Comment "The chances of anything coming from Mars... (Score 2, Informative) 309
...are a hundred to one, they say...
Comment Re:Please spread to other countries... (Score 1) 356
There is no reason that anybody needs to know where I am, when I'm asleep, or when I poop
So I take it you don't use Twitter, then?
Comment Re:Like how in the 80's Prince was hip... (Score 1) 450
A Jehova's Witness? Imagine that!
(Sunday morning)
*Ding Dong!*
(Opens door, looks around, only to see an empty horizon)
"Hey! Over Here! Down below!"
And then you look down to see... Prince! In full ornate! Eye shadow and all!
After some extensive smiling and eye blinking that would have looked cute (but also already quite perverted) on a 10-year-old girl:
"Hi! Do you know God?"
Comment Re:objection (Score 3, Funny) 164
IT has lots of soul. You have been in IT too long. Now it has your soul, too.
Comment Re:Don't forget correlation is not causation! (Score 3, Funny) 542
Well, the other way around would mean that the rats that were doomed to become fat, caused themselves to get HFCS.
And that would be religious logic instead of scientific.
(Scientific logic is saying that it must be true because Princeton said so.)
Comment Same thing happened here (Score 1) 426
Same thing happened here a long time ago:
The Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam cannot be used for commercial means without permission of the city -- or the architect, whoever won that fight -- but neither were willing to give away their 'rights' to the city's landscape!
Comment cleaning up sea water as well? (Score 1) 93
Great Pacific Garbage Patch, here we come!
Comment Re:Already Skynet protects itself (Score 5, Funny) 106
Google has made it difficult both to find out where they keep their data centers and how many they have.
Well, you can get to know either, but just not both at the same time.
That's quantum for ya.
Comment Re:Beowulf cluster... (Score 1) 118
The best IT jobs will get you both.
Comment Re:Compression (Score 2, Interesting) 432
Yeah. Pi acts like Infinite Monkeys. All _we_ have to do is to point to the monkey that actually does write Shakespeare, i.e.: the index of Pi which actually represents Kill Bill Complete in AVI format.
The only problem is the size of that index, but hey, if you zip that number and take its MD5, you have achieved something similar to this.
Comment Re:And? (Score 1) 582
Well, basically, that is how Korea is run.
Comment Positive, indeed. (Score 1) 373
Just think of the reduction in CO2 emission coming from cargo ships!
Want to Eat Chocolate Every Day For a Year? 158
Scientists from the University of East Anglia are studying the potential health benefits of dark chocolate, and need 40 female volunteers who would like to eat chocolate every day for a year. The chocolate loving 40 must be post-menopausal and have type 2 diabetes so it can be determined if the flavonoid compounds in chocolate can reduce the risk of heart disease. Dr Peter Curtis, of the UEA's School of Medicine, said, "Our first volunteers are about to return for their final visit to see if the markers of heart health - such as blood pressure and cholesterol levels — have changed. A successful outcome could be the first step in developing new ways to improve the lives of people at increased risk of heart disease."
Comment Re:Interesting! (Score 1) 139
Does that mean that musical perception is largely unchanged in the last 35 millenia?
Comment Re:It's been time for YEARS (Score 1) 948
And that's exactly why there are so many standard APIs...
