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  1. Re:Unpossible on Stem Cells That May Make Eggs Found In Women · · Score: 1

    Um....

    "prior hoc ergo propter hoc"?

    I think you meant "post hoc ergo propter hoc".

    I meant to say before this therefore because of this in Latin. I was refering to a graph behind AG showing temperature swings followed 800 years later by the Carbon Cycle.

      If one wanted a post-hoc assertion, then he would say that the Climate Cycle drives the Carbon Cycle.

  2. Re:Link not working on Lawyers For Mining Companies Threaten Scientific Journals · · Score: 1

    You're not new here, you ought to know this:

    They aren't that kind of editor. Now, exactly what Slashdot editors are supposed to be editing has always be a mystery to me but long experience has shown it's not content, hypertext links, grammar or spelling.

    You don't know what you don't know. Content is edited. An editor can make a post pissadeer.

  3. Re:Unpossible on Stem Cells That May Make Eggs Found In Women · · Score: 1

    Hey, if you were Al Gore, you'd be correct.

    Watch his amazing prior hoc ergo propter hoc demonstration.

  4. Re:Lies on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 2

    "All content owners have reviewed your video and confirmed their claims to some or all of its content."

    Complete bold-faced lie.

    Lyrebird in violation of copyright law, Film at 11. No wait, our legal dept. forbids it.

  5. Re:3,000? on After US v. Jones, FBI Turns Off 3,000 GPS Tracking Devices · · Score: 1

    I don't. They most likely have many more as you can still plant/use them with a warrant. The 3000 were just for ones without warrants.

    the FBI sought court orders to obtain permission to turn the devices on briefly – only in order to locate and retrieve them.

    Don't you need a warrant for that?

  6. Re:Lack of optical memory devices? on Optical Memory Could Speed Up the Internet · · Score: 3, Informative

    The researchers seem to have missed the huge leftover stock of photographic film. Stopping it completely provides indefinite storage while spinning it 1 mega frame / second satisfies microsecond processing needs.

    I remember someone spinning a bit of metal at 10^6 rev/sec. It was the size of the period on a typewriter. At 1.5x10^6 or so it exploded. I suspect that the gelatin would spin off much earlier.

  7. Re:Another fly on the wall heard from on Apple Has Too Much Money · · Score: 1

    I think you forgot about the part where the guy running apple said this is a problem. idiot.

    Send in the Gypsies. Youa money have curss.

    Oh wait, they're here.

  8. Re:This is currently an issue. on Canada's Conservatives Misled Voters With Massive Robocall Operation · · Score: 1

    Illinois alone has had four governors go to Federal Prison.

    Overcrowding at the Mansion?

  9. Re:If you need PR firms, you've failed. on Foxconn Hires Top Spinners To Defend Its Image · · Score: 0

    I love how we just hand over all of our jobs to India and China and on top of it, we get worked up about how they're treated. It's like someone stealing your car and then getting worried about whether the bucket seats are comfortable enough for the thief.

    They are simply sue conscious.

  10. Re:Who was the idiot who just let this happen? on New Avenue For MRSA 'Superbug': Pigs · · Score: 2

    That's one of the reasons I gave up meat 12 years ago. The allowances for turning "animal" into "food" are so absurd and frankly disgusting that I went cold ... uh... tofu?

    Tofurky.

  11. Re:***TILT*** on Inventor of the Modern Pinball Machine Dies At 100 · · Score: 1

    ***TILT***

    Wizard!

  12. Re:NP on Physics Is (NP-)Hard · · Score: 1

    ...and also where N=0

    I think you meant P=0.

  13. Re:NP on Physics Is (NP-)Hard · · Score: 1

    No Problem hard? I would have thought it would be harder...

    Not Particularly.

  14. Re:What this really means on Submitting "Nuking the Fridge" To Scientific Peer Review · · Score: 1

        They could scale it down a bit. Say 10% scale. So only 8,800 pounds of TNT, and a 1/10 scale fridge with a 1/10 scale buster in it.. So, a mushroom cloud only 2.9 miles high, with a blast radius of .75 miles. That may be a bit much for their testing range. Lately, I'm pretty sure they'd have to beg for permission to light a firecracker.

    What myth would they be busting with a lit firecracker?

  15. Re:Not early enough. on Brain Scan Can Detect Autism In Infants · · Score: 1

    It needs to be detected in utero, so that the fetus can be aborted.

    -Rick Santorum

    (aka Rick with the silent 'P')

    He will be Rick the Lionhearted if elected.

  16. Re:Maybe... on MIT Lecturer Defends His Standing As Email Inventor · · Score: 1

    Only after Bruce Lee showed him how. Twice.

    And the art of communicating without email.

  17. Re:Another view of the reason. on Nigerian Scam Artists Taken For $33,000 · · Score: 1

    ...why so many of these scams originate from this area.

    I asked that same question of a missionary who had just come from Nigeria. His answer was that there is a culture there of "you're a clever individual if you can get the other fellow to pay for your lunch." For what it's worth...

    ~Loyal

    That ideology is very common all over the world. It is practically the basis of modern capitalism.

    She was robin' the hoods and keeping it. Its called good PR.

  18. Re:I don't want to attack Bill Gates. on Gates Foundation Makes Progress On Reinvented Toilets · · Score: 1

    You mean, other than Windows Me?

    Bob will get you for that.

  19. Re:How would they know you have a virus on FCC Chair Calls On ISPs To Adopt New Security Measures · · Score: 1

    They don't have to see the infection itself, just the symptoms. Frankly, ISPs could probably give a damn about viruses. It's botnets that are the problem. If they see traffic from your IP directed towards a known botnet command node then they can probably assume your machine was compromised.

    Unfortunately the issue of inspecting traffic is a tricky one, etc, etc.

    Perhaps if it were done by a piece of hardware that had no other function than that of reading headers.

  20. Re:No SQL, Know SQL on Is It Time For NoSQL 2.0? · · Score: 1

    Er...

    Um...

    Yeah...

    SQL is pronounced sequel. NoSQL 2.0 is the sequel to NoSQL 1.0?

  21. Re:Why not both? on Is It Time For NoSQL 2.0? · · Score: 1

    Yeth

    Thats a myth. I used to have a myth, but I lossst it.

  22. Re:300 baud is ok, but they forgot the parity bits on Faulty Cable To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    Yeah, 300 baud needs parity bits for the speeds they're working with!

    Baud awful.

  23. Re:Check the direction on Faulty Cable To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    Did they remember to plug it in with the direction marks pointing to the computer?

    Pretty sure they didn't buy their cables from Denon or through Amazon ... which would likely be good enough for us, but when you are building race tracks for atomic particles you generally buy them, out of necessity of the appearance of the project, from the guy who runs the $600 toilet seat store.

    Can you measure time with a $600 toilet seat? Do you get crappy results? Oh well, it looked good on paper.

  24. Re:Major nerd points lost. on Moon May Not Be As Dead As We Thought · · Score: 1

    Oh sure, hold up the 1:4:9s as the standard of beauty. Anorexic slabs. Its bad enough that they go through purge cycles. Just look at what they did to Jupiter. Now if they maintained a healthy mass...

    You didn't say that when they discovered Alice Kramden.

  25. Re:First on Anonymous Cowards, Deanonymized · · Score: 1

    First!

    Analyze this anon comment, suckers!

    Kristopeit, is that you?