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  1. Re:Proper Science is hard. on How Our Botched Understanding of "Science" Ruins Everything · · Score: 1

    Reading "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline" by Dr. Asimov is an excellent start at understanding scientific method.

  2. Re:The whole article is just trolling on How Our Botched Understanding of "Science" Ruins Everything · · Score: 0

    His bigging up experiment at the expense of observation is so he can get his AGW denying bit in.

    Which "AGW denying bit" would that be? It can't be the part about observation because it hasn't gotten any warmer for the past 18 years, so there would be no warming to be observed.

  3. Re:kill -1 on Fork of Systemd Leads To Lightweight Uselessd · · Score: 1

    kill -1 send the SIGHUP

    The SIGHUP signal is sent to a process when its controlling terminal is closed. It was originally designed to notify the process of a serial line drop (a hangup). In modern systems, this signal usually means that the controlling pseudo or virtual terminal has been closed.[3] Many daemons will reload their configuration files and reopen their logfiles instead of exiting when receiving this signal.[4] nohup is a command to make a command ignore the signal.

      these signals

    Signals are a limited form of inter-process communication used in Unix, Unix-like, and other POSIX-compliant operating systems. A signal is an asynchronous notification sent to a process or to a specific thread within the same process in order to notify it of an event that occurred. Signals have been around since the 1970s Bell Labs Unix and have been more recently specified in the POSIX standard.

      are required for POSIX compliance, so not only are they required for UNIX programing, but for windows as well. Usually if I'm going to kill a process manually, i just use

    kill -9

    , which sends the SIGKILL

    The SIGKILL signal is sent to a process to cause it to terminate immediately (kill). In contrast to SIGTERM and SIGINT, this signal cannot be caught or ignored, and the receiving process cannot perform any clean-up upon receiving this signal.

    a more agressive, "the only way to be sure is to nuc em from orbit" thing.

  4. Re:Soap kitchen on NASA's Manned Rocket Contract: $4.2 Billion To Boeing, $2.6 Billion To SpaceX · · Score: 1

    The funny thing is the only times I've encountered a blatantly foul-mouthed homeless people, it was obvious that they were deep into a psycotic delusional hallucination, the more normal homeless people were quite respectfull; it hard to pan-handle sucessfully from people you're insulting.

  5. Re:Six Missoins Each on NASA's Manned Rocket Contract: $4.2 Billion To Boeing, $2.6 Billion To SpaceX · · Score: 1

    If Boeing gets the same "Bang for the Buck" that SpaceX gets that's a very valid point, but my suspicion is SpaceX is going to get more bang for the buck than Boeing can. SpaceX has one mission, but Boeing has it's finger's into a lot of pies and that has to color their respective corporate cultures.

  6. Re:Ya, but... on Ask Slashdot: Any Place For Liberal Arts Degrees In Tech? · · Score: 1

    Critical Thinking is a class that liberal arts majors take, and Critical Thinking is something a STEM major is usually born with.

  7. Re:Six Missoins Each on NASA's Manned Rocket Contract: $4.2 Billion To Boeing, $2.6 Billion To SpaceX · · Score: 3, Interesting

    On the one hand, it sucks for SpaceX that they get less money to do the same thing

    It wouldn't suck if they made more profit on less revenue.

  8. Re:I hate to be this guy... on NASA's Manned Rocket Contract: $4.2 Billion To Boeing, $2.6 Billion To SpaceX · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I feel guilty driving a newer model Honda Civic knowing that if I bought something cheaper I could maybe feed someone less fortunate.

    Oh bullshit, if you were going to feed somebody, you would just do it. The price of a Honda isn't going to keep you from send $5.00 to the soap-kitchen or UNICEF.

  9. Nature Climate Change has credibility issues.

  10. Re:As a layman... on Artificial Spleen Removes Ebola, HIV Viruses and Toxins From Blood Using Magnets · · Score: 1

    I've yet to see a field of endeavour that a Journalist can't butcher beyond all recognition.

