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  1. Re:Move on Ask Slashdot: Hacking Urban Noise? · · Score: 1

    Quit being a downtown hipster and move to a nice house on a quiet street.

    QUOTE FOR EFFIN TRUTH!

    You want to live in a noisy area, but not have the noise. Use earplugs? Learn to like what you think you like?

    Or the simple.... move to the environment you seek... move to a quiet place.

    Do you realize that your attempt at a 'solution' is merely a remedy to a symptom? Do you see the parallel in your 'solution' to the drug industry approach to health instead of diet/lifestyle/excercise?

    It sounds to me like soul searching what you really like is the best advice for you. Once you know what you *really* like/want, you should pursue it.

    "Is it too hot in Hell? How can I solve this without moving back to earth? I've bought 200 air conditioners and its still hot?!?!!"

  2. Re:Calm before the hyperbole on A Suicide Goes Viral On the Internet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think that Fox, just like most of our mainstream media, are so fixated on the inflammatory and absurd instead of the productive and positive, that it is nearly impossible to avoid these kinds of scenarios.

    You take a media system primarily driven by shock/awe/horror/fear (obviously the scared viewers hang around for commercials), and combine that with high profitability, and what do you expect? A perfectly censored viewing of something horrible?

    We know there are pedophiles out there. We know there are horrible tragedies out there. We know that somewhere, someone at a workplace, did something unethical. And yet the news persists to demonstrate these rare (compared to the whole population) events and fixate on them. Eventually, what were small tragedies with few people inflamed/affected, become big talked-up national debates with wide scale fears and social responses.

    Ironically, good things are happening far more frequently, but even big-scale good things (like scientific progression, community efforts, etc) are ignored or understated.

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    So you have a media that is basically focused, and profiting, on rubbernecking bloody car accidents (metaphorically), and then a dead body (something horrible) shows up on the live stream..... What did those highly attentive, can't-wait-to-find-out-the-next-horrible-thing, viewers expect to see? When you're the consumer, and you show these orginazations that you're going to pay the most attention when horrible things are on TV, what do you expect them to give you?

    You'd better be sure that the intense watching of the gay-meth-sex scandal of that (south carolina?) governor, was part of the juice that drives these news organizations to show more scary stuff, like live police chases, molested catholic kids, etc etc etc.... You'd better be sure damn sure, as a viewer, that when you paid so much attention to the child molesting teacher in LA this spring that you asked to see more of that....

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    The major news organizations suck for not having an integrity beyond profit; that they will do what sells best over what is representative of real life.

    The consumers suck for actually paying so much attention, getting scared, and then paying even more attention. People should be informed enough to know how their role as a consumer influences the values and actions of other elements in life. They should, also, spend less time in worry, seeking wrongs, and more time in reflection and planning, seeking positive answers for the wrongs they acknowledge.
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    I don't blame Fox (for this). I don't blame the site that echoed it. If you were watching the chase, you wanted to see something nasty, and got more than you may have bargained for. If you watched the echo, then you know exactly what you asked to see.

  3. Re:Modularity on EA Makes Minor Tweaks To FIFA 12 For the Wii, Releases It As FIFA 13 · · Score: 2

    And if you do that, then gay people will get married, and then everyone will be on drugs, and we'll be just like Europe, where everyone is unhappy, unhealthy, and the streets run with blood!

  4. Re:Hrm on The Text Message Typo That Landed a Man In Jail · · Score: 1

    1) Most people don't use their phones 'perfectly', meaning that there is no manual for most things, and the answers people educe aren't always what was intended. Most people screw things up on their phones.

    2) as a grownup, have you ever said something 'grownup' and then realized kids were in earshot? Most people have. Usually it is followed with an apology and maybe an explanation if appropriate. From what I can tell, this case is a digital version of a guy whispering "I want to fck you hard when we get home" in his partner's ear, but too loudly..... so why was the issue pushed to involve th police? Why wasn't the obvious apology not enough to solve it?

  5. Re:Medicare fraud is not new on Medicare Bills Rise As Records Turn Electronic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Also, the 'issue' at hand is about $3.33/citizen. That means its a tornado in a teacup like th 12 milion dollar muffins.

    300BN fighter jet programs are $1000/citizen, and considering our absurd power, are much more worth PRIORITIES in what may be a 'issue' of waste.

  6. Re:so true! on Can Anyone Become a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    It's more like hacking. I'm not deciphering/decoding unknown cell programs, rather I am adding in factors/codes that normally don't exist, that alter the cell state, and ultimately turn the cell from Cell Type X into Cell Type Y (where X and Y are the source and target of your goal).

    The various techniques remind me of trojans, DDoS, rootkits, etc.

  7. Re:so true! on Can Anyone Become a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Stemcell research. I reprogram cells. It sounds ironic, but at least 'coding' these programs is carried out in much more interesting ways.... lots of tiny tubes, buffers, biomaterials, cells, and tons of expensive toys.

  8. Re:so true! on Can Anyone Become a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    I do stem cell research (cell reprogramming focus).

  9. so true! on Can Anyone Become a Programmer? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Being into computers since 1990, I had thought coding may be a career. In 1999, my first shot at college, and coding, I came to see it was not for me.

    I aced the C Programming course, but it wasn't the technicalities of the language that repelled me... it was the environment.

    I realized a day's work of coding meant sitting in one spot, staring at chars/text, thinking, and then more of the same. Even the 2-3 hours of coding "lab" was absurd, to me. I was NOT ok with this style of work.

    I realized the CS path was clearly for someone else and moved on.

  10. Re:buyer beware... on Nintendo WiiU Price and Release Date Announced · · Score: 1

    From my phone, with what effort I have right now, I can't seem to find wherever i was that I read about it. I do remember it was around E3 time.

