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  1. BAD IDEA fro School (or any employer) on Teacher's Aide Fired For Refusing To Hand Over Facebook Password · · Score: 1

    Employers should be VERY, VERY careful about how they treat employee's Facebook accounts. An employee's facebook account is likely to have information on the employee's Health Family History Sexuality Marriage Status Religion National Origin Age All of the above could be found on an average facebook account and can be used against an employer in a lawsuit claiming termination based on discrimination. It's really the best idea for employers to make it a clear policy that they DO NOT want to see any of their employees facebook information. If anything, employers should ban their employees from HAVING facebook pages, but that's not likely to make employees very happy.

  2. Re:Electric Charging Stations on The Coda Electric Car at the Detroit International Auto Show (Video) · · Score: 1

    We don't need new laws right now. This problem will fix itself as more and more people start buying EVs and retail, offices, and restaurants are forced by the market to add more chargers or enforce the EV parking only themselves. When a large enough percentage of a company's customers stop going to a restaurant because they can't plug-in, then the smart businesses are going to help their customers and the ones that don't will be out of business.

  3. Almost Perfect on The Coda Electric Car at the Detroit International Auto Show (Video) · · Score: 1

    Besides the high "early adopter" price, this car is missing one serious feature that makes EVs truly preactical cars -Level III fast charging. The Leaf and the i both have it standard, and it really should be standard on an EV. I would say that even if it raised the price of the vehicle an extra $3000, it should be standard. Add a fast charger and this guy is the perfect EV.

  4. Author ignorant about Pre-Columbian America on Columbus Blamed For Mini Ice Age · · Score: 1

    The belief that the pre-columbian indians were small in numbers and lived in sparsely populated and isolated tribes is a myth. They were very numerous, had complex economies, and lived in very large cities throughout the Americas. When the first wave of Europeans came to America, half of the worlds population lived in the Americas. Much evidence suggests that deseases that were brought in by the first wave killed over 90% of the Indian population before the second wave ever arrived. By that time, over 40 years later, Forests that largely didn't exist 40 years before had taken over farm lands and entire cities. The only peoples that survived were the small isolated tribes. Thus the myth that we have. So the authors history is completely backwards.

  5. Very bad analysis of the situation on Wall Street: Software More Valuable Than Oil · · Score: 1

    Look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporations_by_market_capitalization#2011 Now, Apple has moved to the top of that list, and MS has been a mainstay for a few decades now. How many other software companies are there, vs how many oil companies? The news here is not that Apple is the most valuable, it's that Exxon doesn't have the power in the oil markets that it used to have.

  6. Re:Sponsored by The Heartland Institute. on New NASA Data Casts Doubt On Global Warming Models · · Score: 1

    Be sure to check out their other hit articles including: "Second Hand Smoke: Science Says It's Healthy So Blow Some My Way" and "Freedom of Education: Science Says Your Sixth Grader Should Get a Job and Stop Leaching Off the System."

  7. Sponsored by The Heartland Institute. on New NASA Data Casts Doubt On Global Warming Models · · Score: 1

    "James M. Taylor is senior fellow for environment policy at The Heartland Institute" Oh. Yeah, I figured something like that was coming.

  8. Sj is just... on Apple Wants To Block Some HTC Products From US Under Tariff Act of 1930 · · Score: 2

    ... pissed that he got ripped off of his monopoly again. I can picture it: A poorly shaven SJ sitting in a chair made of solid gold, with a whiskey bottle in his hand. Just mumbling....

  9. Re:Been there, done that, so true. on Ask Slashdot: Living Without Internet At-Home Access? · · Score: 1

    The problem with your thesis is that back then there was the necessary infrastructure to get by without the internet. Today it's almost impossible, hence the problems laced into the 'Digital Divide'. You comment would be like a person saying, "I don't need a car because people in the 1800's lived without one." True, but in the 1800's the majority of people were farmers, cities were much more dense, and there were grocers/butchers/markets on every street corner. And you would probably own a horse anyways.

  10. Re:Obvious on Ask Slashdot: Living Without Internet At-Home Access? · · Score: 1

    Really? You consider screwing a hooker to be better than looking a porn? Interesting...

  11. Re:I still enjoy reading a good physcal book(store on Barnes and Noble Bookstore Chain Put In Play · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Another thing is that B&N is the class A example of the "Big Guy that Crushes the little guy". This is the company that the movie "You Got Mail" was based on. Why are we sad to see it go again?

  12. Got Libraries? on Barnes and Noble Bookstore Chain Put In Play · · Score: 1

    'Cause it looks like they might just be useful in the future after all.

  13. What if they weren't grounded... on Was Flight Ban Over Ash an Overreaction? · · Score: 1

    And one or more planes went down due to the ash cloud? It just wasn't a risk worth taking. Branson is being foolish.

  14. Re:Yeah on A Printer That Uses No Consumables · · Score: 1

    Don't think office here. Think K-12 Education. As a teacher I make hundreds of copies each day. This could save school districts MILLIONS of dollars.

