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  1. Intresting replies on Report Claims Men More Intelligent Than Women · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What I find intresting is the replies from the "men of the street" shown in the BBC's article.

    One women was openly offended. Almost all of then seemed to be offended. Not a single women accepted the study.

    Some men belived the study and were delited about its results. Most of the men didn't belive the study.

    Some replies didn't belive the study because of their "personal experience". Few women belive in
    somekind of conspiracy. One male doesn't seem to belive it science. Also few men point out the fact that men tend to have higher variance in IQ tests. They seem to suspect that the results were in fact measuring this.

    Not a single person considered to read the study before commenting on it. Not even Maria from Sheffield who was "suprised that a academic journal is even considering this publication".

    I think that this Maria is not alone and we hear lots of similar comments. And they are listened. Welcome to an age where academic journals screen articles based on the results not the methodology.

  2. Re:Contradictory? on Reconciling Information Privacy and Liberty? · · Score: 1

    Thank you for an intresting comment.

    Supporting the death penalty, yet opposing abortion, is contradictory, eh?

    Yes, it is.

    "Adults who have shown that they only care about killing others have EARNED the death penalty, whereas an unborn child is innocent and has earned no such punishment."

    Here you are guessing the argument of the all christians who are in favour af death penalty and in opposion of abortion. I dare the label them as Christian because at least 90% of those ethically challenged people with these views are christians.

    But you got it wrong. The two are argumented differently.
    Abortion: "Life is sacred. The Bible say: don't kill. In television fetuses rebsembles human beings so terminating a fetus is a murder of one Gods own childs. Very bad indeed. Those aborters will burn in Hell."
    Death penalty: "Some people are so vile that we have to protect the society from them at all costs. Locking them up for forever isn't sure enough so we need to kill them."

    What is happening here is that these sets of arguments have double standards. In one case it's wrong to kill and in other case it's not. This might be viable if we could have good etchical rules to determine when it's wrong to kill and when it's not. But these christians won't provide such framework. They just arbitrarily choose when to apply this "don't kill" rule.

    As a side note of your argument. Let's assume that a fetus is "unborn child". When he is aborded it's not a punishment. This means that your argument comparing abortion to death penalty is void as you are measuring the abortion with an unfit measure. Also an argument requiring a way of calculating sins so that with enough sins you earn death penalty has so many practical problems that the whole idea of death penalty is banished is civilized world.

  3. Source? on More Evidence for Tabletop Fusion · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ok, let me ask this. Why is this on AScribe and not on Nature?

    I won't belive it until it's published on a peer reviewed journal.

  4. Re:Glen or Glenda on Public Domain from Outer Space · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't know if Plan 9 is truly the worst movie ever. I have to agree with the MST3K crew that there are several others even worse, like Manos.

    What I hear is that 'Manos' - The Hand of Faith is scoring below its level because of MST3K. One reviewer in IMDb claims that the MST3K version was hevily edited so the movie appears worse than it is. Is he right? I don't know, and will never find out as I have no intention to watch two different versions of a crappy movie.

    Anyway, the point remains: people should undeline that they are speaking of "MST3K: 'Manos' - The Hand of Faith" not "'Manos' - The Hand of Faith". Thay are two different movies like "Blade Runner" and "Blade Runner - Director's Cut" are two different movies.

  5. Re:Dimensions on Conquering the LaGrange Points? · · Score: 1

    L3 is unstable on a timescale of 150 years.

    It's 150days. Anyway it's unstable as you stated.

  6. Get those brains smoking! on 2005 Google U.S. Puzzle Championship · · Score: 1
  7. Re:A few quotes from TFA: on Military Seeks Approval to Develop Space Weapons · · Score: 1

    I agree with you in one sense: In a time of war we need to protect our American soldiers using every means possible, including technological superiority.

    I recall one incident in Iraq where an American unit was on a patrol. They met some rifle fire from a building so they stopped the vehicles, took cover, and ordered an arittery strike that bombarded the building for half an hour. No survivors were found on the destroyed building.

