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Kentucky Announces Creationism Theme Park 648

Posted by samzenpus from the ride-the-dinosaur dept.
riverat1 writes "On December first, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear announced that a creationism theme park is expected to open in 2014. Park developers are seeking state tourism development incentives and could receive up to $37.5 million over a 10-year period. Gov. Steve Beshear said he does not believe the incentives would violate the principle of church-state separation because the 14-year-old tax incentives law wasn’t approved for the purpose of benefiting the Ark Encounter. The park will have a 500 foot replica of the Ark with live animals on it and a Tower of Babel explaining how races and languages developed. The park will be turned over to Answers in Genesis after it is built. They are a non-profit organization which may allow them to discriminate in hiring on the basis of religion."
Social Networks

Facebook Is Down 448

Posted by timothy from the is-life-without-scrabble-life-at-all? dept.
Phil_at_EvilNET writes "Jeff Bertolucci of PC World reports: 'Thousands of Facebook users this afternoon (US Pacific Time) are reporting that the popular social networking site is down. It's unclear when the outage began. PCWorld has not been able to reach Facebook for comment, but Mashable reports the company has confirmed the outage.'"
Linux

Submission + - aptosid 2010-02 Review (desktoplinuxreviews.com)

Submitted by JimLynch
JimLynch writes: I recently reviewed Linux Mint Debian, a very user-friendly version of Linux Mint based on Debian. This time I looked at another distro based on Debian, called aptosid.

Aptosid, for those who aren’t familiar with it, is actually made by the same developers that created the popular distro Sidux. There was apparently some conflict and controversy within the Sidux e.V association that resulted in Sidux morphing into Aptosid.

Submission + - Facebook facing mysterious outage (pcworld.com)

Submitted by Phil_at_EvilNET
Phil_at_EvilNET writes: Jeff Bertolucci of PC World reports: "Thousands of Facebook users this afternoon (U.S. Pacific Time) are reporting that the popular social networking site is down. It's unclear when the outage began. PCWorld has not been able to reach Facebook for comment, but Mashable reports the company has confirmed the outage."

Submission + - Kno could destroy the ipad (kno.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: My boyfriend is currently working at this lovely start up in Silicon Valley. Kno is working with students to create a table that is for students. The main features for it's use is: textbook, notebook, and internet. But honestly I think if they market it correctly it will be better than the ipad, particularly if they also work with teachers so this could be used in the class to take tests with or on. Also, it doesn't sound like a feminine product.
Security

Submission + - Google Warning Gmail users on China Spying Attempt (threatpost.com)

Submitted by chicksdaddy
chicksdaddy writes: Google is using automated warnings to alert users of its GMAIL messaging service about wide spread attempts to access personal mail accounts that may indicate wholesale spying with links back to China. The victims include one leading privacy activist.

Submission + - Facebook service problems (huffingtonpost.com) 1

Submitted by djlemma
djlemma writes: Apparently the fact that facebook is down is not nearly so problematic as the fact that the facebook "like" buttons aren't working well on various other web sites.
Games

Submission + - Sackboy Invades 3D Dot Game Heroes (rundlc.com)

Submitted by Buffalo55
Buffalo55 writes: Atlus announced that it has released a huge update for its critically-acclaimed and retro inspired adventure, 3D Dot Game Heroes. The game will now include 50 fan and staff created heroes, various bug fixes, the ability to carry over certain swords in New Game+ and adjustments to the completion times for the Dash Circuit mini game. On top of that, you'll be able to play as Sackboy, the mascot from LittleBigPlanet.
Government

Submission + - NSA chief wants separate Internet for government (thehill.com)

Submitted by GovTechGuy
GovTechGuy writes: NSA chief Keith Alexander, also the head of the U.S. Cyber Command told reporter that he would like to see the creation of a secure zone on the Internet for government and critical private sector industries such as utility companies and the financial sector. Alexander has repeatedly emphasized the dramatic nature of the cyber threat facing American networks and his comments were a further sign that the Pentagon does not think the war against foreign hackers can be won. Alexander denied the military has any role in safeguarding civilian networks currently, but didn't rule out the option in the future.
Intel

Submission + - Photoshop's Long History with Parallelism (acm.org)

Submitted by pulaski909
pulaski909 writes: Parallelism continues to present some of the most challenging problems for developers of high-performance software but it's not often we hear from developers wrestling with these problems in the consumer software space. As many veteran graphic designers know, Photoshop has had the capacity to leverage multiple processors since the 1990s. In a case study interview on acmqueue, chief Adobe Photoshop developer Russell Williams discusses how the team successfully implemented parallelism in the early years, as well as what the most pressing problems currently are. The interviewer is Intel engineer Clem Cole, which makes for an interesting discussion between representatives of both the hardware and software sides of the parallelism equation.
Games

Submission + - Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Casino Streets Revealed (rundlc.com)

Submitted by Buffalo55
Buffalo55 writes: We were exploring Casinopolis in Sonic Adventure and thought it would be a great idea if there was a similarly themed board in Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1. Well apparently, Sega can read minds, because it just unveiled the Casino Streets Act that'll ship with the game. As expected, Sonic will burst through a series of levels inspired by locales such as Las Vegas and Atlantic City, complete with cards and other gambling paraphernalia. Hey, we're down. Now release the game already.

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