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  1. Re:undebunked? on Martian Microbe Fossils, Not So Debunked Anymore · · Score: 1

    plausible undebunkifiability

  2. Re:somewhat better article on the subject on Martian Microbe Fossils, Not So Debunked Anymore · · Score: 1

    doesn't read like malice at all, it reads like the UK museum might have determined there is life on Mars decades ago. Perhaps opportunity lost

  3. Re:mail on Using Outlook From Orbit · · Score: 1

    GUI is over 25 years old, word TUI isn't otherwise I would have known about it (I've been doing this shit since early 70s)

  4. Re:What is next live executions? on TV Show Seeks Terminally Ill Volunteer for Mummification · · Score: 1

    but the person on noose will have to be white male, otherwise show will be sexist or racist.

  5. Re:Stunt on Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes · · Score: 1

    but it may have only happened once in the entire history of the cosmos. Probability one in count of all the watery worlds with volatiles there are, ever were, or ever will be. For example, here might be the only place that heterogenous multi-cellular life occurred.

  6. Re:Life on Mars is impossible... on Martian Microbe Fossils, Not So Debunked Anymore · · Score: 1

    blasphemer, after that huge mistake She also had Her gender changed. you piss the transgendered Him off with that "She" talk, be careful He doesn't smite you with his surgically constructed Holy Meatstick

  7. Re:Life on Mars is impossible... on Martian Microbe Fossils, Not So Debunked Anymore · · Score: 1

    nonsense, RNA origin is termed a "hypothesis" by scientists, not even a theory because of huge problems it presents. One is difficulty in experiments to synthesize activated RNA nucleotides wcapable of self-polymerization. So there are more plausible alternatives raised such as other less complex nucleic acids: Peptide nucleic acid (PNA), Threose nucleic acid (TNA) or maybe Glycerol nucleic acid (GNA).

    And you speculation about Martian conditions more than 3.5 Gya ago is very humorous indeed, call NASA up and save them billions of dollars on the planned probes to ascertain early Mars geophysics and topology.

  8. somewhat better article on the subject on Martian Microbe Fossils, Not So Debunked Anymore · · Score: 4, Informative
  9. Re:Stunt on Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes · · Score: 2, Informative

    no, not as originally presented by Drake, it calculates the "number of extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy". Earth is not included.

  10. Re:What is next live executions? on TV Show Seeks Terminally Ill Volunteer for Mummification · · Score: 1

    they aren't going to assist a suicide or murder anyone, they just want to sign on someone who will flop over dead very soon to meet T.V. season taping schedule. So if you just got diagnosed with lung cancer, forget it, they don't want you. If you were diagnosed with lung cancer 12-18 months ago and are breathing and fed from tubes, and have to hit the button on your morphine drip every 15 minutes to somewhat lessen the agony, then yes, by all means give them a holler.

  11. Re:mail on Using Outlook From Orbit · · Score: 1

    that word is a recently invented retronym, newer than the term GUI. another term used is CUI, console user interface. be fun to see which term is older.

  12. Re:Stunt on Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes · · Score: 3, Informative

    that "good data" doesn't help the equation, not when the last four multiplicands could be zero or any other number up to the number of stars (dead or alive) that radiate heat in the milky way.

  13. Re:mail on Using Outlook From Orbit · · Score: 1

    whoa, pine has a ui not a gui (graphical user interface).

    the way most geeks talk, the things that the curses library can do come under the phrase "command line", like the text w3m or lynx interface

  14. Re:Two days? on 2010 AL30, Asteroid Or Space Junk, To Pay a Close Visit · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was hoping to have some hot young chick let me kiss her bum goodbye

  15. Re:Putting closure on a software project is import on Apache May Stop 1.3, 2.0 Series Releases · · Score: 1

    wrong, it is irresponsible of *YOU* to use software which is not activity patched and maintained. Pretty easy to not commit that sin if you stay with high-level distro's maintained packages. But otherwise it's on your head. No one has to maintain software you like just because you wish they would.

  16. Re:design geekery on Neural Nets Make Art While High · · Score: 4, Informative

    That painting is a biohazard and regulated medical waste if disposed. However, had she used a feminine pad instead of paper OSHA has ruled in that case menses on a feminine hygiene product is not a regulated medical waste.

  17. Re:Summary wrong on Golden Ratio Discovered In a Quantum World · · Score: 1

    so you always think in RPN even when context implies otherwise? awesome, you'll be the first one I call if I need to hire a replacement for my HP calculator, or if I need a human FORTH interpreter.

  18. no - and I actually hire on Does a Lame E-Mail Address Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    I do the evaluation of candidates when my company uses contractors for software development projects and non-windows deployments and migrations (since I'm old enough to have worked with all the common non-windows OS).

    The e-mail addresses doesn't matter one bit, aol and hotmail on resume are fine, plenty of older experienced people have such things. A person who designs product configurators, expert systems or medical insurance adjudication software has a vastly different view of IT than most of you. A lot of them would think *you* are lame for considering a PC or garden variety x86 server a real computer.

  19. Re:Summary wrong on Golden Ratio Discovered In a Quantum World · · Score: 1

    you put implied parenthesis in wrong place in your head. most people wouldn't specify "half of one", would just say "half". maybe you'd have felt better if I had written "the arithmetic average of one and the square root of five"

  20. Re:Summary wrong on Golden Ratio Discovered In a Quantum World · · Score: 1, Informative

    moron moderators don't even know what an irrational number is?

    anyway, the real golden ratio is half of one plus the square root of five.

  21. Re:Trends on IPv4 Will Not Die In 2010 · · Score: 1

    Bush was on board with the scam too.

  22. Re:Trends on IPv4 Will Not Die In 2010 · · Score: 1

    no, can't stop discussing it, because those whackjobs are pushing to allow their mafia benefactors such as the World Bank and Goldman Sachs the means to steal billions of dollars in a "piece of the action" racket on every international financial transaction, and to increase investment value of interests in AGW-scam related financial instruments they are constructing. These thieves and fraudsters need to be routed out.

  23. Re:Prior Art - for decades on Control Your Apps Without Your Finger · · Score: 2, Interesting

    prior art indeed, funny to see the same things reinvented again and again over the decades. Having worked in CADD/CAM since 70s, seen at trade shows all manner of gesture sensors, 3D viewing systems, gloves and other body position transducers...

  24. Re:Trends on IPv4 Will Not Die In 2010 · · Score: 0, Troll

    yes, it is an accurate way to summarize their book-cooking and ex post facto predictions and treating measurements made by lip-blown hand shaped thermometers as equivalent to those made by latest digital transducer. They were in fact warning of deluge in years with more precipitation, drought in dry years, more violent hurricanes when a couple violent hurricanes occurred, more quantity of hurricanes in a yeaer with more than normal.....and of course the biggest folly is their "hockey stick" prediction while the earth thereupon went into cooling due to deep solar minimum. That is why they are "climatologists", activist with agenda getting funding for continuance of same. Real scientists have a very different opinion on the subject of AGW.

  25. Re:Trends on IPv4 Will Not Die In 2010 · · Score: 0, Troll

    that about sums up the work and methodology of the Climate Research Unit