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Comment Re:oh dear (Score 1) 7

Actually, this JE was a response to my friend's amusing accusation of "stalking".

In other words, either you or Stoolpigeon will be the one turning the lights off.

I call not it. I have no investment in this site - well, beyond my $5 subscription - so I don't want to be left liable for cleaning up the mess when it finally folds for real.

Comment Re:There ought to be a law (Score 1) 114

I haven't smoked pot. Not that I was never curious... rather, doing so may get me arrested, thrown in jail, or fined.

Yeah, right. You're just afraid because you believed the propaganda about sperm count and tiny nuts, and yours are already minuscule. Anyone who wants to smoke pot can do so and get away with it, if they care even a little. There's lots of states where it's legal now.

Comment Re:The study was flawed (Score 3, Interesting) 104

Your are factually incorrect. The directly linked article in Chemistry World linked to an article published in Nature entitled Bees prefer food containing neonicotinoid pesticides

The Nature article examined the neurophysiological response of bees to three of the most common neonicotinoid pesticides. They determined that the bee taste system cannot detect these chemicals, and additionally the chemicals have no influence on the bee's ability to recognize sugar. This means the bees preference for food with these substances results from interaction with their central nervous system. Considering that nicotine is a CNS stimulant, this makes perfect sense.

You didn't like the conclusion of the article, so you read it with the single intent of refuting it. When you found one thing that you thought you could use as an attack, you picked on that. It did not occur to you that the people who do this kind of research are extremely knowledgeable and would would never make that kind of foolish error.

You have revealed your true colors. You are willfully ignorant and have no regard for the truth. You were effectively accusing the authors of fraudulent research. Accusing others of lying to achieve their goals shows that you are a dishonest yourself, because that is the logic of habitual liars.

Comment Re:A sad day on Slashdot (Score 1) 198

Chuckle.

Excellent so you are having fun. It was less fun when you seemed upset.

So your sure your description is accurate ?

So far the only thing I've described is you, and I think I called you a moron. I can't remember if that was the term and can't be really be bothered to check, but I'll run with that on the off chance. Yeah, I'm going to go with accurate.

Space

Wormholes Untangle a Black Hole Paradox 157

An anonymous reader writes: Like initials carved in a tree, ER = EPR, as the new idea is known, is a shorthand that joins two ideas proposed by Einstein in 1935. One involved the paradox implied by what he called "spooky action at a distance" between quantum particles (the EPR paradox, named for its authors, Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen). The other showed how two black holes could be connected through far reaches of space through "wormholes" (ER, for Einstein-Rosen bridges). At the time that Einstein put forth these ideas — and for most of the eight decades since — they were thought to be entirely unrelated.

But if ER = EPR is correct, the ideas aren't disconnected — they're two manifestations of the same thing. And this underlying connectedness would form the foundation of all space-time. Quantum entanglement — the action at a distance that so troubled Einstein — could be creating the "spatial connectivity" that "sews space together," according to Leonard Susskind, a physicist at Stanford University and one of the idea's main architects. Without these connections, all of space would "atomize," according to Juan Maldacena, a physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., who developed the idea together with Susskind. "In other words, the solid and reliable structure of space-time is due to the ghostly features of entanglement," he said. What's more, ER = EPR has the potential to address how gravity fits together with quantum mechanics.

Comment Re:Protect the income of the creators or they can' (Score 1) 302

Ideally, creators get to say what happens. That's bound to encourage people to create. They can release their songs into the wild if they want, or not. But it's not up to 'us' to decide.

We don't really care if people create unless they are driven, because we want them to do their best. And yes, they can release their songs into the wild if they want, or not. If they don't share them with anyone, then nobody can copy them. And their ideas can die in obscurity with them.

Comment Re:systemd, eh? (Score 1) 494

What problems are you having?

It's eating the ACPI events from the ACPI sleep button and refuses to acknowledge that they exist and won't send them anywhere. I flat-out cannot get anything hooked up to them.

and it's quite a bit easier to debug service problems than init scripts

This is the thing. Everyone here seems to assume the problem is init scripts/service scripts. Systemd does an awful lot more than that now and so it has opportunities for a much, much wider range of problems than starting services.

but your arguments seem a bit tired

How on earth is the argument that it doesn't work, I can't figure out what's going on, and no one else has been able to figuire either "tired"? Unless you're tired of hearing that systemd isn't the be-all perfect system?

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 302

I think a book is fundamentally different from a film in the technical sense that any available copy can be reproduced without loss of quality. That's why it doesn't matter that we lack the original manuscripts of the Bible or Shakespeare.

Are you ignorant, or trolling? It's hugely important that we lack the original manuscripts of the bible.

Comment Re:A sad day on Slashdot (Score 1) 198

Come on, tell us how you have won

Because you did nothing but blither (in fairness, you rarely do anything else) and your final argument was something along the lanes of "blah blah SJW yada yada" which pretty much demonstrates that you have no actual argument.

But go on, since it's Friday evening and in a generous mood, I'll give you another chance to make a tit of yourself er I mean explain what SJWs have to do with cybersecurity bills in congress.

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