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  1. Uncover the conspiracy! on Singing Mice and Brain Chemistry · · Score: 1

    Which makes it that much more important for us to geneticly enhance ourselves to trigger our ears to regrow in such a fashion to hear the range those evil mice are conversing in. Ha! They thought they had us fooled!

  2. He's not kidding, folks... on Film to X-rays? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Check his website. He really does have plans for for making an MRI out of iPod earplugs. And it works too! How else do you think he found out that he had back pain?

  3. Internet Explorer and live.com on MS To Launch Internet Versions of Office And Windows · · Score: 1

    Support for Firefox? How about they support Internet Explorer first! I went to the live.com website with Firefox, saw that the sidebar covered the content (a problem common on some sites with Firefox), sent a broken website report, fired up IE...lo and behold, the sidebar overlapped in IE.

  4. Re:A lot like Star Trek... on No Respect for Windows Open Source · · Score: 1

    The episode in question is the season 5 finale/season 6 opening two-parter Equinox.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox_(Voyager_epis ode)

    But since we're pointing fingers, can anybody tell me why Wine doesn't want people substituting libraries in Windows with Wine libraries?

    Or why the Linux kernel relies on a patching system that is completely unlike what amateur programmers on Windows have ready access to?.

    I've been trying to look at Reiser4 code, only to find that they don't have a codebase to download, you have to download a branch of the Linux kernel "mm" that apparently is only available as a series of patches to the main branch, and I don't know what tool to use to merge them or even at what point I have the correct set of patches. Then there's the whole problem of knowing pertinent information as to what the changes actually are.

  5. Answer: You don't on Linux Kernel 2.6.14 Released · · Score: 1

    You save those mod points for things that fit the categories Slashdot gives you. Though Slashdot seriously needs to expand its categories, make karma be a rating calculated between two users preferences/and or relevant to friend foe settings.

  6. Re:I wonder on SCO Tells Courts What IBM Did Wrong · · Score: 1

    My guess is that it is referring to VFS, the overreaching file namespace manager that all File System drivers get mapped into.

    From Kerneltrap:
    VFS Documentation
    Reiser4 and VFS Issues

  7. I was wondering what's the difference... on First Step In DS Wifi Challenge Complete · · Score: 1

    between games that communicate wirelessly now and WiFi...Then someone said that current games use NiFi, but that didn't help much. There's still the question as to why it matters that N isn't using WiFi (yet) when they have released wireless games.

  8. Research? Do tell? on Gene Found In Black Death Survivors Stops HIV · · Score: 1

    Besides, you've shifted the argument. A couple devoted to each other is not the same as a family. I was the oldest of 4 children, the last my mother had by another father. Now, back to your research, care to share any of it so if you interpreted it correctly others can benefit from it, and if you didn't interpret it correctly, you can be shown the error of your ways, and by extension, others can be shown the error of theirs?

  9. Re:Ah fresh meat! on Modding and the Law · · Score: 1

    It's always new relative to what. New only has meaning within certain scope. Calling something new in one scope, that wouldn't make sense as new in a different scope doesn't render the concept of new meaningless.

  10. There are factors that are hard to report. on Modding and the Law · · Score: 1

    Interactions among management personnel. Material kept secret for competitive advantage.

    To the best of my knowledge, there can still be insider trading once fraud has been eliminated.

  11. Maybe he's just playing it straight on MIT Professor Fired over Fabricated Data · · Score: 1

    I think the setup for the introduction of the material he provided was rather good.

    I find this somewhat similar to Manzai

  12. Ah fresh meat! on Modding and the Law · · Score: 1

    No, his sense of "historically new" isn't long enough to be meaningless. If you take that stance, then the Bible and the Koran are old enough to be meaningless, but they arent. Closer to home: Guess what, money has been around for a long time- Still here, still relevant.
    The concept of the corporation is a moving target. It was more recently than the 1600's that the corporations acquired the properties of a "legally ficticious person.

    You also have misformed his conclusion, which can be better expressed that corporations are a significant negative draw on humanity, and enough of a negative draw will doom humanity.

  13. Re:everything Yay on Modding and the Law · · Score: 3, Informative

    Corporations exist to produce a useful good. Profits represent the difference in value between instant consumption and investment. However the system has been broken by policies that reinvent those relationships. Instead of the question being asked "is it the most efficient way producing a useful good", and coming to the conclusion that if it is not, the investment needs to be placed elsewhere. http://mises.org/quiz.asp 20. B
    Insider trading is wrongly maligned because who is better to judge the worth of the stock than those responsible for generating results.

    I'm bored, so I'm stopping now.

  14. Re:Probably as close as we'll get... on Gene Found In Black Death Survivors Stops HIV · · Score: 1

    To put the shoe on the other foot.

    Sex is primarily for feeling good. Feeling good is a consistent property of sex, even masturbation, which has 0 probability of producing a child. It has no other purpose. Yes, one of the occasional side effects of sex is producing a child, because if no children were produced the human race would have probably died off a long time ago.

    Having come from divorced parents, I have no way of knowing how my up bringing would have changed, had my parents been committed to each other, nor what issues that may have left me to deal with later in life.

    More than one time over? What, did your parents remarry and divorce again, or what?

  15. Burning Crusade? on World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Confirmed · · Score: 1

    When I read that title, my first thought was that some goup had decided that World of Warcraft was evil and that all copies of it should be burned.

  16. Yeah, I thought of a few myself. on Grand Theft Auto Retrospective · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Final fantasy once you get the airship, the "Secret of..." games from the same company, the Legend of Zelda games (moreso than the Squaresoft games). Mario 64?

