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  1. Re:The BBC has a show about an laywer in ancient t on Judge Who Ordered Pirate Bay Censorship Found To Be Corrupt · · Score: 1

    ditto

  2. Re:Just More Evidence on Astronomers Find Most Distant Protocluster of Galaxies · · Score: 1

    It's an empty confirmation if it depends on the universe being 90% fairies. Show me one fairy and maybe I'll believe in the rest.

  3. Re:Big Bang == Creationism For Nerds on Astronomers Find Most Distant Protocluster of Galaxies · · Score: 1

    So the main piece of evidence for the Big Bang remains redshift of distant galaxies coupled with the assumption that the further away things are the faster they are moving, as opposed to the assumption that light frequency could decline at a very slow and predictable rate. What's your theory on that?

  4. Re:Just More Evidence on Astronomers Find Most Distant Protocluster of Galaxies · · Score: 1

    Instead cosmologists are claiming it is 90% super-special undetectable matter and energy. At least the turtle hypothesis is testable.
    The Big Bang hypothesis is testable too; it predicts that there were no galaxy clusters 1 billion years (12.7b years ago) after the big bang, it was a bunch of plasma and quasars. And anything observed from that timeframe should look much different than what is next door. So they invent a host of exotic theoretical energies to bring empirical knowledge in line with their theoretically derived origin of the universe.

  5. Re:Just More Evidence on Astronomers Find Most Distant Protocluster of Galaxies · · Score: 1

    As I remain polite, I have either refuted your assertion that my post was trollish or the assertion that trolls don't get polite. If you need a longer explanation try reading this book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Bang-Never-Happened/dp/067974049X
    It is heavily referenced, and much more evidence disproving the Big Bang has appeared since it was written. I don't feel strongly enough to fight about it, but I'm always up for some reasoned discourse. It doesn't have to be polite, so long as it does not confuse a good insult with a good argument. I made a good argument and it has not been addressed.

  6. Re:Soo.... on Astronomers Find Most Distant Protocluster of Galaxies · · Score: 1

    Your momma's so fat she has her own event horizon.

  7. Re:Just More Evidence on Astronomers Find Most Distant Protocluster of Galaxies · · Score: 1

    Ask me politely and perhaps I will explain it to you. Either that or you could read the post you are replying to.

  8. Just More Evidence on Astronomers Find Most Distant Protocluster of Galaxies · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    That's just more evidence that there was no big bang. They are too well formed and close together to support the BB hypothesis, and so they disprove it. Next someone will have to invent special undetectable dark waves to explain the discrepancy, and then we can all go on merrily enjoying our latest creation myth.

  9. Perception bias on Ask Slashdot: What's a Good Tool To Detect Corrupted Files? · · Score: 1

    I've certainly seen corruption with XP crashes, not a big deal because I do backup. About the same with the other file systems. In this case he was using Mac OS 10.7 Lion, which is a mess, and two others accessing the same partition. Not surprised.

  10. Re:Sad Day on Rand Paul Has a Quick Fix For TSA: Pull the Plug · · Score: 1

    Not that I oppose the Civil Rights Act, but all it seems to have accomplished is for law enforcement to use race-neutral insults while beating and framing young black men. Racism solved by legislation, just like the drug war.

  11. Re:Sad Day on Rand Paul Has a Quick Fix For TSA: Pull the Plug · · Score: 1

    That was Ron Paul, and his objection was stating it as "must serve black people". Rather the Constitution implies "must serve people", but we don't need another law to do that. Just strike down the unconstitutional ones and have less laws.

  12. stripped threads on Botched Repair Likely Cause of Combusting iPhone After Flight · · Score: 2

    When I tear down small devices/laptops I occasionally find a loose screw in there because the threads stripped. This is especially true of portable devices which get a good bit of jostling, and usually around the battery, which swells and shrinks.

  13. Re:WTF? on Antivirus Pioneer John McAfee Arrested In Belize · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They do it to intimidate the owner, the same reason they break down unlocked doors. It's violence that is easily written off as property damage.

  14. Re:How about "Pogo"? on Ask Slashdot: Which Comic Books To Start My 3-Year-Old With? · · Score: 1

    Yup, I enjoyed my grandfather's Pogo collection through a wide range of ages.

  15. Re:Some recommendations on Ask Slashdot: Which Comic Books To Start My 3-Year-Old With? · · Score: 1

    nice

  16. Re:Tandy Computer Whiz Kids on Ask Slashdot: Which Comic Books To Start My 3-Year-Old With? · · Score: 1

    +1 good list

  17. Re:Free? on Ellison Doesn't Know If Java Is Free · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, if Oracle is a person, it should have to testify.

  18. Missile Defense is TSA in space on Why Drones Could Be the Future of Missile Defense · · Score: 1

    just a big expensive boondogle to help the sheep sleep through their sheerings. While there may be several nuclear powers willing to nuke the U.S., they wouldn't do it in a manner so traceable as a missile launch. Even North Korea isn't that crazy, I'm sure their modified fishing vessels work just fine.

  19. Re:Because 32bits of addressing... on Apple Under Fire For Backing Off IPv6 Support · · Score: 1

    Re:Because 32bits of addressing... (Score:?)
            by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16, @02:03AM

            Ya, the samba thing was a time-waster. But OS 10.7 Lion as a whole is a messy memory-hogging waste of time. They changed the default compiler which undermines package-managers like fink, installing dev tools no longer installs command-line options (it's a sub-option), and scrolling is backwards! Snow Leopard (10.6) gets you into the iOS market and and is very efficient. I hope the next one forks from there.

  20. Better than my 4-year old on Baboons Learn To Identify Words · · Score: 1

    She's at something like 5% accuracy. But what she reads to me is pretty damn funny.

  21. Re:The extraordinary conclusions? Only one move! on Rybka Solves the King's Gambit Chess Opening · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Rajlich analyzed a small subset of the ~10^100 possible continuations to the point that Rybka (Rajlich's chess program) showed a score of +/- 5.12, which he describes as "99.99999999% certain" of the outcome. Assigning percentages to scores like that is tricky, often impossible, so it's hard to say how accurate the statement is. I'm sure Rajlich didn't intend the statement to be interpreted strictly. But if we take it at face-value where there is a 1/10^10 chance a line might go the other way and 10^100 opportunities for that to happen, we don't need a fancy statistics degree to see that it is highly probable not all of those conclusions are accurate. This analysis of the King's gambit isn't anything like Appel and Haken's computer proof of the four color problem, which is exhaustive and grudgingly accepted by the mathematical community.

  22. Non-compete clause on Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics? · · Score: 2

    There was a non-compete clause in the employee agreement for a job in California. I crossed it out and initialed those parts. In California it's against the law to require or enforce such a clause: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10010724-92.html

  23. Re:2 million for who? on When Are You Dead? · · Score: 1

    Only if they inherited the patents on your body.

  24. Re:THe Real Quesion is... on When Are You Dead? · · Score: 1

    And I'd be a jerk for noting its coolness.

  25. Headless humans still run around too... on When Are You Dead? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    During the French Revolution, betting on how far a headless noble would get was a popular gambler's game.