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Comment Tours available. (Score 3, Informative) 156

by mpaulsen on Friday December 18, 2009 @11:25AM (#30487596) Attached to: Dark Matter Particles May Have Been Detected

If you're ever in the neighborhood, a tour of the mine and the lab are well worth the visit.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Soudan,+mn
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/soudan_underground_mine/index.html
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/soudan/physics_tour.html

(Generally open June-September -- check before you come.)

Comment Re:Redirect the evil! (Score 5, Insightful) 594

by mpaulsen on Saturday September 26, 2009 @09:53PM (#29552499) Attached to: Bank Goofs, and Judge Orders Gmail Account Nuked

"Every one should email the bank banker@rmbank.com to ask them of their shady practices." No. Everyone should email some personal information to banker@rmbank.com, then insist that their domain be shut down.

Comment Hmm. What's Vixie say? (Score 1) 237

by mpaulsen on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @07:15PM (#29523589) Attached to: Nominum Calls Open Source DNS 'A Recipe For Problems'

I predict some pacing up and down the halls and maybe a bit of hand waving in the near future.

http://www.nominum.com/company/advisory_board_vixie.php
"Today, Paul is considered the primary modern author and technical architect of BINDv8 the Berkeley Internet Name Domain Version 8, the open source reference implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS). He formed the Internet Software Consortium (ISC) in 1994, and now acts as Chairman of its Board of Directors. The ISC reflects Paul's commitment to developing and maintaining production quality open source reference implementations of core Internet protocols."

https://www.isc.org/about/leadership
President Paul Vixie
"Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. (ISC) is proud to be the producer and distributor of commercial quality Open Source software for the Internet Community" (read: BIND, among other things.)

Comment Re:Easy (Score 1) 1091

by mpaulsen on Saturday August 22, 2009 @11:52PM (#29160573) Attached to: How To Prove Someone Is Female?

They are. I can tell from the prickcells.

Comment Re:Comcast in Mass played the same games (Score 1) 257

by mpaulsen on Sunday August 09, 2009 @11:40PM (#29007507) Attached to: Shaw Cable Again Blocks Firewire On Canadian Set-Top Boxes

First they make you accept their DVR box, then they change what the DVR box will allow you to do. Maybe they won't allow you to skip advertisements. They deliver more eyeballs to the advertisers and they make more money.

Comment Re:Not the first! (Score 1) 245

by mpaulsen on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @12:40PM (#28704731) Attached to: Internet Astroturfer Fined $300,000

The Purdy paint brush folks (part of Sherwin Williams) had their marketing firm (M Force, Brown & Martin) spamming usenet and message boards with fake customer testimonials. http://www.ownrecognizance.com/purdy.html

Comment Re:Of course we don't need running shoes (Score 1) 776

by mpaulsen on Tuesday April 21, 2009 @10:10AM (#27659885) Attached to: Do We Need Running Shoes To Run?

We aren't fast enough to run away from any significant predator, so it must be for running towards prey.

You don't have to be faster than the predator, just faster than someone else in your group.

Comment Re:it was bound to happen (Score 1) 124

by mpaulsen on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @12:36PM (#26982967) Attached to: Whither the 19th IOCCC?

Reminds me of this: http://www.satirewire.com/news/0011/cubist_site.shtml

Comment Re:Message (Score 1) 169

by mpaulsen on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @09:43PM (#26977697) Attached to: Court Upholds AP "Quasi-Property" Rights On Hot News

"Can we instead quasi-fight for our quasi-right to quasi-party?" That should be slashdot's quasi motto.

Comment Re:I want the Upstream (Score 5, Informative) 299

by mpaulsen on Thursday January 29, 2009 @07:30PM (#26660415) Attached to: Charter Launches 60 Mbps Service

"They sell you internet access, you get it. Deal is done.

Well, sure. Unless you count forging DNS results and deep packet inspection in order to insert ads into the sites you're visiting.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/15/0432259&from=rss
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/13/1832256

Comment Re:nobody is "surprised", it still needs reporting (Score 1) 197

by mpaulsen on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @09:37AM (#26637699) Attached to: Carbonite Stacks the Deck With 5-Star Reviews

I still want to see it reported and publicized.

You can add Purdy (part of Sherwin-Williams) to your list of offenders.
http://www.ownrecognizance.com/purdy.html

These guys are all doing business in California. I wish they would be nailed based on this:
California's Business & Professions Code 17200 prohibits "unfair or fraudulent business act[s] or practice[s] and unfair, deceptive, untrue or misleading advertising".
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc&group=17001-18000&file=17200-17210

Comment Re:Time (Score 1) 1656

by mpaulsen on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @03:58PM (#26534697) Attached to: Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US

> Which makes it all the more surprising that Mr. Strict Constructionist John Roberts would mess it up, but there you go.

Great. More ammo for the kooks.

Submission + - The end is nigh for XP

Submitted by

SlinkySausage

on Wednesday April 11, 2007 @08:49PM

SlinkySausage writes: "Computer makers have been told they'll no longer be able to get Windows XP OEM by the end of this year, despite strong ongoing demand for the OS. Analysts and computer makers are wondering if the move is premature given Vista's ongoing performance and compatibility issues. Dell recently said it would reintroduce XP on a range of machines due to customer demand but Microsoft will only allow this until the end of the year."

Submission + - Neutrinos -- and once again, symmetry is restored!

Submitted by perturbed1 on Wednesday April 11, 2007 @02:47PM

perturbed1 writes: A Fermilab press release today announced that MiniBooNE's latest results rule out the simple neutrino oscillation interpretation of the LSND experiment. Neutrinos have a tiny amount of mass, required by their oscillations, as observed in solar, atmospheric and reactor neutrino experiments. Combining these results with the LSND experiment's results required the presence of a *fourth* but "sterile" neutrino, breaking the 3-fold symmetry of particle families in the standard model! Symmetry in the particle kingdom has once again been restored. Standard model lives on!

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