True. We must all worship the son of God the father, born to a mortal woman, who traveled the mid-east several thousand years ago performing miraculous deeds and building a religious following. Lets all worship Hercules.

Or did you have some other silly myth in mind? You were not very clear on that.

It's a Muslim thing, you wouldn't understand.

Come on! An Amtrak train falls of the track again and this is news and of interest to the technical community? We might as well have an article about how the sun rose in the east this morning. Not only is it just as much news worthy, but it includes subjects such as astronomy (which is even gooder than playing with chew-cho trains.)

I see we are no longer even pretending that Slashdot is for stories of interest to it's target group. Why assume that geeks can't follow Google news or any other Internet news source if they have an interest in non-technical news?

After being arrested, tortured and killed for trying to alert an on-line service to their vulnerability due to poor design, I no long try to contact vendors directly. I now publish the information in great detail to pirate sites, and I have found that this will get the attention of the company much better than trying to alert them quietly.

The problem with the response of "So many I can't count them all" is, in addition to duplicating the previous answer, that with the current public education system, that could include any answer beyond "none" .

There, I fixed it for you, and in a way that will give greater understanding of the religion and its "prophet" who married a 6 year old.

And, the "bail out" loans did not really go to running the Greek government or Greek people, it went to bailing out the banks that used to hold greek sovereign debt. Currently, Greek debt is essentially held by the IMF and ECB. Much like in every other country banks do not suffer the consequences of the bad loans they make, but instead privatize the profits and socialize the losses.

No. It is real. And great news. I'm going to tell all of our local homeless beggars about it and suggest that they should go to Seattle.

THAT is what you had problems with ???? What about the fact that this was classified as a SCIENCE story rather than a con job story or just a simple scam?

The Australian god "Jar'Edo Wens" is a really poor example. Why not use other hoaxes like the Christian god with multiple-personality disorder? That hoax has been going on much longer, and he is just as non-existent.

Yup, great news. Because it benefits you personally, and it's not discrimination as long as it is against white males.

if only there were some way to dehydrate or freeze-dry coffee to make instant coffee. Then all this expensive and dangerous technology would not be needed and they could have had coffee years ago.

Suck it up. None.

Go home, you're drunk. It's not important that it's written in Java. It just is.

"Hi everyone, we wrote this library in a language, but we won't tell you what language we wrote it in, because it's not important."

That's a weapons-grade stupid way to think about it. Man, I couldn't give a shit about Java. Don't use it, don't program in it. Exactly what point do you think you're making here?