Comment Re:Poetic Justice (Score 1) 1116
I doubt anyone would use the much less than 1% of the military who goes to your "home town after the bars close" as the basis for who an "average soldier" is.
Comment Re:Now they really know you're coming... (Score 1) 333
When things work out that smoothly, it's a good day.
Journal Journal: Can we have some good games now?
So, I saw on the Steam Powered Forums people requesting a ported version of Steam, so they could play their Windows favorites. I myself have been using wine, but you know how wine is. Tweaking, tinkering, tampering, learning to get it working.
Journal SPAM: Danger Room: The Pentagon Wants TiVo to Watch You 256
Danger Room, a Wired blog, today cites a study of future electronic snooping technologies from Reuters, written by the Pentagon's Defense Science Board. More than anything, it seems these outside advisers want a surveillance system that would put Big Brother to shame, and they're looking at the commercial sector to provide it. So, what are the implications of using
Submission + - Cassini Returns Amazing New Imagery from Saturn
SeaDour writes: The Cassini spacecraft has recently entered a highly-inclined orbit around Saturn, revealing some never-before-seen images of the planet's ring system as seen from above and below the planet. "Finally, here are the views that we've waited years for," said Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team leader at the Space Science Institute. "Sailing high above Saturn and seeing the rings spread out beneath us like a giant, copper medallion is like exploring an alien world we've never seen before. It just doesn't look like the same place. It's so utterly breath-taking, it almost gives you vertigo." The spacecraft will eventually return to its standard orbit parallel to the ring plane in late June.
The Assassination of Wi-Fi 258
justelite writes "John C. Dvorak from PC Magazine has up an article looking at the new strategy of American cell-phone-service companies. From article: 'There is mounting evidence that the cellular service companies are going to do whatever they can to kill Wi-Fi. After all, it is a huge long-term threat to them. We've seen that the route to success in America today is via public gullibility and general ignorance. And these cell-phone-service companies are no dummies.'"
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Journal Journal: Curiosity killed the cat and created gods .... 5
/. Zonk Post: Humans Hardwired to Believe in Supernatural Deity? http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/04/1925246
No genetics and survival of the fittest depends on knowing what others fear, deny, and/or evade.
Curiosity, depends on genetics and survival of the fittest, to have the courage to overcome our
fear, deny flight/fight lower brain functions, and invade the unknown to learn and survive.
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