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  1. Re:Having too much DATA can distract you from info on Having Too Much Information Can Narrow Your Focus · · Score: 1

    The best example of anti-information currently available is of course from our federal government, courtesy of wikileaks. Yes, I am talking about the afgan war documents. And the feds were feeding that crap to themselves.
    Yum yum

  2. Having too much DATA can distract you from info on Having Too Much Information Can Narrow Your Focus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We do not create much information each day. Information is actually useful stuff.
    What we create tons of each day is useless data and distractions from reality.
    Tons of BS and actual anti-information (lies and errors).
    Tons of anti-data.
    Tons of anti-reality.

    Like for instance the title of this thread...

    or most anything else on slashdot...

  3. This is why they can't catch Bin Laden on CIA Software Developer Goes Open Source, Instead · · Score: 1

    They are too worked up about what is their territory to work with anyone else, or use anyone else's info / software. They are too busy marking their territory, like the dumb dogs they are.
    I can just hear them now:
    Hey, git away from there. That's my tree.
    It's not your tree. I just marked it.
    Hey guys, did you just hear an explosion?
    I don't care if you did just mark it. It's in my yard.
    Does anyone smell smoke?
    I don't care if it is in your yard. Just sniff it. You'll know I have been marking it. It's my tree.
    Do you hear sirens?
    It's in my yard, it's my tree. Now get out of my yard.
    Is that gunfire?

  4. Re:Here's an explanation for you: on Market Data Firm Spots the Tracks of Bizarre Robot Trading · · Score: 1

    it sounds more like someone is doing botnet attacks on the exchanges

  5. Re:The guy is a nasty, vicious idiot. on Why You Never Ask the Designers For a Favor · · Score: 1

    Actually, he is a TOXIC prick.
    Danger, poisonous, avoid at all cost.

  6. Re:So what on SFLC Wants To Avoid Death by Code · · Score: 1

    The problem isn't airworthiness, but crashworthiness, fire safety.
    And airplanes would be far safer in flight if they were made wit ha fair bit of titanium. But titanium is not as cheap as aluminum, so the airplane manufacturers do not bother. No, safety is not on the top of their priority list. Cost (Profits) is.
    The people who are supposed to make and enforce the safety rules against the airplane manufacturers and airlines (the FAA) are far too closely tied to the industry to be able to regulate it.
    Many safety committees and organizations have made many safety proposals to the industry for many decades without much success.
    Many of the current safety regulations were proposed, but not made into regulations, until bad crashes involving them forced the FAA to do the right thing.
    You do not have a clue about what you are talking about.

  7. Re:So what on SFLC Wants To Avoid Death by Code · · Score: 1

    Wait a minute. Did he just say airliners are fixed for known safety issues?
    I call BS on this one.
    Most airplanes are full of foam plastic walls and flamable seating, an old problem airplane manufacturers refuse to fix.
    Many similar issues exist.

  8. Re:Numerous advantages on Warships May Get Lasers For Close-In Defense · · Score: 1

    Actually the laser can be used in cities like Israel needs to use it, to shoot down incoming mortars and rockets, where bullets keep on going until they fall back to the ground, occassionaly getting there through civilians.
    Just make sure there is no Israeli aircraft in the direction of fire, and there you go...

  9. Re:Powered by wind on Warships May Get Lasers For Close-In Defense · · Score: 1

    No, Actually the windmills need to shoot down incoming birds...

  10. Re:Ah, better to crack'em down. on Cyberwarrior Shortage Threatens US Security · · Score: 1

    Deja Boo Hoo

  11. Re:Sink it. on Pacific Trash Vortex To Become Habitable Island? · · Score: 1

    glue lawyers to them

  12. Re:No surprise... on Given Truth, the Misinformed Believe Lies More · · Score: 1

    Hey, wait a minute. He just said the truth! on Slashdot! Kick him off! Doesn't he know slashdot is the source and heaven of misinformation? What do you think powers fanboys?

