I think you misinterpreted the use of "should" there. It's not that it should happen, as in it likely will happen, it's just we have an obligation to do it.

People have HEARD (and accept) that we're pumping too much CO2 into our atmosphere, but very few people have taken serious effort against it. As I'm sure many slashdotters would agree (hopefully I'm not stretching myself too far here), renewed discussion of fossil fuels in public forums, media and government needs to happen. Our population is large enough to affect an entire planet. Following our reckless impulses and immediate desires is NOT an option, and we should work [our asses off] to change that.

For example, if you're interested in physics, pick a section out of Halliday's Fundamentals of Physics PDF, read it, then later during another break take a look at an example or practice problem. Hell, practice the method of Loci memorization technique. You'll get something out of that if you stick with it.

Really, just pick anything you're interested in.

I won't explain it, as I don't feel like reading through all of it right now, but someone else is welcome to! And now it's easy to find.

Emission of pulse:

It's actually called Double optical Gating, not Grating, as the article called it. http://www.phys.ksu.edu/personal/chang/Chang-attoweb.pdf

Detection: Phase Retrieval by Omega Oscillation Filtering

http://www.creol.ucf.edu/research/publications/2859.pdf

I very much disagree. I like having a consistently large player pool with which to compare my play. Many of the people you play in online games have already gotten good enough to beat or compete with the best computer opponents. Facing a human player, in my experience, provides a new and unique challenge, even if you can't see their face.

There are also often large gaps in skill between friends that play games. The discrepancies between friends gets taken away when you play against a large player pool. Who cares if you're best at a game between 4 people? How about in the top 1% of 500,000 people?

I love to play with my friends, but I love it even more when we can play against an anonymous online multiplayer base. In CoD, for example, we can work together as a team and find a position together against incoming forces. It makes it even more real. Almost like real war.

I'm not sure what makes your challenges inspring and meaningful, and what makes mine soulless and pointless, but I have more fun with online multiplayer games than with games that don't connect. When I'm home alone late at night, and the house is dead silent - lonely even - there's something eerie about playing bots -- add the online part, and suddenly it fills the house with *just a little* more presence.

Be careful where you lump every gamer. There's a reason why many of these games actually have a

and why EA is willing to bet on it.

From TFA:

Couldn't they just give all of the teams a set of identical DNA (for instance, the teams unknowingly share the DNA of 10 individuals) and compare the sequenced genomes to get an idea of how accurate they are?

It IS in *facebook*'s best interest to keep pedophiles away. It's not a government run panopticon. Facebook could take a lot of flack if it became a pedophile hub. They don't want to lose users that way.

It was only 7 meters across. No impending doom this time folks.

If one were interested in acting on the show, how could he or she get involved?

Hey, if the religious website administrator can't prevent malware from entering the site, maybe the readers are just as bad at preventing malware from entering their computer! That makes religious sites an even bigger target!

http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/03/01/1648232/liberalism-and-atheism-linked-to-iq

Ok, sorry, blatant attack on religion. I just remember reading the article, so making the connection made me smile. Err, I mean... smile in the least offensive of ways.

RTFA, Bill Banning, head of the major employer, Facebook Snooping, recently introduced himself to congress.

That's like!... that's like!... *mumbles doing some math* carry the four... subtract the depth times the... divide out all extra... mmhm ... surface area... ah, yes... average out the known surface water... okay... times roughly 100... *writes some more* Yes! ... That's like zero liters of water!

*shoulders drop in disappointment*

Did anyone else notice that the arXiv PDF was posted on April 1st?

Improving San Francisco's MUNI system is pretty important to me. It's been considerably annoying to see cars parked in the bus lane, and it's almost annoying as seeing cars park in the middle of the right lane with their emergency lights on because there's no parking, which more buses would help with! ... As a side note, it's almost impossible to live in San Francisco for an extended period of time with a vehicle and not get a parking ticket. They're ruthless!!

It's funny though, I've lived in Germany for the last half year, and I've found that their transportation system is ten times better than San Francisco's. Don't get me wrong, BART is amazing, but I live in a small town at the moment and its transportation system runs more often than San Francisco's. Paris and Berlin have both train systems that run late, and night trains, while San Francisco's train system stops around 11 pm (then buses run sparsely after that).

"that needed bailed out"?

you don't happen to be from pittsburgh, do you? or maybe have relatives that are from there?

The thing is, we don't get to choose between a billion dollars spent here and a billion there. IMHO before we can even argue about where money gets spent, we, as a country (I'm referring to the US, you said dollars :P), need to get our priorities straight. As a country we have access to an absolutely HUGE amount of money; we just need to take it. With the proper government in place, we could advance our quality of life AND our [space] technology without even having to choose one over the other. It would, unfortunately, require a massive cultural change to a more scientific and activism oriented society.

And of course, this is obligatory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States

But seriously, when are we going to do something about it?