Comment Re:Castle doctrine (Score 1) 286
Torn between calling bullshit and requesting a citation.
No wait...bullshit.
Comment Re:Behind the curve (Score 1) 1040
Increased costs for AD&D insurance
There is no such thing, I think your DM is just messing with you.
Study Finds Porn Exposure Associated With Smaller Brain Region 211
New submitter Bodhammer (559311) writes "German researchers looked at the brains of 64 men between the ages of 21 and 45 and found that one brain region (the striatum, linked to reward processing), was smaller in the brains of porn watchers, and that a specific part of the same region is also less activated when exposed to more pornography." While it's tempting to cast blame, "the study doesn't confirm whether watching porn causes the changes, or whether people with a certain brain type are inherently more apt to tune into X-rated content." The study's abstract is available; the paper itself is pay-walled.
Comment Re:Not First Amendment (Score 1) 160
Nobody mentioned the Navy, it was the Union Flag that was referenced.
Comment Re:To serve and protect (Score 2) 205
Don't bother...they're here!
Pedophile Asks To Be Deleted From Google Search After European Court Ruling 370
Hugh Pickens DOT Com (2995471) writes "Jane Wakefield reports at BBC that a man convicted of possessing child abuse images is among the first to request Google remove links links to pages about his conviction after a European court ruled that an individual could force it to remove 'irrelevant and outdated' search results. Other takedown requests since the ruling include an ex-politician seeking re-election who has asked to have links to an article about his behaviour in office removed and a doctor who wants negative reviews from patients removed from google search results. Google itself has not commented on the so-called right-to-be-forgotten ruling since it described the European Court of Justice judgement as being 'disappointing'. Marc Dautlich, a lawyer at Pinsent Masons, says that search engines might find the new rules hard to implement. 'If they get an appreciable volume of requests what are they going to do? Set up an entire industry sifting through the paperwork?' says Dautlich. 'I can't say what they will do but if I was them I would say no and tell the individual to contact the Information Commissioner's Office.' The court said in its ruling that people could request the removal of data related to them that seem to be 'inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive in relation to the purposes for which they were processed.'"
Comment Re:No mention of The Matrix (1999)? (Score 1) 150
African American is what I assumed. Not that I recall having seen that used before.
Proposed Indicator of Life On Alien Worlds May Be Bogus 112
sciencehabit (1205606) writes with bad news for anyone hoping to use the spectral signatures of exoplanets to determine if their atmospheres have life-enabling compositions. "Call it the cosmic version of fool's gold. What was once considered a sure-fire sign of life on distant planets may not be so sure-fire after all, a new study suggests. The signal—a strong chemical imbalance in the planet's atmosphere that could only be generated by thriving ecosystems—could instead be the combined light from a lifeless exoplanet and its equally barren moon."
Comment Re:INteresting (Score 1) 111
Absolutely nothing.
Comment Re:old tech (Score 1) 165
AC is correct.
Comment Re:Why? (Score 2, Funny) 794
Obligatory -
A - My dog has no nose.
B - How does he smell?
A - Awful!
Perhaps it's funnier in German...
A - My dog has no nose.
B - How does he smell?
A - Awful!
Perhaps it's funnier in German...
Comment Re:Star Trek IV (Score 1) 121
Alameda, not T.I.
But close.
Comment Mods, ? (Score 1) 131
+1 Angry, With Valid Point
Comment Re:too little too late? (Score 1) 198
When you buy
Unless you pay for the Real Girlfriend Experience. In which case, it's pretty much as you described
Searching the Internet For Evidence of Time Travelers
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Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Here's an interesting paper by two physicists at Michigan Technological University who have come up with a practical methodology for finding time travelers through the internet. 'Time travel has captured the public imagination for much of the past century, but little has been done to actually search for time travelers. Here, three implementations of Internet searches for time travelers are described, all seeking a prescient mention of information not previously available. The first search covered prescient content placed on the Internet, highlighted by a comprehensive search for specific terms in tweets on Twitter. The second search examined prescient inquiries submitted to a search engine, highlighted by a comprehensive search for specific search terms submitted to a popular astronomy web site. The third search involved a request for a direct Internet communication, either by email or tweet, pre-dating to the time of the inquiry. Given practical verifiability concerns, only time travelers from the future were investigated. No time travelers were discovered. Although these negative results do not disprove time travel, given the great reach of the Internet, this search is perhaps the most comprehensive to date.' Stephen Hawking's similar search (video) also provided negative results."
