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I call you "Baby Killers". There hasn't been an aerial dogfight component to "fighter" aircraft since Korea.

So stuff your "Top Gun", Nazi bullshit.

It would be an insult to men like Rudolph Galland to compare drone pilots to the Luftwaffe These aircraft - manned and otherwise - are built to reproduce the horror and WAR CRIMES of Guernica, on an order of magnitude undreamed of by Hitler or Goering.
http://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/guernica/glevel_1/1_bombing.html
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/PicassoGuernica.jpg

World's first 1D and 2D computer

World's first 1D and 2D computer

UK internet addresses used to be like that. I remember it well. It caused a bit of fun during the changeover period c. 1992.

Rich.

Any instructions on how to build a local mirror?

Here's enough to get you started. They also link to a program (Wikix) that builds scripts to download images should you desire them.

I've found that in most cases just the text is good enough, but if I had the hard drive space and bandwidth I'd download the images too.

How about this bush: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/IRAN-01.JPG (obviously NSFW)
Now that is excessive. It looks like it would be hard to find her genitalia in there.

Most countries don't have a common law system. Those who don't usually have either a civil law system or some kind of faith based law system, or if they have been under Brittish or American rule, a mix of a common law system and their own system. (As US law mentions God a rather often and you have to swear on the bible in court (in most other countries you don't have to do this, the shame of lying is enough), you could say that USA has a faith based system with elements of common law ;)

I don't know anything about the Japanese law system, but my guess is that they don't make any distinction between criminal cases and civil cases. They were ruled by USA between 1945-1950, so I might be wrong. The distinction between civil and criminal cases only exist within common law systems and do not exist in the majority of existing law systems in the world.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Common_law_world.png

Relevant to my document?

Typos and all?

We've been this way before:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Clippy-letter.PNG

While, assuming most of them would gladly be consenting behind closed doors, I would applaud the person who did it for the cause, I suspect there are extremely good reasons why it hasn't been done yet. A pity politically, but can you blame the kids when they can have much better (and much better doesn't start at Mr Universe with some of those). I, for one, know I wouldn't touch the token woman at Concerned Women for America with a ten foot dildo.

While, assuming most of them would gladly be consenting behind closed doors, I would applaud the person who did it for the cause, I suspect there are extremely good reasons why it hasn't been done yet. A pity politically, but can you blame the kids when they can have much better (and much better doesn't start at Mr Universe with some of those). I, for one, know I wouldn't touch the token woman at Concerned Women for America with a ten foot dildo.

While, assuming most of them would gladly be consenting behind closed doors, I would applaud the person who did it for the cause, I suspect there are extremely good reasons why it hasn't been done yet. A pity politically, but can you blame the kids when they can have much better (and much better doesn't start at Mr Universe with some of those). I, for one, know I wouldn't touch the token woman at Concerned Women for America with a ten foot dildo.

While, assuming most of them would gladly be consenting behind closed doors, I would applaud the person who did it for the cause, I suspect there are extremely good reasons why it hasn't been done yet. A pity politically, but can you blame the kids when they can have much better (and much better doesn't start at Mr Universe with some of those). I, for one, know I wouldn't touch the token woman at Concerned Women for America with a ten foot dildo.

This idea is wrong on so many levels. I hate Hitler analogies because they tend to be polar opposite examples of the argument they attempting to counter, but this one seems to fit.

The BBC did a documentary a few years back "Nazis: A Warning From History' http://www.amazon.com/Nazis-Warning-History-Samuel-West/dp/B00097DY66/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1255030547&sr=1-1 that touched on this very subject. Granted, the UK isn't the Third Reich and I'm pulling a very specific instance from that documentary, so please understand that I'm not suggesting a one-size-fits-all with regards to that regime's policy, but an accounting of state-sanctioned surveillance by civilians.

In that doc, there's a segment that reveals that the Gestapo actually didn't have very many official staffers out in the field and relied heavily on "neighborhood watch" participants to implicate other citizens in activities that fit a broadstroke definition of 'suspicious behavior'. Years later, a woman was confronted about a statement she had submitted to the Gestapo about a woman neighbor that she had reported for suspicious behavior; the 'suspicious' woman was detained by the Gestapo and never heard from again. The original documents were presented to her, showing her signature and her statements which were read back to her. She remembered the woman mentioned in the statements, recognized her handwriting and signature, but disavowed that she wrote or submitted the statement.

