Based upon all that I have read, it would be very easy to underestimate the amount of damage this bill could do to the Internet, to ordinary people, and to the economy: Stop SOPA (and Protect-IP) and Save the Internet

See also: Hollywood's New War on Software Freedom and Internet Innovation

BlackBoxVoting, a Voting watchdog group has discovered a major security hole in the Diebold electronic vote tabulating machines. It appears to be deliberately designed for manipulating election results. They are working to get this flaw known to the public and the local election officials, so that they can monitor the tabulatin machines. However, ( Read more... )

Found via www.sciscoop.com:

Researchers at the University of Arizona report "Jupiter and Asteroid Belt A Prerequisite For Life On Earth?". In summary - the element phosphorus is very much more common (and critical!) in life than in the universe as a whole. The article investigates a likely source of the needed phosphorus -- the corrosion of iron ( Read more... )

Well, a 3-6 month contract job, anyway. At least it's money coming in. I start Wednesday or Thursday next week, depending on the paperwork. It sounds like an interesting project ( Read more... )

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Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence

From "The Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists", November 1975, pp. 10-20

Some interesting quotes:

A neuropsychologist contends that the greatest threat to world peace comes from those nations which have the most depriving environments for their children ( Read more... )

For anybody that's on my friends list and hasn't read it on wcg's friends list, this post/link is a very worthwhile read.

Sheesh. I couldn't take the "what decade are you living in" quiz, since you have to answer every question, and there were too many with no answers that I would be willing to pick.

I guess I'm living in some other universe...

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I just got back from my (2nd) HAI level 4 workshop. I now know what work I have to do to be me, to be all I can be, to be whole. I have had flashes of what it is like when I'm done. This post is the result of one such flash ( Read more... )

I can see this one...


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