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e used to have simple laws for things like murder with clear-cut sentences (i.e. death, "life", 40 years, etc). Over the decades, however, the legal class (actually both the lawyers in robes who sit on the bench, and the lawyers who get elected to legislatures) have added all sorts of loopholes and modifiers.

Here, let me help you with your rant:

http://youtu.be/j2zlPNGuPbw

Actually some of the pits were inescapable due to glitches.

That's not true.

Not to mention their stupid positioning on some screens meaning they can't be avoided.

Neither is this. (Hint: Simply don't exit the forest on the right, or the city on the left. It's not rocket science.)

Also for a game with multiple difficulty levels the pit difficulty is quite fixed.

Yes. The "pit difficulty" is set at "ultra easy". As one YouTube Reviewer puts it "If you cannot get out of the pits in E.T., you suck at video games" (~3:45, back a little bit farther to see why.)

Each year the competition is different but, this year the primary goal is to move two foot diameter balls into either a low goal for one point or a seven foot high goal for 10 points. All with a robot that isn't allowed to be more than five feet tall. There are ways to work with the teams on your alliance to score more points per ball as well as a 62 inch tall truss at mid field to shoot over for an additional 10 points. Even though I work with a high school team every year (FIRE Team #0322), some years the scoring is...interesting to try to explain. Here is an animation created by FIRST to explain this years game. It'll probably do a better job than I can.

I believe fallout 3 handled the issue of too many doors and not enough resources to program a room on the other side quite nicely as demonstrated in this clip (possible NSFW) http://youtu.be/WGKs9-VLgsQ?t=...

LibreSSL? LibreOffice?

This reminds me of something...

http://youtu.be/iV3-OdQkXPU

Experts Say Hitching a Ride In an Airliner's Wheel Well Is Not a Good Idea

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120930201320/fairytail/images/3/30/You_don't_say.png

http://youtu.be/b6qyX1L8p_Q

Cocognacicaine

I'm just waiting to hear Arnold Schwarzeneggar say that on screen. [relevance]

OK, I realize I may skew a little older than many Slashdot readers, so here. Consider this your Easter gift:

http://youtu.be/ftgAG3Vnif8

Are you nuts? Have you seen what someone can do with a keyboard? http://youtu.be/XH7CXtxOflI?t=...

I laughed. I laughed out loud. The flight pattern of those keyboard letters (and the tooth at the end) flying away after that head smack was awesome.

Pens and pencils should be banned, replaced with keyboards and swipe screens.

Are you nuts? Have you seen what someone can do with a keyboard? http://youtu.be/XH7CXtxOflI?t=...

At least with swipe screens their arms will be too tired to hit anyone with!

FYI. The newest version of their grasshopper test vehicle flew on thursday at their facility in Texas. This one is as tall as the F9R that launched to the ISS and sports the same landing legs. But it only has 3 engines instead of 9.
F9R First Flight Test | 250m

life will find a way...

I love the movie but HATE that saying from Jurassic Park. (Snippet here.)

It does, unless it doesn't.

Concrete example? Let's just ask the dinosaurs... (They've had their time? But I though you said they could find a way.) Or, lets ask starfish about something odd that's currently attacking part of the population.. Something's out to get them; hopefully the starfish can mount defenses.

"What doesn't kill me makes me stronger" is a much better quote, I think -- but notice that living is one of two options. And in any case evolution doesn't care a whit about individuals.

Finally, a life that you better hope doesn't find a way: ebola. (Virus vs Life discussion, anyone?)

American flights, Russian flights ... all made in Taiwan! [source]

But, you might teach 'im to be a judge:

http://youtu.be/Grg5tULy0tY

No bigot admits to being a bigot. Ask any of them throughout human history, and they'll all say it's because of xyz reasons, all perfectly reasonable and rational, that they want to treat Group X as less than human.

