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  1. Here's an inconvenient question on Belief In Evolution Doesn't Measure Science Literacy · · Score: 1

    Inconvenient question:

    You need brain surgery. Who would you want to have perform brain surgery:
    1. Good party-line atheist who recites a firm belief in evolution but has shaky hands.. but who cares, after all your brain is just a randomized mix of mutations, so why should it matter? Don't you BELIEVE in evolution?

    2. Religious whackjob (gasp! he may even attend a non-atheist church!) who has a detailed understanding of the brain structure and functions. After years of studying the brain, he may even secretly harbor the politically incorrect belief that your brain isn't just a random hodge-podge of mutations.

    P.S. --> This doesn't necessarily mean that he disagrees with evolution and mutation as a mechanism for change or that there is common DNA across a large number of species.

    Oh, and for those of you who think that anybody who has any religious beliefs is obviously too stupid to be a brain surgeon, you obviously haven't met very many brain surgeons.

    Azimov even wrote a story about a similar situation involving robots and an orbiting solar power station back in the 1940s.

  2. But But But... on U.S. Drone Attack Strategy Against Al-Qaeda May Be Wrong · · Score: 2, Funny

    We've been told that Al Queda isn't real and that there aren't really any terrorist organizations. It's all a neocon plot.

    So basically, how can drone strikes or any other strategy be effective or ineffective against something that doesn't exist?

  3. Re:2016 on AMD Preparing To Give Intel a Run For Its Money · · Score: 0

    Intel gets 10% faster each generation?

    SOMEBODY SLOW THEM DOWN WE CAN'T KEEP UP WITH THAT PACE!
          -- AMD Management (where odd-numbered generations get slower and even numbered generations just look good because of the odd numbered ones)

  4. Sensational Summary is Sensational on Aereo To SCOTUS: Shut Us Down and You Shut Down Cloud Storage · · Score: 0

    Areo would like for all of us to buy into their fairy tale that their service == the entire cloud, but it was blatantly obvious from the oral arguments (that the submitter likely never listened to or would even comprehend if he had) that the justices were going out of their way to make sure that any ruling would not have an impact on services like Drop Box where the service itself has nothing to do with the content being "cloud" stored.

  5. Re:Is it dead? on Intel Pushes Into Tablet Market, Pushes Away From Microsoft · · Score: 0

    If you had read his comment in context you'd realize that he's saying this: If Intel Baytrail parts can run full-blown Windows 8 with good performance and battery life that's at least on-par with ARM Android tablets.... what do you think will happen when products come out where those same chips get to run Android instead?

  6. Re:Mr Fixit on How Does Heartbleed Alter the 'Open Source Is Safer' Discussion? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    " just about every SSL-encrypted internet communication over the last two years has been compromised."

    No, it really hasn't.

    It's accurate to say that just about every Open-SSL encrypted session for servers that were using NEW versions of OpenSSL (not all those ones out there still stuck on 0.9.8(whatever) that never had the bug) were potentially vulnerable to attack.

    That's bad, but it's a universe away from "every SSL session is compromized!!!" because that's not really true.

  7. WTF?? on Meet the Diehards Who Refuse To Move On From Windows XP · · Score: 0

    Premise of the Story: XP is older than Dropbox and therefore is useless. Let's go find some people who use XP and then talk about Dropbox.

    In other news: This so-called story is a thinly veiled ad for Dropbox that finds interesting ways to drop the word Dropbox into a completely unrelated story!!

    P.S. --> DROPBOX BITCHEZ!!

  8. Re:Intentional on Russian GLONASS Down For 12 Hours · · Score: 1, Informative

    If by "very recently" you mean 14 years ago (literally in the 20th century) that selective availability was turned off.....

    As for your other points:
    1. The U.S. did not degrade any civilian GPS when they invaded Iraq.

