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Yeah, that states rights of militia versus individual rights has been decided now. Certainly in Australia that is how the media portrayed it. No more gray areas. It's an individual right. Sol, if you want to take a chance and submit to an intruder good luck mate. I simply appreciate the option...

"Pradeep's edge case of sport shooting aside, there's no reason to have a handgun except the desire to hurt or kill another human being" Well the only problem there is that millions of handguns are owned, and operated, by people who want to stop other people killing or hurting them. It's called...

And frankly, as an edge case sporting shooter, I would argue that my elderly neighbours right to defend his life with a pistol is just as legitimate a need as I to shoot holes in paper with one. In fact his right to self defense is the more important right.

Merc, don't you see? The regulation only affects the law abiding. The only ones who couldn't posess guns were the bloody victims. The prey are made weaker. The criminals continue to rob, rape and murder. Read the decision. The municipal entity was arguing a fucken crock of shit. They lost out...

No, it's bad news for the criminals in Chicago. Because now when they break into law abiding citizens homes, chances are they are coming out in a body bag, because that resident is no longer forbidden by the bloody town he/she lives in from posessing a device that can equalise the power...

Get a detector for each floor, and any bedroom.

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-1521.pdf

Awesome news for law abiding people, the Supreme Court ruled against Chicago, and has found the right to own handguns for self defense "is fundamental" and not to banned willy nilly.

Ah, good to see you stayed in civilisation (had thoughts of you off grid with a muddy goat trail for access). Sounds like you wouldn't use the furnace much, if you do the high efficiency ones are so good they use a PVC pipe for the exaust. I guess the air exchanger also does filtration?

Now that is one pool where the stakes for being the top person in a game of battle horsie are significantly raised :) Is there actually any restraint if you go over the edge? Congrats on the house dd. Oil heat?

I didn't notice it, just thought it was the sub shaking the house. Quite a shallow one this time.

How did the customer not notice your eyes were closed? Is this web support or something?

So it's like Google Maps Navigation? Does that exist in Australia? The Droid has a "flush" power button, but it's simple muscle memory to orient the phone in the dark to hit the power button and swipe across to unlock. It's a secure way of not accidentally making calls etc.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/14/v-fullstory/1680070/text-of-letter-to-bp-ceo-tony.html

Sweet Jebus. $500 is indeed a lot, even considering they are Canadian dollars.

"As BP found itself in a frantic race against time to get the job done, engineers cut corners in the well design, cementing and drilling mud efforts and the installation of safety devices known as ``lockdown sleeves'' and ``centralizers,'' according to congressional investigators. In the...

http://www.sadanduseless.com/2010/05/steve-jobs-vs-bill-gates/ Gave me the laughs.

http://jalopnik.com/5559767/i-sold-everything-to-buy-a-lamborghini-and-drive-across-the-country

Yeah, any thing that unnecessarily takes up mobo space is not feasible going forward IMHO. I remember back to the days of 486/early Pentiums with a bunch of onboard cache taking up significant amounts of room. This card is just virtualising multiple PCIe lanes into a larger link.

Actually I was mistaken. Its 20Gbit/sec, so 2.5GB/sec. Still, three times the speed of SATA 600 will come in handy for certain upcoming devices. For the mass market they will continue on with 100MB/sec rotating HDDs.

So did you go and see the race Coug? Do you live close to the course? Can't wait for Texas in 2012.

Managed to cut the lawn before the rain. I have a rare lawn advantage against a couple of neighbors. Which will last a day. Still apparently it makes enough oxygen to sustain the family :)

The trial version has been working well for me, there is the normal battery setting, a <30% setting, an AC powered, and computer powered profile.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/nhk-prototypes-one-fourth-of-a-116-inch-8k-plasma-set Give it time. It is hard to beat the fillrate of an SXRD device. There should be some 3D capable projectos this year.

http://www.ehow.com/i/#article_2305521 I was amazed by this: http://www.watoday.com.au/world/river-torrent-kills-16-sleeping-campers-30-missing-20100612-y4n3.html Certainly one should go with the old adage of not camping near a river, but going from 1m to 7m in a couple of hours, that's far...

The one downside I see is three cooling fans making some noise. When using the shutter glasses brightness to the eyes is dropped in half, so chances are you will be maxing out the brightness of the display, where normal 2D without glasses would be blinding. 3D killing the planet via increased...

