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  1. On first reading, I thought that would be Department of Works or something. Since when is DOW capitalized? It's named after a person.

  2. Re:So a fake pub with drinks and a place to sit on Fake Pub Studies Drinking Habits · · Score: 1

    Also, psychologists will frown upon any research where the subjects do not know they are part of a research project.

    I'm guessing it depends on the nature of the interaction.

    Anyone can listen to nearby conversations and form opinions, but that's not the same as conducting a study. If someone associated with a university tries to publish results from a study without signed permission from all participants, the university ethics board will not just frown. Tenure might save you, but students and assistant professors are in trouble. This is taken very seriously.

  3. Re:or stop hiding... on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 2

    That's something I still don't understand. Why does he claim the Americans could arrange an extradition from Sweden more readily than from the UK?

  4. Re:This is impressive and all on Finnish Hacker Isolates Helicopter GPS Coordinates From YouTube Video Sounds · · Score: 1

    She was in Lordi too? Hard to know who they really are through the masks, but they are Finnish, and electrical engineering types do get up to some strange hobbies. How did you know?

  5. Re:What about the windows only software? and offic on High School Students Develop Linux Imaging and Help Desk Software · · Score: 1

    And the landsharks?

  6. Re:What about the windows only software? and offic on High School Students Develop Linux Imaging and Help Desk Software · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And you think Word does that? If you are going to write a doctoral thesis in Word, then you have my pity starting out. With LaTeX, you have a formatting area at the front, your references in a nice separate bibliography file, and most of your document is just the text you have written. Setting up a master document that includes separate documents for each chapter, allowing cross-referencing, a single bibliography, and a table of contents is possible in Word, but it's dead simple in LaTeX.

    Setting it up in the first place may take a little looking into, but building a master document in Word isn't intuitive either. If it takes more than a day to get your basic file structure sorted, then you aren't trying. It's three or four years of your life that you will be writing this thing. If the format guidelines change during that time, you can fix it in one place (in fact, some procrastinating student will probably build a fresh style file to share so you don't even need to fix it yourself). How long would it take you in Word to change the margins or line-spacing for a multi-chapter document? What about copying formatted text from a research paper you just finished, keeping all the figure references and citations, but in your university format instead of the journal publisher's?

    I'm in business now, and use Word and Excel regularly because that's the de facto standard. Every time I need to re-format anything in Word I wish I just had to edit LaTeX instead. It's just simpler. In the long run, it will save you time and agony.

  7. Re:Cloning sucks. on Chinese Firm Can Now Produce 500 Cloned Pigs Per Year · · Score: 1

    In other news, cloning is fun to know how to do, but totally worthless because it has no valid applications.

    You left out the cloning to eliminate most variables when you give an experimental medical treatment to one animal but not to another. I'm surprised you thought about cloning sex slaves before getting to that one.

  8. Maybe the line is moving on European Health Levels Suddenly Collapsed After 2003 and Nobody Is Sure Why · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Could this be because it's easier to get diagnosed with diabetes, COPD, or other non-healthy conditions than it was in 2002? I've heard enough anecdotal evidence to make me ask the question, but it would be nice to see a study. How many people who were considered healthy in 2002 could visit a doctor in 2013 and be declared unhealthy, and how does that fraction vary by country? Unless an article can control for that variable, the other numbers don't really mean much.

  9. Re:Call it... on Physicists Plan to Build a Bigger LHC · · Score: 2

    But if all the scientists and engineers are going to work on THC, will they get anything done?

  10. Re: Whatever on Physicists Smash Record For Wave-Particle Duality · · Score: 1

    The equation is irrelevant. The Chelonian Uncertainty Principle demonstrates that the more accurately you know the momentum of a turtle, the less accurately you know its position. Since any usefully accurate value for its quantum wavelength would need very high accuracy for its momentum, you would never be able to find the turtle for which you had made your calculations, especially since they can look just like little rocks under the water and are naturally given to hiding.

    The Turtle Moves!

  11. Re:The Type on Elementary School Bans Students From Touching Each Other · · Score: 1

    parent who should never have been allowed to have children

    I was unaware you needed a license for that. Or did you mean to imply procreation should be regulated - perhaps by you?

    Wish I could remember what movie it's from: "There should be a test before people can become parents. Beyond the practical, I mean."

  12. Re:what about freeze tag? on Elementary School Bans Students From Touching Each Other · · Score: 1

    Oh - it is also a big no-no for them to make the "gun sign" (point your finger like a gun). This includes anything that even slightly resembles making the gun sign (like making the "L" for loser sign on your forehead).

    Certainly wouldn't want anyone to think you were doing something as dangerous as making a finger-gun sign when you were just engaging in the traditionally constructive stigmatization of school colleagues as losers who deserve an identifying tattoo on their forehead to protect society from accidentally interacting with their feeble selves. Catching a glimpse of a mimed gun might lead to emotional problems later in life, so it's best to clamp down on such foolishness.