The documentary example is the far end of the spectrum for state-sanctioned civilian surveillance. Given that people will recieve rewards for their efforts and the program is marketed as a game, it adds more fuel to the fire that people will misuse it. Once implicated in such a program, a person's name or guilt can never be expunged.

All we need to finish off the program is a Norsefire logo http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/Norsefire-logo.png and a picture of the High Chancellor Adam Sutler http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/250px-Sutler2.jpg.

This idea is wrong on so many levels. I hate Hitler analogies because they tend to be polar opposite examples of the argument they attempting to counter, but this one seems to fit.

The BBC did a documentary a few years back "Nazis: A Warning From History' http://www.amazon.com/Nazis-Warning-History-Samuel-West/dp/B00097DY66/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1255030547&sr=1-1 that touched on this very subject. Granted, the UK isn't the Third Reich and I'm pulling a very specific instance from that documentary, so please understand that I'm not suggesting a one-size-fits-all with regards to that regime's policy, but an accounting of state-sanctioned surveillance by civilians.

In that doc, there's a segment that reveals that the Gestapo actually didn't have very many official staffers out in the field and relied heavily on "neighborhood watch" participants to implicate other citizens in activities that fit a broadstroke definition of 'suspicious behavior'. Years later, a woman was confronted about a statement she had submitted to the Gestapo about a woman neighbor that she had reported for suspicious behavior; the 'suspicious' woman was detained by the Gestapo and never heard from again. The original documents were presented to her, showing her signature and her statements which were read back to her. She remembered the woman mentioned in the statements, recognized her handwriting and signature, but disavowed that she wrote or submitted the statement.

The documentary example is the far end of the spectrum for state-sanctioned civilian surveillance. Given that people will recieve rewards for their efforts and the program is marketed as a game, it adds more fuel to the fire that people will misuse it. Once implicated in such a program, a person's name or guilt can never be expunged.

All we need to finish off the program is a Norsefire logo http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/Norsefire-logo.png and a picture of the High Chancellor Adam Sutler http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/250px-Sutler2.jpg.

This game is really fun but does anyone have a driver for this peripheral? Can't get it to work yet and am looking forward to turret-based content next year.

Correlation STILL doesn't imply causation, and I have a chart for you.

You young whipper snapper, I remember when it was still THEfacebook.com as shown in this Orginal Facebook layout. Now get off my lawn.

Looking at the 1951 Longman version http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/54/ChemicalGalaxy_Longman_1951.jpg, it would seem that Microsoft's researcher has "innovated" to the usual Microsoft extent: backwards (the ancient spiral arrangement is superior from many points of view).

Responding only cause you got modded up

Of course they considered it, the ice records to which you refer were constructed by climatologists. I mean... it was their idea.

The evidence doesn't show that, it shows temperature increases out pacing co2 but the co2 increases first according to ice cores. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/Co2-temperature-plot.svg

Calling it a psuedoscience is just name calling.

A super volcano has a massive cooling effect, they throw up a ton, many tons of sediment and global cooling gasses into the atmosphere this basically shadows the earth and cools the earth, krakatoa is a good example. Next when volcanoes produce a lot of co2 they do not produce more than mankind does and they don't produce a lot of other greenhouse gasses we do. We make 120x the CO2 vs all the volcanoes (including underwater). http://environment.about.com/od/greenhouseeffect/a/volcano-gas.htm

Egotistical? Hell I bet if we set our minds to it mankind could cut down every tree on the planet in a half dozen years. We've wrapped the planet in wires. Built cities so wide spread that at night (on the dark side..) when you look at the planet from space you clearly see lights across the whole damn thing. We could easily extinct almost any animal we choose in a year. Saying humans can't have an impact because the world is so big is very 1800s of you but I assure you it isn't still true.

Propaganda? When is the last time 1000s of scientists got together and lied? Hell pretty much ALL scientists (over 95%) in agreement. NEVER.

Nope there has been a warming trend. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Satellite_Temperatures.png But don't let satellite imaging fool you I'm sure the devil is playing tricks on our billion dollar incredibly accurate satellites. And I hardly see any correlation between those three lines.

Interesting that we only have climate data going back 200~500years yet I have a picture showing it go back 5million years. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Five_Myr_Climate_Change.png Damn science, able to figure things out without people actually being there and measuring it at the time. Who knew that paleoclimatology was a whole science. Troll :/

Apple is also taking action against a music festival promoter, Poison Apple, which has applied to trademark an apple with a bite out of it atop crossed bones, and Foxtel, whose branding for a new pornography channel, Adults Only, is an apple together with an arrow and a devil's tail..

