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Therefore we should not even consider buying an American aircraft at all. How do we know it can't simply be disabled with the flip of a switch, leaving us defenseless?

Or send your shol'vas on a tangent?

You mean, you can't rebuild it? You can't make it better, stronger, faster? You don't have the technology?

To summarize the Ada Initiative's argument, "You should never talk about sex, because if you do, you'll give women traumatizing rape flashbacks and turn all men in the audience into pathological rape-machines. Especially techies, because everyone knows techies are super-rape-happy already. So no talking about sex."

Similar bullshit is going on in the atheist community where PZ Myers and Ed Brayton decided that it is rape when "a guy at an atheist convention was chatting up a girl and asked her to bed, she said no, and that was the end of it" and they're pressuring atheist community organizations to kick out people who disagree as not-real-atheists. People like Richard Dawkins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(hypothetical_planet)

Vulcan was the name of the hypothetical planet between Mercury and the Sun.

Not to worry! Since Pluto is not a "planet", this is not a "moon". The proper term is "mooninite"!

You must have sent your kids to Milford, where children are neither seen nor heard: http://arresteddevelopment.wikia.com/wiki/Milford_School

"And the F-35 replaces the F-18, F-15, F-16, A-8, A-10 and the Harriers."

Badly. For example, contrary to the original plan, the Air Force is *NOT* replacing the A-10 with the F-35B because it isn't up to the job. This thing is like The Homer of cutting-edge fighter aircraft.

12 years sounds about right. Buy N Large estimated 5 years to clean up the whole planet with an army of underpaid worker drones. Remember, "Today is the 700th anniversary of our five-year cruise. Ask for your free Septuacentennial Cupcake in a Cup!" So the underestimated it by a bit, but that was a whole planet. Twelve years should be enough time for China to clean up one country with an army of underpaid worker drones.

JMS had this figured out years ago with his keeper.

Just tell people you put the "sexy" in "dyslexia".

Maybe he has Sexlexia

Better yet, get Dog.

I'm assuming the name's a reference to this guy: http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Wheezy_(Toy_Story)

One thing that would be awesome is a 64bit coLinux port!

coLinux is a win32 application with drivers that lets you run a Linux kernel with userspace natively in Windows - it is much lighter than any virtualisation option out there, and using Xming you can easily run GUI apps that launch and run just as well as if they were natively ported to windows.

Unfortunately the drivers were never ported to 64-bit, and thus is it now useless on all but the oldest computers out there. A 64-bit coLinux port would be a requirement to getting this awesome project back on its rails.

See:
http://www.colinux.org/
http://colinux.wikia.com/wiki/Dashboard_for_developing_a_64_bit_coLinux

And also andLinux - which offered an easy way to install and configure coLinux - think of it like coLinux being the Linux kernel and andLinux the Linux distribution...
http://www.andlinux.org/

I would love to be able to use coLinux again on my work PC, which (unfortunately) has to run Windows.

Duh.. the crash of 2029 hasn't happened yet. That and a nasty patch of BlackIce fried my cyberdeck when I was doing a run against the Lone Star Security Services to free this rigger I need for another run.

Chummer.

Source book

While I agree with most of your post, I'm not sure where your SPISPOPD info comes from. The name came from a joke on a newsgroup discussion about Doom's name in the weeks before its release in 1993, while the Smashing Pumpkins formed in 1988, five years earlier. In fact they even added samples from Doom in one of their songs in reference to the joke. http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/SPISPOPD http://www.trilobite.org/spispopd/

The multi-line editing is something I kinda expected someone to make for a long time, but this is the first implementation of it I've seen.

Like renaming an identifier in the whole function?

That's because VIM (and vi) "has" it for like... forever. That renames `len` to `length` from current line to the end of the function:
:.,/^}/s!\<len\>!length!g. (OK, vi/VIM's version might be too verbose.)

One of the most frequently used feature of VIM, missing in other text editors, is the ranges: ability to apply a command/etc to a set of lines. (In the expression above it is .,/^}/, meaning from from current line (the '.') to the next line starting with the '}', the /^}/ regex.)

