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  1. Re:OMG on Flat Earther Plans To Launch Homemade Manned Rocket (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't interfere with natural selection.

  2. I too am confused by your use of the term "falsified" in your original comment. You're using it in a way that suggests that having been falsified is a GOOD thing, no? E.g., " and now those scientific principles [the ones you just got through extolling] have been falsified by a century of broadly repeeted [sic] and verified checks". If so, then you're misusing it. Falsified means dis-proven. You don't want your scientific theories to be falsified. You DO, however, want them to be FALSIFIABLE, because if they aren't, they're not scientific theories.

  3. I was a hold-out to the end on Japan Will Make Its Last-Ever VCR This Month (mentalfloss.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't have a DVR. I had been using VHS to record some late-night shows that I would enjoy watching in the morning while on my treadmill. This worked up until Time Warner Cable made my VCR unusable by ceasing analog broadcasts to my VCR's tuner was of no use. I don't want to rent several DVRs from TWC. I found a company on the web that sells a variety of M-Card enabled DVRs and cable boxes, but they turned out to be a scam. So, I'm wondering what I should do. I hear TiVo doesn't work without a subscription anymore. Have I no recourse but to rent multiple boxes from TWC?

  4. I don't understand. Why would anyone expect both a check *AND* an ETF transfer? That would be paying twice. Granted, Comcast should have simply told him at the start that his account was being credited. This story isn't about Comcast screwing a guy over, it's about Comcast customer service reps being to stupid to know what's going on, and too stupid to be able to FIGURE OUT what's going on.

  5. AOL? on Hackers Claim to Have 427 Million Myspace Passwords (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    How many AOL passwords have they stolen?

  6. Re:Politicians don't understand tech? on Top Security Experts Say Anti-Encryption Bill Authors Are 'Woefully Ignorant' (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    In fairness, it's difficult to get a politician to understand something when his campaign contributions depend upon his not understanding it.

  7. You mean "decreased", right?

  8. Is the robot's name.... on People Will Follow a Robot In an Emergency - Even If It's Wrong (gatech.edu) · · Score: 1

    ... TRUMP?

  9. Please Explain on SourceForge Eliminates DevShare Program (sourceforge.net) · · Score: 1

    It's not self evident to me that providing installers for certain open-source projects is a "bad thing". Even if it were, surely it would be optional, and surely someone interested in using the code would have the option of downloading a binary installer vs the raw source tree. So why is the presence of this seemingly useful feature causing people to host their projects elsewhere and threatening Sourceforge's reputation? What am I missing?

  10. If you said that four months ago, you'd be in trouble :).

  11. What a shame on Flat-Earth Argument Results in Rap Battle (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I can't understand why someone would post as AC and not take credit for the greatest /. comment response I've seen in years.

  12. Re:Theory on Alabama Will Require Students To Learn About Evolution, Climate Change · · Score: 1

    The phrase "only a theory" suggests that you think there is something beyond that. "Theory" is as good as it gets. (No, "theory" does not get promoted to "law". They're completely different animals.) To say it's "only a theory" is like acknowledging that SCOTUS ruled the Individual Mandate constitutional,but qualifying that statement by pointing out that "it's only the Supreme Court".

  13. Ok, I admit it. on BBC Reveals Its New Microcomputer Design · · Score: 1

    I had absolutely no clue that the British Broadcasting Corp designs computers.

  14. Re:Unfair comparison on Homeopathy Turns Out To Be Useless For Treating Medical Conditions · · Score: 1

    Because research has shown placebo's do have in fact, while small, a significant effect on health.

    We know this already, and your response does not answer the question that was posed to you, which was, "Why is it unfair to do the SAME COMPARISON THAT MODERN MEDICINE is put to?" [emphasis mine].

  15. Re:Shepard tone on Quantum Equation Suggests Universe Had No Beginning · · Score: 1

    It's been a long time since I've seen a reference to Shepard tones. I used this, along with another (novel) auditory illusion, as the basis of an auralization technique to complement visualization of computational fluid dynamics data, which became my dissertation research.

  16. Re:How about energy conservation? on Quantum Equation Suggests Universe Had No Beginning · · Score: 1

    In "A Universe from Nothing", Lawrence Krauss posits that the negative energy associated with gravity can exactly cancel the positive energy of the rest mass of all the particles plus their kinetic energy.

  17. Re:The Dangers of the World on Parents Investigated For Neglect For Letting Kids Walk Home Alone · · Score: 1

    What state do you live in?

  18. Re:In the retina? on CERN Tests First Artificial Retina Capable of Looking For High Energy Particles · · Score: 1

    Thanks for all the replies, folks. That's fascinating.

  19. Re: Posse Comitatus Act on Navy Guilty of Illegally Broad Online Searches: Child Porn Conviction Overturned · · Score: 1

    Ugh. I forgot to log in first before posting that. I was wondering why I suddenly had to pass a captcha test.

  20. is performed by the complex circuitry of neurons in the retina.

    Really? Not in the visual cortex of the brain? It's actually done in the retina itself?

  21. Re:Let's get this out of the way... on Magnetic Stimulation Boosts Memory In Humans · · Score: 1

    I You get changing flux from a changing electrical current, or from a moving magnet.

    How about (iron-rich) blood *moving* past a stationary magnet?

  22. Re:Hash Collision on Google Spots Explicit Images of a Child In Man's Email, Tips Off Police · · Score: 1

    There are less than 2^33 people in the world. Most of them probablly don't use google but lets assume that they do. Further lets make a wild ass guess that each one has 2^17 files in googles database (from some googling i'm pretty sure this is an overestimate). That would mean a total of 2^40 files.

    Check your arithmetic.

  23. A *single* photon? on Evidence of a Correction To the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    Can a single photon turn into an electron/positron pair? I didn't think this was possible because a photon has no rest frame, whereas an e-/p+ pair always would. Thus, in the inertial frame in which the pair has no momentum (the "center of momentum" frame), the photon would still have momentum. Thus, momentum would not be conserved. You need two photons moving in different directions for the pair of photons to have a center-of-momentum frame in which their momenta cancel each other out.

  24. Re:MAFIAA on Comcast: Destroying What Makes a Competitive Internet Possible · · Score: 1

    "Music and film" is too restrictive. I prefer "Multiple Art Form Industry Association of America". Same acronym.

  25. Re:Uproar? on Vintage 1960s Era Film Shows IRS Defending Its Use of Computers · · Score: 1

    This was the plot of an episode of The Partridge Family (except for the jail part). Shirley eventually solved the problem by mailing the collector a check for $0.00.