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"I arrived at creationism using the Sherlock Holmes method: Eliminate the impossible, and whatever's left, however improbable, is the truth. Since evolution is mathematically so remote so as to be impossible I gave up on it"

I think this is the flaw (bias) in your approach.
If evolution is improbable, it is *not* impossible.

Evolution may be improbable, creationism may just be as improbable, but for some reason you've written off evolution's improbability as impossibility, and somehow accepted creationism's improbability.

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And, nobody can show you a squirrel "in the process" of evolving. But I *can* paint you a theoretical picture.

In a part of China, a handful of people have been discovered to posess a certain gene that makes them immune to HIV.
If they have a lot of babies and they have a lot of sex over the next thousand years or so, the number of hiv-immune people will grow. The remaining population not immune to hiv will die off, leaving only the hiv-immune people in the world.

This is an example of an accidental mutation.
This is an example of an accidental mutation benefiting humans.
This is an example of an accidental mutation benefiting humans in a way that will extend their lifespans longer than those without this accidental mutation.

This is what evolution is.

There is a previous MSNBC story with a picture of the lifter here.

The Liftport site was /.'ed but can still be viewed via the google cache here, here, here, and a FAQ here,

There is a previous MSNBC story with a picture of the lifter here.

The Liftport site was /.'ed but can still be viewed via the google cache here, here, here, and a FAQ here,

There is a previous MSNBC story with a picture of the lifter here.

The Liftport site was /.'ed but can still be viewed via the google cache here, here, here, and a FAQ here,

There is a previous MSNBC story with a picture of the lifter here.

The Liftport site was /.'ed but can still be viewed via the google cache here, here, here, and a FAQ here,

There is a previous MSNBC story with a picture of the lifter here.

The Liftport site was /.'ed but can still be viewed via the google cache here, here, here, and a FAQ here,

Obligatory link to Google Cache of the web site showing the schematics, etc.

Take off, hoser.

Well, according to Alexa, slashdot's going to win. Of course, PA does have some impressive servers, and I doubt everyone will click-through...

And, the Flash is faster. I mean, c'mon. He's the FLASH.

Google define:benchmark

"A measurement or standard that serves as a point of reference by which process performance is measured."

Where does it say that a benchmark applies only to processing speed? There are quantitative things to benchmark with a case (heat dissipation, airflow, etc.) just like there are quantitative things to benchmark with a processor. Plus, there are many qualitative features like ease of assembly and layout that can be benchmarked, though not objectively.

Have you ever looked inside a Dell ATX box?

Dell makes some very quiet workstation/PC boxes with ATX formfactors. Key is the temperature-sensitive fans, ducting, fanless CPU heatsink and baffling on the bezel to muffle noise out the front of the machine.

Check out Silent PC's review or the Google cache. The versions we buy are slightly different than the one pictured there, but its a good article nonetheless.

My home computer is also a very quiet ATX box, using an Antec Sonata case, etc.

but you didn't try.

http://www.google.ca/firefox

However I don't understand German.

But Babelfish does (kind of):

A projector in the pocket size is in range: In it a mobile micro mirror develops the picture line for line. In laboratory prototypes researchers could increase its frequency of oscillation and dissolution so far that diagrams and texts appear clearly readable. Not much more largely than a piece wuerfelzucker could be the Beamer of the future. Built into Handys would always participate the mini projector - approximately for a PowerPoint presentation in the small circle or the fast view into an on-line journal. In strange cities it could facilitate orientation, by projecting simply a city plan to the next house wall. Still is this future music. Researchers of the institute for Fraunhofer for silicon technology ISIT in Itzehoe however already built a demonstrator for such a tiny equipment. It projects texts and diagrams with a dissolution of 320 x 240 pixels. Heart is a mobile mirror with a diameter of 1,5 millimeters, which can be manufactured as mass product on a chip. It directs a laser beam by speedy changing of its tilting angle, and develops so the picture pixel for pixels. "the special at the mirror is its suspension", stresses Ulrich Hofmann. "by a special attachment at two torsion bars the mirror can be tilted around two axles. Thus it can divert a laser beam horizontal and vertically." After each deflection the feathers/springs withdraw the mirror so fast into its initial position that it can be tilted several thousands times per second. Suitably the high mobility the researchers accelerated electronics. It decides within the range of nanoseconds, how it must modulate the laser light, so that each pixel in the correct brightness appears. In order to avoid errors in the projection, a second laser serves as control. It radiates likewise on the mobile mirror; the reflected light meets however a photodiode, which locates, as the mirror tilted. "the mirror changes its position for example by vibrations inadvertently, notices control this", explains Hofmann. "electronics can react then flexibly to it and adapt the picture information accordingly." The system is thereby to a large extent insensitively in relation to disturbances from the outside. Still the demonstrator fits into no mobile telephone. "for the test we had not made, say electronics smaller yet to a minimum" Hofmann. That is however one of the next goals of the researchers, who in addition the frequency of the mirror movement and so the dissolution would like to increase. Also in other place it hooks still: As tiny source of light with sufficient life span and leuchtstaerke there are so far only red laser diodes. Within this range the researchers wait now for developments of their colleagues. They however already prepared their system for the multi-color enterprise.

