I'm glad to see that the proper response to a criticism is opening with an insult.
That aside, I had contemplated making an exception for my statement regarding the ears. Those are definitely a different beast than the nose. For the ears, you just have to get close, and for them, selecting a standard style based on the ethnic group and sizing it for the age of the person will get you close enough that most people won't care if the upper part of the lobe is curved just a hair too much.
The cartilage giving a shape to the nose is very distant for the bone structure. Bone marks won't give a lot of details about shape of nose. (Except for some obvious exceptions like broken nose, etc.) Ethnic origin may somewhat help to restrict to a narrower list of possible shapes.
You are correct about the distant end. But you can get a basic idea of where the cartilage would have started based on the size of the nasal cavity, its position on the face, and the results that those factors would have played on the shape of the nose based on the documented examples that you have access to.
My apologies for not being as perfectly accurate with my description as I could have been. Next time I'll defer to the resident phrenologist.
... can give, from a skull, any hint about the size of the nose and the shape of the ear, both of which are made of just cartilage.
Any hint ?
It's a bit of an art, but even artists use models.
In this case, with facial recontstruction you have a lot of data to work from. We have been cataloging human anatomy for a long time, as such we have a lot of evidence for what certain bones look like. We have also are able to combine those bones with pictures of the actual person, or at least compare to facial features of that person's ethnic background.
Bones give a lot of clues to the soft tissue that used to surround them. Ligaments will leave 'scars' on the bones which indicate a whole slew of factors. Did that person use the muscle a lot, was it ever torn. By measuring the size and condition of the 'scar' you can extrapolate what the muscle that connected to it would have been like. The same way you can tell the joint of a 50yr old that ran a lot from a 30 yr old that was just a scribe.
Now the face is a bit different, but for the most part, you know what muscles go where, and they don't vary much. As for noses and ears, look at where the cartilage was attached and you will see similar effects as due to the ligaments. Combine that shape with what you have measured on 1000s of skulls before, and you select the shape of the nose or ear that corresponds to those markings.
Scars are one thing, but a wound that leaves a mark all the way down to the skull... that's gotta sting.
No kidding, but on the fact it isn't as if there is much more than skin to cut through, even the muscles there are pretty thin.
TFA also says that the reconstruction shows a broken nose. Is it even possible to have evidence of a broken nose on the skull? "Broken nose" as shown in the painting is cartilage damage, which would probably all be gone by now.
I'm sure you can add in a broken nose to the reconstruction, but in context, it was being cited as evidence. Just bad journalism, or dubious research?
Given that he seems quite the badass, what with scars that go all the way to his bone, I wouldn't be surprised if the broken nose was actually a true broken nose and had fractures on the bone that the cartilage connects to.
Excuse my Godwin, but wanting to kill the "stupid" was one of the things Hitler wanted to do....
I agree that the current "less then lethal" weapons are not terribly good at anything, they're both lethal and hard to use properly.
I'm not going to excuse that Godwin. Don't be absurd. He in no way advocated killing the stupid because they were stupid.
He said someone making the decision to steal and murder was stupid based on that decision, and the condition of being stupid wasn't why he was advocating defending himself with the most appropriate tool.
He is defending himself, that requires no further justification.
I don't know about american law, but atleast in Swedish law the right to Self-Defense does not extend to the right to kill. You're only allowed to use the force necessary to keep yourself safe and it's really hard to argue that killing or maiming is necessary.
The best defense is a good offense?
Kidding aside, in a fight where you need to keep yourself safe, typically the only recourse IS to kill or maim. People are animals, and if it comes down to your safety if you are in a fair fight then you are doing something wrong.
If they have well preserved (i.e. frozen) specimens, why not just harvest eggs and sperm, mix, shake well, implant in an elephant, wait 22 months, and profit^H^H^H^H^H^H^H see what comes out.
Lets say you run your generator for 24 hours per week. That is its normal power output. Now, run it for 2 days. You have just doubled its weekly power output. That's a 100% increase. Run it for 3 days. 200%
That doesn't violate any laws of physics. This design simply makes the generator capable of being operated at times that it normally would not be able to operate at w/o excessive loss.
There's no military threat. The only reason to limit the export of liquid hydrogen tank technology is to slow down the Chinese manned space program.
The ability to launch larger satellites is most certainly something that has military applications. Don't assume that just because it isn't a bullet or a jet that it isn't something with value to the military.
