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  1. Re:Data Control on 13,000 Volunteer To Put Personal Genomes Online · · Score: 1

    Hey, if slashdotters contributed, maybe they could find cures to these diseases. Oh, wait, there's that aversion to sunlight. I think I first heard of it in the H.G. Wells movie "Time Machine".

  2. Re:Data Control on 13,000 Volunteer To Put Personal Genomes Online · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. Slashdotters do not have to worry, as video game addiction, pron addiction, and living in yo momma's basement are not genetic defects. Are they? Oh,Ohhh

  3. Re:bit late on 13,000 Volunteer To Put Personal Genomes Online · · Score: 0, Troll

    Shouldn't you leave your father out of this?

  4. Re:I once put my genome online on 13,000 Volunteer To Put Personal Genomes Online · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know, we all thank you for your selfless efforts to personally finance the Purell and Kleenex industries. We applaud your heroic efforts, and call upon you to greater heights of achievement.

  5. What? on Canada Gov't Censors Parliament Hearings On YouTube · · Score: 1

    These are publicly elected officials> Doesn't that mean that everything they say, write, and do is owned by the public who elected them, who they work for? Where in the canadian law books is any of this?

  6. Re:This should be a lesson... on Hacker Destroys Avsim.com, Along With Its Backups · · Score: 1

    Uhm, Wouldn't that cut the Slashdot readership in half? And who would we get to replace commander taco?

  7. Re:It's just overpriced, is all. on IE Losing 10% Market Share Every Two Years · · Score: 1

    You got that right. They should be paying us to use it.

  8. IE slipping on IE Losing 10% Market Share Every Two Years · · Score: 1

    The reason IE is slipping, or at least not making any inroads, is that it does not offer 2 or more significant/major new features/advances at each release. If it did, many would jump on the big release. But what it is doing is no big change at all. Look and feel are samo-samo all over again. So customers do not get all starry-eyed over it. No big marketing hype available, just BS. Clearly insufficient reason for anyone to care, except MS dweebs, of course. Even MS fanboys would be hard put to come up with anything to talk about. IE certainly has plenty of defects, bugs, and errors, though.

  9. Re:please... on Unclean Military Hard Drives Sold On eBay · · Score: 1

    Actually, there are companies in the data recovery business, and they do advertise this capability. Some actually post success stories.
    All you have to do is google drive recovery. Duh.

  10. Could they release their source code? on Duke Nukem For Never · · Score: 1

    Please?

  11. Re:We are a bunch on Air Force One Flyby Causes Brief Panic In NYC · · Score: 1

    Hey. You calling our feds trolls? Insightful, that. heh heh

  12. Re:meh, easy... on Handmade vs. Commercially Produced Ethernet Cables · · Score: 1

    Hey. I don't want clean bits. Dirty bits that's what I want.
    Pron, more dirtier pron. oh, yeh.
    Dam gold cable is interfering with my sx life.

  13. Re:Trademark Scope on Taser International Sues Second Life Creator Over Virtual Replicas · · Score: 1

    Trademark is about protection from imitators in the real profits world. If LL is doing sales, then trademarks work there.

  14. Re:Allright!! on Skin-Based Display Screens From Nanotech Tattoos · · Score: 1

    Um, I know this is ways past where a slashdotter can get to, but have you checked to see if she is actually a girl? Do you know how to tell? oh, yeh, pron.

  15. Re:Camouflage on Skin-Based Display Screens From Nanotech Tattoos · · Score: 1

    Actually, you end up with a missile attracting target on your back end.

  16. Re:Allright!! on Skin-Based Display Screens From Nanotech Tattoos · · Score: 1

    Like you actually have a grlfrnd. Your on /, fr gds sake!

  17. Re:no wonder he was unemployed.... on The FBI Has a Trojan To Watch You · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Um, did they catch Bush? Because I am pretty sure he got away.
    So, I am just saying, they do not even catch all the dummies, just the ones who they have the manpower to, who are not working for them.

  18. Re:no wonder he was unemployed.... on The FBI Has a Trojan To Watch You · · Score: 1

    You forgot to tell him how to go outside. You just assumed he had been there before and remembered the route. You have to give him a map, just like in all his video games.

    Route:
    Walk up the basement stairs (in your mama's house).
    Open up the basement door.
    Get sunglasses from your mother.
    Ask her which door leads outside.
    Ask her to unlock that door.
    Open the door.
    Go outside. (probably after ingesting sufficient valiums)

  19. Re:fun with statistics on Sunspot Activity Continues To Drop · · Score: 1

    The material world understands seconds just fine. They get them at discount alls and sales all the time.
    Heh heh.

