Slashdot Items Tagged "idiocracy"

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Wednesday January 22, 2020 @01:45AM Waze sending Borgata Casino visitors to the middle of nowhere.
Friday December 20, 2019 @12:08PM Worried About 5G's Health Effects? Don't Be
Sunday November 17, 2019 @12:38PM You Can Now Buy Pretend Food for Your $2,900 Sony Robot Dog
Friday November 01, 2019 @10:27PM Black Salve Is A Dangerous Fake Cancer Cure, But It Continues To Flourish In Facebook Groups
Tuesday May 14, 2019 @12:41PM Who To Sue When a Robot Loses Your Fortune
Wednesday March 13, 2019 @03:32PM Portland City Council May Ask FCC To Investigate Health Risks of 5G Networks
Thursday February 21, 2019 @12:37PM Montana Legislator Introduces Bills To Give His State His Own Science
Tuesday November 27, 2018 @03:01PM Trump Says He Doesn't Believe Government Climate Report Finding in a New Low
Monday November 05, 2018 @12:46PM Doctor Slams Hospital's "Please" Policy
Tuesday September 11, 2018 @02:15PM NASA May Sell Corporate Naming Rights For Rockets, Spacecraft
Friday April 27, 2018 @08:07AM Ford To Stop Selling Every Car In North America But the Mustang, Focus Active
Wednesday April 25, 2018 @02:50AM EPA Proposes Limits To Science Used In Rulemaking
Saturday April 07, 2018 @03:09AM Your Strategic Plans Probably Aren't Strategic, or Even Plans
Thursday January 18, 2018 @01:32AM 'No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore'
Thursday November 30, 2017 @01:59PM 'Bomb on Board' Wi-Fi Network Causes Turkish Airlines Flight To Be Diverted
Wednesday August 09, 2017 @03:25PM Brits Look at Google and Facebook Every 210 Seconds, Says Survey
Sunday August 06, 2017 @12:16AM 'Real People' Don't Need End-To-End Encryption In Their Messaging Apps, UK Home Secretary Says
Saturday July 15, 2017 @01:48PM In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country
Wednesday May 31, 2017 @10:16AM Trump Is Pulling US Out of Paris Climate Deal: Sources
Saturday May 06, 2017 @01:12PM FCC Considers Fining Stephen Colbert Over Controversial Trump Joke
Sunday December 11, 2016 @09:39AM Inside Peter Thiel's Genius Factory
Friday November 11, 2016 @02:34PM Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic To Lead EPA Transition
Tuesday June 21, 2016 @12:07PM Invoking Orlando, Senate Republicans Set Up Vote To Expand FBI Spying
Friday May 13, 2016 @07:39AM Dutch minister refuses to stop using private mail for government business
Monday March 21, 2016 @05:33PM Obama Lands In Cuba As First US President To Visit In Nearly A Century
Friday March 04, 2016 @01:53PM Ted Cruz Proposes Reviving SDI To Counter N. Korean Nuclear Threat
Wednesday December 16, 2015 @03:39AM North Carolina Town Defeats Big Solar's Plan To Suck Up the Sun
Monday October 05, 2015 @12:39PM Majority of EU Nations Seek Opt-Out From Growing GM Crops
Tuesday September 15, 2015 @11:12AM UK Labour Party's Support For Homeopathy Grows
Friday August 21, 2015 @01:45PM Jeb Bush Comes Out Against Encryption
Monday August 10, 2015 @01:53PM Scotland To Ban GM Crops
Sunday July 12, 2015 @05:41AM Double-Dynamo Model Predicts 60% Fall In Solar Output In The 2030s
Thursday June 25, 2015 @03:32PM Wi-Fi Router's 'Pregnant Women' Setting Sparks Vendor Rivalry In China
Friday May 29, 2015 @10:09AM Australia's Prime Minister Doesn't Get Why Kids Should Learn To Code
Thursday April 23, 2015 @06:03AM Bill To Require Vaccination of Children Advances In California
Thursday February 19, 2015 @09:13PM Sony Offers a "Premium Sound" SD Card For a Premium Price
Friday February 13, 2015 @12:56PM Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities
Tuesday February 03, 2015 @06:24PM Art Project Causes Atlanta Police To Close Highway and Call Bomb Squad
Monday February 02, 2015 @10:01PM New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations
Monday February 02, 2015 @01:25PM Texas Boy Suspended For "Threatening" Classmate With the One Ring
Thursday January 22, 2015 @03:48PM Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret
Thursday January 22, 2015 @01:23PM Science By Democracy Doesn't Work
Thursday January 22, 2015 @05:38AM US Senate Set To Vote On Whether Climate Change Is a Hoax
Friday December 12, 2014 @12:15PM Time To Remove 'Philosophical' Exemption From Vaccine Requirements?
