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  1. Re:The Results Were Skewed on Scientists Find Gene That Predicts Happiness In Women · · Score: 1

    Given that the study was based on self-reported data, said gene might as well be responsible for making women exaggerate about their positive well being.

  2. Re:His Master's Voice on Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking · · Score: 1

    > And I would argue that although the numbers have probably gone up for homicide on a world wide scale(...)

    http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violence.html

  3. Re:This is dumb as shit. on Miscalculation Invalidates LHC Safety Assurances · · Score: 1

    I've tried to moderate your post as "insightful", only to observe it got modded "offtopic". I don't know what broke, but I am posting this to remove my moderation.

    Somebody else, mod the parent up.

  4. Re:Church foward thinking on Vatican Says Alien Life Plausible · · Score: 1

    Aliens? Pipe? DMT!

  5. Re:Not the issue... on Ben Stein's 'Expelled' - Evolution, Academia and Conformity · · Score: 1

    Maybe because evolutionists are not concerned with "creation of matter", but with "evolution"? Could that be so?

  6. Re:Not sure 3D is always the best on The User Experiences Of The Future · · Score: 1

    Somebody, please have mercy and moderate the above as funny. Thank you.

  7. Re:GUT from a surfer dude! on A New Theory of Everything? · · Score: 1

    > Just FYI, LSD is disassociative(...)

    No, it is not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelics%2C_dissociatives_and_deliriants

  8. Wachowski brothers? on Wachowski Brothers and the Speed Racer Movie · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's more like Wachowski siblings, as one of them changed sex some time ago.

  9. Re:Well, crap! on William Gibson Gives Up on the Future · · Score: 1

    It's = 20th century thinking, you know.

  10. Re:I.J. Good & The Suspension of Disbelief on William Gibson Gives Up on the Future · · Score: 1

    Your opinion about feasibility of technological singularity ("event horizon" as you call it) is fortunately made irrelevant by your confusion of intelligence and knowledge. To build a machine more intelligent than human, we would "just" need to create a computer capable of faster and more flexible pattern recognition than human mind.

    However, having realised that, we could just feed it all the data in the world, and then possibly further data it would request after drawing its conclusions from the initial set. At that point we would not only have a super-human intellect, but actually an intellect capable of deducing more than any human being either living or dead.

  11. Re:Assertion without facts in evidence... on Life with a Lethal Gene · · Score: 1

    Up or down? Well, take a look at my bookshelf and guess.

  12. Re:Assertion without facts in evidence... on Life with a Lethal Gene · · Score: 1

    Where are my moderation points when I need them?

  13. Not working on Debian unstable on IBM Releases Fastest SDK For Java 6 · · Score: 1

    When started on Debian unstable it terminates immediately with:

    Could not create the Java virtual machine.

    This is probably caused by NPTL-less glibc. Anyone with suggestions how to fix it?

  14. Re:Mixed impressions on CodeWeavers Releases CrossOver 6 for Mac and Linux · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should read the FAQ on their support pages, which details exactly how to get international keyboard working.

  15. Major speedup for FP-math intensive apps. on Java SE 6 Released · · Score: 2, Informative
    What I don't see mentioned here is a significant performance improvement that is especially pronounced in FP-math intensive code. Take a look at some of the timings obtained with JatMark benchmark - typically it finishes in half the time (results in seconds):
    • 206 - Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4GHz)/DDR2@667Mhz/Linux 2.6.18.3 #5 SMP/Sun JDK 1.6.0-rc-b104
    • 223 - Opteron 275 2.2GHz/Linux 2.6.11.12-grsec/Sun JDK 1.6.0-beta-b59g
    • 349 - Pentium M 730 (1.6Ghz)/DDR2@400Mhz/Linux 2.6.15-cK1/Sun JDK 1.6.0-beta-b59g
    • 401 - Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4GHz)/DDR2@667Mhz/Linux 2.6.18.3 #5 SMP/Sun JDK 1.5.0_05-b05
    • 408 - Opteron 275 2.2GHz/Linux 2.6.11.12-grsec/Sun JDK 1.5.0_01-b08
    • 415 - Opteron 250 2.4GHz (dual)/Linux 2.6.8/Sun JDK 1.5.0-b63
    • 596 - Pentium M 730 (1.6Ghz)/DDR2@400Mhz/Linux 2.6.15-cK1/Sun JDK 1.5.0_06-b05
    Full results table.
  16. Better quality? on NASA STEREO Spacecraft Set to Launch · · Score: 1

    Is there a better quality web-based video available than 320x240?

  17. mplayer link on NASA STEREO Spacecraft Set to Launch · · Score: 1
  18. Re:My brother-in-law does sense it on Special Molecule Gives Birds a Magnetic Biocompass · · Score: 1

    No, but it requires better color discrimination.

  19. Re:No way, that's a myth. on Ars Technica Reviews Intel iMacs · · Score: 1

    Why is then necessary to pass "-iacknowledgethatthisisnotabenchmark" as an argument in order for it to display framerate values? ;)

  20. Lech? on Jon Johansen Interviewed · · Score: 1

    Alright, what's with the "Lech" middle name? Is he related to Walesa or what?

  21. Re:Haha! on High-Speed Video Using a Dense Camera Array · · Score: 1

    You seem to be not aware of the amount of hand work that goes into cleaning and adjusting bullet time-type sequences.

  22. "In partibus infidelium" on Vatican Astronomer Comments On Extraterrestrials · · Score: 1

    The second option is interestingly covered in Jacek Dukaj's story "In partibus infidelium". Well worth the read, altough I am not sure if the polish version isn't the only one.

  23. Re:Jack Valenti on New Internet Speed Record · · Score: 1

    /dev/null?

    This is exactly where it belongs.

  24. Re:There are better ways of doing this on Can You Spare A Few Trillion Cycles? · · Score: 1

    Please note that "this guy" is not simulating wave representation of light to generate his image. Hence, things like diffraction, polarisation and interference won't be there, either.

  25. Re:Java eh? on Can You Spare A Few Trillion Cycles? · · Score: 1

    Your description is true, but the cause for that cannot simply be laziness, as Sun JDK 1.[23] contained much faster implementations of trigonometric routines in java.lang.Math. They removed them for some reason, but I never found out what it was.