Someone who listens to bluegrass will likely also listen to pop country too. Someone who listens to light rock will probably not listen to speed metal or death metal
Oddly enough, I like power metal and bluegrass, but dislike pop country.
I went to a military academy (USAFA) and while we started young at 18, we didn't graduate until 22 at the earliest. We had a few prior-enlisted cadets at 22 or so, but you could enroll up to around 24/25 yrs old.
But even with that early start, if Star Trek follows naval ranks (I'm not a ST geek), then you have to understand that a young captain is a very very odd thing. That's just below an Admiral in rank, could you imagine seeing a general or an admiral at age 30?
Individuals certainly can, but they have to go through the export controls of the US state Department and when it comes to 'weapons', the DHS.
But lets not kid ourselves here, this isn't even close to the grey area. This guy sold missile/rocket technology to a foreign government, China no less.
I work for one of these large multinational corporations, and quite often deal with technology transfers between foreign entities and governments. Let me tell you the reason you don't hear about much in the way of investigations is because we are VERY cautious to ensure that trade agreements are in place before any conversations start. Not only that, but we are regularly trained to know what we can, and can not send overseas. We are also audited on a regular basis (and rightfully so) both internally and by the government.
I had to kick a guy out of one of my presentations once because I got a phone call that he was a dual Polish/Canadian citizen. We could export to Canada, we could export to Poland, but there were provisions that no dual citizens were allowed.
It is taken very seriously. While it is fun to poke at these multinational corporations, even the presidents and VPs of these companies are regular people who understand that you do NOT export anything without the blessing of the State Dept, Homeland Security, or one of the other associated agencies.
What worries me is a quick Google of the company. One of the top links is this interview with the company president. The fact that he keeps talking about "megawatts of energy per hour" puts my cynicism into overdrive - sure, it's not entirely damning; maybe the engineers are sitting hanging their heads at how the president doesn't understand what they're doing, but when the likelihood of their claims actually being what they say they are is this low, that really isn't who they need at the helm.
I don't see what is so bad about the term Megawatts of energy per hour. Afterall, I'm billed by the kilowatt-hour. It's not the most graceful term, but couldn't he be referring to that?
The kind of regulations we have now don't help protect anyone, they just make working safely harder to do. If someone can't legally buy the right chemicals or equipment to do something the right way, chances are they'll just end up doing it the wrong way.
Exactly. Let me illustrate by a recent example. I need to purchase lye to cook food. Yes, lye, that nasty caustic stuff that will really fuck you up if you actually eat it, spill it on you, or use it in any number of easy to mess up ways. Yet I'm using it for food, because that's how you make good bavarian-style pretzels.
Now, I'm a careful person, but you wouldn't believe how difficult it is to get 'food-grade' lye. Thanks to over-regulation in a futile effort to control Meth, lye is rarely sold in a grocery store now.... and that's where we run into problems.
The easiest source of lye is from drain-o like products. So to get the right chemicals to prepare food I actually have to go to Home Depot/Lowes and into the plumbing isle to get lye. This is an increasingly common occurrence as more and more products end up being 'drug related' and pulled from shelves. Now, I have to check every single purchase of lye to ensure that I'm actually purchasing lye and not caustic soda with 'extra' drain clearing power. Sometimes they mix in ground aluminum and other chemicals, which makes sense, because it's drain cleaner. But the easiest source for lye to use in food is the hardware store, and some people may not be so careful when selecting their products and inadvertently hurt someone.
Now, you combine that with nosy people who are suspicious that you are doing something naughty and you end up having to hide your purchases or activity. Which isn't so bad, until you realize that you drive people to do this work in sheds or basements to avoid the neighbors calling the police on their soap-making activities.
What's the problem with driving people inside? The same reason you don't idle an engine inside a building. The same reason that you don't open a lead-acid battery with pliers and a paper towel. Because it forces these people to make the exact type of cuts we don't want them to take. Cuts in safety. They will work in less ventilated rooms, seek to avoid the hassle in purchases, and be forced to sacrifice quality and caution just to do their hobby.
I have had the police called on me before, and I have had them question my purchases of lye. It is retarded when you realize that trying to ban something that is so simple that a redneck can do it in a trailer in the middle of the woods is god damned impossible.
While I don't agree with the censorship. He isn't talking about recovering from anorexia sites. He is talking about sites that help people BECOME anorexic. They do exist, and it is creepy.
