Comment Read your lease... (Score 5, Insightful) 319
Do people really not read these things. No subletting is a common clause.
http://www.sfrb.org/index.aspx?page=1040
http://www.sfrb.org/index.aspx?page=1040
Comment Re:Sounds scary (Score 3, Insightful) 269
I'm not sure I would trust the opinion of someone that thinks the TSA is the main regulatory body of civilian aviation.
Comment Re:You cancel service? (Score 4, Funny) 242
Eh, They cancelled my account years ago after my router screwed up and started sending them updates to them as fast as it could. They thought it was a DOS attempt or something. It was really just my US Robotics DSL modem telling me it wanted to be set on fire and then smashed into small pieces. But, I understood their decision.
UAV Operator Blames Hacking For Malfunction That Injured Triathlete 178
jaa101 (627731) writes "The owner of a drone which fell and reportedly hit an athlete competing in a triathlon in Western Australia's Mid West has said he believes the device was 'hacked' into."
From the article: "Mr Abrams said an initial investigation had indicted that someone nearby "channel hopped" the device, taking control away from the operator. ... Mr Abrams said it was a deliberate act and it would be difficult to determine who was responsible as something as common as a mobile phone could be used to perform a channel hop. The videographer added that there had been a similar incident when the drone was flown earlier in the day."
Comment Re:needs some (Score 1) 470
Really if you want to see pseudoscience in action take a good look at all the assumptions behind cosmology and astronomy. Redshift = distance is an ASSUMPTION and Edwin Hubble himself was the first to point that out. Or start being honest enough to teach students that LOTS of biologists as well as physicists like Sir Hoyle have valid doubts about the theory of evolution, and no they are not creationists. Their main problem with evolution being that it is so often presented as settled established fact when it really has a lot of serious problems that need to be worked out. Just saying that is some kind of heresy in most English-speaking areas. Truth is many scientists would love to replace evolution with a better theory.
Every hypothesis is "an assumption". But some stand up to scrutiny and offer a lot of explanatory value.
As for evolution, what you said isn't heresy - it's a claim that you didn't try to back up.
Comment Re:needs some (Score 2) 470
Roughly one in three American adults believes in telepathy, ghosts, and extrasensory perception," wrote a trio of scientists in a 2012 issue of the Astronomy Education Review.
Yes we must use government institutions to regulate what people believe! If we start young we can change the next generation.
That's one spin you could put on it.
Another choice is "How is a country full of people that believe nonsense going to survive the 21st Century?"
Comment Re:Ask Slashdot? (Score 1) 187
What that guy is asking for isn't a simple firewall. Windows firewall can't do that, as far as I recall.
Comment Re:Yeah, so? (Score 1) 470
Roughly one in one Slashdotter believes in FTL travel, wormhole travel, colonizing the universe... That's any better?
I guess that means I'm not a Slashdotter, because I don't believe any of those things exist (or are possible).
(Too bad...)
Comment Re:The Religious Right will have your head on a pl (Score 1) 470
There is a great deal of pseudoscience belief on both sides of the isle. The left has irrational beliefs on nuclear power, GMO foods, etc.
You're trying to pee in the punch with a "both sides do it" argument. The not-so-subtle difference is that "the left" doesn't deny that nuclear power and GM foods exist. To paraphrase the famous saying, everyone is entitled to their own policy opinions, but not to their own realities.
But then the Republicans aren't generally as bad as they get a rap for. Their only substantial reality-denying party positions are on evolution and global warming, and both of those are for easily understandable political reasons (the former too keep the dwindling numbers of the faithful faithful, the latter to please their corporate masters).
Comment Re:Unfalsifieable (Score 1) 470
Like Prolog, where anything you can't prove is taken to be false?
Comment Re:OK Cupid founders also gave to anti gay marriag (Score 1) 564
Yeah, they would have gotten so much better a deal on gay rights if they had supported McCain & Palin.
British Domain Registrar Offers 'No Transfer Fees,' Charges Transfer Fee 77
First time accepted submitter RealSurreal (620564) writes "British web host 123-reg, which previously advertised 'no hidden transfer fees' has angered customers by introducing a £12 fee per domain for transfers out. Best of all, they didn't bother to tell anyone they were doing it relying instead on terms and conditions which say : '123-reg reserves the right to change, add, subtract or in way alter these Conditions without the prior consent of the Client.'"
Comment Re:Cottage Industry Software (Score 1) 341
"...We recommend that Microsoft Access be used solely for development purposes and not for production." - Microsoft
Comment Re:Does everything need to be smart? (Score 1) 128
Yeah, but the WiFi Router is going to be plugged into a telephone, coax, or fiber line that is just as vulnerable to being cut.
Comment Re:How, exactly, do we know? (Score 1) 127
It is the reference. Time is relative, we use these atomic clocks to set standards for comparison.
