Which to use? That's easy - whichever one supports your conclusion, which is the conclusion that most pleases the person funding your "research".

Unfortunately, climate and environmental "science" has been taken over by political interests. It's very difficult to find studies that aren't tainted in some way.

Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics...

Parents have a right to request alternate assignments if they are unhappy with part of the school's curriculum.

Also, please explain to me how allowing The Invisible Man to reside on a school library shelf is like taking your kid to a strip club.

What? Black slave owners? I don't believe it! Surely this is just another lie from the white devils! ...Oh, wait a minute...

Hope and Change, man. Fight the military industrial complex, stick it to the man, fight for the little guy, eat the rich!

Seriously though - you cannot be surprised about this. If you are, you either:

1. Have not been paying attention, or
2. Are not intellectually honest, or
3. Both 1 and 2.

No, I'm not saying that putting an (R) after a name instead of a (D) would make it any better. I'm sure that some of these spying programs were started under President Bush Jr., or perhaps Clinton, or Bush Sr., or maybe even earlier.

You see, nearly all of the politicians these days are big government advocates, and part of big government means they want to watch you so that they can control you. It's for your own good though, see. It's to keep you safe. Or something.

I am reminded of a woman who called Mike Trivisonno's radio show on WTAM a few years back. She was an old woman from Russia, back when it was part of the USSR. She was angry, screaming at us (the American people in general), "Don't you see what you are doing? Don't you know where this will lead? I left Russia to get away from this! What are you doing?"

You an I are very much the same, here.

I can't see myself wanting to turn the lights on and off, or adjust the temperature, or start the dish washer from the other side of the earth. Also, not only will there by the tracking etc., but if i can do these things from anywhere - so can some guy with the latest zero day exploit.

I just don't see the value here and I see a lot of reasons why it is a BAD thing.

The whole flying spaghetti monster was created just to troll religious people - you know that, I know that, everyone knows that, and people who run around pretending to believe in it really are just being trolls.

If someone has a point to make, fine, but you're not going to convince the other guy by mocking them.

For those with the inclination to read it, The Universe in a Single Atom is a great book about where science and faith meet, how they can learn from each other, and how they're really not at odds. One of the more interesting books I've read in a long time.

I'm okay with any theory being in a science textbook as long as there is some kind of scientific backing.

Evolution has some scientific backing. It should be in a science textbook. It's science, after all.

If someone can find some real scientific support for creationism, that's great. You can put that into the science textbook, too.

Until then, whether you believe in creationism, intelligent design, evolution, some kind of mixture of that, or something else entirely, you have to accept that only science should be in a science textbook.

You don't have to agree with the science. It is just a way of understanding the world, after all, but a science book should have science in it, and not have non-science.

As an analogy, it probably doesn't make a lot of sense to drop the teachings of Hinduism into a new revised copy of the Koran. The Koran is an Islamic text; the Hindu teachings really don't have much of a place there. Doesn't matter which one you believe to be correct, if any. It's just information existing in its proper context.

So please, Texas education people, it doesn't matter what you believe. It's all about putting things where they belong. You can believe whatever you want, I really don't care (unless you want to kill me or something, then there's a problem), but don't put non-science into a science book. It just doesn't belong.

Then, after a major scandal, if US still decided to stick to its guns and not bow down and apologize, you'd have a real cold war on your hands.

I'm leaning toward being okay with this. What ever happened to standing up for principles and calling people out on their bullshit?

The images generated are definitely difficult (and painful) to try to decipher. It's all of the colors and the dots everywhere... Makes me a bit nauseous, actually.

The concept doesn't really seem to be any better than just choosing a secure password in the form of a sentence. You don't need an image for that, you just need users that can remember "1234 is the password to my luggage." instead of "1234".

Absolutely, so that I can tweet about it while I'm there and upload pictures to Facebook.

100m people, but not all at the same time. Aside from the initial rush, day to day traffic would be comparatively minimal. You don't need the hardware sitting around to support 100 million people every single day. Don't be silly.

So spend the money to develop the architecture and software properly, then provision servers on an as-needed basis during the demand spikes. Servers from AWS or some other provider would provide capacity and cut back on costs.

You should check into the site on the first few days like I did. You'll see an obscene number of requests to load a single page. The system practically mounts its very own DDoS attack on itself. It's extremely amateurish. Also check out the "Success URL" from a day or two ago. Did they even test this thing before release?

We are talking about over half a billion dollars to build this damn thing, and years to do it.