Comment: Re:Sure beats jail time... (Score 1) 436
Isn't that how the use of the metric system was enforced in Great Britain?
No. There was a grocer who cried oppression in my home town, but that was just a publicity stunt.
Comment: Re:Scooped? (Score 1) 83
Bill Clinton didn't know what the definition of "is" is.
Really? I thought he was best known for being unclear as to what constitutes "sexual relations".
Comment: Re:Already covered by copyright (Score 1) 59
"Does this mean people can download your building and print it?" he said. "This is going to require some IP protection for designs, so if you design architecture in the computer, you're protected, just as music and movies are."
Designs are already protected, as they are a work. It's no different than the 3D models we already deal with in the game industry. A person spent a lot of time creating the files, and copyright law already includes such creative work.
Actually, there're some significant between copyright and design patents, but you're just as free with both to release your work into the public domain. I'm assuming that architectural works come under a design patent here; I don't see why they wouldn't.
Comment: Re:Sad legitimate researchers (Score 1) 392
I was referring to the wasteful fuel cycles used to obtain the material for the weapons in the first place.
Comment: Re:ReInvent already. (Score 1) 153
Can we reinvent the ethernet jack already? We don't need that bulky Ethernet connector, a thin form factor is more than possible.
Possible? Certainly, but is it necessary? It seems to me that anything small enough to need a smaller connector probably has wi-fi already. GigE is rapidly becoming the standard and I'm struggling to think of a device that would need that much bandwidth but still be so small that a normal sized port wouldn't fit.
Comment: Re:Bad guys (Score 3, Funny) 109
I don't know about you, but pot has made our family get-togethers murder-free at last! It's certainly a pleasant change from the whiskey massacre of Christmas '02.
Comment: Re:Sad legitimate researchers (Score 1) 392
2) the fear of terrorists obtaining weapons-grade nuclear material is considered to be high enough that we throw away a LOT of energy rich fuel to avoid getting in the situation where that fuel can be used to make a bomb.
Really? I thought that we threw away a lot of energy rich fuel so that we could make a bomb.
Comment: Re:Why can't we be more like Norway? (Score 1) 297
It's amazing how a city so hardened against crime, terrorists and adversity still goes to pieces at the first sign of snow. Before you mod me down, please notice the u/n and bear in mind what the North has already been dealing with - without complaint - when the white stuff first hits London.
Comment: Re:Biometric guns in movies (Score 1) 750
That would be License to Kill (a better film than Skyfall in most respects) although the baddie in question didn't get shot. As I recall, he just hit Bond over the head with it instead.
Comment: Re:Almost there (Score 1) 241
Because you've run out of "oysters"?
Comment: Re:More shady business (Score 1) 68
Even the WBC has some standards and morality.
HAHAAHAAAAAhaaahaa!
I'm sorry, but you lost me there.
Comment: Re:Do snails produce 'mucus?' (Score 2) 75
I feed mine garlic from birth. Saves time. Producing a self-sautéeing snail is proving to be more difficult.
Comment: Re:More shady business (Score 2) 68
Great, another family of lawyers. Any chance we could pit them against WBC and kill >0 bird with 1 stone?
Comment: Re:I sense a great disturbance in the web... (Score 1) 221
As it happens, brass (as with many copper alloys) is bacteriostatic, which mades it a good choice for door handles. Much better than so-called stainless steel, in fact.
Comment: Re:the scare the women marketing strategy (Score 1) 221
like those automatic soap dispenser advertising that then you don't get germs from touching it.
I'd think that normally you touch the soap before you wash you hands
Either way, the next thing you touch is the tap, then again after you've washed your hands. I can't fathom what practical purpose those automatic soap dispensers serve, besides extracting more money from clean freaks.