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  1. No worries about Ritalin on Involuntary Eye Movement May Provide Definitive Diagnosis of ADHD · · Score: 2

    If used incorrect, just apply the antidote: Ritalout.

  2. Dress on Ask Internet Visionary and Pioneer Vint Cerf · · Score: 2

    Few human's can attributed to be both communications protocol inventers and well.. dapper.

    Can you speak to the importance of being well dressed, groomed, etc. when interacting with non-technical people? Do you attribute your stylistic dress to your overall success in anyway?

  3. Podcast about Infrared Astronomy & JWST on Congress Dumps James Webb Space Telescope · · Score: 2, Informative

    This This Astronomy Cast podcast episode does a great job of explaining why infrared astronomy is important, and the role that the JWST will (would have?) played in discovery.

  4. EconTalk on Increased Power Usage Leads to Mistaken Pot Busts for Bitcoin Miners · · Score: 1

    EconTalk (a great podcast) has an interview by a real economist and a BitCoin founder: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/04/andresen_on_bit.html. Interesting listen.

  5. Jeopardy! on Google Up Ante For Disclosure Rules, Increases Bug Bounty · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can only conclude that this Jeopardy! winner now works for Google.

  6. HTML Version on Do Scientists Understand the Public? · · Score: 3, Informative

    HTML Version via Google Viewer

  7. Answer: on Is HTML5 Ready To Take Over From Flash? · · Score: 1

    Yes.

    Thank you.

  8. pet-a-byte? on New Linux Petabyte-Scale Distributed File System · · Score: 1

    I'm not really sure how much a petabyte is. Could someone please translate to Natalie Portmans? or Station wagons full of congresses? or Rods to the Hogshead?

  9. What it's like to fly a 747 through an ash cloud on EU Conducts Test Flights To Assess Impact of Volcanic Ash On Aircraft · · Score: 4, Interesting
  10. Re:must buy on Marge Simpson Poses For Playboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Announcer's voice: You watched it! You can't UN-watch it!

  11. Re:legal signature? or a computer generated sig.? on Cursive Writing Is a Fading Skill — Does It Matter? · · Score: 1

    Indeed. This signature of Kurt Vonnegut featured an illustration of his own rectum. Perhaps the best signature in the history of all literature. I'm not sure if that qualifies as cursive.

  12. ASCII Cows on Scientists Discover Cows Point North · · Score: 4, Funny

    Never before has the slashdot junk character filter been so unfortunate.

    Moo.

  13. Disabled Apps on Apple's IPhone 3G Firmware Update Bombs · · Score: 5, Interesting

    On my iPhone, 2.02 completely disabled all 3rd party apps. Any apps installed run for just a few seconds before returning to the app screen. Deleting and re-installing doesn't help.

    Good job apple.

  14. Hacker's do it this way. on How Do Geeks Exercise? · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how geeks do it, but hackers do it by following the hacker diet of course:

    Hacker's Diet

    Complete with exercise routines!

  15. Fresh Air NPR Interview on Bye Bye Bananas — the Return of Panama Disease · · Score: 1

    An oddly interesting interview that explains a lot about the banana.

  16. Google Talk on Scalable Nonblocking Data Structures · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google Talk by the author.

  17. Ah.. yes.. on What If Yoda Ran IBM? · · Score: 1, Funny

    W.W.Y.D. ?

  18. Programmer's Guide to Faith and Science Algorithms on Texas Science Director Forced To Resign Over ID Statements · · Score: 1
  19. Don't bother on Help Black Box Voting Examine ES&S Software · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would argue that examining this software is counter productive, and not a good use of resources.

    The fact that it is closed and "secret" is offensive enough on its own to protest for change. If democratic election is not the most obvious case for open source (and open hardware), then nothing is.

  20. gta4real on CSI Takes On Grand Theft Auto · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the victims will be forced to act like GTA people.

    GTA4real

  21. Re:What to do? on Shuttle Delayed Due to Cloudy Skies · · Score: 1

    Sex.

    Honestly, if I were a male up there, having to go 8 days without wanking or sex, those astronaut chicks would be looking pretty sexy right about now.

  22. Not a "Java" website on Time Syncing Through a Firewall Without NTP? · · Score: 1

    That site uses Javascript, not Java.

    Furthermore, all the Javascript does is tick a clientside counter. A timestamp is supplied when the page is loaded, and a javascript increments it using ticks on your PC, not the server.

    You could parse the HTML page to pull off the timestamp. It wouldn't be very precise, but might be good enough. NTP does lots more then just ask a server for a timestamp though, it does predictions of network latency and factors that in as well.

  23. Yep on Our Brains Don't Work Like Computers · · Score: 2, Insightful
    "... Instead, our brain is cascading through shades of grey."


    I guess some brains just have more contrast then others...

  24. Trailer on Star Wars 3D And TV · · Score: 2, Informative

    A trailer for the upcoming TV series (Young Darth) can be found here.

  25. How can this be used? on Scientists Can Now Grow Brain Cells In The Lab · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The first application that leaps to mind is that regenerated cells could be used to replace damanged or aged cells somehow, but is that really possible?

    Other types of tissue have been reproduced before, but I've never heard of it being applied such a way. For instance, if you suffer liver failure, your still dependent on an organ doner..

    Or are are there already some types of organ regeneration procedures already in practice? I would guess that the brain would be one of the most difficut types of tissue to do things like this.