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BG started back in 2003 according to TV.com for its pilot. 2004 for regular episodes.

Grey's Anatomy is another great show too.

Where's Lost? That's another great show! :(

And surprise, surprise, that was Futurama's last full season... There were only 5 new episodes released after that season, two in June, two in July, and one in August.

I have flashblock installed, So when I view the demo page I get a duplicate of the headline in two different fonts. Is this what ABC News has had for quite some time? http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=140502 2&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

This action obviously will not stem identity theft but the hope is that this will push banks into security improvements that will make identity theft much harder.

I agree. I was listening to Clark Howard a couple of weeks ago on the radio and he was talking about how 99.9% of US banks have atrocious security when it comes to online banking. I know that identity theft also happens offline, but I also think that you have to criminalize grossly negligent behavior, or else you end up with a situation like what we have today: banks see it as more fiscally reasonable to absorb the cost of the problem than to even attempt to fix it. The problem is that this has tragic consequences for the individuals that are victimized. Hopefully the US congress will jump on board and start dealing with serious problems, instead of concerning themselves with things like college sports and drug testing among athletes, which ultimately shouldn't be of importance to the federal government.

You're right that resolutions are fixed by channel. (E.g., see here). The networks all either chose 720p or 1080i. However, in most areas of the country. ABC is 720p through most of the country, except some areas of Texas. See here

Regardless of the HDTV format being broadcast, all new HDTV receivers can receive both formats. New HDTV televisions will convert any received signal to a format that is compatible with your new display. The 720p format uses progressive scanning, which is just like your computer monitor. Progressive scan offers crystal clear images that virtually eliminates those scanning lines that are visible on most large screen televisions. ABC broadcasts all of its programming using the 720p format except in Dallas, where the ABC station broadcasts in 1080i. Many new flat panel displays use progressive scan

What's wrong with big-breasted women? They can be smart too! You just need to make sure you that you enjoy "their views" as well as "the view". :)

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Business/story?id =1341972&page=

Note the number at the bottom, for troubleshooting and replacement.

I think it's stupid to do a lawsuit when you can just get another one. Is it because his ego was damaged due to his imperfect xbox after he stayed up all night waiting in line to get it? Seriously, it is a game console; if you stayed up all night that is your problem, and if it doesn't work right you have the right to get one that does work, but not to sue because you weren't able to impress all the 1337 ch1ck5 on your block. Lemon law man... you don't sue the car company that offers to replace the car because it wouldn't start after the first day of use... it's not like you had emotional scarring (and if you did, over a malfunctioning xbox, then you have bigger issues).

How much is K-mart paying? How much Publix, Albertsons, Stop&Shop, Costco

I don't know about Kmart, Publix, or Albertson, but according to ABC News "Costco pays higher than average wages -- $17 an hour -- 40 percent more than Sam's Club, the warehouse chain owned by Wal-Mart." Not to mention the CEO makes $350,000/year because he figures a salary 12 times the average person on the floor makes is about right.

The real question is, what would a company have to do to convince you that it isn't evil.

Ummmmm....not act evil. Quit strongarming vendors, shut down its Chinese sweatshops, pay a decent wage, provide health benefits, etc, etc.

There are at least two accounts of people jumping into the hot springs in Yellowstone Park to rescue pet dogs. Snopes has an article about David Allan Kirwan, who jumped into a 200 degree C hot pool. ESPN has more details.

Although since a lava stream is anywhere between 800C and 1200C which is enough to melt most metals below manganese, you would probably just end up being a large carbon statue.

There are at least two accounts of people jumping into the hot springs in Yellowstone Park to rescue pet dogs. Snopes has an article about David Allan Kirwan, who jumped into a 200 degree C hot pool. ESPN has more details.

Although since a lava stream is anywhere between 800C and 1200C which is enough to melt most metals below manganese, you would probably just end up being a large carbon statue.

Hey, didn't you just release a new movie?

No, they are not.

"We were heading for a murder rate of 72 per 100,000. New York City is at seven." Scharf says, according to city records, there were 265 murders in New Orleans last year, 258 murders in 2003, and 275 in 2002. Warren J. Riley, New Orleans' acting superintendent of police, says the drug dealers and gangs evacuated with the residents and haven't returned.