  13. Re:Missing the point... on Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy? · · Score: 1

    Exactly what market was ever saturated by pirates? I want to know. I am calling BS on this one.
    Maybe in China, India, Asia, whatever.
    But since when do real investors work with anything hat is only or mostly sold over there?
    You pulled this one out of your ass, Jack.
    Piracy is only of stuff no one has any more money to spend on, as they already spent everything on the crap they wanted to spend on.

  14. Re:Clean them on New Batfish Species Found Under Gulf Oil Spill · · Score: 1

    Shh. You going to give away batman's secret identity!

  15. They already found the disease that affects refs on Parasite Correlated With World Cup Success · · Score: 1

    It's called blindness...

  16. DVL on Unusual, Obscure, and Useful Linux Distros · · Score: 1

    I'm not clear on this one...
    Do you think that Damn Vulnerable Linux is more vulnerable than your Vista install?
    What are you, a MS fanboy or something?

  17. Is quantum mechanics real? or wave equvalence? on Inertial Mass Separate From Gravitational Mass? · · Score: 1

    Has anyone ever come up with a wave equation or quantum equation that predicts that particles bounce off each other?

  18. Re:Dark matter? on Inertial Mass Separate From Gravitational Mass? · · Score: 1

    Careful there. Dark matter is a religion, and you are taking it in vain...

  19. Re:New species! on New Estimate Suggests 5.5M Species On Earth, Not 30-100M · · Score: 1

    You forgot about c-sections, some of them never touch a pussy...

  20. Re:New species! on New Estimate Suggests 5.5M Species On Earth, Not 30-100M · · Score: 1

    But if they don't reproduce, how come there are so many of them? Is it like socks reproduce? Or dust bunnies?
    And, I mean, they do have mothers...

  21. New species! on New Estimate Suggests 5.5M Species On Earth, Not 30-100M · · Score: 1

    I just discovered an undocumented new species! The basement-dwelling slashdot geek nerd.

  22. Sun's periodicity? on The Sun's Odd Behavior · · Score: 1

    The Sun's sunspots actually have many periods. ~11 yrs, ~22, ~87, ~210, ~2300, ~6000 yrs. The overall sunspot count is a combination of these periods. So where are we in all of these cycles?

    Sunspots are actually cold spots on the Sun's "surface" (photosphere). The Sun has many other layers (core, radiative, convective, photosphere, chromosphere, corona). I am sure that each layer has it's own phenomenon, with their own periodicities. Each layer, its features, and their periodicities, influence the layers around it, at least. The photosphere has, in addition to sunspots, granules and prominences. Do these also have periodicities? (yes, but we do not know them, and maybe aren't even looking for them yet) Because the Sun's overall output is the combination of all of them, not just sunspots.

    And these phenomenom are not just surface effects, but also deep, like rotation, currents, etc. And interlayer interactions

    Funny thing is, sunspots are cold spots. So why did we have a cold spell (ice age) during the Maunder minimum, which had almost no sunspots for many years? Probably because there was also a minimum of hot spots during the same time? So solar output overall fell? Maybe that means that the hot spots can be more important to overall solar output than the cold sunspots? And what are the hot spots? Solar prominences? Are there any other hot spots?

    What are the similar featuress of the other layers, what are their preiodicities, and how can we detect these features and their periods, and their effect on overall solar output? And their effects on adjacent layers?

    Can someone start working on making solar observation scientific?

  23. Sun under new management? on The Sun's Odd Behavior · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Maybe that crazed executive from SCO decided to take over running Sun...
    No, wait a minute, wrong Sun...

  24. bullies article on slashdot? on Study Shows Standing Up To Bullies Is Good For You · · Score: 1

    Isn't slashdot where all the bullied nerds hang out? Especially the ones who never stood up for themselves? Because if they stood up for themselves they would not be nerds. In spite of the movies (revenge of the nerds). I mean, come on. Slashdotters can't even stand up to their moms. If they did (stand up), they would hit their heads on ceiling pipes in their mom's basement.

    Sometimes, if you stand up to a bully, you discover they are scaredicats.

  25. Re:Find an author on Do Build Environments Give Companies an End Run Around the GPL? · · Score: 1

    the scripts used means the makefile they used. That is something you can read to tell what compiler they used, and even what version. But there may still be environmental variables not visible.