1. I agree with you 100%. That we have our 'folding@home' programs is just one aspect that demonstrates that chemistry is a field that has so many possible permutations it is simply not possible to know them all. Perhaps a way to view it is similar to someone cataloging species. Sure, it may not mean much that someone discovered the 4000th species of ant in the Amazon, but now we know that such an ant exists. A chemist might not discover a 'useful' chemical or process, but it all gets added to our sum of knowledge.
2. Again, a good point. One of the reasons that professional chemists get paid, is because they can use their expertise to direct research efforts along a path that is more likely to produce profitable results.
3. I believe it was Feynman who made a similar comment with regard to Physics. There was a team utilizing old equipment that was a chewing-gum and duct tape type of deal. Yet they produced some breakthroughs. Not because their team was using the highest end collider, but because they had more knowledge into the equipment that they were using. Granted this involved millions of dollars worth of equipment, but it illustrates that the latest equipment can sometimes 'blind' you to the obvious.
To take that back down the chemistry path. Opps, I created teflon. Opps, I vulcanized rubber. Opps, I invented safety glass. Opps Cellophane.
The big one? Opps, Penicillin.
4. Another point. Aluminium used to be one of the most valuable metals in the world. It even capped the Washington Monument because of this. Now, due to a hobbiest chemist, it is one of the reasons we have jet aircraft that are affordable.
1. the hobbyist chemist can indeed do many important and useful things, like make soap. but he can't do basic science research. that's all i'm refuting. i'm not saying hobbyist chemistry can't be rewarding, i'm just saying its not a valid avenue for basic science research, which the story summary suggested
That's funny, as one of my projects is research into a better form of nitrogen fertilizer that doesn't produce as much runoff waste. Performing the research hasn't yet cost me more than the tractor/spreader that I used on my fields. I have had positive results, one method I've developed produces a fertilizer that has lower runoff. Naturally since I'm not a rich bastard yet, I've still got work to do on reducing the overall cost of the process. One of the main reasons we use the fertilizers we do is because they are cheap.
2. 'Yet games like Portal and Crayon Physics help change the direction of the industry.' i'm sure those are great games. so are games like arkanoid, and tetris, which at one time were blockbusters. but today, they would not rank with modern blockbusters, like halo, or WoW: financial juggernauts that require huge studios of 3D modelers and artists and programmers
Today, Portal IS a modern blockbuster. Its sales set records. I'm sorry, but you are just plain wrong.
Another problem is the threat that chemists can pose to themselves and others. For every Goodyear who succeeded, how many unknown chemists ended up with poisoning, burns, cancer, or other damage to the local neighborhood?
Ok, so you had unknown chemists with poisoning, burns and cancer. The fact that they remain unknown means that they didn't really pose a risk. How often do you hear stories of some home chemist doing something that required the evacuation of his neighbor's house, let alone the entire neighborhood?
Now, how often do we hear about car accidents that result in an 80 car pileup and 10-15 people killed?
My hobby of electronics and electrical work is far more likely to kill or maim someone than a chemist.
How quaint. The 1700's called and want their notions of the role of the federal government back.
Well we might as well just scrap the whole fucking thing, because if you aren't going to follow all of it, then none of it means a damned thing. If you can point to a clause in the constitution and say "Nope, that's 1700s stuff, it doesn't count" you can do that to any aspect of the constitution.
If you think it is 'quaint' then I want to see the constitution changed to reflect its new 'modern' form. If you aren't going to follow the rules in the constitution, then all it is is just a piece of paper.
Except that Xbox 360s will only stream Netflix if you have a pay-per-month Xbox Live account.
On top of your Netflix subscription.
They sell standalone Netflix streaming boxes for about $100. With no extra monthly fee.
Damnit, I hate Xbox Live. It feels like you are paying for Steam. So no chance for Netflix on my Xbox if I'm already a Netflix subscriber but not an Xbox Live subscriber?
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I'm glad to see that the proper response to a criticism is opening with an insult.
That aside, I had contemplated making an exception for my statement regarding the ears. Those are definitely a different beast than the nose. For the ears, you just have to get close, and for them, selecting a standard style based on the ethnic group and sizing it for the age of the person will get you close enough that most people won't care if the upper part of the lobe is curved just a hair too much.
