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Submission + - Sony apologises to Manchester Cathedral (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15, 2007 @03:46PM

An anonymous reader writes: The BBC reports that Sony has apologised to Manchester Cathedral for using images of it in the PS3 game "Resistance: Fall of man", but is going to take no further action.

Submission + - Congress Considers Forcing Travel Registration (iht.com)

Submitted by macduffman on Friday June 15, 2007 @03:35PM

macduffman writes: Congress and the Department of Homeland Security are considering several new visa restrictions, including forcing some foreign travelers to register their travel plans online 48 hours in advance. What would this mean for foreign relations and the economy?

Submission + - w3af, much more than metasploit for the web (sf.net)

Submitted by webSecurity on Friday June 15, 2007 @03:28PM

webSecurity writes: A new and interesting open source project was released last Sunday, it's a web application attack and audit framework that allows users to create a site map, find vulnerabilities and exploit them! It's completely written in Python and extended using plugins, more information can be found at the project main site at http://w3af.sf.net/

YouTube to Host Presidential Debate 180

Posted by Zonk on Friday June 15, 2007 @03:23PM from the bringing-dancing-cats-to-the-world-of-politics dept.

skotte writes "Wired is reporting that July 23 at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, Anderson Cooper will host presidential debates in which debaters are asked 20-30 questions culled from a specially designated section of YouTube, where the voting populace can post questions directly. You and I (assuming you're American, probably) can ask questions ourselves, not just a reporter in a crowd. Candidates won't know which questions they are being asked, and the video selection process will remain a complete secret. Interesting, but also the slightest bit scary."

Comment Outcast by friends and family (Score 5, Interesting) 1060

by kayakun on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @04:55PM (#18353947) Attached to: Stephen Hawking Says Universe Created from Nothing

Also, keep in mind that a lot of them don't like to rock the boat of their personal lives. Saying you don't believe in god is a good way to distance yourself from your family and or spouse -- so many either lie, or, more likely, just avoid thinking down that path a lot because it has no positive benefit.

I strongly agree with your statement. Many of my classmates don't like to speak with me, or even "look down" on me for my un-Christian views. In addition, I've had multiple girls refuse to date me simply because I'm not Christian. Although one could argue that the girls are using that as an excuse to just not date me, I'm talking about the cases when I've become very close to the girl, and the next logical step would be to date.

Whatever the case may be, I certainly have heard people at least claim that they don't want to spend time/go out/talk with me because I'm not Christian. People think it's wrong to discriminate based on race, but when discrimination occurs based on religion (on a small scale, I'm not talking about the holocaust), it's suddenly justified because that's part of the religious doctrine?

I used to be Christian, and at my church, we were told as kids to only have close friends with people within the church. Having friends with anyone else would supposedly cause us to turn away from the "truth" and fall into temptation.

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