If you are married and do not like your husband's video game habits, then you are a fool. If your husband is at home playing computer games, good. He's not out drinking or whoring. He's not gambling away the money he makes. He's not committing crimes. He's not hurting anyone. He's relaxing in a safe manner.

Instead of watching football or baseball, he's playing video games. He's surfing on the internet playing games with friends, not fantasy football. There is zero difference between watching games and playing games (except for the fact that playing games makes you smarter), just how some of society perceives it.

Next time you read about a girlfriend angry that her boyfriend plays video games, pay her the same attention you would any whiny complaining stupid person.

I Am Extreme
Yesterday at work I drank an Extreme Gulp while doing some Extreme Programming, and then I went home and ate Extreme Duritos while watching Extreme Sports on cable.

Today every muscle in my body aches.

Posted on May 01, 2002
http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/000192.html

Shaquille O'Neal. Born: March 6, 1972. Newark, NJ. Height: 7-1. Weight: 325 lbs.

Standing 7'4" and weighing between 475 and 540 pounds over the course of his career, he truly earned his nickname of "The Eighth Wonder of the World".

Robert Pershing Wadlow was born, educated and buried in Alton, Illinois. His height of 8' 11.1" qualifies him as the tallest person in history, as recorded in the Guinness Book of Records. At the time of his death he weighed 490 pounds.

Elton John created a Broadway play with Tim Rice; it's called Aida, and as you can tell by the reviews of non-critics, it's apparently very good.

Obviously you don't work for the administration. Your story doesn't include a single keyword or have any effect on public perception. How the heck to you expect to bury a story without getting a little crosstalk in the mix.

Here. Let ABC show you how it is done...

Original Story (19 Oct):
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SYD103799 .htm

ABC News (22 Oct):
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1 236555

Notice how we go from identifying the the specific unit and soldier to "coulda been anybody" (achieved by muting the audio track).

Certain alcoholic drinks, like red wine, contain substances that do offer health benefits. But the alcohol does not.

Microsoft has made so many mistakes at the past, that they've lost the trust of customers.

The mistakes are not in business execution of MS up until this point in time, just in losing the trust of customers.

It's easy for a near monopoly to earn great profits while people don't like or trust them.

What is it with Jobs and resisting mouse-related progress?

Anything related to The Mouse is not Progress. Remember that The Walt Disney Company was probably the biggest corporate backer of a piece of legislation called the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. Does keeping all works from 1923 on locked up for another 20 years promote Progress, especially given that such Progress includes works that build on other works?

A quarter of Americans didn't know the Earth revolves around the Sun, but apparently one third of Europeans didn't know that either.

Source: American's Love Science, but Don't Know Much About It [PDF]

United States
Scientifically Literate: 12%
Partial: 25%
Not: 63%

European Union
Scientifically Literate: 5%
Partial: 22%
Not: 73%

"In previous estimates of civic scientific literacy, Miller has used a threshold level of 67 or more, reflecting the ability of a respondent to get two-thirds of the possible points on the construct vocabulary index. When this standard is applied to the 1995 U.S. data, 27.2 percent of Americans score at or above the 67 point level, compared to 20.2 percent of Europeans. This result suggests that approximately three of four adults in Europe and the United States would be unable to read and understand news or other information that utilized basic scientific constructs such as DNA, molecule, or radiation."

Source: Miller, Jon D. 1998. The measurement of civic scientific literacy. Public Understanding of Science 7 (3):203-223. See here.

When it comes to Scientific literacy, the United States is actually in the lead.

Isn't it fun to see how people can manipulate selective statistics to prove a point? The fact is, for the past decade or so, evolution has had roughly 45% support (give or take depending on the study--also please learn about margins of error before chiming in). There haven't been any studies showing any significant increase, so to conclude that it's becoming MORE hostile is ludicrous. In fact, if you had polls from 50 years ago, I'd be you'd reveal that support back then for evolution would probably be a very small minority. Republicans/conservatives have always been pro-life, so how is that an "increase"? The fact that we have Roe v. Wade now, compared to abortion being illegal the hundred of years before only shows an increase in udnerstand of science. The congressional measures for Terri Schiavo had VERY LITTLE public support, why is that even used as an arguing point? They're just pulling random examples out of their ass that refute their own point.

