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  1. Re:Basic martial arts. on D&D Monster Study Proves Eyes Have It · · Score: 1

    Please mod this down.
    See that kind of glassy unfocused look in their eyes?
    Punch drunk :-).

    But seriously, i spent a few years at a former world champions (dutch,judo) dojo and this is what i was taught.
    UFC pro's none-withstanding, most people have a tell in their eyes as to their next target-area.

  2. Basic martial arts. on D&D Monster Study Proves Eyes Have It · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Always look at your opponents eyes, (if they're not highly skilled) they will usually look at an area before making a move in that direction.

  3. Everyone's a criminal. on Secret Stingray Warrantless Cellphone Tracking · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "There are many more laws than can possibly be enforced by, or even known to, our ever-growing army of cops, judges, lawyers, and lowly citizens. This isn't an accident of the system run amok, it's the way the government WANTS it. There are at least two reasons for this:

    One, the more laws there are to be broken (and the more obscure, the better ) the greater the stream of revenue from fines and violations and the more government jobs there are (cops, health inspectors, banking commissioners, etc.) in enforcing these laws and processing both the violators and the revenues.

    Secondly, the fact that since there are probably 1,000 times more laws on the books than are known to the citizenry all but ensures that everyone's guilty of something. And in the government's eyes, it's good that virtually everyone is a criminal of one type or another. Here's why: Because if you ever challenge any part of the government; the Housing Department, the Board of Education, the Bureau of Licensing and Regulation, the Election Board, the DNR, the DMV, the BLM, or whatever, it'll be able to find something, maybe many things, you're guilty of.

    And that, my friends, is its insurance policy against you. If you raise a stink about anything, no matter how legitimate, the full force and power of the government could be channeled into crawling up your wazoo with a microscope to find out everything you've ever done wrong and then using those transgressions to either discredit you or to bully you into staying mum about whatever gripe you've got or scandal you could expose. It's nothing but a racket. Blackmail. A seedy bastardization of the "checks and balances" system your nation's founders envisioned and engineered to protect you from governmental abuses".

    http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/everyones-a-criminal-there-ought-not-to-be-a-law/

  4. Not so Simple... on Are We Getting Smarter? Rising IQ Scores In the Twenty-First Century · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Intelligence varies with at least 21 factors
    Some of the other circumstances and attributes that have been found to vary to a greater or lesser (but always significant) extent in relation with IQ (Bouchard & Segal, 1985; Liungman, 1975) - note that not all of these relationships support an environmental view.
    Intelligence varies with:

    Infant malnutrition (-ve)
    Birth weight
    Birth order
    Height
    Number of siblings (-ve)
    Number of years in school
    Social group of parental home
    Father's profession
    Father's economic status
    Degree of parental rigidity (-ve)
    Parental ambition
    Mother's education
    Average TV viewing (-ve)
    Average book-reading
    Self-confidence according to attitude scale measurement
    Age (negative relationship, applies only in adulthood)
    Degree of authority in parental home (-ve)
    Criminality (-ve)
    Alcoholism (-ve)
    Mental disease (-ve)
    Emotional adaptation

    "No single environmental factor seems to have a large influence on IQ. Variables widely believed to be important are usually weak....Even though many studies fail to find strong environmental effects....most of the factors studied do influence IQ in the direction predicted by the investigator....environmental effects are multifactorial and largely unrelated to each other."
    - Bouchard & Segal (1985), p.452

  5. Re:Simple... on Are We Getting Smarter? Rising IQ Scores In the Twenty-First Century · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think everybody is born dumb. you're either kept dumb or raised in a way that makes you intelligent.

  6. Re:Proper /. nerd response on Ask Slashdot: Rectifying Nerd Arrogance? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Bro, do you even code.

  7. Religions are software. on Dr. Richard Dawkins On Education, 'Innocence of Muslims,' and Rep. Paul Broun · · Score: 2

    since it programs what underlying philosophy and values we stand for.

    For a website with so many coders, it should be obvious all religious texts are Basic HomoSapiens software hacks.
    Viral reproduction, root access(Externalized authority), disabling malware-detectors(Will believe bullshit), it's all in there. Suxnet.

