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  1. Re:If you can't handle calculus, science isnt for on Help Me Get My Math Back? · · Score: 1

    I have nothing to add but to say that you are all sorts of awesome in my book. My story is similar: sharp cookie, dropped out of high school to pursue women then eventually programming (aha, there was my mistake), blah blah, now I'm in my mid-30s finishing a math degree. Couldn't be happier. People like you inspire people like me.

  2. Re:Targetting on First Anti-Cancer Nanoparticle Trial On Humans a Success · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Fucking Slashdot 2.0 threading. I had no idea there were no less than four other responses before posting my own. ;\ Sigh, I miss Slashdot, because whatever this is it sure as hell isn't it. :p

  3. Re:Targetting on First Anti-Cancer Nanoparticle Trial On Humans a Success · · Score: 1

    Don't fall into the trap (and then drag clueless yet for some reason pedantic mods with you). Effect can be a verb and affect can be a noun. Look them both up.

  4. Re:$1.4 Billion on The Death of the US-Mexico Virtual Fence · · Score: 1

    It's truly a testament to the demise of Slashdot that you were modded to -1. You speak the truth.

  5. Re:I don't understand on Disgruntled Ex-Employee Remotely Disables 100 Cars · · Score: 4, Insightful

    >Its statistics.

    No, it's just arithmetic. Stats is concerned with how likely and how often defaults may occur, not the overall gain or loss as a result.

    >Perhaps because you aren't very bright?

    Don't be a dick unless you are absolutely sure you are right. Even then, don't be a dick.

  6. Re:Normal service will resume shortly on India Moves To Put Its First Man In Space By 2016 · · Score: 1

    There wasn't modern industry, but there was economy. So your second point is as dribblingly retarded as your first.

    Your post just demonstrates that you don't know much about economics, so I'd lay off the insults.

  7. Re:This is news at any level how? on Visual Studio 2010 Forces Tab Indenting · · Score: 1

    The only problem in not having tabs is that it's an extra 2 keystrokes per line to //-comment out a block of code.

    Tools->Options->Keyboard:

    * In the "Show commands containing" find Edit.CommentSelection.
    * Bind that command to something like Ctrl+/.
    * Assign, OK
    * Move caret to line you want to comment.
    * Hit Ctrl+/.
    * Enjoy life in a world cluttered by one less line of code.

    This works whether you select a line or just move the caret to that line. It also works with several lines at a time.

  8. Hellgate: London on Failed Games That Damaged Or Killed Their Companies · · Score: 1

    Was the game really a failure or just the way the company ran it into the ground? I rather enjoyed that game (though I only ever played the single player campaign).

  9. Re:Exponential Growth on Nano-Scale Robot Arm Moves Atoms With 100% Accuracy · · Score: 1

    The Endolords here have forgotten more about dispensing pain than you and I will ever know.

  10. Re:Exponential Growth on Nano-Scale Robot Arm Moves Atoms With 100% Accuracy · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Jack Putter machine: zero defects!

  11. Re:there are Programmers then here are PROGRAMMERS on Why Coder Pay Isn't Proportional To Productivity · · Score: 1

    Wait til I get going! Now, where was I?

  12. Re:Sine waves? on Music By Natural Selection · · Score: 2, Funny

    Warning: if you follow the parent's link you will be Ricker Rolled.

  13. Re:Directory Opus has a built in secure wipe facil on "Accidental" Download Sending 22-Year-Old Man To Prison · · Score: 1

    If you're really worried about it, you're going to have to bow to the REAL intention of the "think of the children" lobby: Stop consuming porn.

    Hah. Ha ha. Hahahaha. HAHAHAHAHAHAAH. No.

  14. Re:Did he update his status? on Burglar Logs Into Facebook On Victim's Computer · · Score: 1

    No more rhymes now, I mean it!

  15. Re:So essentially they want people to pay on ASCAP Says Apple Should Pay For 30-sec. Song Samples · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i think a lot of cultures actively endorse masturbation

    I'd just like to take this opportunity to say that I actively endorse masturbation, in moderation.

  16. Re:I don't get it. on A Galaxy-Sized Observatory For Gravitational Waves · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He's 15 years old. It's much easier for him to understand and critique something that has been summed up than to spend the time and critical thought necessary to understand our present economy. Let's give the little bastard^Wwhippersnapper a break, he's trying.

  17. Re:Holy ? on Heart Monitors In Middle School Gym Class? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually no, I don't. I was recalling from my own experiences from when I was a kid and since. I stand corrected! Thanks for setting me straight. :)

  18. Re:toposhaba on Congress Mulls Research Into a Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: 1

    You've obviously never lived in Portland. Gresham doesn't count. As much fun as it is to say, Beaverton doesn't count, either. Portland is probably the least violent city I have seen and I've lived all up and down the west coast.

    Disclaimer: I grew up in Portland, and I own a bike.

  19. Re:Holy ? on Heart Monitors In Middle School Gym Class? · · Score: 1

    How does the school know the name of the kid's doctor? I have never seen that question on an emergency contact form.

  20. Re:No jews in space on Additional Lab To Be Added To the ISS · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No jews in space

    You'd rather see Hitler on Ice?

  21. Re:Makes perfect sense. on Sound From Bird Wings Act As a Predator Alarm · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm about to turn 36, I can hear the tone clearly, and hell yes it is annoying. Now I know what makes dogs tilt their heads all funny. It's surprising that I should be able to hear it at all after spending most of my youth playing very loud music and DJing (wearing headphones plugged into various mixers, usually with the level maxed to hear them over the monitors). I was almost certain I had blown my hearing, or at least caused some damage.

    But, I guess my father was right after all. It's not that my hearing is bad, it's just selective.

  22. Re:That Analogy Falls Apart on Sending Astronauts On a One-Way Trip To Mars · · Score: 1

    If there is any nation willing to do this, it certainly won't be the US. We can't even let terminal patients die without wasting vast sums to slightly prolong their misery.

    I believe that has less to do with fear of death and more to do with the U.S. health care industry. Americans, of which I am one, have often displayed a willingness to risk life and limb for progress and discovery. Just look at the early space program. The folks who got us started are some serious bad asses. I have no doubt any one of them would volunteer for such a mission in a heartbeat, assuming they could handle parting with their families.

  23. Re:May I opt out on the yellow spandex? on All Humans Are Mutants, Say Scientists · · Score: 5, Funny

    That sound isn't whistling. What you are hearing is actually laughter distorted by the Doppler effect.

  24. Re:Fortune 500 recruiter here on Scientists Deliver Bee Toxin To Tumors Via "Nanobees" · · Score: 1

    More likely a recent cs grad.

  25. Re:Nonsense on Crime Expert Backs Call For "License To Compute" · · Score: 5, Funny

    Honestly I'd like to see them create separate tests for Linux, Mac and Windows cause one test does NOT apply to all three.

    Well, the real test with Linux is installing it. The real test with Windows is not having to reinstall it every few months. I've only used a Mac a handful of times, but I'd imagine the real test there is enduring the daily beatings for your lunch money.

    Okay, I tend to agree with you.