Iyunkateus - Slashdot User

Comment Re:The Neuroscience of Scientific Illiteracy (Score 1) 190

by Iyunkateus on Thursday December 31, 2009 @04:15AM (#30603726) Attached to: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up

This is the greatest comment I have ever read.

Submission + - TSA Subpoenas Bloggers over New Security Directive

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Hugh Pickens

on Thursday December 31, 2009 @12:58AM

Hugh Pickens writes: "The NY Times reports that TSA special agents have served subpoenas to travel bloggers Steve Frischling and Chris Elliott demanding that they reveal who leaked a TSA directive outlining new screening measures that went into effect the same day as the Detroit airliner incident. Frischling said he met with two TSA special agents for about three hours and was forced to hand over his laptop computer after the agents threatened to interfere with his contract to write a blog for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines if he didn't cooperate and provide the name of the person who leaked the memo outlining new security measures that would be apparent to the traveling public. ''It literally showed up in my box,'' Frischling told The Associated Press. ''I do not know who it came from.'' Frischling says he provided the agents a signed statement to that effect. The leaked directive included measures such as screening at boarding gates, patting down the upper legs and torso, physically inspecting all travelers' belongings, looking carefully at syringes with powders and liquids, requiring that passengers remain in their seats one hour before landing, and disabling all onboard communications systems, including what is provided by the airline. In a December 29 posting on his blog, Elliott said he had told the TSA agents at his house that he would call his lawyer and get back to them."

Comment Re:My school uses a system like this (Score 1) 243

by Iyunkateus on Saturday October 10, 2009 @08:13PM (#29707259) Attached to: Computers To Mark English Essays

It amuses me whenever people try to make computers be good at anything other than doing math.

It amuses me when people don't understand the difference between maths and arithmetic.

Wait, what?

Comment My school uses a system like this (Score 1) 243

by Iyunkateus on Sunday September 27, 2009 @01:14AM (#29553637) Attached to: Computers To Mark English Essays

My English teacher uses a website called MyAccess for writing assignments. I wrote a pretty good narrative called "Duct Tape Hacking" with the prompt being "Duct Tape Saves the Day", and the computer said it was off-topic. It amuses me whenever people try to make computers be good at anything other than doing math.

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