>The former Chief Prosecutor Sven-Erik Alhem says (in Swedish) [newsmill.se] that this will hurt the international renown of Swedish courts as well as damage domestic belief in judicial neutrality and safety.

Yet another successful American export.

> What, like Windows does?

No, like a Mac does!

This was not the link I was anticipating.

"Over the summer, flight doctors will analyze the data to ensure it does not make astronauts too queasy."

They're testing a the system for it's performance during an aborted launch and they're worried about the astronauts getting too queasy? If they have to abort a real launch, you would think that a couple of astronauts chucking would be the least of their worries. Survivability I understand, but this is not a theme park ride we're talking about here.

> As usual, we're a bit behind the times.

Normally, I would hear this from somebody from Mississippi, not New Hampshire.

The old AOL needs to come back to life. It would be perfect for people that want an interweb that is safe for business and/or safe for kids.

> Wagner in a scene about Vietnam is a bit over the top. It was over the top in "Apocalypse Now," too, and it's worse now because every use in that context is now a reference to "Apocalypse Now."

At least in Apocalypse Now it was intentionally over the top to hammer a point home. Every use of it since then has missed that point entirely.

The Philip Glass piece (excerpts from Koyaanisqatsi) played during the Dr Manhattan backstory sequence was perfect. At least, for me. I can't think of anything that would have worked better for that character.

I remember seeing this problem long before video games.

Blindness and hairy palms were secondary symptoms.

Post the blacklist so we can independently verify that they have not made any mistakes!

>Last time I checked, the government can't suddenly force everybody to pay money for something.

*cough* Taxes *cough*

Where are people getting 22mbps over cable? Or is it fiber?

And why do your parents need that kind of bandwidth? Email? Web Browsing? YouTube? Torrent Seeding?

And if the extra 256MB keeps XP from paging, it may get you close to 2x.

Logitech S 530 Mac. Three mouse buttons (plus the extra configurable ones) as the godz intended.
The no-button mouse from Apple is a close second.

> In many states, refusal to take a breathalyzer test is legally presumed an admission of guilt.

Refuse the breathalyzer and tell them you want a blood test instead. That removes a major piece of questionable technology from the process and gives your attorney other better known avenues to question the evidence or evidence gathering process. Also, it's not always easy for them to get a tech to do the work at 3am.

I know there are people like myself who purchase games, don't install them, but do install a downloaded copy that has the DRM restrictions removed. This may or may not be viable with Steam-related DRM, but I'm anti-social enough that online multiplayer doesn't really hold a whole lot of appeal for me. And if I did decide that I absolutely had to play something online, I setup an account just for that game so that I could resell my original copy (with the account info) when I was finished with it.