    Now in second incident in Iraq a British unit met rifle fire on similar circumstances. They stopped the vehicles, landed, and started to approach the building on foot. Eventually they found two 12-year old boys inside. They were "playing" with a rifle. British unit removed the rifle from them. In the end the British unit didn't fire a single shot.

  8. Quit linking to Google, it's killing it on Lawsuit Says GPL is a Price-Fixing Scheme · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is a little offtopick but I to talk about a link in the blurb:
    Daniel Wallace's views on the GPL..

    The first page contained the search term in following sentance: "Do a google search on Daniel Wallace and GPL". This underlines one side of the problem of linking to the Google: it spams the search results. The other problem is that the Google rates pages based on the links to them. If this habbit of linking to the Google queries grows to de facto standard of linking, Google will die, because it will be unable to compare qualities of pages.

    So, please, at least at such a popular pages like slashdot front page, quit linking to google queries.

  9. Re:This pales in comparison to... on First 500 Terabytes Transmitted via LHCGlobal Grid · · Score: 1

    Just for giggles, a 500-drive array would cost you $3,095,000 in drive hardware but still take only $80,625 in tapes. With shipping it's a mere $3,176,228.

    You need to multiply that with seven as there were seven receiving organizations and end up $22,223,596. But your point remains, it's popably cheper to use tapes and FedEx than cable conenctions.

  10. Ooohh... Google on GMail Getting RSS Aggregation Feature? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is 21st Google article in this month and third today. What is it with Google that every sigle thing they do has to be reported on slashdot?

    I'm not the only one with complains about what is put on the front page. How about moderation system to the articles on fron page/in sections. If a article is moderated enough down it will drop from the front page to the section and if it is still moderated it might drop out of the system all together. Articles could also rise from the section to the front page.

    This would solve Roland Piquepaille, Google, and Dupes in a single strike.

  11. Re:The actual article on Black Holes 'Do Not Exist,' Contends Physicist · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Four fucking pages?!? The guy claims to comprehensively contradict some of the best known and most studied concepts in astro-physics, and his proof covers FOUR PAGES? And contains almost no equations?

    Let me remind you that Einstein's paper about special relativity took only one (or was it two) pages.

    Please don't apply the standards of French sosiology to the physics.

  12. Re:That's because... on Record Low Turnout in Debian Leadership Election · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They're using Diebold's voting machines.

    If it would, the news would be:
    Record High Turnout in Debian Leadership Elections
    daria42 writes "A record high voter turnout - highlighted by the fact that four-thirds of the candidates have cast their ballot - is marring the Debian Project's ongoing elections for the Debian Project Leader position. Project secretary Manoj Srivastava said yesterday: "At the time of writing, half an hour into the second week of the vote, we have the highest participation ever in a Debian project leader election seen so far. It seems that I have already gathered 105% of the total votes available."."

  13. Yet another Ronald Piquepaille article on Nano-Probes Stay Inside a Cell's Nucleus for Days · · Score: 5, Informative

    I will give him a little credit as he links sometimes to intresting articles. But I must say that his blog sucks big time. He has scored a slashdot.org article 13 times this year. From Ronalds account page:
    Robotic Nanotech Swarms on Mars... in 2034 14:54 Wednesday 30 March 2005
    Nano-Probes Stay Inside a Cell's Nucleus for Days 19:42 Tuesday 29 March 2005
    The Rise of Smart Buildings 22:19 Saturday 19 March 2005
    3D Virtualization Edges Toward the Mainstream 21:57 Sunday 13 March 2005
    Taking Care of Mobile Patients 20:20 Saturday 26 February 2005
    Smart Holograms Used as Biosensors 20:22 Sunday 20 February 2005
    Wearable PC with an Artificial-Reality Helmet 20:20 Saturday 19 February 2005
    Transgenic Mustard Cleans Up Soils 22:38 Tuesday 15 February 2005
    Elektro, the Oldest U.S. Robot 16:35 Thursday 10 February 2005
    Open-Source Streaming Translations in Porto Alegre 15:33 Monday 31 January 2005
    RFID-Equipped Robots Used as Guide Dogs 19:35 Saturday 29 January 2005
    Streaming a Database in Real Time 23:58 Friday 21 January 2005
    Morse Code Used by Human Cells? 20:05 Wednesday 12 January 2005
    Engineered Enhancers Closer Than You Think 20:54 Friday 31 December 2004
    Transparent Transistors Are Coming 22:20 Wednesday 29 December 2004
    DURL, a Search Tool for del.icio.us 14:47 Monday 27 December 2004
    IBM Prepares 100-Terabyte Tape Drives 15:19 Sunday 26 December 2004
    With Linux Clusters, Seeing Is Believing 16:47 Monday 13 December 2004
    Self-Adapting Traffic Lights 19:07 Sunday 05 December 2004
    Robotic Science Network Watches Our Oceans 23:32 Friday 03 December 2004