Search

Worked for me

Fawk - knew something seemed wrong there...

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Dude. Just frigen google for it.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=skype.

Why is it that the image search on new msn search when set to turn off filtering, yeilds less nudity and explicit material (almost none) than the google search?

MSN

Google

There are a few more for OS X:

Escape Medical Viewer
DreamFird aka jBoxView
iRad

More search results here and here . So in this regards you have your choice of solutions. I think even GraphicsConverter might be able to view the images, but not the associated data.

In case of slashdotting use this mirror.

The NYT must be cracking down; the first dozen logins from bugmenot.com didn't work for me

On the other hand, this is the first time I've ever clicked a link from Google News, and ended up back at Slashdot. :)

Just search for a generic drug name and see how many "online pharmacies" come up, and how many of the pages have acutal drug information on it

Why are you using Google to search for generic drug names? Sites like Tylenol.com or Rogaine.com have all the info you need just a few clicks away.

In any case, let's see how well Google fares.

A Google search for Tylenol on is own returns this as #10 result. Not too good, but then, how is Google supposed to know if you're looking to buy the product or read about it based on a single word? Let's try a Google search for Tylenol ingredients instead. There we go, #1 result.

Similarly, a Google search for Rogaine returns this as #3 result. It's pretty clear that this is an information page based on its description, but let's try and do better. Simply adding "medical information" to the previous search moves that same result to #1. Boy, that was easy.

Now, if you were looking for the true "generic" versions of these drugs, like acetaminophen or minoxidil, you'll find them at Google search result #1 and #2 respectively.

So what drugs are you looking for, and how can I help you find them?

Just search for a generic drug name and see how many "online pharmacies" come up, and how many of the pages have acutal drug information on it

Why are you using Google to search for generic drug names? Sites like Tylenol.com or Rogaine.com have all the info you need just a few clicks away.

In any case, let's see how well Google fares.

A Google search for Tylenol on is own returns this as #10 result. Not too good, but then, how is Google supposed to know if you're looking to buy the product or read about it based on a single word? Let's try a Google search for Tylenol ingredients instead. There we go, #1 result.

Similarly, a Google search for Rogaine returns this as #3 result. It's pretty clear that this is an information page based on its description, but let's try and do better. Simply adding "medical information" to the previous search moves that same result to #1. Boy, that was easy.

Now, if you were looking for the true "generic" versions of these drugs, like acetaminophen or minoxidil, you'll find them at Google search result #1 and #2 respectively.

So what drugs are you looking for, and how can I help you find them?

Just search for a generic drug name and see how many "online pharmacies" come up, and how many of the pages have acutal drug information on it

Why are you using Google to search for generic drug names? Sites like Tylenol.com or Rogaine.com have all the info you need just a few clicks away.

In any case, let's see how well Google fares.

A Google search for Tylenol on is own returns this as #10 result. Not too good, but then, how is Google supposed to know if you're looking to buy the product or read about it based on a single word? Let's try a Google search for Tylenol ingredients instead. There we go, #1 result.

Similarly, a Google search for Rogaine returns this as #3 result. It's pretty clear that this is an information page based on its description, but let's try and do better. Simply adding "medical information" to the previous search moves that same result to #1. Boy, that was easy.

Now, if you were looking for the true "generic" versions of these drugs, like acetaminophen or minoxidil, you'll find them at Google search result #1 and #2 respectively.

So what drugs are you looking for, and how can I help you find them?

Just search for a generic drug name and see how many "online pharmacies" come up, and how many of the pages have acutal drug information on it

Why are you using Google to search for generic drug names? Sites like Tylenol.com or Rogaine.com have all the info you need just a few clicks away.

In any case, let's see how well Google fares.

A Google search for Tylenol on is own returns this as #10 result. Not too good, but then, how is Google supposed to know if you're looking to buy the product or read about it based on a single word? Let's try a Google search for Tylenol ingredients instead. There we go, #1 result.

