Comment Ten feet (Score 0) 495
Hey, is that a Dell PC you have there? Oh wait, that's an HP. My bad, I was 10 feet away.
Comment Hmm... (Score 1) 158
Slashdotted already? I think not!
Comment Re:Big whoop (Score 1) 281
Off with the nostalgia goggles pops. The "old days" were far, far worse than you care to admit or remember.
Comment Must be junk science (Score 2) 175
Another researcher lying, and gettin' me pissed. I mean, fucking magnets... how do they work?
Comment Re:My guess (Score 1) 235
From your results:
"no ur brain is what tells the rest of your body when to feel pain, but it doesn't itself feel pain, because it can't really tell itself to hut, this is y when u had brain trauma you pretty much die, and u can't feel it because that is ur brains job.. get it?? kinda??"
I feel informed.
Comment Having worked on the Census, this needs to be done (Score 2) 62
I worked on the 2010 Census as your typical door-to-door person. From the bottom up, it's unorganized. There's reams of paper for each task and work is somewhat uncoordinated. Despite what some may think, the people who worked it were generally capable and intelligent, but the lack of technology and stacks of paperwork were just begging for errors (which occured often).
I wouldn't go so far as to say the collection process should be abolished in favor of statistical inference, but it could be done far more efficiently (and cheaply).
Comment Re:Can we lose the links? (Score 1) 257
You like this.
They added Facebook integration, right?
Comment Paging Dr. Streisand (Score 1) 884
I can't believe this story isn't tagged with streisandeffect or something... to that effect.
Comment Re:Some perspective (Score 2) 545
Thank you, Photoshop!
http://i.imgur.com/5BH5T.jpg (The image above from Seumas multiplied by 75)
Comment Thanks Hollywood (Score 1) 205
Don't wanna close my eyes, don't wanna fall asleep, cause I'd miss you baby, and DON'T WANNA MISS A THIIIING
Comment Re:Here we go again (Score 1) 146
Be the first of your friends to "Like" this on Facebook!
Comment Here we go again (Score 5, Funny) 146
Help, help, I'm being repressed!
Comment Quality is the issue for me (Score 4, Interesting) 173
I've used Last.fm for a long time, but on my Android phone (Droid 1) the quality is mediocre at best and cuts out on occasion. I won't be paying for this.
Solar Car Speed Record Smashed 72
An anonymous reader writes with word from Australia that "There's a new world record for the fastest solar-powered land vehicle: 88 km/h average speed over one kilometre in a lightweight car that uses about the same power as a toaster." As the article goes on to explain, this solar racer, built last year by students from the University of New South Wales, managed to nab that speed record earlier this month on an Australian navy base airstrip.
Submission + - TIME Backpedals on Betelgeuse (time.com)
Lyrata writes: In an article written with the scientific authority of a HeadOn commercial, TIME (via the Huffington Post) predicts that the Earth may have two suns by 2012. Although the article currently contains a number of hilarious claims, more interesting are the even more ridiculous "facts" that have since been removed. A look at the comments reveals a few of these, among them claims that Betelgeuse is the second largest star in the universe and neutrinos causing the formation of gold and silver. With links to some form of this article being found on TIME, CNN, and Fark, what does this say about journalistic integrity on the Internet?
