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Submission + - Student punished for spaghetti beliefs

Submitted by Logicalmoron on Friday March 30, 2007 @04:58PM

Logicalmoron writes: A student has been suspended from school in America for coming to class dressed as a pirate. But the disciplinary action has provoked controversy — because the student says that the ban violates his rights, as the pirate costume is part of his religion. Bryan Killian says that he follows the Pastafarian religion, and that as a crucial part of his faith, he must wear 'full pirate regalia' as prescribed in the holy texts of Pastafarianism. The school, however, say that his pirate garb was disruptive. The school, in North Buncombe, North Carolina, remains adamant that their decision to suspend Killian for a day has nothing to do with his religion, and quite a lot to do with his repeated refusal to heed warnings against wearing pirate outfits. Full Story: http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_artic le_id=43272&in_page_id=2

CPR Not as Effective as Chest Compressions Alone 194

Posted by Zonk on Saturday March 17, 2007 @07:15PM from the use-the-compressions-luke dept.

patiwat writes "A Japanese study detailed in the New York Times has found that people suffering from cardiac arrest were more likely to recover without brain damage if rescuers focused on chest compressions rather than on rescue breaths. Some experts advised dropping the mouth-to-mouth part of CPR altogether. Interrupting chest compression to perform mouth-to-mouth ventilation might do more harm than good if blood flow to the heart was not properly re-established, a researcher from Tokyo's Surugadai Nihon University Hospital said. According to the article, 'More than 300,000 Americans die from cardiac arrest each year. Roughly 9 out of 10 cardiac arrest victims die before they get to a hospital — partly because they do not get CPR.'"

Journal Journal: Going to Iraq costed you.. 5

Journal by andr0meda on Saturday March 17, 2007 @05:35PM

409.198.000.000 cost (http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182)
456.829.602 people (http://www.census.gov/govs/statetax/05staxrank.html)

The Iraq war costed you officially 895 dollar per person on average.

Submission + - <video> Element for (X)HTML5 Discussed

Submitted by

Jeff Fohl

on Saturday March 17, 2007 @04:12PM

Jeff Fohl writes: "An interesting discussion is brewing on the WhatWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group) mailing list around a new proposal for a <video> element in (X)HTML5.

The idea is to have a dedicated element specifically for video, instead of using the old, multi-purpose <object> element and its attendant complexity. The first tinkering apparently occurred with the Opera team, and has been introduced to the WhatWG discussion by Opera team member Anne van Kesteren. Anne has made an entry about it in his blog.

This is only an initial discussion, but quite an interesting one."

Submission + - Deepwater sunk perhaps with youtube help

Submitted by

anagama

on Saturday March 17, 2007 @03:32PM

anagama writes: "You may recall some time ago a slashdot topic about Mike DeKort, an engineer from Lockheed Martin working on the Coast Guard's Deepwater project (basically, construction of new ships). He released a whistleblower video on Youtube outlining problems and cover up/apathy related to the ships under construction. Well, in the news today, looks like the Coast Guard is taking over the project and ending its contract with Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman. Perhaps the (digital) pen is mightier than the sword (manufacturer)."

Submission + - Iran Claims Launch of First Space Rocket

Submitted by

chris_bloke

on Sunday February 25, 2007 @04:52AM

chris_bloke writes: "Iranian Students News Agency appears to be claiming that Iran has successfully launched its first space rocket. This claim is being reported in English by Radio Javan and now the Interational Herald Tribune. Sadly the Iranian Space Agency's English Language website is very much under construction and the News link doesn't work (and neither do most of the others)."

Submission + - Open source guru rubbishes Fedora

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24, 2007 @11:52PM

An anonymous reader writes: Eric Raymond, influential developer and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, has delivered a public rebuke to Red Hat's Fedora project. http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?news ID=8105

Journal SPAM: Link to Long, Good Read on Blackwater, Dynacorp, etc. 15

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Saturday February 24, 2007 @10:51PM

These Aren't Your Daddy's Rent-A-Cops

Journal SPAM: Israel seeks all clear for Iran air strike 3

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Saturday February 24, 2007 @10:23PM

Israel is negotiating with the United States for permission to fly over Iraq as part of a plan to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.

To conduct surgical air strikes against Iran's nuclear programme, Israeli war planes would need to fly across Iraq. But to do so the Israeli military authorities in Tel Aviv need permission from the Pentagon.

