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  1. Re:Professor of Woo? on Reform the PhD System or Close It Down · · Score: 1

    If I wanted the thoughts and discussion of a proponent of a Demon Haunted World, I would go to BioLogos, not where I go for 'News for Nerds'. Really, Templeton Prize winners' wacky notions of reality are available all over the web, if you bother to explore a bit. I'm reading Slashdot for a reason, and Woo isn't what I'm looking for.

  2. Professor of Woo? on Reform the PhD System or Close It Down · · Score: 1, Informative

    Before going to the article, I quick checked Wikipedia for "Mark C. Taylor".
    First sentence:

    Mark C. Taylor (born 13 December 1945) is a philosopher of religion and cultural critic who has published more than twenty books on theology, philosophy, art and architecture, media, technology, economics, and the natural sciences.

    I didn't read the article.

  3. Re:Not as hard as magnets on Geologists Say California May Be Next · · Score: 1

    The Earth moves one way, the Earth moves the other way.
    You can't explain that.

  4. Re:With all these recent findings... on Laser Scribing Promises More Efficient Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    "findings"? What "findings", exactly?

    The research project will continue for a three year period, by the end of which which the scientists hope to have established the scientific basis for their laser-ablation technique.

    Wow! Lasers! This is the kind of news I get up early for. Will there be film at 11:00?

  5. Re:Thorium Reactors on Mideast Turmoil and the Push For Clean Energy · · Score: 1

    heh. I'm unsuccessfully scratching my head trying to remember the book, but it was classic science fiction of the good ol' space opera variety. The adolescent hero's adventure was all about striking it rich by finding huge thorium deposits on Mercury. Written in the 1950s.

  6. Re:Polluting on Global Observer's First Hydrogen-Powered Flight · · Score: 1

    Water vapor comes and goes.
    CO2 stays a long, long time.

  7. Re:a new personality! on Stars Remain In Their Usual Places; People Panic · · Score: 1

    Not only do I get a new one, it's a relatively unused one, Ophiucus!
    Shiny!!!

  8. Re:Wow on Latest Mars Photos Show Frosty Landscapes, Ancient Lakebeds · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "“Holden crater has some of the best-exposed lake deposits and ancient megabreccia known on Mars,” said HiRISE’s principal investigator, professor Alfred McEwen of the UA’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. ”Both contain minerals that formed in the presence of water and mark potentially habitable environments. [...]“"

    "Meaningless"? Blown out of proportion? I don't think so.

  9. Re:Compiling the kernel [baud] on The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders · · Score: 1

    When new-fangled speeds like that became available, a baud was no longer == 1 bit per tone per second, and I objected to the sloppy language. I remember - uphill both ways...

  10. Re:Deniers... on Global Warming's Silver Lining For the Arctic Rim · · Score: 2, Informative

    I wonder if people using the term "deniers" will ever stop setting up strawman and accept that people are questioning the causes of climate change, not whether the climate actually changes.

    INHOFE: I think I was right on that, and I do believe — first off, let’s keep in mind, though, what the issue is. It’s not whether or not we’re going into a global warming period. We were. We’re not now.

    You know, God’s still up there. We’re now going through a cooling spell. And the whole issue there was is it man-made gases, anthropogenic gases, CO2, methane. I don’t think so

  11. Long thin tail? on Google Is Going Postal In Sweden · · Score: 1

    Google is trying to fatten up the long thin tail.

  12. Re:The reason everyone is lactose intolerant... on The Effect of Internal Bacteria On the Human Body · · Score: 2, Informative
    WTF?!

    [...] everyone is lactose intolerant[...]

    Anyone who is lactose intolerant simply does not have the mutation allowing the production of lactase beyond the juvenile stage of developement. It's a mutation, you either have it, or you don't. No bacteria involved.

  13. Re:They're called *VANDALS* not hunters on Hunters Shot Down Google Fiber · · Score: 5, Informative

    They're idiots who shouldn't be allowed off a supervised range with a gun. Shooting at a highly elevated target with no (likely) backstop but the sky is the height of firearms irresponsibility.

    Just a few years back, some yahoo in Jersey let loose a few .30 cal rounds at a soaring turkey vulture. A couple miles away, a guy working on the roof of his suburban home took the round and died on the spot.

    If you're not certain of your field of fire, you don't squeeze. Period.

  14. Re:vaccines on Family To Receive $1.5M+ In Vaccine-Autism Award · · Score: 1

    Anyone who can be irked to actually research it.

    Tiresome of me to point it out, I know, but I do not think that word means what you think it means.

    Really.

  15. Re:Sounds fair on New Copyright Lawsuits Go After Porn On Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    We need to take our country back!

  16. Re:So where's the "close" button this time? on Ubuntu 10.10 Beta Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    Last week, somebody handed me a paper to read, but the damned thing is upside-down. I'm still trying to figure it out.

  17. Re:Oh sure on Everything You Need To Know About USB 3.0 · · Score: 1

    The first mention of Light Peak in the article is a link to an overview at Intel:
    http://techresearch.intel.com/articles/None/1813.htm

  18. Re:100 Million Sensational Slashdot Headlines! on 100 Million Facebook Pages Leaked On Torrent Site · · Score: 3, Funny

    The other day, I used a wrong option for wget and downloaded the internet. Maybe I should post it on an Internet file-sharing site.

  19. Re:Works out to $30000 per worker on Feds To Help Train 50,000 Health IT Workers · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Take that $150M, divide it by the 50K workers, and come up with a bill of $30000 per worker."

    You may have left your sliderule out in the rain.

  20. Star Trek tech!? on Geostationary GPS Satellite Galaxy 15 Out of Control · · Score: 1

    "...SES officials believe they have the resources, including teleport facilities..."

    Wait, what!? Who are these people, really?

  21. Re:I can't blame them on Spam Causes Microsoft To Kill Newsgroups · · Score: 1

    "most of the groups are filled with junk"

    Quite true. There are >40,000 groups in my .newsrc, but the handfull of groups I subscribe to have very little spam, and that is mostly easily filtered out. I think it just might depend on what groups one is familiar with. Certainly nobody cares about "most of them". Most of what is on the Web is junk, too.

  22. Re:Get back to me... on Second Inquiry Exonerates Climatic Research Unit · · Score: 1

    As that towering Texan figure of 21st century science, Dr. MacElroy said, "Somebody's got to stand up to the experts!"

  23. The next Big Thing on The End of the PC Era and Apple's Plan To Survive · · Score: 1

    The paperless office.

  24. Re:Bad things to say about chiropractors? on In the UK, a Victory For Free Speech · · Score: 1

    um... I thought that the issue in this particular proceeding was another judge's decision that by Singh's use of the word "bogus" he meant that chiropracters were intentionally dishonest (libelous), rather than an opinion (fair comment) of the scientific merits of chiropractic.

  25. Re:Yes on UK ID Cards Could Be Upgraded To Super ID Cards · · Score: 1

    This is why I like cash. It has some other guy's picture on it.