Which is the only explanation that would make sense. That is, if it weren't for the fact that Luke specifically asks about her real mother. Or maybe Lucas changed the dialogue for that scene as well and I'm remembering it the "wrong" way...

The consensus on this is that it's just a glaring (thought minor) plot-hole that Lucas didn't care enough about to fix.

Originally, the assumption was that Luke/Leia's mother (unnamed at the time) survived the birth and spent time with Leia before she died. Many assumed that the unnamed mother actually married Bail Organa (Leia's adoptive father).

Various retcons have been suggested. It's canonically unclear if Leia was aware that she was adopted before EPIV, and if she did know, there's some indication that she (and Luke as well) never found out who her biological mother was. There are various expanded universe materials that imply conflicting things in regards to this.

It is also unclear when Bail Organa's wife (Leia's adopted mother), Breha Organa died. Expanded universe material contradicts itself in this regard. In some cases it is implied that Leia's adoptive mother died when Leia was very young. In other (more recent) material it is stated that she died in the destruction of Alderaan.

I am not american, so pardon me if I sound naive, but as far as I know the US constitution bans religion from public schools? - Except for the "... one nation under God..." part of TPoA of course... So how come we're even having this discussion?

Would that it were that easy.

The folks who would force us to worship as they dictate, also consider themselves to have a command to direct others onto t e only possible way to get into heaven. So part of that conversion process is to try every possible way to get into places like schools. So we have churches right in our schools in my area, a presumeably liberal college town. They only meet on Sunday, so it is sort of kind of alright, except that the poor churchgoers keep forgetting their little pamphlets all over the school.

So they chip away at the edges, like a persistent salesman trying to get a foot in the door. And they truly wail about how they are persecuted due to anti-Christian bias.

But make no mistake, they have no intention of teaching to some made up controversy about evolution. Thier intention is to replace what they call materialism with a creationist outlook in all aspects of human life. Here is a copy of their "Wedge Document", which is a battle plan of sorts.

http://atheism.wikia.com/wiki/Wedge_Document

It is an intellectually dishonest piece, not including the concepts of "weak Intelligent design" versus strong intelligent design, although a reader who pays attention will understand that what they intend to do is to replace Evolution with creationism. Here is a descriptive of the comparison between the two:

http://www.questioningchristian.com/2005/11/intelligent_des.html#more

The weak version if ID is what they use when trying to appear as reasonable people who just don't thinl that evolution is th eonly possible explanation, as perhaps life the earth was created by aliens from another galaxy. The strong ID is the argument they use when talking to people of like mind. It is also the ultimate plan

How very odd that people who get upset because others don't pay enough attention to the ten Commandments, then purposely, deceitfully, cynically, and manipulatively defy Commandment number 9. And do so in the name of their God!

We used to call that lying for Jesus.

A further perusal of the Wedge document shows the point of failure in their plan. A large volume of research was going to prove that evolution was not possible, that the creationist view of life would be proven by the research. Unfortunately for their plan, only one piece of research was ever done, and has since been discredited. I apologize, I don't have the name of the piece at the moment. The promotion of creationist science which actually depended on a false dichotomy in the first place, which is that if evolution is wrong, then the creationist alternative must be correct, failed to produce any results at all. Every single argument against has failed, and no research has ever refuted the process of evolution. (and pro creationists, you need new arguments, 50 year old arguments that were solved 45 years ago just don't cut it

But that is not to mean that the creationists will fold up their tent and go into th edesert for 40 years. Their defeats are just proof to them that they are continuing to be persecuted. They must not relent.

Those were Laser gates.

Yeah, unless his successor is to be the Papal Mainframe, I'm having a hard time trying to work out why this is on Slashdot.

Is this the same Matthew Garrett? and this one?

I'm pretty confident that this isn't out of pocket for him ... or he's REALLY dedicated to the Linux kernel and in that case, he needs to get a girlfriend.

