Comment This is only phase one complete... (Score 1) 208
Phase two will end up something like this: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39133
Air Force Mistakenly Transports Live Nukes Across America 898
kernel panic attack writes "Surely the late Stanley Kubrick is somewhere smiling at this one. Forbes.com has a story about a B-52 Bomber that mistakenly flew 6-nuclear tipped cruise missles across several states last week.
The 3-hour flight took the plane from Minot Air Force Base, N.D, to Barksdale Air Force Base, La., on Aug. 30.
The incident was so serious that President Bush and Defense Secretary Robert Gates were quickly informed and Gates has asked for daily briefings on the Air Force probe, said Defense Department press secretary Geoff Morrell."
Pope Advised Hawking Not to Study Origin of Universe 864
BlueCup submits a link to an Associated Press article running in the Northwest Florida Daily News which begins "Famous astrophysicist Stephen Hawking said Thursday that the late Pope John Paul II once told scientists they should not study the beginning of the universe because it was the work of God. The British author, who wrote the best-seller 'A Brief History of Time,' said that the pope made the comments at a cosmology conference at the Vatican."
According to the article, "The scientist then joked during a lecture in Hong Kong, 'I was glad he didn't realize I had presented a paper at the conference suggesting how the universe began. I didn't fancy the thought of being handed over to the Inquisition like Galileo.'"
Boxxet, a Tool for Automatic Webpage Generation 109
tkajstura writes "New Scientist is reporting on 'a new tool [called Boxxet that] offers to create websites on any subject, allowing web surfers to sit back, relax and watch a virtual space automatically fill up with relevant news stories, blog posts, maps and photos.' It uses an algorithm based on unique word count to filter an index and integrate relevant subject information into the page, called a 'Boxxet.' The tool will first be available by invitation only, opening to the general public by the end of April 2006."
Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 408
If the system sucks, wouldn't a company come in and compete with it?
Comment Re:Detroit Tigers (Score 1) 517
Unfortunately, the new slogan - Great 'till they're gone! - May be more appropriate.
Journal Journal: Getting the Word Out
Almost every time an article comes up on the front page about the latest badly written, overbroad copyright legislation, it is followed by several hundred comments talking about what a disaster X legislation is, and how we, as slashdotters, should publicly protest this calamity.
But the problem is, these cries of injustice never make it outside of slashdot. The people who read the comments already realize the problems, we are simply preaching to the choir.
Journal Journal: A slashdot feature idea 1
I've always thought It would be interesting to be able to see what articles were rejected and never actually posted to the site. Of course, most of these would probably be crap (LOLOLOLOGNAAGOATSE.CX and hay guys check this out), but it seems that there are alot of stories that the editors just don't have space for. Does anyone know if rejected stories are kept on the servers? If so, it might be cool to have a subscriber option to view these stories.
Journal Journal: Dates To remember:
This is useless to anyone but me:
Jan 21: ask out
Jan 26: Rachel Schmidt B-day
Feb 6: First Kiss (french), First Date with Rachel.
Feb 11: Second date with Rachel, Lose virginity, overall intresting day.
Jan 21: ask out
Jan 26: Rachel Schmidt B-day
Feb 6: First Kiss (french), First Date with Rachel.
Feb 11: Second date with Rachel, Lose virginity, overall intresting day.
Journal Journal: My Thoughts On The Second Gulf War (orig writ May 2003)
I wrote this as a comment to an ignorant troll back in may. Because I was responding to a troll, it was modded down greatly. I believe that it still has its merits, and for those that modded me down back then I now get to say "I told you so". Heh.
Journal Journal: To whom it may concern 1
Its a long long story. But when I went to court for my mushroom bust, I was ordered to go to Assabet Human Services for a drug treatment evaluation. Since then I've gone through a load of shit with them. I'm to tired to explain it now, but I would like to post this document that I just drafted. It is rather self explanitory. I hope to do chapter 2 this weekend.
Thursday, January 15, 2004
To Whom It May Concern:
Journal Journal: Chapter 1 1
Chapter 1:
First, I have a few things I wanted to make clear or left out of Chapter 0. I forgot to add the title "Autobiography: Atempt 3" When I said that my first memory is from the age of 3, I meant that that is the earliest I can remember anything from, but I don't remember having opinions until a couple years later. I also forgot to add that I called my parents by their first names, although it should be clear because of the Katy and David sentence.
Journal Journal: Chapter 0: Background 2
Chapter 0:
It's January 7th, 2004. On August 27, 2003 I was busted for possession of 1/8 of an ounce of Psilocybin containing mushrooms. I say busted because it's not entirely clear whether I was arrested or not; the police took the shrooms and I got a court summons a few weeks later. Since then, I've gotten nothing but absolute shit from the system, (Big surprise, huh?) to the extent that I've decided to chronicle my story.
