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I set up my new DVD player yesterday, and I wanted it to work perfectly out of the box. I'm tired of having to read manuals for every component (and all other kinds of hardware) I buy just to get it set up. At least with a RedHat install, it asks for my configuration the first time I use it. How hard would it be for a DVD player to behave the same way?

One theory I've heard (and empathized with, especially yesterday) is version fatigue... people just get tired of things being a bit different each time they set something up.

And hey, I'm inherently lazy. I found the instructions to fix the DVD in three pages... but I don't want to have to look. Prompt me for basic config, you underdesigning JVC engineers!

But he still knows that this guy couldn't get laid to save his life.

When you can, please point out the "natives" living on Mars or the Moon that us greedy, bloodthirsty, and uncaring Americans can slaughter at will and whim. My "settled the same way" comment was based off the ideas in the article I linked to, which, I admit, I screwed up on linking correctly. I meant to link to this.

A recent Tech Central Station column might change your mind. The UN, benignly or not, wants more power.

Personally, I'd rather have other planets settled the same way the American frontier was, as described in another TSC article.

A recent Tech Central Station column might change your mind. The UN, benignly or not, wants more power.

Personally, I'd rather have other planets settled the same way the American frontier was, as described in another TSC article.

Professor Marc Herold's results have been pretty thoroughly debunked here, here, and here. Other studies based on reputable sources put the number of civilian casualties at no more than 1500.

Even if the number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan were greater than the number in the 9/11 attack (or 10 times as many), there is a distinct difference between deliberately targeting civilians and civilians being killed unintentionally during attacks on military targets. So long as armies insist on fighting in populated areas, there will unfortunately always be civilian causualties.

I wave my hand and a car goes by. Did my waving my hand cause the car to go by? Gee, by your logic it does.

You might try this article for some actual science instead of "The CO2 Is Rising! Oh No!"

The particular part I like:

CO2 is a greenhouse gas whose increase could possibly warm the earth, but it is only about 3.5 percent of all greenhouse gases. Water vapor and clouds make up over 95 percent of greenhouse gases.

Funny thing is, if you "warm the earth", there's more white clouds which reflect sunlight. So is water vapor a "green house" gas, or an "umbrella" gas?

Wow! We need to restrict water vapor! It's a greenhouse gas! The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

Bob-

("Sir, your OBD and your EDR indicate that you drive at a steady 75 mph, which is illegal, that you fail to change your oil at the correct intervals, that you drive one-handed while using your cell phone and pick your nose at red lights. This voids your warranty.")

-Brock Yates
All Eyes On Me

U.S. consumers hurt from the FCC's restrictions on Digital TV.

...Korean engineers released a report that should be of substantial concern to American television viewers. The test compared two broadcast standards for digital TV - the standard adopted by the U.S. versus a competing standard chosen by just about every other country on the planet. The result: the U.S. standard was found to be inferior to the so-called COFDM standard.

- John Merline
HDTV's Blury Future

You can find out which representatives hold the key votes for Tauzin-Dingell and write them online here:

http://broadband.techcentralstation.com

Something for Nothing by Duane D. Freese
Tauzin-Dingell guarantees Bells' returns; the public, bigger bills.

Trusting Monopolists by James K. Glassman
FCC proposes rules favoring Bells on broadband; competitors' stocks tumble.

For more complete coverage visit:
"Whatever Happened to Broadband"

Something for Nothing by Duane D. Freese
Tauzin-Dingell guarantees Bells' returns; the public, bigger bills.

Trusting Monopolists by James K. Glassman
FCC proposes rules favoring Bells on broadband; competitors' stocks tumble.

For more complete coverage visit:
"Whatever Happened to Broadband"

Something for Nothing by Duane D. Freese
Tauzin-Dingell guarantees Bells' returns; the public, bigger bills.

Trusting Monopolists by James K. Glassman
FCC proposes rules favoring Bells on broadband; competitors' stocks tumble.

For more complete coverage visit:
"Whatever Happened to Broadband"

For more information on Lomborg be sure to check out these articles:

Lomborg Lands in DC to Demolish Eco-Terror Myths by Duane Freese

Green with Rage by James K. Glassman

Bjorn's Long March by James Pinkerton

Bjorn Again! Fundamentalist Greens Launch Smear Campaign by Ronald Bailey

For more information on Lomborg be sure to check out these articles:

Lomborg Lands in DC to Demolish Eco-Terror Myths by Duane Freese

Green with Rage by James K. Glassman

Bjorn's Long March by James Pinkerton

Bjorn Again! Fundamentalist Greens Launch Smear Campaign by Ronald Bailey

For more information on Lomborg be sure to check out these articles:

Lomborg Lands in DC to Demolish Eco-Terror Myths by Duane Freese

Green with Rage by James K. Glassman

Bjorn's Long March by James Pinkerton

Bjorn Again! Fundamentalist Greens Launch Smear Campaign by Ronald Bailey

For more information on Lomborg be sure to check out these articles:

Lomborg Lands in DC to Demolish Eco-Terror Myths by Duane Freese

Green with Rage by James K. Glassman

Bjorn's Long March by James Pinkerton

Bjorn Again! Fundamentalist Greens Launch Smear Campaign by Ronald Bailey

"Global Warming" is a sham to scare the general population into funding grants to scientists to study the environment.

Whatever Happened to Broadband? Return competition to the marketplace, find out why the Tauzin-Dingell bill will destroy the high-speed internet marketplace instead of expanding it and who's responsible.

Does it bother anyone that a big phone monopoly like SBC is funding Covad now though?

Whatever happened to Broadband?

There is a good resource here that explains why all of these broadband providers are going out of business.

A "Hole" Lot of Alarmism Should Be a Lesson in Marrakech

56k users shouldn't hate those who have broadband. Hate the Bell Systems for practicing anti-competative tactics that restrict third party vendors (CLECs) from creating competition in broadband.

Competition in Telecommunications and Economic Growth by James K. Glassman