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  1. Start Rek on Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce Someone To Star Trek? · · Score: 2

    Save "The Wrath of Khan" for later or last, as it's the best of the "T.O.S." movies ("First Contact" is the best of the "TNG" movies.) Start with "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (star Sally Kellerman shows the early influence). Then merely show the best, while including story-important episodes such as "The Trouble with Tribbles," "A Private Little War," etc. to show the evolution of the Federation's relationship with the Klingons. Then "Balance of Terror," "The Enterprise Incident," etc. for the Romulans.

  2. bonobos + chimpanzees on Bonobos Join Chimps As Closest Human Relatives · · Score: 0

    So what? Chimpanzees have at most 80% DNA similarity with humans. Or have you believed the hype? What a rube. Folks checking THE REST OF THE DNA have noticed that certain deceptive researchers cherry[picked which parts of the genetic code they'd sequence. Check all of it and one gets a very different story; obviously, as they wanted similarity, they only checked where they figured similarity would be, the cheaters.

  3. age on Gaming Clichés That Need To Die · · Score: 1

    In either a life-by-incremental-changes view or a created view, humans are all late-comers to the planet: there's no way any human-made thing can be "older than dirt." Water, then dirt, then everyone else.

  4. Birds sixth sense on Pigeons May 'Hear' Magnetic Fields · · Score: 1

    Evolve that one from reptiles.

  5. artificial DNA on Artificial DNA Replicates and 'Evolves' · · Score: 1

    Completely ignoring the elephant in the room: the assiduous intelligence needed to assemble the stuff.

  6. Fly me to the moon on New Engine Raises Possibility of Cheap Travel To the Moon · · Score: 1

    Be sure to bring enough food to last the appreciably longer trip.

  7. Test limitations on NYC Bans Mention of Dinosaurs, Dancing, Birthdays On Student Tests · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does anyone realize that some test-takers don't know what a "pillow" is? So yeah, the poor kid will stare at some word, wondering what it is, get a worse than accurate score, because the test is testing something that WASN'T TAUGHT IN CLASS. That's what this little rule is trying to avoid. Fair testing for all. 'Bout time.

  8. spontaneity on Did Life Emerge In Ponds Rather Than Ocean Vents? · · Score: 1

    There is no "ideal" condition for the spontaneous generation of life because there is no situation where mere rules can separate laevo-rotary from dextra-rotary amino acids. Randomness = death.

  9. Engineering exams on Ask Slashdot: How To Allow Test Takers Internet Access, But Minimize Cheating? · · Score: 1

    You don't have them use the Internet. At all. You ensure your engineers are trained to be able to still use their knowledge when the Internet goes down.

  10. Why I'm still on Windows 7 and MS Word on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 1

    I tried many times to use Ubuntu but their music player NEVER worked. At all.

  11. kitchen grease on Biofuel Thieves Steal Restaurant Grease · · Score: 1

    The "Simpsons" were not prophetic because this has been a problem for the past 20 years. Where have you guys been?

  12. Anti-viral drug on New Drug Could Cure Nearly Any Viral Infection · · Score: 0

    Or drink vinegar.

  13. life-by-evolution is not "scientifically accurate" on For Texas Textbooks, a Victory For Evolution · · Score: 0

    The one who credits life-by-evolution is guilty of excessive faith in what has no support. To cover his faults, he or she spends the days accusing others of this fault, hoping no one will notice the personal guilt borne by each. Darwin had zero evidence for his suppositions, but supposed on his deathbed that fossils would be found to support it. A billion+ fossils later, his blind faith has been found to be in error. No fossils have supported his life-by-evolution dogma. Instead, every species appears in the fossil record fully-formed. There are zillions of species in the fossil record, no transitions. Meanwhile, everyone also ignores the woeful impossibility of getting any life at all in the first place. Who wants to align the amino acids? Who volunteers to explain how the enzymes assemble the amino acids into DNA when the DNA is what is producing the enzymes. Let's stop being ignorant and base our faith on the facts, not wishes.

  14. forcing hard drive decryption on DOJ: We Can Force You To Decrypt That Laptop · · Score: 0

    It's that word, "only." That word is misused and abused to the point where we know that no one hearing it will know that it's misplaced and incorrect. Forcing one to "only" decrypt one's hard drive is forcing one to turn over evidence about oneself. Notably, they aren't forcing her to erase the hard drive.

  15. nursing home vs. actual home on High Tech Elder Care May Be Mixed Blessing · · Score: 0

    The problem will be what we had to decide about my dad when he started getting up in the middle of the night and walking to wherever his senile dementia, poisoned by aluminum dust brain thought he was going. Literally, we had to lock him up for his own safety.

  16. twitterizing slashdot on SlashTweaks Let YOU Micro-Edit Slashdot · · Score: 0

    Is that why the articles read like mad-libs?

  17. It's our own fault on College Students Lack Scientific Literacy · · Score: 0

    Much of the reason why college students do not understand the scientific method is that they are not taught it in high school. Instead, they are given evolution's "just-so" stories which cannot be proven by the scientific method. Rather than risk the nascent students finding out that the dominant model might have flaws, they leave the "lessons" at indoctrination and shove them out the door. Can't blame this one on the creationists!

  18. danielpauldavis on Causing Terror On the Cheap · · Score: 0

    Which is exactly what T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) realized and taught his (Arab) brothers-in-arms during WWI: a few bombs on the rail line disables the Turkish transportation infrastructure. Keep doing that and one gets a Turkish army bogged down by relatively few soldiers.

  19. video game on Software (and Appropriate Input Device) For a Toddler? · · Score: 0

    We once babysat a kid little older than that when I had Epic Games' "Tyrian" on my computer, and "mash the keys" is what he loved to do, so I let him use the arrow keys to "fly" the craft, and then fire the plasma weapon. Simple mind, simple pleasure.

  20. Re:Solution: on Some Windows Apps Make GRUB 2 Unbootable · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Very much you have a God and your ignoring the evidence never means He is ignoring you.

  21. U.S. Constitution on Feds Won't File Charges In School Laptop-Spy Case · · Score: 1

    We used to be told that "Ignorance of the law is no excuse." We now know it is. And we have proof of how deeply stupid are the school administrators that they could so woefully violate the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, conduct unlawful search of private property, and get off scot free. This is too scary for words. There goes this nation. I'm glad it's not my country anymore.

  22. A more comprehensible metaphor on Gaming Without a Safety Blanket · · Score: 1

    Would be the movie, "Avatar," which also has a silly plot but is VERY immersive. Thus, the "quality" is not in anything but in how well the thing cons the customer.

  23. Pierre Boule's "Monkey Planet" on Japan Successfully Deploys First Solar Sail In Space · · Score: 1

    Begins and ends with a couple solar sailing around the solar system (at the end, he wraps all four of his hairy limbs around her in an affectionate embrace.) This was some decades ago; prescient, wasn't he?

  24. As with sponsoring a flotilla of armed thugs on Turkey Has Reportedly Banned Google · · Score: 1

    So in banning open access to information, the Moslems have taken over the country.

  25. It's not about "science." on The "Scientific Impotence" Excuse · · Score: 1

    It's about being aware of "science falsely so-called." 1) "Scientists" have been wrong before, many times. Folks prefer to withhold acceptance of claims merely to avoid be tricked into believing a guy who ends up being wrong ten years later. 2) I've read many scientific articles, and too many of them blithely ignore the other explanation, the other hypothesis, in favor of their pet theory. Their pet theory isn't "proved" any more than another hypothesis is disproved. The "scientist" merely ran a poorly-designed experiment.