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Yeah, so just replace one of the cells with [whatever] and jump the wires around that one.

Fortunately, I had the presence of mind not to point this out to the agent who insisted that I power on my laptop. The battery was dead, so I offered to plug it in for them. The agent just rolled her eyes and let me by. I think she was delighted to have confiscated my open bottle of gin. Still wasn't as fun as the time I was dressed military surplus fatigues and playing a tin whistle; the National Guardsman with the M-16 was nice about it, asked a few questions, and let me be. Another time I was asked if the picture of Gauss on my laptop was of a Frenchman. He was happy to learn that he was, in fact, German.

Life was a lot more fun when I was bugshit crazy. Remember kids, the Somebody Else's Problem field is real. No one likes hassling someone who is weird enough to actually be (or at least seem) unpredictable.

It is all about taking EP to another level.

A lot of the background for this article* comes from a 1984 piece in People Magazine, in some cases word for word:

I've always wondered if the real Harold was the inspiration for the Harold from the Fallout series of games. Both survived large radiation exposures, were somewhat physically altered by the experience, but remained nice guys who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

They already have lasers, have you been living under a rock, or behind the moon?

And, if you forgot, the original laser sharks were created during the American civil war.

It's all perfectly harmless. CTos is here for you! For those that haven't played the game, stop reading. With that one of the points in the game was "targeted reassignment" of vote predictions to get a mayor re-elected.

There's a big difference. Dish pays for broadcast rights.

Big difference to whom? Clearly Fox doesn't actually care one way or another and everything about the Aereo decision seems to only care about broadcast rights in so far as the original broadcasters deem that said broadcasts are sufficiently paid for. Here's a helpful hint: we the people GIVE Fox, et al a privilege to broadcast their TV signal in exchange for being able to receive and view its contents along with a slew of provisions (educational programming, censorship rules, etc). Yet this has all degenerated into a discussion about copyright law and broadcast "rights".

Use of the internet is not a question, legally. It's just a transmission medium.

Really? Because everything about Aereo stinks of precisely that. If Aereo had been a set of antennas and really, really long wires then "broadcast" or "re-broadcast" wouldn't even enter into the discussion. The very fact that the internet functions by copying has translated into a perverse and technical distinction that's, I'd say, being abused because a computer is involved. Hence, the whole legally of it is in question and honestly already settled a long time ago*.

So as long as Dish is paying their fees, they should be free and clear.

The beauty of that statement is the absurdity that presumes that if Aereo had been paying some fee they wouldn't have been sued. Well, hey, Dish is being sued. That they may be "free and clear" in that the courts may eventually side with them changes little of the fact that they'll spend millions to defend themselves and plenty of other companies would just fold under the pressure. But, yea, whatever.

*The essential step defense was established decades ago precisely to deal with the issue that computer software needs to be copied into RAM to function and hence the act of using was spelled out as protected in regards to copyright. Now, obviously, the language itself speaks of just software, but until the Aereo case it was effectively established that it really applied to ALL copyrighted material because obviously otherwise every digital mp3, video, etc player would infringe copyright as there's invariable a step of decoding a frame of digital input back to the decompressed analogy output. The overriding rule has seemingly always been that as long as personal, non-commercial** use was involved that the per say content was irrelevant and the actual location of all the various equipment was equally irrelevant. Honestly, no matter the language of the Supreme Court ruling over the Aereo case of the limited scope, it's clear that there's no way to take the ruling but a very overly broad and inconsistent interpretation of what has come before. So, it's little wonder Fox might want to further wedge the issue for more money.

