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  1. Can you do math on strings? on Discovery May Help Decipher Ancient Inca String Code (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    All joking about data types aside, did the Incas lock themselves out of advanced math by choosing a recording medium that hinders calculation? How does one calculate the sum of multiple bits of string? Let alone logarithms, fractions, long division, pi...

  2. Re:Data caps on Canada Rules To Uphold Net Neutrality (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Exactly! We don't pay for a fixed amount of data, we pay for transfer rates/bandwidth. I pay for a 60Mbps uplink, not for 300GB/month. If using all my bandwidth all day for 30 days is a strain on the network, then the ISP is advertising something they can't provide.

  3. Re:No. on Canada Rules To Uphold Net Neutrality (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    QoS is packet prioritization and flow control, the issue at hand is a hard cap on the total amount of data transferred. Totally unrelated.

  4. Re:No. on Canada Rules To Uphold Net Neutrality (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Isn't the entire internet "behind" your connection?

  5. I overslept this morning and am way too foggy to think of a response even a fraction as funny as yours. So instead I'll say this - that was f'ing hilarious!!

  6. Re:My experience on First Evidence For Higher State of Consciousness Found (neurosciencenews.com) · · Score: 1

    Worked better for The Beatles, Hendrix and Funkadelic I suppose.

  7. Re:My experience on First Evidence For Higher State of Consciousness Found (neurosciencenews.com) · · Score: 1
    2 hits is for babies. Less than 10 is just a tease, showing you the door, but not letting you close enough to go through.

    Take at least 10, find a quiet, pitch black room, and watch the universe unfold.

  8. Last time I used it was in 1997. It's still around? And in use?? By Russians???

  9. Re:Joking ABOUT kETIMINE!? on First Evidence For Higher State of Consciousness Found (neurosciencenews.com) · · Score: 1
    Experience observing use or experience with use? Ketamine is a dissociative hallucinogen and anesthetic (very much like PCP or DXM), and I have had some intense hallucinatory experiences with it. While moving.

    At least I think we were moving.

    It can be hard to tell.

  10. What about schizophrenia's diversity? Similar? on First Evidence For Higher State of Consciousness Found (neurosciencenews.com) · · Score: 1

    In a lot of ways, hallucinogens are like artificial schizophrenia (I have experience with the three drugs used in testing). What does the neural signal diversity of a schizophrenic look like?

  11. Holy crap, you answered all my questions in a polite, respectful and thorough manner! I appreciate it.

  12. But wouldn't that mean if you had a Mac that came with all this stuff and for whatever reason added a second user to it, you'd have to buy it all for the new user? Or that if you went through a breakup and let your ex keep the iTunes account (I did), you'd have to buy all the stuff you got for free?

  13. Re:Howard The Duck on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 1

    The Sci-fi aspects are totally overshadowed by the interpersonal drama and character development. A film of sublime genius to be sure.

  14. Re:Spaceballs on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 2

    What the hell do you mean by, "Not a 'great' movie"?? Just so you know, the only acceptable response is, "Because it's so much greater than great."

  15. The cost of urban housing was high enough to price people out long before AirBnB existed. It's simple supply and demand - there's not enough room for all the people who want to live there, driving up the market price.

  16. If you can't win a fair fight, on Leaked Documents Reveal the Hotel Lobby's Aggressive Plan To Undermine Airbnb (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    then screw fairness, use government to criminalize your competition.

  17. If I was a North Korean general, I'd have had a bunch of fake missiles whipped up to confuse foreign intelligence analysts.

  18. Massive whips.

    And attack dogs. Angry attack dogs.

  19. Re:I thought it was pretty darn funny. on Burger King Runs Ad Triggering Google Home Devices; Google Shuts It Down (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe it would freak some people out, but maybe more people wished they had a Google assistant running so they could get in on the fun. My reaction was more towards the latter, though I'm not entirely comfortable with the idea of talking to machines. Well, with might be more accurate. I prefer my conversations with computers to be one sided and profanity laden - as in, "Come on you little f-er just f-ing boot, come on come on OH YOU LITTLE S-T! NONONONO! F-! C-SUCKER!".

  20. Oh, right. Convergence. on The Surprising Rise of China As IP Powerhouse (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Early in the process they stole IP to increase the rate of convergence, which I guess worked so well that they hit the point where creation surpasses theft much harder than others did. Or maybe this is just what converging with modern levels of development looks like. Either way, it's another sign of them hitting the plateau where the marginal returns of development diminish to almost nothing.

  21. Re:I thought it was pretty darn funny. on Burger King Runs Ad Triggering Google Home Devices; Google Shuts It Down (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Had to amend my search to "whopper BBC".

  22. I thought it was pretty darn funny. on Burger King Runs Ad Triggering Google Home Devices; Google Shuts It Down (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    I saw the ad once and it cracked me up. Burger King was right, it was clever. The "Whopper burger" bit had me thinking that maybe searching for just "whopper" would return pictures of big black dicks or something. It didn't for me, first page was all burger related.

  23. Correlation vs. Causation = Bad conclusion. on As Streaming Booms, Songs Are Getting Faster and Shorter (japantoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The researchers should not be inferring a causal relationship. Pop music is fad-heavy, influenced by about a zillion factors, and has it's own cycles. They should have gone back to at least 1956, and included social, political and economic indicators.

  24. Re:My research... on As Streaming Booms, Songs Are Getting Faster and Shorter (japantoday.com) · · Score: 1
    +1 million points for a Ramones reference!

    -7 points for neglecting (early) Melt Banana

  25. Re:Because charisma is the ability on If Humble People Make the Best Leaders, Why Do We Fall for Charismatic Narcissists? (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    It's not an ability, it's a trait. One that has nothing to do with control in and of itself. It means that people are at least open to listening to you, and may actively want to listen because you're so darn interesting. Obviously, that opens a door to controlling people, but that is just the means to control, not the will.