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Comment Re:How detached from reality is astrophysics? (Score 3, Insightful) 52

Have you ever seen a neutron or muon? Experienced time dilation? Put a particle into a superposition of states? I suppose you can call most of modern science religion if you doubt what you can't perceive with your own senses. That's actually what a significant percentage of the population is starting to do, unfortunately...

Submission + - A ChillingEffects.org for Domain Names (indolering.com)

fsterman writes: Domain name seizures used to be a rare occurrence, but US law enforcement has become adept at exploiting a quirk in the Internet's governance structure that allows them to seize a wide range of domains without due process. The rate has been increasing exponentially, with a total of 87 in 2010 to 1,700 in mid-2013. A month ago, nearly 5,000 domains were seized by a corporation using civil proceedings. The types of attacks targeting DNS have been increasing as well, such as when a US embassy had GoDaddy shut down a political protest site.

Comment Re:Why bother? (Score 1) 50

Actually, the NSA cracked the first 3 of the 4 coded messages themselves, but didn't go public with it until a member of the public had found the solution. Or they claim they did, anyway . . .

Comment Re:What's wrong with hierarchy? (Score 1) 140

It's pretty easy to verify what speech on Wikipedia is accurate. All information should be verifiable by checking a reliable source. If you find information in Wikipedia where no source is given and you think it may be incorrect, put in a [citation needed] tag. If no one adds a citation, anyone is free to remove the information.

Of course, many people who bitch about Wikipedia and how it doesn't work complain that their edits were undone, often because they added information without a reliable source for verification. You can't please everyone. Either you set a bar to clear to get your edits in and people complain that their edits are undone, or you let everyone add anything and people complain that too much information is inaccurate.

Comment Re:we get it (Score 1, Insightful) 295

Nice strawman. It's not about "the world ending" or "higher taxes" or "world government" at all. I don't know how you people twist a bit of warming into crap like that. We're burning fossil fuels, creating carbon dioxide, which is a greenhouse gas, and it's causing warmer temperatures. Those warmer temperatures will cause economic losses, so to cut our losses we should cut carbon dioxide emissions by generating electricity from non-fossil fuel sources.

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