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Internet Dismantling the State Church In Finland 547

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 16, 2010 @05:00AM from the way-way-up-for-fsm dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Finnish secular web site that facilitates electronic resignation from the Finnish state church gained wide attention in the media this week. A gay rights TV panel discussion was followed by thousands resigning from the church. On Wednesday, 2633 people resigned through the web site, which is more than all the resignations in July. The Internet is secularizing the Finnish with increasing speed; over 90% of resignations in Finland go through the site administered and marketed by hobbyists driving Finland towards a secular, non-religious state."

Submission + - Internet dismantling the state church in Finland (www.hs.fi)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 15, 2010 @06:17PM

An anonymous reader writes: A Finnish secular web site that facilitates electronic resignation from the Finnish state church gained wide attention in media. A gay rights TV panel discussion followed thousands resigning from the church. On wednesday 2633 people resigned through the web site, which is more than all the resignations in July. Internet is secularizing the Finland with increasing speed. Resigning from the church has doubled in speed since it has become possible in the net. Over 90% of resignations in Finland go through the site administered and marketed by hobbyists driving Finland towards a secular non-religious state.

Background Noise Affects Taste of Foods 79

Posted by samzenpus on Friday October 15, 2010 @04:06PM from the that-sounds-delicious dept.

gollum123 writes "The level of background noise affects both the intensity of flavour and the perceived crunchiness of foods, researchers have found. Blindfolded diners assessed the sweetness, saltiness, and crunchiness, as well as overall flavour, of foods as they were played white noise. While louder noise reduced the reported sweetness or saltiness, it increased the measure of crunch. It may go some way to explaining why airline food is notoriously bland — a phenomenon that drives airline catering companies to season their foods heavily. In a comparatively small study, 48 participants were fed sweet foods such as biscuits or salty ones such as crisps, while listening to silence or noise through headphones. Also in the group's findings there is the suggestion that the overall satisfaction with the food aligned with the degree to which diners liked what they were hearing — a finding the researchers are pursuing in further experiments."

Comment Disposable computing (Score 1) 172

by ssyreeni on Monday May 19, 2003 @12:25PM (#5991996) Attached to: Power-over-Ethernet: IEEE 802.3af Draft

One of the nicest apps of PoE is definitely small, dirt-cheap, semi-disposable network appliances, which wouldn't be as affordable if they had to include their own power supply. Those would definitely include sensors of different kinds, protocol bridges (e.g. lately I've been thinking about migration paths from closed, DRM laden digital audio interfaces to open ones based on standard 100Mbps Ethernet) and the like.

But perhaps the nicest application I can come up with are miniaturized throwaway remailers built on cheap microcontrollers with integrated Ethernet hardware. The cost of a fully functional (if limited capacity) mixmaster might well be pushed into the range of dollars, suddenly making it possible to distribute hundreds of remailers into unsuspecting networks around the globe. If they're picked up, so what -- the cost is negligible. Up till now the problems have had to do with the level of integration required, power supply trouble and ease of physical detection. PoE solves two out of the three problems in one fell swoop.

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