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  1. Re:Homeland security would like a word... on How to Maintain Lab Safety While Making Viruses Deadlier · · Score: 2

    Your post is true. Your list of horrors should include this one and if those bother anyone, this should as well.

    It is unconscionable for the gov or anyone to actually create this item. There have been too many incidents of accidentally losing and miss filing and just plain letting escape of pathogens here and abroad to purposely create a friggin' virus that is *designed* to elude immune responses - in other words, purposely designed to kill at maximum. Yes, the government is the main culprit but this guy is a definite accessory and if this shit escapes and kills people he definitely shares the guilt.

  2. No doc on Ask Slashdot: Should You Invest In Documentation, Or UX? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As a developer and a user I absolutely *hate* apps with no documentation. None of the apps I see on your linked page are primitive enough to stand without. Actually, nothing more complex than say... well, nothing.

  3. Re:Meh on Giant Greek Tomb Discovered · · Score: 1

    For those of use not requiring pictures to understand the basics. It may take fifty years to completely unearth this site and reconstruct what it looked like. Just hold your horses, more pictures will be on the way.

  4. Re:meh on Giant Greek Tomb Discovered · · Score: 1

    Now, yes. Then, no. The average height of men participating in the Olympic games was about that. They were probably a little larger than normal. That made Alexander a little taller than normal.

    Yes, I recognize you were being humorous. I was answering your qualifier which kinda dorked your joke. Should'a left it at one line.

  5. Re:meh on Giant Greek Tomb Discovered · · Score: 2

    We do use metric. We also like to retain our Anglo-Saxon/Roman system. We don't feel like it taxes our brains like you all feel it taxes yours. Those who don't use the metric system in their daily lives tend to not convert easily. Those who do, can. We find it amusing that it generates such apoplexy in those abroad who can't.

  6. Re:What about Oregon and Washington? on Comcast Drops Spurious Fees When Customer Reveals Recording · · Score: 1

    Why spoil my fun? I simply wait through the messages, punch the requested button, wait until someone starts their spiel and then scream like I'm being murdered with an axe. Then I politely say "Thank you" and hang up. Quite cathartic.

  7. Re:Never let the truth on Is "Scorpion" Really a Genius? · · Score: 1

    Read the entire article. From the same article:

    the psychologist who came up with an IQ of 228 committed an extrapolation of a misconception, thereby violating almost every rule imaginable concerning the meaning of IQs

    A subsequent test pegged her at around 188.

    Again from the same article, her own opinion.

    Savant sees IQ tests as measurements of a variety of mental abilities and thinks intelligence entails so many factors that "attempts to measure it are useless."

  8. Re:This is why I'm leaving academia. on Geneticists Decry Book On Race and Evolution · · Score: 0

    And you are so sure of your mindset that you posted AC to avoid connecting your moniker with that sentiment. Brave of you.

  9. Re:Are You Kidding? on Geneticists Decry Book On Race and Evolution · · Score: 1

    That's true only for the scientific pedant. In other species, races are recognized despite certain genes occurring across the boundaries. It's the collection of traits and you full well know it.

  10. Re:Are You Kidding? on Geneticists Decry Book On Race and Evolution · · Score: 2

    How about you provide some cites instead of a bland assertion? I can find absolutely no references to Neanderthal skin color and haven't heard of such. I would be truly interested.

    Perhaps you could also come up with an explanation for North American skin color, Asian skin color and others.

  11. Re:And what they did not publish on About Half of Kids' Learning Ability Is In Their DNA · · Score: 1

    That is a false statement.

  12. Re:And what they did not publish on About Half of Kids' Learning Ability Is In Their DNA · · Score: 1

    And you know this how? *Your* genius? Your ESP?

  13. Re:Not Free on Old School Sci-fi Short Starring Keir Dullea Utilizes Classic Effects · · Score: 1

    Which cost you nothing. It's free. Go get a soda. Holy shit, the entitlement some people have.

  14. Re:Hulu sucks. on Old School Sci-fi Short Starring Keir Dullea Utilizes Classic Effects · · Score: 1

    One friggin' commercial. How terrible for you.

  15. Re: politicizing on Brookings Study Calls Solar, Wind Power the Most Expensive Fossil Alternatives · · Score: 1

    The worst thing that has happened is that the republicans put partisan political games ahead of working to solve verified global crises.

    Yes, and the democrats aren't pushing green for any reason other than altruism, correct? Take no notice of the immense graft happening. Neither side is innocent of having vested interests as you demonstrate with your last sentence.

  16. Re:Saved the earth on Ancient Worms May Have Saved Life On Earth · · Score: 1

    You really liked that movie didn't you? It's a nice fairy tale but doesn't really hold water at that individual level.

  17. Re:Enjoyed the article ... on Interviews: Dr. Andy Chun Answers Your Questions About Artificial Intelligence · · Score: 1

    For very, very loose definitions of "think about itself".

  18. Re:I'm not a physicist, but on The Man Who Invented the 26th Dimension · · Score: 1

    Finite but unbounded is not reality, only a conjecture designed to eliminate infinite length in any direction. People don't like either the concept of the universe being a bubble in a void or curving around on itself. The truth of the situation is we haven't a clue as yet.

  19. Re:String theory is not science! on The Man Who Invented the 26th Dimension · · Score: 1

    And until it falls into the testable category, it's speculation not any form of an hypothesis.

  20. Re:That anyone can knit at home? on Want To Work Without Prying Eyes? Try Wearing a Body Sock · · Score: 1

    Pshaw. Just depends on your skill. My ex probably knitted one of those in a couple of days while watching TV. She could knit a plain sweater in a couple of days or a cardigan in maybe five. Intricate patterns in the cords and great color blends. Cardigans of that quality are three hundred or more. I still, twenty-five years later have a shawlter (wrap around sweater without sleeves) she designed and knitted for me to wear in cold corporate environs.

  21. Re:Wars, empires, testosterone on Ancient Skulls Show Civilization Rose As Testosterone Fell · · Score: 2

    Chimps wage war. It is not something that "comes" with civilization, like Oscar thinks gravy comes with meatloaf.

  22. Re:Makes sense on Ancient Skulls Show Civilization Rose As Testosterone Fell · · Score: 1

    Bingo. It is your opinion. Yet in your first post you stated it as if it were fact, which is what you were called on.

  23. Re:WTF? on Psychology's Replication Battle · · Score: 4, Informative

    Recording supernovae

    Not an experiment.

    Dissecting passenger pigeons

    Not an experiment.

    Studying the medical complications of Thalidomide babies

    You got one.

    Any scientific analysis of an event which occurred once may not be directly replicable.

    Actually the analysis can be replicated ad nauseam.

  24. Re:WTF? on Psychology's Replication Battle · · Score: 0

    A thought experiment is almost always constructed in a highly biased manner, excluding many, many alternative choices. It's primary concern is to give the questioner the moral high ground, allowing that questioner to point out the ethical failure of the respondent.

  25. Re:Behavioral economics on Psychology's Replication Battle · · Score: 1

    You misrepresent what happened. Ford realized that first and foremost, people needed to be able to *afford* cars, so he designed and produced the T. Only after the car was ubiquitous did fashion exert any greater influence.