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  1. Re:wish I could draw... on Abuses of Science Political Cartoon Contest · · Score: 1

    And so the god of the gaps shrinks.

    Really now, is that your god? Is that the god you pray to? A completely impersonal random-chance god using brutal survival of the fittest? Maybe he decides coin tosses during football games and glues quarks together? Is that enough?

    And what will you do once there is a rational explanation & he gets banished from that as well?

  2. Re:This actually happened to me a few weeks ago on 130 Filesharer Homes Raided in Germany · · Score: 1

    man this is the type of stuff I come to slashdot for :D

  3. Reminds me of a quote I heard on FCC Affirms VoIP Must Allow Snooping · · Score: 1
    strong encryption on top of VoIP is the way I will go.
    "The Internet interprets the US Congress as system damage and routes around it." [source: Jeanne DeVoto.]
  4. Re:Extremely Cost-prohibitive to use on First Neutron Pulse from SNS · · Score: 1
    If the proposal is accepted, the researcher gets the beamtime (for "free").


    Will they charge you if you don't conduct yourself properly?
  5. Re:Apple pwnt teh downloads on Download-only Single Becomes UK Number One · · Score: 1

    Apple sold one billion songs.
    [...]
    Just before iTunes launched everyone said "who's going to pay for something you can get for free?" Then Apple sold one billion songs.
    That's a 'b'
    pwnt
    Next.


    It took them what ... three years? Napster used to burn through over a billion in 1 month. That hasn't slowed.

  6. This has nothing to do with porn on 34 ISPs Subpoenaed By U.S. Government · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It really doesn't. This is all about the november 2006 elections. (you did hear about them, right?)

    Look at Bush's approval rating. What if the voters decide to take it out on congress? Leave the president stranded in Iraq?? We haven't even invaded Iran yet for fucks sake!

    So all of a sudden our precious innocent children are ingesting copious amounts of that terrible porn. And who better than Washington to take care of that problem for us? It's really a pity they have to trample over privacy to do it, but in a post 9-11 world, you just have to make some sacrifices.

    Expect to hear more about this in the months to come.

  7. Re:Petals of the Rose on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    lol

  8. Re:Here's a hard one on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    Hmm ... candy?

  9. Re:Petals of the Rose on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    i had seriously been working on this off-on for like half a year. Then I saw this post and started crunching the "its really simple" and "significant name" hints hard. So, yes, finally done. I really don't think very visually at all.

  10. 1 = 0 "paradox" on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    Really simple. If you can't get this go back to calc 101 :p

    From the Product Rule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_rule ....
    (u*V)' = u'*V + V'*u

    Integrating both sides...
    u*V = Integral [u'*V + V'*u]

    Substituting u = x and V = 1/x, we have
    1 = Integral (1/x - 1/x) = 0

  11. Re:Walk on Microchips for Dangerous Animals? · · Score: 1

    Mine's called Vlad the Impaler and yes, he's been to jail.