I build myself computers and install opensource software. I tell me relatives to buy macs. Mac is like bowling with bumpers. Sure it's a poor skill-less representation of the game, but at least the kids won't cry.

There's is no proof that suggests that it can either.

Suppose you were an idiot and a member of congress. But I repeat myself.

Isn't a stuck floor mat a far more likely explanation than a mysterious computer bogeyman? Even with a recall there would be tons of cars that never changed them out. No doubt this should be investigated, but the article seems to be nothing but speculation and hearsay.

Black magic

Take that you health freaks! I chainsmoke like a chimney, so enjoy your tofu and cancer!!

Although this is within the letter of the law, it is very clearly against it's spirit. The amendment exists for a very valid reason, and finding a loophole sure as hell doens't mean you can ignore the constitution. This is even worse than ignoring really, they are fully aware of the limitations placed upon them. Their intent from that point is to find a way to defeat an aspect of the constitution. A law enforcement department that purposefully acts to ignore the law. As the coordination of govt agencies continues this will become commonplace. It will happen by increments, so nobody will notice. Too bad I can't copywrite the constituion and start DCMA'ing them once they try and circumvent it.

I suggest you listen to your own arguments, might change your mind.

I see this being very useful for things like mail delivery trucks, or other daily government or fleet uses. The routes are predictable, and even the excess charge needed to avoid being stranded in the event of delay would be pretty easy to take into account. Big purchases from agencies and fleets would do wonders to keep this floating till the tech improves to the level needed for regular consumers.

Yeah but now we can measure the extent of our frustrations!

The bloodhound analogy doesn't work because populations do not self cull. Evolution is more complicated than trait preference = trait propagation. I suggest your read some more on evolutionary theory then you'll see this study suddenly explains very little.

No, it shows that people (and sadly many scientists) don't understand their statistics. It showed a central tendency when looking at the geometric averages of faces. Of course higher sample sizes would have less variance, too bad the analysis didn't take this into account. Psychologists in particular need to start looking a little deeper at their SPSS results.

Being from L.A. i've seen lots of beautiful women dig some gold and let me tell you rich kids looking good is more a function of percieved status and excellent grooming than them being physically more attactive.

There are only two physical traits with universal sexual appeal cross-culturally, symmetry you mentioned and clear skin. All of these ratios and such are measuring the current cultural zeitgeist with regards to beauty, and those standards are largely culturally plastic. Little better in methodology than phrenology.

Ah yea, I never did the drumming on rockband because i'm embarressingly bad at it for a musician. Maybe I should play it more, I can totally see how it could teach drums though. But don't diss the guitar man! I'm not a guitar magazine shred head jerking off the scales guitarist. But any guitarist can tell you, picking up the guitar is easy relative to other instruments. But getting GOOD at it is much much harder. Knowing your open chords and some basic scale forms you have a very limited understanding on the possibilities of the instrument. Some of the hardest songs to play correctly are very simple and slow (that is, easy to hit the notes), but proper expressioning for the slow is probably one of the hardest things to do in music.