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  1. Does not show cause, only shows involvement on Magnetic Field In Meteorite Provides Clues About Formation of Solar System · · Score: 1

    RTFA does not use the word cause, but it does say "magnetic fields were large enough to be important in the accretion process". Wrong. The chondrules cooled in a strong magnetic field, but that does not mean that they were formed in space. There are just too many assumptions made, and leaps of faith, in the article to believe the scientists involved had impartiality. Bias showing in the cooling state of scientific hypothesizing. What it shows is that the chondrules cooled in a strong magnetic field. End of story. It does show that the chondrules had an interesting life, something the scientists were energized about, since maybe the scientists did not have an interesting life themselves.

  2. Re:Another 15 minutes on Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment · · Score: 1

    Murder rates go up and down. Like the climate. London, Europe, Asia all got "fixed" by the plague. Later the "Spanish" flu again reduced the world population density. Now we have screamed past 7 billion, and I figure we are going to get another plague or something to adjust the population densities again. (Notice the "Spanish" flu was a result of the war shipping soldiers all over)
    In the mean time, all of North Africa is popping off. And then there is the Crimea / Ukraine. I am expecting another world war.
    Honduras and Jamaica are not racist, they are the edge of the drug wars, with dealers and high crime rates. Because drugs come from down south a lot, where they are grown (cocaine, pot).
    Drugs come from Afghanistan and the surrounding area (opium), and the jihadists in that area are big time into the drug trade.
    Yes, I am saying that a great deal of violence is tied to drugs. This is true in the US as well as everywhere else.
    London had a high murder rate, and a high population density of poor people (slums).
    I personally recently was driving around a huge Central American city (Guadalajara, 8 mill), and poor people in the slums were walking around the streets with hammers looking for cars driving thru to rob (hammers are far cheaper than guns, legal, and easier to get). Scary.
    England has for a very long time ad a much higher crime rate, and many say that it is because gun laws mean people cannot protect themselves (only criminals have guns). Now that terrorists use big knives, it is getting crazy.
    Poor people have far more crime in their areas, at least partially because law enforcement does not want to go into dangerous areas, and partially because law enforcement does not give a shit about poor people. Maybe also there is some racial prejudice in law enforcement. For sure there are a lot of poor people without jobs looking to make a buck.
    But in the US, the vast majority of criminals are drunks and druggies (at least according to the criminals). Messed up people.
    I am very familiar with the poor, We were dirt poor when I was a kid. We lived in someone's one-car garage.
    I am very familiar with druggies and alcoholics - I have 29 years clean and sober.
    I am very familiar with cops gone bad - I was in witness protection against killer cops.
    I am just not that familiar with racism - I am a white male.

  3. Re:Another 15 minutes on Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment · · Score: 1

    Hey. You actually did a good job on that. But the murder rate in the US is not the murder rate in the world. War is rising. Racial, religious, and genocidal rates are up? in the world. Putin is bringing back Stalin. Kim is crazy in Korea. The whole muslim jihad is out of control.
    So while abolishing leaded gas and increasing gun ownership may have decreased US murder rates, the world is going to hell in a hand basket.
    And the murder rate in the US is not the local murder rate. While suburban / etc murder rates are down, big city murder rates are up in the US. You know, where the high density populations are? Washington, DC, Chicago, New Orleans, LA, Detroit, etc.
    And the news is keeping some of the murder rate stuff secret. The major drug gangs are increasing their violence. And they are moving northward from the border, making many cities far more dangerous.
    By the way, life sucks.

  4. Re:Another 15 minutes on Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, you are very mistaken. There are real murderers on Facebook, craigslist, ...
    So real death threats are out there on the internet.
    The last time I got threatened (phone call), I knew the people doing the threatening had killed three times already.
    (By the way, they got away with it, they were cops)
    Just Google Facebook 6 murder and read on for the latest on that.

    If you put rats in a closed space with unlimited food, they will eat and procreate until the space is overflowing, and then go crazy because of the overcrowding and kill each other.
    Just try and convince me humans have not already crossed the same threshold.

  5. Re:Getting trolled on Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment · · Score: 2

    The ability to "handle" slashdot "discussions" is not exactly a good criteria for anything or anyone.
    Now if we had discussions and reasonable conversations on slashdot, that would be a whole different ballgame.