Sure, the current administration tries to limit it, but that is a temporary slump. So, where are the polls on stem cell research? Did the author even bother looking those up? Of course not, because then they'd realize that the majority (60%) of Americans support stem cell research and that their sensationalist peice of claptrap is completely bogus!

Sensationalism aside, to those who exercise critical thought and do research, this conclusion is completely UNSCIENTIFIC and wrong. CONCLUSION: The journalist who wrote this article is an anti-scientific thinker and all who agree with him aren't capable of critical thought and are thusly hypocrites that should be lumped in with the anti-scientific thinkers they criticize.

"Could it be that the "official" media, including Forbes, is simply afraid of becoming less relevant?"

I think blogging and other forms of "alternative" media has already made the "official" media less relevant. That's why TV news shows (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Blogs/ is an example), newspapers (http://thestar.blogs.com/ for example) and the like are all jumping on the bandwagon. They're afraid of becoming extinct.

Those Disney people will do anything to plug their movie...

"Exxon Mobil profit leaps on oil prices": "Exxon's quarterly profit was up 75 percent from a year earlier, and revenue rose 32 percent to more than $100 billion [...] $9 billion net profit reported on Thursday by Royal Dutch Shell Plc [...] Exxon said it did not see the point of a windfall profits tax ".

Windfall profits tax. To say nothing of a carbon deposit tax.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=125653 0

Pebble bed reactors (with built in steam cracking!), biodiesel & ethanol, a sprinkling of wind energy and solar where appropriate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor

It warms my heart to know the ball is rolling on these things, and more. I just have to keep pushing, but another set of hands makes the work lighter. Everyone?

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=124913 2

And the obligatory coral link.

http://abcnews.go.com.nyud.net:8090/Business/wireS tory?id=1249132

Rush also knows a lot about abusing prescription pain-killers and how the media is obviously sucking up to Donovan McNabb because he's black.

How many Wives, Mothers, Fathers, Brothers, and Sisters have gotten letters from the President about their loved ones dieing in the many wars America has fought? The offense is theirs, that Seal adorns those letters, have respect, which is lacking towards the Office of the Commander in Chief.

...and of course, the (lack of) respect shown to the Purple Heart when Republicans were making fun of Kerry really helps all the guys who have lost limbs serving our country feel good about that symbol of respect to our veterans.

Get real - the Onion is not that big of a deal that it merits such a response from the government.

And lets amend your historical corrections. Anyone with any degree of intellectual honesty credits the Clinton Administration with balancing the budget. Since I'm not going to make that assertion without facts to back it up...

  Business Week, 5/19/97: "Clinton's 1993 budget cuts, which reduced projected red ink by more than $400 billion over five years, sparked a major drop in interest rates that helped boost investment in all the equipment and systems that brought forth the New Age economy of technological innovation and rising productivity."

  Goldman Sachs, March 1998: "on the policy side, trade, fiscal, and monetary policies have been excellent, working in ways that have facilitated growth without inflation. The Clinton Administration has worked to liberalize trade and has used any revenue windfalls to reduce the federal budget deficit."

  U.S. News & World Report, 6/17/96: "President Clinton's budget deficit program begun in 1993... [led] to lower interest rates, which begat greater investment growth (by double digits since 1993, the highest rate since the Kennedy administration), which begat three-plus years of solid economic growth averaging 2.6 percent annually, 50 percent higher than during the Bush presidency."

  Paul Volcker, former Federal Reserve Chairman, Audacity, Fall 1994: "The deficit has come down, and I give the Clinton Administration and President Clinton himself a lot of credit for that... and I think we're seeing some benefits."

While we're on the topic, the government shutdown was as much the fault of the Republican Majority in Congress and Clinton's. Alexis de Tocqueville once said that it is the nature of American Democracy to "view as virtuous an incomplete conquest." The willingness of BOTH the Republican Congress and the Democratic Whitehouse to ignore this sage wisdom was the cause of the shutdown. It takes two to tango.

