...as it comes in contact with air molecules it slows down... Uh, isn't this precisely the stage at which the Shuttle was lost? Sure enough, it is!
i guess you didnt notice this line in my post.
Heres how it works, wingless craft enters atmosphere
Thats right a "wingless" craft. One that doesnt have wings. Were not talking about the space shuttle, i was refering to something more on the lines of appolo. Again, your wrong, post appology below. Pickup a "life" from kaymart.
Thats what I tell my clients who try to "encrypt" things in this silly manner. I've written packages that defeat those silly "enter the word contained in the image" tests, I've written packages that defeat silly anti-automation scripts.
It's really not hard.
Sure, theres always the 2% that can get around any barier you put up. Stopping the 98% is usually good enough to justify the extra effort of developing these measures.
You shouldnt complain too much about what your customers want, theyre paying you for your time right? Give 'em what they want.
I've found that the hardest decision in building a box is always the motherboard. I basically know what to expect from the graphics card manufacturers and from Intel and AMD.
I'm actually quite happy with my current ASUS motherboard, which I've had for almost 2 years now. I am sort of worried about all the reports of capacitors exploding and whatnot, but I don't seem to have any of the "warning" signs on mine.
Either way, my system is starting to show a bit of age, and I'm thinking about building a new one come this spring. I'm expecting a fairly hefty income tax refund, so I figure it might be time to plunk down some cash I've saved up for a new box.
I know pretty much what I want. I'll probably go with the latest and greatest offerings from nVidia or ATI, and stick with a faster AMD processor.
But I'm not sure about the motherboard. I enjoy gaming, so I'm thinking about going for something with the nForce chipset.
This report seems to suggest that the nForce 2 chipset will benefit your FPS. So perhaps I'll look into those. Then there is the matter of trying to avoid motherboards with the exploding capacitors...
How do parachutes help you during the re-entry? You can not get away from the thermal issues that a vehicle/satellite/whatever reentering the earth's atmosphere has to face with mere parachutes....
Well, you wouldnt deploy the parachute while in a vacuum thats for sure. Heres how it works, wingless craft enters atmosphere
It falls, really f*ckin fast, but as it comes in contact with air molecules it slows down, untill it reaches terminal velocity.
at this point it will have slowed down enough that would could deploy a parachute and allow the vehicle to safely land on the ground.
Its not a bad idea either, i suggest you get a clue and pick up a 3rd grade history book.
The important point is that once you regulate you have to keep regulating. Regulation MAY be bad for consumers; Deregulation IS bad for consumers.
The FCC has ruined DSL by requiring that the telco be responsible for quality but third parties not. In other words, if covad DSL gives you poor performance, you have nothing to fall back on but your terms of service. If pacbell DSL gives you poor performance (lower than rated, or any significant downtime) then you can call the FCC and they'll fine SBC $500.
Regulation must be undertaken carefully, deregulation moreso. They deregulated the power companies in California, where are we now?
Last year, Sun really, really wanted to drop Solaris for Intel.
Speculation was that it was for one or both of two reasons:
1) Not to dilute their SPARC-oriented business,
2) Not to dilute their Sun-Linux business.
At a conference I attended, as well as some Sun presentations, some Sun employees were begging customers to demand Solaris 9 for Intel from their sales reps. Seems that there was still a "Solaris for Intel" faction inside the company. Also, the inside scoop was that they already _had_ Solaris 9 for intel, but the higher-ups didn't want to release it.
Customer demand was heavy and it changed the original plan to nix Solaris 9 for Intel. Now it's out.
The article mentions a car that is already available which has full plastic parts. More info can be found at the Smart website [smart.com]. I drive one of these, and I have bumped into obstacles while parking several times. Unlike a metal body, the plastic panel just springs back into shape after a bump. With a metal body, it would have been damaged visibly.
Other Smart drivers reported that after a crash, the car had no visible damge while the invisible parts beneath the body panels had been damaged severely, but the robust body panel had been hiding the damage.
I can really recommend these cars. They are the ultimate opposite to an SUV. 2.49 m long (7.5 feet!), 695 kg gross weight, can turn on a dime... wonderful.
Maybe it's time to go back to parachutes for reentry. In fact, there are some modern attempts. Those are the kinds of technologies we need for unmanned planetary probes anyway, and they are by far the most cost effective choice for sample return missions (where it may not be such a big deal if the parachutes fail).
