Hey, if the religious website administrator can't prevent malware from entering the site, maybe the readers are just as bad at preventing malware from entering their computer! That makes religious sites an even bigger target!

http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/03/01/1648232/liberalism-and-atheism-linked-to-iq

Ok, sorry, blatant attack on religion. I just remember reading the article, so making the connection made me smile. Err, I mean... smile in the least offensive of ways.

RTFA, Bill Banning, head of the major employer, Facebook Snooping, recently introduced himself to congress.

That's like!... that's like!... *mumbles doing some math* carry the four... subtract the depth times the... divide out all extra... mmhm ... surface area... ah, yes... average out the known surface water... okay... times roughly 100... *writes some more* Yes! ... That's like zero liters of water!

*shoulders drop in disappointment*

Did anyone else notice that the arXiv PDF was posted on April 1st?

Improving San Francisco's MUNI system is pretty important to me. It's been considerably annoying to see cars parked in the bus lane, and it's almost annoying as seeing cars park in the middle of the right lane with their emergency lights on because there's no parking, which more buses would help with! ... As a side note, it's almost impossible to live in San Francisco for an extended period of time with a vehicle and not get a parking ticket. They're ruthless!!

It's funny though, I've lived in Germany for the last half year, and I've found that their transportation system is ten times better than San Francisco's. Don't get me wrong, BART is amazing, but I live in a small town at the moment and its transportation system runs more often than San Francisco's. Paris and Berlin have both train systems that run late, and night trains, while San Francisco's train system stops around 11 pm (then buses run sparsely after that).

"that needed bailed out"?

you don't happen to be from pittsburgh, do you? or maybe have relatives that are from there?

The thing is, we don't get to choose between a billion dollars spent here and a billion there. IMHO before we can even argue about where money gets spent, we, as a country (I'm referring to the US, you said dollars :P), need to get our priorities straight. As a country we have access to an absolutely HUGE amount of money; we just need to take it. With the proper government in place, we could advance our quality of life AND our [space] technology without even having to choose one over the other. It would, unfortunately, require a massive cultural change to a more scientific and activism oriented society.

And of course, this is obligatory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States

But seriously, when are we going to do something about it?

But more importantly, were you able to SEE any pix?

If you think our technology has traveled a long way so far, consider still how far ahead evolution is. Things like this amaze me.

Should I have been reading your comment in Data's voice? I couldn't help it. La Forge, deactivate the emotion chip attached to his neural net.

I, for one, will be expecting a new Pavlovian reflex. Every time a man's fingers hit the keys, '.xxx', he will experience a rapid erection. It can be called "The Pavlovian Bonereflex".

Viagra sales will go down, Microsoft will patent the dot-x-x-x keystroke, and Vin Diesel fans will act like nothing happened.

Well shit, the government wasted all that money. All $500 million. Down the toilet.

I say we add it to the $6.851 Billion that's waste... err, well used by more important entities. (not to mention it might not have even been $500 million if they were loan guarantees)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States

They could be right under your nose (hah)!

Of course!

Yes, sometimes our government seems corrupt. Yes, sometimes it can seem that many people are absolutely powerless to disagreeable events. But how often, really, are we active about things we think we cannot change? Almost never. Contrary to popular belief, there are effective things that we can do to spread our concern. Blogging about it and sending letters and emails to the government are just some little things. If you're passionate about it, gather people, start a protest. Send word out. Be active. I'm sure you can think of something; you're a slashdotter, smarter than many others have the privilege to be. You have an obligation to the country and to the world to represent America in the way you see fit. Saying, "I'm helpless" and calling it a day makes you just as useless as you think you are.