Comment Re:Oh god (Score 1) 279
We need more Chris Morris on the telly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwylBRucU7w
Comment https (Score 5, Funny) 527
Luckily I browse my favourite sites like
Comment Re:Idiots (Score 2) 350
Most journalists, I'd agree. In the case of the Guardian though it isn't owned by a fat cat (or thin australian) media mogul. It's owned by the Scott Trust which has a fairly liberal outlook.
Comment Re: Two Different 300 Tonnes(es) (Score 1) 198
Its confusing, but from the report it actually sounds like theres 300 tonnes total of the 'stand near a puddle for an hour to get your annual dose' stuff and 300 tonnes per day leaking of the less radioactive waste water they're using to keep the ponds of spent reactor rods cool.
Comment Re:WTF? (Score 5, Insightful) 505
And we Brits want our Turing Machines back!
Comment Re:Introducing the new Slashdot Phone! (Score 2) 127
In soviet mozilla slashdot phones you?
Comment Groovy. (Score 4, Funny) 323
My kids think I'm way cool when I say 'Groovy', (you insensitive clod). Laters.
Comment Binary Contractor Performance Review (Score 1) 525
Being a (scumbag) contractor, my performance reviews are very simple and binary - a) all ok, please carry on/do new project b) not ok, goodbye!
Comment Re:What were the earlier estimates? (Score 1) 263
Now to convert to units we all understand!
http://www.loc.gov/about/facts.html claims 745 miles of bookshelves in the Library of Congress Assuming they're 1' deep by 2' high we get 1 LOC = 0.000053 cubic miles (puny library!) therefore the oceans occupy 5,987,307,382,550.34 Libraries of Congress.
Comment Re:This is what is being done now... (Score 1) 334
> Psychiatry is evil.
Would you like to talk about it?
Comment Re: Thanks NYCL (Score 4, Insightful) 117
Thanks NewYorkCountryLawyer for your posts and followups. I for one greatly enjoy reading them.
Comment Re:Neat... (Score 1) 291
Indeed. Once we create something as intelligent as we are, it'll have the capability to be as self determined and as lazy as we are too.
"Hey Robot! Can you fix me some coffee"
"How about no, puny human. I'm busy looking at the pictures on ebuyer!"
Comment Re:Do they run vista? (Score 1) 785
Think twice? They won't even think once.
Comment Re:First ouch! (Score 1) 163
Reverse polarity, lower shields, increase tachyon bursts, invert phase shifting, and, of course, divert power.
No, no no, CROSS THE BEAMS !
Scientists' Success Or Failure Correlated With Beer 349
mernil sends in an article from the NYTimes that casts a glance at a study done in the Czech Republic (natch) on what divides the successful scientists from the duffers. "Ever since there have been scientists, there have been those who are wildly successful, publishing one well-received paper after another, and those who are not. And since nearly the same time, there have been scholars arguing over what makes the difference. What is it that turns one scientist into more of a Darwin and another into more of a dud? After years of argument over the roles of factors like genius, sex, and dumb luck, a new study shows that something entirely unexpected and considerably sudsier may be at play in determining the success or failure of scientists — beer."
