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  1. Re:Makes sense... on GZipping Life Forms: Deflate Reveals Bare-Bones · · Score: 1

    "WHAT?! no! SNOWFLAKES AREN'T ALIVE?!?! *sniff* say it ain't so..."

    Actually, both this post and it's parent are a bit ridiculous. Water is the most basic component to life. It's what is searched for on other world's as we look for life elsewhere in the universe.

    Why would anyone classify the most basic component of life as 'inorganic' (not alive) ??

    -shpoffo

  2. Compost on Kitchen Waste to Power Fuel Cells... Eventually · · Score: 1

    But what about the compost! Think about the compost!!

    Seriosuly, though, I compost quite a bit - and use it. I'd bet that most people don't and that this would be a good invention for them.

    -shpoffo

  3. Re:Take days off? on Negative Effects of Workplace Net Monitoring · · Score: 1

    Please quit splitting hairs and pouncing on semantics. If this article wasn't so valid, it wouldn't be getting the attention it is. All of the fun and productive companies have extensive recreational provisions that are supported & attended by management/executives of the company.

    shpoffo

  4. Silly on SOHO Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    "Finally, after a "touch-up" of the color table, we have what may look like a nice UFO with a glow and exhaust fumes!"

    Geez! These guys clearly don't have any clue, they don't even know that UFOs don't exhaust anything!

    -shpoffo

  5. Re:Already happens? on Mining Metals Using Plants and Trees? · · Score: 1

    most of the plants they're outlining are phytoabsorbers, which retain toxins in the plant. There are many plants which are phytodegrades, which break down toxins into non-dangerous constituents.

    -shpoffo

  6. Re:Kinetic mouse? on MX700 Cordless Optical Mouse w/Charger · · Score: 1

    so...... how fast can you say "file a patent"?

    I'm not kidding, that's a very, very good idea. Just do your wristwatch homework to see if there's enough kinetic energy available to power the laser and wireless transmitter.

    -shpoffo

  7. "Non-essential" on Keep Playing With AI · · Score: 1

    Taking out the garbage is 'non-essential to you? What white man were you born to?

    -shpoffo

  8. Re:Worse (NASA brainwave reading....) on Scientists Create Lullabies From Brain Waves · · Score: 1

    I can just imagine it now - some company would go into buisness taking EEG recordings....

    Yea, like NASA at Northwest airports....

    -shpoffo

  9. Re:as long (no SSN is needed) on A Look Into National ID Cards · · Score: 1

    You can opt out of a social security number - actually. It's basically impossible to get one revoked once you've been given a SSN, but you can opt out of having your child being given on, though if you have your child birthed in a hospital you'll need to jump through tremendous hoops to not get them to automatically file the paperwork. A midwife is an easier route or you could go to the Amish or others and birth your child with their assistance.

    this alone implies that you could opt out of a national ID card, but you'd need to be really pre-emptive about it....

    -shpoffo

  10. How to cook "off-the-cuff" on Ask Alton Brown How Food+Heat=Cooking · · Score: 1

    I've been interested for a while about how to freestyle cook with anything (edible) that is laying arond my pantry and fridge (and yard?). I'm wondering if there are a few basic categories of food which are combined in a semi-logical manner. I know this is kind of a dorky-algorithm approach to the problem, but hey, this is slashdot, that's what you get. =)

    I've cooked with indian foods a bit and I can see some basic trends in how the ingredient are combined. (indian food being more complex than american fare, IMO) I know in time I'll develop a sense for how it all goes together such that i'll be able to do it with any ingredients, but i'm wondering if you've experienced any condensable tidbits that can help people along.

    thanks

    -Z

  11. but it will kill people *slower* on FDA Approves More Powerful Sugar Substitute · · Score: 1

    This is most likely just an attemp tof Monsanto's to buy themselves out of a very dangerous area. Even if the chemical is more toxic by mass than Aspartame, it's more potent and so requires that much less of it. if it puts less formaldehyde in the body than aspartame did then it's a good decision for them because it gives them more time to develop a better substitute. This sucks overall, but until peopel are educated better it wil stave off death counts - an effect that i'm not sure people should be in favor of from a evolutionary standpoint. If people are going to make dumb decisions then that's the 'natural selection' process. The quicker such people are removed fromt he system, the quicker their 'killing' companies will go out of business or be forced to change their practices. Education is the salvation of said individuals.

  12. von Neumann on Conceptual Models of a Program? · · Score: 1

    You should look into information on John von Neumann - he is generally accredited with inventing flowcharts and designing some of the first conceptual flow for machine operation. I was rather happy to have his concepts introduced in my intro CS class, but I doubt that it was so common a happening.

    .....he is also just a really cool figure to review =) good luck

    -shpoffo

  13. dress like a worker...... on Hacking the Highways · · Score: 1

    and no one will question you. I foudn this out when i removed a street sign during the middle of rush our traffic in Pittsburgh. If you look official no one stops you, not even the policeman that walked by underneath me. You'd think he might have noticed i didn't have a safety harnass on.....

    judos to guerilla ops

    -shpoffo

  14. Uhhhh... we're allowed? on Games in the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    The company here doesn't discourage game playing. We have a company NHL league for XBox and Wolfenstien 3D as well. Pretty much whatever cool game comes along that the booss and everyone likes. I figured it was kind of an obscure practice, but geez - it seems no on else posting has anything like that.

    figure, employees are going to goof off and such anyway, everyone has to in order to prevent insanity from boring tasks. So if you give them an outlet for it, not only will they probalby take it, thye may even enjoy their job more and respect you [the boss] a bit more for respecting their mental well-being.

    imagine that

    -shpoffo

  15. Re:The difference between M$ and OS on Revolution OS · · Score: 1

    He's not a fool, certainly, and I keep wondering why he has allowed so much rubbish to creep into the windows source code.