The cartilage giving a shape to the nose is very distant for the bone structure. Bone marks won't give a lot of details about shape of nose. (Except for some obvious exceptions like broken nose, etc.) Ethnic origin may somewhat help to restrict to a narrower list of possible shapes.
You are correct about the distant end. But you can get a basic idea of where the cartilage would have started based on the size of the nasal cavity, its position on the face, and the results that those factors would have played on the shape of the nose based on the documented examples that you have access to.
My apologies for not being as perfectly accurate with my description as I could have been. Next time I'll defer to the resident phrenologist.
... can give, from a skull, any hint about the size of the nose and the shape of the ear, both of which are made of just cartilage.
Any hint ?
It's a bit of an art, but even artists use models.
In this case, with facial recontstruction you have a lot of data to work from. We have been cataloging human anatomy for a long time, as such we have a lot of evidence for what certain bones look like. We have also are able to combine those bones with pictures of the actual person, or at least compare to facial features of that person's ethnic background.
Bones give a lot of clues to the soft tissue that used to surround them. Ligaments will leave 'scars' on the bones which indicate a whole slew of factors. Did that person use the muscle a lot, was it ever torn. By measuring the size and condition of the 'scar' you can extrapolate what the muscle that connected to it would have been like. The same way you can tell the joint of a 50yr old that ran a lot from a 30 yr old that was just a scribe.
Now the face is a bit different, but for the most part, you know what muscles go where, and they don't vary much. As for noses and ears, look at where the cartilage was attached and you will see similar effects as due to the ligaments. Combine that shape with what you have measured on 1000s of skulls before, and you select the shape of the nose or ear that corresponds to those markings.
And pictures help too ;)
Scars are one thing, but a wound that leaves a mark all the way down to the skull... that's gotta sting.
No kidding, but on the fact it isn't as if there is much more than skin to cut through, even the muscles there are pretty thin.
TFA also says that the reconstruction shows a broken nose. Is it even possible to have evidence of a broken nose on the skull? "Broken nose" as shown in the painting is cartilage damage, which would probably all be gone by now.
I'm sure you can add in a broken nose to the reconstruction, but in context, it was being cited as evidence. Just bad journalism, or dubious research?
Given that he seems quite the badass, what with scars that go all the way to his bone, I wouldn't be surprised if the broken nose was actually a true broken nose and had fractures on the bone that the cartilage connects to.
Excuse my Godwin, but wanting to kill the "stupid" was one of the things Hitler wanted to do....
I agree that the current "less then lethal" weapons are not terribly good at anything, they're both lethal and hard to use properly.
I'm not going to excuse that Godwin. Don't be absurd. He in no way advocated killing the stupid because they were stupid.
He said someone making the decision to steal and murder was stupid based on that decision, and the condition of being stupid wasn't why he was advocating defending himself with the most appropriate tool.
He is defending himself, that requires no further justification.
I don't know about american law, but atleast in Swedish law the right to Self-Defense does not extend to the right to kill. You're only allowed to use the force necessary to keep yourself safe and it's really hard to argue that killing or maiming is necessary.
The best defense is a good offense?
Kidding aside, in a fight where you need to keep yourself safe, typically the only recourse IS to kill or maim. People are animals, and if it comes down to your safety if you are in a fair fight then you are doing something wrong.
People dont get convicted of crimes because its statistically likely that they did it.
I wonder what DNA profiling is then.
If they have well preserved (i.e. frozen) specimens, why not just harvest eggs and sperm, mix, shake well, implant in an elephant, wait 22 months, and profit^H^H^H^H^H^H^H see what comes out.
Even 'preserved' DNA does not age well.
Lets say you run your generator for 24 hours per week. That is its normal power output. Now, run it for 2 days. You have just doubled its weekly power output. That's a 100% increase.
Run it for 3 days. 200%
That doesn't violate any laws of physics. This design simply makes the generator capable of being operated at times that it normally would not be able to operate at w/o excessive loss.
You are confusing efficiency with power output.
There's no military threat. The only reason to limit the export of liquid hydrogen tank technology is to slow down the Chinese manned space program.
The ability to launch larger satellites is most certainly something that has military applications. Don't assume that just because it isn't a bullet or a jet that it isn't something with value to the military.
Someone who listens to bluegrass will likely also listen to pop country too. Someone who listens to light rock will probably not listen to speed metal or death metal
Oddly enough, I like power metal and bluegrass, but dislike pop country.
