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  1. But In Soviet Russia on Alaskan Cyclotron - Not in My Backyard! · · Score: 1

    Nuclear Reactors Melt YOU!

    Like Chernobyl, which was dangerous.

  2. Three Mile Island on Alaskan Cyclotron - Not in My Backyard! · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Wasn't very dangerous either.

  3. Re:more bad science on Possible Love Molecule? · · Score: 1

    Maybe levels of the chemical rise after the person in question meets their prospective partner, causing a particular relationship. In that case, there would not be a group of people who are ready to fall in love. The study may deliberately discard those subjects who were not in relationships at the beginning, but were at the end of the test.

  4. Parent is not a Troll on Smart Mouse with E-Mail and IM Alerts · · Score: 1

    This is true. Microsoft should quit the software market for peripherals.

  5. Re:Annoying on Eight Year Old Physics Student Admitted to College · · Score: 1

    Isn't all that school bad for the teachers? Usually they need a lot more breaks than the students.

  6. Re:Is there on NetBSD 2.1 Released · · Score: 1

    z80? I want netbsd on my Ti-83+! (z80 is also gameboy)

  7. Re:Easy Question. on Converting a Musical Score to a Playable Melody? · · Score: 1

    3) You don't need to restart anything. You need to turn of timidity server. Once.

    5) The three commands are for converting music saved in latex format to DVI for printing. It was a simple matter to write a shell script that can simplify this. Then you can configure noteedit to run the script automatically.

  8. Easy Question. on Converting a Musical Score to a Playable Melody? · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are a wide variety of these programs. I use NoteEdit. It was very hard for me to install it on my SuSE 9 machine, but it works well. Make sure you have TiMidity server, which is used for playback, installed and running or else NoteEdit will crash as soon as you start it, giving a cryptic error message. Sometimes running TiMidity will interfere with other sounds on my box, which is annoying, so I have to turn it on and off. If you want to print music you've inputed to NoteEdit, you need LaTeX installed. Remember, the commands to convert a LaTeX file to a musical score are:

    $ latex filename.tex
    $ musixflx filename.tex
    $ latex filename.tex

    I got this wrong for a while, even with the VERY noticable reminder from NoteEdit.

    One of the other programs available is Rose Garden. Rose Garden is more mature but also less intuitive and oriented towards synthesis as opposed to performances.

    If you get to be hard-core about editing scores on your Linux box, the best program around for professional score engraving will already be installed on your computer with the LaTeX distribution you aquired for printing the output from NoteEdit. See this Giant Musixtex Manual. I often typeset complex mathematics, but I have not yet been able to master musixtex, so good luck there.

  9. Louse! on Google Ant · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is a louse named after Gary Larson.

    I pitty the species that gets named after SCO Group.

  10. What kind of search engine is this? on Google Losing Ground in China? · · Score: 2, Funny

    It doesn't even know where Slashdot is!

    I can't find slashdot anywhere in the first few pages, but Google shows up a lot.

  11. Re:keep their monitor in view on When Should You Buy Your Kid A Laptop? · · Score: 1

    And, watching your kids will not keep them from blindly clicking, and especially not from getting spyware. Spyware is deliberately hidden to fool adults, where as pornography is usually advertized.

  12. Re:Since we're calling names.... on When Should You Buy Your Kid A Laptop? · · Score: 1

    "Would you rather get punished for smoking in high school or become addicted and die from lung cancer when you are 35?" This actually supports my point; people should get a chance to learn while they're young.

    "there are long term consequences to a pornography addiction" -- and someone is less likely to develop one if they aren't exposed until their an adult? I doubt it.

  13. Re:keep their monitor in view on When Should You Buy Your Kid A Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Most intellegent people only find those things if they are looking for them. And I still don't think they are actually harmful to look at, assuming who ever is looking at them has the sort of general knowlege one aquires in public schools at a young age.

  14. Re:Since we're calling names.... on When Should You Buy Your Kid A Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Usually kids who read Cat in the Hat won't chose to read Mein Kampf. I wouldn't say it's unreasonable to require that your kid learn German first. That should give some perspective. Usually books are better untranslated anyway.