It seems to me that the building of winged reentry vehicles is more driven by a desire for Buck Rogers-style space adventures, not good, cost-effective engineering.
I'm sure it's an unpopular view amongst the freedom of IP at all costs crowd that's common here, but maybe for the duration of the Iraqi conflict, we can stop posting exploit and bug notifications, at least until the US has installed a nascent capitalist, western ideologued democracy in Iraq.
Flip the issue around and see if your suggestion makes any sense:
For the duration of the war, let's refrain from posting notices of vulnerabilities and exploits so that sysadmins in places other than Iraq can't keep their systems properly defended from cyber-terrorists who are sympathetic to the Iraqi cause (or are simply anti-American).
Makes no sense, right? Withholding vulnerability information is far more likely to adversely affect civilian and public service networks in the US and supporting nations than the Iraqi military/industrial complex.
Just like everything else that has the words "computer" on it related to audio.
If you want really good computer speakers to listen to music on or as a good audio refrence... go to your local guitar center and buy a set of studio monitors and a studio amp... they're over in the mixer section...
For the same amount of cash as these overpriced and horribly overrated junk you can get something real.
I found the most entertaining the 1000 watt rating.. Yeah right. in low-end car audio ratings... I have a Crown stereo amp here that is only 25 watts and cost $400.00 and will kick the crap out of anyone's home stereo that cost around $400.00
a watt rating is 100% useless... tell me the watt rating RMS at a distortion level. anything higher than 0.05% THD is junk.
No joke, the Japanese read more comics because of their lower rates of literacy.
No, this isn't because they're stupid or their education system is poor, it's because of the complexities of their written alphabets. The Japanese have 4 written alphabets in regular use: 2 phonetic ones, hiragana and katakana; the chinese alphabet, kanji; and the english alphabet, romanji.
The problem is that the more high-brow the text, the more likely it is to be written in kanji. Kanji is a one-symbol-is-one-word system. You have to have a bloody large vocabulary to make any sense of it.
These comics tend to be written in one of the phonetic kanas (hiragana or katakana), so they're easy to read and accessible to anybody with a gradeschool education. This makes them more popular.
Just imagine if all English books were written in Shakespearean english, or worse Old English. How popular would comic books be with adults then?
Moderators: please mod parent REDUNDANT. The exact same post was made twelve minutes prior
What the fuck are you, the post police? Jesus mother fucking christ get a life. I bet you were the kid in highshool that lost all his lunch money, or worse, the kid that had all his shit thrown out the window on the buss.
It;s all good though, member accounts on slashdot are free!!! And i've got more than enough Ip address to come from. I just wish that you would have given me a more interesting response than you did!
... but back then, I was learning DOS 3.3 (for Apple II) and AppleWorks, becuase "everyone in the future will be using this stuff!"...
Anyway, I took that seriously, and made damn sure that I *knew* to enter the proper date when Appleworks was starting up, and that I *had* to make sure I had the right disks in the drives.
(Interesting note: Even in Word 2002, CONTROL-B and CONTROL-L are for bold and underlining, respectively)
Of course, we all learned how to use Apple DOS (both 3.3 and ProDOS) - we^H^Hthe rest of the class did this for a solid month, during which time I was permitted to play Choplifter, Cannonball Blitz, and Ultima V because I already knew how to use Dos... which *really* pissed the rest of the class off...
Anyway, to get to my point, I wonder how relavent the things that they learn now will be a few years after they graduate - and I hope it is *concepts* that they learn, instead of cookie cutter "type CATALOG to see a what's on your disk, insert your disk and type PR#6 to start AppleWorks" stuff...
It's just that this one "source" was invalid. Reuters and AP ran wire stories on this last week, before the Purdue student put up the webpage. The first known report from ComputerAndVideoGames.com was posted over two weeks ago.
Given the "publicity" of this hoax, and the widespread rumor-mongering of this deal, I'd say that Microsoft might be using this story as a red herring to make people think that the talks never existed. It's still going on, people, and it's still a very real possibility/threat.
You need the latest beta, and you have to also get the Win32 codecs (Quicktime included). If not sure where to get the Win32 codecs from, ask on the mailing list.
It works fine, it can play streaming material. It even has a Mozilla plugin.
And it's not just Quicktime, you can play basically any multimedia format: DivX, DVD, SVCD...
