"Women named Jill and Hillary should be raped."
Those are the words of "AK-47" -- a poster to the college-admissions web forum AutoAdmit.com. AK-47 was one of a handful of students heaping misogynist scorn on women attending the nations' top law schools in 2007, in posts so vile they spurred a national debate on the limits of online anonymity, and an unprecedented federal lawsuit aimed at unmasking and punishing the posters.
Now lawyers for two female Yale Law School students have ascertained AK-47's real identity, along with the identities of other AutoAdmit posters, who all now face the likely publication of their names in court records -- potentially marking a death sentence for the comment trolls' budding legal careers even before the case has gone to trial.
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Thursday, July 31
Yale Students' Lawsuit Unmasks Anonymous Trolls, Opens Pandora's Box
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Riley Jones
on Thu 31 Jul 2008 04:05 PM EDT
Daily pill that halts Alzheimer's is hailed as 'biggest breakthrough against disease for 100 years'
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 31 Jul 2008 04:04 AM EDT
It is said to be more than twice as effective as current treatments. A daily capsule of rember, as the drug is known, stops Alzheimer’s disease progressing by as much as 81 per cent, according to trial results. More>>>
Liquid flowing on surface of Saturn moon: NASA
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 31 Jul 2008 03:05 AM EDT
NASA said in a statement that information from Cassini indicated that large lakes on Titan contained liquid hydrocarbons and ethane. "This is the first observation that really pins down that Titan has a surface lake filled with liquid," said University of Arizona scientist Bob Brown, team leader of Cassini's visual and mapping instrument. NASA said large dark areas on Titan's surface had been spotted during numerous close flybys of the moon. However until now it had not been possible to determine whether they were liquid or solids. More>>> Tuesday, July 29
5 Tiny Mistakes That Led To Huge Catastrophes (Some Off Color Language)
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Riley Jones
on Tue 29 Jul 2008 04:38 PM EDT
#4: The New York Black Out. On the night of July 13, 1977, a system operator sat in New York City's ConEdison electric facility, probably reading a comic book and wishing the internet had been invented. Then, lightning struck. Three times. It nearly crippled the facility. To make things worse, neighboring facilities then opened their connections to the ConEd system to keep their own from overloading. The details are technical, but let's just say at that point, the system was going to be screwed unless somebody took action. But no worries, our trusty system operator was on duty. And all he needed to do was flip a few switches and disaster would be averted. What could go wrong? More>>>
Russian explorers reach bed of world's deepest lake in Siberia
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 29 Jul 2008 01:19 PM EDT
The submersibles, Mir-1 and Mir-2, reached a depth of 1,680 meters (5,500 feet) in the world's deepest lake, which holds 20% of the planet's fresh water. The expedition is set to run for two years, during which the scientists will conduct around 160 dives in various areas of the lake. Research will include tectonic information-gathering, and exploration for archeological artifacts. Expedition leaders have denied media reports that they will also be searching for oil and gas. More>>>
Another "World’s Largest Cruise Ship" record will be set by Oasis of the Sea
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Riley Jones
on Tue 29 Jul 2008 10:17 AM EDT
It’s yet to be finished, but with these artistic renderings, we get to see inside of the future record holder for the world’s largest ship, a serious competitor for another maritime wonder, Liberty of the Seas. Oasis of the Sea will be a luxurious traveling city, complete with shopping streets, bars, restaurants, an amphitheater the size of a football field. And if this didn’t blow you away, the ship is also equipped with its own micro-climate and rock-climbing walls. It will weigh around 220,000 tonne, be 1,081ft long and have 16 passenger decks. More>>> Monday, July 28
Mystery hairs 'may have come from a Yeti'
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 28 Jul 2008 04:51 PM EDT
Hairs being tested by British scientists are the best ever evidence that the legendary Yeti does exist, experts say. The hunt for the elusive creature - said to be 10ft tall, part man, part ape and otherwise known as the Abominable Snowman - has frustrated scientists for decades. Now tests at Oxford Brookes University on hairs said to be from a Yeti in India have failed to link the strands with any known species. More>>>
NASA Images (You may want to bookmark this one...)