  11. Re:Antibiotics and Viruses on Artificial Spleen Removes Ebola, HIV Viruses and Toxins From Blood Using Magnets · · Score: 2

    Thanks for the link, when I went to International Business Times, the light on my laptop's camera flashed, which makes me suspicious about the website's safety. The content at IBT looks a lot like they cut and pasted a provided article and lost considerable meaning.

  12. Re:In case you missed the anime convention on Why Atheists Need Captain Kirk · · Score: 1

    It's what Cairns-Smith called the bomb in the basement of modern physics.
    I interpret it as suggesting that even after you've described all particles, forces, fields and laws, there will still be something left to explain. Also known as "some things transcend Human understanding". You can be an atheist and believe this, by the way.

    Yes indeed, It's approximately 4.669 201 609 102 990 671 853 203 821 578(...). We want a Deterministic system and predictable on an emotional level, it feeds our needs in Maslow's hierarchy of needs, if we don't find order and predictability in our religion, we tend to look to science.
    Science can't yield the predictability because the initial conditions are unknowable in the microseconds of the big bang.

  13. Re:Double-edged sword on Software Patents Are Crumbling, Thanks To the Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    Actually, GNOME3 is a counterexample. I wish Microsoft held a patent on obnoxious tabletized UIs.

    M$ may not hold a patent on obnoxious tabletized UIs, but they are definately the World Leader on their implimentation.

  14. Re:Wrong Title on Researcher Fired At NSF After Government Questions Her Role As 1980s Activist · · Score: 1

    , Barr answered “no” when asked if she had ever been a member of an organization “dedicated to the use of violence” to overthrow the U.S. government or to prevent others from exercising their constitutional rights.

    However, according to an OPM summary report that served as the basis for NSF’s decision, Barr was being less than forthright. “You provided no information regarding your affiliations with subgroups of M19CO—a known terrorist organization,” the report notes. Her answers during the interview, it concluded, “constituted a deliberate misrepresentation, falsification, deceit, or omission of material fact.”

    I'm not sure the Government has established that Barr could resonably have been expected to known that the Women’s Committee Against Genocide and the New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence were subgroups of The May 19 Communist Organization (M19CO), and that that organization was "a known terrorist organization”, “dedicated to the use of violence”. I would hope that because the Government is prohibited from interfering with the people's right to speech and peacably assemble, that it in total and it's member's as individuals would hold themselves to a higher standard of conduct.

  15. Re:Wrong Title on Researcher Fired At NSF After Government Questions Her Role As 1980s Activist · · Score: 1

    I know for a fact that the forms you submit to the OPM ask you in plain English "have you ever belonged to an organization dedicated to the violent overthrow of the US government"

    How many degrees of separation are they talking about, how do they define "dedicated". "violent overthrow", I know what that means, but a government bureaucrat can mission creep that into just about anything. If you have belonged to any organization, then some rogue government agent who's gone off the rails can demonstrate that you've belonged to a group or sub-group of a terrorist organization.

  16. Re:Wrong Title on Researcher Fired At NSF After Government Questions Her Role As 1980s Activist · · Score: 1

    Seriously, if you look deep enough you can always find more than one whacko that's connected in some remote or obtuse way to any organization, that's been drinking way too much cool-aid from the bottom of the deep-end of the pool.

  17. Re:Talking Point on UN Study Shows Record-High Increases For Atmospheric CO2 In 2013 · · Score: 1

    You moved the goalposts, you're the first in this thread to ask for raw data, as in unadjusted daily (not monthly) values. That's gigabytes of data you're asking for which may not exist anymore - ...

    If the raw data doesn't exist, (Phil Jones admited it was destroyed shortly after Climategate) then the results can't be replicated, and if the results can't be replicated it isn't science.