A big issue to doing something like this, which was pointed out to me by some researchers in a company I interned for, pertained to the amount of information about you that is required for such a system to function but still maintain your privacy.
For example, a mid-air system that delivers messages to you while you're in a certain area can also figure out where you are at what time on what day, simply by aggregating this information in one place. The researchers that I talked to worked around this (they were using GPS) by making the exact co-ordinates fuzzy and increasing the resolution from a few meters to a few miles. Thus you can't exactly tell where a person was at a certain time.
However, in the article, the researchers are using bluetooth, which doesn't leave out much in the way of destroying location information. Which consequently means that the Government, or any company with enough money could come in, aggregate this information and track the devices that are mid-air message enabled. (and if we assume that people aren't going to be swapping cell phones every few minutes, then we can track the people themselves)
If I went to Microsofts web site and the webpage they sent was broken, I would think Microsoft had an incompetent webmaster who didn't know HTML. I wouldn't think Opera was broken.
Just wanted to mention that Marshall-Fields, Target and Mervyn's are all the same company - Target Corp (Formerly the Dayton-Hudson Corp until Mark Dayton became a senator).
Also, Target Corp and Toys R Us are working together with Amazon.com for online sales, so really it's only two groups - Target-ToysRUs-Amazon and Wal-Mart.
I welcome sales tax for these merchants as it will probably encourage shopping in the local economy, which is better for small business and lesser municipalities (though perhaps bad for my home city, since Target Corp is based here).
I did not design this game/I did not name the stakes/I just happen to like apples/And I am not afraid of snakes
The [IBM] xSeries team has an Itanium box, and we are out to make sure Itanium doesn't survive... the pSeries team hopes to relegate Itanium to a niche in high performance computing or better yet exterminate the processor altogether.
Wow, it's great to see some real red-blooded competitive engineers again. This is how good stuff gets done.
A couple years ago they would have been squashed by the PR deparment for casting ill light on a potential relationship with a potential business partner.
It would have been nice to have more details on how the book was soooo heavily bent towards VC++. I would assume by the fact that he makes such a big deal out of it that these references are such that it wouldn't do any good for a non VC++ programmer? Are these things specific to the environment (visual studio, debugging, etc) or the OS (win32 api, m$ specific data types, etc).
Overall, I think his review needs a bit more beef (i.e. more examples) vs just saying "I thought it was blah..." and us having to just take his word for it. Even more so because of the topic and the level at which it is apparently targeted.
The problem with solar power today isnt about efficiency since modern panels have about 70-80% efficiency in heating water. The incoming power is about 1000W per m2. A better absorber wouldnt make the panel that much more efficient.Chromium Oxide have an efficiency of about 92%. Much of the problems lie in how you transport the heat from the panel to the energy storage.Insulation of the panel is something that you have to take into consideration. Cost is also of utter importance since you often have a roof capable of housing more than 30 m2 of panels which in most houses is overkill. To generate water you typically would need about 5 m2 from mars to november.
If this material can make the total cost smaller then its good but if it makes it more expensive it isnt of any use. Robustness and price is what we should look into and not efficiency. A cheap solar panel that lasts for as long as it have to be functional to return the investment is possible today.
The main problem with solar power is that when you need the power most (night/winter) there arent much sun around. Solar Power can never be anything but a valuable complement to something else. All trials of storin the energy longer times have failed miserably so far.
Im not just rambling here, i was a partner in a company manufacturing solar panels some years ago.
The article seems to indicate that this is a concept - something that may have arisen from brainstorming, and may not be backed up by any data at all!!
This "explanation" is apparently supported by the thinnest of threads in terms of evolutionary history, and hard evidence is not presented to back this claim. This does not stop the Slashdot editors from posting this as "stuff that matters."
Please let the brainstormers check their ideas with research, show correlation, then causation, then present their findings in a way that can be checked by others.
This hypothesis, if you can call it that, is not tested and is perhaps not testable.
Why this reflex motion a) exists at all, and b) why it persists, if it descende from the frog may only be fodder for spectulation.
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...as it comes in contact with air molecules it slows down...
Uh, isn't this precisely the stage at which the Shuttle was lost? Sure enough, it is!
i guess you didnt notice this line in my post.
Heres how it works, wingless craft enters atmosphere
Thats right a "wingless" craft. One that doesnt have wings. Were not talking about the space shuttle, i was refering to something more on the lines of appolo. Again, your wrong, post appology below. Pickup a "life" from kaymart.