  15. Re:I've been in the copier printer business for 30 on A Printer That Uses No Consumables · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You're thinking wrong. Don't think office, think K-12 education. This could save school districts $MILLIONS every year.

  16. To anyone who thinks this is dumb. on A Printer That Uses No Consumables · · Score: 1

    This could save millions of dollars in education alone. I used to tach a science class and would make hundreds of copies every day. This could save schools millions.

  17. Re:A personal airconditioner? on Body Heat Energy Generation · · Score: 1

    Probably wouldn't work in Iraq. If this does work, it would pull heat from you and into the ambient environment. That means that there has to be a temperature drop between you and the air for it to work.

  18. What? on Ultra-Dense Deuterium Produced · · Score: 1

    "A cubic centimeter of the stuff would weigh 287 lbs. (130 kg)." Deuterium is just a Proton and a Neutron. Wouldn't it weigh the same thing as a helium atom?

  19. Re:Disappears in a Poof of Logic. on Want a Science Degree In Creationism? · · Score: 1

    for no one has ever found not even a tiny shred of evidence that its object of study, god [...] even exist[s].

    Now, that is where we diverge. I believe that misstated that line. You should have written that you have never found any evidence of God's existence. You cannot speak for anyone else, because religion is a deeply personal thing. Sometimes religious experiences come in grand universal form, but most of the time they are hyper-personal. I can tell you where I find my evidence, and that may or may not mean anything to you. My evidence has to do with there being extremely good people in this world that risk everything to help the most helpless people [International Justice Mission plug here] But, you cannot say that no one has ever found evidence.

    (Btw, I understand the difference between sub-atomic theory and theology very well. But because you brought it up, I hope they don't find the Higgs. To me it would be so much cooler if it doesn't exist. It'ld send everyone beck to the drawing board! But in the same way, there is a difference between my hoping the Higgs doesn't exist, and your hoping God doesn't exist.)

  20. Re:Disappears in a Poof of Logic. on Want a Science Degree In Creationism? · · Score: 1

    for no one has ever found not even a tiny shred of evidence that its object of study, god [...] even exist[s].

    Now, that is where we diverge. I believe that misstated that line. You should have written that you have never found any evidence of God's existence. You cannot speak for anyone else, because religion is a deeply personal thing. Sometimes religious experiences come in grand universal form, but most of the time they are hyper-personal. I can tell you where I find my evidence, and that may or may not mean anything to you. My evidence has to do with there being extremely good people in this world that risk everything to help the most helpless people [International Justice Mission plug here] But, you cannot say that no one has ever found evidence.

    (Btw, I understand the difference between sub-atomic theory and theology very well. But because you brought it up, I hope they don't find the Higgs. To me it would be so much cooler if it doesn't exist. It'ld send everyone beck to the drawing board! But in the same way, there is a difference between my hoping the Higgs doesn't exist, and your hoping God doesn't exist.)

  21. Re:Disappears in a Poof of Logic. on Want a Science Degree In Creationism? · · Score: 1

    Science: [reference.com]

    sci-ence
    -noun

    1. a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.

    I can play that game too.

    [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/science]

    sciÂence
    Pronunciation: \ËsÄ-É(TM)n(t)s\
    Function: noun
    2 a: a department of systematized knowledge as an object of study, the science of theology,

    But in a philosophical debate, the Dictionary definition of a word is meaningless. It is just one possible definition out of 6.5 Billion.

    But while you have your dictionary open, look up "ad hominem" . Your close minded personal attacks on me make you no better than the worst of the zealous christians you despise.

  22. Re:Disappears in a Poof of Logic. on Want a Science Degree In Creationism? · · Score: 1

    I agree with that whole heartedly. History is not theology, but it's not being theology dos not make it science. Literature is also not science, but is a wide feild of study that requires evidence and knowledge. And further, I bet that a theologian would argue with you about your assumption that religious studies don't need to be researched and supported by evidence.

  23. Re:Disappears in a Poof of Logic. on Want a Science Degree In Creationism? · · Score: 1

    Yeah. How about this one. "George Washington was the nations first president." That is not science. It is not really testable or repeatable. Yet it is still knowlege.

  24. Re:This is not a bad idea on Want a Science Degree In Creationism? · · Score: 1

    Well, for one, I read from Matthew 4:7, " Jesus answered him, "It is also written: 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.' " " Some of us are blessed with more evidence than others. But, in the end, we all have to take someone's word for it.

  25. Re:Disappears in a Poof of Logic. on Want a Science Degree In Creationism? · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. 2+2=4. That's knowable.

    Only science can produce knowledge. Everything else is just opinion and conjecture.

    I really don't understand where you are coming from here. 2+2=4 is not science. It's math. Arithmetic to be be precise. You contradict yourself.

    you're a fool who prefers to believe in fairy tales instead of natural processes.

    And I'm rubber and you are glue. Your emotional, ad hominem response shows that the debate about theology and science are anything but non-sequitur.