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Riley Jones
on Mon 28 Jul 2008 10:01 AM EDT
Sunday, July 27
For Knight Rider 3.0, KITT Mustang Gets a Supercomputer Upgrade
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Riley Jones
on Sun 27 Jul 2008 11:58 AM EDT
SAN DIEGO — The annual Comic-Con geekfest here is as good a place as any to set the high-tech record straight on NBC's new Knight Rider series. After all, fans of the original cult hit still needed to be sold on the concept after objecting to February's two-hour movie, which upgraded KITT from a Pontiac Trans Am to a Mustang Shelby but overlooked many of the notoriously gadget-loaded car's key features—most egregiously its trademark car-jumping device. More>>> Saturday, July 26
Higher, Faster, Stronger: 1950s Experimental Aircraft
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Riley Jones
on Sat 26 Jul 2008 12:49 AM EDT
The 1950s was the decade of the test pilot and the experimental aircraft, as aviation technology turned to the jet engine and pushed its limits in both speed and endurance. With the world divided in Cold War, the stakes were high. Jet aircraft dominated both U.S. and Soviet arsenals and the data returned by subsonic and supersonic test flights had implications for the coming space race as well. More>>> Thursday, July 24
Planet Gore: The Grand Exaggerator
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Riley Jones
on Thu 24 Jul 2008 05:36 PM EDT
Here’s how Gore works. He’ll cite one scientific finding that shows what he wants, and then ignore other work that provides important context. Here’s a list of his climate exaggerations from his well-publicized July 17 rant, along with a few sobering facts. Gore: “Scientists . . . have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire [North Polar] ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.” More>>> Wednesday, July 23
Edgar Mitchell: Aliens have been making contact for sixty years
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 23 Jul 2008 06:25 PM EDT
Aliens have contacted humans several times but governments have hidden the truth for 60 years, the sixth man to walk on the moon has claimed. Apollo 14 astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell, said he was aware of many UFO visits to Earth during his career with NASA but each one was covered up...'I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we've been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena is real,' More>>>
'No concrete global warming proof in polar region'
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 23 Jul 2008 05:51 PM EDT
Are the ices of the Arctic north (or the antarctic south, for that matter) about to melt away for good? Rami Abdelrahman gets the views of a range of Swedish researchers. More>>>
Toy rocket inspires variable-speed bullets
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Riley Jones
on Wed 23 Jul 2008 09:33 AM EDT
A gun that fires variable speed bullets and which can be set to kill, wound or just inflict a bruise is being built by a US toy manufacturer. The weapon is based on technology used to propel toy rockets. Lund and Company Invention, a toy design studio based near Chicago, makes toy rockets that are powered by burning hydrogen obtained by electrolysing water. Now the company is being funded by the US army to adapt the technology to fire bullets instead. Settings include "Remove Bottlecap", "Tenderize Hippie" and "Masarama, Jihadi..." (Hat Tip to our man Tim for the submission) More>>> Tuesday, July 22
Iris-scan systems to secure Arab states' borders
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Riley Jones
on Tue 22 Jul 2008 05:18 PM EDT
FTA-"Arab League states have agreed to introduce a biometric system to protect their borders and also speed security procedures. Arab border security chiefs have endorsed the procurement and installation of biometric systems at airports and sea ports. The chiefs convened in an Arab League session in Tunisia on July 17 as part of efforts to bolster security coordination." We can't build a fence to close our borders because we might offend someone or it's to expensive. But it seems the Arabs have taken a proactive stance that somehow seems to complex for us. Check this out... (Submitted by our man General Disarray) More>>>
Five Ways Reality Went Sci-Fi So Far This Century
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Riley Jones
on Tue 22 Jul 2008 02:46 AM EDT
We love a good science fiction story, but sometimes reality is just as strange. While we may have seen 2001 come and go without an actual space odyssey, the last eight years have been full of events that - had they not actually happened - could easily pass for science fiction. Here are five real life events that still seem like they've come straight from the set-up of a big budget summer blockbuster. More>>> Monday, July 21
And they said that Blair was Bush's puppy
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Riley Jones
on Mon 21 Jul 2008 01:19 AM EDT
PM to warn Iran in Knesset speech Britain is determined to prevent Iran developing nuclear arms, Gordon Brown is due to tell the Israeli parliament. In the first speech to the Knesset by a UK prime minister, he will call Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's threat to wipe Israel off the map "abhorrent". More>>>
Southpaw’s Revenge: Why Lefties Make Better Baseball Players
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Riley Jones
on Mon 21 Jul 2008 01:00 AM EDT
Watching the Twins' Justin Morneau lead off the winning rally in the 15th inning of Tuesday night's All-Star game with a single to shallow center, there was no reason to be surprised that he throws righty but bats lefty. Although only one in 10 civilians are left-handed, one quarter of Major League Baseball players are southpaws. That's no accident, says Washington University aerospace engineer David Peters, who has used math and physics skills to confirm that lefties have a considerable advantage on the diamond. More>>> Sunday, July 20
Can Plug-In Hybrids Ride to America's Rescue?