I'm a Catholic

If you become a Catholic with a time machine, go back and talk to the various people that have murdered and tortured and massacred Catholics for being Catholic. It's not because they hate you, it's because you're a heretic according their religious beliefs.

It's all the same cowardly, bigoted bullshit.

But I will not vote for gay marriage licensing because my religion tells me homosexual acts are wrong. Not homosexuals.

Ah yes, because that would be immoral. A Good Christian Marriage can be between a man and his mother, a man and his sister, a rapist and his victim, a soldier and the surviving daughter of the family he's just wiped out, a king and hundreds of live-in whores, etc. But homosexual sex is wrong! Wrong I tell you! Wrong like eating pigs, shellfish, planting different crops side-by-side, working on the Sabbath, etc etc. Why you hacks try to keep using arguments that were shredded 5 and 14 years ago is beyond me.

Now, are you still in De Nile, or are you gonna go for the tired Christianist copout of "but but the New Testament wipes away all of my Old Testament sins, but you gays are still bound by the parts of Leviticus we decide still apply!"

No bigot admits to being a bigot. Ask any of them throughout human history, and they'll all say it's because of xyz reasons, all perfectly reasonable and rational, that they want to treat Group X as less than human.

I'm a Catholic

If you become a Catholic with a time machine, go back and talk to the various people that have murdered and tortured and massacred Catholics for being Catholic. It's not because they hate you, it's because you're a heretic according their religious beliefs.

It's all the same cowardly, bigoted bullshit.

But I will not vote for gay marriage licensing because my religion tells me homosexual acts are wrong. Not homosexuals.

Ah yes, because that would be immoral. A Good Christian Marriage can be between a man and his mother, a man and his sister, a rapist and his victim, a soldier and the surviving daughter of the family he's just wiped out, a king and hundreds of live-in whores, etc. But homosexual sex is wrong! Wrong I tell you! Wrong like eating pigs, shellfish, planting different crops side-by-side, working on the Sabbath, etc etc. Why you hacks try to keep using arguments that were shredded 5 and 14 years ago is beyond me.

Now, are you still in De Nile, or are you gonna go for the tired Christianist copout of "but but the New Testament wipes away all of my Old Testament sins, but you gays are still bound by the parts of Leviticus we decide still apply!"

"he's not famous, he's in famous."

He's also a becile (as opposed to am imbecile).

"he's not famous, he's in famous."

In my day we didn't have these video games. We played Buzkashi with a goat carcass.

I'll just leave this here: Goat Simulator Official Launch Trailer

according to the drone operator...
according to the triathlete...
I reckon the drone operator is full of shit and just making up whatever comes to mind.

Why do you automatically believe the athlete?
Something strange is going on with "her". The article refers to Raija Ogden as "her", "she", and "Mrs".
But that picture with the article... IT'S A MAN, BABY!

Why do you get to judge that I must be forced to purchase airbags, while you blithely type away while driving? There are numerous accidents directly related to texting - . Deadly ones. Are we going to stop this "cost on society".

I don't text while driving, those who do are just as bad as those who read while driving (yea, they exist)...

Distracted driving is indeed a hazard.

Self driving cars will fix that, some day those will be mandated as well, you probably won't like that, but it will cut the accident rate massively.

As for anti-lock brakes, those are wonderful technology, they improve average brake distance across all conditions.

Can you come up with a specific situation where manual control of the brakes would be shorter? Yes. Can you say that manual brakes are better in most average driving conditions with an average driver? No.

Your average driver is better off just stomping on the brake pedal and letting the computer do its job. Twice that when the surface isn't even across all 4 wheels since it can apply more force to the wheels with more traction and less to those without it, such as on a road with patches of ice and one side of the truck has more traction than the other.

The computer can handle each wheel on its own, you cannot.

Traction control, electronic stability control, anti-lock brakes, are all safety features that improve the overall safety record of vehicles.

Airbags have saved thousands of lives. They have also killed a few people who otherwise would have survived without them, but the net total gain is better than 100 to 1, so we have them.

