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Comment Re:I disagree. (Score 4, Insightful) 783

People should be taught both and then left alone to decide which one makes more sense.

Which form of creationism would you like them to teach?

Young-Earth creationism
Old Earth creationism
Gap creationism
Day-Age creationism
Progressive creationism
Neo-Creationism
Intelligent design
Creation science
Theistic evolution (evolutionary creation)
Omphalos hypothesis

Comment Re:First impressions on Surface (Score 5, Informative) 403

You can't do extensive photo editing or programming on an iPad either.

I just spent 6 weeks travelling with an iPad and the only thing it was really useful for was uploading photos I'd taken to and using it as a nice display to present the images to people I met. I did manage to edit up a video in iMovie to a reasonable degree though.

What *killed* it for me was the crappy keyboard and the limitations of IOS. I had to download an app in order to download and play freely available, legal MP3s off Soundcloud.

For my next trip I'm going to get a Mac Air I think, hardware wise the Surface looks exactly like it's what I want to be honest, but I'd miss OS X.

Comment Re:Blizzard distributes patches via Bittorrent (Score 1) 272

This really sounds like you think sitting at computer is the only thing to do in the world.

But yesterday I went out and there was lots of beautiful and cute girls and people spending time outside in the summer. Amazing, I know. But the best thing - and let me tell she was so cute - was one girl who sat down to draw what she saw when people walked past her. I smiled at her. Should had said hello. Amazing.

You're pretty asinine.

Comment Blizzard distributes patches via Bittorrent (Score 5, Insightful) 272

An equal hypothesis could be, everyone has stopped downloading files from the pirate bay and with all the free time they have now they are unable to watch movies, the are now committed WoW or D3 players, or whatever other games use Bittorrent as a patch delivery mechanism.

Comment Re:Encryption,storage? (Score 1) 312

Currently they store the from and to addresses of all emails sent, as well as the subject line, date stamp and IP address of the machine connecting to the server (usually your router, but not always). Encryption makes no difference as you can't encrypt the headers since obviously the server needs to read them.

For web monitoring they record the domain name of every site requested by each connection. It isn't clear how it is implemented, but presumably it is some kind of DPI to intercept HTTP requests rather than simple DNS logging (although DNS is also logged). Additionally the requesting IP address and datestamp are recorded. Encryption doesn't help much because the DNS lookup won't be encrypted and the IP address of every web server connected too will still be logged.

Tor really is the only option if you value privacy. I use it a lot now because the feeling that some anonymous government agent could be watching over my shoulder the whole time is just too creepy.

ok you're going to have to back that shit up with some evidence as iir a bill for only one of those things has passed, and when it did they were like omg htf are we gonna pull this shit off?

Comment Retarded (Score 4, Insightful) 230

The political cycle

10 introduce bill that screws over the people, sponsored by either the fundamental right or a corporation

20 society tries to rally and shoot it down

30 if people are down trodden enough pass bill; break, else throw out bill

40 sleep 5 years

50 goto 10 with same bill

Politics and corporations are moving at a glacial pace compared to society, it's getting stupid.

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