**In this case, the issue of non-commercial does not mean that you own the equipment (or basically all 3rd party servers would run afoul of the law) or that someone isn't making money off your use (or Google, MS, etc and their e-mail services would be up shit creek). It merely means that the person in question doing the use isn't themselves trying to gain commercially from their use directly in that use. They could still indirectly be gaining commercially (a 3rd party server running massive compiles of anything where the compiler is proprietary). Of course this whole mess is heavily due to the fact that copyright law breaks down at a logistical level severely once you do start talking in terms of a situation where parts of a program may be running on multiple continents simultaneously with multiple people. No amount of licensing, even a site license, necessary protects you if said copyright holder argues, well, whatever the fuck he wants.

And that's the fundamental issue with the whole problem. Because copyright is fundamentally a civ

You hoser, you should worry less about White Walkers than Red Riders, dontcha know?

Because watches are man-jewelery.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/...

Honestly, something with a landscape screen, but less bulky than a pipboy, and more like a wrist watch.

I really don't know enough about this case to know whether the guy has a leg to stand on or not. I mean, sometimes blatantly false stuff is added on Wikipedia - remember the John Seigenthaler incident way back when? Of course, even that had its backlash. ;)

I chugged a LiveWire once. KickStart is much better.

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/T...

A solution already exists. My people have been using them for eons to eke out an existence on an arid planet. Of course constant exposure to the spice helps.

Great name, assuming that their goal is to see how much pain a user can endure before going insane.

http://princessbride.wikia.com...

I believe you can, as long as the game does not use the steam DRM or its own DRM that depends on steam being running. If the game uses steamworks for some kind of feature either that specific feature will not work, the game will crash when you try to use it, or the game will crash when you try to launch it.

A quick google search yielded these two lists of games that can be bought on steam and played without it:
http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/T...
http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/Li...

As far as I understand, Valve says you can install from other sources. Also, not all Steam games have DRM. Quite a few actually don't have any protection at all. Steam is primarily a distribution service. It's the game developers who demand the DRM.

From reading TFA, it seems the author bases his entire premise, essentially, on the plot of a 1920's era play (in which, IMO, the "robots" are actually an allegory for some group of humans, ie communists or some such). Bit dated thinking, if you ask me.

On a related note, I've been playing Watch_Dogs since launch day, and the parallels between the fictional ctOS system and the very real NSA programs are terrifyingly apparent. AI is not a necessity for killbots - a human could program a murderous machine quite easily these days. Tap into the massive identification databases the governments of the world are building, and you've got yourself an automated hunter-killer.

if you bought an all-electric suburban, you might have a dozen 20kg slots

This made me laugh hysterically, thanks! I imagined an all electric Suburban would probably need to tow another Suburban full of batteries just to move it. Hell, might as well just buy a Canyonero! Which other SUV comfortably seats 8 people and their SUVs?

It depends on what you mean by that. The console versions of the games, there's automatic targeting. You hit the aim button and you automatically have locked onto the nearest enemy with most of the guns. The PC versions of all the games evidently have manual aiming by default at least which is obviously much easier with a mouse.

Were it a primarily shooting game, I'd much prefer manual aiming with a mouse, but the driving half of the game, it seems like a stick would be preferable.

http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/w...

So I will know if someone steals my toast? there is ZERO advantage to an internet enabled toaster. Z E R O.

How about upgrades to your 'Talkie Toaster"? http://reddwarf.wikia.com/wiki...

"Given that God is infinite, and that the universe is also infinite... would you like a toasted teacake?"

They had the same problem prior to the year 2000, so why wasn't this lesson already learned?

This. Especially once the predicted apocalypse brought the world to its knees. You'd think we would learn.

and i bet there was a clause in the original license saying they can change it any time they want

RTFA, the CC license explicitly forbids doing that:

No term or provision of this License shall be deemed waived and no breach consented to unless such waiver or consent shall be in writing and signed by the party to be charged with such waiver or consent.
This License constitutes the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the Work licensed here. There are no understandings, agreements or representations with respect to the Work not specified here. Licensor shall not be bound by any additional provisions that may appear in any communication from You. This License may not be modified without the mutual written agreement of the Licensor and You.

See for yourself. Portal as well. It may be a newer change, but I think It has worked like this for a while.

Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.

The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries, Schlock Mercenary Wiki

Monarch shouldn't have stored giant monster eggs there in the first place!

Well I'm a little disappointed in the narrow-minded responses of "just pull the plug". Regardless, I understand its just a TV show, House did an episode with a patient in locked in syndrome. Episode 5x19 in that they used a brain computer interface, that looks like it took a lot of effort for little return. If it was me I would start asking the doctors to do deep brain stimulation or ECT, in hopes that electricity can help open up some of the damaged passageways. There is a good tech talk about how ECT is used here. Realistically her brain is probably going to have to learn to re-wire and understand how it needs to communicate with the rest of the body again.

Best of luck!

Specifically in Doom, there was an additional bug beyond the general sqrt(2) bug where if you were pressing up against an axial wall and facing either North or East, you could obtain a speed increase greater than 100%.

http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Wal...
http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Str...

Specifically in Doom, there was an additional bug beyond the general sqrt(2) bug where if you were pressing up against an axial wall and facing either North or East, you could obtain a speed increase greater than 100%.

http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Wal...
http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Str...

Mice are merely the protrusion into our dimension of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings who, unbeknownst to the human race, are the most intelligent species on the planet Earth. They spent a lot of their time in laboratories running complex experiments on humans.

"Mmm, bacon ..."

http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki......

It's been announced that the story will take place 30 years after the events in Jedi - there's a 6 year gap in the canon from 29 ABY to 35 ABY in which they can tell the 3 stories. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki...

The only major details that they have to look out for:

1) Chewie, Akbar, and Anakin Solo are dead
2) Luke and Mara / Leia and Han are married
3) Leia and Han have 2 kids and one dead kid

As long as he doesn't kill/revive/birth any established characters he can tell any story he wants and pay as much or as little attention to the events before and after that 6 year period as he wants.

But could I use this technology to create my very own Shakey's Pizza?

...their rumored sequel to Frozen:

Anna the Fire Princess

Hey, fans of the movie already blamed the exceptionally cold winter on Elsa.

I'd rather have a Rat-Thing myself

http://villains.wikia.com/wiki...

From the Jinx Institute of Knowledge, of course! http://larryniven.wikia.com/wi...

Also, might be alpha-ketoglutarate

The STALKER PC game series is my favorite single-player first person shooter type series of all time. The spooky atmosphere created in the game is just fantastic when you play the game in a darkened room at night. I would highly recommend the games to everyone.

The book A Roadside Picnic is also pretty good giving you a nice emotional ride of what it's like be a Stalker and to go into the zone. The old black and white movie Stalker is somewhat good in giving you some background about the Zone but it's nothing to the atmosphere that you feel in the games when you play.

STALKER Game Website

Stalker Wiki

Also be sure to check out these mods:
STALKER - Shadow of Chernobyl
Oblivion Lost 2.2.1 for 1.0005 - Forum Thread
Supermod Pack v2.4 and Patches

STALKER - Clear Sky
The Faction War v3.7

Do you have deer hanging around your computer?

Yeah, plenty of goldeer and even a few eldeer.

Do you have deer hanging around your computer?

Yeah, plenty of goldeer and even a few eldeer.

Because Bioware, Bethesda, EA, Microsoft, etc aren't Nintendo. These games are mostly for teens and adults. Nintendo has the reputation as being a company that makes games for children. They have almost always been associated with family friendly entertainment. As such, they are a bigger target. Anything even remotely controversial will be latched on by "OMG Think of the children!!!"

By the way, Bioware got blasted by Fox News when Mass Effect was released, basically being called a go-anywhere-rape-anyone sex simulator.

Scientists have released a very scientific study saying that scientists should conduct our first contact with aliens.

And also run the world.

Bravo, bravo http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/...

