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  1. Re:Again...??? on Pierre Deligne Wins Abel Prize For Contributions To Algebraic Geometry · · Score: 1

    Why can't these guys just graciously accept the prize, without claiming or implying they don't deserve it?

    What he said was !=0, or twern't nothing.

  2. Re: I suspect this comment was on purpose on Pierre Deligne Wins Abel Prize For Contributions To Algebraic Geometry · · Score: 1

    Math humor is the best humor.

    I don't know about that. I often find it has the power to divide a room.

    And this medal has the power to ward off the plague of bad arithmetic.

  3. Re:Possible? on Possible Chemical Weapons Use In Syria · · Score: 1

    Just because we can't fix all the problems at once, doesn't mean we shouldn't try and help with the ones we can.

    I think a good place to start is the problems that exist within our own borders. Once we got those figured out, King O and start working on policing the world.

    Kinging O would encourage him.

  4. Re:Libel Fines on UK Bloggers Could Face Libel Fines Unless Registered As Press · · Score: 2

    If the people wanted this then why did the government have to vote on this at 10:30 at night?

    Dancing with Czars was over?

    Because that is when the people wanted it.

  5. Re:Disappeared? on Did Large Eyes Lead To Neanderthals' Demise? · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Disappeared? on Did Large Eyes Lead To Neanderthals' Demise? · · Score: 1

    Neanderthals weren't a distinct culture. They were a different species from our ancestors at the time.

    A big chunk of the world's population have a significant proportion of Neanderthal genes.

    Citation needed. I studied Anthropology in the 90s, and I don't think there's credible proof that modern humans have Neanderthal genes in any significant amount, or that Neanderthals mated with our ancestors at all.

    Mice genes on the other hand ...

  7. Re:Obligatory Dupe on Did Large Eyes Lead To Neanderthals' Demise? · · Score: 1

    obviously that's "breeding" program not "breading" program, unless the Neanderthals want to bake bread and cookies out of humans.

    Are these cookies made from real Girl Scouts?

  8. Re:Everything gave us civilization on How Beer Gave Us Civilization · · Score: 1

    . Apparently fermenting shit is really easy, except for, perhaps industrial man. The problem is that you're all perfectionists. 10000 years ago people weren't so damn picky.

    "As drunk as I am, I can tell this is shit."

  9. Re:Everything gave us civilization on How Beer Gave Us Civilization · · Score: 3, Funny

    Except that soda is usually made in a local factory from local water supplies, that may not be properly treated. Coke in Pakistan for many years was made with polluted and unsafe water, sickening many drinkers before there was a huge public outcry.

    So there was a Pakistani Bloomberg?

  10. Re:Surprise!!! on Raspberry Pi As Hardware Backdoor · · Score: 1

    You hit the nail on the head. It's just fear mongering and there is nothing new to see here.

    I find your lack of faith in the Fear disturbing.

  11. Re:Holy crap? on National Security Letters Ruled Unconstitutional, Banned · · Score: 2

    How is this not all over the front of every news site's homepage?

    When someone can be judge, jury, executioner, and managing editor ...

  12. Re:Retina Scanners... on Doctors Bypass Biometric Scanners With Fake Fingers · · Score: 1

    Now doctors just give each other the finger.

    The Digita Impudenta security breach was known to the Romans.

  13. Re:Metal blades? on Too Much Gold Delays World's Fastest Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Surely somebody mentioned blade servers and reporter did not know the difference between that and metal blade.

    Or Ginsu.

  14. Re:Arcfour on Cryptographers Break Commonly Used RC4 Cipher · · Score: 1

    Compression is deterministic. Compress the same data, you get the same output.

    42

  15. Re:MasterTroll on Ask Slashdot: Mac To Linux Return Flow? · · Score: 1

    Your trollcraft is strong, you named every OS, praising it whilst simultaneously deriding it. I give you 32 troll points for what will likely be highly polarized responses and self-sustaining conjecture and disagreement.

    Master of Troll con Dough, and not just another Trollack.

  16. Re:Hoax on Ukrainian Attack Dolphins Are On the Loose · · Score: 2

    This entire thing is fabricated, anybody with 2 brain cells to rub together doesn't even need to RTFA, it's obvious from the summary but even from the headline.

    That was the problem; their brain cells were rubbing together.

  17. Re:A Sad Day for Canada on Canadian File Sharing Plaintiff Admits To Copyright Trolling · · Score: 1

    Really? When was the last time you heard of a copyright troll admitting to wrongdoing in the US?

    If you actually read TFA, Canpire actually admits that acting civilly and reasonably with infringers is better and more effective than being total dicks. Though only time will tell whether this is a ruse to build goodwill, and it does demonstrate that they are, in fact, behaving like dicks with their bullshit litigious actions.

    (fun sidebar: the word "Canpire" autocorrects to "Vampire" on my phone)

    They call it a smartphone.

  18. Re:My first thought on Defcad.com Wants To Be the Google of 3D-Printable Guns · · Score: 1

    is who would name their kid "Code". My second thought is "duh, I'm on Slashdot".

    Maybe they meant Cody?

  19. Re:I find this rather nauseous... on The Science of Hugo Chavez's Long Term Embalming · · Score: 1

    But is it utilitarian?

    Is visiting any relic, site, or exhibit utilitarian?

    (The answer is, of course: Perhaps. An architect might study architecture in person while abroad, a painter might find some utility in seeing some works in person, and an embalmer might find utility in viewing a guy who has been dead for decades.)

    Your point about embalmers is excellent.

  20. Re: CUZ WE HATE THAT WHICH WE DO NOT KNOW !! on Why All the Higgs Hate? It's a 'Vanilla' Boson · · Score: 1

    Zero spin higgs, the new low fat.

    From the no spin zone.

  21. Re:Discovery and limitations on Why All the Higgs Hate? It's a 'Vanilla' Boson · · Score: 1

    which fields?

    Mrs. Fields.

  22. Re:Only for those with a short attention span on Why All the Higgs Hate? It's a 'Vanilla' Boson · · Score: 1

    You never went on a holiday trip with kids.

    Are we having Uncertainty yet?

  23. Re:Let me fix that for you... on Why All the Higgs Hate? It's a 'Vanilla' Boson · · Score: 2

    The disappointment in the high energy physics community is over what comes next. For many decades, high energy physicists have been building bigger and bigger colliders. Each collider has left some unanswered questions justifying the next giant collider. If the standard model seems to fit all the data and there's no clear question to be answered by the next collider, then what's next for high energy physics? All the "new physics," dark matter and dark energy, is coming from astrophysics these days, and they need telescopes, not colliders.

    Colliderscopes?

  24. Re:I find this rather nauseous... on The Science of Hugo Chavez's Long Term Embalming · · Score: 3, Funny

    Good old Jeremy Bentham makes an entertaining visit...

    But is it utilitarian?

  25. Re:Only thing bees need to remember on Caffeine Improves Memory In Bees · · Score: 1

    They just want to get Americanized and just hang out.