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Comment Re:Why so discriminating? (Score 1) 1036

Actually, the Bible does have much to say about "Single-Partner, Long-term, Public" homosexual relationships. Often when you find mentions of homosexuality, it is in the same sentence or passage with rape and incest.

If you come across a Bible Thumper, you should really ask them if their hard-line, book-waving stance on homosexuality is preached with the same fervor as all the other teachings of the Bible. Ask them how they feel about Women's Hairstyles (Longer is better!) or about how they should plant their crops. (Two types of seed in the same vineyard is really, really bad.)

I think Betty Bowers has the best take on it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFkeKKszXTw

Comment Enough social commentary from a movie critic (Score 1) 733

It was always impressed upon me (heavily) that the term "art" was bidirectional.

If the observer thinks the piece is art, then it is art.

If the creator considers it art, then it is art.

My guess as to why these brash and controversial statements are surfacing has two words: Rotten Tomatoes. With the proliferation of social media, anyone can be a film critic. The quintessential movie critic days have long since passed, and there just isn't place for Ebert anymore. He needs to let it go, get out on his front porch and tell kids to get off his lawn.

Just my $.02.

Comment Two pictures... and then some! (Score 5, Informative) 976

Some cities go a step further than just a picture. They will give you a picture before, a picture after and a 12-second video of you running the light. All that information can be found online via a URL given to you with your citation.

http://www.plano.gov/Departments/Police/RedLightCameras/Pages/default.aspx
Communications

Judge Finds NSA Wiretapping Program Illegal 136

Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that a federal judge has ruled that the NSA's warrantless surveillance program was illegal, rejecting the Obama administration's effort to keep one of Bush's most disputed counterterrorism policies shrouded in secrecy. Judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled that the government had violated a 1978 federal statute requiring court approval for domestic surveillance when it intercepted phone calls of Al Haramain, a now-defunct Islamic charity in Oregon, and of two lawyers who were representing it in 2004. Declaring that the plaintiffs had been 'subjected to unlawful surveillance,' the judge said that the government was liable to pay them damages."
Biotech

Printing Replacement Body Parts 101

Deep Penguin sends in a piece that appeared in The Economist a couple of weeks back about a developing technology to "print" body parts for transplant. "A US and an Australian company have developed the $200,000 machine, which works by depositing stem cells and a 'sugar-based hydrogel' scaffolding material. (The stem cells are harvested from a transplant patient's own fat and bone marrow, to avoid rejection down the line.) The companies are Organovo, from San Diego, specializing in regenerative medicine, and Invetech, an engineering and automation firm in Melbourne, Australia. The initial targets are skin, muscle, and 'short stretches of blood vessels,' which they hope to have available for human implantation within five years. Down the line, they expect the technology could even print directly into the body, bypassing the in-vitro portion of the current process."

Comment DDoS? Really? (Score 2, Informative) 332

I'm pretty sure the first "D" in DDoS stands for "Distributed."

If it was really a DDoS, you wouldn't be able to filter the IP out with a simple regex (like the /^65\.55\.(106|107|207)/. from TFA).

To boot, TFA didn't even say DDoS. Maybe that's too much to expect the editors to oh... I don't know...say... RTFA or Fact-Check it?

I should drop my bar a bit, I suppose.

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