You need to go deeper. All money that is spent that isn't saved eventually goes into fuel. You see your project as being mostly labor, yet you talk about it being expensive monetarily. Who do you pay that money to? You rent a backhoe and buy fuel for it (direct pollution through fuel burn and level one indirect through the manufacture of the backhoe. The guys at the tree farm take your money and use it to buy beer and make payments on a new car (fuel costs+production costs). The brewery uses energy to maintain fermentation temperature, to ship it's products, and to pay it's employees who buy whiskey and make payments on a home (costs to heat and cool are greater than a cheaper apartment, and longer commute times use more fuel). Etc. etc. The only way to stop it is to not spend money.

It's a long time ago that I heard from "Feathers" McGraw. (For those who don't know: https://wallaceandgromit.wikia.com/wiki/Feathers_McGraw )

Does that mean that Schrödinger can finally know if he should sign for that mail-order cat?

No, it's going to be bloody furious either way.

Red matter.

Although I agree, it is very weakly explained in the film.

pigs (in space) ...

Been done before, in the 1970s

So just change the 'a' to an 'i' and you get Spice Marines!

"Microsoft's idea of no compromise is a device that can be both a laptop and a tablet. What you end up with is an entirely compromised product - too heavy and power hungry to be any use as a tablet, it is also impossible to use on your lap making it an entirely rubbish laptop."

I think of it as the computer equivalent of The Homer.

No, HBO has not been stealing. The bought the TV rights from the author in 2007.

http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/HBO

I was going to comment that SD cards have a write protect tab, but then I remembered that you flick that switch to enable CHDK on Canon cameras so the protection is only in software, not hardware.

Another thing that has a write protect tab is the Zalman Virtual Drive USB device. I'd be happy enough to boot from one of those on a daily basis. I already use a few USB keys with ISOs on for different scenarios.

Don't the US is actually up to at least BC-304 and I think they can take this thing.

Yep.

Ah screw that, give me a Maliwan Hellfire, when I tripped over that bad boy I was "Hellllloooo baby! Come to daddy!" and would be happy to buy that bad boy IRL. "Bullets not doing enough damage? Buy a Maliwan and set your opponents on fire!"

As in... Americans?
They are foreigners where I live so...

The issue here is not with Lucas using traditionally exaggerated Hollywood representations of various races and cultures for inspiration - it's about people seeing those representations through the prism of the hostile media effect.

I.e. Is Watto a Jew or an Arab?

Which is why this issuance of a trademark is so utterly silly. A patent and a copyright have time limits in exchange for a monopoly.... you give something to the world in exchange for exclusive rights.

A trademark on the other hand is indefinitely perpetual. In most cases it is a name, and most correctly used as an adjective such as "Apple computers" or "Band-Aid adhesive bandages" as in "I'm going to buy an Apple-brand computer". Trademarking a logo is certainly in the same realm as it is something distinctive which sets that business apart from others in the same trade.

This still smells strongly like a patent though or at least a misapplication of trademarks. I understand that the point is about how the store has a very distinctive look where somebody walking into a store with a similar layout with similar furniture and materials might think they are actually in an Apple store when in fact they are selling something else, like a Mapple computer. Then again, IKEA tried to do the same thing with STØR and was successful on a legal front of defending that trademark.

I still think it is abuse of the concept though. A store layout might be patentable and perhaps even deserves limited protection if it proves to be successful in moving merchandise more efficiently than their competitors. It doesn't deserve to have perpetual protection though. That is why there is confusion here, particularly because the same organization which grants patents is granting this horrible abuse of trademarks.

Solar Smelters to smelt and distill the various metals, then a good 3-D printer, and I think we have a working business model.

Interesting that you should bring up jiggle, the wikia article on angelyss has this to say on the subject:

"Her body is in lower.md3, weapon and head in upper.md3. Doing this allows for a consistent smooth appearance and more elaborate animation (breast bounce) though no dynamic turning of torso or head."