Thursday November 06, 2014 @09:44AM Discovery Claims It Will Show a Man Being "Eaten Alive" By an Anaconda
Monday November 03, 2014 @11:49PM Russia Takes Down Steve Jobs Memorial After Apple's Tim Cook Comes Out
Thursday September 25, 2014 @10:04PM Study: Multimedia Multitasking May Be Shrinking Human Brains
Monday September 22, 2014 @03:12PM Friendly Reminder: Do Not Place Your iPhone In a Microwave
Sunday August 17, 2014 @07:17PM Facebook Tests "Satire" Tag To Avoid Confusion On News Feed
Saturday June 07, 2014 @08:08PM Report: Watch Dogs Game May Have Influenced Highway Sign Hacking
Tuesday May 27, 2014 @09:52AM Human "Suspended Animation" Trials To Start This Month
Friday May 23, 2014 @04:33PM Teachers Union: Computers Can Negatively Impact Children's Ability To Learn
Monday May 12, 2014 @10:58AM Wyoming Is First State To Reject Science Standards Over Climate Change
Thursday May 08, 2014 @08:42PM Study: Earthlings Not Ready For Alien Encounters, Yet
Thursday May 01, 2014 @12:33PM High-School Star League Brings Gaming As Sport to Teenagers
Monday April 21, 2014 @01:44PM L.A. Science Teacher Suspended Over Student Science Fair Projects
Sunday April 20, 2014 @07:45PM Why Portland Should Have Kept Its Water, Urine and All
Monday March 10, 2014 @01:42AM Up To 1000 NIH Investigators Dropped Out Last Year
Tuesday March 04, 2014 @05:04PM Pro-Vaccination Efforts May Be Scaring Wary Parents From Shots
Tuesday March 04, 2014 @04:31AM IEEE Predicts 85% of Daily Tasks Will Be Games By 2020
Sunday March 02, 2014 @09:00PM Girl's Facebook Post Costs Her Dad $80,000
Wednesday February 12, 2014 @04:33PM Majority of Young American Adults Think Astrology Is a Science
Thursday January 23, 2014 @05:54PM CES 2014: Stefan Lindsay Demonstrates the gTar (Video)
Monday January 20, 2014 @09:46AM Global-Warming Skepticism Hits 6-Year High
Friday January 17, 2014 @09:11AM 95% of ATMs Worldwide Are Still Using Windows XP
Wednesday January 15, 2014 @02:23AM Incandescent Bulbs Get a Reprieve
Monday January 13, 2014 @02:11PM How Weather Influences Global Warming Opinions
Sunday January 05, 2014 @05:35PM Anti-GMO Activists Win Victory On Hawaiian Island
Friday January 03, 2014 @02:49PM City Councilman Resigns Using Klingon
Monday December 30, 2013 @06:33AM Parents' Campaign Leads To Wi-Fi Ban In New Zealand School
Friday December 13, 2013 @01:41PM The New Kings of Kong
Thursday August 29, 2013 @12:57AM NJ Court: Sending a Text Message To a Driver Could Make You Liable For Crash
Wednesday August 21, 2013 @04:03PM US States Banned From Exporting Trash To China Are Drowning In Plastic
Saturday July 13, 2013 @09:29AM Smartphones May Help Reduce Traffic In the Near Future
Tuesday July 09, 2013 @10:33AM Got Malware? Get a Hammer!
