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  1. Re:Mass-Media Report on Specific Gut Bacteria May Account For Much Obesity · · Score: 1

    2. What can we do? Is it possible to safely eliminate just this one bacteria via a vaccine or antibiotic?

    You do not want to encourage antibiotic resistance in this genus!

    Link

  2. Encryption on White House Must Answer Petition To 'Build Death Star' · · Score: 2

    How about strong encryption for the data network, so that it can't be hacked by a simple R2 unit?

  3. Re:cool on Apple Posts Non-Apology To Samsung · · Score: 1

    Well after reading the announcement or whatever we're calling it, I'd have to say it affirms my recently evolved judgment (over about the last two years) that Apple is the opposite of cool...So no worries, they are definitely not infringing your patent.

  4. Okay here goes... on Facebook Patents Pokes-Per-Minute Limits · · Score: 1

    1. Create something nobody needs, and everybody but the most juvenile will find annoying.
    2. Create (obvious) method for limiting the annoyance created by step 1.
    3. Patent the method in step 2.
    4. ????
    5. Profit!

  5. Re:Argument on Randomly Generated Math Article Accepted By 'Open-Access' Journal · · Score: 1

    Okay, that reading of it is more credible.

  6. Re:Infinite monkey theorem on Randomly Generated Math Article Accepted By 'Open-Access' Journal · · Score: 1

    Ah, we have somebody who isn't familiar with the Halting Problem, I see.

  7. Re:Automated science journal to patent bot on Randomly Generated Math Article Accepted By 'Open-Access' Journal · · Score: 1

    I'd take off my hat to you, sir, if I were wearing one.

  8. Re:View from the outside on Randomly Generated Math Article Accepted By 'Open-Access' Journal · · Score: 2

    Well, you don't need to say what P is because the definition is for the property of degeneracy, which can be applied to *any* topos. And we all know that e is approximately 2.718. So the only thing left is Q, which stands for the quality of the paper, which is clearly much less than 2.718.

    Therefore every topos is degenerate.

    And people find this hard to grasp?

  9. Re:Argument on Randomly Generated Math Article Accepted By 'Open-Access' Journal · · Score: 1

    The first two frames seem unrealistic. Logarithms, really? That would take an engineering *freshman* about 3 seconds to see through. And Klingon? I don't know anybody who has studied linguistics. But plenty of people who haven't could easily see that the question is nonsense. I don't think learning in this field is going to reduce that ability.

    The last two frames, though...completely believable.

  10. "takes as inputs author names" on Randomly Generated Math Article Accepted By 'Open-Access' Journal · · Score: 1

    I hope at least that they chose these wisely enough to get a low Erdos number out of it.

  11. Re:They will not be able to prove anything on Physicists Devise Test For Whether the Universe Is a Simulation · · Score: 1

    That's not what the incompleteness theorems say. There are true statements in any sufficiently rich system of mathematics that cannot be proven. The theorems don't say which statements those are (except for the constructed examples). And they really don't say anything about physics, which is an empirical endeavor.

  12. Re:Not for sale to the Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Syria... on FSF Certifies First Device in "Respects Your Freedom" Program · · Score: 1

    "the Cuba"?

    Is that like "the Iraq, and such"?

  13. Re:Nobody Panic on Steve Ballmer: We're a Devices and Services Company · · Score: 1

    I can't say I ever used Hotmail, but I sure knew/know a lot of people who have Hotmail accounts.

    Are you sure it's not one person with lots and lots of Hotmail accounts?

  14. Re:Scottish, eh? on Scottish Scientists Create World's Smallest Smart Antenna · · Score: 4, Funny

    No true Scotsman would have such a small antenna!

  15. Re:absence of evidence is not evidence of absence on The History of 'Correlation Does Not Imply Causation' · · Score: 1

    Ah yeah, we can make up our own endings to anything, just to help us completely miss the point.

  16. Re:And yet nothing will be done in the long run on Earthquakes Correlated With Texan Fracking Sites · · Score: 1

    I like fracking because liberals aren't quite sure what line to tow.

    First of all, try and get the freakin' idiom right. It's toe, not tow.

    Second, where's the evidence liberals are looking for a line to toe? You made some extraordinary claims that you weren't able to find any citation for:

    According to liberals:

    Fracking is evil when it's for oil.
    Fracking is good when it's for natural gas.

    HOLD IT! Now that oil companies are heavily investing in natural gas, the environmental effects due to getting it and processing it must be scrutinized!

    Natural gas bad! Better than coal, but bad!

    Third, this is how you decide policy? Sounds like typical right-wing mindlessness to me.

  17. Re:Correlation is not causation! on Earthquakes Correlated With Texan Fracking Sites · · Score: 1

    Er, you can say it. The two aren't identical. But never say that correlation is not evidence of causation, because it is.

  18. Re:absence of evidence is not evidence of absence on The History of 'Correlation Does Not Imply Causation' · · Score: 1

    absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

    Ah, but it is.

    Admittedly, I think this proof assumes that the absence of evidence is not due to coverup or just plain laziness -- although one could argue that absence of evidence of coverup or laziness is evidence for their absence.

  19. Re:Imply vs prove. on The History of 'Correlation Does Not Imply Causation' · · Score: 2

    Careful there.

    Implication is conditional, but that is the only difference between implication and proof.

    A = correlation
    B = causation

    "A imples B" is the same as "B or not A" (see the linked article). So your first clause is the same as "there is causation, or there is no correlation". Then, if we grant that there is correlation, it follows that causation is proven, which contradicts the second clause of your statement.

    I think what you meant is that "correlation is evidence of causation". This is different from implication.

  20. Re:Before you act shocked... on New Content-Delivery Tech Should Be Presumed Illegal, Says Former Copyright Boss · · Score: 1

    I'd not be surprised if there we such side effects, but the regulations you listed did not originate from an intent to protect sellers in the markets being regulated.

  21. Re:With apologies ahead of time... on Statistical Tools For Detecting Electoral Fraud · · Score: 1

    Exactly how your thinking but with a slightly posh London accent.

    What, to give it panache?

  22. Re:Before you act shocked... on New Content-Delivery Tech Should Be Presumed Illegal, Says Former Copyright Boss · · Score: 1

    What do any of the regulations you cite have to do with protecting "existing business models"?

    Nothing? Maybe that is where the difference lies?

  23. Re:You forgot the IANAL on New Content-Delivery Tech Should Be Presumed Illegal, Says Former Copyright Boss · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, that opinion went against this precedent. It was quite the activist ruling.

  24. Noise sources on Ask Slashdot: Hacking Urban Noise? · · Score: 1

    You could mask it with this noise.

    or maybe this one.

  25. Just let me know on Fusion Power Breakthrough Near At Sandia Labs? · · Score: 1

    when I can buy a Mr. Fusion.