Comment Re:Quote (Score 1) 101
Thank you and goodnight!
Comment Re:Quote (Score 4, Insightful) 101
Heavens, no. You're supposed to leap to some conclusions which you then proceed to approach as fact. Toss out some speculation based on this while forcing yourself to use unnecessarily obtuse vocabulary and include links to wikipedia concerning certain phrases and concepts you're proud of. Others will then do the same, with a variety of other points of view and argue rabidly. Still more will complain that this is the case.
Thus do we generate page views and 'user generated content'. The article does not even need to really exist, as all this will still occur as well as others pointing out the lack of article!
That is the law!
Comment Re:The following option is req'd for 95% of Americ (Score 5, Funny) 266
Actually, alliteration almost always annoys any average American audience.
People With University Degree Fear Death Less 473
An anonymous reader writes "People with a university degree fear death less than those at a lower literacy level. In addition, fear of death is more common among women than men, which affects their children's perception of death."
Comment Re:Sauce for the gander (Score 1) 794
As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
* Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Declaration of Rights"
* Accompanies the Secret Project "The Planetary Datalinks"
(s'from Alpha Centauri)
Sarah Palin 'Target WikiLeaks Like Taliban' 1425
DMandPenfold writes "Sarah Palin, who is widely tipped as a possible Republican candidate for president in 2012, has said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be hunted down in the way armed forces are targeting the Taliban and Al-Qaeda." So that means we should spend billions of dollars and not catch him? Good plan.
Comment Re:Soo... (Score 1) 460
The regional governors now have direct control over their territories. Fear will keep the local systems in line.
Comment Re:Spartacus! (Score 1) 182
Don't worry, the Apple billing system knows you're not the real Steve Jobs, he's already registered under the name God...
God wouldn't be up this late...
Comment Re:Blame Canada (Score 1) 367
It's ok, buddy, we can take it!
Comment Re:MW2 (Score 1) 518
Someone's bitter at the number of UAC20's to the legs they took!
Comment Minkowski you bastard (Score 4, Insightful) 129
mwahaha! if i'm never a part of events intersecting the light cone i dont exist!
oh shiii-
Comment Re:Just goes to show... (Score 1) 313
Well then, you are in for a treat as there's content out there that's even Better Than that!
Comment Re:That's not a qubit ... (Score 1) 63
Noooahhhhh. Nooaahhh...
This is the Lord, Noahhhhh.
riiiiiiiiiiiight.
Wikipedia Could Block 67 Million Verizon Customers 481
An anonymous reader writes "A particularly nasty Wikipedia vandal has forced a discussion to take place over whether to block edits from an address range used by over 67 million Verizon customers. Verizon has not responded to abusive Wikipedia users on their network before, even though the abusive Verizon users have released private information (phone numbers, etc.) of numerous individuals, and made countless threats that have also been reported to law enforcement. Wikipedia has done something similar in the past with users on the AOL network, which used proxy servers and thus allowed vandals to continue disrupting the site. Discussion is also taking place on alternate solutions to deal with abuse from this Verizon user, named 'Zsfgseg' on Wikipedia. If a block of millions is enacted, Verizon could potentially change how they assign IP addresses, or be forced at least to address a PR nightmare."
Australian Researchers Devise Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer 63
schliz writes "Researchers have devised a theoretical quantum computer that could function even if one in four qubits were missing. The design is claimed to be the first that tolerates both qubit loss and decoherance to this extent. It performs calculations by measuring, rather than manipulating qubits, so there are fewer points of failure."