    But anyway, for lack of citation, I rescind my whole point (which is leveraged mostly by that which needs citing.)

    Sorry for frustrating you guys.

  11. Re:Can this be retroactively legalized on House Approves Extending the Warrantless Wiretapping Act · · Score: 1

    Thank you so much. My district rep that normally votes in accordance with the common ideologies of the region actually voted YEA on it. This is inappropriate from him and its time for activism.

  12. buyer beware... on Nintendo WiiU Price and Release Date Announced · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Nintendo has said that the WiiU will be their last console.

    Wii users generally bought less than a handful of titles, and played them for ver few hours, compared to other consoles with more broad development.

    The "motion control" fad wave is passing.

    Tablets are popular, at the moment, and look at those flashy WiiU controllers!
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    Given the signifcance and blunt reality of these data points, I'm guessing this last console is a money grab. Buyer beware.

  13. Re:Heere we go... on Nintendo WiiU Price and Release Date Announced · · Score: 0

    So what I'm understanding is its going to cost you $350 to play the 45th super Mario game, no thanks.

    But it might be in HD for the first time ever.... in 2012 even!

    Lol. I'm with you. Wii owners would probably do better just buying those electric dust collectors. The data supports my joke. Fanatics hate data. Lol.

  14. Re:It will certainly succeed on Nintendo WiiU Price and Release Date Announced · · Score: 0

    what you meant to say is

    "Real gamers need zelda or mario. Everything else is trash."

    The data supports this. Wii gamers actually despise the library of wii games and buy very few with long popular trends already set. Most wii games fail horribly.

    Enjoy your can of beans, since you only like beans.

  15. Re:It will certainly succeed on Nintendo WiiU Price and Release Date Announced · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wtf are you babbling about? This new one from Nintendo, in 2012, is barely comparable to the last generation of power from 2006/2007.

    Its almost laughable reading your post.

  16. Re:Civil unrest on Complex Systems Theorists Predict We're About One Year From Global Food Riots · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Rape. Then pillage. THEN burn.

    I can't find that button. What's the keyboard shortcut?

    G+O+P at the same time should do it.

  17. Re:And? on Scientists Say Organic Food May Not Be Healthier For You · · Score: 1

    Are you also surprised that the headline talks about healt, but the data talks about nutritional value?

    By this, I mean to point out how one of the major reasons for organic foods is ignored: the lon term impact of pesticide residues in regular day to day foods.

    The nutrition is the same. Good to know. But as a cell biologist, I have confidence that many pesticides will gradually harm us. This view considers the reckless permissions granted our chemical industries regarding safety.

  18. Re:collusion? from news corp? on Judge Approves Settlement In eBook Price-Fixing Case · · Score: 1

    Lol. Realistic much? Collusion and antitrust activities are a promise without regulation.

    Keep dreaming....

  19. collusion? from news corp? on Judge Approves Settlement In eBook Price-Fixing Case · · Score: 1

    But news corp is owned by Murdoch! And murdoch is a major proponent of 'free markets'.

    Boy, those free market libertarian fantasies always seem to fail. Even the champions of these ideologies exemplify the failures of deregulation.

    Collusion. ~a market situation that arises when the people naively trust business so much that they have no rules, and the business is still prioritizing capital gain as usual.

  20. Re:loosen other bolts on Space Station Spacewalkers Stymied By Stubborn Bolt · · Score: 1

    The principle is the same. gentle tightening all points by hand for even articulation of the tolerances.

  21. Re:CRC on Ask Slashdot: How Do I De-Dupe a System With 4.2 Million Files? · · Score: 1

    Was there anything wrong with the idea of letting the deduping software complete the task?

    It sounds like impatience is to blame. 4.9TB is a lot of data.

    Horders: Digital Edition.

    I bet you over half the data will never be accessed for any other reason than copying/storing.

  22. Re:Awesome! on Harvard Creates Cyborg Tissues · · Score: 1

    Biotech is, in my opinion, at the 8086 level of computing tech. Once the bigger kinks start to get worked out, development will show its exponential growth. $1000 genome in a day is 2012/2013 technology. The steps are compounding.... invest now! Or maybe wait a little longer...

    If I were a betting man, ViaCyte is the invesment for today. They are leading the way and will be saving Americans from poor diets/lifestyles in under a decade.

  23. Re:Combine with the Patch Clamp? on Harvard Creates Cyborg Tissues · · Score: 1

    They are probably already doing this. Kit Parker (Harvard rat heart muscle jellyfish) just gave a talk at my work today and showed his badass dual-patch clamp data among other glorious feats in bioengineering.

    These are the necessary steps. To build a house, you need a hammer. To build a hammer, you need ore, wood, sharp stones, and a powerful mind.

  24. Re:War is a big word. on Doctorow on the War on General Purpose Computing · · Score: 1

    How does it feel to know that the attention you garner is not from the value of your post, but rather the deliberate inflammatory nature of it?

    Trolling is a habit that neglected/ignored children exhibit to gain attention. I'm sorry the habit for getting attention has carried into your adult life. Most people, from healthier upbringings, learn that the merits of their claims and actions are the cause for attention. I wish you the best in your future and that you may someday draw the benefits in life that come with appropriate behavior.

  25. War is a big word. on Doctorow on the War on General Purpose Computing · · Score: 1

    It is ridiculous to see 'journalists' wash away the importance and implication of the word "war" with this popular loose application b.s.

    There is no army of organized funding and violence to include killing many humans and destruction of societies in these "wars". A war on women? A war on net neutrality? A war on gp computing? NO. Bad choice of words.

    War is a big word.