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  1. Re:huh? on Photographer Fired For Digitally Altering Photo · · Score: 1

    It creates the impression of a crowd where none exists. A crowd exists in both source pics.

  2. Re:The long, slow, death of the DJ. on Digital Celebrities · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Good riddance. The fewer interruptions of the music the better. But that doesn't mean I want syndicated Carson either. All I want is music, no interviews, contests, give-aways, station calls, DJ banter, commercials, etc. Unfortunately this is the crap with which one needs to put up in order to hear a couple of songs. Screw it. I'll just listen to my MP3 player.

  3. Re:It isn't that great at all on World's Most Accurate Lie Detector · · Score: 1

    Odds of missing one lie ~28.57% Odds, then, of missing 5 lies ~0.1904% Ask multiple questions. Sure it's easier to ask one question. Then you'd need > 99% accuracy. That's all for false negatives. For false positives, i.e. falsley saying someone's lying when he isn't, the odds of which were not reported, the punsihment isn't death but search. Even if you pass the question test, I'd assume you still have a random chance of being searched anyway. Let's say the odds of a false positive are 10%. If you ask 5 questions to which the answers are true the odds are then 1-.9^5~40.95% that you'll falsely call the interviewee a liar.

  4. reminds me of... on Manipulating the Brain with Magnets · · Score: 1
  5. Yum! on More Effective Ultrasound Using Naval Sonar Tech · · Score: 1

    "Of course, if you start to slap 10 to 15 centimetres of fat on top of that you've..." got the makings of a damn good sandwich!

  6. Travolta in space on NASA Thaws Out 'Teacher in Space' Program · · Score: 1

    Launching a big disco ball into space seems like phase one for project international discotech. It must get boring on the ISS.

  7. Re:hmm I wonder if.. on Sex Makes Your Brain Grow · · Score: 1

    Are those the same cells that control blindness?

  8. Re:Foreign students on Scientific Research Encountering More Restrictions · · Score: 1

    Sort of like we did in WWII. When Hitler forced all of the Jewish physicist out of Germany etc., they came to the US here and helped us build the bomb.

  9. Re:Hogwash on Conspiracy Theorists, Meet The Moon · · Score: 1

    Well, Wallace discovered that it's not wensleydale.

  10. Man's best friend on Ancient Hyenas and The First Americans · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Heheh:eR on Cut Curiously Precise Holes With Femto-Lasers · · Score: 1

    Or we could slice bin Laden in half in his cave bunker from a fighter. We could give up on studying bunker busting nukes.

  12. Re:Old News on We Are Not Related · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but I bought super bowl tickets that were printed on some sort of cracker.

  13. Dianetics 2.0 on We Are Not Related · · Score: 1

    Hubbard is at it again. Now the aliens landed and made cyborgs out of our ancestral cousins. I bet Ash went back and killed the cyborgs making way for our rise to dominance. "Alright you hairy Gates wannabes, this is my boom stick!"

  14. This is cool on Measuring Good Vibrations · · Score: 1

    One can think of hundreds of applications for this technology. They should have no problem selling this one. Buy stock if they ever go public ;) One use I was thinking about is the study of the vibration in the keel/centerboard of sail boats. I think the best part about this is being able to study vibrations in materials without dampening them. I.e. probing a system without altering it, upto a Heisenberg limit of course.

  15. Re:Meanwhile... on Global Warming will Open Northwest Passage · · Score: 1

    That's why they let the kindling accumulate on the forest floors in the west. 1)Institute Smokey the Bear 2)(uncontrollable fires, global warming, melting polar caps) 3)Profit

  16. Re:Conspiracy on Global Warming will Open Northwest Passage · · Score: 1

    CFCs != greenhouse gases They block the formation of ozone

  17. What does this on New Frozen World Found Beyond Pluto · · Score: 1

    do for the push for the Europa/Pluto probe? http://www.planetary.org/html/UPDATES/Pluto/pluto_ europa_action.html