seti has actually used the dish in puerto rico to send signals INTO space..... we can send 'em a poke, but it'll take 600 years for them to receive the poke, and then 600 more for them to poke back....

your zipper to it's full upright and locked position, stewardesses will be going up and down the aisles to collect discarded kleenex and un-used lotion bottles....

recording from the tv is legal as "Time Shifting" not "format Shifting" you can record a broadcast to watch later....
taking a CD and ripping the music to MP3s or whatever is format shifting and that violates copyright laws...

ahhh ok, glad i'm not the only one who read it that way..... should've read the entire thread before posting below, oh well, TL;DR

"NASA's Underwear Training Facility?"

need more coffee.....

hey, it would explain that whacko astronut chick's diaper wearing death drive a few years back....

You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. A self- perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--

there's this new technology called "photographic printing" what it does is it takes your pictures, and puts them on paper!
they can last over 100 years that way!
it's awesome!
i use these guys:
www.tricolorlab.com

another fun question would be what do the execs think of these IBM employees using Macs on national TV....

the point i'm trying to make is that when you choose a closed, proprietary system, you choose whatever proprietary rules go along with it, and you shouldn't whine about limitations you chose...

so, like i said, plainly...
anyone dumb enough to choose apple's proprietary system, gets what they deserve.

to buy their iShit deserves what they get....

i can read any ebook downloaded (for free) from anywhere i want on my PC and my Droid... meh....

i used to put plates on my car....
i can't find the damned thing, and no one sells 'em anymore, they all sell star ones now....

welcome our new /. themeverlord

as for complaints of "too much white" and "ooowww white... my eyes..."

i'm on a calibrated monitor with the luminance set at about 100 cd/m^2

looks fine....

turn down your damned monitors....

microsoft and apple do it, why not /.?

ahhh, and the radio at work is playing ND right now...... "Sweet Caroline" though....

EWWWWW.... who let these canadians on our interwebs?