Cyraan - Slashdot User

Comment: What's sad is.. (Score 1) 871

by Cyraan on Friday January 11 2008, @05:18PM (#22005266) Attached to: 12 Florida Schools Pass Anti-Evolution Resolutions

It might still be an incredibly small step up from our current curriculum (IIRC, this is the first change to it since I finished school) which doesn't even mention the word evolution, instead using the term changes over time .

Just being Floridian makes you the butt of a near-endless supply of jokes (the 2000 election, old people, our pathetic intolerance for temperatures below 50 F... ok, that one has some basis in fact) I guess some of us just like it.

2008

2007

Court: Cops Can Steal and Lie to Conduct Searches->

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Spamicles

on Friday June 08 2007, @05:59PM

Spamicles writes "Police officers faked a car jacking in order to search a car that was suspected to be used in drug trafficking. They discovered drugs and arrested the owners of the car. A lower court ruled that the warrant-less search and seizure violated the Fourth Amendment and that the drugs could not be used as evidence. This ruling was overturned today."
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Jerry Falwell

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Anonymous Coward

on Tuesday May 15 2007, @02:49PM

Anonymous Coward writes "NPR and BBC are reporting Jerry Falwell's death. Question: Is it alright to be happy that someone so divisive and so bent on mixing religion and politics in an "us vs. them" way is dead?"

HD-DVD processing key and massive censorship

Submitted by

Rudd-O

on Tuesday May 01 2007, @01:09PM

Rudd-O writes "After successful discovery of the HD-DVD processing key, massive unprecedented amounts of censorship, in the form of DMCA takedown notices (by the MPAA), have begun to circulate around the Internet. For example, Spooky Action at a Distance was killed. More disturbingly, my story got Dugg twice, with the second wave hitting 15.500 votes, and today I found out it had simply disappeared from Digg. How long until the long arm of the MPAA gets to my own site (run in Ecuador) and the rest of them holding the processing key? How long will we let rampant censorhip go, in the name of economic interest?"

Google "airbrushes" Katrina history

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2007, @01:49PM

An anonymous reader writes "Google using pre-Katrina satellite pictures of New Orleans. Not clear when it switched from images with storm damage. House panel calls change an "injustice" to storm's victims. Google says it switched to images with improved detail."

48% of Americans reject Evolution

Submitted by on Saturday March 31 2007, @01:42PM

An anonymous reader writes "There's an interesting if insane survey at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17879317/site/newsweek / — Given a straightforward question if evolution was "well-supported by evidence and widely accepted within the scientific community," 48% of Americans said "no." Furthermore, 34% of college graduates said they accept the Biblical story of creation as fact."

How to Turn A Music Lover to Piracy

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dugn

on Tuesday March 20 2007, @04:47PM

dugn writes "The Consumerist (consumerist.com) is running a story about how a run of the mill (read non-tech-savvy) music lover was pushed to become a pirate. http://consumerist.com/consumer/drm/how-i-became-a -music-pirate-245644.php A simple good piece that shows how the end user experience of DRM is starting to get needed traction in more blogs and mainstream web sites."

EFF forces DMCA abuser to apologize

Submitted by

destinyland

on Wednesday March 14 2007, @05:23PM

destinyland writes "The EFF just announced victory over a serial abuser of DMCA copyright notices. To set an example, their settlement required Michael Crook to record a video apology to the entire internet for interfering with free speech. He's also required to withdraw every bogus DMCA notice, and refrain from future bogus notices, never contest the original image again, and take a remedial class on copyright law. He'd attempted to use flaws in the DMCA to censor an embarrassing picture of himself that he just didn't want appearing online — but instead the whole thing backfired."

Bush administration again stifles scientists.

Submitted by niloroth on Sunday March 11 2007, @02:21PM

niloroth writes "The Independent Online Reports on a leaked memorandum from the US Department of the Interior instructing members of the US Fish and Wildlife Service to refrain from mentioning climate change, sea ice, or polar bears in their trips to countries the arctic region. Following other such attempts by this administration to control either scientists connected with the government, or the results of those scientists, is there any hope for the next few years? Or is this just how it will be in the future no matter who is in power? Is the mix of science and government funding just too volatile?"

Justice Department Says FBI Misused Patriot Act

Submitted by on Friday March 09 2007, @12:13PM

An anonymous reader writes "In a report just released by the Justice Department, as predicted by many including those on Slashdot, the FBI has misused and abused the PATRIOT Act to illegally gain access to information about people living in the United States.

From the article:
FBI agents sometimes demanded the data without proper authorization, according to a 126-page audit by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine. At other times, the audit found, the FBI improperly obtained telephone records in non-emergency circumstances.

..."we believe the improper or illegal uses we found involve serious misuses of national security letter authorities," the audit concludes."