User: Moderatbastard

Re:No thanks.

On: Chinese Satellite Crashes Into House

A coin coming up heads or tails is one thing, you know if its heads or tails. A satellite crashing through your roof is another.

Wrong on two counts. Firstly, anybody who isn't retarded (and isn't away on vacation ;-) ) will also know if a satellite has or hasn't crashed through his roof.

Second, No way does one event (satellite crashing through your roof) influence another (such as your lottery numbers will coming up). Ergo, the comment by jelle that one bit of bad luck will bring some good luck to maintain cosmic harmony is twaddle - it's just the gambler's fallacy in a different form.

Re:How...?

On: San Fran Mayor Declares Wireless for All

The median income is so high because there are so many people here with so much money.

High outliers may pull the mean up, but they don't affect the median.

So, more innumerate than insightful.

Re:really scary

On: Flying By Brain

The point is not so much that a mass neurons of can't be conscious, as that a mass of neurons this small can't be concscious.

Concscious or not, I see clear evidence that very small blobs of neurons can have mod points.

I for one

On: Flying By Brain

Am I the only one who thought of the dangerous consequences of this?!

I for one welcome our new airborne rodent overlords.

Re:working backwards

On: Flying By Brain

I don't give a rats about the moral implications

rat's. As in rat's arse. Or in this case, its brain.

Re:How cold does it get in the UK during winter?

On: Keeping Computers (And People) Warm In Winter?

I managed to sleep soundly next to 5,000HP diesel engines when I was a teenager

You had one wierd childhood! Or were you in the navy or something?

Re:No thanks.

On: Chinese Satellite Crashes Into House

tips the scale such toward the bad-luck extreme that after that you are due a lot of luck to get back to 'normal'.

That's a very good theory. I suppose if a coin comes up 99 times as heads, it just has to come up tails next time.

Note to self: next time in the bookies, bet on the horse that out of the last 10 races fell over twice, turned round once and finished last 7 times.

If there's such a word as misinformed, there should be misinformative too. For a definition see the parent post.

Re:First Image

On: Chinese Satellite Crashes Into House

In China, the media IS the government.

How odd. In Soviet Russia it was the other way round.

Re:First Image

On: Chinese Satellite Crashes Into House

And how that is different from the american media reporting what the WhiteHouse tells them?

Because the american [sic] government don't drive tanks over protesters in Tianamen Square?

Re:Do you remember when we used to say ...

On: The Hardware Behind Echelon Revealed

"The terrorists win only if they change us, only if they make us change who we are and how we live."

By that standard, I'd say "Game Over".

Huh? Nobody's stopped me drinking beer and eating bacon, and I regularly see chicks walking down the street without tents & ninja masks on.

Re:So, if Echelon is also in the UK...

On: The Hardware Behind Echelon Revealed

Slashdot is turning into a harbor for crazy people

I would question your use of the present tense there.

Any story about Echelon always brings the foil-hatters out in droves. It's almost as if they're monitoring the internet - chuckle - as if that were possible!

Re:Idiot Jukebox

On: Centrally-Controlled Home Music System on a Budget?

My point was that it's easier, and more rewarding, to teach (anything) to one who you know will eventually get it. When you reach the realization that your student will never understand enough to use the system on his or her own, and will always need you to fix things that are inexplicably "broken," you tend to get frustrated.

If that doesn't prove that wondergibbon is right, I don't know what does. There's a saying that there's no bad students, just bad teachers, and your attitude makes me inclined to agree with it.

Ever heard of a self fulfilling prophecy?

Re:Do parents really want this?

On: Photo ID Required To Buy/Rent Games In Canada

except that there have been more than one case in the US where the games WERE blamed for the actions of the kids

Big fat deal. If I blame you for my aching shoulder, does that make you guilty of assault?

IIRC (I'm sure it was discussed here) the blame game was about money grubbing lawyers going after those with the deepest pockets rather than the deepest guilt.

Re:Do parents really want this?

On: Photo ID Required To Buy/Rent Games In Canada

except that there have been more than one case in the US where the games WERE blamed for the actions of the kids

Big fat fucking deal. If I blame you for my aching shoulder, does that make you guilty of assault?
If I blame little green gremlins from Mars for my car not starting, does that prove that extraterrestrials visit us and loosen HT leads?

IIRC (I'm sure it was discussed here) the blame game was about money grubbing lawyers going after those with the deepest pockets rather than the deepest guilt.

Re:When did mediocrity become something to shoot f

On: Kamikaze Novel Writing

Sadly, it clashes with BiMonSciFiCon.

Re:Monkeys

On: Kamikaze Novel Writing

A million monkeys with a million typewriters...

That's just silly. You could use half a million typewriters and have them work shifts.

Re:I have a feeling...

On: Kamikaze Novel Writing

Nope, it just has to be somewhat usable, even if it crashes every half an hour and occasionally corrupts data.

Those are bugs. They might not be serious,they might not be showstoppers, but they're still bugs.
Do you work in marketing, by any chance?

Re:Give credit where credit is due!

On: George Lucas to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

Those movies are one of the best movies ever.

And you are the stupidest bunch of 'tards on slashdot.

Re:Nothing

On: What's The Linux Kernel Worth?

Parent post clearly identified that he was estimating cost, not value.

So? TFA was about value, so who's the tard?

Re:Burden of proof

On: White House Lied About Iraq Nuclear Programs

Well said. And to the people [1] who say "well, how would you feel if the cops contantly searched your house without a warrant" I would reply:

1. My house is not a country.

2. And even if it was, I never invaded my neighbours house.

3. And even if I did, I didn't cry uncle and agree to precisely that when the big guy from the next street threw me out of there got me in a headlock.

[1] I suspect they are mostly the same ones who knew all along that Saddam had no WMD, but kept very very quiet about it pre the invasion. Shame they didn't keep that up.

Re:6 year old view of the computer world

On: Solaris Systems Programming

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Mod me down, you fucking twits. Go ahead. I dare you.
(I read with sigs off.)

I'm glad I don't. Tell it how it is, don't hold back now! I totally agree, FWIW.

Re:Delta P, Delta E

On: Smart Cars Coming to Canada and U.S.

I've seen pictures of a from end collision between a Samrt and a Mercedes E-class, the Merc was a write-off, while the Smart drove away.

Interesting? Does anyone actually believe this rubbish?

Re:Spinning stories?

On: A New Species Of Giant Ape?

Buffalo (or is it Bison - they were big hairy cows anyway) do that too.

Re: Humanzee

On: A New Species Of Giant Ape?

Cases of monkeys walking on two legs [msn.com], or Humanzees, are well known to science. It is believed to be a result of brain damage during illness.

Beh. My call is that it's doing it as a piss-take.

Re:Incredible but....

On: A New Species Of Giant Ape?

HIV might be just that virus you're looking for btw check up on the number of infected (and the increasion rate) in the former Soviet block region and Africa.

It's still pretty easy to avoid catching it.

The human race still cannot cure the common cold

The common cold is rarely fatal, though.