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  1. Apple for obvious reasons is sensitive to gay issues. Naturally. Wink wink.

  2. Re:Even worse on Fake Academic Journals Are a Very Real Problem · · Score: 0

    1. We are talking about science, not social studies.

    2. There is no where near the money in economics research as there is in medicine. Not even close.

    3. People use economics like drunks use lamp posts: for support, not illumination.

  3. Re:Even worse on Fake Academic Journals Are a Very Real Problem · · Score: 2

    Medicine and medical research suffers from two problems:

    1. Inherent difficulty, both technical (huge diversity and complexity of human physiology) and ethical (can't round up people to experiment on - at least not "in principle").

    2. The medical-industrial complex that is the tangled mess of big pharma, academia, and regulators with huge amount of money slushing around.

    The combination makes medicine and medical research particularly toxic to conducting good science. You tell me another field that comes even close.

  4. Even worse on Fake Academic Journals Are a Very Real Problem · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In medicine, even "real" journals are mostly filled with crap, dishonest and distorted research papers.

  5. Re:Far enough along to throw money at it? on Is $100 Million Per Year Too Little For The Brain Map Initiative? · · Score: 2

    The goals you quoted might as well read "the good stuff". If you can't even propose what you specifically want to try, you can spend your own god damn money.

  6. Apache, UGH! on Apache Terminates Struts 1 · · Score: 0

    Apache is the Oracle of FOS. They deliberately omit/ruin documentation and dev process for consulting business.

  7. Re:Archer? on Microsoft Apologizes For Cavalier 'Always-Online' DRM Tweets · · Score: 2

    Fuck you, dumbass. You're a player in a high profile outfit like MS, especially in a noisy arena of computer games, and you shoot your mouth off in public with tweeter and god-knows-what-else, you deserve to get fired. Twice.

  8. What's it to you, slashdot? on The ATF Wants To Know Who Your Friends Are · · Score: 1

    "People" (I mean that in the loosest sense) here don't got no friends anyways.

  9. OXYMORON on Google Privacy Director Alma Whitten Leaving · · Score: 1

    "Alma Whitten, the director of privacy at Google"

    ...

  10. the infamous "bad news" protocol on How To Communicate Faster-Than-Light · · Score: 1

    nothing faster, light can't hold a photon next to it.

  11. Re:Another Garbage Survey on Does Scientific Literacy Make People More Ethical? · · Score: 0

    i.e. "psychology research".

  12. Why you such a dickhead? on Ask Nathan Myhrvold What You Will, Live Q&A April 3 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Question in the subject.

  13. Automate Timothy on Can Innovation Be Automated? · · Score: 1

    See subject.

  14. Re:For the most part on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Electrostatic Contamination? · · Score: 1

    Funny, I just had a motherboard zapped, and it looked to have been due to dust buildup that let out a static discharge causing short somewhere on the board.

    Perhaps modern computer cases with all these fans, housing modern boards crammed ever so tightly with surface-mounted components and funky-looking heat sink/radiators, make them more susceptible to such incidents.

    So now I'm with maxdamage's post. Things without fan, just wipe the dust outside. Things with multiple fans, like computer (including laptop) cases, opening up and cleaning out the dust periodically might be a good preventative measure.

  15. Re:Most Crimes Are Solved on Krebs Hacker Unmasked, Hit Ars and Wired's Honan · · Score: 1

    Ha! Bankers calling others criminal for stealing other people's money. Can't make this stuff up.

  16. Re:Good luck for Holmes on Using Truth Serum To Confirm Insanity · · Score: 1

    Pro-tip: don't take no calls from crazy Armenians.

  17. On another front, "new research" corroboates on New Research Sheds Light On the Evolution of Dogs · · Score: -1, Troll

    samzenpus really is an idiot

  18. Hip Hip on Editorial In ACM On Open Access Publishing In Computer Science · · Score: 1

    Two cheers for Gowers' and his band of academics. Make the buggers pay.

  19. Re:bringing new technology online on New Technology Produces Cheaper Tantalum and Titanium · · Score: 2

    haha. "Bring it online" is a common management-speak from the "quaint" old days. :)

    This is a post that I would have expected from slashdot back in her good old days. I hope there still are some here that are in the know, and chime in with their thoughts.

    Thumbs up, lamer.

  20. Re:The Role of Mosquitoes in Nature on Mosquitoes Beginning To Ignore DEET Repellent · · Score: 0

    Don't be stupid. Mosquitoes, like humans, have no "roles".

  21. Re:Neat for the time, but useless today on Sony To Make Its Last MiniDisc System Next Month · · Score: 1

    That explains how the S. Koreans managed to take over from the (once) mighty Japanese electronics industry.

  22. Neat for the time, but useless today on Sony To Make Its Last MiniDisc System Next Month · · Score: 1
    I bought (and still have in storage) this thing way back when, thought a useful replacement for walkman. Audio quality comparable to CD, but in a more durable packaging.

    Don't know much about how DRM killed its prospect.

    Whatever, today, its dying is not even a non-issue. Other than my nostalgia for the miniaturized electro-mechanical devices, its death is not even a whimper.

    Who the fuck uses this thing today anyways?! Why did they keep making these things?

  23. Scientology in retreat? on Book Review: Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief · · Score: 2

    There was a local sci "compound" in the neighborhood. Every time you drive by, the radio reception gets all screwed up.

    It seems to have been sold recently. The signs are down, the buildings are being totally gutted, pulling out dry walls, insulation, and everything.

  24. Survey suggests... on Survey Suggests P2P Users Buy More Music · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Pretty people are more attractive.

    Rich people have more money.

    Samzenpus is an idiot.

    Feel free to add down below.

  25. The Question on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Theft Devices For Luggage? · · Score: 0

    Who's the (worse) moron, timothy or the douchebag that submitted the question?