Don't be shocked when crash warning and auto crash braking becomes required in the next 10 years as well.

http://youtu.be/TKL_cn8vhjo

Hyundai now offers crash braking, this is going to be standard really soon, along with a lot of other things.

This is a "Good Thing" (TM) :)

(BTW, as a father of 3 kids including 2 boys, I love that commercial, that makes me want to get that for my son when he is ready to drive)

http://youtu.be/K00rz73s_zU

Like this:
http://youtu.be/1OXjB3-MUcs /earworm //you're welcome.

you've got low standards.

Perhaps, but at least a few of them aren't half bad. Besides, have you heard Type O Negative's song "Christian Woman"?

But if you are speaking on behalf of people that you don't know, how do you know how they live or how they view it?

This is no less absurd than Who are you to judge Stalin? Did you ever meet him?

Are you denying that there are millions of Americans who work hard for only just enough money to get by? Here's one.

seriously?

http://youtu.be/dgb-zCnz9mE

I don't want to be able to time lights. I want traffic lights to go away. I want cars that can either drive themselves and time their interactions with other cars or assist the driver with maneuvering between cars at an intersection.

Google is working on this.

And rather than stopping at a stop sign or a traffic signal, you can just zip through the intersection, barely having to slow down.
[CHEERING]
Right, so I already heard the comment, I couldn't imagine sitting in one of these cars. You're not in the driver's seat with your hands on the steering wheel. You're in the backseat reading the newspaper

It's a win-win-win-win situation. The public wins - not wasting time driving, safer, faster. The city wins - less accidents, less time off work due to accidents, hospital visits, less money spent on infrastructure like overpasses. Those savings will make up for the lost revenue from red light cameras. Oil companies win - due to Jevons paradox there will be more gas consumed. Car manufacturers wins - they sell more cars with this feature. The selling feature is they reduce travel time, which is kind of what they've always tried to sell with bigger engines and higher top speeds. This will actually deliver reduced driving time.

Hopefully people will use them only when face-to-face isn't available.

I Forgot My Phone
http://youtu.be/OINa46HeWg8

I've seen this repeated a few times in this thread (and indeed whenever the intersection between homosexuality and Christianity is raised as a topic), however it is a misunderstanding of the theology of the most common Christian traditions.

Hardly. Christianists are cherry picking hacks to say homosexuality is a sin, based on the Old Testament, but they can go on eating pork and wearing cloths made from different fibers because the New Testament wipes away "those" sins. Surely you've seen this pic floating around the series of tubes, captioned

Tattoo of Leviticus 18:22 forbidding homosexuality: $200
Not knowing that Leviticus 19:28 forbids tattoos: Priceless

Why anyone tries to argue this point 14 years after West Wing laid down the definitive smackdown on the subject is beyond me.

Small World Phenomena

Or, the Erdos Number.
Now, let's say your kebab dealer tweets about a limed time deal on select types of kebabs to spread awareness on twitter using a local city hashtag. Everyone who searches the city's hashtag around the time it was posted has received a communication from a possible terrorist. Furthermore everyone working at Twitter now can be suspected.

If that wasn't bad enough, let's say the "orthodox Muslim" brother who is suspected of terrorist acts performs one thus: He tweets with the city hashtag and @replies his brother at once, "That price is Criminal! Your Kebabs Are The Bomb!". Now we've jumped a level on the connectivity graph. Everyone who has viewed the city hashtag with the kebab deal testimonial is now only one step removed from the suspected terrorist. Apply the generalized Erdos Number method, as with Degrees of Bacon, one can see how an entire city is search-able, if not a significant part of the planet itself as those "terrorists communicators" tweet, blog, and post on nerd news sites about unrelated things.

