Comment Re:That's the fun of it... (Score 1) 136

by cinereaste on Monday January 14, 2013 @04:24PM (#42584957) Attached to: The Science of Game Strategy

They can cheat and solve the next bajillion moves.

cheat

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Comment Re:Flame-bait summary? (Score 1) 186

by cinereaste on Friday December 28, 2012 @11:34AM (#42411065) Attached to: Ramanujan's Deathbed Conjecture Finally Proven

Whenever I read submissions like this, I wonder why they put a sentence like "genius in flunked out of ...". Unless the area they were a genius in was the same one he/she failed at, it seems kind of flame-bait - trying to start an "school is useless - look at these outliers" discussion.

I don't think that's what it's trying to say at all. My reading is more like "look, even geniuses can have trouble in school."

Comment Coffee is not the "world's favorite beverage (Score 1) 345

by cinereaste on Saturday November 10, 2012 @07:46PM (#41946259) Attached to: Climate Change Could Drive Coffee To Extinction By 2080

Hugh Pickens wrote incorrect information in his lede sentence there. Tea is the second most widely consumed beverage in the world after plain water. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea

Comment Re:Time for Apple to go for the jugular (Score 1) 284

by cinereaste on Monday November 05, 2012 @01:04AM (#41877515) Attached to: Sharp Warns That It Might Collapse

Apple pretty much already manages Foxconn... All the processes are designed and supervised by Apple.

Uhm, no. A quick look at the Wikipedia article on Foxconn lists quite a few other major customers and competitors to Apple, such as Amazon and Samsung. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Major_customers

Comment Re:Hilarious, but isn't /. meant to be serious? (Score 1) 468

by cinereaste on Saturday January 15, 2011 @07:25PM (#34892896) Attached to: Stars Remain In Their Usual Places; People Panic

It's a bit of a stretch, but science is part of news for nerds. . . .

I agree completely. But astrology isn't science, not even in the least. This should have been in the "idle" category. As wizardforce mentioned below, Bad Astronomy covered this very well.

Comment Re:TFA must be right, it's from the FUTURE! (Score 1) 305

by cinereaste on Friday October 01, 2010 @03:28PM (#33763796) Attached to: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted

Article posts 'October 4 2010' as the publication date... Unless I pulled a Rip Van Winkle at my desk just now, we're looking at news FROM THE FUTURE!!! :)

It's in the October 4 issue, which is released a week or even two before October 4. Most magazines do this sort of thing with publication dates.

Comment Perchlorate (Score 5, Informative) 26

by cinereaste on Friday September 03, 2010 @04:02PM (#33469172) Attached to: New and Old Experiments Combine To Help the Search For Life On Mars

Big typos: it should read perchlorate, not percholate.

Comment The most recent US Supreme Court decision . . . (Score 2) 933

by cinereaste on Monday December 29, 2008 @09:11AM (#26256941) Attached to: The Slippery Legal Slope of Cartoon Porn

I believe the last SCOTUS decision found that cartoon porn was protected speech by a 6-3 margin. Here's the relevant link: http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-795.ZS.html Another interesting question is why did the Virginia court disregard the SCOTUS decision that I link to above?