Comment Re:It's not the packaging, it's the seal (Score 2) 398
To be fair, they test them in-house before putting things back up on the shelf.
What color is the sky on your planet?
Comment Re:Edison didn't even invent the Lightbulb!!! (Score 1) 386
What SCO became wasn't what SCO once was.
Comment Re:Irrefutable fact (Score 1) 386
Even though she passed on the seemingly bi-weekly opportunity to get her crew back home?
Comment Amazon warehouses need tweakers? (Score 1) 295
...because that's what they're going to find in San Berdoo.
Comment Re:Generally, when prescription drugs.... (Score 1) 392
Or, you could live in a more-free country that allows you to buy drugs like Tylenol #1, which will generally knock the edge off of a migraine in no time flat. Instead, you have doctors afraid of writing 'scrips for any sort of painkiller (because the twin fears of lawsuits by patients and los federales, not to mention arrest and incarceration) and you end up taking something from the *triptan class of medicines which have side-effects that are nearly as bad as the migraine itself (in the near term).
Comment Re:Photographic prints! (Score 2) 350
Only 20-30% waste? You're a heck of an optimist. The magically drying out ink carts are what caused me to vow to never buy an inkjet ever again and to recommend only laser printers to people, pointing them to their local "Internet to photo lab" printing option for those images they want hard-copy of.
Comment Just like Burning Man (Score 4, Insightful) 394
All your images are owned by us.
God, I love the Corporatocracy.
Comment Re:This is truly... (Score 1) 173
Are you positive?
Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 299
Good idea, and I used to get that when I hit the back button after inadvertently going to some sort of site like ExpertSexChange (ooh, they hyphenated), but I haven't seen the "Never see these bastards again" link/button in a very long time. (And yes, I'm logged in) I'm not an iGoogle user and I usually go in via the search bar on Firefox.
Comment Re:Just beware of the potential misunderstandings (Score 1) 263
If only I had mod points! YES. We are well past needing to chill out and stop responding to every sneeze with a paramilitary assault unit.
What, you want the paramilitary assault units that you can find in every police department of size to just sit around and twiddle their thumbs, waiting for the real emergency?
Comment Re:Problematic (Score 1) 263
I used a rifle stock mount for a camera at a baseball game and no-one in the stadium raised a fuss.
Comment It's not exactly a new idea. (Score 1) 263
Imagine getting a photo of a politician with this camera: http://www.novacon.com.br/odditycameras/mamiyapc.htm
Or going to a (US) National Park with one of these: http://fedka.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=610&osCsid=726706c7db885cd7ea53125689e0e62e
Comment Re:Dead musicians society (Score 1) 429
The MIT AI Lab gave all of their Lisp Machines (both in-house, LISPM, and Symbolics) names of dead rock stars - it's an ever-growing set.
Comment Re:Shannon-Hartley still in effect. (Score 1) 147
You get 56k out of it because of compression. Actual physical bandwidth is limited to about 34kbps of actual data transfer.
Submission + - No kidding, the upper-class is more likely to commit unethical behavior. (vice.com)
everydayelk writes: "Do you lie and cheat on a regular basis? Do you cut in front of pedestrians in traffic? Do you consider greed to be a virtuous quality? Do you think you’re totally awesome and worthy? Scientifically speaking, you are more likely to be upper-class, according to a just-out study in PNAS examining the relationship between socio-economic class and propensity to act unethically (and using those things as ethical markers). Seven studies, ranging from objective envrionmental observation to a dice pseudo-game to straight-up what would you do in this scenario? questions were performed, and every one of the studies found the same general result: being rich makes you kind of an asshole. Act surprised."