  6. Monkey ebola is not human ebola on Ebola Nose Spray Vaccine Protects Monkeys · · Score: 1

    There are currently five known variants of Ebola. One affects monkeys, the other four affect humans. Humans do not catch the monkey variant (Ebola Reston).
    Chimps and Gorillas (Great apes?) do catch Ebola, and get wiped out by it.
    So making a vaccine against monkey Ebola may do humans no good at all.
    Ebola-Zaire, Ebola-Sudan, Ebola-Côte d'Ivoire, Ebola-Reston, and Ebola-Bundibugyo are the variants currently known.
    More bad news, Ebola mutates very quickly. All variants appear to have evolved from an original 70 years ago?
    So we could run into the same difficulties we currently have with flu vaccine.

  7. Re:Not to worry! on Ebola Nose Spray Vaccine Protects Monkeys · · Score: 1

    Obama took much of the vaccine development money and redirected it to useless bs years ago. This had nothing to do with the Repubs.

  8. Re:This is safe? on Ebola Nose Spray Vaccine Protects Monkeys · · Score: 1

    We do not know what makes the ebola virus dangerous. Most of the genes in it are completely NOT understood.
    Ebola is a very small virus, relatively speaking.
    Ebola's methods are not understood.
    Fortunately, you do not have to know or understand the virus to make a vaccine.

  9. Re:Smart move moron on Nearly 2,000 Chicago Flights Canceled After Worker Sets Fire At Radar Center · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apparently you did nod read the lead. He fired them.

  10. Re:Convenient? For whom? on Ask Slashdot: Linux-Friendly Desktop x86 Motherboard Manufacturers? · · Score: 1

    I do not believe Sandy Bridge and later processors are supported by any BIOS other than UEFI, so if you want the latest, you have to do UEFI.

  11. Re:Intel on Ask Slashdot: Linux-Friendly Desktop x86 Motherboard Manufacturers? · · Score: 1

    All new CPUs / chipsets REQUIRE the latest distros to work well.
    An example is the driver for the Ivy Bridge EDAC is only in kernel 3.13 or so, and without it you can get a lot of spurious memory errors reported.
    Also true of firmware and drivers.
    And the distros do NOT include the latest drivers, so you have to work at it.

  12. Re:That wasn't the question on Supreme Court OKs Stop and Search Based On Anonymous 911 Tips · · Score: 1

    By rival drug gang, are you referring to the police, DEA, the Bloods, the Crips, or some other government agency like the big Mexican cartels?
    The way this violates his rights is that he cannot confront his accuser in a court of law (as if we actually had courts of law, instead of kangaroo courts).
    And it was probably his ex-girlfriend, who dumped him and wanted more satisfaction. Or a hooker he stiffed for the cost of the blow job.
    Or a girl he honked at.

  13. Re:Cue NSA infilatration in 3...2.... on Snowden Used the Linux Distro Designed For Internet Anonymity · · Score: 1

    Isn't the phrase "programmers acting strange" redundant?

  14. Re:down to a "T" on Ask Slashdot: Are You Apocalypse-Useful? · · Score: 1

    Heh heh. He claimed to be a man. Heh heh. But he still lives in his mama's basement, is on the internet and playing games all his "conscious" hours, and doesn't have a job. And his chances of procreation are nil.

  15. Real climate science versus McGill "science" on Study Rules Out Global Warming Being a Natural Fluctuation With 99% Certainty · · Score: 1