Tuesday June 11, 2013 @03:41PM Majority of Americans Say NSA Phone Tracking Is OK To Fight Terrorism
Saturday June 01, 2013 @01:39PM WY Teen Cut From Science Fair For Entering Too Many
Tuesday May 21, 2013 @05:07PM House Bill Would Mandate Smart Gun Tech By U.S. Manufacturers
Sunday May 19, 2013 @10:57AM Ask Slashdot: Why Do Firms Leak Personal Details In Plain Text?
Friday May 03, 2013 @09:31AM Repeal of Louisiana Science Education Act Rejected
Thursday May 02, 2013 @10:00AM Florida Teen Expelled and Arrested For Science Experiment
Tuesday April 30, 2013 @10:26AM SOPA Creator Now In Charge of NSF Grants
Monday April 22, 2013 @06:10AM Terrible Advice From a Great Scientist
Wednesday April 10, 2013 @11:55AM Iranians, Russians, and Chinese Hackers Are After You, Says Lawmaker
Monday March 04, 2013 @10:42AM State Rep. Says Biking Is Not Earth Friendly Because Breathing Produces CO2
Thursday February 14, 2013 @12:15AM Missouri Legislation Redefines Science, Pushes Intelligent Design
Saturday February 09, 2013 @07:59PM Egyptian Court Wants To Block YouTube For a Month
Saturday February 09, 2013 @02:31AM Texas School Board Searching For Alternatives To Evolutionary Theory
Friday January 18, 2013 @10:56PM Turkey's Science Research Council Stops Publication of Evolution Books
Wednesday January 16, 2013 @08:05PM New York Passes Landmark Gun Law
Wednesday January 16, 2013 @01:43AM Missouri Republican Wants Violent Video Game Tax
Tuesday January 08, 2013 @05:00PM Indiana Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots On Religious Grounds
Saturday December 22, 2012 @07:17PM Drawings of Weapons Led To New Jersey Student's Arrest
Tuesday December 04, 2012 @04:20PM Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science
Wednesday November 21, 2012 @05:28AM Ask Slashdot: How Should Tech Conferences Embrace Diversity?
Wednesday November 14, 2012 @08:15AM Study Claims Human Intelligence Peaked Two To Six Millennia Ago
Tuesday October 23, 2012 @03:29AM Scientists Who Failed to Warn of Quake Found Guilty of Manslaughter
Wednesday October 17, 2012 @12:10PM Parent Questions Mandatory High School Chemistry
Sunday October 07, 2012 @04:47PM US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell
Wednesday September 26, 2012 @06:52PM DNC Salute to Vets Featured Backdrop Of Russian Warships
Wednesday September 26, 2012 @04:23PM Promoting Arithmetic and Algebra By Example
Wednesday September 19, 2012 @06:33PM Art School's Expensive Art History Textbook Contains No Actual Art
Saturday September 15, 2012 @05:41AM Patent Troll Sues X-Plane
Wednesday August 29, 2012 @08:31PM Survey Reveals a Majority Believe "the Cloud" Is Affected by Weather
Saturday August 25, 2012 @01:29PM Iran Universities To Ban Women From 77 Fields of Study
Friday August 24, 2012 @05:27PM IT Industry Presidential Poll: 'Not Sure' Beats Both Obama and Romney
Monday August 20, 2012 @12:37PM DEA Lack of Data Storage Results In Dismissed Drug Case
Saturday August 18, 2012 @05:12PM Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests
Saturday August 11, 2012 @01:01PM Software Engineering Has Its Own Political Axis From Conservative To Liberal
Saturday August 11, 2012 @03:37AM Poll Finds Americans Think the TSA Is 'Doing a Good Job'
Thursday August 09, 2012 @02:20PM Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math?
Thursday August 09, 2012 @10:25AM Secret Security Questions Are a Joke
Tuesday August 07, 2012 @12:38PM Missing Paperwork Delays UK Broadband
Monday August 06, 2012 @07:52AM Australian Agency Rules Facebook Pages Responsible For Comments
Monday July 30, 2012 @07:46AM Political Science Prof Asks: Is Algebra Necessary?
