Thank God for mind-readers like you, sir. Perhaps next you could look into Mrs. Schiavo's mind and let everyone know what's going on in there. Thank you.
"Every time you use a card to order a pizza you are giving your name, card number and expirely date to some kid who may be in some gang for all you know"
I think gang members are too busy selling drugs for thousands of dollars to deliver pizza at $5/hour.
Where did I put that "reasons to move to Canada checklist"? Hmmmm...
No idiotic, childish chimp of a leader...check! Festive money...check! Cheaper cost of living...check! Cops less likely to shove plungers in your ass or mistake a can of pop for an assault rifle...check! Biggest political scandals involve PM's mistress instead of lying to start a war...check! Government refuses to bend over for corps...check!
"It would have been helpful if the scientists had provided a hypothesis on the preservation of the tissues."
They did. What, you expect Yahoo News to give you anything but the most rudimentary slivers of information? This is from the original article:
The unusual preservation of the originally organic
matrix may be due in part to the dense mineralization of dinosaur
bone, because a certain portion of the organic matrix within extant
bone is intracrystalline and therefore extremely resistant to
degradation (20, 21). These factors, combined with as yet
undetermined geochemical and environmental factors, presumably also
contribute to the preservation of soft-tissue vessels. Because they
have not been embedded or subjected to other chemical treatments, the
cells and vessels are capable of being analyzed further for the
persistence of molecular or other chemical information (3).
Soft dinosaur tissue would be interesting if that's what it really is, but here's a quote from today's Science journal:
"Hendrik Poinar of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, cautions that looks can deceive: Nucleated protozoan cells have been found in 225-million-year-old amber, but geochemical tests revealed that the nuclei had been replaced with resin compounds. Even the resilience of the vessels may be deceptive. Flexible fossils of colonial marine organisms called graptolites have been recovered from 440-million-year-old rocks, but the original material--likely collagen--had not survived."
Actually, TFA is really annoyingly written. To paraphrase: "Ramanujan noticed that most numbers can be expressed as sums of other numbers." No shit, Sherlock. While that wasn't what he "noticed" about numbers at all, _New Scientist_ puts a large emphasis on it so they can segue into the concept of partitions. The author needs to be dragged out into the street and beaten.
"I wish this passage was in the bible: Keep thy religion to thyself."
It is, although not in those exact words. Matthew 6:5-6 features Jesus calling people who shout their faith from streetcorners hypocrites. It really pisses off lunatic street preachers when I mention it.
penet wasn't the first anon remailer. I remember at least 2 other well-known ones concurrent with it, and I remember at least one of those preceded it.
"The materials pertaining to this case have never been released."
Court records are public documents. Clam lawyers know this, but they chose not to fight to keep these documents from being entered into court records. Their loss.
Then again, I was distributing their "secret" documents on floppy 12 years ago simply because the CoS didn't want to share, like legitimate religions do. The fact that they're now a matter of public record and thus legal to distribute wouldn't stop me anyway, but it's nice to know I have the law on my side now.
People, please. I know it's hip to hate Scientology, but you should hit href="http://www.scientology.org">their href="http://www.scientology.org">site and give it a try before you judge. I urge each and every Slashdot reader to make a personal commitment to me that you will go to the href="http://www.scientology.org">site today. Information changes often, so you may have to hit refresh three or four hundred times. That site again: href="http://www.scientology.org">www.scientology. org.
Yours in Xenu.
Not that I'd ever RTFA for a NYT link ("free" registration and bugmenot notwithstanding), but I'm skeptical of anyone who compares anything to terrorism.
"Pornography addicts have a more difficult time recovering from their addiction than cocaine addicts, since coke users can get the drug out of their system, but pornographic images stay in the brain forever, Layden said."
I don't know...I find I have to refresh my memory every so often...
There's a much faster way than bending the pins back and forth (and back...and forth...) until they snap. Use wire cutters to trim the pins off a row at a time--it doesn't need to be perfect--then rub the pin side of the chip briskly on concrete or a grindstone (don't turn the thing on if you enjoy fingertips) until smooth.
(If you have mod points and you think this is offtopic, bitch at the editor who left that link in the writeup.)
Slashdot Mirror
"They aren't really implying that BT is illegal"
Er, according to the writeup (go read it, I'll wait), the letter specifically mentioned "illegal P2P activity."
Thank God for mind-readers like you, sir. Perhaps next you could look into Mrs. Schiavo's mind and let everyone know what's going on in there. Thank you.
It's not robbery, but I do enjoy all the law experts posting on Slashdot lately.
"Every time you use a card to order a pizza you are giving your name, card number and expirely date to some kid who may be in some gang for all you know"
I think gang members are too busy selling drugs for thousands of dollars to deliver pizza at $5/hour.
