If the rate of radioactive decay can vary, how would this affect things like carbon 14 dating? Very interesting.

I have some early versions of a dice rolling game I made in the late 80's. Never been seen before.

The game crashes in certain circumstances, but it isn't documented exactly why.

The bidding starts at $1000.

I work in an environment where re-imaging and deleting is not an option. Often my work actually images an employees computer for backup purposes when they leave the company, in case any work specific files are left lying around.

I think the question here is, how can you nuke as much "private" stuff as possible, keeping the OS and possibly work files intact.

-Benjamin J. Judson
(I don't have a witty sig)

Not a bad idea, except that the main source of security for a slot machine comes from the fact that it is under 24/7 surveillance. Give someone unsupervised physical access to the machine though, and all "security" is lost.

I think this point is completely missed by most people, and I wish it were talked about more in the news/media. We can't have our cake and eat it too. Either we pay for our own healthcare or we all bow to the tyranny of the majority "for the common good". I prefer the former.

Is this really that bad? Selling a limited resource as "unlimited" is not sustainable. I'd rather have the smaller proportion of folks who use a larger proportion of data pay more for it. So what?

I'm confused as to how a book "lacking in foundational knowledge and often foregoing explanation of research" can present "a comprehensive and well-referenced view of modern evolutionary research".

Don't get me wrong, the book might be terrific, but what an oxymoronic summary (there's some jargon for ya)!

I'm getting a story not found at the link. Anyone got another link?

Do you really think there's anything about being on the Moon that is going to change human nature? Will the Moon colonists share everything and unite in a Moon-wide kum-bah-yah?

Of course there's going to be weapons up there, and of course the US will want to "hog" all the glory. Better than China or Russia at least...

is that China can hold the rest of the world hostage once they are able to nudge the largest WMD ever either towards or away from the Earth. ;-b

http://nic.ly/ is down (and not resolving) as a result of this, and at least a couple of the root servers for .ly (dns.lttnet.net and dns1.lttnet.net) are down, although out-of-country resolution is still functional (although, it's not clear to me if they're simply running off of caches). I suspect bit.ly is pretty happy they've been pimping j.mp lately. :)

I would counter that water is always wet. Ice is a solid and steam is a gas. Would you ask for extra Frozen-Water-In-A-Solid-Form cubes in your water?

Thankfully, ana.ly still works. :)