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Submission + - U.S. House Science Committee Member calls Evolution a lie from the "Pit of Hell" (bostonherald.com) 2
Submission + - Laser strikes on aircraft becoming epidemic. (arstechnica.com)
Submission + - Agile Still Struggling to Gain Acceptance (drdobbs.com)
The survey also shows that only 49% of respondents say their company is using Agile, and of those, about half claim to be happy with their current Agile projects."
Submission + - Rep. Paul Broun says scientists are tools of the devil (talkingpointsmemo.com) 2
All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell.
And it’s lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior
According to Broun, the scientific plot was primarily concerned with hiding the true age of the Earth. Broun serves on the House Science Committee, which came under scrutiny recently after another one of its Republican members, Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), suggested that victims of “legitimate rape” have unnamed biological defenses against pregnancy.
You see, there are a lot of scientific data that I’ve found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth,
he said.
I don’t believe that the Earth’s but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That’s what the Bible says.
Submission + - Virgin Galactic's Quiet News
Virgin Galactic has acquired full ownership of The SpaceShip Company, which will build production versions of SpaceShip Two. Ownership was previously shared with Scaled Composites, which built SpaceShip One and is building the SpaceShip Two prototype.
There have been rumors of strained relations between Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites. This news, which was not announced until after the close of business Friday, raises some interesting questions about Virgin's relationship with Scaled and its plans for the future."
Submission + - Mozilla To Bug Firefox Users With Old Adobe Reader, Flash, Silverlight
Submission + - French Bees Produce Blue and Green Honey (reuters.com)
Submission + - The Internet accounts for 5.1 million US jobs and 3.7% of GDP
The research, development and procurement that launched the Internet back in the 1970s and 1980s cost the US taxpayers $124.5 million at the time — not a bad investment!"
Submission + - NASA Prepares for Space Surgery and Zero Gravity Blood
Submission + - Your Facebook Likes As A Hug (i-programmer.info)
That’s what MIT researchers Melissa Chow and her colleagues Andy Payne and Phil Seaton at MIT have come up with — a jacket that hugs the wearer when one of their friends ‘likes’ one of their posts on Facebook. The Like-A-Hug vest is described as receiving a signal when a Facebook friend "likes" a post, then fills with air to give the wearer the sensation of being hugged.
I’m not sure they’ve really thought this one through.For one thing, have they thought of the reaction of passersby when the jacket suddenly starts inflating when you are standing in line at an ATM or waiting for a bus? And what about when you are packed tightly together on a metro train in the rush hour and the hug is shared by four or more other people?
It does widen the whole concept of the user interface though, doesn’t it?
Submission + - A Supercomputer For Everyone? (kickstarter.com) 1
Submission + - cHTeMeLe is a board game about HTML (geek.com)
Despite cHTeMeLe’s technical theme, its developers claim you don’t need any web programming experience to play. The game takes web design standards and boils them down into game rules that even children can learn. To help less technical players keep everything straight, the tag cards use syntax highlighting that different parts of code have unique colors — just like an Integrated Developer Environment. No one is going to completely pick up HTML5 purely by playing cHTeMeLe, but it does have some educational value for understanding basic tags and how they fit together.
Submission + - California gasoline prices soar amid refinery and pipeline shutdowns (denverpost.com) 1
Submission + - Suspicion that Kim Dotcom was being spied on for longer than admitted (nzherald.co.nz)
The New Zealand Herald has obtained details showing Telecom engineers and staff at its technology services company Gen-I were investigating irregularities with his internet connection in November.
The revelation has raised suspicion that Mr Dotcom was victim to earlier spying than the GCSB has admitted. It has brought fresh calls for an inquiry amid claims of the spy agency's role in the international "Five Eyes" Echelon Network.
Submission + - Sweden Returns Passport to Piratebay Co-Founder 1
Submission + - Transporting Computers by Cargo Ship 2
Submission + - Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Jailbroken (paritynews.com)
Submission + - A spreadsheet is blamed for UK rail bid fiasco
Those are dangerous toys we've let the children have! [Full disclosure — I didn't leave the industry because of redundancy]
Submission + - Pwnie Express Announces Enterprise Pentesting Appliance (thepowerbase.com)
But with a price tag of nearly 3,000 USD, government and big businesses need only apply.