Confirmation Bias.

This is Slashdot. None of us went to high schools where the teachers could teach us anything about computers.

Wow this is what we've been asking for all along - someone to educate everyone on securing their wifi. I think this is a good thing for police to spend their time doing. Serve and protect.

So why do you think the mormons were so persecuted? Does your version of reality really include the possibility that the people around wherever the Mormons were just hated the truth so much they wanted to murder Mormons? The idea is ridiculous. The people around the mormons were REACTING to the mormons building an army and the rhetoric from Joseph Smith about establishing God's Kingdom throughout the whole earth. Yea the people did awful things, but the mormons were doing awful things to them as well, and not just in reaction to what was being done to them. Had the mormons lived peacefully with their neighbors there would not have been problems. Modern day Mormons don't seem to be having any trouble, because Mormonism has become a peaceful religion.

To be fair, all that stuff happened to the Mormons because of how they were acting towards their neighbors.

Joseph Smith was tarred and feathered not by an angry "anti-mormon" mob but by his own people for trying to get John Johnson's 15 year old daughter to be one of his plural wives (some time before the polygamy doctrine was revealed). This, by the way, he did several times successfully - marrying several teenagers women who were already married to other men (as you can confirm on familysearch.org). It wasn't hard to get a bunch of people to help tar and feather Joseph because they had all given their money to Joseph's Bank of Kirtland which promptly failed and suddenly there money was gone (it had gone to pay Joseph's debts).

Further, Governor Boggs was against the mormons because Joseph Smith had prophisied the untimely demise of Boggs just before one of his destroying angels showed up (Porter Rockwell) and shot him four times in the head (he lived). The Mormons were also playing dangerous political games and Joseph Smith (and Hyrum) were both shopping around the "mormon vote" simultaneously making friends and enemies all over the state. To top it off, Joseph Smith taught that they were to come into god's inheritance by the sword and began terrorizing and stealing from their neighboring towns.

The Haun's Mill Masacre was a really unfortunate incident, but not nearly as bad as the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

It's not at all surpising you don't hear the REAL history in Sunday School, but it does allow Mormons to walk around and play the "victim card" every time their history is brought up. Unfortunately, people who actually have a clue about what happened just laugh in their faces.

P.S. Feel free to disregard the above true history of events as "anti-mormon" propaganda. I'm sure the church's version is completely unbiased.

All you would need to do is drop some red matter into the exploding star. Just get there in time and you can save the day!

This is exactly why the responsibility for what you can install on a device you own should rest with you and not a company. Do you want a PR department, compliance department, marketing, lawyers, licensing issues, etc. to dictate what you can install on your device?

If Apple would relax and allow you to install apps outside of the app store they would lose almost no mojo for the actual app store, and they would silence all the haters like me.

Do you guys remember when Nokia used to be cool?

Everyone keeps reporting that the court has reached a ruling. This is not the case. The jury has reached a verdict, but the final judgement has not yet happened.

This is the internet. We already complain about everything.

I wonder if there is a way to combine the efforts of SETI with something else that will provide value in the mean time.

When Microphone manufacturers start disabling microphones when people talk about certain subjects then I guess Verizon will have a point.

The problem with your average group of Utah shooters (and I live in Utah, and go shooting fairly often) is that most of them don't know who the governor is, let alone listen to him talking about being more responsible. The other problem is that most of these shooters are the least responsible type of people around. They drive big retarded trucks which they've tuned specifically for maximum black smoke output, throw cans out the window, and listen to awful music like puddle of mud. They think starting huge fires with their guns is funny.

It's a shame that with such open laws the people here can't be trusted to be respectful of the land they're on, but that is the way of things in Utah.

If I was an Apple store employee and I heard someone say they were going to send their iPad to Iran, you know what I'd say? Nothing. Because I don't give a shit.

So your suggestion is to buy a shitty piece of hardware, then throw it out after you have a shitty experience with it and it dies? Rather than buy something nice, have a nice experience with it, and have it last 5-10 years.