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Comment Re:At present, NOBODY's able to do it. (Score 1) 351

thats why i've invented a system that turns your blood into a magnetically reactive metal and, using rare earth magnets implanted in the arches of the feet, is able to simulate the effects of gravity on the body. my lead research scientist, dr. cody, says the system will be ready to go once he figures out why its killed most of the cats he's tested it on!

Comment Re:Death by ACLU association. (Score 1) 283

The ACLU has defended a lot of doucebags in their time, but one can't argue against their impartiality; they generally fall on the side of rights, regardless of how loony the person or group they are representing. Gotta give them credit for that.

like them or not the ACLU will defend freedom of speech at any cost...this reminds me of when the ACLU took the case of a Neo-Nazi group who had been denied to right to assemble in the Chicago suburb of Skokie at a time when 1 out of 6 residents in that town was a Holocaust survivor. The ACLU took the Nazi's case, and with a Jewish lead attorney, successfully defended the Nazi's in court. The Nazi's never did march and the ACLU lost like 30,000 members because of their defense, but in hindsight you really have to respect standing firm on the grounds of i don't have to like what you say, but i'll defend to the death your right to say it

United Kingdom

Badgers Digging Up Ancient Human Remains 172

One of England's oldest graveyards is under siege by badgers. Rev Simon Shouler now regularly patrols the grounds of St. Remigius Church looking for bones that the badgers have dug up. The badger is a protected species in England so they can not be killed, and attempts to have them relocated have been blocked by English Nature. From the article: "At least four graves have been disturbed so far; in one instance a child found a leg bone and took it home to his parents. ... Rev. Simon Shouler has been forced to carry out regular patrols to pick up stray bones, store them and re-inter them all in a new grave."

Comment Re:Net neutrality never had a chance (Score 1, Redundant) 427

we came of age during the wild west days of the internet. those days are over... isp's, the mpaa, the riaa, and the corporate powers that be all have a VERY vested interest in being able to control who has access when, as they do with all other forms of entertainment and information distribution on a large scale. money talks, which means an open source community in favor of creativity, innovation, and freedom of expression will lose in Washington. net neutrality is a great idea in the same vein as reasonable copyright laws, but when it comes down to brass tacks money wins over reason, which sucks, but at this point in America we should be used to it. i apologize for the sweeping generalizations but it's sad, and at this point between nafta, gatt, the dmca, patriot act, etc, how are we even surprised by this any more, money trumps the actual best interest of the american people every day of the week and reasonable logical long term solutions will be thrown under the bus in favor of the whims of a company who donates heavily to some career politician's reelection fund.... and THANKFULLY /sarcasm/ the supreme court recently removed those pesky donation limits so corporate persons can feel free to be even more open about what politicians the purchase... our country is in a sad state because of shit like this. net neutrality deserved a fair chance and the internet was the best, last refuge for free expression, but when you have a senile senator heading the committee on it explaining it as a series of tubes, not a dump truck, referring to email as "an internet" only to later be run out of town on corruption charges what the hell do you expect... the only thing i can think to say is thank you to the FCC for their to date entirely reasonable stance on the internet. it is the one thing that the regulate that they honestly got right from the get go, and its sad to see that era end thanks to lobbyists who have more money to spend pulling wool over the eyes of idiots than you or i do... that said please please please keep fighting the good fight EFF, i'll continue to donate when i can... and i have written my congressman about this, whatever difference that makes, all i have is but one vote to give, which doesn't buy ad time come reelection season...

Comment Re:Monsanto v. Schmeiser (Score 5, Informative) 435

When Monsanto can successfully sue you for patent infringement when a neighbor's seeds blow onto your land, then yes, Monsanto needs to die. If "Roundup Ready" weeds are part of it, bring them on.

He wasn't sued because some seeds blew onto his land. He was sued because he harvested the product of those seeds and replanted 95% of his field with them the following year.

By your bizarre logic, the dude that found the iPhone prototype should have gained the right to duplicate and sell it.

i hope to god you're trolling, in that particular case the farmer had been saving seed for his entire farming career, as many do (and a practice that monsatno is fighting tooth and nail with their so called terminator seeds, which are only viable for one generation) monsanto's seed blew into his field from passing farmers who used it, and against his desire his field was polluted with their product. Monsanto demanded he destroy his entire seed store, which he had been developing his entire life, because their product contaminated his field against his wishes. Not to mention, you iphone example is comically irrelevant, as there are many inherent differences between a living thing that spreads by itself and reproduces ITSELF and a goddamn cell phone, which, unlike canola, wouldn't exist if not constructed by humans. Your logic is flawed beyond defense perhaps you should have at least read up a little about the case before commenting. Maybe then you would have noticed that in 2008 monsanto settled with mr. schmeiser and agreed to pay the clean up cost of removing their product, which he never wanted in the first place, from his fields. He also was not forced to sign the standard monsanto gag order, and the window was left open for him to sue again, should their GM seed contaminate his fields again. This is also a nice precedent for those of us who don't much care for the GM agricultural business. Also who modded this comment interesting? it isn't.

Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 513

i've never seen so much "won't somebody think of the children" BS on slashdot.... the sentiment here so far seems to be "well i don't speed (liars), so i don't mind the cameras", which is silly, i don't sell crack or run a basement casino but i still appreciate and recognize the importance of 4th amendment protections even though, were the police to kick down my door, they would find nothing amiss. its been mentioned quite a few times already but look at Britain with its mass of CCTV cameras and speed cameras, i don't see how ANYONE can look at that system and think, yes, lets bring that to America! There are times when we need to choose between preservation of personal liberties and nanny state garbage, even if the nanny state garbage could save a few lives in the long run... just in the same way i'm happily willing to face an "increased risk of a terrorist act" if we scuttled the decidedly un-american and hypocritically named Patriot Act in its entirety...

Comment Re:Older computers get emulated now (Score 1) 543

ps3 = Rs 23000 + Rs 3000 for each game xbox360 = Rs 23000 + Rs 2000 for each game ps2 = sux wii = sux even more pc = Rs 0 (i already have one) + Rs 1000 for each game consoles are expensive, not absolutely. my pc cost me Rs 37000. But 23k for just games?? i simply can't justify it.

playstation 2 sucks????? being old and sucking are different things my friend. The playstation 2 was and is one of the best consoles of all time. i still play mine at least once a week. hell for the rpg's alone its worth hanging on to. you're the kind of person that sold his snes and sega aren't you.... also you should be able to pick up a used xbox 360 for about the price of a copy of windows 7....

Comment anyone else "that guy" (Score 1) 543

i've become the guy that inherits the "old" electronics of my family... i haven't bought a computer in the traditional sense since like 2003, when i build myself a nice desktop with my hs graduation money.... most recently my sister gave me an her old sony vaio vgn-s260 when she bought a new macbook pro.... its 2004 vintage, one of the early "thin and light" laptops, and has a display that i still think looks better than most brand new laptops. it has a Pentium m that was friendly to pinmod overclocking, so she now hums along at 2.26 GHz, i've managed to wedge 2 gigs of ram in and upgraded the wireless card to from g to n... oh, and the trackpad was broken when i got it so i picked up a "new" palmrest for it off ebay for $10... and i of course switched it from an install of xp that was so jacked up it hardly booted to linux.... i used it for web, email, and word processing on the go. i love this computer.
First Person Shooters (Games)

Dedicated Halo 2 Fans Keep Multiplayer Alive 239

On April 15th, Microsoft terminated Xbox Live support for the original Xbox console, marking the end of online multiplayer for many older games. However, a group of Halo 2 players have refused to give up online play by leaving their consoles on and connected since then. Overheating consoles and dropped connections have taken their toll, but at present, 13 players are still going strong.
Businesses

Comcast Awarded the Golden Poo Award 286

ISoldat53 writes "The Consumerist has awarded Comcast the Golden Poo award for the worst company in America. From the article: 'After four rounds of bloody battle against some of the most publicly reviled businesses in America, Comcast can now run up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and hold its hands high in victory — it has bested everyone else to earn the title of Worst Company In America for 2010.'"

Comment Re:Doesn't apply to music and film (Score 1) 224

laser disks failed because they were too expensive and impractical, also one must consider VHS, NOT laserdisk was the defacto standard back then. Laser disk was targeted at a niche market who bought into it knowing full well it was going to cost more... so comparing their price to dvd's/bd discs is irrelevant, cool strawman though.... and no one expects people to do their jobs for free, however consumers might be tired of the excesses of Hollywood. go to a damn wal mart and look how far the price of durable goods has been driven down by globalization.... now try to reconcile these genuinely cheap genuinely useful goods with a dvd that costs $25 dollars (the physical disk itself and packaging come in well under a dollar) because they paid tom cruise $50 million dollars to stand there and be short. it cant be done. see hulu and netflix for examples of old media doing new media right and dont try to justify a broken system.

Comment what about my percived losses???? (Score 1) 300

I'm a bartender part time- I'm to work tonight and it has been snowing heavily the past two days, and as result I highly doubt I'll make as much money as i usually do on Tuesday night due to the poor road conditions.... who do I speak to about remuneration, mother nature? i wish i were a multinational corporation that dialogs with governments on the intellectual level of a toddler throwing a temper tantrum ....

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