    I think I speak for most readers here when I yell: SLASHDOT EDITORS, PLEASE, NO MORE LINKS TO RONALDS NO-GOOD BLOG.

  14. Re:Obilgatory story on Classic Math Puzzle Cracked · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When J. E. Littlewood heard about the taxi incident he commented: "Every positive integer is one of Ramanujan's personal friends."

  15. Re:Definition of "Secret" on No Secret Plan at Google? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you want keep a secret you have to keep it secret that you have a secret to keep.

  16. Re:Hard habit to break. on Why MS is Not Opening More Source Code · · Score: 1

    Particularly when debugging scripts. "F*CKING C*NT" and the like weren't to uncommon.

    An interesting tidbit, Viaweb (now Y! Store) used to have a program called storef*cker :)


    One company offering SSH, virus protection, etc. is named F-Secure. Officially thay won't give any kind of a meaning for it but I have hunch what the F stands for.

  17. Re:[tt]:Encarta on MSN Search Has Arrived · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://beta.search.msn.com/results.aspx?FORM=MSNH& srch_type=0&q=google

    Parent's joke aside, I checked the page out of the curiosity.
    I was positively surprised: the localization of MNS Search was a light-year ahead of Google (I'm from Finland). The first search result pointed to www.google.fi not www.google.com. Also, the page contained links to Finnish news about Google. This is nice as I like to read news from my local perspective and about local issues (America-centrisism of the Internet and the Google news service annoys).

    I think the competition does well to the search industry. Therefore I'm gave MNS Search a change and, in fact, am going to use it until Google gets its localization shit together. I also urge others to give MNS Search real change. Google may be good, but monopoly won't make it better.

  18. Re: Where's the catch? on Microsoft Opening Office XML Formats · · Score: 2, Informative

    Licence is written in xsd documents:

    Permission to copy, display and distribute the contents of this document (the "Specification"), in any medium for any purpose without fee or royalty is hereby granted, provided that you include the following notice on ALL copies of the Specification, or portions thereof, that you make:
    Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Permission to copy, display and distribute this document is available at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/odcXMLRef/ html/odcXMLRefLegalNotice.asp?frame=true.
    No right to create modifications or derivatives of this Specification is granted herein.
    There is a separate patent license available to parties interested in implementing software programs that can read and write files that conform to the Specification. This patent license is available at this location: http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/format/xmlpaten tlicense.asp.
    THE SPECIFICATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND MICROSOFT MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR TITLE; THAT THE CONTENTS OF THE SPECIFICATION ARE SUITABLE FOR ANY PURPOSE; NOR THAT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SUCH CONTENTS WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY THIRD PARTY PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS OR OTHER RIGHTS.
    MICROSOFT WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO ANY USE OR DISTRIBUTION OF THE SPECIFICATION.
    The name and trademarks of Microsoft may NOT be used in any manner, including advertising or publicity pertaining to the Specification or its contents without specific, written prior permission. Title to copyright in the Specification will at all times remain with Microsoft. No other rights are granted by implication, estoppel or otherwise.


    I think the last one is intresting. Even if OpenOffice.org makes their office suit completly Microsoft compilant, they not allowed to mention it!

  19. Re: Where's the catch? on Microsoft Opening Office XML Formats · · Score: 1

    I can't read the license itself, since I don't have Windows and it seems you can only view the license when installing.

