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Comment Not credible (Score 1) 280

by mmjo on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @03:34AM (#64594087) Attached to: Survey Finds Public Perception of Scientists' Credibility Has Slipped

If this is not a scientific survey, it is not credible.
If it is scientific, it is not credible by its own conclusion.

Comment Time to fire (Score 1) 119

by mmjo on Thursday August 17, 2023 @03:56AM (#63773906) Attached to: Windows Feature That Resets System Clock Based On Random Data Is Wreaking Havoc

Some say: Nobody was ever fired for buying Windows.
Now is the time to do so.
On Windows? This may already have been done.

Comment public domain (Score 3, Insightful) 74

by mmjo on Sunday February 16, 2020 @08:04AM (#59732768) Attached to: What America's NSA Thinks of Python

I wish that government bodies put these kind of texts in the public domain.

Fine-Structure Constant Maybe Not So Constant 105

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 05, 2010 @05:49PM from the variety-is-the-spice-of-life dept.

Kilrah_il writes "The fine-structure constant, a coupling constant characterizing the strength of the electromagnetic interaction, has been measured lately by scientists from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and has been found to change slightly in light sent from quasars in galaxies as far back as 12 billion years ago. Although the results look promising, caution is advised: 'This would be sensational if it were real, but I'm still not completely convinced that it's not simply systematic errors' in the data, comments cosmologist Max Tegmark of MIT. Craig Hogan of the University of Chicago and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., acknowledges that 'it's a competent team and a thorough analysis.' But because the work has such profound implications for physics and requires such a high level of precision measurements, 'it needs more proof before we'll believe it.'"

After Domain Squatting, Twitter Squatting 201

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @02:01PM from the kept-in-a-special-safe dept.

carusoj writes "Squatting on domain names is nothing new, but Twitter has created a new opportunity for squatters, in the form of Twitter IDs. Writes Richard Stiennon: 'Is there evidence of Twitter squatting (squitting?) Let's check. Yup, every single-letter TwitID is taken ... How about common words? Garage, wow, war, warcraft, Crisco, Coke, Pepsi, Nike, and Chevrolet are all taken. My guess is that Twitter squatters have grabbed all of these in the hopes that they will be worth selling in the not too distant future. Of course the legitimate holders of brands can sue for them and Twitter can just turn them over if asked. But, because the investment and risk for the squatter is zero, you are going to see the rapid evaporation of available Twitter IDs.'"

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