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• Are one woman's photos too inappropriate to go in a yearbook?

  Mon Jan 9, 2012
  • The first photo is a little more racy than I would feel comfortable, but there are schools where this would pass as a standard cheerleader uniform. The second photo looks like something I see girls wearing to Jr. prom night every year.

• Scientist creates thermal 'invisibility cloak'

  Thu Nov 10, 2011
  • Alright! Now I will soon be able to cloak my tank, because thermal imaging and heat seeking missles won't be able to detect carbon fibers that get so hot they bend light.... :)

• How Shanghai’s students stunned the world

  Wed Nov 2, 2011
  • In the past decade, there has been a shift in American thinking that all children are college material; "No child left behind" means you have to lower the bar to make sure everyone succeeds.

• Search for aliens costs school employee his job

  Wed Dec 2, 2009
  • I've had SETI installed before, and had no problem, other than it revved up my cooling fans to max, making a bunch of noise. That being said, I can sort of see how the $1mil number was calculated.

• The case of the disorderly order going to trial

  Thu Nov 19, 2009
  • So rapping in the drive through was the worst thing they did? At least they aren't out stealing stuff, shooting people, getting high, or driving drunk.

• Web sites with non-Latin letters may be coming

  Mon Oct 26, 2009
  • So, who decides whose language is 'important enough' to add into the mix? Will we be adding every character of every language on the planet? How many characters of each language? Will the automated translation scripting hold up under that kind of pounding? If they think it's only going to be a …

• Web sites with non-Latin letters may be coming

  Mon Oct 26, 2009
  • So, who decides whose language is 'important enough' to add into the mix? Will we be adding every character of every language on the planet? How many characters of each language? Will the automated translation scripting hold up under that kind of pounding? If they think it's only going to be a …

• America’s high-tech sweatshops

  Sun Oct 4, 2009
  • These stories do hit home with me - I am also employed in what's left of the domestic IT field.  Over the years, I watched all of the upper-level, high-paying IT jobs get outsourced overseas (India, Ireland, etc); I was reduced from being a high level domain administrator to …

• Minimum wage workers get a raise

  Sun Jul 19, 2009
  • I'm not a really big fan of increasing minimum wage over and over again.

• Do you think companies should be able to patent genes?

  Tue May 12, 2009
  • From the modern Hippocratic Oath: "I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow."