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  1. Marketing is not a problem on How To Get Your Program Professionally Marketed? · · Score: 1

    1. Write good code that
    2. solves the problem better than your competitors
    3. Marketing is not a problem.
    4. Profit.

  2. Re:What's up with pseudonyms? on First Electronic Quantum Processor Created · · Score: 1

    Then why do you sign your posts Anonymous Cowardon?

    http://i44.tinypic.com/2ia33bn.jpg

  3. Re:Unfair Blame to Both Google And AltaRock on Google Funding the Next Big One? · · Score: 1

    Energy is 10^(3/2) for +1, Richer or Moment magnitude. Displacement, or shaking amplitude, is 10 for +1.

    Of course, the actual destructive power of a quake depends on lots of factors (total energy released, density and elasticity of the medium, other factors influencing S/P wave propagation, fault size, depth of epicentrum, human population density above epicentrum, landslides, tsunamis etc.).

  4. Re:Unfair Blame to Both Google And AltaRock on Google Funding the Next Big One? · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, not 10. Two pts on the Richter magnitude scale is 1000x the energy, so one pt is sqrt(1000) = 31.6.

  5. Re:Hmmmm on Mayo Clinic Reports Dramatic Outcomes In Prostate Cancer Treatment · · Score: 2, Insightful

    >But the main driver behind this weak immune system, is the crap that we call "food" (but really isn't).

    You really bought into the "health food" & supplements party line, didn't you?

    1. A stronger immune system is not always a good thing. See autoimmune syndrom, cytokine storms etc.

    2. We don't eat crap food! Yes, we have easy access to carbs, which is not always a good thing (depending on genetic and social factors). But we also have easy access to nutrients! We, in the west, can and do eat greens any time of the year. Scurvy, beriberi, and kwashiorkor are unheard of today in developed countries.

    3. Eating crap food doesn't cause your immune systems to become "weak". It results in malnutrition, which in turn causes very specific conditions (like scurvy, beriberi and kwashiorkor). Crap food -> weak immune system -> cancer (or whatever) is a "health food" store myth. It's basically a meme designed to extract money from insecure but basically healthy westerners (aka suckers).

  6. Re:Editorialise much ? on Licensed C64 Emulator Rejected From App Store · · Score: 1

    Agreed. It's running interpreted code. In a sandboxed environment. The emulated c64 cannot access iphone memory or io directly. The only things it controls are its 64K RAM, the ROMs and the memory mapped video, audio and io registers.

  7. Re:Why are we so worried about RAM on Memory Usage of Chrome, Firefox 3.5, et al. · · Score: 1

    Average gamer rigs are far above average desktops.

  8. Good for him! on Steve Jobs Had a Liver Transplant Two Months Ago · · Score: 1

    Good for him (and his "hormone imbalance"), but who really cares? SJ is not the ipod, nor the iphone, nor the macbook. Etc. These brands will easily outlive him.

  9. Re:Bottem up? on DIY Biologists To Open Source Research · · Score: 1

    Ah, I see... You mean like how cheap neutron flux detectors bring cold fusion to the masses?

  10. Re:So.. on Oracle Kills Virtual Iron · · Score: 2, Informative

    The new google? Anachronicity alert!

    Oracle:

    Type Public (NASDAQ: ORCL)
    Founded California, USA (1977)

    Google:

    Type Public (NASDAQ: GOOG)
    Founded Menlo Park, California (September 4, 1998)

  11. Re:It's not really homeopathic on FDA Says Homeopathic Cure Can Cause Loss of Smell · · Score: 1

    Huh? What anti-homeopathy rant?

  12. Re:It's not really homeopathic on FDA Says Homeopathic Cure Can Cause Loss of Smell · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Randomized controlled trials is the only way to tell if it "*really* works". Anecdotes are worthless in evaluating (alleged) cures. For every useless substance there is, you *will* find users who "used to be skeptics" but now "swear by them", falsely convinced they "*really* work". Because of post hoc ergo propter hoc, spontaneous remission, false diagnosis, placebo effect, confirmation bias and a slew of other fallacies.

    Evangelists like yourself and peers with poorly developed critical thinking skills (ie. most humans) are the exact reason these "cures" are still around - despite having no biological plausibility and negative RCT results against them.

  13. WHO says: on The Birth and Battle of Conficker · · Score: 1

    Conficker has reached level 6. It's pandemic now.

  14. Oh, look! on The Global Warming Heretic · · Score: 1

    A maverick scientist! I bet he thinks outside the box too.

  15. Re:we need an e-Serif on More IT Pros Could Turn To E-Crime In Poor Economy · · Score: 1

    Deja vu... That reminds me of a bold, italic spaghetti western.

  16. Re:Sherlock Holmes on Cotton Swabs are the Prime Suspect In 8-Year Phantom Chase · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "once you eliminate the fictional, whatever remains, no matter how mundane, must be actual"

  17. Re:ext4 fs corrupted on Linux Kernel 2.6.29 Released · · Score: 1

    No. I don't have enough information to whip up a useful bug report. Since I didn't lose any data I haven't been motivated enough to investigate it any deeper. This fs has been through some shit... My other ext4 fs's migrated OK.

  18. Re:Truly Amazing on Reflected Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Nassim_Haramein

    Quoth above:

    Nassim Haramein

            Nassim Haramein (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) â" (View log)

    No assertion of notability; article appears to fail WP:Notability (academics). According to talk page, main claim to establishing importance seems to be some quotes on the subject's own website.

    Whilst a Google search, for instance, produces thousands of hits, on closer inspection, the majority of them appear to be video clips from the subject's DVD on Youtube-like sites, or forum posts. I can't really find anything that approaches non-trivial independent coverage.

    Was originally PRODded; removed by article creator.

    (Delete) unless there can be found some third party material referring to him. and his theories. ArXiv tends to include even very non-conventional physics if presented in an academic fashion, unless it makes no sense whatever. The absence there is indicative that either the supporters of his theory dont know enough about physics to even try to put it there, or that they will not include it. Of course, even the wildest pseudo-science can be worth covering here, but to show something is notable pseudo-science it is necessary to show that it is notable. ...

    (Delete) I too have looked for reliable, third party sources that would establish notability and have come up empty handed. ...

    I'd say, don't delete the article, but reword it to explain that he is another fringey new-age nutcase/crackpot with absolutely no academic credibility. ...

    (Keep) as this article does not break any surface WP:NOT policies that I can see. As I have done before, I am quoting WP:FRINGE: no need to crucify this guy just because he seems like some crackpot. I believe that in the spirit of Wikipedia, an accurate NPOV article stating the theories as "claims" would suffice if Asav can procure one; however, the current article seems to be fine (maybe a bit more tweaking is in order). I believe that some of Nassim Haramein's paper's actually HAVE been peer-reviewed so there might be some scientific credibility. Also, looking at the criteria for WP:BIO, I say that this article warrants inclusion under this category if the creator suggests it. ...

    Conclusion:
    Looks like YAK (Yet Another Kook)! The intarnets is full of 'em.

  19. Re:Cue the Douglas Adams references! on Reflected Gravitational Waves · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sharks with lasers are actually OK, extra bonus if you jump them. 42 is not though. That meme needs to die. Even the great D A himself thought so (RIP).

  20. ext4 fs corrupted on Linux Kernel 2.6.29 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When upgrading from .28 to one of the latest .29 rc's, one of my ext4 filesystems got corrupted. Something to do with resize inode. Had to reboot my old .28 kernel to be able to fix it with fsck. No data loss that I'm aware of (lost+found was empty).

    I think this was originally an ext4dev fs from the .26 era. I have been staying with .28 since. This is a 322 GB fs which is not critical for boot, but obviously I don't want to lose data.

    Perhaps I ought to backup and recreate the fs under .29.

  21. Re:A.I. on Wolfram Promises Computing That Answers Questions · · Score: 1
  22. Re:It's pretty standard these days on Detecting Click Tracks · · Score: 1

    True, but even the best time stretch dsp tricks produce artefacts. Possibly tolerable in the +- 5% range, but annoying as hell in the +- 50% range.

  23. Re:FUCK ARTISTS on French President Busted For Copyright Violation · · Score: 1

    +1 Jane Austen reference! In this very literary blackhole known as slashdot.

  24. Mod parent insightful pls on First Evidence of Supernovae Found In Ice Cores · · Score: 1

    There's nothing particularly funny about the above correct statement.

    I really can't believe people are having such a hard time grasping the consequences of "no absolute time."

  25. Re:Best KDE 3.5 distro? on Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" Released · · Score: 1

    Piping porn through libcaca hard-core?

    Try piping it through od. Matrix style. That's cyber my friend.