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Comment Re:Its been done before (Score 1) 478

by diewlasing (#36711148) Attached to: Facebook Helps Israel Blacklist Air Travellers
You realize it's not all Palestinians, right? It's Hamas lobbing the rockets as you say. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a long complicated one. But if you decide to journey out of the land of ignorance, you'd see that throughout most of the history, the Palestinians have had their fate decided by everyone but them. It hasn't been until recently that Palestine has started negotiating for itself. And so far, the main leader(s) of Palestine have been inept (Yasser Arafat), likewise with the intransigence of the Israelis. My point is, it's not as simple as you make it out to be. I suggest you read the history before discussing this any further, so you can provide informed positive contributions.
Science

Submission + - Scientific journals can be as bad as newspapers in (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by diewlasing
diewlasing writes: Ben Goldacre, writing for the Guardian, tells a story about possible similarities between academic, peer-reviewed journals and the mainstream news media: that both would prefer reporting eye-catching results rather than negative results.
Math

Submission + - The maximum overhang algorithm (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk
mikejuk writes: From playing with bricks as small children we all understand the idea of overhang — or at least we used to think we did. Recent award winning research suggests there is more to it than you might think.
So what is the biggest overhang you can create by stacking n bricks.
Science

Submission + - Happiest places have highest suicide rates says ne (physorg.com)

Submitted by Kyusaku Natsume
Kyusaku Natsume writes: Physorg.com carries this story of new research from UK’s University of Warwick, Hamilton College in New York and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco that leads to this conclusion. Acording to one of the researchers:

“Discontented people in a happy place may feel particularly harshly treated by life. Those dark contrasts may in turn increase the risk of suicide. If humans are subject to mood swings, the lows of life may thus be most tolerable in an environment in which other humans are unhappy.”

Maybe this research explains why in third world countries the suicide rates are generally lower than in developed nations.

Submission + - Fukushima "illegal information" will be censored (japanfocus.org) 2

Submitted by dgilzz
dgilzz writes: The [japanese] government charges that the damage caused by earthquakes and by the nuclear accident are being magnified by irresponsible rumors, and the government must take action for the sake of the public good. The project team has begun to send “letters of request” to such organizations as telephone companies, internet providers, cable television stations, and others, demanding that they “take adequate measures based on the guidelines in response to illegal information. ”The measures include erasing any information from internet sites that the authorities deem harmful to public order and morality.

Submission + - Rumors of Higgs boson discovery at LHC (livescience.com)

Submitted by Magnifico
Magnifico writes: LiveScience is reporting that scientists are abuzz over a controversial rumor that the 'God particle' has been detected by a particle-detection experiment at LHC at CERN.

The Higgs boson "rumor is based on what appears to be a leaked internal note from physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 17-mile-long particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland. It's not entirely clear at this point if the memo is authentic... The buzz started when an anonymous commenter recently posted an abstract of the note on Columbia University mathematician Peter Woit's blog, Not Even Wrong."

This could be a flat-out hoax or a statistical anomaly or... confirmation of the particle that bestows mass on all the other particles.
Security

Submission + - Apple: We 'must have' comprehensive location data

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Apple's iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, the iPhone 4, and iPad models are also keeping track of consumers whereabouts. Mac computers running Snow Leopard and even Windows computers running Safari 5 are being watched. But the question is why? "To provide the high quality products and services that its customers demand, Apple must have access to the comprehensive location-based information," Apple says.
Sony

Submission + - Father of CD's, Norio Ohga dies at 81 (time.com)

Submitted by kaptink
kaptink writes: Former Sony president and chairman Norio Ohga, credited with expanding the company from electronics hardware to software and entertainment and developing the compact disc, died Saturday at age 81. Ohga, who led the company from 1982 to 1995, died of multiple organ failure in Tokyo, Sony said.

Comment Re:And I pray the opposite... (Score 1) 735

by diewlasing (#35758442) Attached to: Tennessee Bill Helps Teachers Challenge Evolution

WHY, pray tell, does there have to be a conflict? And, by the way, evolution of simple organisms is observable and repeatable.

Please name one experiment where a simple organism gained information. The increase in genetic information is what is required to jump from microevolution to macroevolution

There is no such things as micro or macro- evolution, it's just evolution. The two terms only exist in the minds of creationists.

Submission + - Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Rovin (forbes.com)

Submitted by diewlasing
diewlasing writes: As the privacy controversy around full-body security scans begins to simmer, it’s worth noting that courthouses and airport security checkpoints aren’t the only places where backscatter x-ray vision is being deployed. The same technology, capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on U.S. streets.

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