Quantum Gravity Observed

Lawrence_Bird writes "AIP News is reporting the first observations of quantum gravitational states by researchers in Grenoble using a beam of ultra cold neutrons. This is an incredible observational achievement when you consider the energies involved - order of 1 pico electron volt (10^ -12eV). The full paper is in the 17 Jan Nature."

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Re: Quantum Gravity Observed

[F4st Edd1e]

> Lawrence_Bird writes "AIP News is reporting
> the first observations of quantum gravitational
> states by researchers in Grenoble using a beam
> of ultra cold neutrons. This is an incredible
> observational achievement when you consider
> the energies involved - order of 1 pico
> electron volt (10^ -12eV). The full paper is
> in the 17 Jan Nature."

Who cares? This is the pits.

Re: Quantum Gravity Observed

[Anonymous Coward]

slashdot censorship. Go read the Oracle unbreakable article while viewing at -1. A 50 reply thread was mass modded to -1 by the editors because it made a good point about the problems with the site. If it was such a bad post, why would 50 people reply, and over 76 mod points get used on it?

Slashdot needs free speech like a fish needs a bicycle.

censorship!!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Michael and jamie and cmdr taco are a bunch of censoring bitches. Come on hypocrits - post more about free speech. Lets see some articles about library censorware - meanwhile you won't even allow people to express a legitimate opinion on your own site.

Slashdot needs an Ombudsman

[Anonymous Coward]

Yep.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=26315&thresh ol d=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=2850660

Unbreakable REPOST - read it while you can

[YouAreFatMan]

The following is a repost of a post to the Unbreakable Oracle article posted by negativekarmanow which you should see for yourself. The real spectacle is that every post in that thread has been reduced to -1. Anyway, it's worth a few points of Karma to have it replayed.

The last few months I have been doing some research into the trolling phenomenon on slashdot.org. In order to do this as thoroughly as possible, I have written both normal and troll posts, 1st posts, etc., both logged in and anonymously, and I have found these rather shocking results:

• More moderator points are being used to mod posts down than up. Furthermore, when modding a post up, every moderator seems to follow previous moderators in their choices, even when it's not a particularly interesting or clever post. There are a LOT more +5 posts than +3 or +4.
• Logged in people are modded down faster than anonymous cowards. Presumably these Nazi Moderators think it's more important to burn a user's existing karma, to silence that individual for the future, than to use the moderation system for what it's meant for : identifying "good" and "bad" posts (Notice how nearly all oppressive governments in the past and present do the same thing : marking individuals as bad and untrustworthy because they have conflicting opinions, instead of engaging in a public discussion about these opinions)
• Once you have a karma of -4 or -5, your posts have a score of -1 by default. When this is the case, no-one bothers to mod you down anymore. This means a logged in user can keep on trolling as much as he (or she) likes, without risking a ban to post on slashdot. When trolling as an anonymous user, every post starts at score 0, and you will be modded down to -1 ON EVERY POST. When you are modded down a certain number of times in 24 hour, you cannot post anymore from your current IP for a day or so. So, for successful trolling, ALWAYS log in.
• A lot of the modded down posts are actually quite clever, funny, etc., and they are only modded down because they are offtopic. Now, on a news site like slashdot, where the number of different topics of discussion can be counted on 1 hand, I must say I quite like the distraction these posts offer. But no, when the topic is yet another minor version change of the Linux kernel, they only expect ooohs and aaahs about this great feat of engineering. Look at the moderation done in this thread to see what I mean.
• Digging deep into the history of slashdot, I found this poll , which clearly indicates the vast majority does NOT want the moderation we have here today. 'nuff said.

Feel free to use this information to your advantage. I thank you for your time.

*sigh* since I can't post normally anymore : my journal

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Re:Brief Quantum Gravity Info...

[Anonymous Coward]

Is there an English version?

Someone Shit in my Oven! Help!

[Anonymous Coward]

Ok, this is not a troll, this is an honest request for assistance.
Let me begin by saying I'm an IT professional with a very busy life. Thus I don't cook alot. This evening I had some friends over who wanted to reheat some pizza. Shunning the microwave, they opted to use the oven instead. Thats when the grizzly discovery was made. Dannielle immediately caught my attention with her remark, "What is this shit in your oven?". After a few moments of investigation we relized it was in fact fecces. Further discussion allowed us to define the following facts:
1) Someone did in fact shit in the oven. It was not thrown in. The point of "impact" was on the glass window of the door, which must have been down when the "incident" occured.
2) The "incident" must have occured sometime between tonight and Aug 3, 2001. The oven has not been used since then.
3) The number of people with access (keys)to the apartment in this time can be for the most part be considered innocent. However, there was a big drunken party during the timeframe, and I was also out of province for a month.

Any help the slashdot crowd could suggest to discover the culprit of this indecency would be welcome.
Also welcoming suggestions for the best "Shit in Your Oven" jokes.
I'll be monitoring this thread if anyone needs any further information. Thanks.

I just witnessed a bit of Quantum gravity myself..

[Anonymous Coward]

Three weeks ago, my two-year old 13.6GB Quantum Fireball+KA disk died a slow, sputtering death, from which I was only just barely able to save my precious, irreplacable pornography^Wbusiness documents. I threw the fucking drive out a window. Can I get a Nobel prize too?

-- The_Messenger, IPID-banned for exposing Malda's terrible secret.