Sunday July 29, 2012 @01:29PM Facebook Abstainers Could Be Labeled Suspicious
Tuesday July 24, 2012 @06:17PM The Nation Is Losing Its Toolbox
Thursday July 19, 2012 @01:42PM Apple Gets the Importance of Packaging; Why Doesn't Google?
Monday July 09, 2012 @04:33PM Does Grammar Matter Anymore?
Monday July 09, 2012 @07:45AM University Sues Student For Graduating Early
Thursday July 05, 2012 @08:24AM Texas GOP Educational Platform Opposes Teaching Critical Thinking Skills
Wednesday July 04, 2012 @10:09PM Texas Scientists Regret Loss of Higgs Boson Quest
Sunday July 01, 2012 @09:11PM Has the Command Line Outstayed Its Welcome?
Tuesday June 26, 2012 @09:31AM Fundamentalist Schools Using "Nessie" To Disprove Evolution
Friday June 22, 2012 @10:52PM Bryson Crash Reveals Threat of Headless Government
Friday June 22, 2012 @04:36PM 'Nuclear Free' Maryland City Grants Waiver For HP
Tuesday June 19, 2012 @05:19PM U.S. Students Struggle With Reasoning Skills
Sunday June 10, 2012 @05:26AM Audacious Visions For Future Spaceflight
Tuesday June 05, 2012 @02:13PM South Korea Surrenders To Creationist Demands On Evolution Textbooks
Saturday June 02, 2012 @07:57AM In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins
Tuesday May 29, 2012 @02:19AM The Shortage of Women In IT
Monday May 14, 2012 @08:50AM West Virginia Buys $22K Routers With Stimulus, Puts Them In Small Schools
Wednesday May 09, 2012 @04:54PM The Rise of Chemophobia In the News
Tuesday May 01, 2012 @01:30PM Is Humanity Still Evolving?
Tuesday May 01, 2012 @09:32AM Cash For Tweets and Facebook Posts? Aussie Startup Pays You to Astroturf
Tuesday April 24, 2012 @03:35PM North Carolina Threatens To Shut Down Nutrition Blogger
Monday April 23, 2012 @01:21PM In Nothing We Trust
Wednesday April 18, 2012 @05:24PM Magician Suing For Copyright Over Magic Trick
Monday April 16, 2012 @02:09PM Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming
Wednesday April 11, 2012 @08:20PM Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder
Wednesday April 11, 2012 @03:46PM Tennessee "Teaching the Controversy" Bill Becomes Law
Thursday April 05, 2012 @02:40PM EA Defends Itself Against Thousands of Anti-Gay Letters
Wednesday April 04, 2012 @02:04PM Arizona Attempts To Make Trolling Illegal
Sunday April 01, 2012 @05:42AM DHS Will Now Vet UK Air Passengers To Mexico, Canada, Cuba
Thursday March 29, 2012 @11:02PM Conservatives' Trust In Science Has Fallen Dramatically Since Mid-1970s
Wednesday March 28, 2012 @10:02PM NYC Bans Mention of Dinosaurs, Dancing, Birthdays On Student Tests
Sunday March 25, 2012 @08:16PM NHTSA Suggestion Would Cripple In-Car GPS Displays
Saturday March 24, 2012 @01:32PM US Puts Tariff On Chinese Solar Panels
Wednesday March 21, 2012 @04:32PM Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution
Monday March 05, 2012 @09:03PM Scientists Say People Aren't Smart Enough For Democracy To Flourish
Friday February 17, 2012 @05:09AM School Sends Child's Lunch Home After Determining it Unhealthy
Saturday February 04, 2012 @09:31PM Text Message Brands Quebec Man a Terror Suspect
Friday February 03, 2012 @07:54AM Oklahoma Politician Wants To Tax Violent Video Games
Tuesday January 31, 2012 @02:55PM DHS Sends Tourists Home Over Twitter Jokes
Tuesday January 03, 2012 @12:30AM Belarus Bans Use of Foreign Websites
Friday December 16, 2011 @05:05PM Congress's Techno-Ignorance No Longer Funny
Saturday December 10, 2011 @12:02PM Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader?
