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  1. Re:OK, so... on Can Machine Learning Replace Focus Groups? · · Score: 0

    In the time you took to complain you could have RTFA. I understood it the first time I read it yesterday. Today, listening to complaints, I read it again and still understand it. Maybe you're not bright enough to either a) read it carefully or b)understand it. No problema - there are plenty of jobs as janitors and car salesmen.

  2. Re:OK, so... on Can Machine Learning Replace Focus Groups? · · Score: 0

    RTFA

    I understood it the first time I read it yesterday.

    Today, listening to your complaint, I read it again and still understand it.

    Maybe you're not bright enough to either a) read it carefully or
    b)understand it. No problema - there are plenty of jobs as janitors and car salesmen.

  3. Re:Casio WV-58DU-1AVEF - best cheap geek watch on Ask Slashdot: Wrist Watch For the Tech Minded · · Score: 1

    * A steel wriststrap. If you're buying a Casio, do *not* get the black resin strap versions of their watches because they always break within 6 months of use.

    Good wrist straps are designed to break to protect you. .

    A very strong or unbreakable wrist strap can become a death trap if it gets caught in a door or broken antenna on a taxi, a machine tool part, or even a staircase banister. Machinists and manufacturing workers avoid wearing bracelets, rings and watches in the workplace because of this.

    It's surprising how many ways a small band of metal can get caught in the objects we surround ourselves with in daily life. Usually it's an annoyance but occasionally it is life-threatening. Ask anyone who has mistakenly rested his wrist-watched hand on the wrong part of a dumpster as it was lifted over the front of garbage truck.

    Ditto for bracelets, rings, necklaces, lanyards, ankle bracelets, belts, ties and clothing in general.

  4. Re:Open Source on Iranian Military Says It's Copying US Drone · · Score: 1

    The aircraft's engine isn't likely going to give up the secrets of directional crystal growth that go into manufacturing the turbine blades, and the camera's CCD isn't likely to yield the secrets of semiconductor fabrication necessary to produce another one.

    That is, unless the parts are made in China, something that is highly likely.

  5. Christ! First The SuperRats and Now This! on South Korean Scientists Prepare To Clone Wooly Mammoth · · Score: 1

    And who's responsible when a couple of these get out of lab, eh?

    I had enough trouble chasing down some goddamn superrats that escaped our lab. Finally fixed those smart little bastards by setting out chessboards with pawns made of poison cheese.

    But WTF do I use to lure a f**k*** woolly mammoth? Do I _want_ to lure a wooly mammoth?

  6. Lost my sense of smell! Thanks, Doc! on Antibiotics Are Useless In Treating Most Sinus Infections · · Score: 1

    I went in with sinusitis. I couldn't smell anything. Doc give me an antibiotic. Went on a two-week trip out west. The antibiotic did nothing for the sinusitis and I foolishly took it to completion. By the end of the trip I had a raging infection.

    Another doctor prescribes Zithromax. In 5 days sinusitis is gone and so is my sense of smell.

    Seems the first antibiotic killed every bug except the one causing the infection, allowing it to take over my entire schnozola. The second antibiotic killed that bug off. But for some reason I retain some congestion.

    my sense of smell sensors are intact - I occasionally can smell or, if I snort, I can sometimes smell. Helluva way to eat with friends: snort, eat, snort, eat.

  7. Re:Interval Training on Scientists Study How Little Exercise You Need · · Score: 4, Informative

    ... doing stretches weren't that good for the body and might do more injuries in the long run

    Yes, and doing yoga can f*** you up. So a little warming up and then straight into exercise or weights is best.

  8. Cornspiracy! on 300k Organic Farmers To Sue Monsanto For Seed Patent Claims · · Score: 1

    Why, there might even be some (extremely major) criminal liability on Montsanto's part.

    Yet another cornspiracy theory.

  9. Re:Then we must live forever on Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but you'll look like shit - women will run from you! Probably kill yourself from the depression.

  10. Re:there's still no cure for cancer on Nano-Scale Terahertz Antenna May Make Tricorders Real · · Score: 1

    Just like the credit bureaus!