Similarly, a Google search for Rogaine returns this as #3 result. It's pretty clear that this is an information page based on its description, but let's try and do better. Simply adding "medical information" to the previous search moves that same result to #1. Boy, that was easy.

Now, if you were looking for the true "generic" versions of these drugs, like acetaminophen or minoxidil, you'll find them at Google search result #1 and #2 respectively.

So what drugs are you looking for, and how can I help you find them?

Just search for a generic drug name and see how many "online pharmacies" come up, and how many of the pages have acutal drug information on it

Why are you using Google to search for generic drug names? Sites like Tylenol.com or Rogaine.com have all the info you need just a few clicks away.

In any case, let's see how well Google fares.

A Google search for Tylenol on is own returns this as #10 result. Not too good, but then, how is Google supposed to know if you're looking to buy the product or read about it based on a single word? Let's try a Google search for Tylenol ingredients instead. There we go, #1 result.

Similarly, a Google search for Rogaine returns this as #3 result. It's pretty clear that this is an information page based on its description, but let's try and do better. Simply adding "medical information" to the previous search moves that same result to #1. Boy, that was easy.

Now, if you were looking for the true "generic" versions of these drugs, like acetaminophen or minoxidil, you'll find them at Google search result #1 and #2 respectively.

So what drugs are you looking for, and how can I help you find them?

Google's quickly becoming worthless anyway, so your smartass comment means nada.

I guess you never even bothered to look at the Google link that I provided then. Searching for the terms ' "Mac OSX" DICOM viewer ' returns a number of relevant results. #1 points to no less than six Mac programs. #2 lists four. #3 and #4 refer to the excellent OsiriX application for -- you guessed it -- Mac. #5 lists...

But hey, you can complain all you like about Google being worthless. As my simple search points out, the real problem lies with your inability to use Google effectively. Hell, I even misspelled "OS X" as "OSX" and still got those results!

You might want to brush up on your search techniques.

Its partly because when we switched we were told by our friends that we would not be able to find any software on the Mac, so we assume its not there.

So you assume it's not there, don't even bother searching for potential solutions -- not even on Google -- and post to AskSlashdot instead? Brilliant.

how did this get modded up? ;)

you must do your research young grasshopper before a repectable troll...

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=konami+code&bt nG=Google+Search&meta=http://www.google.ca/search? hl=en&q=konami+code&btnG=Google+Search&met a=

My favorite googlebomb is a search for a "miserable failure".

For anybody who is interested, here's a theory (bottom of the page): "one theory says the moon formed when a big, molten chunk of crust was knocked/blown off from the rest of the planet". And much more info about it.

It's rather interesting that (with the filter off) I can do for an example, a search for 'Donkey Sex' and come up with at least 5 EXACT matches. Why not censor THESE images? Certainly the donkey has endured some sort of humiliation. On a serious note however, what is the point of Google censoring these images? I can't see them directly gaining anything by doing so. If I do a search for Abu Ghraib, it's a high-possibility I know about the scandal, so I'm going to expect to see those images anyway. Certainly this image isn't any less disturbing. I wonder if the Military has the copyright on those photos (saracasm). Maybe we'll see 'Army ordres Abu Ghraib Photos taken off website' on Chilling Effects

If this is true, it makes me think about using Google News as my #1 information source. I realize that other news network DO filter information, too, but it my mind, Google wasn't in this kind of stuff (at least, outside China).

Their news service already report a link to this thread under the title "Google Censors Abu Ghraib Images". Now let's see if it'll remain there...

Out of pure curiosity, from the logical principle of Occam's razor, how might you choose to apply it to this "discovery"? (Everybody who is reading this thread, feel free.) Thanks.

okay slashdot. why on earth do you both modding someone up just because they typed "source code club" into google and posted a search link.

i mean, i didn't get points when i suggested:

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=you+guys+are+a +bunch+of+knobs&btnG=Google+Search&meta=/

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=slashdot+moder ator+iq+zero&btnG=Search&meta=/

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=filter+out+the +noise%2C+dammit&btnG=Search&meta=/

yours faithfully,
another anonymous coward

who-doesn't-have-a-nick-because-the-masses-are-i di ots

okay slashdot. why on earth do you both modding someone up just because they typed "source code club" into google and posted a search link.

i mean, i didn't get points when i suggested:

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=you+guys+are+a +bunch+of+knobs&btnG=Google+Search&meta=/

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=slashdot+moder ator+iq+zero&btnG=Search&meta=/

