Comment Actually, he's killed half a dozen cows... (Score 0) 544
...on Farmville.
Comment Re:Elementary my dear Watson (Score -1, Offtopic) 372
Someone give countertrolling an "Insightful", being that it's the most insightful comment I've seen on Slashdot in a long while.
Comment Re:The title (Score 0) 341
Does Net Neutrality Violates Can Has Grammar?
Comment Re:This version of iTex is junk. (Score 0) 284
And, incidentally, cool username!
Comment Re:This version of iTex is junk. (Score 0) 284
Good choice of number:
12^3 + 1^3 = 10^3 + 9^3 = 1729
Lowest number to do this, yesiree.
You could say TeX has just been 1 (knuth arrow) up'd!
I mean, if your puns were real sucky you could.
Comment Re:Very old news. (Score 0) 393
Good point. I am now confused again.
Comment A hamlet... (Score 0) 515
but only because I love Shakespeare.
Comment Re:Why So Much Focus on Cows? (Score 0) 98
But if we replaced all the cow farms with fish farms, we wouldn't be taking fish from the oceans.
Mind, then we'd need lots of very wet farms.
Comment Re:Why So Much Focus on Cows? (Score 0) 98
Slashdot still exists as the only place on the internet where Cannibalism is argued for and against without any mention of morality.
How about replacing cows/people with fish?
Comment Re:Jinkies! (Score 0) 98
That'd be good to see, but only the space cow one. Ghosts don't exist, a mermaid told me.
Vatican Debates Possibility of Alien Life 721
Pickens writes "The Telegraph reports that the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences is holding its first ever conference on alien life, the discovery of which would have profound implications for the Catholic Church. For centuries, theologians have argued over what the existence of life elsewhere in the universe would mean for the Church. Among other things, extremely alien-looking aliens would be hard to fit with the idea that God 'made man in his own image' and Jesus Christ's role as savior would be confused; would other worlds have their own Christ-figures, or would Earth's Christ be universal? Just as the Church eventually made accommodations after Copernicus and Galileo showed that the Earth was not the center of the universe, and when it belatedly accepted the truth of Darwin's theory of evolution, Catholic leaders say that alien life can be aligned with the Bible's teachings. 'Just as a multiplicity of creatures exists on Earth, so there could be other beings, also intelligent, created by God,' says Father Jose Funes, a Jesuit astronomer at the Vatican Observatory and one of the organizers of the conference. Others do not agree. 'If you look back at the history of Christian debate on this, it divides into two camps. There are those that believe that it is human destiny to bring salvation to the aliens, and those who believe in multiple incarnations,' says Paul Davies, a theoretical physicist. 'The multiple incarnations is a heresy in Catholicism.'"
How To Prove Someone Is Female? 1091
krou writes "Caster Semenya won the 800m at the World Athletics Championship in blistering style, leaving her competitors in the dust, but she has been thrown into the midst of a scandal amidst claims that she's not really a woman. According to the many press reports, she's believed to shave, is flat chested, has a very masculine physique, previously preferred playing physical games with boys, and shunned traditional female activities and clothing. Questions about her gender have dogged her entire career. Previously, acceptance that she is a women relied on simple inspection of female genitals. But now the IAAF claim that they want to conduct further tests to see if 'she may have a rare medical condition that gives her an unfair advantage.' An IAAF spokesmen noted that 'The [testing] process was started after Semenya made her startling breakthroughs — a 25-second improvement at 1500m and eight seconds at 800m, just some weeks ago.' I'm curious what the Slashdot community thinks: what can be considered proof of someone being male or female? Is it simply a case of having the right genitals, or are there other criteria that should be used? Is the IAAF right in claiming that someone should be prevented from competing because they have a rare medical or genetic advantage?"
Comment Re:who is (Score 0) 860
My favourite is Eccleston.
Begun this flame war has.
Eccleson was the greatest. No flames here.
I have to agree, Eccleston was my first Doctor, and I still consider him the best, even though Tennant is clearly brilliant in the role. Might that start your flames?
Comment Microsoft were looking into Alzheimer's... (Score 0) 172
Last December the Daily Mail had a story that Microsoft were creating an imaging camera that digitally forces an image onto the mind every 30 seconds.
It was said to be a possible cure for Alzheimer's, but this IBM Pensieve is even cleverer than Microsoft's camera, and if it can artificially force itself onto someone's mind then it and that drug that was on here on Wednesday might be able to stop Alzheimer's altogether.
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