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I can't wait for internet connected anal probes!

I have good news for you: Teledildonics is a thing now!

https://www.glamour.com/story/...

An ejaculation releases 250 million sperm. Each sperm contains 3234 Mbp. Each basepair contains 2 bits. Male orgasms take 5-22 seconds on average.

So we can work out the bit rate. (( 250 million * 3234 million * 2bits)/13.5 seconds) in petabytes per second = 14.9722222 petabytes per second.

Aww yeah! Bandwidth, baby!

It is because the movie is coming out soon, they need to capitalize and start the momentum of selling and promoting, blah, blah, blah. This one actually has some decent starring actors in it like Eric Bana. I think that might be the only reason I am going to see the movie, honestly.

I thought the Red Shirt cologne was funny! They have fragrances for everything now, even colleges are putting out scents. I maybe would buy one it smelled nice, because I am a sucker for perfume. I am actually kind of curious as to see what my school's perfume smells like, probably grilled cinnamon stickies and ice cream, well I am hoping it would smell something like that!

LOL

I mean who doesn't love perfume, well unless you are allergic or are one of those over wearers, those are worst, people that dip themselves in cologne. Now that I think about it, the average Star Trek fan probably has wicked allergies so they probably should have come out with a line of hypoallergenic mild soaps and lotions! LOL

For all this discussion has focused on the "debate" about global warming, if you think that political interference is limited to environmental science, you're missing a very, very big picture.

Let me start off by saying that scientific advancement is not a left-right issue, and should never be viewed through the narrow prism of party politics. However, the United States has fallen into a (man-made) rut of EVERYTHING being split down partisan lines (even national security, even voting integrity, even scientific research) so that is the playing field we are on, whether we like it or not. Wedge politics infect every issue now.

Under this administration, the religious right has exerted undue influence over decisions ranging from:

• blocking OTC access to emergency contraceptives
• stalling approval of a vaccine for HPV which would prevent cervical cancer
• censoring vital information about sex by imposing abstinence-only education on teens
• forcing doctors by law to peddle phony information about a phony link between abortion and breast cancer

(source article for that list, a must-read)

And without going on a daylong linkhunt, they are passing bad information about condom effectiveness, intimidating non-profit organizations which do not toe the party line on reproductive issues, and denying USAID funds to overseas orgs which even mention abortion, or distribute condoms as part of family planning efforts. (Imagine sending $15B to Africa to fight AIDS without distributing or even even mentioning condoms! Talk about throwing good money away...It's like fighting fires without water, it's that foolish.)

And don't even let's discuss the bi-partisan support for embryonic stem cell research which has been effectively neutered under this administration. Or the medical expertise of Dr. Bill Frist in the case of a braindead woman he never examined, or his patently absurd claim that AIDS may be transmitted via tears and sweat.

Sadly, I could document this sort of war on objective science all day, but I think I've made my point. It infests the policy debate over far more than global warming, and if you think there's no difference between the parties on this, you're sadly, tragically mistaken.

For the Slashdot crowd: Glamour is a girls' clothes/hair/makeup/lifestyle magazine.

Now, to be fair, that wasn't the only reason I bought it! My G3 Pismo was getting kinda old, and I really did need a new laptop, and the iBook is both cuter and cheaper than the G4 Powerbook. But seeing it in a girls' magazine did have an influence. Peer pressure is both subtle and profound. And weird. And even weirder for girls.

Of course, I saw another review in Glamour for the iPod, in which they claimed that it was nice, but "hard to use", which made me wonder what they were trying to use it for? I have doorstops that are harder to use than my iPod.

I don't think many Slashdot readers will start subscribing to Glamour, though! (In fact, I might be the only one. Yes, I know, I am weird. The question is, which makes me weirder: Glamour, or Slashdot?)