I went to a military academy (USAFA) and while we started young at 18, we didn't graduate until 22 at the earliest. We had a few prior-enlisted cadets at 22 or so, but you could enroll up to around 24/25 yrs old.
But even with that early start, if Star Trek follows naval ranks (I'm not a ST geek), then you have to understand that a young captain is a very very odd thing. That's just below an Admiral in rank, could you imagine seeing a general or an admiral at age 30?
Individuals certainly can, but they have to go through the export controls of the US state Department and when it comes to 'weapons', the DHS.
But lets not kid ourselves here, this isn't even close to the grey area. This guy sold missile/rocket technology to a foreign government, China no less.
I work for one of these large multinational corporations, and quite often deal with technology transfers between foreign entities and governments. Let me tell you the reason you don't hear about much in the way of investigations is because we are VERY cautious to ensure that trade agreements are in place before any conversations start. Not only that, but we are regularly trained to know what we can, and can not send overseas. We are also audited on a regular basis (and rightfully so) both internally and by the government.
I had to kick a guy out of one of my presentations once because I got a phone call that he was a dual Polish/Canadian citizen. We could export to Canada, we could export to Poland, but there were provisions that no dual citizens were allowed.
It is taken very seriously. While it is fun to poke at these multinational corporations, even the presidents and VPs of these companies are regular people who understand that you do NOT export anything without the blessing of the State Dept, Homeland Security, or one of the other associated agencies.
I seem to recall that the actors were fairly young looking (or actually were pretty young). Is that still the case?
What worries me is a quick Google of the company. One of the top links is this interview with the company president. The fact that he keeps talking about "megawatts of energy per hour" puts my cynicism into overdrive - sure, it's not entirely damning; maybe the engineers are sitting hanging their heads at how the president doesn't understand what they're doing, but when the likelihood of their claims actually being what they say they are is this low, that really isn't who they need at the helm.
I don't see what is so bad about the term Megawatts of energy per hour. Afterall, I'm billed by the kilowatt-hour. It's not the most graceful term, but couldn't he be referring to that?
The kind of regulations we have now don't help protect anyone, they just make working safely harder to do. If someone can't legally buy the right chemicals or equipment to do something the right way, chances are they'll just end up doing it the wrong way.
Exactly. Let me illustrate by a recent example. I need to purchase lye to cook food. Yes, lye, that nasty caustic stuff that will really fuck you up if you actually eat it, spill it on you, or use it in any number of easy to mess up ways. Yet I'm using it for food, because that's how you make good bavarian-style pretzels.
Now, I'm a careful person, but you wouldn't believe how difficult it is to get 'food-grade' lye. Thanks to over-regulation in a futile effort to control Meth, lye is rarely sold in a grocery store now.... and that's where we run into problems.
The easiest source of lye is from drain-o like products. So to get the right chemicals to prepare food I actually have to go to Home Depot/Lowes and into the plumbing isle to get lye. This is an increasingly common occurrence as more and more products end up being 'drug related' and pulled from shelves. Now, I have to check every single purchase of lye to ensure that I'm actually purchasing lye and not caustic soda with 'extra' drain clearing power. Sometimes they mix in ground aluminum and other chemicals, which makes sense, because it's drain cleaner. But the easiest source for lye to use in food is the hardware store, and some people may not be so careful when selecting their products and inadvertently hurt someone.
Now, you combine that with nosy people who are suspicious that you are doing something naughty and you end up having to hide your purchases or activity. Which isn't so bad, until you realize that you drive people to do this work in sheds or basements to avoid the neighbors calling the police on their soap-making activities.
What's the problem with driving people inside? The same reason you don't idle an engine inside a building. The same reason that you don't open a lead-acid battery with pliers and a paper towel. Because it forces these people to make the exact type of cuts we don't want them to take. Cuts in safety. They will work in less ventilated rooms, seek to avoid the hassle in purchases, and be forced to sacrifice quality and caution just to do their hobby.
I have had the police called on me before, and I have had them question my purchases of lye. It is retarded when you realize that trying to ban something that is so simple that a redneck can do it in a trailer in the middle of the woods is god damned impossible.
While I don't agree with the censorship. He isn't talking about recovering from anorexia sites. He is talking about sites that help people BECOME anorexic. They do exist, and it is creepy.
