> Why didn't we ever hear anything from them after the escape?

Now why isn't this upvoted to 5 (Funny)

The point I made (conservative Christians, comparable surveys etc.) was in response to the statement "a large fraction of practicing muslims have opinions contrary to the principles of modern society", which in turn was somebody's rebuttal to the point "a minuscule fraction of muslims are violent, the vast majority are non-violent".

The surveys did not conclude that the large fraction -- 40% or whatever were violent suicide bombers. This is NOT about the few fuck ups who kill and destroy. It's about the overwhelming majority that doesn't.

You conflated the two and extrapolated my message to sound like I was comparing violent suicide bombers with people who disagree with gay marriage or abortion laws. NO - if you have trouble grasping logical statements with multiple clauses -- AGAIN, I was comparing peaceful muslims who are influenced by their religion with conservative [christians, jews, hindus, ...].

Of course, there's a good chance that you do understand this but would rather not acknowledge it, preferring to wriggle into a nook of defective logic to spread your message of hatred.

Can you find and post comparable surveys for other religions? Or if they aren't any, then what meaning do surveys of this type have? If you carried out a survey amongst practicing Christians, "Jesus or Nation" then is it not conceivable that many would pick the former?

Oh, and by the way, such conservative Christians not only wish for Christian law, they lobby and work for it to be applied and are frequently successful. Anti-abortion laws, and anti-gay marriage, and the fact that these issues are highly politicized are outcomes of such thinking.

Religion, and letting religion govern how you think is the problem, not any specific religion. The reason Islam shows up on the radar with terrorism so often is because it happens to be the religion mixing badly with explosive geopolitical crises around the world.

Nice! Now you're stuck in a room with Osama and Hitler pissed off at you because their cable TV doesn't work.

...how can a publicly traded company possibly justify such investments to stockholders?

These kids, and other kids around the world who cheat or otherwise beat the system are only damaging their own careers. University diplomas don't have the face value they used to -- it's what they do to you, how smart, capable and competent they make you that matters. If you're incapable then it doesn't matter if you have a diploma from MIT (or the Indian equivalent) you're not getting hired. Or fired unceremoniously soon after getting hired.

With online courseware growing at the rate it is, some day, exams are likely going to become a form of self-evaluation. You work hard to get the scores that convince you that you know enough, and then you take the plunge into real life and see how convincing you are.

Small businesses in which entrepreneurs put their sweat, blood and devotion into their work continue to get sued by patent trolls... just because the attorneys who get a commission in such cases pass it on to a guy in a position of power in the form of donations.

How can people be so pettily selfish, while realizing that there are others out there willing to take bullets so that their countrymen can continue to live comfortably.

To do targeted advertising, you have to collect data about people, say by processing the messages that have accumulated in their mailboxes over time. In this case though, SnapChat *CANT* do that - by definition - messages aren't supposed to lie around, they vanish when they are read. So the inability to deliver targeted ads is a fundamental shortcoming of the service.

It's amazing how they're trying to market it like they're doing this out of the goodness of their hearts. That's just... creepy.

Since the makers of the series have access to this model (their PR department probably scans slashdot) and maybe they don't want to seem particularly predictable, a model of this type has extremely low odds of being accurate and popular simultaneously.

We should all pool our efforts together and build on each other's success, rather than treating space exploration in the same way as world cup soccer.

Interesting that my post was downvoted :-)

Yes, by playing to Apple's tune, they get invited to Apple's special events, get test devices, get insider information before everyone else, and sometimes even get their articles featured on Apple's website and in their presentations... all of this contributes to the overarching metric of a journalist's performance - pageviews.

You rightly pointed out that Android reviewers have similar tie ups with Android manufacturers, so it's not the Apple bias that is to be lamented. It is only cited often because of the amount of Apple news in the press. What is to be lamented is how the 'free press' can be rounded up like a lot of sheep.

Exactly. That's the thought I started watching the iWatch presentation with. But it was addressed by the ability to monitor your pulse, and to calculate the calories you consume. This kicks all existing heart rate monitors out of the picture, as they usually require you to wear a strap or belt around your chest, which is hugely inconvenient, and certainly not something you do all the time.

In short, I think the health platform combined with 3rd party apps will make this product (and probably comparable Android smartwatches) a success.

s,high profit non profits,high profile non profits ...although the mistyped version has some amusement and juice to it...

One of the reasons that OpenStack is such a mess is because it is a conglomeration of 1000 vested interests pulling it in a 1000 different directions. The same goes for numerous high profit non profits out there. The good thing about Docker Inc. running Docker is that it is a small team with a vision and one that knows what it wants.

There's also the thing that 'non profits' that are established at an early stage to run a project aren't really non profits, because they are funded and consequently influenced by for profit companies. This leads to the *worst* case of design by committee possible. Remember that when the Linux Foundation took over Linux, Linux was a mature project with well defined governance and structure.