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Comment Yes..but (Score 1) 2

Yes they are 'ready'. They will use the same brain dead excuse they did when native were found. That they are heathen and the believer mission is to convert them, then if they don't convert, use fear to create an us(we're good and right thinking!) with them (bad and wrong thinking.)

I have heard people say that find ET would end religion, and I wish they where right, but cognitive dissonance is strong in people who don't learn how to think critically.

Submission + - Are the world's religions ready for ET? (vanderbilt.edu) 2

Science_afficionado writes: At the current rate of discovery, astronomers will have identified more than a million exoplanets by the year 2045. That means, if life is at all common in the Milky Way, astronomers will soon detect it. Realization that the nature of the debate about life on other worlds is about to fundamentally change lead Vanderbilt astronomer David Weintraub to begin thinking seriously about how people will react to such a discovery. He realized that people's reactions will be heavily influenced by their religious beliefs, so he decided to find out what theologians and leaders from the world's major religions have to say about the matter. The result is a book titled "Religions and Extraterrestrial Life" published by Springer this month. http://www.springer.com/social... He discovered that from Baptists to Buddhists, from Catholics to Mormons, from Islam to the Anglican Communion religious views differ widely.

Submission + - CDC confirms Ebola case in U.S. (foxnews.com) 1

BobandMax writes: In what was probably an inevitable occurrence, Ebola virus has come to the U.S.. CDC will provide a statement today @ 1730 EDT.

Comment SQL Injection? in 2014?sheesh (Score 2) 46

Between January 2011 and March of this year, the four men and others allegedly hacked into the computer networks of Epic Games, Valve, Zombie Studios and the U.S. Army, as well as partners of Microsoft, using methods including SQL injection and stolen user names and passwords of company employees and software development partners.

Comment Re:Slashdot news for Nerds (Score 1) 135

". Discussing legal ramifications of a regulatory change seems pretty nerdy to me."
ANd there are a lot of site that specialize in law that are discussing it. /. is the worse place to discuss it because there are no experts here, and most people haven't even read the FCC ruling itself.

"Discussing legal ramifications of a regulatory change"
I don't think people spouting off their incorrect interpretation of the ruling and having no legal background actually count as a discussion so much as it is angry wankery

". I doubt that a sports site would be as interested in the legal aspects of the change;"
no, they have the same wankery going on on those site as slashdot does.

Comment Re:So nothing happened? (Score 1) 135

It means if it's broadcast in non blackout area, the cable/sat can play it in the local area. here, the doc. explains better than I:

  The Federal Communications Commission today repealed its sports blackout rules, which prohibited cable and satellite operators from airing any sports event that had been blacked out on a local broadcast station. The action removes Commission protection of the NFL’s current private blackout policy, which requires local broadcast stations to black out a game if a team does not sell a certain percentage of tickets to the game at least 72 hours prior to the game. The Order finds that the Commission’s sports blackout rules are no longer justified in light of the significant changes in the sports industry since these rules were first adopted nearly forty years ago.

Comment Re:Goes to show (Score 1) 135

Regulation is why the country is so stable. Yes it has ups and downs, but nothing compared to other countries that don't have regulation, or enforcement there of.

"I am from the government"
the most dangerous words in the English language are "I am from the government"

These NFL regulations made sense initially, but should have ended a decade age.

Comment Re:Going Cable! (Score 1) 135

If someone is a fan and doesn't have cable.Sat. then they aren't going to get it because of this ruling.
The NFL needs to wake up and start selling streaming packages to whomever ants them.

I know a lot of fans would would pay for that service, but since it's not offered, then end up going through UK sites.

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