1. I agree with you 100%. That we have our 'folding@home' programs is just one aspect that demonstrates that chemistry is a field that has so many possible permutations it is simply not possible to know them all. Perhaps a way to view it is similar to someone cataloging species. Sure, it may not mean much that someone discovered the 4000th species of ant in the Amazon, but now we know that such an ant exists. A chemist might not discover a 'useful' chemical or process, but it all gets added to our sum of knowledge.
2. Again, a good point. One of the reasons that professional chemists get paid, is because they can use their expertise to direct research efforts along a path that is more likely to produce profitable results.
3. I believe it was Feynman who made a similar comment with regard to Physics. There was a team utilizing old equipment that was a chewing-gum and duct tape type of deal. Yet they produced some breakthroughs. Not because their team was using the highest end collider, but because they had more knowledge into the equipment that they were using. Granted this involved millions of dollars worth of equipment, but it illustrates that the latest equipment can sometimes 'blind' you to the obvious.
To take that back down the chemistry path. Opps, I created teflon. Opps, I vulcanized rubber. Opps, I invented safety glass. Opps Cellophane.
The big one? Opps, Penicillin.
4. Another point. Aluminium used to be one of the most valuable metals in the world. It even capped the Washington Monument because of this. Now, due to a hobbiest chemist, it is one of the reasons we have jet aircraft that are affordable.
Very good post.
1. the hobbyist chemist can indeed do many important and useful things, like make soap. but he can't do basic science research. that's all i'm refuting. i'm not saying hobbyist chemistry can't be rewarding, i'm just saying its not a valid avenue for basic science research, which the story summary suggested
That's funny, as one of my projects is research into a better form of nitrogen fertilizer that doesn't produce as much runoff waste. Performing the research hasn't yet cost me more than the tractor/spreader that I used on my fields. I have had positive results, one method I've developed produces a fertilizer that has lower runoff. Naturally since I'm not a rich bastard yet, I've still got work to do on reducing the overall cost of the process. One of the main reasons we use the fertilizers we do is because they are cheap.
2. 'Yet games like Portal and Crayon Physics help change the direction of the industry.' i'm sure those are great games. so are games like arkanoid, and tetris, which at one time were blockbusters. but today, they would not rank with modern blockbusters, like halo, or WoW: financial juggernauts that require huge studios of 3D modelers and artists and programmers
Today, Portal IS a modern blockbuster. Its sales set records. I'm sorry, but you are just plain wrong.
Another problem is the threat that chemists can pose to themselves and others. For every Goodyear who succeeded, how many unknown chemists ended up with poisoning, burns, cancer, or other damage to the local neighborhood?
Ok, so you had unknown chemists with poisoning, burns and cancer. The fact that they remain unknown means that they didn't really pose a risk. How often do you hear stories of some home chemist doing something that required the evacuation of his neighbor's house, let alone the entire neighborhood?
Now, how often do we hear about car accidents that result in an 80 car pileup and 10-15 people killed?
My hobby of electronics and electrical work is far more likely to kill or maim someone than a chemist.
How quaint. The 1700's called and want their notions of the role of the federal government back.
Well we might as well just scrap the whole fucking thing, because if you aren't going to follow all of it, then none of it means a damned thing. If you can point to a clause in the constitution and say "Nope, that's 1700s stuff, it doesn't count" you can do that to any aspect of the constitution.
If you think it is 'quaint' then I want to see the constitution changed to reflect its new 'modern' form. If you aren't going to follow the rules in the constitution, then all it is is just a piece of paper.
Maybe I'm the exception, but I can think of plenty of cases where I was forced to do something I didn't want to do and thankful for it afterward.
No, you aren't the exception, but think harder. I'm willing to bet that it was your parents and not the government that was doing the forcing.
Do you really want the Federal government of the US taking on the role of your parents?
Curious.
How can you tell? I'd like to know so I don't get bit by that in the future.
You've almost got it. But a string tied to sealed container which is then spun will work fine. Centrifuge ;)
Certainly they didn't just post details of how to circumvent a copy protection measure, right?
Except that Xbox 360s will only stream Netflix if you have a pay-per-month Xbox Live account.
On top of your Netflix subscription.
They sell standalone Netflix streaming boxes for about $100. With no extra monthly fee.
Damnit, I hate Xbox Live. It feels like you are paying for Steam. So no chance for Netflix on my Xbox if I'm already a Netflix subscriber but not an Xbox Live subscriber?