Submission + - Jesus: Tales from the Crypt

Submitted by

gollum123

on Saturday February 24, 2007 @10:18PM

gollum123 writes: "Brace yourself. James Cameron, the man who brought you 'The Titanic' is back with another blockbuster. This time, the ship he's sinking is Christianity ( http://time-blog.com/middle_east/2007/02/jesus_tal es_from_the_crypt.html ). In a new documentary, Producer Cameron and his director, Simcha Jacobovici, make the starting claim that Jesus wasn't resurrected — the cornerstone of Christian faith — and that his burial cave was discovered near Jerusalem. And, get this, Jesus sired a son with Mary Magdelene. Let's go back 27 years, when Israeli construction workers were gouging out the foundations for a new building in the industrial park in the Talpiyot, a Jerusalem suburb. of Jerusalem. The earth gave way, revealing a 2,000 year old cave with 10 stone caskets. Archologists were summoned, and the stone caskets carted away for examination. It took 20 years for experts to decipher the names on the ten tombs. They were: Jesua, son of Joseph, Mary, Mary, Mathew, Jofa and Judah, son of Jesua. But film-makers Cameron and Jacobovici claim to have amassed evidence through DNA tests, archeological evidence and Biblical studies, that the 10 coffins belong to Jesus and his family. Cameron is holding a New York press conference on Monday at which he will reveal three coffins, supposedly those of Jesus of Nazareth, his mother Mary and Mary Magdalene."

Submission + - Best Indie Games of February Roundup

Submitted by

bear pimp

on Saturday February 24, 2007 @08:42PM

bear pimp writes: "Game Tunnel's review panel once again round up the best indie games. Definitely one of the better month's (in my opinion) for showcasing indie talent, with diverse and engaging titles. Moonpod's 'Mr. Robot' (a strange blend of platform-adventure and battle-rpg) and the zany space combat of Zombiesmasher's Ninjastarmageddon! lead the indie charge."

Submission + - Students Break Teacher's Neck Over iPod

Submitted by

theodp

on Saturday February 24, 2007 @07:20PM

theodp writes: "Philadelphia police arrested and charged two students Friday for attacking a 60-year-old math and photography teacher and breaking his neck after he took an iPod away from one of the students during class. 'This is really a very heinous act,' said Philly School CEO Paul Vallas. Germantown High's posted policy states: 'Beepers, walkmans, cellular phones and other electronic devices are to be left at home. (NO EXCEPTIONS)'. As GWB might say, Mission accomplished."

67-Kilowatt Laser Unveiled 395

Posted by kdawson on Saturday February 24, 2007 @06:11PM from the very-big-sharks dept.

s31523 writes "Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has announced they have working in the lab a Solid State Heat Capacity Laser that averages 67 kW. It is being developed for the military. The chief scientist Dr. Yamamoto is quoted: 'I know of no other solid state laser that has achieved 67 kW of average output power.' Although many lasers have peaked at higher capacities, getting the average sustained power to remain high is the tricky part. The article says that hitting the 100-kW level, at which point it would become interesting as a battlefield weapon, could be less than a year away."

Submission + - Why Vandalize Wiki's?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24, 2007 @04:21PM

An anonymous reader writes: Why are people fascinated with vandalizing Wiki's, such as Wikia, Wikipedia, or Wikibooks? Sure, some of the reasons are obvious, such as Link Spam, but what motivates users to post full page vandalizations such as a few on Wikia, knowing those reverts will be undone shortly? What are these vandals trying to accomplish? I can understand the pride in defacing a web site that has security you need to break, but isn't it a moot point "hacking" a publicly editable site? It's an interesting social phenomenon, and I'd love to hear from the vandals themselves.

Submission + - Slashdot to Fix Headlines

Submitted by

David Rolfe

on Saturday October 14, 2006 @05:43PM

David Rolfe writes: "After threads like this one and its forerunners in similarly affected stories, Slashdot editors have agreed to stop accepting kiddie slang in headlines. This move was heralded by the vast, silent majority of Slashdot who don't have time for this sort of childish crap. CmdrTaco was overheard saying, 'I know I'm a [World of Warcraft] addict — like many of you — but I will nip this in the bud before we have headlines containing ZOMGWTFBBQ!!~. This is not Digg and I'd like to keep it that way.'"

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