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Submission + - Signs of water found on Mars?

Submitted by vDiver on Wednesday December 06, 2006 @02:40PM

vDiver writes: CNN is reporting that scientists may have found evidence of water on Mars, in a way that not many have expected. It seems that there is the possibility of sub-surface water that occasionally breaks the surface. This is quite a change in may perceptions of our red neighbor. Personally, I welcome our new Martian overlords!

Submission + - NIST Rejects Paper Trail

Submitted by

emil10001

on Wednesday December 06, 2006 @01:36PM

emil10001 writes: "The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) rejected a proposal to suggest that electronic voting have a paper trail. From the Post article: "The proposal was based on draft recommendations developed by scientists at NIST, who said in a document released last week that voting machines that do not produce a paper record of each vote 'cannot be made secure.'" Committee member Brit Williams, who opposed the measure, said, "You are talking about basically a reinstallation of the entire voting system hardware." The proposal failed to obtain the 8 of 15 votes needed to pass. "Five states — Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland and South Carolina — use machines without a paper record exclusively. Eleven states and the District either use them in some jurisdictions or allow voters to chose whether to use them or some other voting system.""

Submission + - Richard Dawkins Interviewed by Public

Submitted by SubtleNuance on Wednesday December 06, 2006 @10:08AM

SubtleNuance writes: Preeminen Biologist, Richard Dawkins holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University submits captivating answers to write in questions with a british newspaper.

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