And my grommer isnt bad, you just retarded.
Thats what I tell my clients who try to "encrypt" things in this silly manner. I've written packages that defeat those silly "enter the word contained in the image" tests, I've written packages that defeat silly anti-automation scripts.
It's really not hard.
Sure, theres always the 2% that can get around any barier you put up. Stopping the 98% is usually good enough to justify the extra effort of developing these measures.
You shouldnt complain too much about what your customers want, theyre paying you for your time right? Give 'em what they want.
I've found that the hardest decision in building a box is always the motherboard. I basically know what to expect from the graphics card manufacturers and from Intel and AMD.
I'm actually quite happy with my current ASUS motherboard, which I've had for almost 2 years now. I am sort of worried about all the reports of capacitors exploding and whatnot, but I don't seem to have any of the "warning" signs on mine.
Either way, my system is starting to show a bit of age, and I'm thinking about building a new one come this spring. I'm expecting a fairly hefty income tax refund, so I figure it might be time to plunk down some cash I've saved up for a new box.
I know pretty much what I want. I'll probably go with the latest and greatest offerings from nVidia or ATI, and stick with a faster AMD processor.
But I'm not sure about the motherboard. I enjoy gaming, so I'm thinking about going for something with the nForce chipset.
This report seems to suggest that the nForce 2 chipset will benefit your FPS. So perhaps I'll look into those. Then there is the matter of trying to avoid motherboards with the exploding capacitors...
How do parachutes help you during the re-entry? You can not get away from the thermal issues that a vehicle/satellite/whatever reentering the earth's atmosphere has to face with mere parachutes....
Well, you wouldnt deploy the parachute while in a vacuum thats for sure. Heres how it works, wingless craft enters atmosphere
It falls, really f*ckin fast, but as it comes in contact with air molecules it slows down, untill it reaches terminal velocity.
at this point it will have slowed down enough that would could deploy a parachute and allow the vehicle to safely land on the ground.
Its not a bad idea either, i suggest you get a clue and pick up a 3rd grade history book.
The important point is that once you regulate you have to keep regulating. Regulation MAY be bad for consumers; Deregulation IS bad for consumers.
The FCC has ruined DSL by requiring that the telco be responsible for quality but third parties not. In other words, if covad DSL gives you poor performance, you have nothing to fall back on but your terms of service. If pacbell DSL gives you poor performance (lower than rated, or any significant downtime) then you can call the FCC and they'll fine SBC $500.
Regulation must be undertaken carefully, deregulation moreso. They deregulated the power companies in California, where are we now?
-kw
Last year, Sun really, really wanted to drop Solaris for Intel.
Speculation was that it was for one or both of two reasons:
1) Not to dilute their SPARC-oriented business,
2) Not to dilute their Sun-Linux business.
At a conference I attended, as well as some Sun presentations, some Sun employees were begging customers to demand Solaris 9 for Intel from their sales reps. Seems that there was still a "Solaris for Intel" faction inside the company. Also, the inside scoop was that they already _had_ Solaris 9 for intel, but the higher-ups didn't want to release it.
Customer demand was heavy and it changed the original plan to nix Solaris 9 for Intel. Now it's out.
The article mentions a car that is already available which has full plastic parts. More info can be found at the Smart website [smart.com]. I drive one of these, and I have bumped into obstacles while parking several times. Unlike a metal body, the plastic panel just springs back into shape after a bump. With a metal body, it would have been damaged visibly.
Other Smart drivers reported that after a crash, the car had no visible damge while the invisible parts beneath the body panels had been damaged severely, but the robust body panel had been hiding the damage.
I can really recommend these cars. They are the ultimate opposite to an SUV. 2.49 m long (7.5 feet!), 695 kg gross weight, can turn on a dime... wonderful.
Maybe it's time to go back to parachutes for reentry. In fact, there are some modern attempts. Those are the kinds of technologies we need for unmanned planetary probes anyway, and they are by far the most cost effective choice for sample return missions (where it may not be such a big deal if the parachutes fail).
It seems to me that the building of winged reentry vehicles is more driven by a desire for Buck Rogers-style space adventures, not good, cost-effective engineering.
I'm sure it's an unpopular view amongst the freedom of IP at all costs crowd that's common here, but maybe for the duration of the Iraqi conflict, we can stop posting exploit and bug notifications, at least until the US has installed a nascent capitalist, western ideologued democracy in Iraq.
