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Comment Phys. Rev. E?? (Score 1) 160

by jsternbe on Monday November 30, 2009 @01:53PM (#30271920) Attached to: Online "Guilds" Mirror Real Life Gangs

It is kind of a interesting paper, but how in the world did it get into Physical Review? Just because you do some statistics doesn't mean you are doing research in physics. Shouldn't this have been sent to a sociology journal?

Obama Sides With Bush In Spy Case 906

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday January 23, 2009 @03:59PM from the disappointment-for-civil-liberties dept.

palegray.net is one of many who writes "President Obama has publicly sided with the Bush administration on the question of whether the President should be allowed to establish warrantless wiretapping programs designed to monitor US citizens. The President has asked a federal judge to stay a ruling that would allow key evidence into the domestic spying case against the government. 'Thursday's filing by the Obama administration marked the first time it officially lodged a court document in the lawsuit asking the courts to rule on the constitutionality of the Bush administration's warrantless-eavesdropping program.'" jamie points out that Obama's views and opinions were made clear through his Senate vote and numerous public statements, but many others see this as a disappointing start to an administration promising transparency and openness.

Comment Re:The end of residential computer networks (Score 1) 331

by jsternbe on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @02:45PM (#25805583) Attached to: New TN Law Forces Universities To Patrol For Copyright Violations

One of UT Knoxville's solutions was to block all P2P file transfers on the university network. I have no idea of how much the software/hardware to do this cost and I hate to think how many computers on campus were comprimised by people downloading patches from untrustworthy websites when the World of Warcraft expansion came out last week (since Blizzard's official updater is excruciatingly slow when it can't use bittorrent).

Comment Abuse of the word "science". (Score 1) 683

by jsternbe on Monday November 17, 2008 @01:55PM (#25788537) Attached to: Science's Alternative To an Intelligent Creator

How are unobservable "multiverses" and a theory which not only is unprovable, but can not make any predictions any more scientifically satisfying than having an intellegent creator? It seems to me that this is basically replacing one religion with another and has nothing to do with real science (which must be testable and make predictions).

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