Comment Re:The Results Were Skewed (Score 1) 323
Given that the study was based on self-reported data, said gene might as well be responsible for making women exaggerate about their positive well being.
Comment Re:His Master's Voice (Score 1) 1015
> And I would argue that although the numbers have probably gone up for homicide on a world wide scale(...)
http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violence.html
Comment Re:This is dumb as shit. (Score 1) 684
I've tried to moderate your post as "insightful", only to observe it got modded "offtopic". I don't know what broke, but I am posting this to remove my moderation.
Somebody else, mod the parent up.
Comment Re:Church foward thinking (Score 1) 775
Aliens? Pipe? DMT!
UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders' 578
mrogers writes "British police want to collect DNA samples from children as young as five who 'exhibit behavior indicating they may become criminals in later life'. A spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers argued that since some schools already take pupils' fingerprints, the collection and permanent storage of DNA samples was the logical next step. And of course, if anyone argues that branding naughty five-year-olds as lifelong criminals will stigmatize them, the proposed solution will be to take samples from all children."
China Blocks YouTube Over Tibet Videos 343
Screaming Cactus writes "Internet users in China were blocked from seeing YouTube.com on Sunday after dozens of videos about protests in Tibet appeared on the site. 'Chinese leaders encourage Internet use for education and business but use online filters to block access to material considered subversive or pornographic. Foreign Web sites run by news organizations and human rights groups are regularly blocked if they carry sensitive information. Operators of China-based online bulletin boards are required to monitor their content and enforce censorship.' The blocking added to the communist government's efforts to control what the public saw and heard about protests that erupted Friday in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, against Chinese rule."
Vinyl To Signal the End for CDs? 883
PJ1216 writes to mention that vinyl seems poised to make a comeback in the music industry. Some are even predicting that this comeback coupled with the surge in digital music sales could possibly close the door on CDs. "Portability is no longer any reason to stick with CDs, and neither is audio quality. Although vinyl purists are ripe for parody, they're right about one thing: Records can sound better than CDs. Although CDs have a wider dynamic range, mastering houses are often encouraged to compress the audio on CDs to make it as loud as possible: It's the so-called loudness war. Since the audio on vinyl can't be compressed to such extremes, records generally offer a more nuanced sound. Another reason for vinyl's sonic superiority is that no matter how high a sampling rate is, it can never contain all of the data present in an analog groove, Nyquist's theorem to the contrary."
The Linux Identity Crisis 364
Jayze Calrtini writes "From an article from ZDNet:"If you've been following the current rift in the Linux community between Linus Torvalds and his minions squaring off against Con Kolivas and the mainstream Linux fanatics, you probably know that it's getting quite heated.
You also probably know that these two entirely different ideas could create three possible paths Linux can take for the future: stay geeky and appeal to the advanced tech guru in all of us; go mainstream and leave the advanced functionality and reliable kernel behind to compete with Microsoft and Apple; or face a "civil war" that could lead to total Linux annihilation."
No Third-party Apps on iPhone Says Jobs 778
wyldeone writes "In an interview with the New York Times, Steve Jobs confirms reports that the recently-announced iPhone will not allow third party applications to be installed. According to Jobs, 'These are devices that need to work, and you can't do that if you load any software on them.' In a similar vein, Jobs said in a MSNBC article that, 'Cingular doesn't want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up.'"
Comment Re:product, not company (Score 1) 155
Wasn't Progeny meant to be an luser-friendly distribution? Your average luser would laugh the hell out of you at the very mention of having to compile software themselves ;) (yes, I know a couple of people who are just Linux *users* and want to keep it that way, clicking their way through Gnome or KDE, however strange it sounds).
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