You're not European, are you?

I beg to differ, I had a Sony GDM-something that was 21" and was excellent at 1600x1200. I got it for free because the company was throwing them out by the truckload and replacing them with Apple Cinema Displays. I would have taken 2 but they weighed a ton and I don't think my desk would take kindly to 300lbs resting on it. 21", even then, was a niche market all the players in it (Sony, NEC) handled that resolution with aplomb.

The constitution guarantees him the right to pursue personal happiness. Not everything is about you.

Even if he weren't helping anyone else, and I guarantee he is, he'd still be in the right.

Nonesense, did you even read what you linked to?

In proceedings against any person for the offence of failing to produce a licence [F35 and its counterpart] it shall be a defence for him to show that--
(a)
within seven days after the production of his licence [F35 and its counterpart] was required he produced [F36 them] in person at a police station that was specified by him at the time [F37 their] production was required

As someone else pointed out, bringing your foreign driver's license is usually fine. As long as you've got some kind of ID, they can give you the benefit of the doubt.

Some places in the US won't accept ones from neighboring states.

Are you the person I replied to? It's a bit unclear which makes your comments unclear, are you agreeing or disagreeing initially?

I'm guessing you're the AC from earlier.

Of course I can understand what someone "like Tiller" (from what I understand) would be feeling - like a great injustice was going on and he had to stop it because nobody else would. I imagine it's the same feeling, right or wrong, if you're trying to stop Hitler or that damn Teletubby who's making you gay.

Not quite. I call any state that practices slavery (or reserves the right to for a draft or such) invalid. All its laws are invalid if it is.

When invalid governments run "jails" we call them gulags and death camps.

And yes, you could. You could also be sent to them for NOT offing a Hitler soon enough...

Abortion is a wide range of operations, from the murder of a -1 day-old baby (icky) to the removal of a 1-day old barely fertilized egg as with the morning-after pill.

I don't hold that every sperm is sacred, which I pretty much would have to to think that it became sacred the nanosecond it touched an egg... But obviously we treat babies (people) as sacred and something that's very nearly a baby is very nearly sacred.

Whenever someone lumps it all, medically necessary or early-term rape abortions with late-term glamor-preserving abortions, etc, it's a pretty good indicator they've got a politically expedient view, not a useful one.

Except that every additional gigabyte is useful - you can store almost 3 45-minute TV episodes on that. By packing more pixels, however, there are rapid diminishing returns as you start to overcome the resolution of the eye itself.

The "killer app" for home 3D will most probably be porn.

I have written some pretty sophisticated shell programs, including one thing for Debian that took a set of executables and a set of shared libraries and made versions of the libraries containing only the functions called for in the executables. It got the system to fit on a floppy when it otherwise would not have. It did a lot of list-processing in shell. Fortunately, someone eventually replaced that with a non-sh program.

At this point I would not write another large shell script of any kind, and am mostly doing the three-liners in Ruby as well.

The reason you would learn the shell would be to pass a certification test. You would be a better sysadmin or programmer if your main scripting language was Python or Ruby.

Am I the only one with the impression that whole Gawker Media, not only Gizmodo, are a bunch of cunts?

Thanks for the link. As it turns out I was able to get it to work reliably using the IR link, but I've printed out the page you linked in case I start having problems in the future.

The real question: can setting up a firewall be considered a game, and therefore art? Ebert is just playing shock jock to get attention. Games are art are life.

They didn't expose their source.

They exposed the story.

If your contact in the government leaks you some documents that reveal that John Smith in department X did something stupid, then naming John Smith is not leaking your source. It's the damn story.

Indeed.

Of course, there'll be push-back on that..just look at the fight against filming interrogations.

I guess they know to whom they issued the new prototypes so they can just ask these people to give them back to find who lost it after the story came out on Gizmodo.