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  1. Re:This looks like the original data (link enclose on Cannabinoids Induce Brain Cell Growth? · · Score: 1

    The addictive substance? You must be high.

  2. Re:a few of my favs on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    Penrose needs to stick to physics. His excursions into the realm of philosophy have been failures.

  3. Re:a few of my favs on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    Why on earth would Godel's incompleteness theorem imply that computers will never be able to have human-like intelligence? Godel showed that theoretically not everything in a formal system sufficient for arithmatic can be proven, but he invented a very special case to demonstrate this. For all practical purposes, computers can do anything, and for something as poorly defined as "human-like intelligence," I don't think a single case like Godel's really matters. Is it determining whether p = "p cannot be proved" is true really a fundimental part of human intelligence? Godel's theorems do have many implications, but I don't think this is one of them.

  4. Re:Can You Say Settlement? on Another Victim Countersues RIAA Under RICO Act · · Score: 1

    I don't think the RIAA has to worry about not having enough lawers. Anderson is the one I'd be concerned about.

  5. Re:So... Let me get this straight... on Office 12 to Include Native PDF Support · · Score: 1

    Sooner or later this sort of hypocrisy is going to catch up to them and their business practices.

    What makes you think that? Sounds like wishful thinking to me.

  6. Re:I will personally put sales over last years... on Bad Movies to Blame for Box Office Slump · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they are directors. Aronofsky directed Pi and Requiem for a Dream. Jarmusch directed Dead Man, Coffee and Cigarettes, Broken Flowers, and Night on Earth, among others.

  7. Re:I know the answer! on Bad Movies to Blame for Box Office Slump · · Score: 2, Funny

    No no, you have it all wrong. Fool me once shame on.. shame on you...... a fooled man can't get fooled again."

  8. I will personally put sales over last years... on Bad Movies to Blame for Box Office Slump · · Score: 1

    When The Fountain comes out on December 31st. Broken Flowers was good, but even Jarmusch can't compete with Aronofsky.

  9. Re:No US-Boeing bias at /. is there? on Airbus A380 Under Fire · · Score: 1

    If you had read the article you'd know Boeing is using the same chip.

  10. Re:Not exactly.... on Eight Charged in Episode III Early Release · · Score: 0

    oh, yes, because if they only made 80 million that would be a travisty.

  11. Re:godels incompleteness theorem on Trigonometry Redefined without Sines And Cosines · · Score: 1

    Wrong. There are things that cannot be proved true or false in any formal system sufficient for arithmatic.

  12. Re:Linux on Reducing The Negative Impact of Laptops · · Score: 1

    This was about 2 months ago.

  13. Re:Linux on Reducing The Negative Impact of Laptops · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The last time I tried to install debian the install went reletivly quicly, but afterwards it took me 2 hours to get X work with my video card, and I still can't get the sound working. I'm sure an expert would have been able to do this much faster, and maybe even get my sound working, but most computer users aren't expererts, and believe it or not, most don't even know linux experts. Linux is just not a viable desktop option for the vast majority of the users out there, and I'm not sure it ever will be.

  14. Re:Finders Keepers on One Find, Two Astronomers · · Score: 1

    *sigh*

  15. Re:Still no encryption? on Yahoo To Update Mail Service · · Score: 1

    Why don't you just use hushmail then?

  16. Re:They left out.. on Windows Vista To Come In 7 Flavors · · Score: 1

    I hear this sort of thing all the time but do you really believe that? Most people I know don't even know what Mandriva is.

  17. Re:Too Bad... on RNA May 'Run' Genetic Coding · · Score: 1

    Yeah, seriously, why does everyone always say "no pun intended" what it obviously was intended.

  18. Re:Extensions on Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yup, just open install.rdf and change 1.2 to 1.6a2 and most extentions will work fine. The only one that isn't working for me is bugmenot.

  19. Re:Northern lights? on Recent Solar Flare Could Disrupt Communications · · Score: 1

    Unlikely unless you live in Amsterdam or grow your own...oh wait

  20. Re:Sounds like a fairly destructive process... on Practical Method for Getting Oil from Oil Shale? · · Score: 1

    EARTH!

  21. wrong on Practical Method for Getting Oil from Oil Shale? · · Score: 4, Informative

    The article says this would be profitable even if oil cost $30 a barral. It is near $70 now.

  22. Re:www.fuddrruckers.com on Fuddruckers Called Out on Hotlinking · · Score: 1

    I just get "connection refused."

  23. Re:"Hotlink"? on Fuddruckers Called Out on Hotlinking · · Score: 1

    Because it's not the same. Hotlinking is when you directly embed content (usually an image actually) from someone elses server into your own. Technically they are actually linking here, but the effect is the same since they are linking directly to the flash window and trying to pass it off as their own.

  24. Re:What am I missing? on Fuddruckers Called Out on Hotlinking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The problem is that the way fuddruckers did the link, it looked like it was part of their site.

  25. Re:Obviously he wasn't a Slashdotter... on Fuddruckers Called Out on Hotlinking · · Score: 1

    He said he considered it, but decided not to since the fuddruckers page was supposedly for kids.