Flip the issue around and see if your suggestion makes any sense:
For the duration of the war, let's refrain from posting notices of vulnerabilities and exploits so that sysadmins in places other than Iraq can't keep their systems properly defended from cyber-terrorists who are sympathetic to the Iraqi cause (or are simply anti-American).
Makes no sense, right? Withholding vulnerability information is far more likely to adversely affect civilian and public service networks in the US and supporting nations than the Iraqi military/industrial complex.
Just like everything else that has the words "computer" on it related to audio.
If you want really good computer speakers to listen to music on or as a good audio refrence... go to your local guitar center and buy a set of studio monitors and a studio amp... they're over in the mixer section...
For the same amount of cash as these overpriced and horribly overrated junk you can get something real.
I found the most entertaining the 1000 watt rating.. Yeah right. in low-end car audio ratings... I have a Crown stereo amp here that is only 25 watts and cost $400.00 and will kick the crap out of anyone's home stereo that cost around $400.00
a watt rating is 100% useless... tell me the watt rating RMS at a distortion level. anything higher than 0.05% THD is junk.
No joke, the Japanese read more comics because of their lower rates of literacy.
No, this isn't because they're stupid or their education system is poor, it's because of the complexities of their written alphabets. The Japanese have 4 written alphabets in regular use: 2 phonetic ones, hiragana and katakana; the chinese alphabet, kanji; and the english alphabet, romanji.
The problem is that the more high-brow the text, the more likely it is to be written in kanji. Kanji is a one-symbol-is-one-word system. You have to have a bloody large vocabulary to make any sense of it.
These comics tend to be written in one of the phonetic kanas (hiragana or katakana), so they're easy to read and accessible to anybody with a gradeschool education. This makes them more popular.
Just imagine if all English books were written in Shakespearean english, or worse Old English. How popular would comic books be with adults then?
Please support his OS - Plan 9. If you won't do it for the geeky sake, please..do it for Glenda
the last time i used the character ¾ was on a commodore 64... Geez, i didnt know people were posting to slashdot with these things....
Moderators: please mod parent REDUNDANT. The exact same post was made twelve minutes prior
What the fuck are you, the post police? Jesus mother fucking christ get a life. I bet you were the kid in highshool that lost all his lunch money, or worse, the kid that had all his shit thrown out the window on the buss.
It;s all good though, member accounts on slashdot are free!!! And i've got more than enough Ip address to come from. I just wish that you would have given me a more interesting response than you did!
... but back then, I was learning DOS 3.3 (for Apple II) and AppleWorks, becuase "everyone in the future will be using this stuff!"...
Anyway, I took that seriously, and made damn sure that I *knew* to enter the proper date when Appleworks was starting up, and that I *had* to make sure I had the right disks in the drives.
(Interesting note: Even in Word 2002, CONTROL-B and CONTROL-L are for bold and underlining, respectively)
Of course, we all learned how to use Apple DOS (both 3.3 and ProDOS) - we^H^Hthe rest of the class did this for a solid month, during which time I was permitted to play Choplifter, Cannonball Blitz, and Ultima V because I already knew how to use Dos... which *really* pissed the rest of the class off...
Anyway, to get to my point, I wonder how relavent the things that they learn now will be a few years after they graduate - and I hope it is *concepts* that they learn, instead of cookie cutter "type CATALOG to see a what's on your disk, insert your disk and type PR#6 to start AppleWorks" stuff...
It's just that this one "source" was invalid. Reuters and AP ran wire stories on this last week, before the Purdue student put up the webpage. The first known report from ComputerAndVideoGames.com was posted over two weeks ago.
Given the "publicity" of this hoax, and the widespread rumor-mongering of this deal, I'd say that Microsoft might be using this story as a red herring to make people think that the talks never existed. It's still going on, people, and it's still a very real possibility/threat.
-KW
xinehq.de
You need the latest beta, and you have to also get the Win32 codecs (Quicktime included). If not sure where to get the Win32 codecs from, ask on the mailing list.
It works fine, it can play streaming material. It even has a Mozilla plugin.
And it's not just Quicktime, you can play basically any multimedia format: DivX, DVD, SVCD...
A big issue to doing something like this, which was pointed out to me by some researchers in a company I interned for, pertained to the amount of information about you that is required for such a system to function but still maintain your privacy.
