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  1. Re:Maybe this is a generational thing... on The Programmers Go Coding Two-by-Two — Hurrah? · · Score: 3, Funny

    we can talk about it in complete detail when it makes sense, i don't need to smell your farts

    You might change your mind if you were working with me. My farts smell like roses.

    Theoretically pair programming is supposed to pair up programmers with other programmers, not with management.

    Hrmm. My farts smell like modular, well engineered Rational roses?

    There, fixed that for you.

  2. Re:This story has already been posted before. on Bill Gates Wants To Reinvent the Toilet · · Score: 1

    And I didn't mean to be redundantly redundant. Title should read "This story has been posted before."

  3. This story has already been posted before. on Bill Gates Wants To Reinvent the Toilet · · Score: 1
  4. Re:That looks... on CDE Open Sourced · · Score: 1

    Seriously. Agreed.

    I've never understood why anyone would create a Gnome/KDE theme that imitated Motif. Motif is one of the ugliest, most horrible abominations to pass for a widget toolkit that I have ever seen.

  5. Re:Much easier to launch from China on Details of Chinese Moon Rocket Emerge · · Score: 1

    You mean, because things on China fall off the back of the earth? That would never work - your frame of reference is all wrong. Antarctica is the bottom of the world.

  6. Re:Buying Windows does some good in the world! on Melinda Gates Pledges $560 Million For Contraception · · Score: 2

    The money will only do any good if there are people like the ones volunteering at the soup kitchen, already in places and situations where they can use the money for greater good. If there's no one who can use the money in a constructive manner, the money will probably get wasted.

  7. Anarchy is a conspiracy... on Trying to Untangle Anarchist Attacks On Scientists · · Score: 4, Funny

    In "The Man Who Was Thursday" by G.K. Chesterton, a detective infiltrates an anarchist meeting and finds out that he is a more persuasive anarchist than the anarchist leaders, and gets elected leader. He goes on to find out that most of the other anarchist leaders are also undercover cops, trying to infiltrate the organization.

    So... since fiction is always true, I contend that anarchy is probably just a bunch of people who are trying to infiltrate anarchy.

  8. Re:Who's teaching it? on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 1

    My bad - physical science principles are taught all of the way through elementary and middle school in the U.S. So 9th grade isn't early. That's when you'd get a dedicated course in physical science.

  9. Who's teaching it? on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 1

    Wait... so this person is teaching it? Or the kid's parents? Or the other grandparents?

    If I were going to teach chemistry to my grandkid, it would be different from trying to spark interest in chemistry. If I have grandkids someday, I'll be getting them toys like DNA/skeletal/atomic model manipulatives. My brother got a set of atom manipulatives once for school (disclaimer: I was homeschooled), and they're incredibly addicting to play with, even if you're not building molecules out of atoms and sticks. Watching videos about dropping gummy bears in potassium chloride or pouring thermite on computer hard drives helps, too.

    But if I were going to teach homeschool chemistry, I'd make sure that I introduce physical science early in school (like, 9th grade), and consult my college chemistry textbook when teaching chemistry. This would be hard if you've never learned chemistry. Some homeschooling curriculums offer video courses, and some homeschool groups get together and go to an actual high school facility for these classes. I'd recommend this to anyone who hasn't had chemistry, but is faced with teaching it.

  10. The first of the pack? on Verizon To Kill All Unlimited Data Plans · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How long before AT&T follows suit?

  11. Also in other news... on Congress' Gulf Oil Spill Response Given a 'D' By Commissioners · · Score: 1

    A commission set up to evaluate the work done by Barack Obama's commission tasked with evaluating the work of Congress in evaluating the Deepwater Horizon incident has given the commission a rating of 'C', or barely satisfactory, for their evaluation of Congress evaluating the Deepwater Horizon spill.

  12. Re:Yeah... on After 244 Years, the End For the Dead Tree Encyclopedia Britannica · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I own a complete set of the 1958 Encyclopedia Americana. I do not own it because it is up-to-date, and I got it for free. I keep it because it reminds me of how quickly the sum of human knowledge changes. Many people would consider this a waste of space for what is only a sentimental reason.

    In 1958, this was probably one of the best summaries of human knowledge available.

  13. Re:Thicker and heavier than the iPad 2 on Apple Unveils New iPad · · Score: 5, Informative

    0.07 pounds heavier. I stand corrected.

  14. Thicker and heavier than the iPad 2 on Apple Unveils New iPad · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's a fraction of a millimeter thicker than the iPad 2 and .7 pounds heavier. I guess the product wasn't going to go on getting thinner and lighter asymptotically.

  15. Re:Fermi Paradox on Warp Drives May Come With a Killer Downside · · Score: 1

    If you use the same logic, not observing God interacting with the world does not imply that God does not exist.

    So many of the same arguments apply to both proving the existence/nonexistence of God and proving the existence/nonexistence of extraterrestrials. I love the X-Files; that series was awesome at comparing the two questions.

  16. Re:"12,000 [to] 200,000 years old" on Australian Scientists Discover 'Oldest Living Thing On Earth' · · Score: 1
    You mean:

    ...found the seagrass was between 12,000 and 200,000 years old and was most likely to be at least 100,000 years old. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk)

    The original article has wording that's more precise (http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0030454):

    ...The scenario of a km-range spread achieved exclusively through clonal growth requires that the clones reach a minimum age of about 12,500 years. Applying the same estimates to the genets shared between the two pairs of meadows, located 7 km apart between Formentera and Ibiza and 15 km apart around a cape in Formentera (Fig. 3), yields a minimum age estimate between 80,000 and 200,000 years, projecting the origin of the clones well into the late Pleistocene.

  17. Re:Is this that creationist place I heard about? on Inside the Museum of Nonsense · · Score: 1

    If this "meat tree" thing is really an official AIG position, post a link to it. I try to keep up with what they publish, but haven't ever heard of it.

  18. Google Translate FTW! on Wikipedia Still Set For Full Blackout Wednesday · · Score: 1

    So we just take the next largest Wikipedia, say the French or German one, and run it through Google Translate.

  19. So much for "green" laptops on Apple Addresses Factory Pollution In China · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Apple makes a big deal about how environmentally friendly their laptop lineup is. Maybe the non-environmentally friendly stuff just stays on the other side of the ocean, somewhere where we'll never hear about it.

  20. Re:Which reminds me... on CarrierIQ: Most Phones Ship With "Rootkit" · · Score: 1

    It might be flakey, but there's a CyanogenMod build for the Incredible 2. http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices/htc-incredible-2

  21. Oblig. Toothpaste for Dinner on Programming Cells, With CellOS · · Score: 1
  22. Reminds me of an Asimov short story... on Glowing Cats a New Tool in AIDS Research · · Score: 1

    Green Patches (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Patches), where cats on the spacecraft are born with green patches over their eyes, and it turns out to be an alien organism which has taken control of all life on the planet.

  23. Depends on your definition of geek on Is There a New Geek Anti-Intellectualism? · · Score: 1

    Is a person a geek because he/she is antisocial, is an expert in something obscure, or for some other reason?

  24. About those of us that aren't plants... on Worlds With Two Suns May Sport Black Plants · · Score: 2

    There's no mention of how this would affect animal life. Skin tones and fur/feather coloring would be lighter to reflect more of the light, right?

  25. Re:Thermite. on The 'Three Ton' Hard Drive Destroyer · · Score: 1