Maybe they can use this to ban gawd-awful movie knock-offs...

Except that now his name can be Googled and found here. How's that for irony.

It wasn't until after I replied that I saw your post tagged as funny; I guess I'm the only one who didn't get the joke (and I do know the barometer story).

Really? I thought he understood the question. By throwing the shoe, he pushed himself ever so slightly in the other direction. Being on a frictionless surface, he would glide to the edge of the pond opposite of the direction he threw the shoe.

They're great for little hands.

Forgive me, but can you indeed copyright a recipe? I thought you couldn't copyright a fact (e.g. the mix of ingredients), but only the process (mix for 30 seconds, then rest). I mean come on, recipes are ripped off constantly.... I'd like some references please, for my own education.

Sorry, man, but you're wrong. They may make choices you don't agree with, but that does not make them anything less than you. Do you feel the same about teachers, firemen, or policemen, anyone who's not all about the last dollar?

I've had similar problems with Flash. I'm in management in Accounting, and I was kindly given a very nice laptop from the IT department to test drive ahead of the masses. It's worked fine... until I allow Flash to run, and then the laptop quickly develops a runaway heat problem. The only solution is to turn it off (a long exercise since all the processes start firing simultaneously, presumably because of the heat), flip it over, and rest a sealed soda can on it above the CPU until the beast cools down.

Flash-Block is the only thing that saves this machine, but whether it's a Flash or a Firefox-Flash issue, I'm not sure.

The same could be said about Nixon and breaking into the Democratic Headquarters at the Watergate; surely he couldn't have been worried that McGovern might actually win the election. People in power don't think in those terms.

Well sure, now that the Library of Congress is involved, I'll let them be my backup.

And for long did they know the prize was already won and everyone else had zero chance to win? That's the part that bothers me.

I remember a similar situation with Virginia's scratch-off lottery tickets: a fixed number of tickets are printed with winning numbers, and once those prizes are all claimed, the Lottery Agency is supposed to pull the remaining tickets since they're all losers. But of course, they don't.

Oh come on now.

What part of the story of the family in a decrepit Lexus with worn-out brakes doing acceleration overtime wasn't true? THAT's what got this Toyota-bashing story started. And even Toyoda himself admitted it - they got greedy and too big too fast.

Try coordinating your location with http://www.heavens-above.com/. They track lots (all?) the satellites and large debris, including some cool tumbling ones, so maybe you can find something there. They track the flares that come from reflections off solar panels too, but I've had no luck to seeing them using their location data.

Only problem I foresee is that with a 4" telescope, unless there's some kind of tracking mechanism, regardless of what you're looking at, cycling through a bunch of kids will be difficult as the object/detail in question will have moved and the telescope will need to be constantly re-pointed. THAT will be the toughest part in my opinion. You can reduce the problem by paying close attention to the pivoting mechanisms on the telescope (possibly with some dry runs without the kids) so that the one axis points to celestial north and the other along the celestial plane. If you're tracking the moon or Jupiter, then a turn of only one of the knobs (this thing does have a tracking mechanism, right?) will keep it in the scope.

Cue the piling on as I'm sure my description is un-artful and /. is an unforgiving crowd.

Why stop with snippets? How about whole books at a time? It'll amount to a DDoS attack on their servers....