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Comment: Cue Babel Fish... (Score 5, Funny) 813

by Marcaen on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @09:13PM (#42877655) Attached to: Missouri Legislation Redefines Science, Pushes Intelligent Design

That last sentence sounded strangely familiar:
"If biological intelligent design is taught, any proposed identity of the intelligence responsible for earth's biology shall be verifiable by present-day observation or experimentation and teachers shall not question, survey, or otherwise influence student belief in a nonverifiable identity within a science course." ....

`I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'
`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly disappears in a puff of logic.

IBM Makes Firefox Its Corporate Browser 152

Posted by kdawson on Friday July 02, 2010 @09:41AM
from the good-thing-orange-goes-with-blue dept.

e9th writes "Ars Technica reports that IBM has adopted Firefox as its company-wide browser. Firefox will be installed on all new employee computers, and all 400,000 employees will be encouraged to use it. Speaking of encouraging Firefox use, IBM VP Bob Sutor blogs: 'We will continue to strongly encourage our vendors who have browser-based software to fully support Firefox.' I hope this means that if IBM can't navigate a vendor's site with Firefox, they'll just look elsewhere."

Firefox 3 Performance Gets a Boost 550

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @07:28PM
from the powers-of-ten dept.

jason writes "Mozilla has been working hard at making Firefox 3 faster than its predecessor, and it looks like they might be succeeding. They've recently added some significant JavaScript performance improvements that beat out all of the competition, including Opera 9.5 Beta. And it comes out to be about ten times faster than Internet Explorer 7! Things are really starting to fall into place for Firefox 3 Beta 4 which should be available in the next week or two."

Diebold Leaks 2008 Election Results 196

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @01:07PM
from the vote-early-vote-often dept.

samzenpus writes "With all the scrutiny that Diebold has received in past few years you'd think that they would be more careful but apparently due to a malfunction in some machines, they have leaked the results to the 2008 presidential race early. Hopefully this will be the nail in Diebold's coffin. Surely we have another company in this country that can run a sham election better."