... with the "Krazy Kripples" story line where Christopher Reeve sucks down fetus blood to cure his quadriplegia and gain super-human strength:

In "Krazy Kripples", Christopher Reeve comes to town to promote stem cell research. In order to 'cure' his quadriplegia, he is shown sucking the fluids out of fetuses from a medical bio-hazard container. With each fetus he sucks dry, Reeves becomes healthier and more dependent on them for his developing super human strength.

... with the "Krazy Kripples" story line where Christopher Reeve sucks down fetus blood to cure his quadriplegia and gain super-human strength:

In "Krazy Kripples", Christopher Reeve comes to town to promote stem cell research. In order to 'cure' his quadriplegia, he is shown sucking the fluids out of fetuses from a medical bio-hazard container. With each fetus he sucks dry, Reeves becomes healthier and more dependent on them for his developing super human strength.

Air traffic controllers at LA center were forced to turn off clipping on Wednesday (cheat code 'idclip') when a high-flying U2 spy plane crossed the control area, sending inclined vertices soaring to 60,000 feet. "This really screwed up the level map," one unnamed controller said, "here we had commercial pilots navigating the prescribed holding tunnels, galloping up and down stairs, jumping to activate the rising platform that takes them into th final approach ramp. So you're a pilot and you have your chainsaw at the ready and all of a sudden you're up against this 60,000 foot wall. We didn't even know what it was then. And it's moving! Even with a thousand cacodemons under your belt, you're not ready for this."

"The 'fake 3D Doom 2 engine' has served American aviation well over the years. It runs on the piston and vacuum tube difference engines still used by the FAA. There are limitations but the math is fast. It's why modern airports tend to sprawl over large areas, though we've had to install higher fences with opaque textures around the runways to hide ground objects on adjacent runways and nearby buildings. When you're ready to touch down the lag can be incredible."

The decision to turn off clipping was necessary but it came with a price. Few pilots had ever experienced no-clip mode, and while a few admitted to a sudden sense of exhilaration as they were liberated from the cruel physics of aviation -- most were anxious, even terrified. When asked why, one reacted with astonishment, almost anger. "Well shit, we're pilots. Avoiding things is just what we do. It's a trained response to avoid things. And it did not help at all when a few assholes broke formation and started to buzz through other airplanes. Every one of us was thinking, they're going to turn clipping on sooner or later, I hope it happens after this jerk gets off my ass."

Others who requested not to be identified had other stories. "We began in formation then matched vector, then merged completely. I mean really merged. The passengers were really startled those from other planes floated into view and entered the cabin. Then someone started laughing, probably in sheer terror, but soon everyone was laughing and it was great fun. Isn't it funny how when something scary doesn't kill you immediately, you want to laugh? Isn't it?" After a moment he laughed suddenly.

Collision alarms were not designed for no-clip and many were sounding constantly and could be heard clearly as pilots spoke over the radio channel. To make matters worse, the effect of no-clip was not confined to aircraft or the facilities. One pilot on approach noted "I almost swerved instinctively to avoid a fire truck sailing past, it must have floated off a ramp in the upper garage but there it was right in the approach path. Then this guy -- a businessman clutching a briefcase -- appeared and stopped in midair. He was flapping around like a butterfly, obviously pleased with himself for sailing through the glass of the upper lounge and out into the field. Then he turned slowly and there was this 200 ton aircraft bearing down on him. Like a stupid squirrel he fled directly down the flight path, glancing back. The look on his face as he passed through the cockpit was priceless."

Landing was extremely difficult during this period. "Impossible, actually. In no-clip you're not really landing on anything, just trying to stop descending when you THINK you're on the ground. Fortunately there was no stall physics in play so we took it slow and I had the co-pilot hanging out the window trying to gauge the moment the wheels reached the ground. The plane in front of me was obviously waiting for touchdown, he just sunk into the tarmac and disappeared. I hear he drifted around under the airport for awhile and finally rose into a parking lot. They had to knock down fences to get it towed back to the field."