    Nope, it doesn't prompt any kind of a licence.

    As an intresting side note, that is one heck of a large piece of xsd documentation: 2 016 097 bytes.

  20. Re:Who needs 53 keys? on New Standard Keyboard · · Score: 3, Funny

    I use vim almost exclusively. Most people use either vim or elvis symlinked from vi and don't know it, although vi is its own program. I can come up with 26 letters [a-z], 10 numbers [0-9], shift (gotta hit that "!" you know), escape and colon. Then we can't forget / for the searches and replaces, \ to be able to match special characters, and newbies will want the arrow keys instead of h, j, k and i.

    Your humor isn't lost on me, but a seasoned vi user will use at least 41 keys, 45 for the inexperienced. The other 8 must be for Emacs.


    You must be one those perl monkeys. Otherwise you would need space and return keys.

  21. Re:Porn has always played a big role in technology on Porn Industry Mulls Next Generation-DVD · · Score: 1

    They have been heavily involved in the development and early adopters of: online credit card transactions, streaming video/webcams, VHS, multi-angle DVDs, pop-up ads, affiliate programs, pay-per-view, 900 #s, geo-targetting... the list goes on.

    You know those little statues they dig from excavation sites? Yeah, you know them. Thousands of years old ladies with big breasts and some weird dudes with XXXXXXL dicks.

    Algologists tell us something like this: "Well, here we have a goddess of fertility. It seems that this cavemen community worshipped God with human body, specially a female body with 'fertile' body." Bollocks, I say. It's ancient porn!

    So there you got it. Porn was the driving force even behind the art of sculpture making.

  22. Moderators, lisen up on Developer Retrospective on the MMORPGs of 2004 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Parent is moderated as troll and flamebait. Only reason I find is that parent embraces EQ2 over WoW. Similar posts which embrace WoW over EQ2 are moderated as +5 Insightful. More over, I think that the parent poster has a point.

    This is no WoW forum, so I think we should accept people who think that WoW is not perfect. Hell, some people might really think that WoW is boring compared to other more challenging MMOs.

    Moderators, in arguments regarding preferences there is no right or wrong. Therefore, please, moderate the way how the opinion is argued not the opinion itself. That way we will have more fruitful discussions and people won't be afraid to put forward opinions that disagree with the majority's opinion.

  23. Re:The worst thing I heard of... on FBI Warns: Many Tsunami Relief Pleas Are Fake · · Score: 1

    Let's be resonable: it causes more harm to rob a place of a living person than a dead person. If you have to rob a house, please, by all means, rob a dead man's house.

  24. Derek Smart on Wired's 2004 Vaporware Awards · · Score: 1

    I think the grand old man and "inventor" of vaporware needs to be summoned:

    Derek, come out and tell me where's the manual to BattleCruiser Millenium. Slashdot crowd deserves your explanation.
    Derek, I know you reading this!

    --

    For those of you who don't know who he is:
    Derek Smart is the author of BattleCruiser 3000ad, a game that coined the term vaporware. He first started to hype it in 1995 stating that it will be ready in a few months. Eventually a working version got out around 2001. In the mean time Derek participated in USENET's longest flame wars and tried to insult everyone. Hence, August 22. is Derek Smart Says F-ck You Day.
    Dr. smart has also been active in other online forums. Here is one enlightening example from EvilAvatar.

    For more information see: this intro or comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic.

  25. This will be a new industrial revolution on Toyota to Employ Advanced Robots · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The non-specialized robot worker will usher new era upon mankind. The think is, in couple of decades we are running out of work for people without college decree. The robots will remove manufacturing jobs and ever expanding self-service industry will cut out jobs from the service sector. This means that societies must adopt to new situation as the current social agreement is based on the assumption that there is jobs for everyone.

    It's true that these innovations and changes will create new jobs, but the new jobs are created for the educated people not for the people whose jobs are disappearing.

    A world where there are no jobs for everyone isn't necessarily a bad thing, if societies are rearranged so that a decent living is provided for everyone and people start defining themselves not by their profession but by some other attributes.