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Riley Jones
on Sun 20 Jul 2008 01:22 PM EDT
Andrew Frank, a professor at the University of California, Davis, is considered the godfather of the plug-in hybrid car, which runs 60 miles on electricity from a standard 110-volt wall socket and then switches to liquid fuel. More>>> Friday, July 18
Myth of Consensus Explodes: APS Opens Global Warming Debate
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 18 Jul 2008 04:36 PM EDT
The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The APS is also sponsoring public debate on the validity of global warming science. The leadership of the society had previously called the evidence for global warming "incontrovertible." More>>>
Dark Knight's Bat-Pod Took Up-Armored Road From Garage to Set
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Riley Jones
on Fri 18 Jul 2008 03:56 PM EDT
As if there weren't enough hype and heartbreak hovering over The Dark Knight, director Chris Nolan had one more headache facing him, right there in his garage, for his latest Batman film: how to top the Tumbler—a two-and-a-half ton, bulletproof Batmobile that leapt 60 ft. and did a sub-five zero to 60 in Batman Begins. His solution? Ditch the spoiler-and-fin sports car mod of Batmobile lore. Hell, ditch the sports car altogether. After all, Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne already has a Lambo in The Dark Knight, which opens tomorrow. Enter the Bat-Pod, a motorcycle-ATV hybrid that lands eye-popping stunts sans CGI, a hand-built bike that fires grappling hooks—while shape-shifting. More>>>
10 Things To Do With Your Old Computer
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Riley Jones
on Fri 18 Jul 2008 01:07 PM EDT
#5. Turn it into an Aquarium Lately people have been turning their old CRT monitors into really cool aquariums. Basically you take a perfectly fine but old Cathode Ray Tube monitor, strip it of all of its parts (except for the glass at the front), make it so it doesn’t leak and fill it with a plethora of colourful fish. More>>> Thursday, July 17
A Great collection of Concept cars
by
Riley Jones
on Thu 17 Jul 2008 01:00 AM EDT
Wednesday, July 16
From the 'I gotta get me one of these' Dept: Northrop F-20 Tigershark
by
Riley Jones
on Wed 16 Jul 2008 11:28 AM EDT
Distant solar system body named 'Makemake'
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 16 Jul 2008 03:14 AM EDT
Makemake, formerly known as 2005 FY9, is the first dwarf planet to receive a name since 2006, when its neighbour 2003 UB313 was named Eris after the Greek goddess of discord. It joins Pluto and Eris as the only named 'plutoids', a term devised by the IAU to describe Pluto-like objects beyond Neptune. More>>>
Incredible pictures of Mars - and they look surprisingly like some parts of Earth
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 16 Jul 2008 03:10 AM EDT
The photographs were taken by the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board the ESA's Mars Express probe. ESA officials said the canyons in the photographs are approximately 62 miles long, 6.2 miles wide and 3,000 feet deep. More>>>
Using Dye to Boost Solar Efficiency by 50%
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Riley Jones
on Wed 16 Jul 2008 03:00 AM EDT
MIT has perfected a dye technology that could change the solar world as we know it. The most efficient form of solar technology today is (arguably) extreme concentrated photovoltaics, essentially solar panels placed under a magnifying glass. But the problem with these systems is heat. More>>> Tuesday, July 15
Study finds genetic link to violence, delinquency
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Riley Jones
on Tue 15 Jul 2008 05:00 AM EDT
Three genes may play a strong role in determining why some young men raised in rough neighborhoods or deprived families become violent criminals, while others do not, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. One gene called MAOA that played an especially strong role has been shown in other studies to affect antisocial behavior -- and it was disturbingly common, the team at the University of North Carolina reported. More>>>
Should Congress regulate how they can use new media?
by
Riley Jones
on Tue 15 Jul 2008 03:00 AM EDT
Massachusetts Democrat Michael Capuano, Member of the House Franking Commission wants web sites where lawmakers post videos to be scrubbed of advertising and political messages that could be seen as endorsements. The reality is that no Member of Congress would ever suggest a move this radical when it comes to using traditional media. So why be so restrictive when it comes to integrating new media? More>>>
'Blade Runner' Oscar Pistorius
by
Riley Jones
on Tue 15 Jul 2008 01:00 AM EDT
Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee athlete known as Blade Runner, has missed his first chance to qualify for the Olympic Games. Monday, July 14
Slim Pickins From T. Boone Pickens
by
Riley Jones
on Mon 14 Jul 2008 10:28 PM EDT
A world-famous Texas oilman says our energy answer lies in alternative energy. While tilting at windmills, he says that we can't drill our way to energy bliss. So why do the Russians keep drilling? More>>>
6 Retarded Gas Saving Schemes (People Are Actually Trying)
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Riley Jones
on Mon 14 Jul 2008 02:16 PM EDT
With gas prices skyrocketing and 65 payments left on the Escalade, America is looking for ways to cut back. In these desperate times we'll do whatever is necessary, as long as it doesn't involve driving less. Fortunately there are a number of fuel-saving alternatives that are easy, inexpensive and completely idiotic More>>> Sunday, July 13
Obama's Iran nonsense: "Let's Not Be Provocative"
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Riley Jones
on Sun 13 Jul 2008 04:40 PM EDT
Asked how the United States ought to respond to last week's Iranian missile tests, Barack Obama told CNN that it was important "we avoid provocation." Just as last year, Obama criticized a Senate bill designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guards a terrorist organization because it was too "provocative." This has us wondering: Is the problem with Iran that the United States seems provocative? Iran revealed to the world in late 2002 that it had been conducting a secret uranium enrichment program for 15 years. This was a violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which Iran is a signatory. Uranium enrichment is the first step on the road to building an atomic bomb. Most everyone seems to agree that Iranian nukes would destabilize the Middle East. More>>> |
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