Comment Avast ye scurvy dogs! (Score 1) 3
Arrr, I ought to keelhaul the lot of ye. Not a single post in buccanneer, that`s jus' disappointin'.
Comment Re:speculating about the real purpose (Score 0) 239
I once went there. Of course, that was in a video game, as with a lot of things I've supposedly done or experienced (such as performing a kidney transplant)
Comment Re:Or... (Score 1) 212
Perhaps you'd prefer to just walk around doing good without any control over it, because the solution to most of those questions would involve God controlling everyone. Yes, free will exists, and yes, people will do with it what they feel like. As for the cancer, the five year old is, according to the nearest Mormon, automatically sorted into the highest level of heaven for dying young, and honestly if his wife died a year later the 'why' is looking more like 'it's genetic'.
Thousands of starving children die every day because we haven't moved on to hydroponic farming yet. Most of these have to do with people exercising their free will, directly or indirectly. As a rule, God doesn't interfere with that.
Comment Re:Or... (Score 2) 212
Please show us your evidence that God doesn't exist, Herr Prosecutor.
Comment Re:!paper (Score 1) 444
Touché.
Comment Re:!paper (Score 1) 444
I'm sure several poor Chinese kids drank plenty of water during that shirt's production.
Or was it Polynesia? I haven't checked my shirt recently.
Comment Re:Redundant links (Score 1) 149
Not only that, but TFA's title contradicts the title given here.
Also, what the hell is a fork in this context?
Submission + - Electronic Health Records Now In All Mil Hospitals (informationweek.com) 7
smitty777 writes: Information Week is reporting on the the inclusion of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in all US military hospitals. This is significant in that it allows the sharing of patient information on a worldwide scale, improving care. This is leading a national trend, which is currently motivated by HIT Meaningful Use legislation which provides incentives for civilian physicicans to adopt EHRs. Not that the adoption is without challenges. The usability of EHRs is also an ongoing concern.
Submission + - Teen Builds Nuclear Bomb Detector (gizmodo.com)
DaneM writes: "An enterprising teenage boy named Taylor Wilson, 17, has created a homemade, hand-held nuclear bomb detector. It utilizes a small fusion reactor that he made when he was 14, and detects nuclear materials by shooting neutrons at closed containers and exciting any nuclear materials inside--which, in turn, causes more radiation to be produced, and is detected by the device. This may provide a simpler, more effective alternative to searching containers visually, one-at-a-time. No information is given about how safe such a practice is. Taylor also has some choice things to say about how science is, in fact, very cool."
Submission + - Weather Satellites Lose Funding (npr.org)
ianare writes: Federal budget cuts are threatening to leave the U.S. without some critical satellites, and that could mean less accurate warnings about events like tornadoes and blizzards. In particular, officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are concerned about satellites that orbit over the earth's poles rather than remaining over a fixed spot along the equator.
Submission + - Software patent reform happening now (blogspot.com)
Jim Hall writes: "Many of us in IT recognize that software patents are a bad idea — you can patent just about anything if you put "on a computer" at the end of it. But now we can finally do something about it. Congress is considering the America Invents Act — your Representatives are very interested in hearing from you. Also, the USPTO is inviting public comments to change the system (you need to file by June 29, 2011.) I've written a blog post about software patents with more, starting with a primer of copyright and patents."
Submission + - Wisconsin tried to ban Internet2 (the-scientist.com)
jd writes: "The Wisconsin legislature attempted to pass a budget that would ban any school, college or university from being a member of Internet2 or WiscNet on the grounds that such networks "unfairly competed" against commercial offerings.
Of course, Internet2 is already partly supplied by those very same commercial vendors and last I heard there weren't too many DSL providers offering 100 gigabit pipes running onto 9 terabit backbones. Nor, as we all know, do that many ISPs offer IPv6. So who, precisely, were Wisconsin concerned about?
For now, there has been a reprieve. But the legislature has made it clear that academic networks will not be tolerated in future and it does not seem far-fetched to expect other legislatures to prohibit such systems."
Of course, Internet2 is already partly supplied by those very same commercial vendors and last I heard there weren't too many DSL providers offering 100 gigabit pipes running onto 9 terabit backbones. Nor, as we all know, do that many ISPs offer IPv6. So who, precisely, were Wisconsin concerned about?
For now, there has been a reprieve. But the legislature has made it clear that academic networks will not be tolerated in future and it does not seem far-fetched to expect other legislatures to prohibit such systems."
Comment Re:I hate Iceland (Score 1) 191
Hey, if it weren't for us, it'd just be the Democratic Republic of Korea, and still be the same shithole, but over a bigger area.
Comment Re:SWG (Score 1) 329
What about all the other MMOs they ran into the ground? For example: The Matrix Online, and perhaps a few others..
Comment Re:I have done several different IQ tests (Score 1) 488
I did a regular official one (weschler or something like that scale), and it gave me an 85. Maybe it's because I'm lazy, all my teachers say I'm much better than 15 points above retarded.
