Comment Re:As usual, rubbish article (Score 2) 417
I think hard drives should be considered as an extension of your brain, and thus as protected as the content of your brain.
Comment Stretch Subs (Score 1) 326
$9.7 million per meter. And I thought stretch SUV's were expensive.
Comment Cars (Score 1) 42
Meanwhile, cars put something like 5,000 metric tons of carbon per year into the air.
Comment Re:Cops too. (Score 1) 409
How about we take over the government and make the job of cops and lawyers be getting the truth, not getting a conviction.
Comment Re:Sony, the PS3 Linux remover? (Score 1) 28
What are the implications of this for the while Nikon/Microsoft Android tax situation. Isn't Android based on Linux, or is Microsoft specifically targeting parts of it that are not from Linux to dodge IBM's wrath?
Comment Re:Methinks a law of unintended consequences (Score 1) 672
I live in Tennessee. I read my 8 year old Dawkin's "Magic of Reality" cover to cover. He's straightening out his class mates. There are a few educated people in Tennessee. The problems come when we get distracted by things like Slashdot and ignore local politics.
Comment 1000 whole sites (Score 3, Insightful) 73
1000 whole sites. Too bad the brain has something like 100 trillion synapses. So that means each site contains an average of about 100 billion synapses. I want a higher resolution map.
Comment Cool way to kill people (Score 2, Informative) 309
Killing people is OK as long as you use cool technology to do it.
Comment Re:Brilliant (Score 1) 264
Require relief wells to be in place before production begins on future wells.
Start drilling relief wells now for any existing wells that might ever need them.
Comment Call me Captain Obvious but... (Score 1) 264
Call me Captain Obvious, but given the loss risk, the time it takes to drill relief wells, and the lack of other working options, wouldn't it make sense to require that relief wells be in place *before* production begins on new wells in the future?
Thanks,
-David
Dying Man Shares Unseen Challenger Video 266
longacre writes "An amateur video of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion has been made public for the first time. The Florida man who filmed it from his front yard on his new Betamax camcorder turned the tape over to an educational organization a week before he died this past December. The Space Exploration Archive has since published the video into the public domain in time for the 24th anniversary of the catastrophe. Despite being shot from about 70 miles from Cape Canaveral, the shuttle and the explosion can be seen quite clearly. It is unclear why he never shared the footage with NASA or the media. NASA officials say they were not aware of the video, but are interested in examining it now that it has been made available."
Submission + - Bush's veto of Water Projects Bill Overridden
DeBattell writes: "CNN Politics reports that Bush's veto of a new water projects bill, which includes funds for rebuilding in Katrina-devastated New Orleans, has been overridden by a comfortable margin by both the house and senate. Sen. Mary Landrieu, (D-Louisiana) was quoted as saying "I don't know why the president chose this bill to try to reassume the mantle of fiscal responsibility, but he picked the wrong bill." The link: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/08/congress.water/index.html"
Submission + - Police using undercover provocateurs in protests (infoshop.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Protests against the SPP summit have been ongoing over the last serveral days in Ottawa, ON and Montebello, PQ. Protestors have been pepper sprayed, tear gassed, and arrested. This article accuses police at the summit using undercover agents to provoke their front line co-workers into using the heavy handed tools they have employed so far. I want this to go out to everyone since I know it won't be covered in the main stream media. The link is here, along with a link at the bottom of the video that is the circumstantial evidence the protestors have brought up.
Submission + - Penalizing for Poor Health 2
theodp writes: "Perhaps laying the groundwork for Sicko II, Clarian Health announced that starting in 2009, it will fine employees $10 per paycheck if their body mass index is over 30. Even slim-and-trim employees have to worry about their cholesterol, blood pressure, and glucose levels — they'll be dinged $5 for each standard they don't meet. Smokers get a sneak preview of the policy starting next year, when they'll find $5 less in each check. Clarian credited new government HIPPAA rules that became effective July 1st for giving it the courage to follow its penalize-for-poor-health convictions."
