1) 256
"Amidst the confusion of the traditional attack, communications could be disrupted, false declarations of war could be issued on both sides, and early warning sensors could be spoofed." -- Shades of the Panther Moderns, only far more catastrophic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer
Comment Re:I'm Suprised (Score 1) 440
)>> What was it, that Iraq, Afghanistan, Panama, Vietnam, Korea, Germany or Japan could've hit,
)>> but chose not to because of our (continuing) adherence?
)>
)> Like I said: breathtakingly shortsighted. Japan is the only one of those nations that ever attacked US soil.
A minor point, German U-boats were trolling US East Coast waters... to the point where cities started 'going dark' at night to make it harder for the water-nazis to find the harbors and attack ships.
Perhaps not technically "attacking US soil", but pretty damn close.
