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Comment Re:Ironically, bottled mineral water is exploding. (Score 3, Informative) 441

The story you posted is about a single drilling site in Pennsylvania where fracking fluid didn't reach a specific water source that was nearby.

"This is good news," said Duke University scientist Rob Jackson, who was not involved with the study. He called it a "useful and important approach" to monitoring fracking, but he cautioned that the single study doesn't prove that fracking can't pollute, since geology and industry practices vary widely in Pennsylvania and across the nation.

Here's a tip: if you post a URL to a story, read it first.

Submission + - Google Launches its GoDaddy Killer

HughPickens.com writes: Kieren McCarthy reports at The Register that Google has finally launched a domain-name shop, providing a clean and simple management interface that will put Google in direct competition with market leader GoDaddy. Google became an ICANN-accredited registrar back in 2005, and it first told of its Google Domains plans in June 2014. Domains will cost between $12 to $30 to register, and $12 a year to renew. Google's offering will include support for a number of standard features, like free private registration, free email forwarding to your Gmail inbox, free domain forwarding, support for up to 100 sub-domains, and support for the growing number of new domain endings (like .guru and .club) that are now emerging.

There had been speculation that Google would offer domains from its own registry (.google) for free. That, combined with free hosting, email, cloud storage, chat services and domain management, could see the company up-end the registrar market in a similar way to what it did with Gmail and the hosted email world. For its part, GoDaddy has been a target of ire for many in the tech community since GoDaddy officially voiced its support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Bill in 2012. Although GoDaddy later recanted its position, thousands of domain owners switched registrars in protest.

Comment Re: Yawn (Score 1) 556

Actually I think scientists have an insight into theology that actual theologians lack. Religious and tribal instincts were shaped by evolution, since they conferred a selective advantage to early humans. Back in the Stone Age, if someone shared your religion, you'd probably have more genes in common with them than with people of other faiths, and you're more likely to befriend and ally with them. But, it's a one way street. Aside from being research subjects, theologians have nothing to offer in return except for denial.

Comment Re: Yawn (Score 1) 556

A scientist who claims that science proves religion if far more likely to be invalid! Why? Because religion involves that which is outside the natural world while science is about the natural world. Neither the supernatural or natural can be used to prove or disprove the other.

Hah! Tell that to this lady.

Comment Re:Chicago schools (Score 1) 169

Since I'm not a teacher, I'd actually be interested if you have an actual story to tell. But AFAICT from your post, you're just someone who loathes his ex-coworkers and is making generalizations about them. If the "real issue" is "lazy teachers", you can at least explain why. Were they not showing up for work? Were they disregarding parental fears of vaccinations? Were they not teaching them about Christ or something? Did the kids get low test scores? What?

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