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  1. Re:Reimann? by PlatyPaul · · Score: 0, Flamebait · on Claimed Proof of Riemann Hypothesis

    ::groan::

    That joke is nearly a year old online, and about 1000 if you've spent any time in a university math department.

  2. Re:This is very good news by Hal_Porter · · Score: 1 · on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives
    A lot of people asked why I thought it was awful science. And to be honest I suspected that because just seems bogus like the 19th Century scientific evidence that male middle class Europeans - coincidentally people like the experimenter - are innately superior.

    But it turns out the study is flawed -

    http://www.haloscan.com/comments/lumidek/453722461420850421/#883043

    I read that paper. In the sample of 43 people, of who 8 self-identified as conservative, and when making a snap-decision on whether to press a button or not, the liberals averaged 37% errors while the conservatives averaged 47%.

    The sample size is tiny! There were only 8 conservatives involved - it's absurd to draw conclusions for all conservatives based on it.

    I also don't think it controls for all variables - it's quite possible the experimenter and his friends are left wing and above average intelligence, and the few conservatives he managed to round up are much less so. So the tiny sample is non representative because it includes a correlation between intelligence and politics which is not present in the general population. But then again it's small enough that this correlation might just be a fluke.
  3. What Would You Tell The Kid in High School To Do? by the0ther · · Score: -1 · on Where to Go After a Lifetime in IT?

    There was a great thread on a blog I like a lot, gnxp. The question there was "how would you answer your 16 year old son/daughter when asked 'what kind of work should i get into when i get out of school'"? The answers in the thread were very shrewd and I see no reason why it doesn't apply in your case. If you're really wanting to get out I would advise you to really steer clear of anything like your past IT job. So I would have to agree with others that said you should do something that requires you to work with your hands, or even more physically exerting if you're up to it. A lot of the answers in this thread on gnxp suggested craftsmanship-type jobs. Detail carpentry, for example. Maybe auto body is a good thing too, especially if it's high-end, classic car work. Cater to the rich. They're the ones with all the money. Catering could be lucrative, if you can really cook gourmet meals. Landscaping also pays well supposedly, if you're the boss. I will leave you with the link to the discussion on gnxp: http://www.haloscan.com/comments/raldanash/4145737 840453249756?url=http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/03/ good-jobs-for-average-americans.php Oh btw I want out of IT too.

  4. Re:no suprise by bfields · · Score: 1 · on Voting Machine Glitches Already Being Reported

    Well, the resply from our (impressively responsive) the washtenaw county clerk is:

    The "touchscreen voting machines" referred to in Muskegon are the AutoMark devices for the disabled. There is one in every Michigan polling place to satisfy the Help America Vote Act.

    They are not really "voting machines". They are like a high-tech pencil for disabled voters to mark a paper ballot, using various interfaces including a touch screen, earphones, braille buttons, etc. The ballot, once marked, is counted like any other ballot.

    The number of people who use the AutoMark to mark their ballots is very small, probably an average of less than one person per precinct, and that includes nondisabled people (like me in the August primary) who wanted to check them out under election conditions.

    Googling around.... I guess they look like this?
  5. Re:Name most likely fake -- Gan Huai Shi means ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Singapore Blogger Spared Jail

    Please, people noticed that long ago. See:

    http://www.haloscan.com/comments/loyhc/11268846965 5396088/#126528

  6. I've used... by under_score · · Score: 4, Informative · on Blog Software Smackdown
    ...three methods: plain old html/css, Movable Type, and Blogger. Each has distinct advantages and disadvantages:
    • POHtml/css: ultimate in flexibility for layout and publishing. Pain in the butt to update and maintain.
    • Movable Type: good balance between flexibility, built-in dynamic features and maintainability. Irritating to keep up-to-date for software versions, and a little slow for some of the dynamic features.
    • Blogger: easiest to use by far. Nice integrated anti-comment-spam. Not very flexible in comparison.
    For comments and trackbacks I use HaloScan. For pinging blog trackers I use Ping-O-Matic. I don't run any blogs that are super popular, but my Agile Advice blog has a good niche following with about 300 hits/day after six months of development. I've used Movable Type as a CMS system for my consulting/training web site too. It is flexible enough that I can make it do what I need for site layout, permanent (non-blog) articles, and the blog features are mostly turned off, except for publishing news items/announcements. I'm not a layout or graphics prodigy so I like the fairly simple default layouts provided by MT.
  7. SPAM EVERYTHING ZONK: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Google Plans To Destroy Unindexed Information

