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US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell   |  Gas Prices Jump; California Hardest Hit     Hiring Smokers Banned In South Florida City  US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell  Laser Strikes On Aircraft Becoming Epidemic  Gas Prices Jump; California Hardest Hit  We Don't Need More Highways  Ask Slashdot: Transporting Computers By Cargo Ship?  Spreadsheet Blamed For UK Rail Bid Fiasco  Virgin Galactic's Quiet News: Virgin Now Owns The SpaceShip Company  Google Puts Souped-Up Neural Networks To Work  Kim Dotcom Apparently Spied On For Longer Than Admitted  Ad Agency's Bizarre Steve Jobs Tribute Flash Mob Hits Seattle  Wanted: Hackers For Large-Scale Attacks On American Banks  Ad Group Says Internet Accounts For 5.1M US Jobs, 3.7% of GDP  French Bees Produce Blue and Green Honey  Unusual New Species of Dinosaur Identified     Hiring Smokers Banned In South Florida City  From the welcome-to-our-prohibition-already-in-progress department Penurious Penguin writes "On October 2, City Commissioners of Delray Beach finalized a policy which prohibits agencies from hiring employees who use tobacco products. Delray Beach isn't alone though; other Florida cities such as Hollywood and...   US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell  From the hey-at-least-it's-an-ethos department First time accepted submitter badford writes "Representative Paul Broun (Georgia Republican) said that evolution, embryology and the Big Bang theory are 'lies straight from the pit of hell' meant to convince people that they do not need a savior....   Laser Strikes On Aircraft Becoming Epidemic  From the good-place-to-put-advertising department First time accepted submitter AlphaWolf_HK writes "Ars Technica has a story about a 52 year old man who was arrested and sentenced to three years in jail for shining a high powered green laser at a helicopter along with an interesting video...   Gas Prices Jump; California Hardest Hit  From the swedes-and-brits-will-cry-us-a-river department New submitter jefery23 writes with this excerpt from an Associated Press article (as carried by the Denver Post): "Californians woke up to a shock Friday as overnight gasoline prices jumped by as much as 20 cents a gallon in some areas, ending a...   We Don't Need More Highways  From the we-need-more-hang-gliders department Hugh Pickens writes "When it comes to infrastructure, politicians usually prefer shiny new projects over humdrum repairs. A brand-new highway is exciting: There's a ribbon-cutting, and there's less need to clog up existing lanes with orange cones...   Ask Slashdot: Transporting Computers By Cargo Ship?  From the dramamine-and-lots-of-it department JabrTheHut writes "I'll be packing up and moving to another continent soon. Everything I own will be packed up into boxes and loaded onto a cargo container, which in turn will be loaded onto a ship and will sail from Northern Europe, through the...   Spreadsheet Blamed For UK Rail Bid Fiasco  From the spreadsheet-fiasco-is-redundant department First time accepted submitter Bruce66423 writes "As a sometime computer programmer who was always very sniffy about the quality of the stuff being knocked up by amateurs aka power users, the current claim that it was a messed up spreadsheet that...   Virgin Galactic's Quiet News: Virgin Now Owns The SpaceShip Company  From the big-spaceship department RocketAcademy writes "While all eyes were focused on SpaceX, which is preparing for another launch to the International Space Station, Virgin Galactic quietly put out a press release. Virgin Galactic has acquired full ownership of The SpaceShip...   Google Puts Souped-Up Neural Networks To Work  From the our-menu-options-have-recently-changed department holy_calamity writes "A machine learning breakthrough from Google researchers that grabbed headlines this summer is now being put to work improving the company's products. The company revealed in June that it had built neural networks that run on...   Kim Dotcom Apparently Spied On For Longer Than Admitted  From the you-gotta-start-someplace department another random user writes "Kim Dotcom's internet connection was being diverted inside New Zealand weeks before the Government Communications Security Bureau says it started spying on him. The New Zealand Herald has obtained details showing...   Ad Agency's Bizarre Steve Jobs Tribute Flash Mob Hits Seattle  From the suspect-he's-laughing department theodp writes "File this one under it-seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time. The Filter digital agency decided to show off their Steve Jobs spirit on the first anniversary of Jobs' death by declaring Friday Steve Jobs dress-up day. But where things...   Wanted: Hackers For Large-Scale Attacks On American Banks  From the just-leave-the-credit-unions-alone department Trailrunner7 writes "RSA's FraudAction research team has been monitoring underground chatter and has put together various clues to deduce that a cybercrime gang is actively recruiting up to 100 botmasters to participate in a complicated...   Ad Group Says Internet Accounts For 5.1M US Jobs, 3.7% of GDP  From the exact-figures-are-124.987-percent-accurate department lpress writes "A Harvard Business School study sponsored by the Interactive Advertising Bureau shows that the ad-supported Internet is responsible for 5.1 million jobs in the U.S. — two million direct and 3.1 million indirect. They report...   French Bees Produce Blue and Green Honey  From the best-solution-is-to-put-a-premium-on-it department jones_supa writes "Since August, beekeepers around the town of Ribeauville in the region of Alsace, France have seen their bees starting to produce honey in an odd blue or green color. Mystified, the beekeepers embarked on an investigation and...   Unusual New Species of Dinosaur Identified  From the all-dinosaurs-are-currently-unusual department cervesaebraciator writes "A new species of heterodontosaur, called Pegomastax, has been identified. Paul Sereno, a University of Chicago paleontologist, published a description of this species in a recent issue of ZooKeys. Although this diminutive...

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