Looks like this is the one to buy currently: http://www.televisioninfo.com/content/Panasonic-TC-P50VT20-3D-Plasma-HDTV-Review-1615.htm LCD simply doesn't have the refresh rate to deal with 3D well. Plasma has the black levels and refresh rate, not to mention pretty colors.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20100608122208_OCZ_Technology_Presents_New_Interface_for_Solid_State_Drives.html 600 MB/sec not enough? 20 GB/sec potential delivered.

Still waiting for my 2.35:1 CinemaScope form factor laptop. Moorestown hardware seems to be the right start ;)

Yes without routine medical care catching early signs of disease, there's much more spent on acute care later on. Honestly I never imagined that medical insurance in the US would cost as much as a mortgage payment. I was ready for rivers of blood in the streets from all the gang bangers shooting...

Power Manager by xphone, there is a trial.

From a quick search: http://androinica.com/2009/09/02/50-best-android-apps-tools-and-utility-apps-40-50/ Power Manager looks like the one you want, though it does cost $1. Toggle settings will get you to the screen brightness etc quicker than normal.

IME in the US you will be triaged reasonably soon after entering the ED (obviously if you've been shot or a broken bone is sticking out of you you may get faster service. The problem that arises in urban areas is that the poor and uninsured use the ED as a first port of call, from colds to...

Whilst most are indeed for show, I thought the heatspreaders common in FB-DIMMS served a functional purpose to spread the heat load of the AMB chip, to avoid meltdowns?

Buying a TV that doesn't support 120Hz via it's HDMI input would be unwise at this point in time. This is like the period when you could buy an HDTV back in the day, and it's HD input consisted of a component connection. Then came DVI equipped sets, but only some supported HDCP. Later to be...

Sorry, the $900 TV.

Ah, in that case, ED it is. With my insurance unless it's critical you need the primary care physicians OK to get the visit covered (no probs if you get admitted tho). Prob more civilised in CA. Was it a particular juice or did everyone who visited get sick?

I assume they are both good. The Droid only has 128MB of RAM so I use it a fair bit.

Yup I'm thinking this is the likely situation. It's a way to get other people who trust you to open the evil payload of someone else. You are probably uninfected.

Without 3D support I would avoid that.

Gmail is pushed to your phone, no interval to be set. I can send an email to my wife and she gets it on her phone within 10 secs or so. I would recommend Advanced Task Killer from the Market, it can help you kill off uneeded apps if your memory is getting low (shouldn't be a prob on the Evo).

Just have your wife bring a bag home with her. Apparently D5 n/s/half with 10 milli equivalents of K, and a 10 milligram shot of compazine. Set it up in the comfort of your own home. Chances are if you go to the ED you'll come back with something more serious. Better get that recipe checked, no...

I think he's talking about "G String Divas".

Well Merc's hatred of Sony seems to be based on an emotional response, I can certainly understand avoiding them if you are having technical failures. Was this a Telstra shop? Couldn't you get them to let you swap for another phone model in that monthly contract pricing band? I wouldn't buy it...

http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/06/04/premature-leak-of-the-day-sony-ericsson-5-inch-android-qwerty-phone/ 5" Android phone from SE.

Presumably the forces are of a short enough nature to avoid long lasting damage. Looks like 6 seconds or so. I'm guessing being securely strapped to a seat with one direction of force from behind you (unlike a fighter pilot pulling a high G turn, with the blood wanting to pool in the legs and...

Presumably the forces are of a short enough nature to avoid long lasting damage. Looks like 6 seconds or so. I'm guessing being securely strapped to a seat with one direction of force from behind you (unlike a fighter pilot pulling a high G turn, with the blood wanting to pool in the legs and...

"In a spectacular $220 million test, NASA fired a new astronaut escape system rocket in New Mexico Thursday, boosting a dummy crew module more than a mile up in just 20 seconds to demonstrate how a future manned spacecraft could be pulled to safety in the event of a catastrophic on-pad rocket...

Let's hope that was a comfy, padded/chair. And that Sprint's cell network can withstand the punishment these new subscribers/owners are going to unleash.

http://jotman.blogspot.com/2010/05/timeline-of-gulf-of-mexico-oil-spill.html Shoddy cementing job by Halliburton? Cheney isn't here to help you this time boys.