  18. Re:Talking Point on UN Study Shows Record-High Increases For Atmospheric CO2 In 2013 · · Score: 1

    The hiatus still continues.
    And yes there is a hiatus nowdays even in the mainstream pro-agw camp, saying otherwise makes you a denier.

    Turns out that this is a misleading talking point. http://www.realclimate.org/ind...

    from your link

    Unfortunately, however, the hiatus looks likely to be temporary, with projections suggesting that when the trade winds return to normal strength, - See more at: http://www.realclimate.org/ind...

    If the hiatus is a misleading talking point, why are the warmistas trying so hard to spin it into a supposedly temporary event? There been something like 38 different hypotheses as to why the warming has stopped for eighteen years.

  19. Re: We really need on AT&T Says 10Mbps Is Too Fast For "Broadband," 4Mbps Is Enough · · Score: 1

    The alternative is 3G, barely hits 10Mbs, we're so far out in the boonies our electricity poles only have 2 wire!

  20. Re:We really need on AT&T Says 10Mbps Is Too Fast For "Broadband," 4Mbps Is Enough · · Score: 1

    ping 648mS, 12.95Mbs down, 0.78 Mbs on HughesNet satellite with a 10GB cap

  21. Re:news for nerds? on New US Airstrikes In Iraq Intended to Protect Important Dam · · Score: 1

    221,925,820 was the Voting-Eligible Population, so that would increase the percentage to 29.7%, so way less than a third of eligable voters voted for Obama; 131,799,320 voted for either Obama or Romney so only 59.4% voted period.

    On Nov 6, 2012 US population was 314,760,969, 131,799,320 / 314,760,969 = 41.87%, so if all of the people who voted, had voted for Obama it still wouldn't be a majority of all Americans.

  22. Re:Terrorists, not Fighters on New US Airstrikes In Iraq Intended to Protect Important Dam · · Score: 1

    Seems plausable, the other thing is the Soviets and other Warsaw Pact countries had armed so many that Soviet designed weapons are pretty ubiquitious in the World. I know people who worked at TACOM who worked full-time installing M60A3 turrets on T72 prime movers for Allies.

  23. Re:Get used to it on New US Airstrikes In Iraq Intended to Protect Important Dam · · Score: 1

    ISIS is only part of the regional struggle of Islamic extremists centered around al Qaida to overthrow the governments in many of the countries.

    No they want to eliminate All of the countries, not many of the countries and establish a Caliphate or in other words a Religious Dictatorship, one that would probably make the Iranians look like a bastion of freedom. Of course when the Caliphate doesn't become the "Paradise on Earth" that was promised, it's because the Infadels just over the boarder still exist, justifing yet another Jihad.

  24. Re:news for nerds? on New US Airstrikes In Iraq Intended to Protect Important Dam · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hello, when you refer to Americans please don't conflate a meddling, incompetent President with Americans in general. Most Americans did not actually vote for that guy, he's lost most credibility in the US and among allies and other countries around the world. Thanks.

    Technically, no American president has been voted for by "most Americans" since large swaths of the people have been excluded from voting for various reasons (age, gender, race, or ethnicity, depending on the time period). But your attempts to reference the current president fall short since he got the overall majority of the vote in both elections (52% in 2008 and 51% in 2012).

    2012 General Election Turnout Rates, Voting-Age Population, 240,926,957, The final popular vote totals were 65,899,660 for Obama-Biden;
    65,899,660 / 240,926,957 = 27.3%, pretty blantant that most Americans didn't vote for Obama. In fact with Obama's margin of only 4,967,508,that's close to expected voter fraud rates, it's hard to say how many votes he actually won by.

  25. Re:news for nerds? on New US Airstrikes In Iraq Intended to Protect Important Dam · · Score: 0

    You would be surprised at the amount of armored fighting vehicles siiting in local police motor pools around the US. The biggest threat I'd expect from ISIS trained operatives is escalating an unrelated incident, imagine what a few trained instigaters could have done at Ferguson, Mo.