Comment Re:All of My Electrons are Certified Organic (Score 2, Funny) 98
like this:
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"wootm" ???
Dead Pigs Used To Investigate Ocean's "Dead Zones" 106
timothy writes "As places to study what happens to corpses, the Atlantic Ocean is both much larger and much more specialized than the famous 'body farm' in Knoxville, TN. But for all kinds of good reasons, sending human bodies into Davy Jones' locker just to see where they float and how they bloat is unpopular. Pigs don't pay taxes, and more importantly, they don't vote. So Canadian scientists have taken to using them as human-body proxies, to study what happens when creatures of similar size and hairlessness (aka, us) end up 86ed and in the drink."
Funeral Being Held Today For IE6 194
An anonymous reader writes "More than 100 people, many of them dressed in black, are expected to gather around a coffin Thursday to say goodbye to an old friend. The deceased? Internet Explorer 6. The aging Web browser, survived by its descendants Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8, is being eulogized at a tongue-in-cheek 'funeral' hosted by Aten Design Group, a design firm in Denver, Colorado."
Comment Re:On The Other Hand (Score 2, Funny) 684
Dear god, anything but a copy and paste programmer. We had one here and the results and the results are devastating
So, did they let you keep working there, anyway?
Dinosaur Feather Color Discovered 219
anzha writes "Do you remember being a kid and told we'd never know what colors the dinosaurs were? For at least some, that's no longer true. Scientists working in the UK and China have closely examined the fossils of multiple theropods and actually found the colors and patterns that were present in the fossilized proto-feathers. So far, the answer is orange, black and white in banded and other patterns. The work also thoroughly thrashes the idea that fossils might not be feathers, but collagen fibers instead. If this holds up, Birds Are Dinosaurs. Period. And colorful!"
One Variety of Sea Slugs Cuts Out the Energy Middleman 232
dragonturtle69 writes with this story, short on details but interesting: "These sea slugs, Elysia chlorotica, have evolved the ability to gain energy via photosynthesis. Forget about genetic modifications for sports enhancements. I want to be able to never need to eat again — or do I?"
Ocean-Crossing Dragonflies Discovered 95
grrlscientist writes "While living and working as a marine biologist in Maldives, Charles Anderson noticed sudden explosions of dragonflies at certain times of year. He explains how he carefully tracked the path of a plain, little dragonfly called the Globe Skimmer, Pantala flavescens, only to discover that it had the longest migratory journey of any insect in the world."
Brain-Control Gaming Headset Launching Dec. 21 112
An anonymous reader writes "Controlling computers with our minds may sound like science fiction, but one Australian company claims to be able to let you do just that. The Emotiv device has been garnering attention at trade shows and conferences for several years, and now the company says it is set to launch the Emotiv EPOC headset on December 21. PC Authority spoke to co-founder Nam Do about the Emotiv technology and its potential as a mainstream gaming interface."
One wonders what kind of adoption they expect with a $299 price tag.
Comment It's a matter of perspective. (Score 2, Informative) 863
Or maybe the Chicago ones are too sparse and the Portland ones are placed frequently enough?
Portland has twenty blocks per mile compared to the more typical ten blocks per mile in most other big cities. So if there is a meter on every block it's going to be much closer to you in Portland than elsewhere.
Comment Re:Lisp in a Box (Score 2, Informative) 324
"These are your father's parentheses. Elegant weapons, for a more... civilized age." - Randall Munroe
Fixed that for ya.
Comment Comment field size {was: Re:Link} (Score 1) 419
Now the comment field is about 3cm wide.
(and it does work with 3.5RC2 if you hack maxVersion in install.rdf)
Comment Re:Remember... (Score 5, Funny) 418
Hackers can turn your home computer INTO A BOMB
Yeah, let's see MacGyver do THAT!
Comment Re:Myth busters episode (Score 1) 221
They can blow up the corpses after they die
The poison: very effective. The explosion: not so much.
Comment Re:No license necessary (Score 1) 246
A Circuit Court in the US once held that buying a copyrighted work, affixing it to another copyrighted work, and reselling them was copyright infringement.
Uh... didn't they say the exact opposite, that it was not infringing? Or did I misunderstand your point?
Annie Lee creates works of art,...
One Deck the Walls store sold some of Lee's notecards mounted...
Lee contends that these tiles are derivative works...
Her position has the support of two cases holding that A.R.T.'s business violates the copyright laws. Muoz v. Albuquerque A.R.T. Co., 38 F.3d 1218 (9th Cir. 1994), affirming without published opinion 829 F. Supp. 309 (D. Alaska 1993); Mirage Editions, Inc. v. Albuquerque A.R.T. Co., 856 F.2d 1341 (9th Cir. 1988). Mirage Editions, the only full appellate discussion, dealt with pages cut from books and mounted on tiles; the court of appeals' brief order in Muoz concludes that the reasoning of Mirage Editions is equally applicable to works of art that were sold loose. Our district court disagreed with these decisions and entered summary judgment for the defendant. 925 F. Supp. 576 (N.D. Ill. 1996).
Affirmed
Comment Its use is completely correct (Score 1) 1055
argh...take that extra ' out of your sig please, it burns me
Its use is completely correct when it's a contraction.
Hey, apostrophes aren't evil, they're just typed that way (even if some people do seem to think it means, "Look out! An 's' is coming!")
