Thanks for noticing. Corrected.

I'm not Obi Wan. Really.

I totally agree with you, and I have asked management over and over to make the (I believe minor) code changes that would allow Slashdot to display HTML5 videos.

I consider "render it how they like" the equivalent of freedom to choose your own clock face and size rather than the time the clock displays.

Isn't spellcheck fun? I forgot to turn it off.

Thanks for noticing.

I immediately thought of the old Ray Stevens song, GiTarzan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

I dunno.... I bought an acoustic Epiphone at a pawnshop in Killeen, Texas, when I was stationed at Ft. Hood. Not 50 years back, but a good while. I still have it. I'm still not very good on guitar, but what the hell. I still prefer the real thing. It's been to at least four or five countries with me. Yep.

I'm sorry. I wrote that for people with 3-digit IQs. I'll try to keep things simpler in the future.

You're describing kuro5hin.org. It was a noble experiment that got ruined by trolls.

Please set sense of humor to "on." We spotted that disconnect, too.

To differentiate the movie Hal from HAL©, the product that didn't impress us much. And yes, they use HAL© repeatedly on their website.

Due to the magic of ad targeting (might be through Google; I have no knowledge of Slashdot's ad deals) I see that the ads on this story are for eye trackers and eye tracker developer kits. Amusing.

I remember trying something along those lines, but couldn't get it to work well enough to review. The new generation of 3-D scanners looks a lot more useful.

Simulators are an area where military requirements are at least as strict as commercial specs. Flight simulators are a good example. Link was the first serious simulator manufacturer, and their first large customer was the Army Air Force.

"Everyone loves to hate on the banks. But they were forced into these stupid loans."

Really? Where I live (Florida), the banks were forced to lend money to prosperous white Republicans who were buying property to flip? And to mobsters and friends of the banks' directors?

Here's a big investigative series our local paper did last year on Florida bank failures: http://htcreative.com/bankProject/banks.aspx

Issuing mortgages to food stamp recipients in poor neighborhoods doesn't seem to have been the big problem. And the thing about banks being forced to loan to people who weren't creditworthy was a right-wing lie. You didn't fall for it, right? Me neither!