While you're quite right that some of the actions taken by the Clinton administration militarily didn't turn out for the best, those actions were not unilateral invasions of a sovereign country with neither the backing nor support of the UN or NATO. Moreover, our involvement did not turn into the most costly and deadly American overseas deployment since Vietnam. As to Rwanda -- it was a tragic failure, and one for which I'll never forgive the Clinton Administration. It's good to see that Bush learned from that failure and is responding in the Sudan.... oh... wait....

Your depiction of the Plame case goes from evasive to outright lies, so we'll clear that up.

1 - You're right, no crime has technically been committed if no one was aware that Plame was undercover at the time since you can't expose someone who you don't know to be undercover.
2 - Plame WAS undercover at the time, according to ABC News.
3 - Even presidents are innocent until proven guilty in this country. Clinton was never convicted of perjury. That said, what he did smacks of dishonesty and was unquestionably wrong. Speaking of perjury -- it's interesting that the testimonies of Rove, Cheney, and Bush, and the various reporters being questioned are not only divergent, but don't even line up from session to session. You might see some GOP perjury indictments before this is all over.

Final Correction -- Your mischaracterization of Katrina is fairly misleading as well. A hurricane breaching New Orleans levees was on the FEMA list of nightmare scenarios. Bush's budget priorities transferred funds away from the Corps of Engineers levee projects, contributing to the collapse.

Also, don't forget that you can heap blame upon the state of Louisiana as much as you want - but the failure to Federalize the National Guard rests with one man alone. Bush had the authority to act and failed to. Did the state government screw up? Yes. But Bush -=LET=- them screw up. That matters.

Yep, good thing americans weren't involved in that, um like this guy or maybe ...
this guy ,and don't forget about the guy who pardoned him.
And last, but not least, his lawyer

-k

How will we ever do without the US's vaunted, impeccable integrity running the Internet? You know, the vaunted US integrity displayed by their invasion of a sovereign country under false pretences? Or the great work they've done in helping combating racial poverty in their communities? Or the work of their high ranking politicians? Or their work in preventing the spread of fatal disease in Africa?

How can we possibly be safe without the US controlling the Internet?

• College bowl games (at least anything semi-major) are all between December 20 to January 4.
• College basketball playoffs aren't until March (you know, the part where everybody in the office makes brackets). Conference playoffs are in February.
• NBA playoffs don't start until late April.

Have you never heard of Bobby Knight?

http://espn.go.com/classic/biography/s/Knight_Bob. html

Chicken Little opens November 4th!

Actually, *real* games, such as commercial flight simulators and planetariums, do benefit nicely from multiple processors. Many will use libraries that can do this almost automatically - SGI's OpenGL Performer for example.

Even some big entertainment games, like DisneyQuest, use OpenGL Performer to take advantage of the many CPUs.

When an editor decides to rewrite the copy, it helps to make sure the meat is still there -- in this case, the actual link to the article.

So that other people don't have to waste time like I did, here are a few assorted articles on the topic (some are marked as specifically from the AP):

• http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/08/tech/mai n927858.shtml
• http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1214 73
• http://www.suntimes.com/output/tech/cst-nws-traffi c16.html
• http://www.heraldnewsdaily.com/stories/news-008609 0.html

sure http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=119004 4

The writer of this article, whether consciously or unconsciously, focused on story details that fit into his view of the president.

To paraphrase Kramer, you are way way off. These aren't minor details, terminology or layout, this was reporting on exactly how the "interview" worked, and it makes it's own story over here at this ABC news article. The entire subject of the story is this "choreographed" event. This isn't bias, this is reporting the news. This is informative. Is it bias for the news to report that some news stories you see on your local news are infomercials produced by the government? To find that some of your favorite radio hosts, who support the "No Child Left Behind", were actually paid hundreds of thousands by the government to say that? Is it bias to be told that, in town meetings around the country where Bush speaks, only strong Bush supporters will be allowed in? That your favorite reporter, Jeff Gannon, who asks softball questions, actually has no credentials? This isn't bias, this is called journalism. The news media has been falling down on the job as of late, but they've picked themselves up a bit, and asked some tough questions to the Katrina officials. Bias is different. ABC news got both sides of the story, from the "choreographer" we hear that with the satellite connection, they need to choreograph things. The reader can make up their own judgement, about whether this was just a nice informal chat with the prez, or just another propaganda short, in the style of the great Soviet artists.

