23rd
Apr

The music industry just can’t seem to learn to change with the market. Now you can not even make a back up of your MP3’s without chancing a lawsuit.

    What’s next?
  • You can only play your MP3 one time before it self destructs.
  • Get it directly injected into your brain, then when the song is finished in your head it’s erased so you can not illegally replay it in your head

Maybe I should open a digital music insurance company. If you can’t back it up and your iPod falls to the bottom of the ocean with 354 songs on it, you are going have a substantial loss. I’ll be watching the outcome of this case. EMI Says You Can’t Store Your Music Files Online digg

30th
Mar

What an idiot! He should have known a satellite cable would never have fit through that size hole.

DEEPWATER, Mo. — Officials are trying to decide whether to file charges against a Missouri man who fatally shot his wife while trying to install a satellite TV system in the bedroom of their home.

Patsy Long, 34, of Deepwater, died after being shot in the chest with a .22-caliber handgun on Saturday. Her husband, Ronald Long, fired the shot from the inside of their home after several unsuccessful efforts to punch a hole through the exterior wall using other means.
Read the full story from KCTV5.com

I would love to hear the thought process of this. I imagine it went something like this.

  • I gotta watch that game today.
  • I’m not an idiot. I don’t need to wait for an installer, I can do it myself.
  • Damn, this drill isn’t working. Maybe I should make a trip to the hardware store, or maybe a neighbor has a tool I could borrow.
  • Screw it, that would take me another 15 minutes.
  • What else do I have around here to put a hole in the wall?
  • Ah ha, my gun. I’ve been wanting to use this, and it’ll be faster than that damn drill too.
  • BANG! - huh, I don’t think that one made it through… BANG! Ah ha, I can see outside.

Also the son ran to the neighbors for help. Why didn’t he run upstairs and tell Dad he just shot Mom and she needs help?

The neighbor Mark Lassince said - “bad things happen to good people
I think he should have said - good people make bad decisions too.

18th
Mar

This is pretty cool and a little creepy too. You can see it reacting to stabilize itself when something happens.

A 340lb payload. Thats a lot of equipment or 2 adults. Imagine this instead of a wheelchair.
Check out their Little Dog too. Boston Dynamics

16th
Mar

Here’s some proof that some people can’t even drive at a constant speed when required to do so.

Damn humans and their errors.

Pinpointing the causes of shockwave jams is an exercise in psychology more than anything else. “If they had set up an experiment with robots driving in a perfect circle, flow breakdown would not have occurred. Human error is needed to cause the fluctuations in behaviour,” says Rees.

You can read the full article here.
NewScientist.com news service
Max Glaskin

31st
Dec

A Lifesaving Checklist

Should you be afraid of getting an infection in the hospital from patients and visitors or are the doctors to blame? This study suggests that by creating a checklist for doctors and nurses to ensure they follow sanitary methods saved 1500 lives and $200 million in 18 months.

So of course the Office for Human Research Protections shut the program down. Leave it to an agency to shut down a life saving program instead of trying to figure a way to continue within their guidelines.

Click the link at the top to read the full article.

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