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=filter+out+the +noise%2C+dammit&btnG=Search&meta=/

yours faithfully,
another anonymous coward

who-doesn't-have-a-nick-because-the-masses-are-i di ots

okay slashdot. why on earth do you both modding someone up just because they typed "source code club" into google and posted a search link.

i mean, i didn't get points when i suggested:

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=you+guys+are+a +bunch+of+knobs&btnG=Google+Search&meta=/

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=slashdot+moder ator+iq+zero&btnG=Search&meta=/

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=filter+out+the +noise%2C+dammit&btnG=Search&meta=/

yours faithfully,
another anonymous coward

who-doesn't-have-a-nick-because-the-masses-are-i di ots

If you search for "Sept 11" Iraq and Confusion, you'll get plenty of hits.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=%22Sept+11%22+ Iraq+Confusion&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

I think this is probably the most significant observation so far in this story.

The implications of 3d inkjet printing are perhaps more in the questions inspired than in what is produced at this time. What will be the effect of open source hardware? What happens when a desktop peripheral as economical as your printer manufactures custom computer circuitry, solar cells and batteries as cheap as wallpaper? A desktop peripheral printing all the circuits needed for it's own next generation. Or when distributors ship a product as software, with the end user supplying the raw material. No distribution costs and instant delivery of a physical item. Or when autonomous robots fitted with accelerating computational intelligence design and manufacture THEIR own next generation.

These are all potentials the inkjet has demonstrated. In a jag of hardware hacking, the humble inkjet printer is being transformed into a crude replicator. It's still a hack, and we will wait a bit for a consumer device, but here is a quick tour of recent twists of inkjet technology.

ANY material that can be powderized, (and that means practically everything) can serve as the medium instead of ink.

It's already old news that working solar cells, lighting, even batteries have successfully emerged from the humble inkjet. And of course, printed circuits.

Researchers Hod Lipson and Jordan B. Pollack at Brandeis University are using 3d printing technology and software to autonomously design and fabricate robots.
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Printing on cloth to create wearable intelligence Original article
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I think this is probably the most significant observation so far in this story.

The implications of 3d inkjet printing are perhaps more in the questions inspired than in what is produced at this time. What will be the effect of open source hardware? What happens when a desktop peripheral as economical as your printer manufactures custom computer circuitry, solar cells and batteries as cheap as wallpaper? A desktop peripheral printing all the circuits needed for it's own next generation. Or when distributors ship a product as software, with the end user supplying the raw material. No distribution costs and instant delivery of a physical item. Or when autonomous robots fitted with accelerating computational intelligence design and manufacture THEIR own next generation.

These are all potentials the inkjet has demonstrated. In a jag of hardware hacking, the humble inkjet printer is being transformed into a crude replicator. It's still a hack, and we will wait a bit for a consumer device, but here is a quick tour of recent twists of inkjet technology.

ANY material that can be powderized, (and that means practically everything) can serve as the medium instead of ink.

It's already old news that working solar cells, lighting, even batteries have successfully emerged from the humble inkjet. And of course, printed circuits.

Researchers Hod Lipson and Jordan B. Pollack at Brandeis University are using 3d printing technology and software to autonomously design and fabricate robots.
or
Google Search

Printing on cloth to create wearable intelligence Original article
or
Google Search

All planets (and moons) have magnetic fields.

Actually, that's not true at all. Among the objects that don't generate a real, structured magnetic field, we have Venus, The Moon , Io, Europa, and Mars. Of course, *why* some planets have fields and some don't is still up in the air (rotation of the Earth's core generates our magnetic field, or so it is assumed, and yet Mercury, which almost certainly has a solid core, possesses a planetary magnetosphere).

i'd do her

just turned 19 too!!

1. She actually wrote the article herself, and really is a lesbian.
2. Someone else wrote the article, possibly for her, with their own views and perspectives, and she didn't do any editing.
3. She found the story on the net and managed to somehow get all other copies removed via cease and desist letters.

1. She actually wrote the article herself, and really is a lesbian.
2. Someone else wrote the article, possibly for her, with their own views and perspectives, and she didn't do any editing.
3. She found the story on the net and managed to somehow get all other copies removed via cease and desist letters.

Excellent, one step closer in developing my Monofilament Whip.

maybe they should consider a Bridezilla event?

It's well known that certain hardware hacks for Dishnetwork receivers emit this same frequency.

What a coincidence that a college student (no money) would be doing something technical (education) to get TV for free.

If there are Target stores in Canada I have not seen one and there are none listed on the web. Was it in Goose Bay or Happy Valley?

I never had any spyware on Coherent either! :)

Global destablization? I don't think I'd put Grandma Milly on one of these...