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  1. don't prematurely ejaculate on Open Source Drug Discovery Prompts a Fundamental Heart Failure Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    the drug in the article has been proven to do exactly nothing.

    no trials yet.

    put it back in your pants.

  2. Re:Magnetism = relativistic electricity? on Monopoles and Magnetricity · · Score: 1

    Electromagnetism as described by Maxwell's equations and special (not general) relativity are equivalent, you can derive one from the other.

    Maxwell's equations forbid monopoles, one of the interconnected equations says magnetic fields have no sources or sinks. So classically we expect NOT to find them.

    These "quasi-monopoles" found in condensed matter physics are not the same nor are they related to true particle monopoles.the quasi-monopoles really are a type of dipole.

    The true monopoles are predicted by various Grand Unified theories, but most predict them as being far too massive to be produced naturally, and far too rare to detect often (maybe as rare as one per volume of the observable universe)

  3. Re:Going to miss them on Geeks.com Online Shop Has Closed · · Score: 0

    it's a bigger problem than driving mom and pop shops out of business. Those corporations have our government and most others in their pocket, they are our "overlords". They are the reason the USA and UK (to name a couple places of interest to most of the slashdot audience) are turning into police states.

  4. Re:qualcomm is right on Qualcomm Says Eight-Core Processors Are Dumb · · Score: 1

    no, you could not use many cores with current software. you could maybe use two effectively part of the time.

  5. Re:Slashdot sociopaths... on $375,000 Lab-Grown Beef Burger To Debut On Monday · · Score: 1

    the word "sociopath" has a clinical definition, look it up.

  6. xkcd is better than average for comic on Creator of xkcd Reveals Secret Back-story of His Epic, 3,099-Panel 'Time' Comic · · Score: 0

    but Randall's Time comic was a lame waste of time, not much depth there.

    Also amusing yet sad Munroe, who has studied physics, would believe the lame nonsense that we've stripped all easily retrievable hydrocarbon fuel so could not reboot with an industrial revolution again. Besides the fact we have coal supply sufficient for millennia, there are at least two other ways civilization can be powered up again. Materials and energy, the two things that drive technology forward, we won't lose either one even if civilization falls.

  7. Re:Slashdot sociopaths... on $375,000 Lab-Grown Beef Burger To Debut On Monday · · Score: 0

    you are a moron of the highest order.

    Of course mothers cleaned animals prior to cooking them when our civilization was more agrarian. My mother (while growing up on farm helping at home) and grandmother and great-grandmother did those things. your grandmother or great-grandmother more than likely did the same thing.

    the truth is the luxury of modern life has separated you from the normal human experience of the last million years. we've been killing, cleaning and cooking animals at least that long. It's normal for our species.

  8. Re:Java's strengths are "not easy to ignore" on Using Java In Low Latency Environments · · Score: 1

    the problem with your POV is that neither java server ee libraries nor 99.9999999999% of code out there use that idea, they use the heap. but I'm glad to hear Java applications are speed demons in the world between your ear and in ivory tower bullshit land.

  9. Re:qualcomm is right on Qualcomm Says Eight-Core Processors Are Dumb · · Score: 1

    I want my phone to take calls and sms messages, and to wake me up with alarm. How many cores do I need for that? a fucking phone doesn't need 8 cores

  10. Re:no on Are We At the Limit of Screen Resolution Improvements? · · Score: 1

    look it up, women on average can see more shades of color then men. also, it is believed some are tetrachromatic, that they have cones for four rather than the more usual three colors

  11. Re:Java's strengths are "not easy to ignore" on Using Java In Low Latency Environments · · Score: 1

    Java benchmarks always avoid the thing that makes java slower, mandatory use of heap and all the indirection for reference-semantics for user types. In other words, as soon as you start using many objects, java's performance goes into the crapper, especially using the standard EE libraries of the major vendors,

  12. Re:Won what? on With Microsoft Office on Android, Has Linus Torvalds Won? · · Score: 1

    yes, money is useful for thing. But lust for impractically large piles of the stuff by sociopaths causes problems

  13. Re:office 365 is the end of office on With Microsoft Office on Android, Has Linus Torvalds Won? · · Score: 1

    mainframe worked (and still work) very well, it is a wonderful architecture for a large businesses internal data.

    the cloud is not reliable, has unverifiable security, and may even leave one without legal venue and is a terrible place to store internal data

  14. Re:And his worst fear comes true on Snowden Granted One-Year Asylum In Russia · · Score: 1

    eh, the major news sites have been all over it. if you mean geek news such as slashdot, this ain't journalism pal

  15. Re:no on Are We At the Limit of Screen Resolution Improvements? · · Score: 1

    well, some of us old farts use the reading portion of our /distance bifocals, which we change to monitor glasses when we get to work. so at work the phone is blurry. soon we'll get to heads up display in light weight glasses that actually zoom and focus, but that don't look like dork-ware (google glass,etc).

  16. Re:LAME!!! just 2 exposures on Watch the Crab Nebula Expand Over a 13 Year Period · · Score: 1

    that gives we Ents a headache, please slow it down

  17. Re:no on Are We At the Limit of Screen Resolution Improvements? · · Score: 1

    no, it is not. the article only addresses phone and laptop distance and resolutions and discusses the debate there.

    maybe you remind us why AC should be under the threshold of normal viewers

  18. Re:no on Are We At the Limit of Screen Resolution Improvements? · · Score: 1

    yes I mistyped

    as aside my "p" monitor can go into "i" mode though

  19. Re:Holograms on Are We At the Limit of Screen Resolution Improvements? · · Score: 2

    the rods and cones of the eye are on a surface, we only need concern ourselves with paths that terminate on that surface, they can originate from a surface

  20. Re:Won what? on With Microsoft Office on Android, Has Linus Torvalds Won? · · Score: 1

    Linux has won in the smartphone space, over half of devices globally run it. As for your worry and concern about money such as royalties, if money is your game points for success at life then you are a loser and your heroes are losers. As a general truth, those with the most of it finance wars, famine, genocide and cause 80% of human misery

  21. Re:Holograms on Are We At the Limit of Screen Resolution Improvements? · · Score: 1

    that's overengineering. you only need to provide a a position-dependent view for each eyeball in the room. so number of viewers x 2 x 2D pixel resolution.

  22. no on Are We At the Limit of Screen Resolution Improvements? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have rather poor vision, having to use different lens for reading, computer, distance...and I can still see the difference between 1080i and 4K monitors, a person with 20/20 should be able to benefit from even higher resolution (and I suspect even higher contrast ratios).

    We know from testing a significant part of the female population would notice higher bit color space too.

  23. still stupid on Cell Phones For Science: BOINC Now Available For Android · · Score: 1

    silly to risk doing anything to battery on phone when most of have multiple computers at home including a workstation with multiple cores. project wants to borrow my kid's plastic beach sand shovel when I have a bulldozer or three around the house.

  24. Re:fire sales on Early Surface Sales Pitiful · · Score: 1

    can it run an operating sytem? you know, like BSD or a Linux distro? I don't need a program loader that doesn't really manage the resources from Redmond

  25. Re:I understand, it is Very hard to leave Windows on A Year of Linux Desktop At Westcliff High School · · Score: 2

    no, things such as "control panel" also changed