Comment Re:Third group (Score 1) 721
Out of the Silent Planet, by C. S. Lewis, is a sci-fi book partially based on this premise.
Comment Re:Other Ecological disasters (Score 1) 456
I'm aware that Monarch butterflies migrate yearly to Mexico, but is migration common among other insects, especially bees? I thought lack of migration was the reason beekeepers don't have to recapture their populations every year.
Also, there are birds who stay for the winter. Granted, they may not be the right ones to keep an ecosystem in check, but I'm not going to say everything will die out without a lot of analysis of the situation.
Man Denied Right To Vote Because He Won't Use Computer 5
An anonymous reader writes 'A Houston man wasn't allowed to vote in Tuesday's mayoral election because he refuses to use computers and there were no other options available. No paper ballots? Skynet is taking over.'
Comment Re:Flash (Score 1) 1231
I've had the same issue with Flash, as well as having had to do some mucking about to get wireless working on my laptop. I don't really blame Ubuntu for the latter, though, as the wireless card in the laptop wasn't Linux compatible originally and only recently had drivers published.
Those are my only two issues... I'm moderately satisfied though I do hope future versions will anticipate the kinds of errors reported a bit better.
Comment Re:Revoke The Tax-Free Status Of The Catholic Chur (Score 1) 622
McCulloch v. Maryland's core ruling was that "the power to tax is the power to destroy." I think that if the government attempted to tax religious organizations, there could be a valid legal challenge arguing that it would violate the separation of church and state doctrine. Just my two cents.
Comment Re:Privitization (Score 3, Insightful) 681
Actually, for a period of America's early history there were many privatized roads - the word turnpike actually comes from the idea of having a pointy gate (resembling a row of pikes) that is turned aside to let a horseman or wagon pass only after a toll is paid. I'm not sure if any toll roads today are privately operated, but it is the same idea.
Submission + - CentOS Linux 5.4 Released
An anonymous reader writes: The fourth update in the CentOS Linux 5 family is released. Highlights of the new release include a kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) virtualization, alongside of Xen virtualization technology. The scalability of the virtualization solution has been incremented to support 192 CPUs and 1GB hugepages, GCC 4.4 and a new malloc(), clustered, high-availability filesystem etc. Grab a CD set from a mirror, and via BitTorrent 32bit, 64bit DVD. If you are already running CentOS-5.3 or an older CentOS-5 distro, just follow these simple instructions to upgrade over the Internet.
Submission + - Verizon Denounces Network Neutrality (internetnews.com) 1
darthcamaro writes: There are a lot of opinions in the U.S debate over network neutrality. The FCC is set to announce their ruling tomorrow but today Verizon's CEO Ivan Seidenberg came out with a stinging attack against it. Speaking at the big Supercomm conference in Chicago, Verizon's chief blasted network neutrality as a burdonsome regime that that could put the U.S back into a full blow recession.
"If a burdensome regime of network neutrality is imposed on all parts of the Internet industry, it will inject an extraordinary amount of bureaucratic oversight into the economy's main growth engine to the future," Seidenberg said."We can't create a smart economy by dumbing down our critical infrastructure. "We can't move forward by pitting network providers and applications developers against each other when the real promise of broadband is an expanding pie for everyone."