Any fool can see that these logos are using deflowered pomegranates, not apples...
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pomegranate_waterdrops2.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pomegranate_fruit.jpg

Apple is also taking action against a music festival promoter, Poison Apple, which has applied to trademark an apple with a bite out of it atop crossed bones, and Foxtel, whose branding for a new pornography channel, Adults Only, is an apple together with an arrow and a devil's tail..

Any fool can see that these logos are using deflowered pomegranates, not apples...
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pomegranate_waterdrops2.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pomegranate_fruit.jpg

I was recently looking into LCD sub-pixel layouts, and found that there are more than just RGB columns. For one, there's the same arrangement, but with every other row shifted horizontally by 1.5 sub-pixels. This improves things because the spacing between like-colored sub-pixels is similar, no matter what direction; with columns, vertically they are right next to each other, while horizontally they're 3 sub-pixels apart. Others put twice as many greens. There's even RGBW, that adds white into the mix, to increase brightness and efficiency.

But the problem with all the alternate geometries is that you don't have pixels in a normal grid, so it seems that most computers will always be stuck with the sub-optimal grid arrangement. But for custom devices where there isn't lots of legacy software, they can use new arrangements. Things like cell phones and portable games fall into this category. It's very similar to the processor architecture issue, where personal computers are mostly stuck with x86, while others can use things like ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, etc.

Maybe this isn't exactly the "inventor's dilemma", but it reminded me of it.

Use of the USB logo and USB name is trademarked

Then while the Pre is in iPod emulation mode, it could display the USB logo under a prohibitory sign. That would indicate that this mode is not USB (in the sense that GNU's not UNIX), even if it is still compatible with USB.

It's better to think of a continuum of service speeds rather than a discrete separation between bullet trains and local trains. This high speed railroad map of Europe shows there are lines within England which are handling >200km/h trains. Network Rail has proposed upgrading the London to Edinburgh line to 320km/h+ by 2020 but they need funding to the tune of £34 billion.

So, I thought the Milky Way visible in the sky at night was made up of stars you can resolve individually and stars you can't resolve individually. Apparently it's also made up of gas and dust that reflects the star light.

+1 intarwebs.

And since I'm commenting, this graphic from Wikipedia is among the most awesome I've seen:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Universe_Reference_Map_(Location)_001.jpeg

They built New Orleans knowing full well that this is a likely scenario, and all it took was a big enough storm to cause this.

"They" did? Well guess it depends on which "they" you are refering to... As this elevation map shows the oldest parts of New Orleans (e.g. The Business District, The French Quarter, and the Warehouse/Arts District) are built upon land 7 to 20+ feet above the current Mean Sea Level (MSL). So if the "they" refers to the original city founders, then you are clearly wrong. On the otherhand, if the "they" you were talking about were the people that later allowed areas like the 9th Ward and Metairie to be developed, then you do actually have a good point.

Oh by the way, I'm not the AC you were responding to. I just get annoyed about people implying that the entire city of New Orleans is below sea level, or that the entire city was flooded during Katrina. Neither idea is true, the older (and thus higher) parts of the city had miminal flooding (if any) which receded relatively quickly.

Yep. Here's what it looked like yesterday:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/E_Aust_dust_storm_-_MODIS_Terra_1km_-_23_Sept_2009.jpg

The coast of Queensland is that as-yet-untouched bit up the top-right there. :-)

For example, you can burn a swastika flag without trouble, or you can wear an anti-nazi shirt with a red bar across the swastika.

Actually, you can get in trouble for that, too. The ban on the display of nazi or counter-constitutional symbols does not make an explicit exception for showing the symbols in a non-educational but anti-nazi context. Therefore, it depends on the interpretation of the public prosecutor and the judge.

The Bundesgerichtshof (supreme civil and penal court) even held that using a swastika to mark a high-rank politician violates the law, the given reason being this: If someone claims that he is a nazi, some people abroad might think that nazi ideas are still accepted in Germany. That must not be allowed, even if it might be true. (Well, you can say or write that someone is a nazi but expressing the same idea in a picture is verboten.)

Only showing the swastika in a clearly anti-nazi content is allowed. This includes a stricken swastika or throwing it into a trash bin. However, this just means that you have a good chance of eventually being acquitted but it does not protect you from a search of your home and other investigative measures if the public prosecutor does not like you. It does not help if you're leftish or bordering on left-wing extremism.

Yes, many anti-fascists have actually been prosecuted and convicted for using nazi symbols!