    The climate cycles on Earth are hundreds of thousands to millions of years long, with smaller variations separated by hundreds to thousands of years. Lesser and major ice ages are examples. So the Lovejoy McGill study is irrelevant in terms of climate science. Climate science is something very few climate "scientists" do. That said, cutting down forests and burning forests is removing a major source of carbon (dioxide) consumption (carbon sink). So CO2 variations (increases for now) are man-made. How CO2 influences the earth's temperature or climate is still not well understood. An example of that is the latest IPCC report, which says that CO2 is only a small driver of Earth's temperature. That is because (climate pseudo-scientists did not realize) CO2 reflects sunlight away from the Earth as well as trapping some of Earth's radiation inside the atmosphere. This is a mostly balancing effect.
    If climate "scientists" were doing science, they would tell us that planting trees and forests could reverse the CO2 increase trend (trees eat CO2 and release oxygen). Banning long-term clear-cutting would reduce the CO2 increase trend. Banning slash-and-burn clearing would greatly reduce the CO2 increase trend. Forests regulate the climate in their region, not just under the forest canopy. Tree and forest planting is a simple, easy, low-tech, immediate solution to most if not all of the CO2 increase trend. That does not mean that climate change would stop. A large driver of climate change is the cycle of warm and cold water rivers in the ocean. Their paths appear to have two stable patterns. The paths may currently be flipping from the one stable setting to the other. There does not appear to be anything we can do to affect that.
    Another problem is the "storage" of CO2 in the oceans. Oceanic CO2 is stored below the surface, until the below is full up. When the top of the storage level reaches the surface of the oceans, the stored CO2 is released very quickly. The level appears to be temperature driven, and has reached the surface in the Antarctic, with large regions bubbling furiously. This CO2 release could be a catastrophe to animal life on the surface. The saturation of the oceans with CO2 is already a major catastrophe to oceanic life, although there has not been significant study of how much CO2 acidity affects the population of various species. The only way we could fix the oceanic CO2 problem would be to reduce atmospheric CO2 (plant trees), plant forests of green plants in the shallows, and plant floating forests of green plants in the open seas. This would be a very long term project (centuries).
    Another way to reduce the atmospheric and oceanic CO2 temporarily is to dump iron dust, iron oxide, and iron sulfate into the ocean. The resulting algae and plankton blooms eat CO2 and feed the oceanic food chain. But that CO2 quickly gets released. so it may not help in the long term.

  16. Re:Knowing your tools on Seven Habits of Highly Effective Unix Admins · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apparently you have not interacted with management much, or you would not have restricted your answer to marketing...

  17. Cops said may be Suicide on Police Say No Foul Play In Death of Bitcoin Exchange CEO Autumn Radtke · · Score: 1

    A Tulsa man was found with hands and feet tied, and was decapitated. The police called it suicide. So I do not know what these cops mean when they say suicide. Cops called Hillary Clinton's old lawyer boyfriend's death a suicide, when he died of a gunshot wound with no gun found.

  18. So Biden is not a person? on Chimpanzee "Personhood" Lawsuits Fail In New York Courts · · Score: 1

    So Biden is not a person?

  19. You fools! on Make Way For "Mutant" Crops As GM Foods Face Opposition · · Score: 1

    The seed mutations and GM modifications are not necessarily the big deal. The big deal is that the plants have been given improved resistance to herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides, as well as the ability to make their own. So the farmer uses more and nastier chemicals on ther plants, and you wind up eating more nasty chemicals. Then you mutate into brain-dead closed-minded idiots. Oh, wait, too late. Haven't you seen the studies of lab rats, etc who have been feed gmo corn? They look horrible.

  20. What about the rest of the story? on UK Telcos Went Above and Beyond To Cooperate With GCHQ · · Score: 1

    China, Russia, Japan, Korea, Israel, Egypt, Syria, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Greece? These guys have been intercepting phone conversations, bugging people,following people, and spying / surveiling a very long time. At least some of them started out doing it to "criminals", alleged and otherwise, but you got to know the programs had spillage and collateral damage right from the start. And what gov operation didn't grow? What gov operation didn't stay clean? Most all of these guys are dirty, it is just a question of how dirty.

  21. Do other high tech countries have data caps? on Top US Lobbyist Wants Broadband Data Caps · · Score: 1

    What are the data caps like in Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Australia?

  22. Re:I hypothesize.. on Just Thinking About Science Triggers Moral Behavior · · Score: 1

    that is only the catholic version, where you can buy forgiveness

  23. Re:Ancient Roman First Post is about to revolution on Ancient Roman Concrete Is About To Revolutionize Modern Architecture · · Score: 1

    I don't understand. Why don't those fly-ash-challenged countries just burn more flies? Are flies in that short a supply?

  24. Re:Danger. on Brian Krebs Gets SWATted · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ranking states for Brady and violence is meaningless, as data show. Only ranking high violence areas versus low violence areas gives meaningful data. So ranking Chicago, DC, Detroit, and other large cities with high crime rates against large cities with low crime rates is an interesting comparison. London, as well as England and Great Britain, have high violent crime rates and strong gun laws. Are there large cities in the US with low crime rates? There are in Europe: Zurich, Bern, and Geneva, Switzerland, for example. If you do that in the US, you get confused, because Houston has a high violent crime rate, for example. It just is not obvious.

  25. Re:Drunk on AirBurr UAV Navigates By Crashing Into Things · · Score: 1

    Um, your ex-wife...