    2. If you honestly think the Ukranians are beholden to GLONASS... which doesn't even work for the Russians a large portion of the time.. and are somehow too stupid to buy commercial GPS products that are made in Taiwan and used by the rest of the world, then I have a bridge to sell you.
    Hell, even the Russians use GPS (quietly) even though they tout GLONASS because nationalism.

  9. Meanwhile, people are bailing from the IPCC on UN Report: Climate Changes Overwhelming · · Score: 0, Informative

    Meanwhile, after you read past the end-of-the-world predictions that were likely lifted directly from one of those churches that makes a living predicting the End Times, here's a more realistic assessment from a real economist who told the IPCC to remove his name from their "summary":
    http://joannenova.com.au/2014/...

  10. Re:Walmart employees, rejoice! on Wal-Mart Sues Visa For $5 Billion For Rigging Card Swipe Fees · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Bitch about Walmart employees all you want, but if you want to see a perfect model of a *NON* flashy HQ and *NON* flashy executives who practice what they preach, then Walmart is a perfect example of how to do things.

  11. Meh... BORING on Scientist Live-Blogs His Lab's Attempts To Generate New Type of Stem Cells · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So all he's doing is a boring experiment and live-blogging it?

    Sure, that kind of link-bait would have been fine back in 2002 when "blogs" were all cool.

    If Slahdot's standards hadn't dropped so much recently he would have had to do the following things to get on the front page:
    1. Print the rats with a a 3D printer.
    2. Put the rats ON A DRONE.
    3. Use the rat-drone to uncover a secret NSA program that has already produced the stem cells to INVADE OUR PRIVACY.
    4. Prove that stem cells create global warming.
    5. Write a lengthy academic paper that has nothing whatsoever to do with points 1-4 but instead states.. without coming to a firm conclusion.. that Christians* are inferior forms of life because jargon.

    * But not muslims, because even though we talk the big talk we're really a bunch of sniveling cowards. Hey, tomorrow is Sharia tuesday!

  12. Well you're partly right on IPCC's "Darkest Yet" Climate Report Warns of Food, Water Shortages · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The droughts in California ARE man-made, but they have nothing to do with the Global Warming boogy-man and have everything to do with 2 important facts that people seem to forget:
    1. That part of California is a freakin' desert and no, it didn't turn into a desert overnight because of Global Warming, it was a desert long before humans showed up.
    2. California's intentional man-made mismanagement of its water supply to dump water for bait-fish and for Mexico and refusal to build new reservoirs to store water from years when it has been plentiful has caught up to it now that we see California's climate doing exactly what it should be doing.

    But go ahead, blame Global Warming and burn a few witches at the stake since radical religious fanaticism with a thin veneer of "science" painted over it has now replaced rational thought.

  13. Free points! on Creationists Demand Equal Airtime With 'Cosmos' · · Score: -1

    Free hypocrisy points to all the posters who bash these guys but would gladly sign up for the Obama brown-shirt core to enforce "fairness" and "equality" on Fox new or to censor Rush Limbaugh but now feel that their pigs are far more "equal" than those other pigs they disagree with.

    P.S. --> Since I'm not a hypocrite, I don't think these creationists deserve "equal time" any more than I think whack-job Global Warming religionists who want to put so-called "deniers" or even people who think Global Warming is real but isn't apocalyptic in concentration camps should be given "equal time".
    Oh, no, I'm not exaggerating either: https://theconversation.com/is...

  14. DIE YOU DENIALIST SCUM!! on Why Did New Zealand's Moas Go Extinct? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Everyone knows that the reason ANYTHING goes exctint is:
    1. George Bush.
    2. Republicans.

    TIME FOR YOU TO GO TO THE REEDUCATION CAMPS YOU DENIALISTS!

  15. Kurzweil is an idiot with Super Powers on Why Robots Will Not Be Smarter Than Humans By 2029 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kurzweil's predictive powers are so incredibly wrong that he could literally destroy the world by making a mundane prediction that then couldn't come true.

