Gotta admit, after starting to read a bit more about what lkcl is on about at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - it's actually a pretty amazing rabbit hole.

If I am not totally mistaken, there was a TED talk a while back that tried to summarize up some of this?
https://www.ted.com/talks/garr...

As HuskyDog pointed out above, both these studies are using results from military screening I.Q. tests. A few decades back, afaik, military careers were held in higher esteem.. Perhaps more people these days just don't care as much about trying to look fantastic to the military, so when taking the tests, they just don't put in as much effort as they used to.

Oh, and another thing: it could also be that any trend towards lower expediency, even if accuracy improved by some factor, would appear as a I.Q. score decline. I bet people are gradually forgetting and/or not being informed that I.Q. tests are timed severely, and are taking more time to answer each question, and/or wasting more time on a tricky problem instead of making a best guess and quickly moving onto the next.. Too bad the paper is behind a paywall. I'd be very curious to see if only the final score was used, or if its components (accuracy / time) were also analysed for trends.

Anyways, until these scores are compared with another, properly administered, test dataset that is not within the context of military force, I'd prefer to remain a sceptic of these results.

"Seeketh ye not affirmation from others, for content is the man who seeketh not, but hath affirmation within himself."

http://www.psmag.com/health-an...

According to the above content, drinking is awesome. I affirm this by drinking. Unfortunately, my girlfriend broke up with me.

Morale: sometimes you gotta dance as though there are a few people watching.

This. For fun I threw a VR VNC app onto my phone and put it into a cardboard to try it out. Being able to head-track a cursor felt pretty clumsy at first, but after about 5 minutes was really something that I would want to get used to, and got pretty good at swiftly.

Admittedly, having the camera poorly reproduce RL in the background was a bit nauseating, but getting a huge forward facing screen that left nothing for distraction was truly revolutionary. (If only they could fix the slow side drift...) I could seriously see general purpose computing to be improved by this, which is to say nothing of the specific use applications like the Unreal4 in-VR VR building demo posted recently.

I for one am looking forward to our wild and crazy VR future.

I don't know about this. Barring any sort of tragic world shaking event, what April 1st means to me is getting a solid chuckle by visiting Slashdot. It is the prime aggregation of unfunny things companies are doing trying to be funny.

Hey, I'm late to the party, but speaking of parties: Slashdot has traditionally hosted massively distributed meet up events every 5 years. Please don't forget about this as another one is due for 2017!

I've been to two previously now, and they have been great and are an awesome way to meet interesting people that one would otherwise never get a chance to.

Right, and self-respecting local bands would also offer local radio play for free... so...

If this goes through, It could provoke more play of local (i.e. 'less expensive') artists. That would a good thing, yes? Or, does music get cheaper when bought in bulk... is Coldplay is 1 cent a spin, and local group USS is a dollar a spin? What bothers me the most is how any control over the pricing here results in upper level control of what songs get played. Only if somehow the artists themselves get to pick royalty pricing could I see this working.

Dewey: Oh, you wanna learn something?

Summer: Yes, I do.

Dewey: You want me to teach you something? [most of the students nod] Here's a useful lesson for you: give up. Just quit. Because in this life, you can't win. Sure, you can try. [really getting angry] But in the end you're just gonna lose, BIG TIME. Because THE WORLD is run by the Man.

Frankie: Who?

Dewey: The Man. Oh, you don't know the Man? [class shakes their heads] He's everywhere. In the White House, down the hall, MISS MULLINS, she's the Man. And the Man ruined the ozone, and he's burning down the Amazon, and he kidnapped Shamu and put her in a chlorine tank! Okay? And there used to be a way to stick it to The Man. It was called rock ‘n’ roll. But guess what. Oh, no. The Man ruined that too with a little thing called MTV! So don’t waste your time trying to make anything cool or pure or awesome, because The Man’s just going to call you a fat, washed up loser and crush your soul. So do yourselves a favor and just GIVE UP!!!

I would highly recommend Tiki ( http://tiki.org/ ) as an option as it will probably have every feature you need ready to go. Wiki for main content, forums, article publishing, blogs, forums, chat, calender, data trackers, tons of starter themes, video conferencing, file/image galleries.. the works. The v10 beta is very stable and although it is a bit of a pain to configure initially since the number of options are overwhelming, once it is set up it really rocks. Getting good performance can be a bit tricky, however if you set up the APC module, enable the minify js/css features, and get gzip and proper caching set up on the web server it can be very very fast even on a budget VPS.