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  1. Re:Facebook is still a thing? on Facebook Rolls Out Code To Nullify Adblock Plus' Workaround (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Jesus was a real person. Now, whether or not you believe he was the son of God, the Jewish Messiah, a charlatan, or a used wagon salesman is left as exercise to the read. But dude was real.

  2. Re:Nothing surprising here on Scientists Say The Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Almost Wiped Us Out Too (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Crocodilians and dinosaurs (and birds) share a common ancestor. They are all considered Archosaurs, along with pterosaurs and a handful of other extinct species that don't fit into neatly of those groups.

    To put it another way, Archosaurs can be defined as a Blue Jay, an American Alligator, their most recent common ancestor, and all descendants (living and extinct) of that ancestor. (Any living bird and any living crocodilian will satisfy this definition).

    Dinosaurs, using a similar definition, can be defined as a Blue Jay, a Triceratops, their most recent common ancestor, and all descendants (living and extinct) of that ancestor. (Any living bird and any ornithithischian dinosaur -- Triceratops, Iguanodon, Stegosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus, etc. -- will satisfy this definition. However, using common extinct saurischian dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus or Velociraptor will not.)

  3. Re:radiation compared to what? on Photos Show The Lingering Radioactivity At Chernobyl And Fukushima (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    1. Bryansk is both an Oblast and a city. The Oblast is quite large. The photographs identify the town as Starye Bobovichi, in the Bryansk Oblast.
    2. Fallout/contamination patterns are not linear. They are dependent on the prevailing winds.

  4. Re:now on to the next question on SpaceX Lands Falcon 9 Rocket At Cape Canaveral (planetary.org) · · Score: 1

    I read somewhere (can't remember when or the source) that the plan was to send the first recovered core to NM for more flight testing, and to do a full tear-down of the second recovered core.

  5. Re:quickly to be followed by self-driving cars on Are We Reaching the Electric Car Tipping Point? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a great plan, except that

    $1180 @ 2.5% = $300,000 house
    $1180 @ 14% = $100,000 house

  6. Re:quickly to be followed by self-driving cars on Are We Reaching the Electric Car Tipping Point? · · Score: 1

    There is this called paying cash.

    Kinda gets around the who debt thing.

  7. Re: Cheap Nokia have great reputation on Microsoft Hasn't Given Up On the Non-Smart Phones It Inherited From Nokia · · Score: 2

    80s landline quality is a vast improvement over every cell phone I've talked on in the past 20 years.

  8. Re:A link to a broken facebook page.. on Galapagos Island Volcano Erupts After 33 Years, Threatening Fragile Ecosystem · · Score: 1

    Hey, it's a model that works. "200 Free hours on AOL!"

  9. Re:More things in space on Hubble Spots Star Explosion Astronomers Can't Explain · · Score: 1

    Science may not be dogmatic, but scientists sure are.

    Old scientists don't change their minds; they just die off. You can even still find a few (respected in their day) cosmologists who endorse Steady State Theory if you look hard enough.

  10. Re:The real extinction on Newly Discovered Sixth Extinction Rivals That of the Dinosaurs · · Score: 1

    I think a better measure here is extinction at the genus level. Genuses are more likely to have fossil records and we can speak of the relative decline of the number of genuses in a proposed extinction event.

    Exactly. Mass extinctions are measured by the % loss of genera, not a species count.

    (Along those same lines, very few people can name more than one dinosaur species, but they can name several genera.)

  11. Re:misquote on SpaceX Dragon Launches Successfully, But No Rocket Recovery · · Score: 1

    Minor point, but it's worth noting both the Florida launch pad (LC-40) and landing site (LC-13) are at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (USAF), which is adjacent to but distinct from KSC (NASA).

    They are planning on launching the Falcon Heavy from KSC, but they have a lot of work to do before that happens.

  12. Re:Why a one-second launch window? on SpaceX Launch Postponed · · Score: 1

    The first part of the ISS was launched in 1998, and orbital parameters were set long before that. Boris was president, not Vlad.

