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  1. Re:The Brain Uses the Cerebellum to Multitask on Multitasking Makes You Stupid and Slow · · Score: 1

    grr..make that $DEITY. Firefox's spellcheck warned me but I thought it was complaining about the $.

  2. Re:The Brain Uses the Cerebellum to Multitask on Multitasking Makes You Stupid and Slow · · Score: 1

    "So women could indeed be better at multitasking but still have equivalent detrimental effects. Or perhaps women are better at multitasking through practice rather than innate ability."

    OR they could have better control of both hemispheres and actually suffer far fewer detrimental effects. Since this is a separate study and they didn't concentrate on any gender differences, I merely was wondering where this might fit it since it truly could go either way. I mean, in like in 6 months time we'll read a study that says the exact opposite of the one in TFA so it's not like we have to take this as the word of $DIETY yet.

  3. Re:The Brain Uses the Cerebellum to Multitask on Multitasking Makes You Stupid and Slow · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I haven't RTFA yet but there was a study I think a couple years ago where they determined that women multitask magnitudes better than men. If Kim's study was mostly of men then he might be onto something, otherwise I think someone needs to check their data a bit better.

  4. Re:Google Cache doesn't help on Subpoena Sought For Browsed News Articles · · Score: 1

    True but it doesn't access the main document and that's what they will be searching for since it's more than likely that any external images, etc. will be shared with many other pages on that site. Due to that one could not always easily prove without doubt that someone had actually read the document in question.

  5. Re:So... on Asteroid Missions May Replace Lunar Base Plans · · Score: 1

    If that's all you have to say then I don't need to read your "facts" it seems. You need to study magnetism and gravity IN DEPTH since your knowledge of basic physics seems to be massively lacking, especially concerning the effect of distance on the strength of magnetism and/or gravity. And especially concentrate on the effects and strength that our sun is capable of. No matter how "magnetic" this planet is, it will pale in comparison to the sun.

    And yes, I'll be sure to make fun of your belief system in, "I think, about a year".

  6. Re:So... on Asteroid Missions May Replace Lunar Base Plans · · Score: 1

    I don't think you've done the math because, as the AC pointed out, the gravitational effect of said planet will have less effect on the Earth than your car has, gravitationally speaking. You're assuming somehow that the government has some stranglehold on every astronomer on the planet, including hobbyists who could spot this "planet" with their telescopes just as easily as the pros. Just in case you missed it, we've had comets that were discovered by hobbyists before the pros remotely discovered it.

    Since you didn't bother citing ANY sources, didn't do ANY math, and had nothing remotely resembling real information, we can rest assured you're an attention whore, or overly paranoid.

  7. Re:SIGCHI slashdotters could help out! on Yahoo Patents 'Smart' Drag and Drop · · Score: 1

    Well The Sims would come after Alias/Wavefront chronologically..but yeah, exactly.

  8. Re:Any details on the actual study itself? on MPAA Botched Study On College Downloading · · Score: 5, Funny

    You forgot to mention how the CEOs, upon learning what the number was for, in hindsight wanted to pick a number between 75 and 98.

  9. Re:SIGCHI slashdotters could help out! on Yahoo Patents 'Smart' Drag and Drop · · Score: 1

    Alias/Wavefront and Maya have a similar interface. You click an object(point, line, spline, polygon, etc) and then right click and you get a "ring" of options. Then move your mouse ever so slightly and you select the action.

  10. Re:So... on Asteroid Missions May Replace Lunar Base Plans · · Score: 1

    All that paranoia and nothing to cite to backup your assertion? Well let me help you a bit. The sun is about 93 million miles away, has a mass that pales freakin' Jupiter by comparison, and yet you think that a planet 53 million miles away and only 27x our planet's mass is going to set us back 100 years? Sorry, I ain't biting without some answers. Sounds like the old "Black Sun" or "Black Planet" or whatever else the conspiracy nuts were calling it.

  11. Re:consequence of bad computer crime laws on Some DNS Requests Ruled Illegal in North Dakota · · Score: 1

    It was a toss-up. They both settled out of court and no money seems to have changed hands. Archive.org de-listed her and that was that. The only disturbing thing was that Archive.org stated that she had a "legitimate and enforceable copyright on her site" which might have been true but it surely wasn't an enforceable *contract* by any means.

