No one should BELIEVE in evolution. It's a theory. It's a field of study. It isn't for believing it's for understanding and researching. If you want to believe in something, which suggests faith rather than the acquisition of or pursuit of knowledge you might as well just be reading a bible rather than a science text book.

So we're supposed to let them loose to roam about the US countryside? I can't see this ending badly at all ;) I suppose as legal people we must teach them all sign language? Give them the right to vote? Does it also mean that they go to regular prison when they eat people's faces? Remember this? http://www.nydailynews.com/news/man-lost-face-05-mauling-hell-new-chimpanzee-victim-article-1.364450

Idiots wrote the spec. They devised a system that was sized to accommodate 750k simultaneous users and at it's lowest point it's seen between 1-7 MILLION simultaneous users. They drastically undersized the offering.

It started out sounding like an interesting article but I wanted to stop reading and write the guy off as an bigot and an idiot here ... "The customer they were monitoring was a particular website that was very benign. It seems ridiculous to me. It was beyond absurd. It wasn’t like a guns and ammo website."

No ... Tablets are thr perfect replacement for textbooks and homework paper and much more durable over time than a folding laptop. Tablets shine in the area of viewing and consuming data they just arent good for data creation.

You say we need this to learn uncertainty, doubt and skepticism? .... silly, silly, silly ... Maybe you missed the obvious but real engineers and scientists are pre-wired with doubt, skepticism and an every questioning, non-believing nature. We end up being what we are because we question everything, we want to know why the things are the way that they are, why things work the way that they do etc. I don't know any real engineer or scientist that is willing to leave well enough alone or do something just because it's "the way things are supposed to be" As for uncertainty ... that's a science unto itself. We all know that the world is chaos incarnate but that doesn't keep us from trying to spot the patterns :D

Simple .... you lie. You don't lie about your accomplishments or your capabilities but you exaggerate the details.

Ok, climates chage, this happens. It happened before people and industry were here and it will continue to happen when we are gone. Deep ice core data even shows the similar increases in atmospheric CO2, etc during times that temperatures rise long before humans ever had industrial activities to create this effect ... it happens. No one has ever even proven conclusively whether these gases in the atmosphere are anything more than anecdotal evidence of human effect on the climate or even whether, for certain it's presence is actually a cause or an effect of climate change just that they appear to occur together. There are many ideas that try to prove that it's these gases that are trapping heat in the atmosphere but just recently (as reported on slashdot) it was proven that significantly less heat than was thought or expected was being trapped and most was being reflected and passed back out of the atmosphere ...... So here's the point I'm getting to ..... cleaning up trash, keeping the earth cleaner is never a bad thing but they are going significantly overboard and turning just this idea into a multi-billion dollar industry all of it's own and using it and regulations surrounding it as a method for controlling companies and altering their methods of production and it's gotten a bit out of hand. We need to understand that climates change and there is absolutely nothing that we can do about it .... if all of the people on earth disappeared this phenomenon would continue to happen so rather than trying to change it we need to learn to adapt to these changes.

The bandwidth used to get the data from comcasts servers is only transmitted across comcasts network and doesn't consume upstream bandwidth from peering connections so I would argue that the xfinity data isn't really "internet" traffic at all. It's like arguing that one apartment watching a tv show stored on a server in an apartment complex should be counted as consumed internet bandwidth to the upstream connections.

The unity interface turns every computer into a netbook interface that just isn't appropriate for regular computer use or users ....

You say it over and over again in your response but apparently you don't get it FOSS means FREE/Open Source Software. It was never something that companies were meant to be built around providing ... it is the anti-establishment but it also happens to have become the establishment. It was meant to replace the need for big, bloated, EXPENSIVE proprietary operating systems AND the ridiculously expensive support contract model by the likes of IBM AIX, SUN Solaris etc .... GETTING RID OF THE ANUAL MAINTENANCE COST of running unix systems was have the point of linux for most people to begin with .... then comes this company who's sole financial model was built on building that maintenance cost back in ... and that's great for people who need it but for companies that have significant mindshare in using/maintaining linux systems it's just stupid to pay.

I was rebuilding my firewall this evening, converting it to new software and re-setting up all the static dhcp mappings ... uggh ... It really blew me away how many devices there were between ipods, ipads, phones, tv's, dvd/bluray players, internet media players, video game systems, iphones and finally ... computers. When I was done I posted this on facebook "t's eye opening when you audit and realize how many internet connected devices you actually have in your home ... between wireless and wired = 42 (it really is the answer to everything)" And then a friend that read it pointed me to this poll that showed up the same night!!!

The agreement did not say that we couldn't withdraw any time that we want .... just that we could only stay so long .... the agreement says we cannot stay beyond dec 31 2011 in a combat roll without their expressed permission ... which our president has been asking for for 6 months.

It bothers me that all of the "announcements" that I am reading make this look like a decision made for the good of the country by the Obama administration. This is just not the case. As much as I am not a GWB fan the truth of the matter is that the Dec 31 2011 date for removing combat troops from Iraq was set by a a strategic framework and security agreement between the Bush administration white house and the Iraqi's in November of 2008. http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/11/20081127-2.html Pentagon officials under the Obama administration have actually been trying to get the Iraqi's to extend this date since may/june of last year but they (Iraqi government) will not ALLOW us to stay any longer in combat capacity.

You get to give something away for free instead of paying for books and amazon gets a little advertisement .... big deal. And if this spins out of control and people follow these links and BUY BOOKS then it keeps their lust for reading alive and keeps people interested in even having libraries at all. As for keeping lists of books that were checked out ... my county library does this unless you specifically check a box on your account that you want them not to. I think you'll find that this is common practice in many libraries today.