Where did I put that "reasons to move to Canada checklist"? Hmmmm...
No idiotic, childish chimp of a leader...check!
Festive money...check!
Cheaper cost of living...check!
Cops less likely to shove plungers in your ass or mistake a can of pop for an assault rifle...check!
Biggest political scandals involve PM's mistress instead of lying to start a war...check!
Government refuses to bend over for corps...check!
They did. What, you expect Yahoo News to give you anything but the most rudimentary slivers of information? This is from the original article:
The unusual preservation of the originally organic matrix may be due in part to the dense mineralization of dinosaur bone, because a certain portion of the organic matrix within extant bone is intracrystalline and therefore extremely resistant to degradation (20, 21). These factors, combined with as yet undetermined geochemical and environmental factors, presumably also contribute to the preservation of soft-tissue vessels. Because they have not been embedded or subjected to other chemical treatments, the cells and vessels are capable of being analyzed further for the persistence of molecular or other chemical information (3).
Soft dinosaur tissue would be interesting if that's what it really is, but here's a quote from today's Science journal:
"Hendrik Poinar of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, cautions
that looks can deceive: Nucleated protozoan cells have been found in
225-million-year-old amber, but geochemical tests revealed that the
nuclei had been replaced with resin compounds. Even the resilience of
the vessels may be deceptive. Flexible fossils of colonial marine
organisms called graptolites have been recovered from
440-million-year-old rocks, but the original material--likely
collagen--had not survived."
Worked for me, using ff 1.01 under Windows.
Actually, TFA is really annoyingly written. To paraphrase: "Ramanujan noticed that most numbers can be expressed as sums of other numbers." No shit, Sherlock. While that wasn't what he "noticed" about numbers at all, _New Scientist_ puts a large emphasis on it so they can segue into the concept of partitions. The author needs to be dragged out into the street and beaten.
"I can't fathom how people would choose primes over protiens"
Because I'm a mathematician, not a biologist. Fuck proteins (note correct spelling).
"How do you think Christianity spread to non-Jews in the 1st century?"
My guess would be virulent microbes.
"But for the ones that pull that line it usually enrages them. Caution: this idea may get you beat up."
:)
I'm 6-0 and 200 lbs...I'll take my chances.
"I wish this passage was in the bible:
Keep thy religion to thyself."
It is, although not in those exact words. Matthew 6:5-6 features Jesus calling people who shout their faith from streetcorners hypocrites. It really pisses off lunatic street preachers when I mention it.
[...] "the creatures at the sulfurous vents at the bottom of the ocean are really demons escaping from hell"
I thought they were body thetans.
OK, I've got the nails if you've got the wooden beams.
penet wasn't the first anon remailer. I remember at least 2 other well-known ones concurrent with it, and I remember at least one of those preceded it.
"The materials pertaining to this case have never been released."
Court records are public documents. Clam lawyers know this, but they chose not to fight to keep these documents from being entered into court records. Their loss.
Then again, I was distributing their "secret" documents on floppy 12 years ago simply because the CoS didn't want to share, like legitimate religions do. The fact that they're now a matter of public record and thus legal to distribute wouldn't stop me anyway, but it's nice to know I have the law on my side now.
http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=* &Query=humor
Yours in Xenu.
People, please. I know it's hip to hate Scientology, but you should hit href="http://www.scientology.org">their href="http://www.scientology.org">site and give it a try before you judge. I urge each and every Slashdot reader to make a personal commitment to me that you will go to the href="http://www.scientology.org">site today. Information changes often, so you may have to hit refresh three or four hundred times. That site again: href="http://www.scientology.org">www.scientology. org.
Yours in Xenu.
...and after having read TFA thanks to this guy's link, I can safely say you didn't read it, either.
Not that I'd ever RTFA for a NYT link ("free" registration and bugmenot notwithstanding), but I'm skeptical of anyone who compares anything to terrorism.
"As any real journalist would know"
Guess that means we won't see that story on the front page of Slashdot.
"Pornography addicts have a more difficult time recovering from their addiction than cocaine addicts, since coke users can get the drug out of their system, but pornographic images stay in the brain forever, Layden said."
I don't know...I find I have to refresh my memory every so often...
On the plus side, my hand-eye coordination rocks!
"here is a guide to making a CPU keychain."
There's a much faster way than bending the pins back and forth (and back...and forth...) until they snap. Use wire cutters to trim the pins off a row at a time--it doesn't need to be perfect--then rub the pin side of the chip briskly on concrete or a grindstone (don't turn the thing on if you enjoy fingertips) until smooth.
(If you have mod points and you think this is offtopic, bitch at the editor who left that link in the writeup.)