Comment Re:Checked Craigslist? (Score 1) 319
I just had my coffee come out my nose, that was funny!
Comment Bring out yer dead! (Score 2) 404
Obligatory Monthy Python Reference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs
"I'm not dead yet"
Comment Re:ADULT stem cells (Score 1) 169
What was ignorant? Other than an erroneous reference to fetal instead of embryonic, what part of what that OP said was ignorant?
Comment Mod summary as insightful (Score 5, Informative) 284
"In an effort to get ever more taxes for doing absolutely nothing"
That is the most insightful summary...ever
Comment I think I'll wait for the elevator (Score 1) 589
Comment Re:Still got it (Score 1) 160
Completely agree, I knew just what door to open, where the enemy would be, etc. Pretty cool.
Submission + - Windows 8 Release Preview in the first week of June (tabletcore.com)
sauchox writes: As announced at the Windows Developer Days conference in Japan, in the first week of June new version of Windows 8 operating system is going to be released.
Submission + - Google's chief Java architect: it's 'likely' I copied Sun code in Android (theverge.com) 1
sproketboy writes: From the whoops department:
Google's chief Java architect: it's 'likely' I copied Sun code found in Android, 'I'm sorry' if I did.
Google's chief Java architect: it's 'likely' I copied Sun code found in Android, 'I'm sorry' if I did.
Submission + - The Scientific Method Versus Scientific Evidence In The Courtroom (litigationandtrial.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A few months back, the National Research Council and the Federal Judicial Center published the Third Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, the primary guide for federal judges in the United States trying to evaluate scientific evidence. One chapter in particular, “How Science Works,” written by David Goodstein (Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at CalTech), has raised the issue of how judges should see science in the courtroom: should they look at science to see if it matches our idealized view of the scientific method, or should they consider the realities of science, where people advocate for their own theories far more than they question them?
Comment Re:Oh Great. (Score 0) 145
Well said.
Comment Re:Competition to help sift all communications? (Score 1) 273
Awesome point, thanks!
Comment Re:Sample (Score 1) 273
Other than a funny car radio reference, this was the funniest thing I have seen on Slashdot, how is this not +5 funny? I had mod points over the weekend, wish I still had a few.
Comment Never heard of him (Score 0) 241
I never heard of Neil deGrasse Tyson's (thank goodness for cut and paste), was he in Armageddon? I am glad he had found a way to take his movie background and create a solution that works.
Comment Re:I have visited terrorist websites (Score 1) 402
Why? Why do you want to understand these people? I'm serious. Why deliberately fill your head with hatred and evil and seek to know what motivates these people? Can you? Is it possible? To what end?
Not the original poster, but there are a lot of valid reasons to view hate sites. (Leaving aside the intellectual freedom issues, etc.)
1. Simple intellectual curiosity into the motivations of terrorists, militant racists, etc..
Yep, that is what I told my wife. "Honey, I am just looking at these porn sites and chatting with these women because I have intellectual curiosity". For some reason she is not as good with that as you are.
Submission + - French President proposes Jail for Terrorist website visitors (yahoo.com)
howardd21 writes: "French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is only a month away from an election, argued that it was time to treat those who browse extremist websites the same way as those who consume child pornography. "Anyone who regularly consults Internet sites which promote terror or hatred or violence will be sentenced to prison," he told a campaign rally in Strasbourg, in eastern France. "Don't tell me it's not possible. What is possible for pedophiles should be possible for trainee terrorists and their supporters, too."
Is this a good move for security, or just another step towards a totalitarian society that prohibits free expression?"
Is this a good move for security, or just another step towards a totalitarian society that prohibits free expression?"
