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  1. Re:No difference on The Proton Is Lighter Than We Thought (sciencemag.org) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Perfect avoidance of parent's point. Which is that the standard model is so borked, it doesn't even explain what Newton did 500 years ago.

    Talking about the implications of mass, while avoiding the grand pooh bah theory...that doesn't understand mass...is spectacular misdirection. You just might be a physicist.

  2. More reasons on Amazon To Buy Whole Foods Market For $13.7 Billion (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2
  3. Poorly defined business model leads to on Pioneering Link-Sharing Site Del.icio.us Shuts Down (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Poorly defined business model leads to bankruptcy. Much like how domain name squatters ended up with very little in most cases. Companies simply made up words (Pinterest, Wikipedia, etc.) -- left off a vowel (Tumblr) -- or strung words together (Facebook, YouTube, Craigslist), and saved themselves a king's ransom.

  4. Re:I think bananas are the perfect food. on Amazon's 1.7 Million Free Bananas 'Disrupting' Local Fruit Economy (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    They also contain gold, arsenic and plenty of other substances,

    Nice troll response there. That conveniently ignores the percentages I (wiki) listed for eighteen of the twenty items.

    Let's emphasize a few of them, shall we? 53% of the Vitamin A! 38% of the Folate. 160% of the Vitamin C. 48% of the iron one needs in a day.

    - - -

    BTW, when I said "Oops" regarding the 554 mg of K in parsley, the point I was making (that you missed) was that parsley has *more* K than bananas. Ironically trumping that much vaunted K source.

  5. Re:I think bananas are the perfect food. on Amazon's 1.7 Million Free Bananas 'Disrupting' Local Fruit Economy (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    No one eats a kilogram of bananas. Try one, and get 450 mg potassium.

    As to that 100 grams of parsley? 554 mg of potassium. Oops.

    As to the your 'ten times sounds like a "figure of speech"' slight:
    Carbohydrates 6.33 g
    Sugars 0.85 g
    Dietary fiber 3.3 g
    Fat 0.79 g
    Protein 2.97 g
    Vitamin A equiv.: (53%)
    Thiamine (B1): (7%) 0.086 mg
    Riboflavin (B2): (8%) 0.09 mg
    Niacin (B3): (9%) 1.313 mg
    Pantothenic acid (B5): (8%) 0.4 mg
    Vitamin B6: (7%) 0.09 mg
    Folate (B9): (38%) 152 μg
    Vitamin C: (160%) 133 mg
    Vitamin E: (5%) 0.75 mg
    Vitamin K: (1562%) 1.64 mg


    Minerals
    Calcium: (14%) 138 mg
    Iron: (48%) 6.2 mg
    Magnesium: (14%) 50 mg
    Manganese: (8%) 0.16 mg
    Phosphorus: (8%) 58 mg
    Potassium: (12%) 554 mg
    Sodium: (4%) 56 mg
    Zinc: (11%)


    I count twenty items (aside from the sugar ones).

  6. Re:I think bananas are the perfect food. on Amazon's 1.7 Million Free Bananas 'Disrupting' Local Fruit Economy (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Bananas have sugar and potassium. Sugar being a minus. So you could buy sea salt for your potassium, and skip the sugar, and be better off than a mainly-bananas-eater.

  7. Re:Correlation != causation on Your Boss Is Not More Stressed Out Than You, Science Says (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    You can never be secure on minimum wage though

    Security is illusory. Just ask those living in a peaceful suburb that suddenly have refugees swarming their streets and raping their women.

    Once you accept that security is an illusion, and do the simple things it takes to manage $x.xx, no matter the size of $x.xx, you will be at a low level of stress.

    The excess pursuit of money is the root of all illusion.

  8. So you correct your error -- you meant to say 75 million, not 75 billion -- and then you say you don't see the issue. "I was wrong...but I don't see I was wrong." Alrighty then.

    Pro tip...don't enter all those zeroes into the Google calculator. Enter 20 and remember it is billions. Then you get a more modest (i.e. reasonable or intuitive) answer, that is harder to get wrong by a factor of a thousand.

  9. Re:To quote Kevin Bloody Wilson on Facebook Owns Four Out of the Five Most Downloaded Apps Worldwide (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed.

    Apparently, people with cell phones like downloading applications that allow them to send messages to each other.

    Oh, and photos.

    Profound stuff, man, profound stuff.

  10. Re:Musical Instrument on How the IBM 1403 Printer Hammered Out 1,100 Lines Per Minute (ieee.org) · · Score: 1
  11. Re:For many the reason is politics on ESPN Has Seen the Future of TV and They're Not Really Into It (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The entire crew of Sunday NFL Countdown is now gone. Most left last season, with Chris Berman doing a farewell tour last year. That was pretty much my last reason for watching the channel (after they destroyed SportsCenter by replacing everyone with 20 year old females with _days_ of experience, and none of it in men's sports).

    I've played and watched and loved sports for almost 60 years, and watching what ESPN has become is sickening, and disgusting.

  12. Re:The broadcast world knows better on ESPN Has Seen the Future of TV and They're Not Really Into It (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Cris Evert & John McEnroe are also very good color commentators. They are clearly there for the tennis. John's brother can be added to your list of useless can't stands.

  13. Re:Maxwell is admired on Cellphones As a Fifth-Order Elaboration of Maxwell's Theory (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Maxwell did not work in the vector calculus!

    Well, even more incredibly, he worked in both.

  14. Re:Yes, it's *giants* all the way down. on Cellphones As a Fifth-Order Elaboration of Maxwell's Theory (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Maxwell also didn't fully realize the implication of these equations

    Perhaps because he died at age 48. Which kind of makes what he was able to do in his 48 years all the more remarkable.

  15. Re:vote with your wallet on EU Privacy Watchdogs Say Windows 10 Settings Still Raise Concerns (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Whatever happened to downgrade rights?

  16. Re:Sorry on Ask Slashdot: What's The Most Useful 'Nerd Watch' Today? · · Score: 1

    what are you on about?

  17. Or on Mountain View To Partially Replace Google Wi-Fi · · Score: 1
    This was a PR stunt by Google, they were never serious about this. Or the old addage [sic], "you get what you pay for".
    .

    How about: large Internet providers losing business to free try to undermine free with an extended DOS attack. Or the old adage, "follow the money".

  18. Methan on US Now Produces More Oil and Gas Than Russia and Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    I doubt methane is the worst ground water contaminant. Methane, being a non-polar hydrocarbon, is not soluble in water. Methanol (and a thousand other possible compounds), different story, Now under pressure methane can be dissolved in water, somewhat like carbon dioxide, but when you open the tap away the methane goes. Admittedly it goes into your kitchen and when you turn on your gas stove you crisp your face but that is another story. Releasing methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere would not good, but tell that to cows.

  19. Fixed width vs. a river of text on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1
    Everyone is complaining about the fixed width/wall of white on the right side.
    .

    Isn't the alternative to have 1920 pixels of text? Readability dictates less than that on a line. I manage this with my browser by setting it up to half the width of my screen. Most people do not, so what every techie wants...free flowing text...will be very long/wide lines of tech to non-techies.

    Is this what we want for everyone, or just as a setting for techies?