    For example, if Kurzweil foolishly predicted that the sun would come up tomorrow, the earth would probably careen right out of its orbit.

  16. First Open Mobile Graphics Core??? on Broadcom Releases Source For Graphics Stack; Raspberry Pi Sets Bounty For Port · · Score: 2, Informative

    Upton sez: "But we're incredibly proud that VideoCore IV is the first publicly documented mobile graphics core,"

    Uh.. considering that the graphics cores in Baytrail tablet chips have had open source drivers in the mainline Linux kernel since at least early last year (the earliest commits may go all the way back to 2012), and considering that Intel's Gen7 graphics system is very well documented, I'd have to disagree there.

  17. You got the correct message on Linksys Routers Exploited By "TheMoon" · · Score: 2

    I'm glad you got the satire... I've been running Linux on any machine under my direct control since 2000 and I did my Master's thesis by hacking on a Linux Security Module for domain & type enforcement back when the 2.6 Kernel was still in beta... so I'm not exactly shilling for Microsoft.

    I'm also not a fan of complacency. While I really like that a whole lot of devices run Linux, if they can't be updated to address security issues in a very easy (even completely automated) manner, then Linux can be just as vulnerable as Windows or anything else.

  18. That's impossible on Linksys Routers Exploited By "TheMoon" · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linksys routers run Linux and Linux is Open Source. Therefore there are no bugs because theoretically someone can look at the code and fix the code.

    This also means that it's impossible for bad people to look at the code and exploit the code because Open Source makes everyone honest by magic.

    Oh, and by virtue of being able to look at the code, Linksys routers magically patch themselves before the bugs even come into existence!

    In conclusion, Windows is the cause of all security problems.

  19. Pshaw... it's just weather! on Heat Waves In Australia Are Getting More Frequent, and Hotter · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's not climate change, it's just a random weather pattern.

    Oh wait.. you said hot?

    Nevermind. Climate change.

  20. Much like Galileo on EU Committee Issues Report On NSA Surveillance; Snowden To Testify · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The conclusion of the EU report will be: IT'S NOT FAIR! How come those degeneration AMERICANS get to have all the spying! We'll build our OWN spy network... with blackjack! and hookers!

    In fact, just push back the start of the spy network while doubling the budget every couple of years or so and let us have the hookers now!

  21. Holy crap on Ask Slashdot: How Many (Electronics) Gates Is That Software Algorithm? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Either implement it as shaders for a GPU (or a DSP) or hire somebody who actually knows about hardware design if you are hell-bent on implementing an ASIC.

    Slashdot: Where *not* to go to get specific advice about specific technical issues.

  22. Yes, it DOES run Linux on Intel Puts a PC Into an SD Card-Sized Casing · · Score: 5, Informative

    Summary didn't mention it, but it does run Linux, and having access to standard Linux on a device this small is actually a very big deal. We're talking a physical/power profile that's down at high-end Arduino levels but with vastly more powerful software capabilities.

  23. These must be women-hating Republicans on Anti-GMO Activists Win Victory On Hawaiian Island · · Score: 1

    Women have the RIGHT to choose to eat GMOs if they want and I stand against this right-wing Republican War on Women since they insist on telling women what to do with their bodies!

  24. This wasn't the NSA! on Backdoor Discovered In Netgear and Linkys Routers · · Score: 3, Funny

    Their backdoors are implemented at much higher quality level.

  25. Serves him right! on US Customs Destroys Virtuoso's Flutes Because They Were "Agricultural Items" · · Score: 3, Funny

    He's obviously a denialist and he got off easy.

    The wood that he unscrupulously and capitalistically exploited for his burgeious profit contraption could have reduced ALGORE'S carbon footprint if he hadn't murdered it for his own selfish amusement. I'm just disturbed that this 1%er scum wasn't thrown into our enviromental reeducation camps for his crimes against science.