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  1. Re:Science VS religion. on Taking Issue With Claims That American Science Education is 'Dismal' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why are people here so damn obsessed with religion VS science debate? It's not a significant issue (queue up apocryphal stories...). Virtually every scientist in the history of science was religious and science has progressed nicely despite the fact that the vast majority of the human population is religious.

          People tend to focus on these obscure side issues like creationism, etc. I am as conservative as they come, I was raised in the Judeo-Christian tradition, and spend all my time with people who are religious to one degree or another. No one I know sees a significant conflict here,

  2. Re:Use case differences... on Geezers Pick Stronger Passwords Than Young'uns · · Score: 1

    I used to think I couldn't shoot down a German plane. But last year I proved myself wrong!

       

  3. Fairly obvious... on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With a Math Degree? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Private school math teacher?

  4. Re:I thought these were pretty much known already on 350-Year-Old Newton's Puzzle Solved By 16-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    All of which is very well known and (nearly) trivial to simulate. I presume what he did was come up with a *closed form* solution.

         

  5. Re:USA should have some experience from Asia on Sound Increases the Efficiency of Boiling · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Anyone who BOILS BACON (nature's perfect food) really shouldn't be providing any culinary advice.

  6. Re:Beauacracy on Obama To Agencies: Optimize Web Content For Mobile · · Score: 1

    Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, etc. Dragging those programs into the 20th century is commendable.

          All of those programs should be terminated with as much haste as possible.

  7. Re:I never saw one of those on Inventor of the TV Remote Control Dies · · Score: 2

    There were radios with wireless remotes in the 30's. The Philco "Mystery Control" used radio control to run the radio using something very much like a telephone dial.

    http://www.philcorepairbench.com/mystery/index.htm

          Brett

  8. Re:Parrot TV on Inventor of the TV Remote Control Dies · · Score: 1

    It goes back a long time before that - the Zenith Space Command remote was acoustic and introduced in 1956. All you could hear was the "click" - hence the nickname for remotes - "the clicker".

          Brett

  9. Re:It was actually pretty exciting to watch on On Hand for the SpaceX Launch That Almost Was (Video) · · Score: 1

    It's not remotely new, it predates the V2, back to Goddard days. You hold it on the pad until the engine is fully operable.

  10. Re:You cant hear it anyway. on Dolby's TrueHD 96K Upsampling To Improve Sound On Blu-Rays · · Score: 1

    Depends on how the filters that knock out the 44.1 kHz are implemented. It is MUCH easier to filter out 96 khz than 44.1. It's not just a math problem, you have to actually build the D/A and analog section

  11. Re:Worst domain name since... on Introducing SlashBI · · Score: 1

    Oh, no, I though "amateursexchange.com" was a lot worse.

  12. Re:Well, there you have it on Is Stanford Too Close To Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    I didn't mean to imply that the only valuable degrees that lead to multi-millionaires. A university isn't a vocational school. But you do need to have some useful contribution to make to the world, or you wind up on the damn dole.

  13. Well, there you have it on Is Stanford Too Close To Silicon Valley? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, New Yorker, you really hit the nail on the head there. Foolishly concentrating on marketable skills and useful scholarship, instead of the laudable pursuits like LGBT studies and Russian literature. New York institutions have it right - charge a lot and turn out people who have nothing productive to contribute and nothing better to do than occupy Wall Street (i.e crap in public and shout slogans) and whine about having to pay back their student loans!

  14. Re:Natural case, not transmitted through feed on Mad Cow Disease Confirmed In California · · Score: 3, Funny

    it's only when cow engage in cannibalism that the disease spreads to enough cattle

        Never turn your back on one, that's for sure!

  15. Re:And so another empire has fallen on In Nothing We Trust · · Score: 2

    Oh, you mean like it is described in the Constitution? That predates the existence of the EU by 200+ years? Good idea.

            Brett

  16. Re:scientifically on Hypersonic Test Aircraft Peeled Apart After 3 Minutes of Sustained Mach 20 Speed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Right. Glad you grasped the point of the project so well, and didn't try to wedge in some off-topic nonsense.

  17. Re:They have one huge disadvantage: Landscape mode on 12 Ways LibreOffice Writer Tops MS Word · · Score: 1

    Agreed, it can be done and the parent post was overblown. But it *is* in a stupid and non-intuitive place and it took me a heck of a long time to find it, too. Just irritating.

  18. OK, I am confused on Arizona Attempts To Make Trolling Illegal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How is this going to get overturned, if it was passed by duly elected legislature? By unelected judges? I thought a recently as 3 days ago, that was an outrageous activist overreach?

  19. Re:Simple on Solar Power Is Booming — Why Do We Want To Kill It? · · Score: 1

    By the way, Obama believes he is a great genius of a businessman, why is he not using his own money to sponsor all these 'alternative energy' companies but insists on spending other people's money on this?

          You clearly have NO understanding of how money laundering works.

        Brett

  20. Test the efficacy? on Space Junk Forced Astronauts Into ISS Escape Capsules · · Score: 5, Informative

    You are kidding right? They ARE going to test their efficacy, that's how they get back down.
       

  21. Re:Unbelievable on Elon Musk: Future Round-Trip To Mars Could Cost Under $500,000 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My first reaction to this was WTF, but I think I know the basic idea for his plan: pack as many people into a tin can as possible and send them flying.

        Aside from the little detail of also sending enough supplies to sustain them on the trip and once they get there, and on any presumed return flight, yes.

  22. Of course on Elon Musk: Future Round-Trip To Mars Could Cost Under $500,000 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Everything seems plausible, if you don't know what you are doing.

  23. Re:I don't understand the fuss about the language on Mystery of Duqu Programming Language Solved · · Score: 3, Informative

    They are trying to do the forensics. If you know the tools used, you have a much better idea where to look for the people who did it. It was almost certainly NOT a matter of determining what it was doing, they wanted to figure something out that would help them track it back to the source.

  24. Oh, for goodness sake, no! I have that on my car, and I end up turning the damn thing up and down. If you keep it X db above the noise floor all it does is blast you out when the noise floor goes up.

  25. Re:Fuck this law on George "geohot" Hotz Arrested In Texas For Posession of Marijuana · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yes, how dare they arrest someone for possession of illegal Class 1 narcotics. The NERVE!