Comment Re:Fifth Amendment (Score 1) 397
That order was overturned on 5th amendment grounds. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9239841/Child_porn_suspect_doesn_t_have_to_decrypt_seized_hard_drives_for_now
Comment Re:New Zealand has a navy??? (Score 1) 104
> "Royal Navy" is British.
So is New Zealand. "... united by common allegiance to the Crown."
Comment Re:So fail them (Score 1) 1319
I don't really understand what evolution has to do with becoming a medical doctor.
Comment I'd rather have a Xoom anyway. (Score 1) 388
That is all.
Comment Re:I Served Grand Jury..READ WATCH LEARN @ fija.or (Score 1) 528
Yes the jury can change a law by creating a precedent. However, a judge can declare a person guilty (or innocent) over-riding the jury. I can't remember the specific term, and I'm too lazy to google right now. Also however, the judge can decide the jury is wrong and declare a mistrial and do it again. At the end of the day it's the judge who has all the power.
Comment Robots? (Score 1) 183
To me, robots have to be at least semi-autonomous. These are really just really advanced remote controlled cars. Am I wrong?
Comment Re:Surprise, free market better than government (Score 1) 127
It's not cheaper and it created exactly 1 (one) job. Gov't could have put in cable lines and had FIOS put in creating a lot more than one job, at a much higher speed, for a much lower cost. Yes, taxes would go up, but so would quality of life; and you wouldn't have to rely on just one guy and his truck if something went wrong. What this guy has done is a short-term solution to a long term problem.
Comment Re:Egypt's Military, Inc. (Score 1) 217
Um.. the military is not the Generals, or any of the other "Leaders". The military is the soldiers. The staff may have been getting all the kickbacks the US and Europe could throw them, but the Military didn't see a dime of it. The Military is the soldiers, and soldiers are the people.
Comment Flee or Die? (Score 1) 782
Col Lehner says the enemies options have become basically "flee or die". There's 2 problems with that. #1: the wall is probably part of a building; you can always go into another room. Or (as anyone who knows a US Marine will know) you can charge. Marines don't run from suppressing fire, they run toward it. That kind of tactic doesn't require training, it requires fanaticism. Tell me again what kind of people we're fighting?
Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover 264
An anonymous reader writes "Astronaut Bruce McCandless is suing Dido for her album cover that uses a famous NASA photograph of a tiny, tiny, tiny McCandless floating in space. McCandless doesn't own the copyright on the photo, so he's claiming it's a violation of his publicity rights ... except that he's so tiny in the photo, it's not like anyone's going to recognize him."
Comment Re:Wrong (Score 1) 1268
No, they're Scottish, Welsh, English, or (when totaled) British.
Man Takes Up Internal Farming 136
RockDoctor writes "'A Massachusetts man who was rushed to hospital with a collapsed lung came home with an unusual diagnosis: a pea plant was growing in his lung.' Just that summary should tell you enough to work out most of the rest of the details, but it does raise a number of questions unaddressed by the article: How did the pea roots deal with the patient's immune system? What would have happened if the situation had continued un-treated? I bet the guy has a career awaiting him in PR for a pea-growing company."
Comment Re:Not Facebook! (Score 1) 326
Statute of Limitations is (if I remember right) seven years. The contract was from 2003, it's now 2010. It's hitting it right on the edge, but it should still be able to get in.
Comment Re:Can we get these for the US-Mexico border? (Score 1) 243
Tetris Turns 25 177
teh.f4ll3n writes "25 years ago a Russian (Soviet) researcher thought of one of the world's most popular games. It is now that we celebrate its 25th anniversary. 'Twenty-five years ago, inside the bowels of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow, a young artificial intelligence researcher received his first desktop computer — the Soviet-built Elektronika 60, a copy of an American minicomputer called a PDP-11 — and began writing programs for it.'"
