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  1. Re:So why is it wrong on Majority of Landmark Cancer Studies Cannot Be Replicated · · Score: 1

    Funny how conservatives aren't skeptical of the scientists that agree with them. Skepticism is healthy. Skepticism based on idealogical grounds is not skepticism at all.

  2. Re:Home porn videos? on Ask Slashdot: Money-Making Home-Based Tech Skills? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why is it that just about every time a women posts something on the internet someone has to immediately turn the topic to sex???

  3. Koch Foundation Biased words... on Climate Change Skeptic Results Released Today · · Score: 1

    Quoting from the article "...we're proud to support this strong, transparent research" Implying that the original research by NASA and NOAA and other agencies world wide, and published in peer reviewed journals and subject to international critique was not strong and transparent?? Be honest Kochies, you just wanted a different answer.

  4. web? on A $25 PC On a USB Stick · · Score: 1

    HDMI one end, USB the other for keyboard. How is it going to connect to the web? Maybe you can chain a USB-ethernet connection through the keyboard.

  5. I can't wait... on The Spread of Do-It-Yourself Biotech · · Score: 1

    for my neighbor to make a tomacco plant. Refreshingly addictive!

  6. Not good for lefties? on Gaming Mouse Changes Shape For a Custom Fit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This mouse is so configurable, yet can't be used naturally by left handers. This is fail for 10% of the population.

  7. Not complaining? on FOSS Sexism Claims Met With Ire and Denial · · Score: 1

    You say women have it worse, so you are not complaining? But the sentence above is a long list of your complaints. Hey I agree with you, sexism anywhere is only unproductive and goes against the ethos of FOSS - but those two sentences in the middle of your post has such sharp hypocrisy, it cut me in half. Just because you are a boy, you don't have to belittle the prejudice you have suffered so the girls can look more important. It sux you have been slandered for defending women - complain about it! Z/

  8. Night Hawk Nerd? on World's Biggest Alarm Clock Shakes You Out of Bed · · Score: 1

    I bet he designed and built this while working late at night drinking copious amounts of coffee or caffeinated beverages. I wonder why he needed to take such drastic measures to get out of bed? Z/

  9. Mac OS X or openBSD on A Secure OS For the Dalai Lama? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Mac OSX might be more secure than windows and may be easier for non technical people (if the TGIE is lacking expertise) to get up and running. Alternatively, use openBSD - quite hard to get fully functional, but the expertise to get it there means anyone who does should have requisite skills to keep the Tibetan Government safe from certain foreign governments. Also, you may find the openBSD people will gladly help with this poltical agenda. Z/

  10. Close to superconduction? on AMD Phenom II Overclocked To 6.5GHz · · Score: 0

    I'm wondering, since they used liquid helium, do they get superconduction inside the chip? Maybe not everywhere, but perhaps some of the wired connectors etc. I doubt silicon superconducts, though. Anyone know?

  11. Re:Even happening with Lynx on RoadRunner Intercepting Domain Typos · · Score: 1

    Moderated informative? At least only a 2. "Lynx requests 'www.slfjiuhsf.com' and gets data back." is a major simplification of the protocol. See my comment above for why I tested with lynx.

  12. Re:Even happening with Lynx on RoadRunner Intercepting Domain Typos · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just commenting that their filtering is browser independent. It is simply based on DNS lookup, yes - but did you know that before hand? I have tried lynx -useragent=Various_Options and convinced myself of that. Do you understand that many servers will respond differently dependent on User-Agent: ?

  13. Even happening with Lynx on RoadRunner Intercepting Domain Typos · · Score: 1

    Just tried it in West Hollywood area using lynx as the browser. Even then it is getting diverted to their page. Pretty sneaky.

  14. Radio Scanners now to be unblocked? on Analog Cell Phone Network Shuts Down Monday · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I wonder if that old stupid law insisting US bought radio scanners be blocked from tuning analog cell phone frequencies will now be removed. The practice of having an analog receiver "blocked" from tuning into non-existent analog cell phone conversations is now completely redundant.

  15. Re:Fun with Bayes on Fourth Undersea Cable Taken Offline In Less Than a Week · · Score: 1

    If you have a problem with his numbers, explain what your problem is.

  16. What does the Pope know? on Pope Denounces Some Biotech as Affront to 'Human Dignity' · · Score: 1

    I'm tired of religious nuts dictating morality and ethics.

  17. Re:Or maybe... on Engineers Have a Terrorist Mindset? · · Score: 1

    I think you are right. The Sociologists only found that Engineers are "over-represented" among members of extremist groups. This says nothing about an innate tendency among engineers to have strong political/religious views. Correlation is not causality. What the sociologists fail to understand is the uselessness of, lets say, sociology, to the success of any organized group. Terrorist groups have little use for people who can find correlations between someones vocational training and their job choice and then chalk it up to some vague unseen concept of a "mind-set". They need people to build stuff, to blow stuff up and be clever about it, really clever about it. When a terrorist group is in need of a bunch of wankers to sit about masturbating while they generate bizarre correlations between observable facts that can be only explained by unseen forces, they will put out job ads for sociologists.

  18. Re:Self-rejection? on Teen Takes On Donor's Immune System · · Score: 1

    Her immune system is chimeric. The NEJM article basically says her immune system and blood cells are fusions of her own and the donor - therefore she can tolerate her old body and her new liver - and new immune system as well. Also she now has XY immune cells (the donor was male).

    All I can say is Oh Man! - Boom-boom tish!

  19. Re:Australia on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    You make that sound like it has to be a bad thing!

  20. Re:Give me a break! on Web Censorship on the University Campus? · · Score: 1

    Since the network is located at a university and is there to serve students and teachers, this is most certainly an access to information question, and not a network issue! The network is "the tool" and therefore must suit the needs of the users, not the other way around.

    If a network is "clogged", any solution to that problem must involve a modification of the network that does not interfer with its role as a tool for the students and teachers. Any other modification results in a poor tool. This can never mean the network is better or still fulfils its role as it did previously.

    Your take on this issue suggests the users are working for the network, rather than the network working for the users. Ridiculous!

  21. Re:general declining bias? on Google Launches Trends · · Score: 1

    Observe the results for the following search...

    http://www.google.com/trends?q=blog%2C+html&ctab=0 &geo=all&date=all

    Clearly the results follow the trends of popular culture (at least in this computer tech. based example). It is not clear that HTML is searched less often given the results in the url above. All that is shown is that HTML composed a lower proportion of searches requested in mid 2006 than in the beginning of 2004. See http://www.google.com/intl/en/trends/about.html#1 for an explanation of how the graph is constructed.

    I think Doug is right, any apparent decline in searches may simply reflect an increase in diversity of search requests. Any one search term is apparently searched less, that is "appears less" because it has a lower proportion as 1) More searches in general are requested and 2) these searches with time will tend to be more diverse as more users use google.

    Ironically, as more people use google, any one search term as displayed by Google Trends will appear to be searched less frequently.

    Zerobeat

  22. Rubber Hose on UK Government Wants Private Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    We need rubber-hose.org back more than ever

  23. Re:Raid on 200gb Hack for iPod Nano · · Score: 1

    Too cool! Umm no - not really.

  24. Raid on 200gb Hack for iPod Nano · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think I'm going to wait for a Raid hack...

  25. Re:Wow! on Original Lightsaber Goes For 3x Expectations · · Score: 1

    HOw much is that in Payola?