Dpaladin - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Learn English (Score 2, Funny) 192

by Dpaladin on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @08:25PM (#28616151) Attached to: PC Invader Costs a Kentucky County $415,000

Yes, I am a pedantic Grammar Nazi, and I anticipate a great modding down of this comment, but my need to say this is worse than any addict's craving for his next fix. There are few things I hate more than redundant words. "Co-conspirator" is about as redundant as it gets. A conspiracy is a group of people. People conspire to do something like this, and you call those people conspirators. What happens in a hundred years when we forget that "co-conspirator" was being used this way? Do we start saying "co-co-conspirator"?

Of course! It should be co-nspirator, referring to multiple nspirators working together...

Comment Re:Next time try a bigger county (Score 0) 192

by Dpaladin on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @08:12PM (#28616047) Attached to: PC Invader Costs a Kentucky County $415,000

I have a feeling it's a little easier to fool Bullitt County than it is to fool LA. After all, they were home to that McDonald's strip search fiasco!

Comment Re:Minimum wage in the US (Score 0) 224

by Dpaladin on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @12:05AM (#26353471) Attached to: Phishing Is a Minimum-Wage Job

This principle in economics is called market equilibrium. Supply and demand applies kind of oddly to this situation. You would say that the employers are the people who get phished, and that, as you point out, there's a finite amount of money in it. So we have the supply (S) of phishers offering their services, and the demand (D) for said services (D). When S increases, D decreases because, "No thank you; I got phished yesterday." So the average wage per phisher goes down.

But in all seriousness, some of these guys probably make decent money. It's even more difficult than average to claim that you have an accurate picture of the situation, as it's not exactly public information until you catch one of them. A phisher that is. Not a phish.

Comment Re:Sort? Sort what? (Score 5, Funny) 166

by Dpaladin on Sunday November 23, 2008 @02:12PM (#25865771) Attached to: Google Sorts 1 Petabyte In 6 Hours

Sorting a petabyte sounds pretty impressive, but I don't think it was a whole yotta work.

Scientists Turn Tequila Into Diamonds 249

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday November 07, 2008 @06:13PM from the still-working-on-a-use-for-the-worm dept.

MaxwellEdison writes "Researchers, oddly enough from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, have found a way to make diamond films using tequila. They were originally testing methods of creating the films with organic solutions like acetone when it was noticed the ideal ratios of water and ethanol turned out to be about 80 proof, or 40% alcohol. '"To dissipate any doubts, one morning on the way to the lab I bought a pocket-size bottle of cheap white tequila and we did some tests," Apátiga said. "We were in doubt over whether the great amount of chemicals present in tequila, other than water and ethanol, would contaminate or obstruct the process, it turned out to be not so. The results were amazing, same as with the ethanol and water compound, we obtained almost spherical shaped diamonds of nanometric size. There is no doubt; tequila has the exact proportion of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms necessary to form diamonds."'"

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