However, if you're a multi-million American movie studio, you can usually get away with showing it in an artistic context and in films like the Indy series or Inglourious Basterds. No prosecutor would dare seizing your film.

It's a bit different if you're making a video game, especially one of the so-called "killerspiele" (killing games) such as Far Cry, Counterstrike, World of Warcraft or the Sims (all of these have been mentioned by politicians). Then you're not an artist but one of the bastards responsible for school shootings.

If by ignorance you allude that your friend did not know about the Holocaust, then yes, your story is very troubling.

My friend was very aware of the Holocaust. Did you not even notice that I mentioned the swastika clearly had elements that differentiated it from a Nazi swastika, or did you follow the link to the Wikipedia article and read about various kinds of swastikas and their uses over thousands of years?

If he had essentially drawn a Nazi flag with the correct colors, etc., they might have a point about its offensiveness. But it was a pencil drawing with a bunch of dots that looked something like this. I think it may even have been "left-facing," because he was actually even trying to differentiate it more from Nazi versions, like these.

Do you really want to deny use of symbols that are important to some religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism) that have over a billion followers because an unrelated group of people (Nazis) adopted a similar symbol and persecuted another religious group?

If by ignorance you allude that your friend did not know about the Holocaust, then yes, your story is very troubling.

My friend was very aware of the Holocaust. Did you not even notice that I mentioned the swastika clearly had elements that differentiated it from a Nazi swastika, or did you follow the link to the Wikipedia article and read about various kinds of swastikas and their uses over thousands of years?

If he had essentially drawn a Nazi flag with the correct colors, etc., they might have a point about its offensiveness. But it was a pencil drawing with a bunch of dots that looked something like this. I think it may even have been "left-facing," because he was actually even trying to differentiate it more from Nazi versions, like these.

Do you really want to deny use of symbols that are important to some religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism) that have over a billion followers because an unrelated group of people (Nazis) adopted a similar symbol and persecuted another religious group?

Show me a more open touchscreen device with as much ease of use that I can get for a price anywhere near comparable to this one (I pay AUD$49 a month inc handset payments) and I'll consider switching.

Sure, no problem.

The Nokia N900 is going to be about the same price as an iPhone where I live. I have no idea about what it's going to be like locally to you, you know more about your local providers than I do (I only know of the phone company Telstra in Australia) so I'll leave that to you to find out.

It is a Completely opensource Linux platform, desktop applications can be in theory recompiled for it without little trouble. Nifty applications like OpenOffice.org have been ported to it.

Here is a demo of the UI, since you seem to be focused on ease of use.

Here is a spiffy ad showing off the UI.

The only problems I am aware of is that the US version won't have MMS support. Additionally, j2me applications won't be supported (but regular Java applications are) until a later OS update.

Hope this information was some use to you.

...that was the doing of NEOCONSERVATIVES

No no no. It was the NEOLIBERALS that put us where we are today.

Fr'instance: New River Gorge Bridge

Here is a high resolution image from the article: http://www.esa.int/images/FIRST_LIGHT_SURVEY.jpg
Here is a high resolution image from the WMAP data: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/WMAP_2008_94GHz.png

Enjoy.

And I hope that they didn't mess up by getting pictures from this Roma.

It actually has a ruin of a monastery too, so it's easy to get confused.

And this name confusion has actually caused some mail to take the long way around by having a turnaround in Italy.

No, but the user might know how to correct for it.

Step 1: look up magnetic declination for your location (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/IGRF_2000_magnetic_declination.gif

Step 2: rotate the ankle bracelet to compensate.

Or stand where you know you are facing true north, then rotate anklet until it indicates true north.

If any one wonders how does Haiku look in an OS, here is one screenshoot
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haiku_Screenshot.png

So, it looks like the Be theme in KDE?

Kind of a joke there, but also a bit of a serious comment, too: can't tell much about an OS from a screenshot like this.

If any one wonders how does Haiku look in an OS, here is one screenshoot
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haiku_Screenshot.png

Basically, you're incorrect.

It's fairly clear that we're the cause of an extreme extinction event (see Holocene Extinction event), and while it might not be the worst (which goes to the Permian-Triassic event), it is certainly dramatic and might win in terms of rate (number of species disappearing per year).