Also relevant: #CancelCorbert - An example of why believing something taken out of context can be very stupid, and indeed have ridiculous results.
To demonstrate how malleable human language is, and why the NSA should not use language itself as an indicator for suspicion: You wrote, "blood is thicker than water", which could be short for "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb." this traditional meaning would be the exact opposite of what you probably intended. There is another Arabic version with milk brothers vs blood brothers, where blood brothers are thicker than suckling brothers and both are thicker than water. So, I can interpret your statement to mean both: the NSA thought brotherhood as a bond to be strong, or the NSA is wrong to think involuntary bonds are strong.

One wonders if one's deep knowledge of alleged terrorist cellular activity do not belie one's secret connection to said cells in the minds of the paranoid and delusional NSA goon?

Now I can make this http://youtu.be/ebfLWAB8bY4

There's an animated short that addresses this by having the 'transporter' kill the original, through an amusing series of mechanisms. I saw it decades ago, and I wish I could remember the name.

"To Be", by Josh Weldon. (Also available in crappy Youtube quality)

I don't follow. Is this not a contradiction?

It’s not a contradiction, but more of a conflict of interest. I would like to help those who have struggled as I did, but I’m not willing invest my time or money at my family’s expense. If every unskilled entry level job paid $15+/hr (as the McDonalds employees want), then the price of goods and services would increase, thus I would get less bang for my buck. Thinking selfishly from my situation, I truth is that I need cheap products and services made by those less fortunate than I so I may reside in the middle class.

It sounds like you're trying to say there's just not enough money in America for everyone to be rich, which simply isn't the case.

I’m not sure what logic you used to deduce that from my wondering statements... I liked the video but what was your point? No one would be rich and no one would be poor if money was divided equally – we would just be communists. I believe the wealth gap is a huge problem and can lead to class warfare, but this is a rat race and I’m just worried about my family getting ahead, as cynical as that sounds.

Wow. What a digression. My original comment was to point out that my mom worked at Walmart, and Walmart was one of the few places us less well-to-doers could afford. It functioned as a small low-paying stepping stone in our family history. While Walmart is the fat cat here, I also wanted to point out that many local mom-and-pop stores use the same tactics to line their personal pockets as well.

A lot of people like myself have come from humble backgrounds, and I want things to be easier for struggling families especially when I can relate. Yet, it's important to remember that there has to be losers for some to be winners.

I don't follow. Is this not a contradiction?

It sounds like you're trying to say there's just not enough money in America for everyone to be rich, which simply isn't the case.

Fable is by Lionhead Studios, home of longtime auteur game designer Peter Molyneux, who has a tendency to promise the Earth and be ultimately be crippled by his own ambition (see the big fat broken monkey-fest Black & White). During the development of Fable, for example, it was promised to have features like rival NPC characters, plants growing in real time, and a system wherein your every slightest choice and action changes your appearance and the world around you. What we ended up with was a buggy action RPG with a great big stiffy for itself.

-- Yahtzee Croshaw

The UK has a problem with Islamic extremist gangs in prisons. Printed material from external well-wishers and visitors is a huge contributory factor. This problem is far, far worse than any right-ring white gangs in US jails.

Bedwetting bullshit. If you go to prison, you're going to try and make friends with people like you to keep the resizing of your asshole to a minimum. And there's no shortage of crazy christian proselytizing in prison, or violent gangs of wasps, but ZOMG MOOOSLIMS!

But if you really want to complain about fundamentalist Islam, start with the nearest mirror. Because it's either directly supported by western imperialism (Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria) or in direct backlash to western imperialism (Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan.) But hey, anything that allows you to point your finger at somebody else.

As soon as techies start making unacceptable demands on management, the companies will just pull up stakes and move elsewhere. Then wherever the unions started agitating will end up like post-apocalyptic Detroit.

http://youtu.be/eUY8NJAly1I

Actually knock off bags and other wearable fashion items have major questions about durability.

Saddleback Bags did a great video about the quality of their bags.

http://youtu.be/a11wlngpuSY

If I'm buying certain brand names, part of that brand name is a trust that it won't fall apart on me in six months.

