Comment Re:Paypal (Score 1) 667
Totally. To all Iranians doing business. Switch to bitcoins right now.
Submission + - US Lawmaker Opens up ACTA to Online Comments (pcworld.com)
WhyNotAskMe writes: "Representative Darrell Issa, a California Republican, posted ACTA on his Keepthewebopen.com site Tuesday. Even though the U.S. and seven other countries signed the agreement in October, the public needs to be included in the debate as President Barack Obama's administration begins to implement ACTA, Issa said.
Issa criticized the agreement, saying most negotiations were in secret. The deal appears to violate Congress' authority to make policy affecting U.S. trade and intellectual property law, he added. "ACTA appears to be an unconstitutional power grab started by President George W. Bush and completed by President Barack Obama."
Gee — President Obama seemed to be such a nice guy. Then he sold out to the entertainment lobbies. "Yes we can — bypass Congress and impose a treaty developed by the MPAA on the whole world". Now that's optimism!"
Issa criticized the agreement, saying most negotiations were in secret. The deal appears to violate Congress' authority to make policy affecting U.S. trade and intellectual property law, he added. "ACTA appears to be an unconstitutional power grab started by President George W. Bush and completed by President Barack Obama."
Gee — President Obama seemed to be such a nice guy. Then he sold out to the entertainment lobbies. "Yes we can — bypass Congress and impose a treaty developed by the MPAA on the whole world". Now that's optimism!"
Submission + - $1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless (wordpress.com)
TheNextCorner writes: "This video is here to demonstrate that the TSA’s insistence that the nude body scanner program is effective and necessary is nothing but a fraud, just like their claims that the program is safe (radiation what?) and non-invasive (nude pictures who?). The scanners are now effectively worthless, as anyone can beat them with virtually no effort."
Submission + - Building Blocks: Awesome Lego Science Models (wired.com)
An anonymous reader writes: There may be no better way to engage kids of all ages in learning about science than with a Lego-based DNA molecule, robot or rocket.
Wired.com scoured the internet for the best, quirkiest, most innovative examples of science-inspired Lego creations, including a space shuttle, MRI machine, particle collider and mushroom cloud.
Wired.com scoured the internet for the best, quirkiest, most innovative examples of science-inspired Lego creations, including a space shuttle, MRI machine, particle collider and mushroom cloud.
Comment Re:Winter? (Score 1) 40
They have limited internet access, so I'm told, would be hilarious if someone there posted in this thread.
Dang its early in the morning here. Of course they have access, or we wouldn't have seen their uploaded picture...
They have very low bandwidth and only connection when a satellite is overhead so it is very spotty.
Comment Re:Winter? (Score 1) 40
staying there over winter
It may be cold at the South Pole, but it's Summer there.
No winter lasts from mid feb thru mid october at amunseon-scott. I donno anything about the schedule this year specifically, but its almost March... last trip out was probably a couple weeks ago and they're stuck there until almost Halloween. They have limited internet access, so I'm told, would be hilarious if someone there posted in this thread.
Exactly. It is still light there but the weather is so tough they can't fly in or out. So it is technically winter there already.
Submission + - Geohashing conquers the South Pole (xkcd.com)
Kjellander writes: Randall, of xkcd fame, and inventor of Geohashing, has commented on the recent successful expedition of a Globalhash less than 1 km from the Amundsen-Scott research station by 5 brave scientists staying there over winter. The last continent has been conquered and many records broken.
Submission + - Malware IQ Test (infoworld.com)
snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Woody Leonhard offers 20 questions to test how much you know about the malware underworld of spam, botnets, viruses, and cyber crime. The Morris Worm, Chernobyl, polymorphic virus, what it means when a virus is 'in the wild' — 'put on your sleuth specs and set your ever-so-slightly-gray hat at a jaunty angle and see if you're in tune with the multi-billion-dollar industry — or just a victimized bystander waiting to get duped by the next rogue bits.'"
Submission + - South Pole team on a record-setting globalhash expedition (xkcd.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The record for the Southern-most geohash hardly be beaten anytime soon after a team from the Scott-Amundsen South Pole Station visited a globalhash on Sunday.
Geohashing is a Spontaneous Adventure Generator that was created by the online comic xkcd (http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/).
Geohashing is a Spontaneous Adventure Generator that was created by the online comic xkcd (http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/).
Comment Re:One small victory for a man.. (Score 1) 717
I haven't watched the video yet, but according to his Wikipedia page, Haught is an evolutionist. I don't see what anachronistic fossils would do to his position.
Then watch the fucking video! Listen to what he says literally. I'm not gonna quote him, watch the video for yourself.
Creationists have gotta stop telling each other that just because creation needs blind faith, all other positions also needs blind faith. Believing without evidence, and not believing in absence of evidence is not the same thing. The former needs blind faith, the latter is just the wise thing to do. There is no such thing as an "evolutionist", it's not an -ism. Coyne is a scientist, pure and simple.
Comment Re:One small victory for a man.. (Score 3, Informative) 717
You obviously didn't watch the video particularly closely. Coyne (and me and all the rest of the scientists) are telling you exactly the type of things that would change our minds. Human fossils in the precambrian, any anachronistic fossil for that matter, whole amputated limbs regrowing just because of some prayer and not modern medicine, things in the bible like predictions about electrons or something else that couldn't have been written by men in the bronze age, things like that. That is not blind faith. It is falsifiable.
Why not use a tool like science, when it is there, and it makes predictions about the world? Something religion never has done.
Twitter To Meet With UK Government About Riots 186
"Twitter has confirmed that it will meet with the UK Home Secretary on Thursday, after being called in for discussions over the role it played in the recent UK riots. Twitter will send a representative to the meeting scheduled for August 25. Both Facebook and RIM will also send representatives to the meeting in regards to their effects on the riots."
Comment Re:It must be falsifiable (Score 1) 916
I don't think it's up to the antiponents of a hypothesis to decide that no falsification conditions exist. I had a search for falsification conditions, and I found this:
The hypothesis can be falsified by converting one organism/species into another...
That's already been done. Craig Venter converted a yeast to a bacteria. Last year in fact.
Comment It must be falsifiable (Score 5, Informative) 916
A null hypothesis must be falsifiable, and therefor "it must be a wizard that did it" cannot be the null hypothesis.
Q.E.D.
Comment Re:Looks like they'll have my name... (Score 1) 288
Those people are part of a terrorist organization and should have _all_ their funds seized as all terrorist suspects.