  17. So it isn't the strain causing the damage? on Slacker or Sick · · Score: 1

    Apparently the strain attracts cytokines and they cause the damage. Death to cytokines!

  18. Firefox, Flock and Flexbeta on Slashback: OpenDocuments, RFID Passports, Firefox Celebration · · Score: 3, Informative

    I always use the latest nightly build so I don't know how they count that.

    I notice that the Flexbeta review is not comparing Flock to the latest nightly builds of Firefox because some features the latest nightly builds have that are similar to Flock's are missing from the screenshots. They are giving Flock credit for features Flock may have inherited from the Firefox codebase.

  19. We are not trying to trick nature. on Scientists Complete Map of Human Genetic Variation · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nature doesn't have goals to be tricked out of. Nature doesn't have beliefs to be fooled out of believing.

    Coordinators

    Abh

  20. Your life, maybe. on Humans Could Live For 1000 Years · · Score: 1

    To me, death is irrelevant. I do things primarily because they're fun, secondarily because of a complex code which among other things values the feeling of pain over anesthetic. It also values brinksmanship over quick victory. Ever hear the phrase "death or glory spirit"? How about "Give me liberty or give me death"?

  21. Re:Action needed from across the pond!!! on Lawmakers Support U.S. Control Of The Internet · · Score: 1

    Desired vs. Actual: Sometimes the proposed cure is worse than the disease. Furthermore, the proposed cure is seldom the only cure.

    When I hear "You'll never find out if you don't try" I am reminded of WOPR's closing statement in War Games: "An interesting game, the only way to win is not to play." On top of that, there are methods that don't involve making an attempt that can indicate the likelyhood of success of the attempt.

    You do not want to find out that the only way to win a game is by not playing after you've already started playing.

    You seem to think that dictatorships and communists are self-sustaining. If this is true, well then, we have no need to fear from them, and if not true, then they will soon go away.

    An "independent nation" with some promotion of American ideas is not necessarily better than a dictatorship or communist regime. There are degrees of good, bad, and ability to sustain themselves within all three groups.

    The internet is based on ideas developed in the production of ARPAnet, and the former ARPAnet is a member network. Those ideas however are no longer unique to a small group within the United States, however and the internet has grown to the point that it can be used by one nation to manipulate others.

    In my opinion Europe should demand that the United States pull its bases out of Europe, but demanding that the United States relinquish control of the internet is a good first start. How can you demand that Europe grow a backbone and then when it tries to do something requiring a backbone you cry foul. Ever heard of starting small?

    If we were to simply start a gradual evacuation of bad regimes, the regimes would slowly collapse due to lack of human resources.

    There are numerous ways of contributing to either the fall of a regime or the improvement of conditions within that regime that aren't as obvious as sustained aggression. Furthermore, those whose main tool is aggression are also more likely to not notice such activities.

  22. I am unfamiliar with the utilitarianism vs. Kant.. on Lawmakers Support U.S. Control Of The Internet · · Score: 1

    situation. I would read Kant, but I keep running into various problems when reading philosophers.

    A. They don't seem to use definitions that are common use.

    B. They build on unreferenced previous work in thier area.

    Then there are desired end results vs. actual end results. One may see something as a way of achieving a end result, that does not mean that the desired end result will naturally flow from it.
    Apparent progress towards a given end result is also not actually achieving that end result.
    Plus, correlation is not causation.

    In 2. and 5. the point was that what they do after the aggression is orthogonal to the question of whether or not they are in fact agressive.
    3. and 4. was an attempt to consider the utility of the suggested end result because it was a precursor to the case that Europe should ignore the United States' aggression to the extent that it provides a utilitarian function.

    3a. By "independent nation" I mean a nation to some degree free from the influence of the U.S. and not the independence of its citizens. However, when it really comes down to it, those "independent nations" aren't actually as free from U.S. influence as the U.S. government likes to promote.

    Furthermore, while the U.S helped the countries that were long-established after WWII, there were a bunch of countries that were created with the sole purpose of making sure they were not a threat to the long established countries, which was a primary causation of Bosnia and contributed to our current problems in the Middle East.

  23. No, it doesn't on Lawmakers Support U.S. Control Of The Internet · · Score: 1

    It doesn't ignore the fact. The fact isn't true. There is no such thing as the "end result". We are still here. There is no eternal balance sheet that closes at the end of the world. There are repercussions being felt from things that happened more than 2000 years ago. The Gregorian calendar is a testament to this fact. Our very dependence on oil , oil being something that is the result of a process that takes a long time, testifies to this fact.

  24. Then deterrence doesn't work. on Minor Computer Flaw Frees State Prisoners · · Score: 1

    Deterrence only effects those who don't resepect the rule of law. If people respected the rule of law then the law itself would be enough. Deterrence works on the principle that people who don't respect the law but don't want to take the chance of being punished wont break the law if they think the chances of getting punished are high enough. To give them that impression though, you have to punish lesser offenses to make the greater offenses seem riskier by comparison.

  25. Re:Gracious Me! on Minor Computer Flaw Frees State Prisoners · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'm more concerened about the fact that people were held too long, the existance of the error itself and the fact that the nature of the error won't get out than I am about the people getting out early.

    Besides the people locked away in jails, there are people locked away in facilities without a trial for "mental reasons".

    As far as I can tell there is very little oversight of mental health practitioners to keep the criminal mental health practitioners from locking away anyone who doesn't let the criminals keep them under their thumb.