Air traffic controllers at LA center were forced to turn off clipping on Wednesday (cheat code 'idclip') when a high-flying U2 spy plane crossed the control area, sending inclined vertices soaring to 60,000 feet. "This really screwed up the level map," one unnamed controller said, "here we had commercial pilots navigating the prescribed holding tunnels, galloping up and down stairs, jumping to activate the rising platform that takes them into th final approach ramp. So you're a pilot and you have your chainsaw at the ready and all of a sudden you're up against this 60,000 foot wall. We didn't even know what it was then. And it's moving! Even with a thousand cacodemons under your belt, you're not ready for this."

"The 'fake 3D Doom 2 engine' has served American aviation well over the years. It runs on the piston and vacuum tube difference engines still used by the FAA. There are limitations but the math is fast. It's why modern airports tend to sprawl over large areas, though we've had to install higher fences with opaque textures around the runways to hide ground objects on adjacent runways and nearby buildings. When you're ready to touch down the lag can be incredible."

The decision to turn off clipping was necessary but it came with a price. Few pilots had ever experienced no-clip mode, and while a few admitted to a sudden sense of exhilaration as they were liberated from the cruel physics of aviation -- most were anxious, even terrified. When asked why, one reacted with astonishment, almost anger. "Well shit, we're pilots. Avoiding things is just what we do. It's a trained response to avoid things. And it did not help at all when a few assholes broke formation and started to buzz through other airplanes. Every one of us was thinking, they're going to turn clipping on sooner or later, I hope it happens after this jerk gets off my ass."

Others who requested not to be identified had other stories. "We began in formation then matched vector, then merged completely. I mean really merged. The passengers were really startled those from other planes floated into view and entered the cabin. Then someone started laughing, probably in sheer terror, but soon everyone was laughing and it was great fun. Isn't it funny how when something scary doesn't kill you immediately, you want to laugh? Isn't it?" After a moment he laughed suddenly.

Collision alarms were not designed for no-clip and many were sounding constantly and could be heard clearly as pilots spoke over the radio channel. To make matters worse, the effect of no-clip was not confined to aircraft or the facilities. One pilot on approach noted "I almost swerved instinctively to avoid a fire truck sailing past, it must have floated off a ramp in the upper garage but there it was right in the approach path. Then this guy -- a businessman clutching a briefcase -- appeared and stopped in midair. He was flapping around like a butterfly, obviously pleased with himself for sailing through the glass of the upper lounge and out into the field. Then he turned slowly and there was this 200 ton aircraft bearing down on him. Like a stupid squirrel he fled directly down the flight path, glancing back. The look on his face as he passed through the cockpit was priceless."

Landing was extremely difficult during this period. "Impossible, actually. In no-clip you're not really landing on anything, just trying to stop descending when you THINK you're on the ground. Fortunately there was no stall physics in play so we took it slow and I had the co-pilot hanging out the window trying to gauge the moment the wheels reached the ground. The plane in front of me was obviously waiting for touchdown, he just sunk into the tarmac and disappeared. I hear he drifted around under the airport for awhile and finally rose into a parking lot. They had to knock down fences to get it towed back to the field."

But it isn't trans-fats that makes food "taste good"

So all those FOX cartoons lied to me?!

Does this mean... the content of a commercial network may be influenced by its advertisers? Oh my..

But it isn't trans-fats that makes food "taste good"

So all those FOX cartoons lied to me?!

Does this mean... the content of a commercial network may be influenced by its advertisers? Oh my..

Here's an open source firmware project for Canons that can help free your camera.
http://magiclantern.wikia.com/...

http://thenewsroom.wikia.com/w...

I'm pretty sure I recall seeing the Abbottabad tweets being a focal point of The Newsroom's S01E07 episode: "5/1"

...first I heard of it anyway.

I know it's from the movie, but in the movie he is referring to the optimized distance travelling through the Maw Cluster and not time directly.