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  1. Wait, what? on Judge Nixes Warrantless Cell Phone Location Data · · Score: 1

    They were requesting "warantless" something from a Judge? If you're involving the Judge, get the warrant. Or were they trying to get a warrant and the article is being stupid and trying to call it warrantless?

  2. Re:The Tomorrow People? on Samsung Cites 2001: A Space Odyssey In Apple Patent Case · · Score: 1

    Yeah, TIM was nowhere near flat. I don't remember if Liz was; I was a little too young to be paying attention to that.

  3. Re:Just in time for GIMP to be prohibited at work! on The GIMP Now Has a Working Single-Window Mode · · Score: 1

    Your draconian university doesn't seem to care about your education if they won't let you run non-approved software. Time to get a laptop? Or, does this campus-wide rule apply to personal laptops as well? Not sure how they could enforce this rule on your personal equipment.

    Some colleges require students to run a (windows only) service that "verifies the safety" of the computer before it is allowed to request a DHCP address. The software also updates OS and adobe crap. I wouldn't be surprised if they start making part of the DHCP auth program be a local security policy to only run software with XYZ signatures.
    I have no idea what Mac and Linux users are supposed to do.

  4. Re:Land of Nod on Evangelical Scientists Debate Creation Story · · Score: 1

    Verse 5; "before there were plants" (but obviously there was ground) ... it's setting up a "during this time(day)" for the reader so they know it's not tied directly on to the end of the prior story.

  5. Re:Science vs Religion: Contradictions? on Evangelical Scientists Debate Creation Story · · Score: 1

    There is nothing more dangerous than a devout person trying to "help" you.

    Ah yes, now I remember. Jesus' teachings go something like "Love your enemies and do not curse them" "Feed my sheep" "Boil the heretics alive and take all their lands for the church's holdings". I always forget about the last one.

    My point? Devout Christians are like Mother Theresa: compassionate, humble, sacrificing. Insane and/or fake Christians are like the Inquisitors. They had no excuse; they could read and knew that "Boil the heretics alive and take all their lands for the church's holdings" isn't anything like what Jesus wanted. Sadistic sociopaths exist in any organization. Unfortunately, the church's emphasis on forgiveness gives them plenty of second chances to cause trouble.

  6. Re:Land of Nod on Evangelical Scientists Debate Creation Story · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how to decipher that

    Perhaps in the most generous (and accurate) way? There is a start time mentioned, but beyond that, there is no marking of time *during* the story. If you're looking for the slightest fault, you'll always manufacture something. For example: You wrote: "First you said" but I never said anything I wrote it. A generous interpretation on my part allowed me to understand your meaning.

  7. Re:Why do they even discuss it? on Evangelical Scientists Debate Creation Story · · Score: 1

    the creation of male and female humans per se is in Genesis 1, and an entirely different, earlier, allegorical "day".

    Correct, Day6. After the chronological story is told, (and the resting on Day7), a flashback narrative is told regarding Eden being created on Day3 (note the "when dry land is created, but no plants yet; that means it's Day3 according to the chronology of Genesis1). It's not expressed how long it took before Eve was created, but worldwide population with humans and creation of Adam and Eve were separate events.

  8. Chlorine safe? on Using Tablets Becoming Popular Bathroom Activity · · Score: 1

    Is the iPad screen Chlorine safe? OCD minds would like to know.

  9. Re:Science vs Religion: Contradictions? on Evangelical Scientists Debate Creation Story · · Score: 2

    And they are telling you and me that we are going to Hell.

    Only because they don't want you to. Otherwise, they'd say nothing at all.

  10. Re:Why do they even discuss it? on Evangelical Scientists Debate Creation Story · · Score: 1

    To claim people didn't pre-exist Eve would cause major problems with the time and event sequence of the narrative of the "days" per your Genesis 1:26 reference

    No, not really. Genesis2 says that Eden was created on the day God created dry land, but before he created plants all over the Earth. Adam might have gotten bored (or horny) very quickly, and God might have made Eve that same day. That was a few days before worldwide human population. The Eden story isn't a chronology, it's a flashback.

  11. Re:Cain married his sister on Evangelical Scientists Debate Creation Story · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's freaking blatantly in there, but popular culture has reduced the story to "Adam and Eve started it all". At the end of Genesis1, God populates the world with humans on the 6th day. At the beginning of the Eden story in Genesis2, God creates Eden and Adam (maybe Eve too) on the 3rd day. It's a flashback story.

