My nephew (aged 3) was singing "America: Fuck Yeah" -- turns out he can operate DVD players with the Team America: World Police DVD in the drive. Mind you, I was trying to teach him the word "bollocks" from the age of 18 months... heh.

I had the same idea with my HTC Desire on a recent trip to Belgium -- without a mobile network, the GPS was useless -- the phone goes into roaming mode -- no data -- and with no (expensive, roaming) data, no GPS fix. However, I'd previously unlocked the device; got a local pay as you go sim, bought 10 euros worth of data -- all good. YMMV in other countries -- but it's nice to be able to use Wikitude/Facebook/Twitter etc. as a tourist in a foreign country.

Man gets so drunk, he passes out. Gets a toe injury. While blisteringly drunk. No memory of losing a bit of toe. I don't think blaming the dog for it is the logical conclusion. It's not like blaming the dog for a particularly noxious fart, you know.

No, I wasn't being sarcastic (I usually use ellipses when I am...) -- this time, I was ignorant of the DS emulator.

Sadly lacking the Microsoft Courier OS. Oh well. Any Nintendo DS emulators out there for Windows 7?

Mod points if I had them. This is terrible science and not worthy of slashdot.

I don't really think people should have "moral problems" with embryonic stem cell research. Human embryos left over from IVF are (mandated by law) thrown in a bin. Is IVF immoral?

Embryonic stem cells have many, many reasons going for them over adult stem cells, not least of which a lower potential for developing into cancer. In terms of basic medical research, they are - for want of a better phrase - a godsend. Adult stem cells are not as good.

Why should "moral issues" about trash from a process that brings the joy of children to many stop genuine medical advances?

Anyhow, clinical trial entry in the US is dependent on the person receiving the trial therapy signing a waiver saying that they understand what they're doing. The worrying thing in this circumstance is that these people are desperate, which never helps clear judgement.

Or rather, the 2.0 and 3.0 firmware added business features. 3.0 added MMS too, but that's not exactly business critical, unlike, say, Exchange support.

The 3G added 3G and GPS; the 3GS added a reasonably faster ARM chip, slightly better camera, uncrippled the video capability, and a digital compass.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but a journalist, Nick Davies, has built an entire book on media distortion and starts with the Y2K brouhaha and argues the opposite of what you're saying about media types.

He argues that billions that governments spent avoiding the mostly fairly minor consequences of the vast majority of non-mission critical computers thinking it's the wrong date were whipped up by lazy journalists wanting easy copy: http://www.flatearthnews.net/chapter-one-bug-ate-world

He ends with "This is Flat Earth news. A story appears to be true. It is widely accepted as true. It becomes a heresy to suggest that it is not true - even if it is riddled with falsehood, distortion and propaganda".

At least with TomTom, the underlying OS is Linux anyway. (Hence all that hoo-hah with Microsoft over the FAT patents. TomTom was using FAT on their solid state media).

Try enforcing that. PR firms supply newspapers with no end of bullshit spun to their clients' message. Time-poor journalists, under stress often end up churnalizing it. Bullshit pseudoscience turns up in good newspapers and people believe it... as they read it in the 'paper. It's one hell of a battle to keep that nonsense out of the media.

No, the libel laws are busted; overall, the legal system, while not perfect, isn't. I might as well say the American legal system is busted since there are many frivolous lawsuits. But it wouldn't make it true, based on an evidence pile of n=1.

Rule out the placebo effect from your anecdote and I'll listen. Or is that burden of proof too high? It certainly seems to be (IMHO) for chiropractors.

It's not even the first example of iPhone app devs nicking wood effect graphics from other iPhone apps -- in this earlier case, e-book readers. Twitter sold it to the media something good.