Granted, it's just Wikipedia, but the article you cite above demonstrates, better than anything else, that scientists currently have not the foggiest notion of the impact we're having on the planet's biosphere. Early in the article, we read this:

Between 1500 and 2006 CE, 784 extinctions have been documented by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.[1]
However, since most extinctions go undocumented, scientists estimate that during the 20th century, between 20,000 and two million species actually became extinct, but the precise total cannot be determined more accurately within the limits of present knowledge. Up to 140,000 species per year (based on Species-area theory)[2] may be the present rate of extinction based upon upper bound estimating.

If this wasn't such a serious topic, the passage above would make me laugh my proverbial ass off. Not only have the "scientists" referenced abandoned the idea of documentation (a.k.a., "data"), but they've settled on a range of species extinctions with a 10,000% margin of error. If that's the best they can do with the data, you can't fault them for telling the truth, but it's hardly anything to hang your hat on, in terms of a theory.

Wikipedia has a broader article on major extinction events, and the Holocene event doesn't even rate as "major". (It's listed in the "minor" event list.) The accompanying graph seems to bear that out (at least for marine life).

So, yes, humans are an abnormal influence on the planet, and in this context (introducing exospecies into a fragile environment), it's certainly relevant to separate the human influence from the norm (say, the previous hundred million years of evolution).

You're clearly missing the point. The question isn't whether human beings caused more extinctions than any other single species (or any other event, for that matter). Even if you blindly assume that that's true, that has nothing to do with whether or not human activity is "natural" or not. Human behavior has evolved the same way the species of any other species has evolved. We have needs for resources just like any other species does. Human activity, then, is no more "unnatural" than any other species' activity (the aforementioned ants or beavers, for example).

As for extremophiles, yeah, we probably can't kill all life on the planet. That's why I said "has a fair chance".

There's not a "fair" chance. Barring some planet-exploding technology (i.e., the planet goes "BOOM!!" in a Death Star-like explosion), it's not going to happen. There are plenty of things that do have a "fair chance" of destroying all life on Earth (e.g., a Moon-sized body crashing into Earth), and there are a lot of scenarios that would lead to no one posting on Slashdot for the next few billion years, but generally, the idea that we could destroy all life on Earth (or come remotely close to it) is nonsense. Sane environmentalism is focused on keeping it a habitable place for humans, and not breaking out the rosary beads every time another species of rat goes extinct. (Sorry. That last reference was my Catholic high school days coming back. *shudder*)

[IE8 HTML Rendering Console]
Fetching index.html ... OK
Parsing HTML ...
        ERROR: Unknown tag > Skipping to next tag.
        ERROR: Unknown tag > Skipping to next tag.
        ERROR: Unknown tag > Skipping to next tag.
Parsing ... OK
Visualising Page ... : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Acid3ie8rc1.png

Conclusion:

Yes it took less processing power to skip half of the tags and not render half of the page. And yes IE8 just saved you 0.0001% of your battery while opening this page. If the page is visualised incorrectly you can try an alternative browser. Be advised that other browsers MIGHT NOT SAVE AS MUCH BATTERY AS IE8 DOES!

> Swine flu is probably several times more deadlier than a normal flu.

Cite please. "Swine flue" is no more deadly than other influenzas. It is just more contagious.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=2009_flu_pandemic&oldid=312830682#Symptoms_and_severity

I'm more worried about H1Z1. :)

One would think that this being discussed on /. would have tipped you off.

Here, I'll help you out a little.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Pax_tux.png

The wikipedia says US oilfields are running dry. You're already down to 1940s levels of production, less than half of what you used to produce.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Hubbert_US_high.svg

Er... my point being, that the RSI came from using a poorly shaped mouse, with a program that forced it's use - not typing.

This.... this is the devil's mouse.
This... this is the devil's support ticket software.

When in doubt, refer to the British Isles Venn Diagram.

False. ONE transcontinental railroad (the first) was supported with free land from the Congress. The funding was entirely private, and all future railroads were done without government assistance.

That isn't true at all.

The U.S. government spent $10 million purchasing land from Mexico, the Gadsden Purchase, for the express reason of helping Southern Pacific complete the southerly-route transcontinental railroad. It also received land grants.

The northerly-route transcontinental railroad, Northern Pacific, also received quite a lot of land grants.

In total, the U.S. government subsidized the construction of railroads in the 2nd half of the 19th century by giving them title to one-tenth of the territory of the United States.

As I have learned on other patent threads on /. A patent must be applied for within a year of first deployment in the US. I think therefore http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/Google1998.png counts as prior art. Even if this fails, I can firmly say I have been using Google for years (who hasn't).

Who told you that? This guy?

Either your kool aid is laced or you are smoking some really strong crap. Whatever it is, I want some of that good shit!