We notice that all of the mentioned 'science' issues are tied to public policy positions of the left and that the 'scientists' are working outside their areas of expertise when they push policy solutions to the problems they 'find.'

Whole lines of research were simply forbidden as career ending. Consipracy theories almost always pop up in vacumns of fact, especially when it is pretty obvious that facts are suspected but being supressed.

So... is your post some kind of satire, or what?

http://xkcd.com/893/

RIP Neil.

In law school, you get all sorts of people being admitted to the program. Microsoft supposedly hires only the best and the brightest. If you're firing the same percentage of people in both situations, you're doing it wrong.

The actual quote is:

Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

It sounds like "Outcome-Based Education" is that you aren't graded by how many hours you spend learning or working, but by the output you can produce. So they're saying you could use this to brainwash students based on the teacher's political agenda? IE, at the end of the class you will show you understand his views, and why everyone else is wrong. When you put it like that, it doesn't seem so bad...

Of course, what they're really saying is don't challenge our creationist views with your fancy logic. And that's sad.

If it costs them money to support Linux and they're damned if they do, damned if they don't, then what incentive is there to continue even supporting them at all?

Because they feel the Linux market is worth supporting. They don't do it to make Torvalds happy.

Sigh. You're probably right. Still, I've been fascinated by the tantalizing possibility of using quantum effects for communication since reading this: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/321/5897/1812.short

I suppose using any of these techniques to slow light would destroy the entanglement? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_light

Hmmm... if we were to keep Alice and Bob one light-millisecond from Victor, could we send messages back in time? Imagine we're continually repeating the process of emitting photons as in the summary.

1) An earthquake happens. Victor entangles the photons.
2) Alice and Bob detect correlated polarizations, and instruct Victor to entangle his photons.
3) This process continues, bringing us one millisecond backwards in time at each step. (Minus the time to perform the measurements and inform Victor)
4) Lab staff notice that Alice and Bob have spontaneously correlated polarizations, and deduce that a disaster will shortly occur.

Victor should decide not to entangle the photons whenever Alice and Bob's polarizations are correlated. That'll rip physics a new one...

If it removes the 5% of players who ruin the game for everyone else, then I would expect more people to play the game. Alas, most jerks do seem to be morons as well, so we might only be rid of 1-2% of them.

Hmmm... you don't have to go wind though. If you can get 10 cents per KWh, and the system takes 30 KW, you're looking at three dollars/per hour to run this thing, or $72 per day. At 1000 litres per day, we're at 7.2 cents per liter. (Plus the cost of the system) Still seems pretty high for any kind of large-scale deployment - more than 72 times the (ideal) cost of desalinization.

I wonder how economical it is... is it cheaper than desalinizing sea water? If the answer's 'no', there's really no story here.

I work with tele-operated robots, and I must say this is an amazingly useful feature. The robots can establish a connection with either WiFi or 3G, and are meant to navigate in indoor environments. With WiFi, you can go a short distance before losing signal. With 3G, you can go a short distance before losing signal.

People with laptops or mobiles seldom notice the dead zones - they don't suddenly stop walking whenever they hit one.

I strongly recommend Lord Toede.