    SPAM EVERYTHING ZONK:
    http://www.randomdialogue.net/aboutme/basicinfo.ph p3
    http://www.blogger.com/profile/10483795

    ie
    http://www.haloscan.com/comments/whoisdialogue/112 572217193425482/

    He must learn that his D&D playing slashdot ruining kind isnt wanted!

    Praise the jihad!

  8. Re:So nothing can display it correctly? by naylor83 · · Score: 1 · on Firefox and Opera Fail the Acid2 Test

    You're not the first, and it doesn't look as if you'll be the last either.

  9. Are these memo's forged? by jlgolson · · Score: 2, Interesting · on New Bush Guard Records Released

    Little Green Footballs here

    "I opened Microsoft Word, set the font to Microsoft's Times New Roman, tabbed over to the default tab stop to enter the date "18 August 1973," then typed the rest of the document purportedly from the personal records of the late Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Killian...The spacing is not just similar--it is identical in every respect. Notice that the date lines up perfectly, all the line breaks are in the same places, all letters line up with the same letters above and below, and the kerning is exactly the same...There is absolutely no way that this document was typed on any machine that was available in 1973.

    PowerLine here.

    Pacetown here.

  10. I use a java based blog tool by bigjnsa500 · · Score: 1 · on Bloggers Assail Movable Type's New Pricing Scheme
    I use a java based tool called Thingamablog. Since its JAVA based, I can take it to my Linux machine, windows, or Mac and still update my blog. Now if you want comments there is always HaloScan. Another free service and it implements well with Thingamablog.

    So you see folks, there ARE other alternatives to Moveable Type.

  11. Re:What a royal pussy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Columnist Threatens to Sue Blogger
    FYI, here are the offending comments:

    http://www.haloscan.com/comments.php?user=atrios&c omment=106554510719328394
    http://www.haloscan.com/comments.php?user=atrios&c omment=106747418087919139
    http://www.haloscan.com/comments.php?user=atrios&c omment=106746748983796720
    http://www.haloscan.com/comments.php?user=atrios&c omment=106746499540074520

    There's some pretty nasty things there, but nothing worse than what you get on Slashdot every day (admittedly at -1 ..)

  12. Re:What a royal pussy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Columnist Threatens to Sue Blogger
    FYI, here are the offending comments:

    http://www.haloscan.com/comments.php?user=atrios&c omment=106554510719328394
    http://www.haloscan.com/comments.php?user=atrios&c omment=106747418087919139
    http://www.haloscan.com/comments.php?user=atrios&c omment=106746748983796720
    http://www.haloscan.com/comments.php?user=atrios&c omment=106746499540074520

    There's some pretty nasty things there, but nothing worse than what you get on Slashdot every day (admittedly at -1 ..)

  13. Re:What a royal pussy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Columnist Threatens to Sue Blogger
    FYI, here are the offending comments:

    http://www.haloscan.com/comments.php?user=atrios&c omment=106554510719328394
    http://www.haloscan.com/comments.php?user=atrios&c omment=106747418087919139
    http://www.haloscan.com/comments.php?user=atrios&c omment=106746748983796720
    http://www.haloscan.com/comments.php?user=atrios&c omment=106746499540074520

    There's some pretty nasty things there, but nothing worse than what you get on Slashdot every day (admittedly at -1 ..)

  14. Re:What a royal pussy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Columnist Threatens to Sue Blogger
    FYI, here are the offending comments:

    http://www.haloscan.com/comments.php?user=atrios&c omment=106554510719328394
    http://www.haloscan.com/comments.php?user=atrios&c omment=106747418087919139
    http://www.haloscan.com/comments.php?user=atrios&c omment=106746748983796720
    http://www.haloscan.com/comments.php?user=atrios&c omment=106746499540074520

    There's some pretty nasty things there, but nothing worse than what you get on Slashdot every day (admittedly at -1 ..)