Comment Oh yes, the well known prize (Score 1) 33
Ah yes, the well known AHSIISHPHC prize...
Comment Obligatory XKCD (Score 0) 102
"Indeed, when human cases of H7N9 are overlaid on a risk map, they appear to fall within the highest risk areas for H5N1."
Next they'll be informing us of the shocking news that more people get sick in urban areas than rural!
Submission + - Hockey sticks, pocket knives and billiard cues among carry-on items TSA will soo (networkworld.com)
coondoggie writes: "As of April 25th the Transportation Security Administration will let a bunch of previously prohibited items such as small pocket knives and what it calls "novelty" or toy bats to be taken on aircraft as carry-ons. The idea the agency said was to let Transportation Security Officers better focus their efforts on spot higher threat items such as explosives and guns."
Submission + - Google Releases Data On FBI Spying (wired.com)
An anonymous reader writes: According to Wired, 'National Security Letters allow the government to get detailed information on Americans’ finances and communications without oversight from a judge. The FBI has issued hundreds of thousands of NSLs and has even been reprimanded for abusing them.' It's significant, then, that Google has released data about how many NSLs they've received annually since 2009. The numbers are fuzzed — the FBI apparently worries that if we know how often they're spying on us, we can figure out who. But Google is able to say they've received from 0-999 letters each year for the past four years. And we know it's likely near the upper end of that range because they list the number of accounts affect, as well: always over a thousand.
Comment Re:Blame on both sides (Score 1) 541
This is a prime example of how corporate lobbying has screwed the both the American people and the economy
Lenders have managed to get legislation passed that makes it next to impossible to get out from underneath a student loan, even with bankruptcy.
This means that even the riskiest loans are virtually no risk to the lender.
In a normal free market situation, the high risk of a loan to a music major would decrease the amount of loans given, which in turn would decrease the popularity of the major and thus the cost of majoring in music would presumably decrease. Instead we now have a situation where there is essentially no upper limit to where the cost of even a "soft" major like music can reach.
As for me, I'm just hoping I'll be able to pay off my own student debt before I reach retirement age.
Comment Re:nonsense (Score 0) 477
Sorry to pedantic, but this is Slashdot after all.
Corn syrup is not sugar, and many people believe that it is actually worse than sugar [yeah, I know, citation needed]. If this is the case, it is very bad, since thanks to the corn lobby influencing our tariffs, a lot of our products that used to use sugar as a sweetener now use corn syrup as a cheaper alternative.
Your statement should have read "America is corn addicted and everything we eat has corn syrup and corn starch."
Comment Star Trek (Score -1, Redundant) 79
The Brits are searching for an omnipotent being who enjoys toying with entire civilizations? Quite a heady goal...
Comment Re:Humans can defeat humans (Score 0) 192
you think pornoholics would try that hard to simply get porn? not enough of of an offer now aadays. oh god im so drunk
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