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  1. Re:Wrong Premise on Why Sustainable Power Is Unsustainable · · Score: 1
    oh yeah, America Thinker...That won't be biased.. Bull. I've read a lot of dog shit from that website. It is definitely not a site where I'd expect scientific reasoning to take precedent over political agenda.

    You are propagating crap. Shameful.

  2. Re:"netizenship" on Name and Shame Spam Senders With OpenBSD · · Score: 1
    I think that the topic is so boring that it has dampened by subtle sarcasm antennae. Explain?

    Wife is gone on a trip t mother-in-law, drinking a dead guy ale, contemplative and bored.

  3. Re:Folks I don't want to hear say oops on Black Holes From the LHC Could Last For Minutes · · Score: 1

    All I hope is that they're all using the same units.. I'd hate to hear, "Nooo, oh. I thought you were using feet per second squared, not meters per second squared. Well shit this changes everything. "

  4. Re:Hmmm.... on Scientists Find Hole In Earth's Magnetic Field · · Score: 1

    but which video game? Powerpuff girls or GTA or Yars Revenge

  5. Re:News? on Plethora of New User Space Filesystems For Mac OS X · · Score: -1, Troll
    I'm only going to say this once. I will never say this ever again in my entire lifetime of Slashdot postings. But here goes..

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    Macs are gay.

  6. Re:The mouse... on The Age of Touch Computing · · Score: 1

    As long as the power button is physical, I'm fine.

  7. Re:Second Life?.. on Reuters Pulls Out of Second Life, Army Heads In · · Score: 2, Funny

    I tried Second-Life, then I discovered that it was Boring-Life.

  8. Re:Authored???? on The Unforgettable Amnesiac · · Score: 1

    Watch out, or I will author you, damn it!

  9. Re:H.M. Is the Father of my Field on The Unforgettable Amnesiac · · Score: 1

    Cascade of FSM == Cascade of Flying Spaghetti Monsters ??? Makes for an interesting picture.

  10. Re:H.M. Is the Father of my Field on The Unforgettable Amnesiac · · Score: 1
    I don't know what you meant by FSM, so I:

    FSM Google Search

    Not the first results surely?

    Explain.

  11. Re:Offered his brain for further scientific study on The Unforgettable Amnesiac · · Score: 1

    I am sure that the Institutional Review Board (IRB) was active in protecting H.M. If the IRB rejected my research protocol last month because I used bold font on our recruitment posters to highlight the amount we compensate for participation...Welllll, I am sure that H.M. was well protected from immoral fonts anyway.

  12. Re:What was I going to post? on The Unforgettable Amnesiac · · Score: 1

    I was wondering if it was actually H.M. or another amnesic in the tack story. In so far as that fact, my memory was accurate. However, it appears I've embellished somewhat... here is the story in a google book of Psychological Trauma and the Developing Brain By Phyllis T. Stien, Joshua C. Kendall

  13. Re:What was I going to post? on The Unforgettable Amnesiac · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Here is another:

    A scientist would tape a tack onto his palm. Then he would walk into the room with H.M. He would first ask him, "Have you ever seen me before?" H.M. would deny ever seeing the scientist before. Then they would shake hands. OUCH!! The scientist leaves the room, and comes back in two minutes. Rinse. Repeat. H.M. over and over would get poked by the tack.

    Then one day: Scientist asks, "Have you ever seen me before?" H.M. denies seeing the scientist before. The scientist offers a hand to shake. H.M. refuses to shake hands. When asked why, H.M. responds,

    "Sometimes scientists tape tacks on their palms."

  14. Re:What was I going to post? on The Unforgettable Amnesiac · · Score: 4, Informative
    Let me fix this thread:

    New Topic:

    H.M. learned how to solve the Tower of Hanoi (documented by decreasing time to solve) but denied ever seeing the Tower of Hanoi before.

    This is an example of some evidence that distinguished between semantic(facts) and episodic(event) memory systems.

  15. Re:thanks for the memories on The Unforgettable Amnesiac · · Score: 1

    not duped, but Octuped. Dectuped. kilotuped. With Anterograde Amnesia, it wouldn't matter.

  16. Re:Offered his brain for further scientific study on The Unforgettable Amnesiac · · Score: 2, Informative

    If he is unable or unfit to give consent, then his legal guardian would have been. How else do you think that research on children, or with people with Autism is able to get conducted?

  17. H.M. Is the Father of my Field on The Unforgettable Amnesiac · · Score: 4, Informative
    Seriously. As far as the summary: Decalarative vs Implicit memory systems. Yes. But also: Semantic vs. Episodic Memory Systems.

    The most important contribution of H.M. is helping pin down the fact that for Episodic memory, the Medial Temporal Lobe is critical. From there a whole lot of work has been done pinning down the sub regions of the Medial Temporal Lobe with memory function:

    The hippocampus: CA1 CA3 and dentate gyrus, is important for associating memory traces with contexts. The surrounding cortices important for making global assessments of the familiarity of a memory trace. Look up Professor Andrew Yonelinas at his UC Davis website for some current reviews of Recollection and Familiarity processes.

  18. Re:Yep on Mobile Broadband to Hit 42Mb/sec In 2009 · · Score: 2, Informative

    42 Mb/sec.... standing next to the tower.

    Everywhere else, a tenth of that or less.

    ha ha

    I guess Your DONGLE isn't long enough.

  19. Re:Ears.. on Quantum Cloaking Makes Molecules Invisible · · Score: 1
    No observation, eh?

    Tell me, does this mean that Schrödinger's cat doesn't need to die?

  20. Re:No sense... on Online Carpooling Service Fined In Canada · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I am sure you are a victim of your own confirmation bias. There are plenty of cases where government gets it right, plenty of cases where businesses get it wrong.

  21. Re:I'm only going to say on Discuss the US Presidential Election · · Score: 1

    Checks and balances...The voters are the check and balance when one party controls both the executive and legislative branches. Bad job, and they are out. Like Bush and the repugs.

  22. Re:McCain FTW on Discuss the US Presidential Election · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the madam the same as a mac?

  23. Re:McCain FTW on Discuss the US Presidential Election · · Score: 2, Informative
    McCain is going senile. A geek would vote for the man that still has a working brain.

    McCain graduated at the bottom of the class at his naval academy and now he is old. Brains get worse quickly at his age, and he didn't start with much.

    Meanwhile, we have a brilliant candidate who graduated at the top of his class in law school.

    Seems clear to me.

  24. Re:Stilll alive? on D.I.Y. Home Security · · Score: 1

    Perhaps.. But do you get sued when someone tried to hop your electric fence to steal cattle?

  25. Re:Stilll alive? on D.I.Y. Home Security · · Score: 1
    Actually it is even better. Right outside of the locked shed, he has a bug zapper. Loud and very electric.

    Scenario, the thief gets shocked, and then hear a bug get zapped. Connection, they just got zapped like a bug. They are a bug.