  13. Re:Holy Carp! on Drug Company CEO Blames Drug Industry For Increased Drug Resistance · · Score: 4, Informative
  14. Re:Evolution isn't earth-origin theory. on Pope Francis Declares Evolution and Big Bang Theory Are Right · · Score: 1

    If that hypotheses is true - then the "other side" of the big bang theory isn't a mystery - it's a black hole in another universe created by a supermassive star collapsing under it's own gravity.

    So... Turtles all the way down, then

  15. Re: Tip of the iceberg on Pope Francis Declares Evolution and Big Bang Theory Are Right · · Score: 1

    GACT

  16. Re:You could at least tell us when TFA is paywalle on Michigan About To Ban Tesla Sales · · Score: 4, Funny

    They probably just assume no one reads TFA anyway....

  17. Re:Birth control pills signifcant contributor? on Birth Control Pills Threaten Fish Stocks · · Score: 1

    Whoosh

  18. Re:Update to Godwin's law? on Obama Administration Argues For Backdoors In Personal Electronics · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Think of the children" Godwin's itself. It's not Reductio ad Hitlerum if Hitler *actually* said it: The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.

  19. Re:California Uber Alles on California Governor Vetoes Bill Requiring Warrants For Drone Surveillance · · Score: 1
    Huh? The original is much more appropriate....

    I am Governor Jerry Brown
    My aura smiles
    And never frowns
    Soon I will be president...

    Carter Power will soon go away
    I will be Fuhrer one day
    I will command all of you
    Your kids will meditate in school
    Your kids will meditate in school!

    [Chorus:]
    California Uber Alles
    California Uber Alles
    Uber Alles California
    Uber Alles California

    Zen fascists will control you
    100% natural
    You will jog for the master race
    And always wear the happy face

    Close your eyes, can't happen here
    Big Bro' on white horse is near
    The hippies won't come back you say
    Mellow out or you will pay
    Mellow out or you will pay!

    [Chorus]

    Now it is 1984
    Knock-knock at your front door
    It's the suede/denim secret police
    They have come for your uncool niece

    Come quietly to the camp
    You'd look nice as a drawstring lamp
    Don't you worry, it's only a shower
    For your clothes here's a pretty flower.

    DIE on organic poison gas
    Serpent's egg's already hatched
    You will croak, you little clown
    When you mess with President Brown
    When you mess with President Brown

  20. Re:Simple. He's Immortal on How Did the 'Berlin Patient' Rid Himself of HIV? · · Score: 1

    But Ramírez died...

  21. Re:Missing in the Summary on How Did the 'Berlin Patient' Rid Himself of HIV? · · Score: 3, Informative

    OP said "AIDS virus", not AIDS. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. Calling HIV the AIDS virus is no different than calling rhinovirus the "common cold virus".

    (Unless you're one of those people...)

  22. Re:ObBillGates on Do Specs Matter Anymore For the Average Smartphone User? · · Score: 1

    The "silver box" IIRC.

  23. Re:peer review is a low bar on Journal Published Flawed Stem Cell Papers Despite Serious Misgivings About Work · · Score: 1

    there should be journals devoted to publishing data from reproducing results. Students get experience writing papers and conducting research and everyone gets stronger peer review in their fields.

    Which is all fine and good until the results aren't reproducible, then the 2nd year grad student is left challenging The Distinguished Expert Doctor Professor Smith's results, which tends not to go over so well. (Good luck getting funding/grants in the future, when Dr. Smith just happens to sit on a few NSF committees. And don't expect the advisor to risk their funding/grants.)

  24. Obligatory Futurama on Rosetta Achieves Orbit Around Comet · · Score: 2

    We're whalers on the Moon
    We carry a harpoon
    But there ain't no whales
    So we tell tall tales
    And sing our whaling tune.

  25. Re:Nothing changed on Ask Slashdot: Should I Fight Against Online Voting In Our Municipality? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but there is generally no way for the buyer of the vote to verify their purchase with in-person voting. With online or mail-in ballots, the buyer can be assured that you are voting for who they tell you to.