balajeerc - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Can't wait for the "NOOOO! Censorship!" crowd.. (Score 2) 898

by balajeerc on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @07:54AM (#37397176) Attached to: UK Man Jailed For Being a Jerk On the Internet

Hm... actually, I can't seem to muster any respect for the following dead people: Adolf Hitler, Mussolini, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Sadam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden... I don't know what that makes me... alienated, misanthropic or an non-essential element of human society.

Comment Re:He wrote a program? I doubt that. (Score 1) 142

by balajeerc on Monday August 01, 2011 @02:30PM (#36950436) Attached to: Computer Marries Texas Couple

Accomplishing that task does not require "writing a program". From recording your own audio, to presentation video etc, or using a voice-synth even, the problem doesn't demand such an involved solution as writing a program. If that guy was a programmer, he would know that. I call shenanigans.

He probably had elaborate exception handling done: what if the bride says, "No". What if he said no? What if someone in the audience speaks up instead of forever staying silent? What if the bride tripped on her dress and fell.... Seriously, there are an endless list of exceptional circumstances to consider, definitely worthy of a program!

Comment Project Icarus?! (Score 1) 155

by balajeerc on Wednesday April 06, 2011 @11:35PM (#35740958) Attached to: Using Fusion To Propel an Interstellar Probe

Don't they have them interstellar gates that they can just jump through? Ask their scientists to the famous Dr.Nicholas Rush.

Comment It worked during the last depression... (Score 1) 1026

by balajeerc on Thursday February 10, 2011 @12:28AM (#35158736) Attached to: Obama Calling For $53B For High Speed Rail

The Hoover Dam helped pull America out of the last depression. Investing in public infrastructure does work. Oh, but wait... America now hates Keynes and his policies... Well then, go Hayek! Though I wonder if the latter would have approved bailing out the banks. Oh well, I suppose America simply likes to base its economic policies on the worst of Keynesian and Free market economics. Hopefully, its piety will help lift it out of this depression.

Submission + - Study Claims Homeopathy Works By Nanotechnology

Submitted by balajeerc on Sunday December 19, 2010 @09:15AM

balajeerc writes: In a paper published in Elsevier's 'Homeopathy', a peer-reviewed journal, scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology claim that "highly diluted homeopathic remedies made from metals still contain measurable amounts of the starting material, even at extreme dilutions of 1 part in 10 raised to 400 parts (200C)." This gives fillip to Homeopathic practitioners who have always had to squirm when they are faced with the dilemma of Avagadro's Limit, a constant describing the number of molecules in one 'mole' of a compound. If one starts out dissolving 1 mole of any solute in a litre of solvent, and subsequently dilute it to '12C' (i.e. one part in 10 raised to 24 parts) levels, there is only 60% probability that there is even one molecule of the solute per litre. At 200C, there is no solute left whatsoever. What's strange is why the scientists of this study, have chosen to publish in an obscure journal on Homeopathy rather than in a reputed journal of Pure and Applied Chemistry, given the startling nature of the study's claim.

Chinese 'Apple Peel' Turns iPods Into iPhones 178

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 29, 2010 @04:00AM from the cheap-data-is-the-key dept.

angry tapir writes "The Apple Peel 520, a Chinese-developed product that drew the media's attention for being able to turn an iPod Touch into an iPhone-like device, is coming to America. The add-on device, which just went on sale in China, has been billed as a more affordable option for users wanting to get their hands on an iPhone, but lacking the budget."

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