I want to invest in the Shark riding pirates somebody mentioned about in the thread about the net cannon.

I think that Verizon was paid off by some assholes on Slashdot that who were tired of idiots coming on and rambling about off topic nonsense... so now Slashdot has an even better way to punish Off Topic morons. They have a script that sends all of the users who were flagged as offtopic to a SQL database that Verizon then checks against their database. If there are any matches Verizon punishes them.

This is Bullshit.

This is not necessarily the case... There is always another pirate who thinks they are smarter than the previous ones. Why does the US have so many murderers even though many states have the death penalty?

If this logic were true people would stop killing people because they don't want to be put to death. However it seems that people murder people because A. They were in a blind rage, or B. They thought they could get away with it. In either case they did not stop to think about the consequences of their actions.

This is the same with the pirates... no matter if you kill the pirates or not... there will always be more pirates to come after you and I highly doubt they will be thinking about the consequences of their actions, because of course they think they will get away with it.

I don't think that it is necessary to to use deadly force when it is avoidable. I am an Iraqi Freedom veteran and I have seen my share of unnecessary violence, It doesn't matter what someone has done or tried to do to you, killing someone is not something easily forgotten. It is better to leave that option only as a last resort to save ones own life.

This is my favorite type of pr0n. Good video... those guys did a great job with it.

I thought I would go to the site and find things like...

Don't beam me up Scottie, I'm on the sh

I stand corrected. I will agree that almost any news source will have a bias regardless of how neutral they claim to be. Back on topic, at first I thought that the UN was way out of control. Then after further consideration, I thought maybe the UN security official here was a bit unruly, but the actions of one official should not represent the entire UN.

I think that maybe they felt it was out of line because it targeted a specific country in a negative way and not just censorship in general. Many people do not agree with China's government. however it seems that because we all have these deals with China and many profit from them in some way we tend to turn a blind eye and try not to offend them so as to not hurt our relations.

After all China is not a communist country.. they are capitalists right?

I am not saying that this makes it right... i'm just saying that this is what happens.

You must be listening to one of those entertainment\pretend news stations like FOX news. Or even worse it sounds like you may have been brainwashed by pill popping Limbaugh.

Everyone knows that FOX news and Rush Limbaugh are to be compared with the National inquirer when it comes to news.

Someone at Bethesda must have found the old floppies laying around.

I think this is a great idea, Bethesda release the very first one for free already so it is not surprising that they would release this one as well.

However I highly doubt that anyone who has never played it before will get much enjoyment out of it. The graphics are terrible and the game is riddled with bugs. The real enjoyment will be the reminiscing of the good old days and seeing how much you remember.

I will definately have to give this game another try for old time sake.

I don't see anything bad here. It is a great idea to have students "...analyze, evaluate and critique scientific explanations..."

Evolution has been analyzed, evaluated and critiqued for decades, and it has still not been disproved.

This means that Teachers should also be just as free to "analyze, evaluate and critique Biblical explanations. After all we should give both sides equal treatment.

I believe that this is actually a step forward. If Teachers truly do teach both sides evaluating and critiquing every "fact" then I am certain students will come out understanding the truth about our evolving world.

I am a PC Technician for a local Junior College. I can guarantee that if we closed down our computer labs our school attendance would drop considerably. Yes students have laptops these days but they should not be required to use their personal laptops for coursework. Our computer labs have all of the software that would be necessary to complete any course at the college. If there is a course that requires Matlab or a course that requires Adobe CS4, the programs are available on a computer that meets or most often exceeds the requirements for that particular program. Most laptops that students have today are not meant for running rigorous Matlab code or rendering 3D models in Autocad. Many Colleges and Universities have their priorities totally messed up. They constantly upgrade their Faculty members computers to "keep them happy" when all the faculty does is use a spreadsheet for grade books and check e-mail. If you want to cut costs stop brown nosing your faculty and put that extra money into your students. This will probably raise your attendance anyways and therefore generate more income from tuition. We offer many labs at multiple locations across our campus and we continue to upgrade our labs to keep up with the latest technology. Our labs are currently being upgraded to Dell Optiplex 760's w 4 GB of ram, while we still have faculty members running on GX 280's. We value the students at our campus and removing computer labs to cut costs is terrible. It clearly shows the lack of concern or value of student life.

Fingerprint readers are very easy to crack if you have someones finger print. The last company I worked for they had to types of fingerprint readers. You could crack them both by placing a scanned image of the fingerprint on the reader. The only difference between the two was that one of them only scanned if it sensed enough heat and the of scan plate was grounded by being touched. So it was slightly more difficult to crack. It took awhile to find the right paper that allowed enough heat to come through and then we pass the grounding check by barely touching the edge of the scanner with one of our fingers. Biometric protection is great when it is part of a multi-layered scheme however by itself it is too easy to bypass. I still think that facial recognition and/or a fingerprint scanner is a great addition to a strong password, but it should never be used by itself to begin with.