Not sure that's the only reason. Some of these people are just looking for something in which they can get deeply involved, out of the ordinary society stuff. They would actually love being enrolled in some armies to fight for a country, kill or be killed, but they just don't see themselves fighting for our western countries. So the actual reason may not really be Santa Claus / God / Mahomet / [...] and the "eternal bliss", but just the desire to fight for something in which they feel more free than within the regular organized and stricter western armies.

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So yes, we really want this kind of discussion on Slashdot.

After the Paris "Charlie Hebdo" shooting, it was obvious that such an event, in Texas, would be well protected against similar attacks. Isn't that attack another proof that fanaticism == stupidity?

Absolute zero? Pluto's min temp is 33 K, quite far from 0 K.

It depends

Will the computer be prohibited from counting cards? Humans may bluff, but they cannot fake statistics.

depends if you are in LA..

This is /. so we can expect comments about 1) was Nepal ready to fight such a disaster, compared to, eg, Japan 2) what are the progresses in terms of EQ detection 3) what is the chance of such a strong EQ happening in that region 4) do we have more & more of such big disasters recently 5) is it linked to the Sun activity, linked to the human oil/gas digging 6) will China offers help to Nepal? ... All of this is rather interesting IMO, so wait and watch!

They release a major update while 14.04 is supposed to be LTS = Long time support (3 years, 15.04 is 1 year). Some bugs have been fixed in 14.10 (and 15.04) that are still live on 14.04. Annoying.

This is one of the reasons funding doesn't always go where it would make science progress the better. Hubble outcome is visually attractive and nice (photos). Other fields, particle accelerators, neutrino research etc... that people hardly understand, may not gather the same amount of enthusiasm.

s/when/where/

Provided that Lightning never strikes (the same place) twice, just keep statistics and you'll know at least when it won't strike again.