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Comment Re:"Competing" like WWF (Score 2, Informative) 696

by LazyBoyWrangler (#33637054) Attached to: Stewart and Colbert Plan Competing D.C. Rallies
You obviously don't watch the shows - Colbert is far more biting with his satire of the right wing than Stewart. Stewart maintains a veneer of objectivity in his political comedy - Colbert goes all out and makes Beck, Limbaugh and O'Reilly look bad by emulating them mercilessly. Don't know how you modded up - since your post is written by someone who does not understand the subject matter.
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Breaking the Squid Barrier 126

Posted by timothy from the calimari-for-the-5000 dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Dr. Steve O'Shea of Auckland, New Zealand is attempting to break the record for keeping deep sea squid alive in captivity, with the goal of being able to raise a giant squid one day. Right now, he's raising the broad squid, sepioteuthis australis, from egg masses found in seaweed. This is a lot harder than it sounds, because the squid he's studying grow rapidly and eat only live prey, making it hard for them to keep the squid from becoming prey themselves. If his research works out, you might one day be able to visit an aquarium and see giant squid."
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Canadian Blood Services Promotes Pseudoscience 219

Posted by samzenpus from the type-A-negative-personality dept.
trianglecat writes "The not-for-profit agency Canadian Blood Services has a section of their website based on the Japanese cultural belief of ketsueki-gata, which claims that a person's blood group determines or predicts their personality type. Disappointing for a self-proclaimed 'science-based' organization. The Ottawa Skeptics, based in the nation's capital, appear to be taking some action."

Submission + - The digital divide widens

Submitted by LazyBoyWrangler
LazyBoyWrangler writes: I don't know about everyone else, but like many Slashdotters (is that an Icelandic Matronymic?) I am de-facto tech support to everyone who knows my phone number. Family, friends, neighbors, their friends ... the list is every growing and endless.

After fixing a Windows networking problem about removing disconnected (VPN-routed Samba) shares that couldn't be removed, call waiting beeped and my Dad was having phone programming trouble. I'm supposed to be solving an OpenVPN on Macintosh Snow Leopard problem and also getting a security audit done.

I believe that civilians (not us tech folk) using technology are getting less and less capable of dealing with things and it is reaching a crisis point. My ten year old son is better equipped to deal with problems at his school than his teachers (or the other kids for that matter).

Just for giggles, who thinks a "nerd strike" protest day is a good idea? If all of us refused to do free tech support for products we don't get paid to support for one day, would the world cease rotating? Perhaps people would change their valuation of our time if we all put down our phones for 24 hours. Would this teach to world a lesson?

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