The "Academy of Tobacco Studies" is a made-up industry trade group in the satirical film Thank You for Smoking. You're probably thinking of the Tobacco Institute.

Because some doctors are, as you said negligent, it is the responsibility of the parents to ensure their children are getting proper health care. Rather than legislate/litigate, the FDA is trying to raise awareness, so parents will actively participate in their children's health care, and use their "free market power" to demand proper health care with minimal X-rays.

I realize this may not be possible because they'd be costing Chertoff ^W^W sympathizing with terrorists, but the FDA should work on TSA body scanners too while they're at it. In medicine, doctors are at least remotely concerned about how much radiation people are exposed to. The TSA is only concerned with keeping people in line, maintaining a security theater, and spending/receiving lots of public money. Limiting children's exposure to X-rays is a respectable, important cause, and not all children will travel by air, but it will all be wasted if the kids run through too many body scanners with traveling parents. Plus, parents will probably not know anything about body scanners, and will believe the TSA agents when they say the scanners are "perfectly safe".

I see this one asked all the time. First draw your circle in the ellipse selection tool. To make it a perfect circle, just hold shift while selecting, or check the "Fixed" (aspect ratio) option box in the toolbox.

• For a hollow circle, go to Edit --> Stroke Selection. Then pick your line width, color, etc.
• For a solid circle, go to Edit --> Fill with BG Color, Fill with FG Color, or Fill with Pattern, depending on what you're trying to do.

Also works with paths (vectors), text, rectangles (with rounded corners), and arbitrary freehand/contiguous/cut-out selections.

In past years, autism was barely understood/defined, and often misdiagnosed as ADHD, mental retardation, or something similar. As awareness increases and the diagnostic criteria become more straightforward, autism is diagnosed more and more frequently. You can't call that increase in diagnosis an epidemic.

That shouldn't matter. YouTube gets a cut of the ad revenue no matter who gets the other cut. It's just whether you make the extra profit or Rabblefish.

I'm not a lawyer but my understanding of the DMCA was that if you dispute it, the company has to either sue you or let it slide. It's not just a you-say-it's-yours they-say-you're-wrong thing; they make an authoritative claim to own the content in question (stating formerly that they did their research), and you dispute it and refuse to comply with the takedown. At this point, liability for infringement is passed from the service provider to you, as you force their hand; if they want DMCA action, they have to take you to court.

From the summary here, I can't quite understand what the OP did or whether he did just that, or any of the other specific details, but I would expect YouTube to remove the ads once the company backed out of filing a lawsuit. Of course the company(ies) in question will keep doing it because there is a financial (and political) incentive and very little risk of any kind of repercussions, but that's how corporate legal departments operate and you just have to keep fighting back when they try to bully you.

Wait... do you really think politicians would actually research something? Something that requires reading? We are talking about America, right? I'm not saying this won't be effective -- if Wikipedia disappears, with the message that if SOPA/PIPA pass they'll be gone for good, every congressman's switchboard will be flooded -- but to think that congressmen actually do their own thinking, much less research something, is sorely mistaken. The ones who do are probably the ones who are opposed to this already. You must be new here.

I said phone, not cell phone or smart phone. You know, those ancient analog devices mounted on the wall from the day and age mentioned in GP, before cell phones were widespread. You speak into them, and they don't connect to the internet or remember your recent contacts. We are still talking about

right? Maybe I'm naive, but I don't seem to remember Outlook from a phone being possible back then.

Point being, in the time when this figured out, you didn't have to worry about what kind of sensitive data was stored on a device with no storage capability.

You can't lose a phone and lose a few thousand customer social security numbers or credit card numbers stored on it.

I know I'm late to the discussion, but I thought I'd throw this in for thought.

As long as we're not talking about censorship, I really think this .xxx thing could work. Think about it: somebody looking for porn (he knows what he wants) will look in the .xxx part of the internet, while anybody else will avoid the .xxx. As long as nobody is evesdropping (blackmail, anyone?) or censoring by domain name, the porno website owners have no reason to use anything other than the .xxx domain. As a porn site operator, why would you go out of your way to try and reach people you know don't want what you're selling when you already have a niche market singled out for you?

Yes, I realize Goatse and the like will continue exist, but that's an obvious exception for obvious reasons.

And now they have your Slashdot UID. If they didn't have your name before, they probably have it now...

Avira saw part of a program (called "Avira") that bombards the user with pop-ups, scaring them, and asking for money every year. It acted accordingly. The only shocking thing here is that it actually worked.

Nah, it just can't stop touching itself.

Think bigger -- Fox News, being so radically right wing as it is, represents a huge threat to public workers, safety nets, and generally anything that doesn't immediately benefit the elite class. Even if this ends up hurting News Corp's viewer base (the delusional), it will mean less of this blockading politics in the name of tax cuts for wealthy, less wars of conquest, and less of this anti-union vendetta being pushed on public employees. If they're as leftist as you say, then their workers would probably also like it if the propaganda machine were to die down.