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  1. All feminist psychos will nuts on Eating Meat Helped Early Humans Reproduce · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Some feminist psychos will nuts of those results, and not over the mens' nuts. Here is an example of meat and sex, gone wrong... Seriously and dangerously wrong:

    "The sexual politics of meat: A feminist-vegetarian critical theory" (http://www.amazon.com/The-Sexual-Politics-Meat-Feminist-Vegetarian/dp/0826411843)

    "First published in 1990, The Sexual Politics of Meat is a landmark text in the ongoing debates about animal rights. In the two decades since, the book has inspired controversy and heated debate. The Sexual Politics of Meat argues that what, or more precisely who, we eat is determined by the patriarchal politics of our culture, and that the meanings attached to meat eating are often clustered around virility. We live in a world in which men still have considerable power over women, both in public and in private. Carol Adams argues that gender politics is inextricably related to how we view animals, especially animals who are consumed. Further, she argues that vegetarianism and fighting for animal rights fit perfectly alongside working to improve the lives of disenfranchised and suffering people, under the wide umbrella of compassionate activism."

    That book can be seen as part of the ongoing degradation of general observations and science into something very dangerous - views and opinions based on random whims, often with a feminist, religious, sexual or otherwise subjective world-view.

    One can hope these new results will help raising the arguments to a decent intellectual level.

  2. Don't despair on Artificial DNA Replicates and 'Evolves' · · Score: 1

    "The problem with computer chips is that there is no fundamental death/life reward system unless we as humans implement it. And there will always be a need for us to do this because nature doesn't care about logic gates, we do. If you make a set of chips to provide an environment for incubating and reward or punishing the first set of chips, you merely have another layer where humans must evaluate and instruct the chips as to what it is that we want."

    Don't despair, this is how humans have hade breeding programs for the domestic animals like cattle, goats, sheep, horses, cats, and dogs for millennia.

    So, of course we will have evaluate them at some points before we can hope to use them.

  3. Re:We are a "snowball Earth", but life changed tha on Was Earth a Migratory Planet? · · Score: 1

    I found this from http://faculty.ucr.edu/~martink/pdfs/Kennedy_2008_Nature.pdf

    "The start of the Ediacaran period is defined by one of the most
    severe climate change events recorded in Earth history—the recovery
    from the Marinoan ‘snowball’ ice age, ,635 Myr ago. [...]

    The distinctive features of Marinoan deglaciation that define the
    base of the Ediacaran period can be attributed to the effects of
    permafrost methane clathrate destabilization. In contrast to the
    balanced feedbacks and progressive glacial–interglacial cycles of
    Cenozoic deglaciation, the violent opening of the highly volatile
    shelf-permafrost methane clathrate pool could act as a trigger to
    catastrophic climate and biogeochemical reorganization of the
    Earth system, abruptly bringing the long-lived and icy Cryogenian
    period to a close and setting the stage for the appearance of metazoans
    and dominance of a new Earth system. This event both identifies
    the range of function of the climate system, and demonstrates a
    mechanism activated by strong climate forcing not unlike projected
    future effects of atmospheric CO2."

  4. We are a "snowball Earth", but life changed that on Was Earth a Migratory Planet? · · Score: 1

    We have been a "snowball Earth", but life changed that some 2-3 billion years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryogenian

    Without life, Earth would probably have remained a snowball Earth.

    What is the problem?

  5. BotOxAss-A on New Targeted Mac OS X Trojan Requires No User Interaction · · Score: 1

    "Kaspersky refers to it as 'Backdoor.OSX.SabPub.a' while Sophos calls it at 'SX/Sabpab-A.'""

    G3ckoG33k calls it BotOxAss-A.

  6. No risk in the backyard?! on Experts Warn Of Possible North Korean Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    Why test in the backyard? Even if it involves a risk (www.google.com/search?q=underground+test+nuclear+risk+assessment)?

    I guess that given that NK is a small country I can understand their willingness to do it in the backyard and that they have come to the conclusion it must be a fairly low risk.

    But, still? What if they screw up like they did with their rocket?

  7. Indirect indications on New Study Suggests Mars Viking Robots Found Life · · Score: 1

    I don't believe in this as an indication of life on Mars.

    To me it looks like misunderstood chemistry. There is an oops somewhere. That is my bet.

  8. Go for standard formats! on KOffice Descendent Calligra Office and Creativity Suite Hits Release · · Score: 0, Troll

    'libreoffice is probably the best'

    That competition is ok and a good thing, as opposed to the stupid kde/gnome/unity/kfce/lxde joke. The office suits whirl around the standards, whereas the kde/gnome/unity/xfce/lxde joke more is about penises less than 6 inches.

    Go for standard formats and keep up competition where it works!