  8. Re:Bicycles don't pay taxes for roads on As Gas Prices Soar So Does City Biking · · Score: 1

    http://www.facebook.com/pages/BABY-DID-YOU-FORGET-TO-TAKE-YOUR-MEDS-/

    Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
    Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like hyper dude.

  9. Re:Machiavelli, and others. on Ask Slashdot: What Books Have Had a Significant Impact On Your Life? · · Score: 1

    It's not called "The Prince",but "The Ruler" afaik.
    It's a homophone (in Italian) on "The Rules & "The Ruler". ("Il Principe").
    Every time I see people calling it "the Prince" I think they haven't actually read it.
    That's looking at you, whoever wrote the Wikipedia entry on the book.

    In the list of "right kind of jerk" books I would add
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Five_Rings

    Anything by the following authors
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harrison
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Vance
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams
    for a more tongue in cheek yet (imo) insightful look at humanity.

  10. re: SETI ties its e on Intelligence Agencies Turn To Crowdsourcing · · Score: 1

    Everything starts with an e.

  11. I predicted this some years ago. on Intelligence Agencies Turn To Crowdsourcing · · Score: 1

    S.I.A.: Search for Intelligent Americans.

  12. As I'm not personally familiar with it; on Half-Life of DNA is 521 Years, Jurassic Park Impossible After All · · Score: 1

    How does roadkill taste?
    (And no, I don't know how mammoth tastes either).

  13. Re:But what about... on Half-Life of DNA is 521 Years, Jurassic Park Impossible After All · · Score: 2

    Well, that would be "One hell of a mosquito and an only slightly less impressive glob of amber", or "A very small dinosaur" obviously.

  14. re: ADS & T.V. on Study: Kids Under 3 Should Be Banned From Watching TV · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ADS
    "People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply youâ(TM)re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

    You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

    Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

    You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs".

    - Banksy http://www.banksy.co.uk/

    & T.V. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgOWTM5R2DA

  15. Re:What is an NPC? on Linus Torvalds Will Answer Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Ei pelaajan hahmon.

  16. Re:WTF. on CmdrTaco Looks Back on Fifteen Years of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    ,and the middle of the day.

  17. WTF. on CmdrTaco Looks Back on Fifteen Years of Slashdot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Before it was the famous nerd hub, Slashdot was simply my homepage. When I left, I was denied the right to continue to post on the page that I still called home".

    Why?

  18. Re:Insert Joke Here on $1 Billion Mission To Reach the Earth's Mantle · · Score: 1
  19. Re:let's remember trolls... on Thanks For Reading: 15 Years of News For Nerds · · Score: 1

    Slashdot's gone cold I'm wondering why I got out of bed at all
    The morning rain clouds up my window and I can't see at all
    And even if I could it'll all be gray but your picture on my wall
    It reminds me, that it's not so bad -- it's not so bad

    Dear Rob, I wrote but you still ain't callin
    I left my email, my ICQ, and my yahoo chat at the bottom
    I sent two emails back in autumn, you must not-a got 'em
    There probably was a problem with your sendmail or somethin
    Sometimes I scribble email addees too sloppy when I jot 'em
    but anyways; fsck it, what's been up? Man how's your boxes?
    My boxes is linux too, I'm bout to be a compiler
    once I learn gcc,
    I'ma go on and compile for hours
    I read about your Palm Pilot too I'm sorry
    I had a friend lose his Palm over at the airport in Maradonna
    I know you probably hear this everyday, but I'm your biggest fan
    I even read all your bullshit Linux news and Microsoft's man
    I got a room full of your posters and your pictures man
    I like the way you sold your ass out too, that shit was fat
    Anyways, I hope you get this man, hit me back,
    just to chat, truly yours, your biggest fan
    This is Stan

