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Internet Dismantling the State Church In Finland 547

Posted by timothy from the way-way-up-for-fsm dept.
An anonymous reader writes "A Finnish secular web site that facilitates electronic resignation from the Finnish state church gained wide attention in the media this week. A gay rights TV panel discussion was followed by thousands resigning from the church. On Wednesday, 2633 people resigned through the web site, which is more than all the resignations in July. The Internet is secularizing the Finnish with increasing speed; over 90% of resignations in Finland go through the site administered and marketed by hobbyists driving Finland towards a secular, non-religious state."

Comment Re:Losing resolution (Score 1) 1140

by Kynde (#33816766) Attached to: Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels?

I agree. Strange article. During the last upgrades my laptop has gone from 1600x1200 to 1920x1200 and my work lcd went from 1600x1200 to 2560x1600. A "loss of pixels" is not the conclusion I'd draw from that. Most of my coworkers have two 1920xsometing screens side by side, plenty of pixels there, too. I think that has everything to do with the fact that it's easier to yaw that pitch with your head when there's more and more surface area to goggle at. And by easier I mean neckwise. One really should have any screen above one's eye hight and there's only so much angle between one's eye height and keyboard and plenty to go sideways.

Comment Re:Cash-in (Score 1) 294

by Kynde (#33267870) Attached to: Lost <em>Star Wars</em> Scene In the Wild

It's pretty sad that after the prequels people can still get so excited over 15 or so seconds of Luke handling his lightsabre. It's baffling and kind of sad that there's all this cheering and enthusiatic shouting over a mundane snippet like this.

I think it speaks volumes about the prequels, really.
Idle

Flight Attendant Quits And Exits Plane Via Emergency Slide 24

Posted by samzenpus from the take-this-job-and-shove-it dept.
You may question his actions, but you can't say that 38-year-old flight attendant Steven Slater doesn't know how to quit in style. After a passenger refused to apologize for hitting him in the head with either a bag or the overhead compartment, Slater got on the the loudspeaker and told those aboard to "go f*** themselves." He the grabbed a couple beers from the drink cart, activated the emergency chute, and slid away into unemployment.
Image

Tragedy Strikes Sauna World Championships 3

Posted by samzenpus from the some-like-it-hot dept.
aapold writes "Tragedy has struck the Sauna World Championships in Finland, as Russian competitor Vladimir Ladyzhensky collapsed and died six minutes into the final, and reigning champ Timo Kaukonen was also hospitalized. The organizers said they used the same rules as in previous years, but also announced the event will never be held again. Rick Reilly of ESPN wrote an interesting piece on the Sauna World Championships last year, detailing his experience entering the competition and his encounter with Kaukonen, who described his training regimen of 20 sessions a day in saunas set to 284 (F) and drinking 10 liters of water a day for several days leading up to it."

Comment Re:Am I the only... (Score 1) 602

by Kynde (#32595458) Attached to: Digitally Filtering Out the Drone of the World Cup

I hate this argument.

Both sports are called "football" because they are played ON FOOT, as opposed to being played on horseback such as the more patrician sports like polo. Manipulation of the ball with your foot has nothing to do with the name.

Sir, you reasoning is the argumentative equivalent of a fart. Funny, but about as close to shit as it gets without literally being it.

Let's recap. Baseball = football. Basketball = football. Golf = football. Tennis = football. Volleyball = football. Handball = football.

That would would be a very pointless distinction, now wouldn't it. Games played horseback: polo. Games played on foot: just about every other freaking ball game besides some waterpolo and other obscurities.
Security

Submission + - Facebook bug lets hackers delete friends (cio.com.au)

Submitted by swandives
swandives writes: There's lot of talk about Facebook and privacy at the moment, but a bug in Facebook's website lets hackers delete Facebook friends without permission. Steven Abbagnaro, a student from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York reported the flaw, writing proof-of-concept code that scrapes publicly available data from users' Facebook pages and deletes all of their friends, one by one. The victim first has to click on a malicious link while logged into Facebook.

Abbagnaro's code exploits the same underlying flaw that was first reported by Alert Logic security analyst, M.J. Keith, who discovered cross-site request forgery bug, where the website doesn't properly check code sent by users' browsers to ensure that they were authorized to make changes on the site.

Comment Re:Non-American Tax Days? (Score 1) 432

by Kynde (#31902120) Attached to: I mailed / filed my tax return form ...

You know, it's bad enough in the States, but don't you find it a little creepy that your government knows enough about your business to pre-fill out your tax return?

Mind you, damn convenient.

I'd be worried if your goverement knew that much about my finances, but not half as worried as I'd be if I'd have to refer to this goverment of yours as my goverment.

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