  11. "T-Rays"??? Microwave Ovens and Heat Lamps on Nano-Scale Terahertz Antenna May Make Tricorders Real · · Score: 0

    These are EHF in the terahertz range lying between microwave frequencies and those of infrared light. So "T-rays" would tends to cook you. Nice scanning technology there!

    I must be on the cutting edge: I have a T-ray cooker in my kitchen and a T-ray tanning lamp in my storage closet.

  12. I Support the Left.... on "Learn To Code, Get a Job" According To CNN · · Score: 1

    "But I'm leanin', leanin' to the Right. "

    from the song "Politician" on the album by Cream Wheels of Fire

    Lyrics here

    Listen to it here

  13. Public Healthcare System That Works? on How Stephen Hawking Has Defied the Odds For 50 Years · · Score: 1

    Where is that? All the Public Healthcare Systems in every country I am aware of are going bankrupt.

  14. We Already Knew That Civil Servants... on New Research Shows Cognitive Decline Begins At 45 · · Score: 1

    had serious problems.

    Tell me something I don't already know!

  15. Bullshit - Nothing in the article about tai chi. on You Really Are What You Know · · Score: 1

    The article is about f**ing meditation, not tai chi chuan.

  16. Nonsense! All we need is Prolog on Why We Need More Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    It's only logical!

  17. Longest-Running Zero-Result Project: This or CYC? on Earth's Core Made In Miniature · · Score: 1

    Surely there is a cheaper quicker way to do this?

    In CYC's defense I see no shortcut to AI but I also question the path taken by CYC.

    My bet: neither experiment pans out: both are _eventually_ defunded.

  18. Can We Possibly Speed It Up... on IEA Warns of Irreversible Climate Change In 5 Years · · Score: 1

    so we can put this issue to rest? Let's try for 2 years, please. Crank up the coal fires and smoke out the believers. We can't hear 'em bitch if they're below the water level.

  19. So, Only 5 More Years Of Bitching... on IEA Warns of Irreversible Climate Change In 5 Years · · Score: 1

    about this and I can have some peace and quiet?

    I don't believe it.

  20. Pre-Med Students Were The Worst... on Survey Finds Cheating Among Students At All GPA Levels · · Score: 4, Interesting

    in my experience. As a group they were bright but completely amoral. In fact they are the first group whom I have ever seen who would sabotage each others' work (lab experiments, incorrect notes, etc.) whenever possible. Just the sort of people you want as doctors.

  21. "Now-Obsolete Department Of Homeland Security" on Help Rename the Department of Homeland Security · · Score: 1

    gets my vote.

  22. Re:Child? on No Charges For Child-Whipping Judge Caught On YouTube · · Score: 1

    Don't be a dipshit! At 16 I knew everything: cause, effect, danger, just like any adult. "It can be seen by brainscans. " - Proof that you're an idiot (at the age of 35! ) "Put them in a scanner and you can see the difference." - Yeah, one is 16 and the othe is 35. One is normal and the other is an idiot. What a dumbass! Who gave this idiot a 4?

  23. How About a Gasoline-Powered Version... on StreetScooter: The $7000 Open-Source Modular Electric Vehicle · · Score: 0

    in the meantime. Maybe shave a couple thousand off the price too?

  24. Re:Not So Fast on Global Warming 'Confirmed' By Independent Study · · Score: 1

    It's quite significant. Humans release far more fossil CO2 than any natural processes, even volcanoes are dwarfed.

    Apparently what you say is far from the truth.

  25. Not So Fast on Global Warming 'Confirmed' By Independent Study · · Score: 1

    The question isn't "Is global warming real?". The questions (among others) are

    • "What is man's contribution to global warming?",
    • "Will it stop by itself at some point?"
    • "If not, what can we do to minimize it or it's effects?
    • "If we change man's contribution, what benefits will accrue and what costs will we pay? i.e., is it worth it?"
    • "If the costs of allowing warming are high, can the various nations be convinced to do something about it?"