Yeah! And Homer beat their brains out!

Ah, here it is... linked from within the spaceweather.com link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/19299984@N08/7976507568

The linked video is to a very cheesy still image montage about comet/asteroid impacts, and only shows this recent Jupiter impact as a still screenshot of the video playing on someone's computer.

Anybody have a better link? At least to a real still of the event?

In a class action, doesn't the lead plaintiff usually get a real payout if successful? It's just all the other rabble in the class that get coupons. And yes of course... the lawyers always win.

Here's a link I've had bookmarked for a few years about all the wrong assumptions programmers make about peoples names. (I.e., what not to do if you are building an application where users enter their names.)

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names

Mod +10 - Thread Winner. Well said.

How about a computer vision approach? Outfit a few airplanes with a camera system that can pinpoint where the laser is coming from... With a good camera in the system, you might even be able to capture a nice photo of the doofus holding the laser. Then the airline/FAA can notify the police with an address and photo of the culprit.

Mr. Hilton: ...and garnished with lark's vomit.
Inspector: LARK'S VOMIT?!
Mr. Hilton: Correct.
Inspector: It doesn't say anything here about Lark's vomit!
Mr. Hilton: Uh, it does at the bottom of the label, after monosodium glutamate.
Inspector: I hardly think that's good enough! I think it would be more appropriate if the box wore a big red label "WARNING: LARK'S VOMIT"!

is here.

Can you escalate this:
Starting a couple weeks ago, Google maps won't route on a chunk of a major highway in the Chicago suburbs:

I-290 between the Elgin/O'Hare Expressway and I-90 is unroutable.

I reported the problem on the map and got the "You're right, we'll fix it soon" email. But it's still broken.

The book Collapse by Jared Diamond (who also wrote "Guns, Germs, and Steel") covers several historical cases of societies that collapsed. Deforestation is the main trigger that comes up in most of the stories. He also makes parallels to our current relationship with oil.

Pepsi seems to have been experimenting with this for the US market lately. They have Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback. It seems they have them available for just a couple months at a time and then they disappear. (This has happened twice over the last year or so).

When it's available, I stock up on Pepsi Throwback.

The iPhone OS has always had real pre-emptive multitasking. The phone, email, iPod, calendar, and other applications run all the time and can do things simultaneously.

Multitasking just hasn't ever been made available to 3rd party developers.

It has never been a technical limitation in the OS. Rather, Apple kept control over it for battery life and security reasons.

Let's start the pissing contest:

I have a 6-digit slashdot ID. Beat that you newbs!

Do you know how you get enough graphic power to deliver full high-definition video? You plunk down a video decoder chip.

This has no impact on your graphics performance for anything UI related.