Seeing their relationship with the Culinary Institute of America, Alton's alma mater if you will

Alton Brown attended NECI, the New England Culinary Institute, not the CIA.

You can't take something that is non-unique. If you are not deprived of something, I have not stolen anything from you. You are the one splitting hairs using varying definitions of words.

Mod parent up, he makes an excellent point. The claims of the paper are neatly put aside by their failure to demonstrate their claims with simple signal analysis. Autocorrelation? Fail. Spectral analysis instead of a useless time-domain graph? Not present. They only get this "amazing 27 million year signal" when they correlate the new data with the old, it's basically data manipulation and a fishing expedition.

Yes. You have to look into history to find the last time it was at these levels. 11 years is a very long time ago in the relative timescale of software.

How is this joke not old yet? It's not so old it's funny, it's just old, and wildly inaccurate.

Just because it's true doesn't mean the film directors realized that.

If you don't think academic scientists work for a living, you are WAY WAY off base. Becoming an assistant professor in a science discipline at a respected research university is currently one of the hardest and most time consuming undertakings you can take on.

Thank you. I don't get why Slashdot always boils down to black and white. Too much of an IT / tech user base?

Well said. I don't understand when society as a whole, including more personal-freedom oriented Slashdot, started thinking that if you wanted to compromise a little bit (say, using a social networking site), you would be forced to compromise completely (not allowed to select information that will be completely public).

What if you have an abusive ex? Does that mean you can no longer use Facebook at all? Previously, it would be pretty simple to restrict all info to friends only. Now, with the enforced publicity, you can either sacrifice personal safety or be exiled from the most popular method of coordinating with friends. Your comment is a poorly thought out knee jerk response.

Nobody is "hell bent" on fighting public transport ion.

That's what I was responding to when I said a lot of people really do fight against mass transit. I said nothing about WHY they were fighting it, just that this segment of the population not only exists, but can get its way.

Do you know how much nuclear fuel for current nuclear reactor technology is available? If it was the bulk of the world's power source you'd be shocked at how quickly we'd use that up too.

A lot of people hate mass transit in general. See Arlington, Texas, the largest city in the US without even a bus service. They have the Cowboys stadium, seating for 110,000, and absolutely no mass transit. It's a nightmare of parking, and yet the council was cheered as the most recent effort to create a bus line was defeated. They believed, as documented in local media, that busses would attract "the wrong sorts of people" to their town. Not all mass transit advocates want to force you to use it or artificially raise automobile prices. It's not always a war or a zero sum game, and don't pretend your side doesn't have a very large irrational population.