What if Netflix doesn't consider the deaf to be its target audience and specifically indicates this fact? Why can a private service which requires people to pay before viewing content be forced to accommodate people who may not be their target market?

By this same token, a duochrome-colorblind person can petition for color-adjusted films. A blind person can request a specific voice feed that describes the actions of the characters in a film, and so forth. Why not just let some other service create closed captions for deaf viewers to subscribe to?

via c|net:

On many days, the San Francisco courtroom where he presided was more like a computer science classroom. Alsup acknowledged during the trial that he had learned about Java coding to better prepare for the case, and it showed. On a daily basis, he would deftly query the lawyers and expert witnesses on the structure, sequence, and organizations of APIs to assist the jury in understanding the key facets of the copyright phase of the trial.

This is why I have respect for Judge Alsup. In order to apply the law in a complex engineering-related case, he worked to learn the subject matter in order to properly apply the law to the material. That's how I expect every Judge should apply the law rather than just sit and "trust the experts" per-se.

things such as debug logs during testing.

Does Apple have no such thing? This leads me to think that Apple either has no development lifecycle or, in case they have one, only half-heartedly obey it.

Old Dominion University did this nearly a decade ago and filed a patent for it. I see no reference to them in the article.

http://www.odu.edu/ao/research/ip/PlasmaPencil.pdf

Worthy case for small claims, actually.

How much stronger would a field have to be to protect a hypothetical ship the size of the space shuttle from solar winds and other non-EM ionizing radiation in interplanetary space?

If 100 tesla is achievable now, then I can imagine it wouldn't take long before a field can be generated which would be powerful enough to provide a buffer against most ionizing radiation a la Earth's own magnetic field, but I could be way in the realm of science fiction with this thought.

Google, Bing, et al. will just stop linking to sites which enforce this.

Who thought this was a good idea?

That's precisely what hyper-accurate atomic clocks allow you to correct. The distortions manifest in less accurate clocks. The more accurate your time, the better your algorithmic corrections between the ground and the satellites.

Although perhaps not for daily use, the technology could prove valuable in science experiments

You kidding me? The prospect of GPS-guided bullets accurate to the millimeter will have the US military pursuing this in next-gen GPS satellites as soon as the technology is viable. Hell, this'll be the most valuable update to military hardware in decades.

That's at least one major lawsuit per protest broken up. Good luck getting any major civilian police force to risk that. The only place this has any use would be a battlefield, where lawsuits are irrelevant.

It's just converting the electricity into light very efficiently with a great ratio

No, it's not even using the electricity to generate light for the most part. The electricity is effectively reducing the remaining threshold needed for ambient heat to be converted to light. In terms of overall energy efficiency, one would find it would still be under 100% if the amount of ambient heat lost could be measured.

So I used the chat box at the bottom of the page and got this answer:

We don't release the funds until we verify the campaign. If the campaign is not legitimate, we return the money. [...] At the same time, we check it from our end. We just don't put up a barrier in the sign up process.

That explains it.

Well in my case, I'm taken. Still, I know a few people (cousins, friends, what-have-you) who constantly stress about their height to the point where I've gone from lying about height's irrelevance to them to proposing alternative solutions just to get them to hush a bit. Granted this was back when the people I knew cared more about this sort of thing, but this submission did a good job of reminding me. hah

That would've been appropriate for me... 7 years ago. I'm asking in hypothetical terms because my height is dead-average for the US.

There exist treatments overseas for increasing a person's height which rely on repeatedly fracturing leg bones and spacing them such that they heal at a distance, essentially lengthening the bone.

Do we have any osteopathologists on slashdot who can comment on whether this can theoretically shorten such a procedure's duration to make someone taller in a matter of one or two weeks? The current procedure takes at least a few months, if not a year.