Friday December 09, 2011 @02:38PM Are you better at math than a 4th (or 10th) grader
Friday December 09, 2011 @12:01PM Forget an Essay; Earn a Scholarship With a Tweet
Wednesday November 30, 2011 @08:24AM Judge Orders Hundreds of Websites Delisted From Search Engines, Social Networks
Tuesday November 29, 2011 @12:48AM Muslim Medical Students Boycott Darwin Lectures
Sunday November 20, 2011 @05:37PM In the EU, Water Doesn't (Officially) Prevent Dehydration
Friday November 18, 2011 @11:30AM Toronto School Bans Hard Balls
Monday November 14, 2011 @02:53PM Man Calls 911 To Fix Broken iPhone
Monday November 14, 2011 @07:50AM German Copyright Group To Collect From Creative Commons Event
Wednesday November 02, 2011 @09:03AM Belgium To Give Up Nuclear Power
Monday October 24, 2011 @03:28PM Ron Paul Wants To End the Federal Student Loan Program
Thursday October 20, 2011 @03:23PM Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets)
Monday October 10, 2011 @06:59AM UN Bigwig: The Web Should Have Been Patented and Licensed
Wednesday October 05, 2011 @11:00AM NY Senators Want To Make Free Speech A Privilege
Monday October 03, 2011 @04:21PM Theater Professor's Firefly Poster Declared Threatening
Friday September 30, 2011 @10:20AM Outlining a World Where Software Makers Are Liable For Flaws
Wednesday September 28, 2011 @03:16AM Canadian Government Says DRM Circumvention Not Related To Copyright
Monday September 26, 2011 @06:24AM The Mythical Tunnel Between CERN and Central Italy
Friday September 23, 2011 @08:08PM EPA Bans CFC-Based Asthma Inhalers
Saturday September 10, 2011 @07:05AM The Coming Energy Turnaround In Germany
Friday September 09, 2011 @07:25AM Smartphones Can't Cure Acne, FTC Rules
Tuesday September 06, 2011 @07:34AM Hair Growth Signal Dictated By Fat Cells
Tuesday August 30, 2011 @01:52PM Arrested Riding Bike to School
Saturday August 20, 2011 @01:01PM Teacher Cannot Be Sued For Denying Creationism
Tuesday August 16, 2011 @11:24AM The Post-Idea World
Tuesday August 02, 2011 @04:14PM Missouri Law Says Students, Teachers Can't Be Facebook Friends
Wednesday July 27, 2011 @03:10AM Canadian Government Muzzling Scientists
Saturday July 16, 2011 @04:01PM Google Launches News Badges
Saturday July 16, 2011 @01:20AM Congress Voting To Repeal Incandescent Bulb Ban
Thursday July 14, 2011 @02:59PM 34% of iPhone Owners Think the 4 Is 4G
Monday July 11, 2011 @09:09AM DisplayPort-To-HDMI Cables May Be Recalled Over Licensing
Saturday July 09, 2011 @01:53AM German Parliament Backs Nuclear Exit By 2022
Thursday July 07, 2011 @10:56AM Don't Fly If You Just Had Surgery!
Tuesday July 05, 2011 @01:28PM China's Coal Power Plants Mask Climate Change
Wednesday June 29, 2011 @07:24PM Cool-Factor Predicted To Spur Energy Conservation
Wednesday June 29, 2011 @06:05PM Samsung Tries To Ban Import of iDevices To US
Tuesday June 28, 2011 @05:05PM San Francisco Considers Ban On All Pet Sales
Saturday June 25, 2011 @06:10PM Ask Slashdot: CS Degree Without Gen-Ed Requirements?
Thursday June 23, 2011 @09:41PM LulzSec Posts First Secret Document Dump
Thursday June 16, 2011 @08:30AM Iceland Taps Facebook To Rewrite Its Constitution
Wednesday June 15, 2011 @05:53PM Senate Bill Could Make It Illegal To Upload Lip-Synced Videos
Wednesday June 15, 2011 @12:36PM Italy Votes To Abandon Nuclear Power
Monday June 13, 2011 @04:51PM Wisconsin Public Internet Struggles Against Telecom, Legislature
Friday June 10, 2011 @03:32PM State of Alaska Prints Out Palin's E-Mails; Online Distribution 'Impractical'