  12. Re:consequence of bad computer crime laws on Some DNS Requests Ruled Illegal in North Dakota · · Score: 1

    Thanks for that. I forgot that it was archive.org, not Google.

  13. Solve this quickly on Lawyer Trademarks "Cyberlaw" · · Score: 1

    Solve this very quickly: Dilute his trademark by spelling it lower case and use the term in a link to an(other) attorney's site. He can't sue the attorney and can't sue you. If you recall, Google got upset when everyone was using "googling" and they tried in vain to stop it because it would dilute the trademark they had created, and that was Google, a company that actually is doing something worth trademarking not some half-wit attorney who thinks he knows cyberlaw or even cyberlaw or possibly cyberlaw and EVEN cyberlaw.

    Take that ya farging bastitch.

  14. Re:Evolution is a theory too on Texas Creationist Museum Facing Extinction · · Score: 1

    Sorry, you're thinking about the scientific term "hypothesis", not theory; many times fundies mix up the two because, well, they don't remotely understand science, its terms or the scientific method in general.

  15. Re:Would you need a screw shaped cork for wine? on Corkscrew Cups Could Keep Space Drinks Flowing · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, I saw a WeightWatchers commercial a while back that wrongly used "begs the question" as well. So it's not just for those you expect to lack grammar any more.

  16. Re:What DVD recorders COULD be, but aren't on Why Americans Don't Buy DVD Recorders · · Score: 1

    I get about 7.5-8 hours on my disks. Quality isn't bad at that compression either. And I only paid about $80 for it. Even works with my satellite receiver.

  17. Re:Nope on Class Action Suit Against RIAA Can Proceed · · Score: 1

    Better watch out about the Pr0n. Apparently a bunch of the larger production companies have started prosecuting PornTube and a couple others that I've never heard of. Hope they don't hit my favorite pr0n torrent site.

  18. Re:/. readers are excluded then on Class Action Suit Against RIAA Can Proceed · · Score: 1

    Aaah, but then there's the other fun topics concerning the bail. Like how if you post a 10% bond for someone, even if they are proven 100% innocent of the crime, the clerk will then take 10% of the 10% you posted. Read that again to make sure you get it: Even if you're proven innocent, they take money from you because you didn't post the whole thing. I have heard they've started tacking a "tax" on full-cash bonds as well but I've taken to completely avoiding courthouses so I can't verify that.

  19. Re:discredit global warming theories? no way on Solar Cycle 24 Has Started · · Score: 1

    I'm still waiting, or are you too afraid to actually be called out into the light?

  20. Re:consequence of bad computer crime laws on Some DNS Requests Ruled Illegal in North Dakota · · Score: 2, Funny

    You must have missed some of the stranger court cases recently. Like the woman who put up the website that she didn't want any web spiders to crawl so she put up a text message that said "web spiders are forbidden" instead of a robots.txt that would actually do something. Google indexed it and she sued.

  21. Re:And other things.. on Y2K38 Watch Starts Saturday · · Score: 1

    Yep. Just look at the number 23 and the Law of Fives.

  22. Re:Mmm, Delicious on Edible Antifreeze For Smoother Ice Cream · · Score: 1

    Well, I would consider putting the motor on the bottom to be a defect, of design.

  23. Re:old adage on Filming an Invasion Without Extras · · Score: 1

    But Hollywood has *already* lost sight of plot and character. Why do you think most of us see this move toward amateur film making as a good thing?

  24. Re:Interesting engineering opportunities on Researchers Create Beating Heart In Lab · · Score: 1

    Well, I put a Dodge 360 in a Triumph TR7 and it ran faster than any car we went against ever and I've seen more than my share of other "transplants" so maybe you could find another analogy rather than a car. Besides, your analogy would translate to the Jarvik artificial heart as well since it technically doesn't belong in the human body either.

  25. Re:Interesting engineering opportunities on Researchers Create Beating Heart In Lab · · Score: 1

    What I've often wondered is why our artificial hearts have a heartbeat. I mean, if it only has to move blood, why don't we use something akin to a centrifugal pump that would move blood in a constant stream instead of thump-thump-----thump-thump-----thump-thump? It seems there are more moving parts in an artificial heart than would be necessary.