It's not just image, it's also quality.

Still a classic

http://youtu.be/YRg6CgxM0T8

Question: why cannot the "professional" commercial makers do this sort of thing?

They do. For example: The Force: Volkswagen Commercial

I'll bite. Are you considering wireless radiation as the cause of "metabolic syndrome"?

And more on topic:
The perpetual motion machine of modern physics is a great provider for those who get paid to speculate.

they probably found the remains of Ultra Mega Chicken who was infact raised from the dead.

I learned recently that the wife of the quarterback of my beloved Chicago Bears is one of these anti-vaccine people, based on the notion that vaccines have "chemicals" in them. So they don't get their kids vaccinated, endangering the lives of others.

Here, if you really want to be scared, is an interview with noted genius Kristin Cavallari, explaining that the reason she doesn't get her kids vaccinated is because she's "read too many books".

No kidding, you've got to see this:

http://youtu.be/7WzE0qO7tzY?t=...

The original Red Dwarf is a lot better.

http://youtu.be/sp77AjBdlEc

http://youtu.be/JMIHNiR3CP8

Ye of little vision. The ICE will go the way of the buggy whip as a more compact and longer lasting source of electricity comes on line. There is more than one on the way including this already road tested one. http://youtu.be/RqLpqR0SPnQ link found on http://www.gizmag.com/900-hp-s...

South Park got it right.

http://youtu.be/-DT7bX-B1Mg

NSA_backdoor_trojan:

AMD processors were found to have similar vulnerabilities.

Mascarading as a debug mode, all hardware and thus software security features can be bypassed. Essentially allowing both stealth software operation, bypassing root and administrator authentication restrictions, and more. Intel is known to have similar functionality, but its not publically disclosed yet.. http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...

NSA compiled and uses all these exploits whether it was installed there for them or not.

Windows also has NSAKEY installed and all vulnerabilities and the source code of Windows is turned over to the NSA before the things can be patched, allowing NSA to locate and exploit vulnerabilities for hacking us and everyone else. http://www.washingtonsblog.com...

RSA also put in exploits so SSL / Etc would be vulnerable to their attack, as the leaks indicated. http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...

Stuxnet virus was created by NSA. http://rt.com/news/snowden-nsa...

NSA and GCHQ are recording us masturbating. http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

FBI records us even when our devices are powered off. http://www.washingtonsblog.com...

NSA is ceiling cat watching us masturbate with space capability and electron imaging/radar systems. They are recording all calls and saving the content, not just metadata. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb... and http://youtu.be/d6m1XbWOfVk

NSA has Thought Amplifier and Mind Interface (patented by Robert Malech in 1974, deployed in all radar in 1976), aka Remote Neural Monitoring first disclosed in Nexus Magazine in 1996 by John St Claire Akwei. Backed up today by Dr. Robert Duncan who helped invented these weapons, being used to attack and control us. http://www.oregonstatehospital... http://www.oregonstatehospital...

TAO hacking unit, NSA: http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Obama is raping and murdering and torturing thousands of his own citizens, committing acts of Genocide worse than any dictator ever before. He has killed his own people and covered it up. http://www.obamasweapon.com/

Border patrol (and just about every other agency with an enforcement mandate) is already exploring UAV use, what we will see eventually is an air war where unauthorized UAVs are simply shot down automatically.

Good luck with that...

Drones can be fixed wing which can give them fairly decent speeds, and they would be capable of terrain-following, which combined with their small size would make them quite difficult to pick up on radar. Or they could fly slow and be hard to distinguish from birds. They're already working on DIY drones that use ultrasonics to measure altitude. Include laser ranging or vision in them and they could fly inches off the surface dodging brush.

And nobody has even tried making them stealthy. There are flying wing designs already - somebody need only look up some photos of a B2/etc and build a drone that matches, and I wouldn't be surprised if combined with the low size it would be very hard to detect.

Here.... I've got evidence for you.