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Servicemen reprimanded for zooming in on young women's breasts. One of the servicemen was quoted as saying, "It's the damn sub-conscious link! I can't do anything about it!" Defense department reevaluating binoculars.

I know a better theory. It was built by early transvestites. Watch the excellent commentary of the well known historian Eddie Izzard.

Note to the humorless ninja mods who are already brandishing their mod points at this post threatening to mod it troll or so, the proper mod for this post is funny. Of course that would just waste your mod points since it doesn't affect my karma so if this part of the post applies to you (that is if you are a humorless ninja mod) then don't click on the link (hey! it's slashdot) and mod this post insightful or informative or underrated (see it says "historian" in the link?).

I bought Vista, I use Vista, and once I turned off UAC I've had no problems with Vista. I think the hatred for it is overstated, and largely perpetuated by people who don't use it - the only problem I've had is a lack of printer drivers for a printer, and that's because Samsung want to sell new printers rather than make new drivers for their old ones...

Wait, this is /. - I mean, uh, Microsoft suck!

SchlimpyChicken writes "It's been predicted before, however this week raises concerns that plasma TV technology may indeed be dead. Pioneer, long an advocate, announced it would pull completely out of plasma panel production this year, causing an almost immediate 11% spike in its stock value. An article posted by Audioholics states that this could spell the end of plasma TV, since Pioneer has also decided to begin manufacturing LCD — using panels from Sharp Corp. Both Hitachi and Sony Electronics are also buying their panels from Sharp — largely suspected to coincide with the company's new ultra-thin (1-inch) 2008 LCD TV technologies demoed by both Sharp and Hitachi this year at the Consumer Electronics Show. Compare a super-thin TV weighing 50 lbs with a 6-inch thick plasma weighing over 150 lbs and you have a pending technology advance that could finish off plasma as a format very rapidly."

newcaribou writes "A Swedish court has said that the impending Pirate Bay trial is going to take longer than expected to go to court. "It can take weeks for the parties to simply go through all the documents included in the summons," said a court spokeswoman."

OscarBlock writes "A third marine cable has been snapped, compounding global net woes caused by two broken lines on Wednesday."

Go Mariners writes "Kotaku has up a video of Adam Sessler, host of G4's X-Play, taking on Fox News for their recent debacle on Mass Effect. Sessler presents what all gamers are thinking, but don't have the resources he has to make their opinion known (even though it is on G4...).

http://kotaku.com/349374/ea-vs-fox-adam-sessler-weighs-in"
http://kotaku.com/349374/ea-vs-fox-adam-sessler-weighs-in

An anonymous reader writes "Amanda Kerik responded to a problem that a user was having with their Windows machine that since they had to do a re-install they might as well install Ubuntu Linux.

She got a message back from Yahoo claiming that such a comment was in violation of its Community Guidelines or Terms of Service. It deleted her answer and warned her not to post anything like that again .."
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/25/yahoo-censoring-open-sauce

According to MSNBC, scientists are experimenting with using a sperm's flagellum or tail to overcome the problem of supplying energy to nanobots that could be implanted in the body as smart probes that would release disease-fighting drugs, monitor enzymes and perform other medical roles within a patient's body. Powered by a compound called adenosine triphosphate or ATP (produced by mitochondria), a sperm's flagellum can propel it at about 7 inches an hour. Energy from ATP could also power the pumps charged with dispensing the medication at a certain rate from the nanobots.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22333518/