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  1. Re:Cue the young earth creationists on Radioactive Decay Apparently Influenced By the Sun · · Score: 0

    This talk is foolishness. There's plenty of difference between them and me. Can you cite any data that creationists give that does not come from a book that they wrote? I have not ignored millions of years of geological record and, well, proper research to come to my conclusions as they've done.

  2. negative feedback on Overconfidence May Be a Result of Social Politeness · · Score: 1

    At my job, I guess I'm not socially polite at all. I give negative feed back all of the time. There's no positive way to tell someone that they did a horrible, horrible job, and they need to re-do it after formulating a coherent plan.

  3. It's obvious. on Connecticut Resident Stopped By State Police For Radioactivity · · Score: 1

    You can always tell a Milford man.

  4. Tech support and then management on Ask Slashdot: Finding an IT Job Without a Computer-Oriented Undergraduate Degree · · Score: 1

    I believe that people with a background in psychology or psychotherapy would be a good fit for technical support positions. Most of that job involves talking to people and calming them down to help address their actual problems. In technical support, you can potentially get experience for other jobs, or climb through the mentor-ship positions into management. Managers could also benefit from having a psychology background.

  5. Re:Issue for me is pattern recognition. on Computer Programmers Only the 5th Most Sleep Deprived Profession · · Score: 1

    That happens to me, and then I just want to play more Tetris.

  6. Re:Issue for me is pattern recognition. on Computer Programmers Only the 5th Most Sleep Deprived Profession · · Score: 1

    I use alcohol, at home alone. I can't drink too much though, because the drinks I make require a fairly high level of sobriety and concentration. If I use raw spirits, they are expensive enough for me to make sure and use small amounts. Having a highly discriminating palate (for booze) acts as a great limiter. Conversely, if I'm in a social situation at an excellent bar and someone else is buying, I have to be more careful. Let me tell you, just a small drink, and then I care somewhat less about lurking race conditions.

  7. Re:Tee-hee on UK Law Enforcement Starts Seizing Music Blogs · · Score: 1

    I love the graphic of the puma attacking the globe. That's a serious attack puma!

  8. I think it just looks cool. on The Physics of Wine Swirling · · Score: 1
  9. Re:I don't care, he's still a d-bag. on Woz Is First In Line For iPhone 4S · · Score: 1

    Oh, he wasn't doing it for the attention, he really wanted the chair that she happened to be sitting in. He made some noise about getting a seat for his wife, who just had foot surgery, so she gladly gave the seat the first time. She moved across the hall to someplace else, but he came by and tried to get that one. The oddest bit was that, despite the energy wasted playing musical chairs, he didn't even stay twenty minutes into the talk.

  10. I don't care, he's still a d-bag. on Woz Is First In Line For iPhone 4S · · Score: 1

    That guy stole my wife's seat at a talk at Maker Faire this year, and then tried to steal the second one that she moved to. That's the short version of an awkward and weird story. I bet he stole that dude's seat in the photos.

  11. Art is Subjective on $5M In Torrented Files Presented As Art · · Score: 1

    Huh. This doesn't make me nearly as angry as I thought it would, though I did see a Martin Creed installation once. I never thought that I'd ever be so irrationally angry at self-opening and closing doors and lights that turn themselves on and off.

  12. Using calcium? on Fighting Fires With Beams of Electricity · · Score: 1

    I know that calcium was instrumental in the development of imcimal baratilam.

  13. Who cares? on Michio Kaku's Dark Prediction For the End of Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    Who cares about transistor density in this day and age? Mass-production of multi-core machines is fairly recent. We're still learning how to take advantage of this. What I'm basically saying is that algorithm development is far more important right now.

  14. Well, it works for him... on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe this cable actually does work better for him. The problem is that he accepted the situation as-is, and stopped there. If it were me, I'd be really suspicious and start looking for interference from components within the NAS. Also, what was his source material? John Cage's 4'33"? Is he really an audiophile? I thought those guys posted pages and pages of signal analysis and comparisons on their blogs.

  15. Re:Wow. on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 1

    No, I bought it because I liked the flavour, didn't feel like death, and liked the label.

  16. Re:Wow. on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 1

    St. George's Distillery, in the San Francisco Bay area, recently began to produce an absinthe called Absinthe Verte. It has a strong anise flavour, with basil and a bunch of other herbs. The bottle looks especially ominous, what with the label having a monkey banging a cowbell with a human femur. This, after a flight of vodkas and whiskeys at the tasting, produced in me a feeling akin to being encased in cotton. It was like lying down cloud of cotton-coated drink. Fantastic. Sufficeth it to say, I did procure a bottle of this.

  17. I also heard that on Offshore Drilling Rigs Vulnerable To Hackers · · Score: 1

    Unmanned oil platforms take care of the hooker vulnerability.

  18. Imagination is a great thing on Nokia Takes Third Swing at Internet Tablet · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else reading the summary visualize themselves in the position of one with a large bat ready to smash the hell out of one pitched at you? Am I the only one?

  19. Mmmm. on Scientists Create Sheep That Are 15 Percent Human · · Score: 1

    What does HuMutton taste like?

  20. Re:Things you should know. on 'Daylight Savings Bugs' Loom · · Score: 1

    The TZ variable is gone with the dodo. If I had an appointments application that simply read TZ, all of my past appointments that occurred before the change would be an hour off as well. A well-written application will read the _entire_ localhost.tz file to find applicable entries for a given UTC to local translation.

  21. Re:FM... on Zune — $249.99 On Nov. 14 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh yeah, what happens when the ionosphere burns off? What then, smart guy?

    Also, don't knock the Zune. I'm sure it would get better range and accuracy... when thrown than a cinder block, you know, for the riots.

    You could listen to it for a while in the end-times. Watching the sky burn while listening to Bob Marley will be wild. When the five hours have passed, this is when you assert yourself as the head of your tribe of neo-savages by hurling it at the guy with the cinder block. Remember, it packs more of a punch with some spin.

    Either that, or you could hurl it at the wierdo cranking off his radio listening to the guy trapped in his booth scream nonstop for hours on end. Good riddance!

  22. I had an idea like that once... on Mad Scientist Invents Colored Bubbles · · Score: 1

    It was a jump to conclusions mat. You see, it was this mat, with different conclusions written on it, that you could jump to!

  23. Re:I've been following this... on BBC Tells World About The Warden · · Score: 1

    Why does he have all that shit open while playing World of Warcraft anyhow? I've got a 3 ghz machine and still trim off any open process I can before playing. Oooh! Scary! GetProcessNext and GetWindowTextA! If they start dumping out heap data for processes (while I'm not playing) or scanning data straight out of my drive, that's when I'll start to complain. That kind of stuff can affect performance of the other stuff I do. Until then, I'll continue to improve on my VB app that does the same thing, except that it removes all of the maximize and minimize buttons, as well as making all frames immoveable and without handles. It's hilarious only to me.

  24. In this world, right now, I don't care. on Origen 360 Revealed in Less Than 12 Hours · · Score: 1

    If it's that much work to find out about a SuperSpecialSecret game system, screw it. I want my tech where I can see it, dammit! I'd just imagine spending my precious brain power to 'solve' some unsatisfying and stupid puzzles only to reveal a stinking pile at the end. No thanks.

  25. I'm going with Dobbs on this one. on Equal Time For Creationism · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking it all has to do with Jehova I, a bad alien from space. I just found the following link, which will be at the end of this comment. I hope it's wrong, but who can rule it out as completely bogus shite? It's just as plausible as ID or creationism. Find out more at the Church of the Subgenius!!