    Either that or the CIA is co-opting to put backdoors in the software so we can spy on other nations that are dependent on MS products. But the US wouldn't take such steps to further enforce economic dominance, would they, especially not by using Coca-Cola to place operatives in every nation for the last 35 years...

    "It's so easy to look for a secret door when you see a brick wall"
    Aggedy Ran

    -shpoffo

  16. Re:wheat bread still bread on A Link Between Diet and Myopia? · · Score: 1

    I've set a note on this thread, when i dig up the reference to the cases that i'd come across I'll reply them here or find a way to contact you otherwise. You, unfortunately, seem unwilling or unable to look beyond your own fears. Something you are holding onto precludes you from accepting that there is indeed a possibiliy for cancer to fade within a few hours. What would it mean to you if the universe suddenly allowed for this to happen?

    So much time you've put into this - have you lost someone to a cancer and are unable to accept that they harbored the problem within themselves? You're so afraid of my premise that you have to revert to nit-picking my spelling.

    I do hope you find solace in whatever burns inside of you.

    -shpoffo

  17. Anger toward America for WWII on Spriggan Released On DVD · · Score: 1

    did anyone notice that the two prime American Met-Core soldiers are named "Fat Man" and "Little Boy", and that the American general is a psychotic child? Methinks someone is still a bit sore for a certain U.S. event during World War II......

    I'm not sure if I want to say "get over it" or if there's something that needs to be more careful picked through

    thoughts?
    -shpoffo

  18. Re:wheat bread still bread on A Link Between Diet and Myopia? · · Score: 1

    And by attempting to cite Godwin you were perhaps attempting to wriggle out of your unfounded arguement?

    Go do through some medical journals and do a bit of actual research - there are many such cases of radical tumor remission recorded in both the U.S. and other nations. The major thing that is preventing you from learning anything here is you're being so beligerent about your ignorance.

    If you had any point you might go about citing some refence to your claims, but you didn't - you just attempt to try a bitch-slap in order to avoid an arguement that you feel you're "losing". Grow up, take some responability for the ignorance you've been promogulating and get a bit broader perspective on things.

    -shpoffo

  19. Re:wheat bread still bread on A Link Between Diet and Myopia? · · Score: 1

    So, did you just get your medical Ph.D? because you sound just about as ingorant as most clinical doctors I've spoken to...

    I ask you then, in all of your wisdom on the Cancer epidemic: how is it that any case of cancer can disappear and go into "permenant remission" within the space of 4-8 hours? Disappear, i.e.: no biopsy is possible because no cancerous tissue can be located in any area. You may use any reference materials you likea nd you may take as long as you feel necessary to respond.

    This sceanrio has happen many times, and you aren't going to find an answer looking through the annals of the AMA.

    Cancer is a cessation of energy flow to an area of the body, which eventually causes that area to 'die' and begin to be reclaimed by opportunistic organisms that break down decaying matter. Similar tot he concept of 'bions' but without the mysticism. If this isn't getting though I encourage anyone who's interested to email me, there are several good places to start.

    ..and unless you're a total ass (debatable), you'd know that Western Medicines are extracts derived from plants in nature. (other cultures call them "herbs" - go figure). The only thing "we" do here in the West is refine the substance down to the only compound that we think is necessary for the reaction we think we need. EVerythign is 'natural' in origin, it's just that peopel often seem to try to make thigns as unnatural as possible. Similarly, many poisons and venoms have been used to create powerful curatives - the same poisons that can kill you inmoments of reaching the bloodstream. Maybe you ought to carry a copy of the Merck index next time you pick up your prescription from your 'dealer' and find out just where your fix originated from before they slapped a (TM) on it...

    Anyway, my psychic powers have told me that you are into herbal medicine and you live in either the Bay Area or Seattle.

    and thank you for being a demographic bigot. If I was to carry that attitude myself I might assume you're a "nigger" because "you're so fucking stupid"

    wake up
    -shpoffo

  20. hope there's no content filter.... on US Military Creates Indestructible Sandwich · · Score: 1

    because that's *FUCKING DISGUSTING*. I'm inspired to learn jsut what that stuff does to your body.... an intersting 'experiment' in food processing, but edible, i think not....

    -shpoffo

  21. Re:wheat bread still bread on A Link Between Diet and Myopia? · · Score: 1

    yes, and knowing little about what the western medical opinion on nutrient absorbtion is, I'll still argue that all of those micronutrients are *VERY* *VERY* important. It's like fertilizers, they just don't properly reproduce micronutrient levels that occur naturally in healthy soil.

    From the people who brought you epidemic levels of Cancer - Western Medicine!

    -shpoffo

  22. New orders or insects.... on Gigantic Bugs in Southern California · · Score: 1

    I find it interesting given this" story as well that there is an 'outbreak' of new insect discoveries. What's next, plagues of locusts.....

    just doing my job as a biological filter
    -shpoffo

  23. Hello! It's the same historically as a mail cover on Carnivore Update · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mail covers have been used by law enforcement for quite a while - it's a practice that allows them to scan/look at the front of an envelope to determine where it has been addressed to and from. Grabbing email headers is no different, and even the subject line may fall under this jurisdiction.
    now i know that carnivore is no doubt being used to dig into message body and such, but please be aware that there is a precedent for certain functions of this system

    -shpoffo

  24. Re:My thesis was on wavelet compression... on Introduction to Wavelets · · Score: 1

    a link or two, please. Was your thesis published somewhere that we can read it?

    thx
    -shpoffo

  25. Yep, but not on a Mac....... on Platform Independent Gaming? · · Score: 1

    because we all know that Java hasn't been implemented for Mac OS - so there's no way you could play java games on a Mac....

    -shpoffo