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Comment I dont want to live here anymore (Score 1) 799

by neo0983 (#34077328) Attached to: New York Judge Rules 6-Year-Old Can Be Sued
Wow I dont think I want to live in a nation of the litigious where we go around suing everything that breaths. Seriously a 4 year old? Whats next Mr Prosecutor? Will you sue a dog that bites someone next? Maybe a newborn who's mother passes away giving birth? To the family of the deceased my condolences. To the defendant this may be an opportunity to use the Survival of the fittest defense. The judge is only following what the statutes says he must so we shouldnt be too harsh on him; but whom ever started this lawsuit should be sentenced to work at a daycare facility full of 4 year olds for a couple months to learn first hand just what a 4 year old is capable of.
NASA

Submission + - The Final Space Shuttle External Fuel Tank (motherboard.tv) 2

Submitted by tedlistens
tedlistens writes: The last Space Shuttle’s external tank was recently lifted into a “checkout cell” in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, one of the largest buildings in the world. The completion of the last tank meant the shut down of the assembly line – and the 800 remaining people who worked on it – at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The tank contains the liquid hydrogen fuel and liquid oxygen that, along with the solid rocket boosters, powers the Shuttle into orbit. Though they are not typically reused — ten seconds after the engines cut off, the tank falls away to break up over the Indian Ocean, away from known shipping lanes — one new plan imagines using old shuttle parts, including pieces of the tank, to build a new moon rocket. There's a beautiful video of the lifting of the tank at Motherboard.

Comment government work (Score 1) 412

by neo0983 (#33380102) Attached to: Teacher Asks Students To Plan a Terrorist Attack
Correct me if I am wrong but isnt this "project" similar to what the military pays people to do all ready? Think up different attack vectors and then think up how to prevent them from happening. Has anyone read the art of war? So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.
Government

Guess My Speed and Give Me a Ticket, In Ohio 636

Posted by timothy from the well-it-sounded-really-fast dept.
quall writes "The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that police may estimate your car's speed and issue a ticket if they believe you were speeding. The hearing threw out a radar gun as evidence because the officer was not qualified to use it, but apparently his guess was good enough. If you make your way into Ohio, I suggest driving 5mph under the speed limit because this leaves little room to dispute your ticket in court. The only chance you have is if the issuing officer decides to skip your hearing." I wonder whether the court would also accept a driver's own GPS log as exculpatory evidence.
Businesses

Evidence for Console Price Cuts 150

Posted by Zonk from the encheapening-of-consumer-goods dept.
Next Generation offers up an exhaustive analysis of previous console generation price cuts, and concludes that we are definitely due for some cheaper next-gen action sometime in the near future. The piece includes charts of lowering system prices, as well as a breakdown of how many consoles sold at various price tiers. "Certainly we can use history as a guide, but there are limits to its use for prognostication. The price drops this generation may happen in ways entirely different from what has been suggested above. Maybe the $300 console this generation will be what the $200 console was last generation. Maybe Microsoft will forge ahead with its current price structure until after Halo 3 has come and gone. Maybe Sony will bless the PlayStation 3 with a 33% price drop sometime this year. And maybe Nintendo will give the Wii a small price drop by removing Wii Sports from the package. Those could happen, but don't bet on it."
Displays

Submission + - Man sues Gateway because he can't read EULA

Submitted by Scoopy
Scoopy writes: California resident Dennis Sheehan took Gateway to small claims court after he reportedly received a defective computer and little technical support from the PC manufacturer. Gateway responded with their own lawyer and a 2-inch thick stack of legal docs, and claimed that Sheehan violated the EULA, which requires that users give up their right to sue and settle these cases in private arbitration. Sheehan responded that he never read the EULA, which pops up when the user first starts the computer, because the graphics were scrambled — precisely the problem he had complained to tech support in the first place. A judge sided with Sheehan on May 24 and the case will proceed to small claims court.

A lawyer is quoted as saying that Sheehan, a high school dropout who is arguing his own case, is in for a world of hurt: 'This poor guy now faces daunting reality of having to litigate this on appeal against Gateway...By winning, he's lost.'

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