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That bit in the summary about a 'huge' moon like ours and it being a once in a universe event is garbage/FUD added to the real story about an asteroid/small body 's collision with Mars.
People used to believe the world was flat but we don't need to throw that crap into every story about mapping or GPS.
IF you RTFA then you'll find no mention of some freaking 'Huge' moon being necessary to life. I suspect whoever wrote the Slashdot summary read too much Issac Asimov from the 60's, and wanted to seem 'SMRT'.
Check it out here

in a related event, god said: thou shalt not steal.

why the fuck do some people insist on calling it the $100 laptop? did they not pass grade school maths?

British police, with U.S. investigators, shatter a global internet pedophile ring, rescuing 31 children and rounding up more than 700 suspects worldwide. Authorities bust an internet chat room hosting horrific images and streaming live videos of kids.

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/topheadlines/~3/125871104/BRITAIN_PEDOPHILE_RING

barryman_5000 writes "Con Kolivas dismayed by the current evolution of the CFS mainline schedular, maintained by Ingo Molnar, is calling it quits for the ck patchset. From the wiki page: "Mr. Ingo Molnar has then begun to rapidly develop and enhance his own version of the disputed code, CFS, sometimes using ideas (but giving credit) from Mr. Kolivas' Staircase-Deadline (SD). Mr. Molnar's code is likely to be included in the mainline Linux kernel. This may have been a strong reason for Mr. Con Kolivas to abandon his patchset." So no more ck patchset? If you use the ck patchset run a few benchmarks against CFS and let them know how you feel!"
http://ck.wikia.com/wiki/End_of_ck_patchset

Here's a fun patent worth reading. I think it shows just how bizarre the patent granting process has become. It might also help you if you are inclined toward the kind of vague psychological help you find in cheap self-help books. Also, perhaps, if you're a fan of the Madam Blavatsky school of philosophy.

Here are the two (thats all) claims, which seem to me to cover almost anything as long as it has 81 things grouped in threes:

1. A psychological development system comprising triangulation, categorization and interpretation.
2. A psychological development system comprising evaluating at least three things in at least three ways in at least three levels that is repeated at least three times.

And a description that reads rather like Madame Blavatsky and achieves impressive levels of buzzwordy, symbolist vagueness. Just one sample :

The Triangle symbolizes the Personal Realm and relates to the Qualitative Research approach...pointing upwards it stands for ascent to heaven, fire, and the active male principle: reversed, it symbolizes grace descending from heaven, water, the receptive female element.

joeljkp writes "OpenMotif 2.3 has been released, marking the first major release to the venerable toolkit since 2000. Major features include anti-aliased fonts, UTF-8 support, and native support for PNG and JPEG images, among other things. OpenMotif is the open source counterpart to the Motif toolkit, which, according to the site, "is the leading user interface toolkit for the UNIX based operating system.""
http://www.motifzone.net/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=75&MMN_position=74:3