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Comment Re:Of course this calls for (Score 2, Interesting) 307

Why download pixilated 700 meg pirate rips to bypass the disc nonsense? I just rip my DVDs to divX files using AutoGK set at 100% quality and store them on my media PC. Two or three clicks and you're done. Someone who actually knows what they're doing can do much better than this, but I'm lazy and dumb and that's good enough for me. This also has the added benefit of making it ridiculously simple to set up double features with cartoons, previews, and whatever other added content you want - just click the first file in the series and let the PC do the rest. As with CDs, I use the disc once just to rip it and put it away forever after that.

Comment Cool Pop-up (Score 1) 219

Did anyone else get this cool popup from TFA?

"Internet Explorer does not support MathML (used here for equations) and has severely broken support for other Web Standards like CSS2 and XHTML.

Most Web designers have bent over backwards to shelter you from the failings of this wretched browser. We have not.

Aside from the equations, many things on these pages will render poorly or not at all in IE. If they do, We're sorry, but we aren't going to "fix it."

MathML support can be obtained with the aid of a new plugin. For the rest, you need to get yourself a Standards-Compliant browser, like Mozilla."

And it's not my fault. I'm at work and can't install a real brower.

Comment Re:Get over it. (Score 1) 1486

Your children participate in Scouts and 4H, which are voluntary organizations and it is agreed ahead of time that this is part of the "cost" of admission. I fail to see how this justifies involuntary servitude imposed by the Federal government. And yes, that is unconstitutional as hell, as previously pointed out by others. Which is not to suggest that service is not a noble and desirable thing. "Noble and desirable" and "mandatory" are not identical concepts.

Robotics

Robot Composed of "Catoms" Can Assume Any Form 168

philetus writes "An article in New Scientist describes a robotic system composed of swarms of electromagnetic modules capable of assuming almost any form that is being developed by the Claytronics Group at Carnegie Mellon. 'The grand goal is to create swarms of microscopic robots capable of morphing into virtually any form by clinging together. Seth Goldstein, who leads the research project at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, in the US, admits this is still a distant prospect. However, his team is using simulations to develop control strategies for futuristic shape-shifting, or "claytronic", robots, which they are testing on small groups of more primitive, pocket-sized machines.'"

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