Comment Why ban Stephen Jay Gould, (Score 2) 444
who is famous for his defense that religion is not incompatible with science? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-overlapping_magisteria
Comment Hey, anyone remember... (Score 1) 500
Windows RG? http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/winrg
Comment Wait, wait, wait... (Score 1) 295
I thought Ted Stevens established for Congress a long time ago that the internet wasn't a big truck?
Comment Hank Johnson is skeptical (Score 1) 692
My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and, uh, capsize.
Comment Re:Is the gold rush over? (Score 1) 768
Why is "shiny rock" real value, but "cryptographic hash" not? Both are scarce, both are valued by people. The only difference is, one exists in physical space. The value of Bitcoin is no more or less "real" than that of gold, land, or stocks.
Comment Re:Is the gold rush over? (Score 1) 768
"Bitcoins have no inherent value."
Nothing has any economic value except what people give it. Bitcoins are no different from gold, from apples, or anything else.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value
Comment Re:Primary Programming. (Score 1) 645
Do you honestly think centuries of theologians just didn't think of that? When your eight year old daughter happens to "disprove" a two thousand year old belief system, think a bit harder.
Submission + - Safari 4's Messy Trail (thrica.com)
Signum Ignitum writes: Safari 4 came with a slew of cool new features, but extensive data generation combined with poor cleanup make for a data trail that's a privacy nightmare. Hidden files with screenshots of your history, files that point back to webpages you've visited and cleared from your history, and thousands of XML files that track the changes in the pages in your Top Sites can add up to gigabytes of information you didn't know was kept about you.
