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Cool. I have monitors with a similar resolution but only 22 inches - so I have to set the font size to extra large in every application. I imagine that you can keep fonts at 'normal' size and just have a super huge desktop. Here's a photo of my setup: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7145/6851350945_e582af1ed5_o.jpg (it's a big image but I guess you will have no problem displaying it!) Do you have a photo of yours?

That all of the other "browsewrap" style agreements we see outside the internet are also invalid? By this I mean items like attraction admission tickets, parking lot receipts and for that matter airline tickets that say things like "acceptance/use of this ticket constitutes agreement with this contract" (such as seen here https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2617/3708171070_cd5418d1e5_b.jpg)

How 'bout zip ties? Faster to employ and easier to carry than cuffs.

They're also impossible to readjust and too easy to make too tight. They result in actual physical damage including nerve damage when left too tight. Only real assholes use them instead of cuffs.

How 'bout zip ties? Faster to employ and easier to carry than cuffs.

The real Turner The Worm being sick.

Oh, I'll admit I really hate it when people on Slashdot "helpfully" explain a joke or reference, especially when it's one that most people here will get (thus cheapening its appeal to those who got it, and not really making it funny to those who didn't).

But the infamous Turner the Worm being being sick incident is just too important to risk going over American Slashdotters' heads. :-)

(BTW, should I label the above as being "NSFW" bearing in mind it was aimed at *children*?!)

Fixed:
http://img2.store.microsoft.com/prod/clustera/framework/locations/img/dashboard/hero/image01.jpg

Feeling any better in Bizarro World?

Wood tables, instead of white.

At least they dress 'em differently, notice the nametag!
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I know of a universally useful tool
/me ducks

No rational person on earth thinks airplane windows should roll down.

Color me irrational

Microsoft's answer to Google Glass, as modeled by Count Homer.

I put it on wikispeedia.org. Perhaps someone can improve where I placed the sign...

Wikispeedia.org

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oh of course...

I mean, the Honda Fit, the Chevy Aveo, the Suzuki Aerio and Nissan Versa are so different looking there's no possible way I just mixed them all up.

Companies build products that are easily as similar as what Apple is complaining about, and they never even hit arbitration. Apple is only pursuing legal action because they can afford it (they're likely the most over-capitalized company in the world) and they think they stand to gain market share by suing everyone into being afraid of them.

"Right now, running a simulation for a single cell to divide only one time takes around 10 hours and generates half a gigabyte of data," Dr. Covert wrote.

life's too short for java. http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3245/2652438835_4f0f3b366b.jpg

Check out the gibberish closed captions ("nexus ceo their first social streaming media player may trigger the plane home") for the How Nexus Q Works video.

True, however that would also could have a positive effect on those that are non-religious as well. When the religious right demand that prayer should be allowed in school they don't know that the same rights apply to all religions, not just one. Once it settles in they will no longer be any requests for prayer at school again. :

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Google Colon View: Google Research has developed a self-propelled capsule endoscope that can be inserted into the anus and driven through the colon via remote control and a magnetic field, capturing images along the way.

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special thanx to Wm. Banzai

I thought this has been known for a while, and is the origin of the myth of the cyclops?

You're thinking of the one eyed fossils of larger variety of pachyderm found there.

Similarly, I'm wondering if these fossils are the origin of the legends of the Minitaur.

Gary Larson figured this out ages ago.

Which side is the one lying about it for political gain?

The side that doesn't have facts supporting its position.
Was that a trick question?

Can we next debate whether or not smoking tobacco is bad for your lungs?

They had AA in place for the Athens Olypmics. They were clearly visible out beyond the outfield wall at the Softball and Baseball fields. This type of thing:
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6203/6074130550_928b676ecc_z.jpg
Although that was in an open, unpopulated area. Placing them on a residential complex is obviously a step up though.

If you look at these pictures of the cockpit, it is feasible that the sticks might be obscured by the body of the pilot in the seat with the seat in the forward position.

http://largest-plane.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/airbus-a330-cockpit.jpg http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3264/2905717075_e06553d20f_z.jpg

see here please

*Money needs an authoritative, respectable, figure to back it up!*

No offense to your preference, but when I just start typing in the name of the local theatre here, this is what I get:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7047/6970224347_2e28f52b1c_o.png

For those who aren't into clicking pictures, it lists the movies playing above a link to the threatre itself, and a map to its location on the right. All without clicking anything yet.

The first thing I thought of was this Calvin&Hobbes cartoon

A little more info about the 1960's version of AUTODIN.
http://rogerdmoore.ca/PS/ADINallB.png
http://rogerdmoore.ca/PS/ADINC.html

We had a UNIVAC DCT 9000 node at our site with plated wire memory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plated_wire_memory
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Or Meg Foster.

Ah, do tell! Please...save it. You're a punk

In singles it is a giant rotating cube of cash while in 20's it would fit in a big backpack.

Modern Perl is a beautiful language*

*for certain values of "beauty" not normally encountered in human experience, e.g., "that tangled ball of rattlesnakes is beautiful."

Are you KIDDING me?

Saudi Arabia executes hundreds of 'witches' a year, never mind other religious transgressions that are punished severely, and SA is the biggest US 'ally' or so it seems.

Learn something about blowback and US involvement in destroying democracies around the world to install dictators starting all the way back in 1953

Imagine if it were Texas.

Nobody cares about the NK dictator because he is just a tyrant that enslaves and kills and rapes his people, but he has nothing that US wants - OIL.

"The DoD budget should be written by DoD administrative staff based on actual, military need, not by a bunch of congressional staffers trying to appease big donors."

Don't presume the cliques in DoD have the OVERALL best interests of the troops in clear focus and aren't fighting over DIFFERENT rice bowls.

We went to war in Iraq with SOFT-SKINNED support vehicles and HMMWVs despite the lessons of Viet Nam and Somalia. Troops had to RE-learn how to build gun trucks, and RE-install gun shields on our APCs.

SFC Paul R. Smith died firing an OPEN machine gun from an unprotected M113:

http://www.combatartfund.org/Images/MOH.PatrickHaskett.jpg

(Most of the ACAV armor kits were REMOVED from M113s in the US inventory before it was realized Iraqis figured out what the VC did in the battle of Ap Bac many years ago. They are back, with the addition of TAGS windowed gunshields. As for the anti-RPG bar armor so common now, it was invented in the 1960s but rejected because it got tangled in Southeast Asian jungle. Tested on an M113, it was forgotten for decadesâ¦)

Viet Nam 113 with gunshields:

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2570/4115742434_26c7ccf501_z.jpg

EARMARKS helped field uparmor kits, MRAPs, armored trucks, etc which save many Soldier lives. The stopgap HMMWV armor kits were better than nothing, but HWWWV are still merely light trucks and not armored fighting vehicles like MRAP.

The military is complex and so are its internal politics. If you want ethical earmarks, ask for oversight, but they've done a lot of good.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2007-09-03-congressmrap_N.htm

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/sen-lindsey-graham-defends-certain-congressional-earmarks-us-military

Before they die, penguin and seal would be on the menu. Seal is a good source of oil and that could be used to run their generators or at least some furnaces for heat.

I think if it came down to survival, those scientists would last a long time, perhaps permanently if they figured out how to use spears.