Well, spiderboobs and co. do provide a reasonably adult theme to the imagery in the game, just take a look at http://images.wikia.com/openarena/images/b/bb/AngelyssDark.png

testicle stalking me

Half-Life got that covered...

Openarena is an excellent project that has matured over years, and has been my own benchmark of how Linux has improved. I have played it small window on a sis, on a early x800 with missing features, through various i815, i915, G45, HD4000 and through to full speed on my HD4000 go integrated graphics.

I am not sure why anyone here object to it being labelled *Adult content* its blood; with bikini chicks http://images.wikia.com/openarena/images/b/bb/AngelyssDark.png [or overly muscular gargoyles if you prefer] and unshakably is so and that is great. For others there is "world of padman" http://worldofpadman.net/website/ which has some beautiful content...if not the sex and violence.

Seriously though GPL your levels.

Beats death by cypher.

Fifth, Jabba's Palace was originally a B'omarr monastery before it fell into the hands of criminals.

According to the "Behind the Scenes" on Episodes 1-3 Naboo's architecture was based on Hagia Sophia. Examples: Hagia Sophia, Naboo, Titus Blue Mosque, more naboo.

Also ... it took them how long to notice this latent xenophobia? I'm not saying they're wrong, Lucas was a little unimaginative when he developed some of the Star Wars cultures but it's not like he presented Muslims like they did in the movie "True Lies."

"Even though Abrams' last known direct contribution to Lost was the script to the season 3 premiere, "A Tale of Two Cities" (which he co-wrote with Damon Lindelof), and he had stopped being the main driving force behind the direction of the show as early as season 1, instead leaving Lindelof and Carlton Cuse as the showrunners, a considerable part of the (casual) audience still considers Abrams to be the man in charge of the show." http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/J.J._Abrams

Adam, that really doesn't cut it as an excuse. Yes, it's a new installer, and this fact is well advertised. But if you have so little faith in the installer that you're cautioning people not to upgrade to F18, why the hell would you even release it?

This is becoming too common in the Linux world, with distros being released with half-implemented pet projects of its developers (Unity, PulseAudio, Fedora's new installer) under the guise of a final release. Rough rough rough, and not something people coming from say OS X or even Windows 7 would expect. Yes it's free, but it's also very off-putting and tends to reinforce the idea that you get what you pay for.

First, you're four years late on the PulseAudio rant, Unity works pretty well even if you don't like it, and you definitely didn't let the existence of Windows 8 get in the way of a good rant.

Nevertheless, this isn't exactly a new thing in the software world. It would be easier to find a project that avoided the practice, and in regards to shipping an operating system? Well, you just let me know when you manage to ship a bug free OS.

Red Hat isn't even the worst offender here. I've singled out Win8 already, but (and I apologize for mentioning it to a non-technical audience) Ruby has managed to release a new version of the language with "experimental features". The justification I got was something along the lines of "It's okay because none of the major libraries will rely on them."

However, I would urge everyone to be charitable. Change is good, even if it's rarely a smooth process. To the programmers reading this: let he who has never shipped a bug (or broken an API) throw the first stone. To the non-programmers: "We apologize for the inconvenience."

One user in five Universes!

Who were these customers who made McDonald's think a milkshake needs to be of such a consistency that you have to use an industrial suction pump to get it through the straw? I want to go back in time and kick them all in the nuts.

You wish!

Asgard's a place name. You're thinking of Æsir.

Or not.

Well, there's that Star Wars/Indiana Jones crossover comic... it's officially non-canon, but several elements were referenced in later, canonical works.

Oh look, another dumbass who doesn't know that congress is responsible for the "budget".

Oh look, another dumbass who doesn't know that Palpatine dissolved the congress so he is infact responsible for the "budget".

"The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I've just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away."

-Wilhuff Tarkin

(I'll leave it to someone else to explain how traveling by Guild vessel works...)

Sure: folding spacetime using the Holtzman Effect. This may seem like warp, but since travel is instantaneous, it's almost certainly more like a wormhole/hyperspace. File all this under "fictional physics," i.e., magic.