Comment Clever (Score 1) 296
It's really an end-around the ridiculously litigious society we live in. The kit isn't quite chemical free. It doesn't ship with any, but the experiments utilize common household chemicals.
Comment Re:Geee, wiz. (Score 2) 298
Ditto that. In the Mid-Atlantic, it's pretty good.
From what I hear about NYC and the West Coast, not so much.
Comment Re:Instead of actually addressing the problem... (Score 1) 476
Those robots will never fit inside a standard sized Suicide Booth so chances are they'll work in those factories until their little robot arms fall off
Which will significantly reduce their suicide success rate. Problem solved!
Comment Re:Location Location Location... (Score 1) 186
"I look for good, decently matched football teams. It makes the games much more interesting."
I laughed, anyway.
Comment Re:Could happen (Score 4, Funny) 691
What did you say?
Comment Re:Remixes (Score 1) 136
Typically when a song is remixed or sampled, the copyright holders have given permission and are getting royalties.
I don't have figures, but no, not for the notable ones at least.
The artists and marketing guys know and encourage remixing, but it's not normally a contract situation. That often leads to conflicts with the RIAA in their 'super SWAT team' form. See this for example.
Comment Re:Don't bet on it (Score 1) 188
Oh yeah. My GF was an Edwards fan at that point. I had an earful of that.
I have a vague recollection that they (The MSM) would only name the top four-ish candidates. Not sure if that accounts for the Edwards disappearance.
Comment Re:Don't bet on it (Score 4, Interesting) 188
they're the ones who completely ignored Ron Paul's existence
Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel, too.
True, but it was particularly obvious in Ron Paul's case, when he was getting vote tallies on par with Giulliani's in the early primaries and they refused to label Paul's wedge in their pie charts.
Comment Re:hey, a modern saint! (Score 1) 193
Now someone comes along and puts the smack down on the thugs you could not defeat or did not think it was even to your interest to try and fight. They also manage to return 70% of your losses to you. I suspect most people would be great full to get 70K refunded to them of 100K they thought they'd lost forever.
I don't find the lawyer's take on these types of things all that outrageous when you look at it objectively.
Unless "objectively" means "like a lawyer" I still don't see how a huge injustice has not been done. ("Injustice" is the opposite of "Justice." You may need to consult a dictionary.)
Comment Re: Were Neanderthals Devoured By Humans? (Score 1) 502
Or were neanderthals so cornered by humans that they resorted to cannibalism?
Misleading title...
Not really. There's several explanations for why that jawbone ended up the way it did, but it wouldn't likely be N-on-N cannibalism, since it ended up in a Cro-Mag settlement.
Judging from the absence of other bones, it could as easily have been scavenging, or opportunistic trophy collecting.
OTOH, it could come back to bite us.
Comment Re:Not us. (Score 4, Insightful) 322
If you don't want people or groups or other sites to access your freely publicized data....don't put it out there where anyone can get it. Either keep it off the web or put it behind a 'wall' where only paying members can see it.
Paywalls don't work well, so why do that when they can coerce a revenue stream with lawsuits and/or petitions?
Comment Re:Making Available (Score 5, Funny) 347
If the Pirate Bay wrote a quick op-ed piece about every torrent they linked to, then they would be journalists and thus, protected.
But who's going to have the time to write reviews of so many feature films and their respective encode jobs?
If only they could harness some sort of free labor pool...
Submission + - OpenOffice.org to fully support PDF editing
Juan Rey writes: According to Kai Ahrens' blog, Sun OOo Graphics development team is working in order to get a native import filter into OpenOffice.org.
Development is advanced and a prototype is on the way.
Development is advanced and a prototype is on the way.
Submission + - Szulik: Software Patents Retard Innovation
An anonymous reader writes: Red Hat CEO Matt Szulik believes that software patents absolutely retard the pace of innovation. He's calling for a reform of the patent process instead of a total abolition of patents. Last week, Red Hat became one of several open-source Microsoft rivals targeted as infringing 235 of Redmond's patents. "In the last 30 years, we've continued to see patents really being a challenge to innovation. The industry moves much faster than a remedy process," Szulik told hundreds of attendees at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco. "There is very little empirical evidence that builds a correlation between patents and innovation." Also this week, Microsoft said it has no immediate plans to sue open-source vendors after alleging they infringed the company's patents.
Submission + - Thai company to mass produce rewritable Blu-ray
Lucas123 writes: "Ritek Corp. plans to start mass producing BD-RE and HD DVD-RE next quarter, which should significantly impact the pricing of high-def recording discs, which will currently set you back $10 per platter. So what will we all do with 25GB and 20GB discs — four times what current DVD platters hold?"
