DiadoMraz - Slashdot User

The Real 'Stuff White People Like' 286

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 08, 2010 @11:27PM from the taking-a-closer-look dept.

Here's an interesting and funny look at 526,000 OkCupid users, divided into groups by race and gender and all the the things each groups says it likes or is interested in. While it is far from being definitive, the groupings give a glimpse of what makes each culture unique. According to the results, white men like nothing better than Tom Clancy, Van Halen, and golfing.

Comment ID and evolution both true (Score 1) 848

by DiadoMraz on Sunday March 22, 2009 @12:33PM (#27288451) Attached to: Want a Science Degree In Creationism?

Is not that possible? An ID sets the wheels in motion and the rest is evolution. After all we are on the verge of becoming ID ourselves... Well, the "I" part is debatable, but the "D" is not out of question. If we can (almost) do it, why should not it have happened before? Its turtles all the way down, young man...

Soyuz 4/5 Made History 40 Years Ago Today 166

Posted by kdawson on Saturday January 17, 2009 @06:33PM from the probably-wearing-dockers dept.

dj writes in with a reminder that forty years ago, on January 16, 1969, the two Russian spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 carried out the first docking between two manned spacecraft and transfer of crew between the craft. Wired's piece gives a gripping account of "one of the roughest re-entries in the history of space flight": "Soyuz 5's service module failed to detach at retrofire, causing the vehicle to assume an aerodynamic position that left the heat shield pointed the wrong way as it re-entered the atmosphere. The only thing standing between Volynov and a fiery death was the command module's thin hatch cover. The interior of Volynov's capsule filled with noxious fumes as the gaskets sealing the hatch started to burn, and it got very hot in there (which, a short time later was something he probably missed). ... But wait. There's more."

Comment Amazing (Score 2, Funny) 289

by DiadoMraz on Wednesday November 12, 2008 @12:01PM (#25733047) Attached to: Google Can Predict the Flu

That's great! Google strikes again... We can now "predict" a flu season when it is already happening. The timing of a flu season is more or less regular for a particular place (one of the mysteries of flu) and the big problem is not to predict when it will happen, but what will be the strain of choice for this year. This is the effort of CDC/WHO and it is a tricky problem because the flu virus mutates a lot (hence the need to be vaccinated every year). The mutation sometimes is such that an avian and a human virus combine to produce a new human virus. That's when bad things happen (predicted vaccines fail, 1918 pandemic, etc.). Google's idea is at best very interesting as a tool for monitoring the spread of flu amongst people with access to internet, but I fail to see its predictive power in general.

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