  12. Re:Land of Nod on Evangelical Scientists Debate Creation Story · · Score: 1

    Actually, the beginning of the Eden story says that Eden was created on day three, after the land was created, but before plants. There are no days cited in the Eden story, so Adam might have lived there for ages or a couple hours before he asked for a fellow human. So Adam was chronologically first, but there might have been plenty of other women before Eve.

  13. Even the Bible says that on Evangelical Scientists Debate Creation Story · · Score: 1

    In Genesis chapter one, God creates humans all over the Earth on the sixth day of creation. Genesis chapter goes back to the day when earth and sea are separated just before plants are created, and discusses a little experiment with a garden called Eden. According to the Bible, Adam and Eve might have been the first humans, but they weren't the only humans created.
    The real genetic choke point is with Noah and his children (and spouses).

  14. Re:God fearing men... on After Rick Perry's Stem Cell Treatment, Misplaced Enthusiasm? · · Score: 1

    Embryonic stem cells do actually work - in fact, they are known to produce full blown human beings

    "Got spinal damage? Try Embriostem! (Side effects may include vomiting, diarrhea, and budding of another human being within your spinal cord.) Ask your doctor if Embriostem is right for you!"

  15. Re:Yay! More engineer bashing! on Anonymous Breaches Another US Defense Contractor · · Score: 1

    And yet in 25 years involvement in an engineering career, IEEE and other professional organization activities, I can't find a creationist if my life depended on it.

    You're not looking hard enough. Specifically, you're not asking them in a non-confrontational way or in a non-hostile setting. Ask to join your coworkers to their churches a few times. You'll get a feel for their convictions once you experience how they worship.

  16. Re:Anybody else? on Teachers, Students Fight To Be Facebook Friends · · Score: 1

    Have you never seen lines for computers at a public library (all for email or facebook)?

  17. Re:What happened to geology for its own sake? on Antarctica's Ice Flow Fully Mapped For the First Time · · Score: 1

    No. If you keep repeating "truths" out of all proportion, it is still scaremongering. That's why there are so many more people who feel perfectly fine driving a car to the airport and getting scared as soon as they board the plane - than there are people who are a paranoid, nervous wreak behind the driving wheel and relax upon boarding the much safer airplane (as it is indeed the case).

    No, that has to do with the effect of feeling in control of a situation. People would feel safer on a big plane if they had access to the cockpit, knew the pilots, etc. They really wouldn't be (that's actually more dangerous). Strap them into the back seat of a car with extra seat belts and packing foam and they'll feel unsafe riding in a car too.

  18. Re:Wireless = less network engineers? on Ask Slashdot: What Will IT Look Like In 10 Years? · · Score: 1

    IT will troubleshoot the desktop systems by rebooting,

    Just automate it:
    * * * * * /usr/bin/reboot
    There. Now I can get back to reading slashdot.

  19. Just saw touchpad ad on TV on HP TouchPad To Be Liquidated At Fire Sale Prices · · Score: 2

    Reminds me of the local radio ads I hear for events that happens the day prior.

  20. Re:Learn your AVC's on Most People Have Never Heard of CTRL+F · · Score: 1

    People would be almost as well served by using the "Edit... Find" GUI menu option, but don't even know about that.

    Because it's hidden by the ribbon.

  21. Who does Apple think they are? on More Photoshopped Evidence In Apple v. Samsung · · Score: 3, Funny

    Facebook?

  22. Re:until the next game... on Ubisoft Scales Back Driver DRM · · Score: 2

    wait 24hrs -2 weeks after release, dial down the DRM to something bordering on reasonable. Get more sales from the PR of "lessening DRM".

    Requiring an Internet connection when starting the game does not come anywhere near to reasonable. Maaaaaaybe on installation, but I still view that with suspicion because 95% of my games are from companies that no longer exist. Thankfully they employed in-game questions for the DRM.

  23. Re:Extensions on Firefox 7.0 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Thankfully I'm using a distro that won't update from 3.6 too soon. But that means my support calls with my parents for FF6 and TB5 are more difficult.

  24. Re:Improve Perfomance by disabling add-ons on Firefox 7.0 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I just updated to FF6 on some weblab computers and addons like the latest Java, Adobe Reader, etc all broke. WTF Mozilla?

  25. Re:'Race' is racist on American Grant Writing: Race Matters · · Score: 1

    The word 'instead' has elitist vibes, you should use the term 'in most cases, not necessarily referring to this one' in most cases, not necessarily referring to this one.