  20. Re:nah. on Could the Internet Be Taken Down In 30 Minutes? · · Score: 4, Funny

    The stars may not survive, but their videos could in a datastore underground. And your computer could survive in a bomb shelter. Underground. You know, where you live. In your mama's basement.
    Heh heh

  21. Re:Surprise? on Reliability of Computer Memory? · · Score: 1

    I design computers for a living. When I was working at Dell my first 3 systems I got from the production floor did not work when they arrived. IT tried to get them to work to install them in my cube, but could not do it.
    So I have had plenty of experience with computers, and it was mixed, to say the least. At least the big guys (Dell, HP, IBM) test there systems against a lot of different memory sticks and makers, to get a good try at it. But I have had bad memory sticks.

  22. Manly Finish on How Do I Make My Netbook More Manly? · · Score: 1

    You are perhaps familiar with the gray crackle finish on real toolboxes?
    Or the color of an old army compass that has aged from coppery to antique green?
    Race car flames?
    Hunting/fishing scenes?
    Or just Camo it.

  23. Re:there goes another civilization with a Hadron s on Huge Supernova Baffles Scientists · · Score: 1

    Well, at least they found out exactly how much the God particle weighed, just before their hadron collider blew them up. Know-it-alls.

  24. Re:Whodunit? on Huge Supernova Baffles Scientists · · Score: 1

    You are mistakenly assuming that the CowboyNealiens are technologically advanced, which would mean intellectually advanced. Look around her. Certainly no sign of that. This is Slashdot, the bottom of the intellectual heap. and CowboyNeal lives here.
    What were you thinking?

  25. Re:Don't throw out your textbooks yet on Huge Supernova Baffles Scientists · · Score: 2, Informative

    Stellar elements ratios involve the unknown starting ratios. We assume that a star of a given age had predecessor stars of a particular generation, with their elements ratios that they gave up in gas clouds that the star of interest was formed out of. One of the obvious mistakes in the current theory of stellar composition is that fusion stops at Iron. Yes, elements above Iron take more energy than they produce, but that just means that they are a negative contributor to the overall energy state of the star, not that they do not fuse. They will not be formed in high percentages, but they will be formed. So the theory of elements ratios needs to be re-calculated to get what is formed past Iron, and how much Iron, etc is used up in the process. A purely statistical calculation. This is just one example of poor logical thought processes in scientists, acting like the negative energy production is some kind of law that enforces production rules. All our current earthly fusion attempts are negative energy producing. This does not mean that they do not fuse, it just means that they do not fuse a lot, or self-sustaining mode. The post Iron fuse process is not self-sustaining, but it does not have to be, as there is a lot of energy locally available to power it. This does have a significant effect on the core of a star, due to its makeup of heavier, denser elements than Iron, as well as Iron. Where do you think the Uranium, etc in the earth came from? Astronomers assume it all is formed in the novas and supernovas, but some of it comes earlier. It is not an energy contributor to novas and supernovas, either, but they do not say it cannot happen then because of that.
    Another relevant mistake is that the stellar precursor gas is of uniform composition. In reality, it can be from more than one generation of star. One reason for this is that bigger stars live much shorter lives, so that parts of a star forming cloud can be contaminated by stars formed out of it which have then supernovaâ(TM)d contributing more gas to it to form stars which are actually mixed generation stars. This must have occurred for every generation of stars except the first big stars. But, more importantly, different sizes of predecessor stars end up producing gas of different compositions for starting new stars.
    Also, the stellar life cycle theories do not explain what happens to Lithium. Lithium is formed early on in stellar fusion, and is not found nearly as much in old stars as is expected. One period where stellar evolution is not currently understood, and where the Lithium actually disappears, is when the young star blows off its surrounding gas cloud, making it visible for the first time in its life. My theory? That in-falling matter finally hits the young, Lithium-rich star with enough energy to set off a self-sustaining Lithium fusion explosion on the star's surface. this shock wave not only propagates through the star, fusing most of the Lithium in the star, and using it up, it also blasts the obscuring gas cloud away from the star, ending the growth phase of the star, and revealing it to the universe. Kind of like the star comes out of the womb.
    As long as we do not have a clear, well-understood total life cycle of a star, we will continue to have issues with stellar composition, and stellar age calculations from stellar composition, and age-related events in the stellar lifetime, like the end event nova/supernova. We currently do not even understand the Oxygen levels in our own sun right now, and theory calculates a level way off from what it appears to be. We have to get this stuff down to an accuracy of better than a factor of two to be calling out stuff like novas with an accuracy of better than a factor of two. And since Lithium and Oxygen do not calculate out to within a factor of two right now, we should not be stating things without including an uncertainty figure, which Phd scientists tenured at universities are loath to do. They tend to make statements as if they were fact, making them feel like big, knowledgeable men, when