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Posted by samzenpus from the ride-the-dinosaur dept.
riverat1 writes "On December first, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear announced that a creationism theme park is expected to open in 2014. Park developers are seeking state tourism development incentives and could receive up to $37.5 million over a 10-year period. Gov. Steve Beshear said he does not believe the incentives would violate the principle of church-state separation because the 14-year-old tax incentives law wasn’t approved for the purpose of benefiting the Ark Encounter. The park will have a 500 foot replica of the Ark with live animals on it and a Tower of Babel explaining how races and languages developed. The park will be turned over to Answers in Genesis after it is built. They are a non-profit organization which may allow them to discriminate in hiring on the basis of religion."
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Swedish Woman Tries To Check Herself in With Luggage Screenshot-sm 10

Posted by samzenpus from the Cheap-ticket dept.
An unnamed 78-year-old, Swedish woman thought she was just following instructions on how to check in for her flight, when she climbed onto an unmanned luggage belt with her suitcase. She lay down on the belt and rode it into the baggage handling bay where she was rescued by workers. "Unfortunately, she did not understand when she was given check-in instructions. She took the belt together with her bag. Luckily it wasn't a long ride - only a couple of metres," said Ari Kallonen of baggage handling firm Nordic Aero. She suffered injury only to her pride and made her flight to Germany. I wonder if she tagged herself.
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Submission + - Netflix to eliminate "Profiles" feature (netflix.com)

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Donald Burr of Borg writes: "One of my favorite features of Netflix, the video-rental-by-mail service, is "profiles." Profiles lets you create "sub-accounts" for your friends/family, so that they can share in the video rental love. Each profile gets his/her own Netflix queue that he/she can manage with their own login/password. You can divide up how many movies get sent to you vs. the other profiles under your account. E.g. if you have a 6-out-at-once plan, you can choose to get 3 movies at a time, and have 3 other profiles each receive 1 movie. Unfortunately, the fun stops September 1, at which point Netflix is, for unknown reasons, going to terminate this feature. Why? To "...help us to continue to improve the Netflix website for all our customers." Improvement indeed!"
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Exploit Found to Brick Most HP and Compaq Laptops 294

Posted by Soulskill from the cool-looking-paperweight dept.
Ian Lamont writes "A security researcher calling himself porkythepig has published attack code that can supposedly brick most HP and Compaq laptops. The exploit uses an ActiveX control in HP's Software Update. It would 'let an attacker corrupt Windows' kernel files, making the laptop unbootable, or with a little more effort, allow hacks that would result in a PC hijack or malware infection.' The same researcher last week outlined a batch of additional vulnerabilities in HP and Compaq laptops, for which HP later issued patches."

Feed Techdirt: New AllAdvantage Meets Same Fate As Old AllAdvantage (techdirt.com)

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We've said before that bribing users to watch ads isn't a good strategy. If an ad is relevant or entertaining, users will pay attention to it without financial inducement. And if it's not relevant or entertaining, it's not likely to be effective no matter how much you pay users to watch it. The latest example of this principle is Agloco, a reincarnation of the bubble-era AllAdvantage. Agloco, like AllAdvantage, paid users to display a window with advertisements on their screen. Also like AllAdvantage, it was a pyramid scheme where users would get paid a bonus for signing up other users. And now TechCrunch is pointing out that, like AllAdvantage, Agloco is going belly-up. It seems that their revenues are "not enough to support operating costs." When we covered Agloco's launch a year ago, we wondered whether the reincarnation of AllAdvantage was a sign of a new bubble. Their failure suggests that the markets are more rational this time around. The problem with the original bubble wasn't just that bad companies managed to get funding. It was that their stock values got inflated to ludicrous values and then crashed all at once. This time around, poorly-conceived companies like Agloco are able to get funding, but they run out of money relatively quickly and go out of business without dragging the rest of the market down with them.

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Journal SPAM: CNN 'postpones' documentary on 'Iran Goes Nuclear.' 4

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius

The latest National Intelligence Estimate concluding that Iran discontinued its nuclear weapons program four years ago has claimed one casualty: CNN has postponed speculative documentary "We Were Warned -- Iran Goes Nuclear."

The two-hour spec, which was slated for Dec. 12 under the "CNN Presents" banner, was "set partially in the future," featuring a what-if scenario as former government officials -- playing fictional cabinet members -- debate how to deal with the Iranian threat.
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Journal SPAM: Is Mankind Shortening the Life of the Whole Universe? 8

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Like Schroedinger's cat, looking from inside the box, two American physicists have postulated that our study of the universe may have shortened the lifetime of the cosmos. Quantum theory says that when we measure something, we select a specific quantum state from a multitude of states, each with varying probabilities. The result in observing dark energy, is that we may have confirmed a state whe

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