For example, a mid-air system that delivers messages to you while you're in a certain area can also figure out where you are at what time on what day, simply by aggregating this information in one place. The researchers that I talked to worked around this (they were using GPS) by making the exact co-ordinates fuzzy and increasing the resolution from a few meters to a few miles. Thus you can't exactly tell where a person was at a certain time. However, in the article, the researchers are using bluetooth, which doesn't leave out much in the way of destroying location information. Which consequently means that the Government, or any company with enough money could come in, aggregate this information and track the devices that are mid-air message enabled. (and if we assume that people aren't going to be swapping cell phones every few minutes, then we can track the people themselves)
If I went to Microsofts web site and the webpage they sent was broken, I would think Microsoft had an incompetent webmaster who didn't know HTML. I wouldn't think Opera was broken.
Just wanted to mention that Marshall-Fields, Target and Mervyn's are all the same company - Target Corp (Formerly the Dayton-Hudson Corp until Mark Dayton became a senator).
Also, Target Corp and Toys R Us are working together with Amazon.com for online sales, so really it's only two groups - Target-ToysRUs-Amazon and Wal-Mart.
I welcome sales tax for these merchants as it will probably encourage shopping in the local economy, which is better for small business and lesser municipalities (though perhaps bad for my home city, since Target Corp is based here). I did not design this game/I did not name the stakes/I just happen to like apples/And I am not afraid of snakes
'VCR is [to the movie industry]...as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.' quote, he responds, 'I wasn't opposed to the VCR.'
From that quote then we can also infer he wasn't opposed to the Boston Strangler. Maybe he is the "Prince of Darkness".
The [IBM] xSeries team has an Itanium box, and we are out to make sure Itanium doesn't survive ... the pSeries team hopes to relegate Itanium to a niche in high performance computing or better yet exterminate the processor altogether.
Wow, it's great to see some real red-blooded competitive engineers again. This is how good stuff gets done.
A couple years ago they would have been squashed by the PR deparment for casting ill light on a potential relationship with a potential business partner.
Maybe there is hope for IBM afterall.
It would have been nice to have more details on how the book was soooo heavily bent towards VC++. I would assume by the fact that he makes such a big deal out of it that these references are such that it wouldn't do any good for a non VC++ programmer? Are these things specific to the environment (visual studio, debugging, etc) or the OS (win32 api, m$ specific data types, etc).
..." and us having to just take his word for it. Even more so because of the topic and the level at which it is apparently targeted.
Overall, I think his review needs a bit more beef (i.e. more examples) vs just saying "I thought it was blah
Methinks the powerbook was not the only thing that was "baked"
The problem with solar power today isnt about efficiency since modern panels have about 70-80% efficiency in heating water. The incoming power is about 1000W per m2. A better absorber wouldnt make the panel that much more efficient.Chromium Oxide have an efficiency of about 92%. Much of the problems lie in how you transport the heat from the panel to the energy storage.Insulation of the panel is something that you have to take into consideration. Cost is also of utter importance since you often have a roof capable of housing more than 30 m2 of panels which in most houses is overkill. To generate water you typically would need about 5 m2 from mars to november.
If this material can make the total cost smaller then its good but if it makes it more expensive it isnt of any use. Robustness and price is what we should look into and not efficiency. A cheap solar panel that lasts for as long as it have to be functional to return the investment is possible today.
The main problem with solar power is that when you need the power most (night/winter) there arent much sun around. Solar Power can never be anything but a valuable complement to something else. All trials of storin the energy longer times have failed miserably so far.
Im not just rambling here, i was a partner in a company manufacturing solar panels some years ago.
Linux, because my mother says so!
The article seems to indicate that this is a concept - something that may have arisen from brainstorming, and may not be backed up by any data at all!!
This "explanation" is apparently supported by the thinnest of threads in terms of evolutionary history, and hard evidence is not presented to back this claim. This does not stop the Slashdot editors from posting this as "stuff that matters."
Please let the brainstormers check their ideas with research, show correlation, then causation, then present their findings in a way that can be checked by others.
This hypothesis, if you can call it that, is not tested and is perhaps not testable. Why this reflex motion a) exists at all, and b) why it persists, if it descende from the frog may only be fodder for spectulation.
Science requires more than mere speculation.
Phooey.
Anomaly