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  1. Re:An unsatisfied hunger on TED Teams Up With PBS On Ideas For Education · · Score: 1

    A great science show I found recently is Bang goes the theory on BBC. I think it's on it's 7th season now, I watched all of the episodes and they are great.

  2. Re:Do they know why? on NASA Lets Us Watch the Sun Spin For 3 Years In 4 Minute Video · · Score: 1

    I read somewhere that the cycle is due to the fact that because the sun is made of gas, different latitudes rotate at different rates and depending on how they match up determines the cycle. It's also an average of 11 years, not exactly 11 years.

  3. Re:In the meantime on Mosquitoes Beginning To Ignore DEET Repellent · · Score: 1

    You must live in an area without many mosquitoes. Spend a few minutes on a cool evening outside in Canada and you will sing a different tune, no doubt. Last year was an epic bad year for mosquitoes. I have a video of them literally coating the fence in my back yard. If it wasn't for DEET you can't be outside.

  4. Re:Say what? on Ask Slashdot: Really Short Time Wasters? · · Score: 1

    Not sure why you're so mad....I got a couple of good tips out of the comments. Going to try that game fantastic contraption, and duolingo seems worth a look.

    Maybe you should take a quick break and go for a walk, or play some angry birds, or do a crossword puzzle....

  5. Re:...and yet on Why Girls Do Better At School · · Score: 2

    Also, in my experience (in private industry) those who don't ask for raises don't get them. This is true for both men and women. So maybe it's not so much that companies want to pay women less, maybe they just aren't on average as assertive as men in asking for raises.

  6. Re:I have a better idea on Oregon Lawmakers Propose Mileage Tax On Fuel Efficient Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't you want an inhibitor and not a catalyst? :)

  7. Re:Switching tasks changes MY DNA. on Switching Tasks Changes Worker Bee DNA · · Score: 1

    It's called "procrasturbating".

  8. Re:They missed the most important thing on Weebots: Driveable Robots For Babies Who Need Them · · Score: 1

    For sure, I could do without the newborn stage but once they start moving around they are fun to watch and interact with.

  9. Re:They missed the most important thing on Weebots: Driveable Robots For Babies Who Need Them · · Score: 2

    My youngest, 10 months old, when he first started crawling he would encounter an obstacle like a door or a chair leg and repeatedly bump into it harder and harder and then start to cry because it hurt. It's like he didn't understand he couldn't go through objects. Seems to be figuring it out now though...

  10. Re:Baby destroyer. on Weebots: Driveable Robots For Babies Who Need Them · · Score: 1

    No, I have 2 kids. Don't get me wrong, they can be destructive, selfish, annoying, all of those things, But they don't do them out of any inherent evil, that is for sure.

  11. Baby destroyer. on Weebots: Driveable Robots For Babies Who Need Them · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have always said how terrifying it would be if a giant baby, maybe 20 stories tall, were let loose in a city. It would cause untold amounts of destruction all while being oblivious to its own malice (babies are not evil). Now we are one step closer, although it will be in some kind of a mech suit and not just physically large.

  12. Re:Use a Lupo engine on Asking Slashdot: Converting an SUV Into an Hybrid Diesel-Electric? · · Score: 1

    Thanks AC. I know it's a surprising result. Sometimes things are not so obvious.

  13. Re:Use a Lupo engine on Asking Slashdot: Converting an SUV Into an Hybrid Diesel-Electric? · · Score: 1

    Motorcycles are worse emitters of pollution than even your SUV.

  14. Ditched cable about a year ago. on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Watch TV In 2012? · · Score: 1

    Used to pay about $110 / month for satellite HD. Now we have a media server PC in the basement running Sickbeard and Sabnzbd which automatically downloads the shows we watch from a newsgroup service (astraweb) for $10/month. Then we have 2 boxee boxes, one on the living room PC and one in the bedroom that can stream media wirelessly from the media PC, or from the internet, including youtube. I love the boxee box, it's great.

