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Comment Re:A stain on my country's tattered honor (Score 1) 844

Good answers. I personally knew all that already, as well as the answers to my other questions. The person above me on the other hand didn't have a f*cking clue. I really should stop expecting rationality out of the regular /. point system. Not to mention avoiding sarcasm.
I would like to add just one more point to the above post.

If one has armed enemy combatants that are hiding among civilians. One is legally, morally and tactically allowed to destroy said enemy with what ever force one deems appropriate and proportional. And any responsibility for civilian deaths, again legally as well as morally, is placed squarely on the combatants who have hidden among them.

Comment Re:A stain on my country's tattered honor (Score 1) 844

How far away were the apaches from the armed individuals? How far away were the ground troops the apaches were providing close air support for? Why should the apaches not fire on non uniformed, unidentified, ARMED individuals within line-of-sight of active combat involving friendly troops? What is the effective range of the 7.62x39 round? or the 5.45x45 round? What is the effective range of an RPG7? Informative my fluffy white ass.

Comment Re:other potential things (Score 1) 433

Handheld communication devices had been around for many years when Star Trek was first aired. Just look at the backpack radios of vietnam or the handheld military radios of WWII. The first patent for a wireless phone is from 1908. All star trek did was postulate that a communications device could be miniaturized. I doubt you would make the statement about TNG if you really knew how many principles of Physics, Security, Engineering and a whole host of other subjects the writers for that show regularly raped out of sheer ignorance and disintrest. Star Wars is far more correct in any scientific sense than Star Trek. And Star Wars is probably one of the "softest" science fiction out there.
Programming

Strange Glitches In Games 282

Parz writes "Even the best of game developers can leave a big dirty glitch buried within its products that can turn a gameplay experience on its head (sometimes literally). Gameplayer has trawled through the web to locate video footage of some of the more amazing and hilarious examples of glitches in games. It acts as an interesting insight into the bugs that some games — especially today — ship with. What interesting bugs have you encountered?"
Games

FileFront Reopens Its Doors 25

boarder8925 writes "FileFront, who announced on March 24th that they would be shutting down, has been given new life. The original owners of the website bought it back from Ziff Davis Media, who shut down FileFront because it had become financially unviable. 'We're happy to announce to the gaming community that as of today, April 1st, 2009, FileFront is a completely independent company again and is no longer part of Ziff Davis Media. All previously suspended services should be active and working again. We thank Ziff Davis Media for their cooperation and willingness to keep the site and community alive.' They repeatedly state that this is not an April Fool's Day joke, and indeed the site appears to be up and running as usual."
Space

What Would It Look Like To Fall Into a Black Hole? 154

CNETNate writes "A new video simulation developed by Andrew Hamilton and Gavin Polhemus of the University of Colorado, Boulder, on New Scientist today, shows what you might see on your way towards a black hole's crushing central singularity. Hamilton and Polhemus built a computer code based on the equations of Einstein's general theory of relativity, and the video produced allows the viewer to follow the fate of an imaginary observer on an orbit that swoops down into a giant black hole weighing 5 million times the mass of the sun, about the same size as the hole in the centre of our galaxy. The research could help physicists understand the apparently paradoxical fate of matter and energy in a black hole."

Comment Re:Repent now, the end is near (Score 1) 1190

Your analogy is flawed. If the bulb was created by aliens and contained millions upon millions of cooperating devices that where influenced by yet more millions of possible conditions then perhaps you would have a point. We simply do not know enough to say with any accuracy what would happen to said bulb if we where to change a certain condition.

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