Cap'n Refsmmat

It looks great, but perhaps you could have the snowflakes stop as they hit the logo? It would make it look more realistic.

Okay, thanks. EurekAlert! seems to be the best I've found so far for science items. I've posted three or four news threads already.

How do you propose we would use these? Would the original poster rate their sources or the people replying to them?

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-12/uab-ama120705.php

I haven't had any problems with it during my use now. The update system works fine now (there were a few problems during the RCs) and all has been well. I'd recommend you update. Things are a bit faster and I like drag-and-drop tabs.

Then we have to decide if we want news to be exclusively scientific, and have a seperate forum for general stuff. Personally, I think we should stick to science for front-page news.

Any moderator can approve articles. The problem is that moderators aren't online often enough. That's why I was suggesting dedicated people who just approve news articles and write them. I'm definitely going to take advantage of RSS to start posting more news, when I have time.

Of course. Perhaps the best philosophy here would not be to be exceedingly simple, but to write technically with a very good explanation to go along with it. That way the technical folks are satisfied, and people new to the area get understanding from it as well.

I just posted two items from my RSS feeds, waiting for them to be approved by a moderator. Sage is really nice. (Sage is a sidebar for Firefox that is a complete RSS aggregator)

And there's always the risk that a passenger will notice the skymarshal has a gun, which doubles when the marshal also has a taser. They probably want to be as lightly loaded as possible so they don't get discovered in case of a hijacking.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/12/051210120200.htm Scientists have discovered that rather than targeting the amyloid plaques caused by Alzheimer's disease (which are believed to be the most destructive part of the disease) after they are established, an immunization strategy against the plaques themselves helped prevent them from building up in the first place, at least in mice. Hopefully, this means we will be able to vaccinate against Alzheimers.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/12/051207113255.htm Around 2.5 million people received this vaccine last year rather than the conventional jab, and it appears to have no serious risks as some believed. This may lead to the flu vaccine simply being squirted up your nose rather then a shot, which would probably help a lot of people get around their fear of needles and get the shot. Good news.

SFN really needs to crank up the amount of science news posted in the news forum. It looks rather dull, but considering it's what's on the front page, it ought to be active. Now that I've set up my RSS feeds in Firefox, I'm going to try to post a few science items. But I think we need something like Neowin's setup--people of the rank "newsposter" that post items and moderate the submissions of other members. This way the people with spare time could be allowed to post all sorts of items, and moderate submissions of other members.

I'm looking for some RSS feeds to stick in Firefox. Anything sciency or just plain news would work. I have: Scientific American ScienceDaily New Scientist ScienceNOW BBC Reuters Anybody have any they use?

When the computer hibernates, all data from RAM and current processes is saved to disk. The computer then shuts everything down, like a normal shutdown. When you turn it back on, it loads all that data back into RAM and resumes all of the processes. It's essentially just as good as a normal shutdown.

Rubber bullets don't disable you. They just hurt, and that never stops someone determined.

If he blows up in the jetway, that costs the airport money and probably injures other workers, the skymarshals, and probably some random people, depending on how close to either end he was. Only if the person has 200 people around him would that be a valid example.

Wow. Great vocabulary. Unfortunately I don't care. Now start providing evidence and stop making ad hominem attacks to avoid replying to valid points.

The more pertinent question is "did the marshal even have a taser, or time to pull it out?"

Festive. Although I don't know why you want a snowy logo when you live in Florida...

I'm actually looking into subscribing to Scientific American as a supplement to New Scientist. The post office here seems to like stealing my New Scientist before it gets to me, so I think I'm going to like the Digital Subscription option...

It's a new feature of Windows Live. You'll see a little skydiver if you look closely enough.

I'm saying they aren't taught about it. They're taught not to do it. But in any case, it has to be innate to some extent. All of the other animals on this planet manage to do it, and we never notice an older one pointing at diagrams while in front of a bunch of young animals.

I don't think they teach how to reproduce. In most places in the US they teach not to until marriage.