Comment Re:Repeal the DMCA! (Score 1) 407
I think you're thinking of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, not the DMCA
Comment Re:Windows 2000 (Score 1) 374
Certain web based medical records applications (I'm still looking at you AllScripts) still use IE6 to get all of the functionality.
Comment Re:A user's perspective (Score 1) 374
No, it's best performed by that 'puter guy who lives in the apartment next to me/downstairs from me/one building over. Ask all of the people I live near (that I say NO to on a regular basis).
Comment Junk DNA? (Score -1) 360
Is that like junk in the trunk? Does this mean I should only have sex with women who are endowed with large posteriors?
Comment Re:Why? (Score 4, Funny) 109
Magic. If it were anything else they would have stated it in the article.
Comment Oh Really? (Score 1) 43
1. Connect with fans
2. Reason to buy
3. Profit!!
Crap, he figured out number 2!
2. Reason to buy
3. Profit!!
Crap, he figured out number 2!
Comment Re:Finally (Score 4, Informative) 575
Breeder reactors would be able to use most of that waste as fuel, allowing the fuel to last hundreds of years with a fraction of the waste generated.
And at a lesser cost in the end, partially because they wouldn't have to mine as much new fuel and partially because they wouldn't have to find places to bury the spent fuel.
Comment Re:Epilepsy (Score 1) 152
That is one of the best ways I've ever heard it explained. I wish I had mod points.
Submission + - Yelling At Telemarketers Is A "Terroristic Thr (stltoday.com)
BotScout writes: "An Ohio man, fed up with deceptive junk mail, made the mistake of losing his temper while on the phone with a St. Louis company pitching an extended auto-service contract. Now he finds himself behind bars, where he is charged with making a terrorist threat and is being held on $45,000 bond. According to court documents, Charles W. Papenfus, 43, allegedly told a sales representative during a May 18 telephone call that he would burn down the building and kill the employees and their families. He was indicted for making a terrorist threat, a Class D felony; and he could be sentenced to up to four years in prison if convicted. I get a lot of this kind of junk mail too, but I usually just call their 800 number and waste as much of their time as possible."
Comment Re:Very cool, but... (Score 1) 152
if a kid isn't learning and behaving by second grade should society perform a retroactive abortion?
I would have been dead long before second grade were that the case.
Comment Epilepsy (Score 3, Interesting) 152
Would be nice if they could use this to destroy the two pinpoint spots of brain damage my girlfriend has that cause her epilepsy. She's afraid of surgery (doesn't want her skull opened up, and who can really blame her?) but she would be one to try something like this in a heartbeat.
Comment Re:and what makes a female rat attractive? (Score 3, Funny) 347
Helens? the amount of beauty required to launch 1000 ships
And burn the topless towers of Ilium. Therefore 1 picoHelen is equivalent of enough beauty to put a rubber duck in the bathtub and light a scented candle.
More First-Light Data From Herschel Space Telescope 21
davecl writes "First-light images and spectra have now been released for all three of the instruments on Herschel. (The first images came out a couple of weeks back.) The news is covered on the BBC, on the ESA website, on the Herschel mission blog, and elsewhere. The data all looks fantastic, and is especially impressive since the satellite was only launched about 7 weeks ago. I work on the SPIRE instrument and help maintain the blog; but even I am astounded by the amount of information in the SPIRE images."
Submission + - Photographer Surfaces in Fairey v. Associated Pres (blogspot.com)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "The guy who actually took the Associated Press photograph of then president-elect Barack Obama, freelance photographer Manuel Garcia, has finally surfaced in the copyright fair use litigation which Fairey commenced earlier this year, making a motion for leave to intervene. In the brief (PDF) he filed he said that Associated Press is not the copyright owner, he is, and that he has never assigned his rights to the AP. He argued that the Associated Press should not be able to capitalize on his copyrights, and that he should be able to defend his rights from Mr. Fairey's fair use claim."
Comment Re:The Definition of "Design" (Score 1) 434
I don't think that was the point. I think the point is that everything the government touches becomes this bloated waste of taxpayer money rather than whatever the original intent of the project was.
