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Comment Re:What about Golf !!! (Score 1) 258

I was going to make the same comment as the P.P. The article said that areas with individual competition should represent a higher number of lefties. Their analysis makes sense with baseball being higher than football, but the way their model is explained the most individual sports (golf, ping pong) should be the highest. Also, once at the professional level, course design is not much of a factor for left vs. right handed golfers.

Comment Dominant species (Score 2) 109

correlate with supernovae rate? This is a interesting analysis and paper, although I think it is hard to draw the distinction when only two (or three, if you count bacteria over all time) clades have actually 'dominated' the earth, reptiles and mammals. I don't know enough about classification to also include the oceans, but it is my understanding that they contain relatively low biomass other than microorganisms. I guess you could consider some sort of insect or arthropod for both, but those have dominated fairly consistently with bacteria as far as I know.

Comment Re:Recent IT escalation? (Score 1) 115

Hate replying to myself, but I think it might be worthwhile to add: I have seen the internal workings of the water control systems of my fairly modest local area (3,000,000 area, largest municipal serves ~200-300 K). I would hate to see what happened if any of those controls were maliciously compromised, as it could lead to problematic flooding or draining municipal systems. I am concerned that the major controls for these systems are maintained computationally, but the tradeoff has been reduction in monitoring, and there may not be enough people on staff to mechanically secure the system if something seriously goes wrong. ~Fear mongering late on a Monday night.

Comment Recent IT escalation? (Score 1) 115

I have absolutely no professional or political insight on this issue. Circumstantially, I think it is fairly convenient that the recent controversy about Hormuz and the duplication of the drone happened recently and this story broke, along with the whole stuxnet business. I am not comp-sci literate enough to even understand what happened with that (although, I might be on par with a lot of folks who are dealing with these issues). Are we entering a new stage of 'cyber-warfare' that has been talked about since basically WWII, or are we talking about local infiltration of systems looking to debase a reigning power regime? Is this a serious national problem for Iran, or is it Imperialistic forces taking pre-emptive steps? I probably will never know, but I would like to, just because I am a huge nerd.

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