I'd be happy to pay $300-400 or more for an LED replacement lamp, because I have a Viewsonic. My regular lamp has a life expectancy of 2000 hours, and costs hundreds. The rest of the projector would probably wear out before an LED lamp would.

BTW, I've seen it mentioned that someone did a study and found that it was cheaper to run projectors with bulbs until they actually burned out before replacing them, even taking into account the risks of them imploding and destroying the projectors, rather than replacing them when the projectors' timers said to. Of course, you'd only really want to do that if you ran a media department, so you wouldn't lose your one and only projector at a critical time.

I want a velociraptor t-shirt. Are they in all Targets?

Instead of walking up to you and obviously holding out a sensor, an attacker may just wear his laptop bag and edge into you while you're in line somewhere. Gives a new meaning to "shoulder surfing," doesn't it?

BTW AmEx used to give away card readers to its Blue customers, back when they were trying to push an embedded SIM-type chip instead. But that, at least, required electrical contact with the pins. RFID, well... they can already use it in doorframes in mental hospital wards, etc., to track/prevent movement of patients with RFID bracelets. And TI made a system to track runners in marathons, which works at further distances. So it's a little scary.

Breaking news? I hope that was tongue in cheek :)

Terrific, I can see even more international business moving to London or Hong Kong or elsewhere because they don't make people go through this crap. Let's kill tourism, while we're at it, lest we make some inroads to balancing trade while we're a cheap place to visit.

Honestly, I want to see more articles in these areas anyway. I don't care if someone has to stick a "sponsored by" or an ad next to them so I can see them. It's better than not having the articles at all. Or having the site fold, if they can't pay their bills.

If only there was a way to do it without implanting electrodes. Dangerous and scary.

From what I've heard, you can't trust information you get through torturing, anyway.

So what's the real reason why they do it?

It can't be considered a deterrent, because they're apparently picking random people, or people who have been turned in by others seeking rewards or satisfying personal grudges.

So, is it just because they want to hurt people, because they constantly screw up? Maybe if they hadn't fired all those translators for being gay, they'd have decoded some intercepts in time.

As an aside, I find it pretty enlightening that the government will fire translators for being gay, and then will sexually abuse prisoners at Guantanamo by making them pose and do other things that would get the prisoners denounced, beaten, or killed at home as 'homosexual behavior.' Yet another thing our fundie crazies and theirs agree upon.

#16, go flag the ones you find to be graphically violent, and wait a couple of days and see if they're not removed.

I'm sure they don't have people who sit around all day monitoring every clip that comes in to see if it's non-violent. So for the most part, they wait for complaints.

He must not have thought they were very important if he didn't make any backups.

Seriously, though, Youtube has a right to remove whatever, whenever, for any reason. They pay the bills.

Anyone know if these even had disclaimers, or required that you agree to adult content? If torture videos were unmarked and didn't have warnings and I came across them while poking around on Youtube ("oh, here's more videos related to Egypt... GAH!") I'd complain about them.

Another commenter hit it on the head: children can't enter contracts. This really wouldn't hold up.

I think the truly definitive milk segment for Sesame Street is this one:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9O-Q5vJ-GHk

30+ years later, I'm still waiting to find my own giant milk truck :)

Stacyj, it's called BoingBoing for a reason.

Sure, and at night, does the sheet light up?

Hiding behind a sheet means you can't see them coming.

If buying something makes you feel safer, then for the cost of that sheet, why not buy some mace spray, or an airhorn, or something?

Wow, no obvious seaming, and clearly visible facial features.

I think this one's real!

So collaborate with your friend one seat over, and bring his shirt tucked into your backpack when he wants to skip.

I mean, really. "Mischief managed," and all that.

There's a vertical seam on the back, and the stabilized animated gif hints at a horizontal line across the waist. Additionally, looking at the face, it looks like something drawn up tight, leaving a clear space for the eyes to look out.

Additionally, the zooms on the washed out version of the footage show that the surface "skin" of the creature's backside moves more like cloth.

The article is misleading in saying Apple hasn't licensed MS' technology for use on Macs. Apple doesn't have to! MS can release its own software layer that people can download, just like Apple makes Quicktime available for Windows. In fact, they can make it a browser plugin. Or is Silverlight just vaporware?

"who watches the watchers?"