Comment Youtube? (Score 1) 639
If hateful and aggressive comments are forbidden by law, how is Youtube able to function?
Comment Re:3D Printers should be illegal. (Score 0) 380
This is exactly why I hope that wanker's gun backfires in his face or groin. The 3D printer is a wonderful invention. Don't ruin it by the usual gun-horny Yankee idiot routine!
Comment Re:It's also evidence... (Score 2) 625
The Carrousel awaits you...
Is that like the buffet at Old Country Buffet? Home of really really fat people and old coots like me? I'm there!
No, it's nothing as sinister as that. Have a read.
Comment Re:lulwot (Score 1) 197
I am guessing he refers to certain shady corporations which love to spy on their users, and their closed-source products which allow them to do so.
This is why no one with security, integrity, and privacy in mind would use anything other than peer reviewed open source software. Nor let their employees do so, for that matter.
Comment Re:Mars (Score 1) 409
That still covers quite a few wars, though.
Submission + - Piezoelectric system replicates muscle motion of human eye (gatech.edu)
Peristaltic writes: Researchers at the Georgia Tech Bio-Robotics and Human Modeling Laboratory are using muscle-like piezoelectric actuators to mimic the motion of the human eye. While the device currently allows a single-degree of freedom, plans include a multi-degree of freedom device that accurately replicates human eye motion for use in robotic systems.
Submission + - BitTorrent Inc. sez: the future of entertainment is RealPlayer (neowin.net)
KingofGnG writes: "BitTorrent Inc., the USA company founded by the original creators of the BitTorrent protocol, is testing new ways to monetize on the content freely available on the file sharing network. The company wants to “rewrite the Future of the Entertainment Industry”, a feat that begins with the bundling of a well-known relic of the multimedia technology past."
Comment Who created civilisation? (Score 1, Interesting) 497
The question is pointless. It's like asking who created society, or civilisation.
The WWW, however, now that's another story. I'd say CERN, Switzerland is to be held responsible for that. More specifically, Tim Berners-Lee, creator of HTTP 0.9, HTML, the first web browser, the first web server, and the first web pages.
Somewhat related, the first images to be served on the WWW is believed to be promotional shots for the parody pop group Les Horribles Cernettes.
Comment Re:We could also learn Esperanto (Score 1) 557
English is self-contradictory so you get the chance to look down your nose on people who fail to keep track of it all. Since everyone cocks up sometimes, everybody gets a shot at it. That's why we love English :)
Comment Re:COLOMBIAN....not "Columbian" (Score 1) 204
Interestingly, this makes "Columbian" the only 100% correct and unambiguous denonym for a person from the USA. "American" could mean anyone from any country from any of the Americas, "North American" could also mean Canadian... Am I missing any candidate demonyms?
Comment Re:STOP MAKING SHIT UP (Score 1) 204
Yup. Colombia is spelt with an O and Columbia is spelt with a U. Why are we stating obvious things?
Comment Re:I take it (Score 1) 402
Hm, good point.
Perhaps back-up lights should come with back-up signalling horns by default? No, that'd be too annoying. But how about having very-short-range radio warning beacons in every back-up light, and have all hard-sighted people equipped with a receiver?
Comment Re:How cool. (Score 1) 402
...until someone's car is in a pile-up addicent and, when the dust has settled, plays multikill.wav from Unreal Tournament?
Comment What about..? (Score 1) 394
What about people who do not need even to fill a fax form, for various reasons?
Comment Re:Hopefully (Score 1) 796
That makes sense, after all Atheism is being against religion while Agnosticism is having no religion.
I think you are confusing atheism with antitheism.