    Dear Rob, you still ain't called or wrote, I hope you have a chance
    I ain't mad - I just think it's FSCKED UP you don't answer fans
    If you didn't wanna talk to me outside your Linux World
    you didn't have to, but you coulda signed an autograph for Matthew
    That's my Senior sys admin he's only 26 years old
    We waited on a 9600 baud for you,
    four hours and you just said, "No."
    That's pretty shitty man - you're like his fsckin idol
    He wants to be just like you man, he likes you more than I do
    I ain't that mad though, I just don't like bein lied to
    Remember when we met in Boston - you said if I'd write you
    you would write back - see I'm just like you in a way
    I never had a clue about shit either
    I gcc'd shit with my wife then beat her
    I can relate to what you're saying in your page
    so when I feel like rmusering I read Slashdot to begin the rage
    cause I don't really got shit else so that shit helps when I'm depressed
    I even got a tattoo of slashdot across the chest
    Sometimes I even packet myself to see how much it floods
    It's like adrenaline, the DDoS is such a sudden rush of blood
    See everything you say is real, and I respect you cause you tell it
    My girlfriend's jealous cause I talk about you 24/7
    But she don't know you like I know you Rob, no one does
    She don't know what it was like for people like us growin up
    You gotta call me man, I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose
    Sincerely yours, Stan -- P.S.
    We should be together too

    Dear Mister-I'm-Too-Good-To-Waste-A-Packet-On-My-Fans,
    this'll be the last packet I ever send your ass
    It's been six months and still no word - I don't deserve it?
    I know you got my last two emails
    I wrote the @ signs on 'em perfect
    So this is my payload I'm sending you, I hope you hear it
    I'm on my modem now, I'm doing 9600 baud so fear it
    Hey Rob, I drank a fifth of vodka, you dare me to code?
    You know the song by Deep Purple or Slayer
    its irrelevant by playing on my linux player
    while I write some php scripts and play some Dragonslayer
    That's kinda how shit is, you coulda rescued me from drowning
    Now it's too late - I'm on a 1000 downloads now, I'm drowsy
    and all I wanted was a lousy letter or a call
    I hope you know I ripped +ALL+ of your pictures off the wall
    I love you Rob, we coulda been together, think about it
    You ruined it now, I hope you can't sleep and you dream about it
    And when you dream I hope you can't sleep and you SCREAM about it
    I hope your conscience EATS AT YOU and you can't BREATHE without me
    See Rob {*screaming*} Shut up bitch! I'm tryin to code
    Hey Rob, that's my senior admin screamin from the comode
    but I didn't cut the power off, I just rebooted, see I ain't like you
    cause if rm -rf'd we'd suffer more, and then the boxes die too
    Well, gotta

  20. It's so dense that most of my comment on A Black Hole's Spinning Heart of Darkness · · Score: 1

    never made it past the event horizon.

  21. Re:I've never understood this contradiction on A Black Hole's Spinning Heart of Darkness · · Score: 4, Informative

    Vacuum fluctuations cause a particle-antiparticle pair to appear close to the event horizon of a black hole. One of the pair falls into the black hole whilst the other escapes. In order to preserve total energy, the particle that fell into the black hole must have had a negative energy (with respect to an observer far away from the black hole). By this process, the black hole loses mass, and, to an outside observer, it would appear that the black hole has just emitted a particle.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation

  22. approximately 3 billion solar masses on A Black Hole's Spinning Heart of Darkness · · Score: 3, Insightful

    concentrated in a region at the galactic core that is only about the size of the Solar System.

    http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/active/smblack.html

  23. Re: They might as well close up shop. on US Military Designates Julian Assange an "Enemy of State" · · Score: 1

    And we wouldn't want a world without military operations, because that would just be terrible. Nothing to kill or die for.

  24. Re:RIP Bradley. on US Military Designates Julian Assange an "Enemy of State" · · Score: 2

    Meanwhile, Julian Cook, professor of international news stories at Reading University, explained: "Everyone that America has been spying on would have already assumed that America was spying on them and if they didn't then they are even more cretinous than these leaks confirm them to be."

    He added: "Nevertheless, the point about Wikileaks undermining the safety of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan would have some validity, if only it wasn't such a humongous vat of liquidised monkey-shit from start to finish.

    "Because - and you might want to write this down and keep it somewhere safe - the key thing that has undermined the safety of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan is them firing their big fucking guns at Iraqis and Afghans.

    "And of course that is usually on the orders of weasely little inadequates with penis issues who like to keep everything secret in a bid to make their imaginary cocks even bigger."

    But sources at the Ministry of Defence confirmed that Professor Cook's comments had already put lives at risk in Belgium and Ecuador, adding: "And of course, he's also a rapist".

  25. No no no no. on Dice Buys Geeknet's Media Business, Including Slashdot, In $20M Deal · · Score: 5, Funny

    God doesn't play with Dice.