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  1. Winner bias on Google's PageRank Predicts Nobel Prize Winners · · Score: 1

    It would be quite logical for the Nobelists to get considerably more exposure for the mere fact they on the prize. I would think merely referencing a paper from an author who'd made it up there would give your own research more attention than it would otherwise.

    This would be quite obvious, but then again what is Google for anyway?

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  2. Re:So ... change ... on Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US · · Score: 1

    I think it is dangerous to solely rely on hope in change because somebody has convinced us it's going to happen. The most important duty of the demos in a democracy is to make sure it does, by giving its support when things are moving and discontent when they are moving in the wrong direction.

    I am totally with Obama here, but let's not forget we should be doing our job of checking things are doing OK, and give the elected few a hand when it's straying off track.

    Take a look atUkraine four years after the revolution... (may not be the most "democratic" source, but it's vaguely along the right lines :)

    There was a good chance change would have happened, but what was missing was a healthy level of checks and balances on behalf of the public.

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    On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
    - Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

  3. Re:I tried to watch, on Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US · · Score: 1
    This is where Multicast didn't pick up.

    If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
    - Mark Twain

  4. Re:Government shrunk to its Constitutional tasks o on Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US · · Score: 1

    Never let the world become simple to you. Embrace its complexity and know mystery's marvel and discovery's joy.

    It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
    Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Rhetoric

  5. Re:Government shrunk to its Constitutional tasks o on Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US · · Score: 1

    soid st egr.hyTa rsiugm usnin

    What's with the signature, dude?

  6. Experience on Mars Desert Research Station Simulates Mars Base · · Score: 1

    "Crews are not paid during their time at the station, but do get valuable experience." I hope they will at least give them head scarves to protect from the sand storms
    Wait, they haven't planted any corn on Mars yet...

  7. Re:pfah on Virus Infection Hits UK's Ministry of Defense, Including Warships · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Imagine those sailors getting pissed in a bar showing off their iPhones to their mates. Somebody would get a blinding headache in the morning...

  8. Windows on the submarine on Virus Infection Hits UK's Ministry of Defense, Including Warships · · Score: 1

    That Windows running submarine suddenly not so funny.

  9. Does that include on South Carolina Seeking To Outlaw Profanity · · Score: 1

    banning the @ as well?

  10. Re:Pah! on South Carolina Seeking To Outlaw Profanity · · Score: 1

    It's a Catch-22 situation though, as that minority then goes on to educate the majority. I sort of see where Pink Floyd was coming from...

    My .02UAH
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    "Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star." - Confucius

  11. Re:Look at this and tell me on 3 Cups of Coffee Increases Hallucinations · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I still wouldn't want to watch Southpark dozed up for that long just to prove the point :)

  12. A telescope as large as the Earth on Earth's Radio Telescopes Combining Forces · · Score: 2, Funny

    And hopefully they don't screw up the metric/imperial/coordinate whatever units are used across the world and its back and point in the right direction. You wouldn't want to upset Galileo on this date...

  13. It has been known on Can We Create Fun Games Automatically? · · Score: 1

    If creation of generated research papers papers can be considered fun, then by all means!

  14. Finally on Wikipedia Gears Up For Explosion In Digital Media · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The children of Africa will be able to appreciate such artistically rich works as Andres Serrano's photograph of a crucifix submerged in urine, Barbara Kruger's accusatory slogans (useful in politics class across Zimbabwe?) and Robert Mapplethorpe's self-portrait featuring a whip protruding from his anus.

  15. Look at this and tell me on 3 Cups of Coffee Increases Hallucinations · · Score: 1, Interesting

    caffeine doesn't fuck you up.

  16. Check out my nick on 3 Cups of Coffee Increases Hallucinations · · Score: 0

    and tell me I don't think about coffee 7/11.
    (ok, so trimethylxanthine wouldn't fit ^_^)
    Now that is truly strange. Who's behind this??

    "Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes." - Confucius

  17. Re:60 cups on 3 Cups of Coffee Increases Hallucinations · · Score: 0

    Don't I at least get points for having a user name that is structurally similar to the topic? :) /. must be really wired. Wait... it is.

  18. Re:60 cups on 3 Cups of Coffee Increases Hallucinations · · Score: 0

    For the most part, LSD doesn't cause true hallucinations -- it distorts things.

    Then you probably haven't tried the stash government uses for its experiments...
    Also, it should be noted, that LSD (much like most serotonin agonists) are highly variable in their effects depending on the dose. When at 1/10 of a "usual" dose it may be a stimulant, at 700+mcg it is an authentic hallucinogen.
    In any case, I have seen people conversing with fairies and "tasting sounds". Ahh, good ol' uni days...
    No offense, but you probably weren't getting the good shit.

    How many coffees did it say before the visuals kick in?

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  19. Too much on How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? · · Score: 0

    If this an attempt to resurrect the Mayan calendar, then negative. Everything they did was apocalyptical. The even managed to destroy themselves...

    I say, day in - day out. Nice and simple.
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    Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

  20. Internet? on Internet Communications While At Sea? · · Score: 0

    You'd be too naive to think you'll be participating in anything other that sex orgies and soaking in alcohol... Just think about it - ship... students... sea....oh yeah, this is Slashdot.

  21. Kernel version on A Sony Camera Running Linux · · Score: 0

    I wonder why a kernel from over three years ago (and not seven?) Just curious about their decision making process for their choice.

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    "Besides, I think ________________ sounds better than 'Microsoft, don't you?"

  22. Re:Bye bye, Tractor Beam... :'( on Scientists Solve Century-Old Optics Mystery · · Score: 0

    No word in the article about what wavelength(s) light was used in the experiment. Given that some mediums cause negative refraction, how can only one answer can be asserted without accounting for variables like this?

  23. Alternative solutions on Is a 'Katrina-Like' Space Storm Brewing? · · Score: 0

    Time to develop neutrino based communication links. We might finally even make contact with ET civilizations in the process. Although taking care of Energy Shield technology first might be a good idea to avoid getting pwned.

    Alternatively ubiquitous fiberoptics could be an alternative solution - just need to define clear goals like "why".

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    Perfect day for scrubbing the floor and other exciting things.

  24. I'll read this when on The Environmental Impact of Google Searches · · Score: 0

    the study compares the data to how many grams of CO2 it takes to read an, imho irrelevant, study like that when the Kyoto protocol isn't even signed.

    If you mod me down I will become more powerful than you can imagine.

  25. Re:Law on Storm Worm Botnet "Cracked Wide Open" · · Score: 0

    Calling Venezuela "reputable", is like calling the Storm Botnet a "Personal account, medicine and shopping manager", with the added bonus of being distributed. Besides, in economic sense that would be overkill, and as we know this world abides by the Law of Economy. In every sense.