  15. Ahem. on When Should You Buy Your Kid A Laptop? · · Score: 1

    I before E except after C! Should be receive.

  16. Re:Old Fashioned on When Should You Buy Your Kid A Laptop? · · Score: 1

    "I mean, everytime I comment on slashdot I always seem to have a few responses with how I could have wrote something better."

    Leave off the independent clause at the start of the sentance. Every time is two words, unless you mean a Brittney Spears song. Something is missing between with and how. I would use written, not wrote.

    Critique this: Every time I post a comment on Slashdot, I recieve a few responses telling me how I could write better.

  17. Since we're calling names.... on When Should You Buy Your Kid A Laptop? · · Score: 0

    I'm glad you aren't my parent. Good parenting is letting your children learn from all sorts of information, even if it's wrong. All parents have trouble letting go of control over their children. That is what this censorship is really about. Remember that the internet its self does not cause physical harm (at least not in the way, for example, that sports do). Every time you stop a child from dealing with a new kind of information in a situation where it cannot cause physical harm, you weaken that child's chances of dealing with a physically dangerous situation. And your statement is idiotic.

  18. Re:keep their monitor in view on When Should You Buy Your Kid A Laptop? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't be silly. As a kid, I never ran into anything the least bit objectionable or disturbing (by accident). If you try and keep your children away from the real world, they won't know what to do when you aren't there looking over their shoulder. And honestly, it's very hard for someone to get hurt just by reading a web site. Even one covered with GNAA trolls.

    As for the whole thing about kids never sharing a real name and address because they might get stalked, or something, just remember that stalkers are more likely to pick their neighbor's children than ones that are inconveniently located somewhere else.

    In conclusion, if you think the internet is too dangerous for children, then you should never let your child or yourself get inside a motorized vehicle.

  19. IANAP on Quantum Information Can be Negative · · Score: 1

    I am not a physicist, yet. In the situation you describe, it seems that the sum of the information within the black hole and universe outside the black hole would remain a positive constant. The information in the black hole would also remain positive. The information outside the black hole would remain positive. Only the change in information inside the black hole would be negitive. This doesn't seem the least bit exotic to me. Now, if you could make a black hole with negitive area, that would be something different! A "white hole" so to speak, ought to have negitive mass and repel everything.

    Now I shall attempt to read the article. Perhaps you can explain what you mean in more detail.

  20. What does terrorism have to do with politics? on Terrorists Move to Cyberspace · · Score: 1

    Politicians (often) started it. Now politicians use it to obtain their goals [hem, oil].

  21. Re:"Pro-choice": whose choice? on Reconciling Information Privacy and Liberty? · · Score: 1

    I didn't think I needed to say this but...
    You can't make people stop having sex. Abstinance won't happen on a large scale. Neither will suicides. Both are contrary to natural selection.

  22. Re:not to take a side on Reconciling Information Privacy and Liberty? · · Score: 1

    "Fetus, embryo, pre-born child = innocent.
    Capital criminal = guilty.

    The general line of thinking is that if you violate or nearly violate someelse's right to life your own life is forfeit as a penalty."


    In other words... A fetus is human, but a criminal isn't?

  23. Re:"Pro-choice": whose choice? on Reconciling Information Privacy and Liberty? · · Score: 1

    People never decide they want to live their lives; most do it because they don't even consider other choices. Our society will forcibly prevent suicide where possible. Also, it's instinct to continue living. Saying that suicides are a good measure of the value of life is like saying abstenance will stop the spread of HIV/AIDs.

  24. Why this is usefull: on ClearLooks to be Default Theme on Gnome 2.12 · · Score: 1

    1. Bootable CD-ROMS. They don't remember that you changed the theme. They might not even give you a choice.

    2. Public teminals. Hopefully these do not let you change the theme.

    3. Other people's computers. Not everyone will have the sense to change a theme.

  25. Clarification. on Federal Obscenity Rule Nixed In Internet Porn Case · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying you are wrong. Just that changing the law won't solve all problems.