Comment Riiiight (Score 1) 584
And if you choose your metric carefully, you can get any answer out that you like.
Comment Management tools (Score 1) 551
A whip and a chair.
Submission + - is your style of dating on demand ? (datingindemand.com)
donavan writes: "If you haven't checked out the new book dating in demand you must ! Guys it will change your life ! This will teach you how to get more tail in less time, and ways to be a player with out getting played and scammed by wannabe women players. Overall a awesome book indeed !"
Submission + - AT&T Hides DSL Deal
An anonymous reader writes: http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AI D=2007708250382
Submission + - IronKey -- Clipper Chip revisited? (blogspot.com)
Father William writes: "Slashdot recently covered the IronKey — a self-destructing, hardware-encrypted USB flash drive with on-board secure Firefox, high-speed TOR network, password manager, and online encrypted backup.
Although the product seems to have a lot of advantages, some technical problems also appear to exist with the present implementation (particularly that "online encrypted backup" part), that also happen to bring to mind the Crypto Wars of the early 1990s, and perhaps the most notorious and memorable artifact of all, from that period — the Clipper Chip. So allow me to tell you a story (or several) . . . ."
Although the product seems to have a lot of advantages, some technical problems also appear to exist with the present implementation (particularly that "online encrypted backup" part), that also happen to bring to mind the Crypto Wars of the early 1990s, and perhaps the most notorious and memorable artifact of all, from that period — the Clipper Chip. So allow me to tell you a story (or several) . . . ."
Journal Journal: Human stem cells repair rat hearts damaged by heart attack
When human heart muscle cells derived from embryonic stem cells are implanted into a rat after a heart attack, they can help rebuild the animal's heart muscle and improve function of the organ, scientists report in the September issue of Nature Biotechnology. The researchers also developed a new process that greatly improves how stem cells are turned into heart muscle cells and then survive after being implanted in the damaged rat heart. The findings suggest that stem-cell-based treatments might
Submission + - Artists created "anti-social network" proj (10zenmonkeys.com)
destinyland writes: "Three geeky artists created an experiment where people meet in public spaces and then don't communicate in any way — no conversations, no interactions, and especially no text messages.
("The NoSo Project" remains committed "to fulfilling all your needs for greater social isolation.")
Billed as "a real-world platform for temporary disengagement from your social networking environment," it's actually commenting on the "over-connectivity" some people are experiencing. The artists were inspired by Brian Eno's "silent nightclub" concept, but say it's since hit a nerve with the "over-networked" population."
Submission + - Funny "Credit Crunch Cereal" (noctaluca.com)
Control Freak writes: "Fed Makes Counter Moves!
Funny enough to make you blow milk through your nose, comes this highly-processed packaging of our new Reserve fearless leader, Mr. Fed. Posted by Mark of "The Kingsland Report" via contributor cometgold.com, Credit Crunch cereal is "Fortified With Hedge Funds" and has "Sugar Coated Derivatives", and even serves up fresh squeezed consumers in a liquid market. But best of all, it has a Free Helicopter Inside* to follow the acrobatic ups and downs of the market. I wonder if you can hear the housing market bubbles bursting when you pour on the milk, or if it'll just slowly go sour. Mark Kingsland is at http://www.buttonwood1792.blogspot.com/.
* The asterisk allows the Fed to bend their own rules."
Journal Journal: *That* was memorable roleplaying
So I'm part of a regular Saturday D&D group. One of our players' two-year-old sister had gone through his room in the last week, and his character sheet is nowhere to be found. So he rolled up a changeling ranger as a replacement character.
Now, this guy is normally awful at roleplaying. He constantly metagames, yet manages not to think things through.
