Actually they can die from playing sports for 18 hours a day, but they won't because they will get tired before they can kill themselves.

Like smoking, it's a slow death because it's so subtle and enjoyable. I don't think any smokers would enjoy living in a room full of smokes though.

Hmmm... Maybe someone should put a 'Googlert' somewhere, so that residents know when Google's coming and put GIB boards all over the area, making anything taken useless.

Or just have people running alongside the car blocking its camera.

Well, at least it shows determined villagers are out there patrolling and protecting their village.

Moral of the story?

Burglars should still target this area but bring some weapons and keep an eye for angry and alert villagers.

If taking a cigarette break, coffee break or gossip break is allowed, I cannot see any difference in internet break or game break.

Just grow barley next to the beer plant:

1. Plants absorb CO2
2. Less transportation

Wrong question. Should be:

How long was it before he woke up?

Obviously it was a dream because we don't have girlfriends.

I tried to read the friendly article but got distracted by a Swedish bird-flipping girl and some chicks running in bikinis.

You've been warned.

Wow! There are so many "says" and "states" that I almost lost track of what's going on.

Anyhoo, someone said this, maybe it was Masnick, maybe Griffin, maybe someone else:

it's just a covenant for the labels not to sue, rather than a license, it doesn't cover all of the other rightsholders, such as songwriters and the music publishers -- meaning that those who file share will still be wide open to lawsuits from those parties.

I don't think the labels care if other rightsholders get a fair share, they only care about their own pockets and as long as they get paid, they don't sue. Similarly other rightsholders only care about their own pockets, as long as they get paid, they don't sue.

So I guess the question is, will this kind of covenant work? If it will, why not extend to other rightholders?

"I'm a high school student and my physics teacher always comes up with ideas to get us to participate in or donate to real science projects. He even encourages us to help out with things like Galaxy Zoo (which has just released a new version, grrrr, dreadful updates again) and even gets us to install BOINC on our PERSONAL computers. Do Slashdotters out there have any suggestions that would be appropriate to satisfy this 35-year-old physics teacher? Extra credit if you can think of a way that I can fake my progress so that I can get extra credit."

Southern Alberta Balloon Launch Experiment did that in August 2007.

Screw the snakes.

In this economy climate, how many Pied Pipers will be laid off?

If I was an AdWords user, I would pull all of my bids now and let other advertisers exhausted theirs first.

Then a "word" will be easier and cheaper to get.

Not really.

This only makes Google more money if Google keeps those false clicks and charges the advertisers, which will undermine its AdSense products.

And it will cost Google a lot of time and money to validate whether a click is fraud or not if enough people start doing it.

And you really should do it manually, randomly and intermittently, otherwise Google could just delete a bunch of clicks from the same IP address in short timeframe.

Well, I did read the friendly article and no where could I see any reference to basketball.

What happens to kids these days?

When I was in highschool, if I was actually doing homework and stuck, I usually rang up a friend who could help by giving me the answer and I figured out the workings.

If I wasn't doing homework, I could still go to classes earlier, borrowed a completed homework from friends (with choices of solution techniques) and copied as required.