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Slashback: Little Red Hoax, Firefly, Google
A little red hoax. MyNameIsFred writes "In an earlier Slashdot story, it was reported that a student was investigated for requesting Mao's Little Red Book on inter-library loan. It appears that the story was a hoax."
Firefly franchise death greatly exaggerated. Kazzahdrane writes "Joss Whedon has spoken out against the Entertainment Weekly that claimed he has turned his back on the Firefly/Serenity franchise. From his post at Whedonesque: 'All right, now I have to jump in and set the record straight. EW is a fine rag, but they do take things out of context. Obviously when I said I had "closure", what I meant was "I hate Serenity, I hated Firefly, I think my fans are stupid and Nathan Fillion smells like turnips." But EW's always got to put some weird negative spin on it.'"
Intelligent Design tantamount to teaching religion. rcs1000 writes "After much deliberation Judge John Jones has ruled that teaching Intelligent Design is tantamount to teaching religion. The judge was pretty forthright, arguing that 'it is unconstitutional to teach Intelligent Design as an alternative to evolution in a public school science classroom.'"
EU launches first Galileo navigation satellite. Xserv writes "The EU launched the first in the series of Galileo Navigation Satellites signifying the start of a lessening of dependency on US Military GPS Systems in Europe. The new Galileo system is touted to be much more accurate and will also be more accessible on higher latitude zones where the US GPS system is known to be less than ideal."
Why AOL chose Google over Microsoft. gambit3 writes to tell us that the Wall Street Journal has a nice article deconstructing AOL's decision to go with Google instead of Microsoft. From the article: "Two weeks ago, when Time Warner Inc. was on the cusp of signing a sweeping online deal with Microsoft Corp., a team of executives from the media company's AOL unit traveled to Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Wash., to make sure everything was in order. When the executives returned, they reported back to Time Warner's top deal negotiator, Olaf Olafsson, with some less-than-satisfactory findings. They had found some of Microsoft's technology to be clunky, while the contemplated joint venture with the software king contained what they thought were financial pitfalls."
Endgame in Blackberry patent case. waynegoode writes "The New York Times is reporting that a recent decision could spell the end of the NTP vs. RIM Blackberry case. The US Patent Office apparently took the unusual step of telling NTP & RIM it will likely reject all 5 of NTP's patents, meaning the basis for NTP's lawsuit and it's billion dollar claim will most likely disappear. This puts pressure on the judge to not issue an injunction against RIM but to instead delay until the USPTO gets around to actually rejecting the patents."
Katrina aftermath still making waves. An anonymous reader writes "Approximately 50 people have been indicted in relation to a scheme that drained almost $200,000 from a Red Cross fund designed to put money into the hands of Hurricane Katrina victims. From the article: 'Seventeen of the accused worked at the Red Cross claim center in Bakersfield, Calif., which handled calls from storm victims across the country and authorized cash payments to them. The others were the workers' relatives and friends, prosecutors said last week.'"
More cloning doubts emerge. LukePieStalker writes "The Boston Globe is reporting that the South Korean cloning team whose troubles have recently been chronicled here on Slashdot used "borrowed" photos in their Science journal article that "appear in the journal Molecules and Cells, in a research article by another Korean team, submitted before the Science paper". In the earlier article, the cells in the photo are described as having been created without cloning."
In other news Endgame for Bush and Rove?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I love the ID stories, those are where I can tell rational people from kooks by my "Fans/Foes" changes that day.
:)
Lets see how well I fare.
ID is done for now until it gets renamed and reincarnated
My position to the ID people has been "What would even the undeniable proof of ID give you?" And even in my best devil's advocate (heh!) mind cannot come up with an answer. Evolution gives us genetics, selective breeding, hybridization, and things that we benefit from on a daily basis. Even if we didn't fall from the trees and become Homo Erectus or Homo Sapians (sp??) the theory of evolution does give us some basis in our daily lives.
I would say that ID is done, and for good reason, or at least some reason.
Thank the FSM!
'Effect' is used as a noun. 'Affect' is used as a verb.
-- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3.
Except when it is not. Here is what my Dad says:
The word affect can be both a noun and a verb. The
word effect can be both a noun and a verb. The word affect has a
specialized meaning in psychiatry.
The usual problem is much simpler. To affect something is to
change it. You affect something and cause an effect. In this case,
affect is a verb and effect is a noun. You are usually speaking of a
cause that is related to an immediate and obvious effect.
There are many minor meanings of the two words. Many of the
meanings are obsolete or archaic.
Affect, as a psychiatric noun, means the emotional make up of a
person.
Effect as a verb means to bring something to pass. Example: I
will try to effect a compromise.
As I said above, in most discourse affect is a verb and effect is a
noun.
I hope that I have not affected your interest in words. I hope that
the effect of this message is to enable you to differentiate the
meaning of the two words.
text-decoration: blink; is in the CSS specs (forget which), so it's still here. marquee, however, is not, so it is done via an XBL binding in Firefox at least.
'Yes, firefox is indeed greater than women. Can women block pops up for you? No. Can Firefox show you naked women? Yes.'