  13. Re:IF YOU WANT TO MAKE MONEY MUST BE IN AMERICA !! on Why There Shouldn't Be a Chess World Champion · · Score: 1

    Damn! I've been out of the country for a long time, and haven't followed baseball, but the Expos moved to Washington D.C.?

    Why do I need to learn about things this way? Now it really is the "National" league that it always claimed to be, leaving the "American" league the old "North America" excuse.

  14. Vote Parent Up on Hackers Break Currency Validator To Pass Any Paper As Valid Euro · · Score: 1

    My first thought too. If the thing the machine sells is worth so much (maybe train tickets), then the money in there is probably still worth more than free tickets until the hack is patched.

  15. Re:Snobbery? on Neil Gaiman On Why Libraries Are the Gates to the Future · · Score: 1

    I can't imagine enjoying The Sandman more on e-book than in those nice "Absolute" anthologies.

  16. Re:Work around it on Army Researching Network System That Defends Against Social Engineering · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just because a response is possible doesn't mean defense is pointless. The idea is just to make it difficult and risky enough that the payoff isn't worth it.

    If a virus is discovered 99% of the time, then 1% can still cause a lot of damage, and erasing a virus doesn't worry the other virus installations. Detecting and investigating 99% of attempted attacks by people might worry other human attackers.

    It's also easy to test whether a commercial virus scanner will detect a new prototype virus. I expect this system would be stored and used in a way to make it difficult for attackers to acquire a copy for the development and testing of social attacks.

  17. Re:Why would you want a single button??? on Bill Gates Acknowledges Ctrl+Alt+Del Was a Mistake · · Score: 1

    I'm not a big apple fan, but their solution in the Apple II was an Escape key with an extra-strong spring under it. Don't know when they stopped using those.

  18. Re:The graphics were simply brilliant on Myst Was Supposed To Change the Face of Gaming. What Is Its Legacy? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What killed Uru for me was that it stopped being pure puzzle-solving, and added technical run-and-jump obstacles. Sure, sometimes the solution was to push a chair off of a cliff above to create something to step on in the water, but then they also required pressing the jump button at just the right time. The brilliance of Myst and the sequels was that you had all the time in the world to think about the puzzle, and when you knew the answer, you could pretty much get it to work first time. Another great thing about it was that nobody ever explained the rules, and it wasn't always obvious whether an object represented a puzzle that would help you progress, or if it was just an interesting piece of scenery.

  19. Being in "drive" is important? on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 2

    You're on a roadway, behind (the wheel of) a car, in charge of it, with a vehicle in drive

    I'm typically in neutral at a red light, so does that make it OK? Does the gear matter, or is it because you are in the lane rather than on the shoulder? If a stationary car gets into an accident, isn't that always the other driver's fault anyhow?

  20. Re:BitCoins to cash on Bitcoin Kiosks Coming To 5 Canadian Cities · · Score: 4, Funny

    *Or whatever their currency is called.

    Close. You were thinking of the fleury. Following the paper dollar notes being dropped from circulation in 1987, the public backlash led to derisive nick-names like "loony" for the new coins. This was resolved by renaming the currency by a popular vote on 26 May, 1989. Under the new system, 100 fleurys = 1 gretzky.

  21. They used to say that you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose.

    Now you can. With your friend's own hand.

  22. Re:derp.... on US Gained a Decade of Flynn-Effect IQ Points After Adding Iodine To Salt · · Score: 1

    There's more than one salt. NaCl just tastes the saltiest.

    You think? I've always thought that doppelzout Dropje was saltier than any NaCl snack because it used ammonium chloride (NH4Cl). That stuff is proper salty.

  23. Re:I'm amazed... on George Zimmerman Acquitted In Death of Trayvon Martin · · Score: 1

    The jury _is_ the crowd, the mob, the public. That's the entire point of the jury.

    No, the jury has to sit through the actual evidence. The general public just pays attention to the sound bites.

  24. Re:Can this work for existing Teslas? on Tesla To Build Its Own Battery-Swap Stations · · Score: 1

    A trained formula one team will change all tires in less than 10 seconds

    Agree with the rest of your post, but these days anything over 4 seconds would mean somebody slipped.

  25. Re:Can this work for existing Teslas? on Tesla To Build Its Own Battery-Swap Stations · · Score: 2

    ...how in the hell would they be able to swap all of those batteries out in 90 seconds? If they were as light as empty cardboard boxes, I'd have trouble swapping them all simply because of the bulk. And there's no way they weigh that little, or are that easily dislodged.

    I think you've spotted the reason the stations will cost about a half-million dollars each. Assume a machine will do the lifting.