  9. Not folding arms on floor on Ask Slashdot: The Very Best Paper Airplane? · · Score: 1

    Not folding arms on floor.

    http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%85%92%E7%B2%BE%E4%B8%AD%E6%AF%92

    Big white F35-phone over.

    Rice paper higher fly.

  10. Santorum ends bid for GOP nomination on Iran Plans To Unplug the Internet, Launch Its Own 'Clean' Alternative · · Score: 1

    "America, take note"

    WTF, Santorum ends his bid for GOP nomination.

    He must have read what you wrote. Scary stuff :|

    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57411949-503544/rick-santorum-ends-bid-for-gop-nomination/

  11. quantity and quality on F-18 Fighter Jet Crashes Into Virginia Apartment Complex · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Don''t be silly. The US Army is superior becuase it has both quantity and quality.

    No army in the EU has both quantity and quality. And even if you combine the armies in the EU (or NATO) to get quantity you lose in quality, because of coordination issues due to different languages; like the French want to have a saying in all (even if no-one cares, really). Look at Libya. There are several reasons why there where no ground troops.

    Soviet, had quantity and overkill power. A bit rusty perhaps, but it worked. Russia is gradually returning. Slowly but steadily. Watch the news, monthly.

    China, had 2 billion armed bicycles but have replaced them with ultra-high technology at a pace which makes them a serious contender in the near to short long run. Watch the news, weekly.

    Mexico? They're disorganized when it comes to the army. But their organised crime syndicates are fucking well organised, and probably rank among the best paid suppliers to the troops. Watch the local news, daily.

    So, don''t be silly. The US Army still is superior becuase it has both quantity and quality.

  12. Synfig has an importer for svg files! on Animated Presentations Using SVG · · Score: 1

    Synfig (http://www.synfig.org/) has an importer for svg files!

    It has been around since a few subreleases. Just right-click on the workspace.

    Nice to see!

  13. Re:The ancient Greeks suspected that on USGS Suggests Connection Between Seismic Activity and Fracking · · Score: 0

    LOL!

    Mod current, (Score:5, Funny), as underrated!

  14. Strange, there are so few svg animation programs on Animated Presentations Using SVG · · Score: 1

    Strange, there are so few svg animation programs? Ktoon appears unsupported, Synfig has no importer for svg files and an addon for Inkscape still is in the making... Sad.

  15. Microsoft's Bing probably has it too on US Government: There's Child Porn On the Megaupload Servers Judge! · · Score: 2

    Microsoft's Bing probably has it too, in droves. In fact, any decent crawler may have it.Why sholdn't they? You don't realize until it is too late I guess.

  16. Re:Why now? on Double-Helix Model of DNA Paper Published 59 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    For three milliseventeenths of a ninety-seventh of a fortnight, I had no idea what you were on to.

  17. I wish politicians would step down in light of on Scientist Who Oversaw OPERA's Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Study Resigns · · Score: 1

    I wish politicians would step down in light of evidence. Not like the Santorum henchmen...

  18. This rules out Bank of America on Ask Slashdot: Store Umbilical Cord Blood — and If So, Where? · · Score: 0

    "there is still the question of using a public bank or a private one (and which one to trust)"

    I wouldn't trust them with anything. At least my childs blood.

  19. Re:In other words... on Findings Cast Doubt On Moon Origins · · Score: 1

    "No true Scotsman is an informal logical fallacy, an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion.[1] When faced with a counterexample to a universal claim, rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original universal claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to exclude the specific case or others like it by rhetoric, without reference to any specific objective rule."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

    QED

  20. DNA is large on Particle-Wave Duality Demonstrated With Largest Molecules Yet · · Score: 1

    DNA is large. Hasn't it been tested?

  21. "metal surfaces scarred by exposure to radiation" on Japan's Damaged Reactor Has High Radiation, No Water · · Score: 1

    "metal surfaces scarred by exposure to radiation"

    No pics? Booo.

  22. It is probably more advance than any Apollo... on Apple Offers Nano-SIM Design Royalty-Free · · Score: 1

    It is probably more advance than any Apollo... The Apollo series is complex but still cast iron technology by comparison I guess.

  23. Will we see a growth of vigilantes? on China Plans To End Executed Prisoner Organ Donations Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Will we see a growth of vigilantes because of this?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilante

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_squads

    One could see this as move to privatize the business, favoring an entrepreneurial attitude!

    Very scary.

  24. What insights will we gain from this? on Record-Setting 100+ T Magnetic Field Achieved At Los Alamos · · Score: 2

    What insights will we gain from this breakthrough? As it stands it sounds as impressive as the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Cool, but sort of useless.

    Why did they choose 100 Tesla as a target? Why not 117 Tesla? That is even more!

  25. Re:heh on Why Linux Can't 'Sell' On the Desktop · · Score: 1

    Debian rulez! :)