Isn't that what Time-Warner said five years ago when grossly overpaying for AOL?

Once upon a time, AOL actually netted $20+ from more than two-thirds of members.
Doing the math you'd arrive at a half billion dollars per month of non-ad revenue.

I doubt they now get $99 million per month with all the free accounts for 45 days,
automatic 6 month membership for each Dell computer sold, and the 3 month bribes
when customers call the cancellation phone number. Anything to raise the numbers!

--
AOL should no longer be charging existing members $23.90 a month *
Starting in July, one phone call will convert that old plan to $9.95
* Except when bundled with Star Office and that almost-free computer
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ZDM/story?id=1209 653

Maybe we should start making parks or other arbitrary public places 18-only to prevent child molesters.

We already have. This woman was fined $1000 and faces up to 90 days in jail for sitting on a park bench where there was a small sign that said she must be accompanied by a child.

Absurd.

Right now in California if you are caught streaking you are marked as a sex offender for life. This Puritanical hysteria over kids and sex is absolutely ridiculous. Kids do not need to be protected from every goddamned thing in the world, they need to be informed about everything and taught to make sensible decisions. As in all things, the truth will set you free.

Let's face it -- THAT is scary.

Maybe we should start making parks or other arbitrary public places 18-only to prevent child molesters.

Not exactly

But what they have done is outlawed those over 18 from being in a park unless accompanied by a minor

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id =3480711

And if these initial ABC programs are popular, who knows what else from Disney's stable of media properties may hit the web? ESPN, anyone? (Hey, if His Steveness can take on the music cartels, maybe he can beat down the MLB owners, too!)
      What else does Disney own, anyway? Lemme see here... Wow: http://corporate.disney.go.com/corporate/overview. html
      There's a lot there to choose from.

Heres another article at the BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4308872.stm

and another one from ABC news, about how they in their enlightened wisdom (read fearmongering) think that the asian birdflu will result in similar problems.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Flu/story?id=1183172& page=1

i would have posted as ANON but aparently 212 minutes since i last posted a comment is not enough time to wait between comments :(

http://forums.go.com/abcnews/thread?threadID=23501 4

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/02/bush-directly- involved/

Blaming TV and movies isn't going to get you votes.

Yes, but lying might. Fiction from the TFA: ...video games and all computerized representation of violent and sexual acts are the cause of an increase of depraved sociopaths??"

Fact based on hard data:

Violent crime in the US stays at a historic low.

• ncta.com "ESPN HD is delivered in the 720p format
• MNF: "All of ABC's HDTV programs use 720 Progressive (720P), ABC's selected HDTV format."
• Home Theater MagazineLike ABC, ESPN's high-def format is 720P

This was pretty random, but: http://inovis.com/ http://espn.go.com/ http://www.cbgarden.org/ (compare javascript menu speed with Firefox) freshdirect.com (have to log in to see it, but there is a key section of images missing) Outlook web access - login unsupported (ooh, just saw something I like about Opera - it can rememeber the pages you had open when you last exited.) Most of these were fairly minor rendering problems, but I just don't find any sites anymore that Gecko doesn't render well. The performance was also lacking on a beefy Mac (slow scrolling, javascript). I haven't installed it on Windows yet, so I don't have an apples to apples comparative opinion.

I know that EA, for instance, will sell you a replacement CD of the Battlefield 2 game for the PC if you can prove you bought it, but I've never heard of similar service from any music publisher/distributor.

At least 1 hollywood studio will do this. Ah here we go, quick google for 'dvd replacement' turns up everybodys favorite, Fox. Costs $7 (admin fees, the physical product and shipping is my guess).
http://www.foxhome.com/replacement/

Disney (cost, $7): http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/dvdsupport/faq.h tml

Haven't found much info about any others.