    And, since we are in Canada we are using unblock-us.com which is not a VPN but some sort of DNS redirect service. I only have it configured on the boxee boxes so it doesn't affect our whole network, but it allows us to watch streaming US content.

    Finally, I have a cheap $10 HDTV antenna in case I ever get the desire to watch live sports...which I don't really. So in the end we've replaced a $110/month bill with a $15 / month bill and it's pretty much just as good.

  15. Re:Because they'll explode in their faces on Why Kids Should Be Building Rockets Instead of Taking Tests · · Score: 1

    I had one blow up as a kid. Catastrophic engine failure. Sent a piece of flaming debris past my head. There were a bunch of kids around too, but no one got injured.

    I pressed the launch button, and nothing happened for a few seconds, then boom! We took the debris back to toys r us and they gave us a new rocket no questions asked.

    That being said, I'm doing my best to get my 3 year old interested in science and he's eating it up now. I did buy him a rocket and it's brought back some good memories.

  16. Re:Curses! on Insects Develop Pesticide Resistance Through Symbiosis With Gut Flora · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Am I really evil? on Lack of Vaccination Sends Babies In Oregon To the Hospital · · Score: 0

    Your calculated odds of contracting the disease only work if everyone else is vaccinated. If everyone else thought like you, nobody would get vaccinated and those odds would surely go up. So basically, you are leeching off of everybody else to the detriment of those who cannot get vaccinated.

    So yes, you are evil. Plus, I wouldn't let my vaccinated kids play with your non vaccinated kids.

  18. Re:Incidentally on RIM Firing (Nearly) Everybody · · Score: 1

    Just wait a week, you will learn to hate it. Randomly locks up, pocket dials, random hourglass for 10 seconds, can't do 1/8 of what other phones can do, severely limited app store. It's about 3 years behind in features by my guess.

    Also, I would like to find the person at RIM that keeps putting the lock/unlock button as a single button on the top of the phone and give them a piece of my mind. Guess what happens when you push the phone into your pocket? Yeah, it unlocks. Then it sends random contacts questionable photos, or dials a manager at 12:30 in the morning and leaves a 10 minute long message while you and your friends are doing shots. Or at the very least it drains your battery as it opens random applications.

    The ONLY reason I still have a F*&*)(%G Blackberry phone is because it is company provided. I curse it every day, but luckily my company is discussing changing this policy, and I can't wait.

  19. Re:Non AC repost - Funny on LSD Can Treat Alcoholism · · Score: 1

    Haha your sig is funny. Check out Kava root, maybe it will relax you.

  20. Ibogaine. on LSD Can Treat Alcoholism · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I watched a really interesting show called Drugs Inc. The talked about one psychadelic drug called Ibogaine that can be used to cure opiate addiction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibogaine#Treatment_for_opioid_addiction

    The show is worth watching for sure.

  21. Re:Hurrah for science! on Training an Immune System To Kill Cancer: a Universal Strategy · · Score: 1

    How true.

  22. Re:Homebrew rebound on What Beer Can Teach Us About Emerging Technologies · · Score: 1

    Only takes a few minutes to get skunky in my experience.

  23. Re:Both sexes are valuable on Biologists Debunk the "Rotting Y Chromosome" Theory · · Score: 1

    Which just goes to prove that natural selection in humans, the tooth and nail kind, is irrelevant. So what's your point, exactly? Truthfully if we still lived and died by the harsh type of natural selection our ancestors went through, most of us contemplating these issues would not be here. We would've died from simple childhood diseases, or during child birth, or infections, or any number of things.

  24. Re:Legalize and Tax on Aderall Or Nothing: Anatomy of the Great Amphetamine Drought · · Score: 1

    Do yourself a favor and read "The Consumers Union report on licit and illicit drugs" (1972). It will answer that and many other questions. You can read it for free online: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/cu/cumenu.htm Often times the thing that makes the drug 'bad ' is not the drug itself, but the laws and stigmas against it.

  25. Re:Time for a ethics of dying on Why People Don't Live Past 114 · · Score: 1

    IIRC ants do this, it's the old ones that are sent out of the next to forage as it's the most dangerous job.