scire9 - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Well (Score 0) 756

by scire9 on Monday January 30, @11:23PM (#38873779) Attached to: What If the Apollo Program Never Happened?

I'm not a nutter, I am a realist.

How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily--how calmly I can tell you the whole story.

Comment: Re:Well good to know (Score 0) 356

by scire9 on Sunday December 25, @11:29PM (#38491790) Attached to: Anonymous Hacks US Think Tank Stratfor

Can you even tell us what exactly Stratfor is and just what it is that they do- without looking it up on Google or Wikipedia?

Fine, I'll use bing, but nobody said I have to like it.

Comment: Oblig. XKCD (Score 0) 361

by scire9 on Sunday December 25, @12:54AM (#38486806) Attached to: What Do We Do When the Internet Mob Is Wrong?

http://xkcd.com/386/

Comment: Re:I encode my email with ROT13 (Score 0) 601

by scire9 on Tuesday December 20, @02:26AM (#38431534) Attached to: Do Slashdotters Encrypt Their Email?

Well that's pretty silly considering ROT13 has been considered broken for YEARS now. As soon as I found out myself, I made the switch to ROT26 right away.

Comment: Re:Just like desktop linux. (Score 0) 636

by scire9 on Tuesday February 23 2010, @06:07PM (#31252234) Attached to: Google Android — a Universe of Incompatible Devices

You, sir, are a genius. You may have just revolutionized the future of analogies. You're average Joe nowadays probably doesn't understand car analogies, and consequently, won't understand the presented reasoning. With these new McDonald's analogies we now have the power to reach a much broader audience. From all of us at slashdot: Thank you.

Comment: Re:Information (Score 0) 650

by scire9 on Sunday January 10 2010, @10:23PM (#30719530) Attached to: The End Of Gravity As a Fundamental Force

In his theory, gravity exists because of a difference in concentration of information in the empty space between two masses and its surroundings.

So... information wants to be free?

Yeah, he's just not getting it. Somebody queue the car analogies.

Comment: Re:Mammals (Score 1, Insightful) 478

by scire9 on Thursday January 07 2010, @04:42PM (#30687944) Attached to: 8% of Your DNA Comes From a Virus

Are you implying that God is Just Another Perl Hacker?

Comment: Re:Mammals (Score 0) 478

by scire9 on Thursday January 07 2010, @04:37PM (#30687890) Attached to: 8% of Your DNA Comes From a Virus

That would certainly explain the Perl Golf Apocalypse.

Comment: Re:While slightly humorous (Score 0) 208

by scire9 on Monday January 04 2010, @10:21PM (#30650662) Attached to: 2009 Darwin Award Winners Announced

And when you go around mocking the people who died doing something stupid, often times you are too busy laughing to know the whole story."

And how would knowing the whole story make her actions any less stupid? Her actions led to her death. Mocking her actions is a good thing-it might encourage others not to do similar things. I'd like to think I would never do anything as stupid as that but if I do, I fully expect to be mocked for it. Because I'd deserve it.

Take the story of the girl jumping in the water after her moped for instance. Now lets say she had a ring worth $100,000 tucked away in the seat. Now the person's actions don't seem so stupid. Granted some people will argue that no amount of money is worth risking your life, but the point still remains. Almost anything can seem "stupid" if you're not looking at every variable in the equation.
That being said, I don't condone stupidity. I am a firm believer in this bash quote.

#4753 +(16242)- [X] The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

Comment: You're best bet (Score 0) 799

by scire9 on Sunday December 27 2009, @10:14PM (#30567960) Attached to: How To Teach a 12-Year-Old To Program?

Just may be finding a way to get him interested in programming. Find something the kid likes and (if applicable) relate it to programming. If the kid's personality has developed enough to where you can tell if he's an Introvert or Extravert it may make it easier on you. Introverted personality types (such as INTJ or INTP) tend to have the interest in subjects like programming which may drive them to excel at it.