Claws Of Doom - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Einstein replied "Check your measurements, son" (Score 2) 1088

by Claws Of Doom on Thursday September 22, 2011 @03:39PM (#37483490) Attached to: CERN Experiment Indicates Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos

Spot on - even down to the turn of phrase I was going to use to describe the problem: "faulty ruler". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_error

Comment Re:Not yet. (Score 2, Informative) 80

by Claws Of Doom on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @06:53PM (#37334050) Attached to: Dark Matter Hinted at Again at Cresst Experiment

I am an idiot.

Comment Not yet. (Score 4, Informative) 80

by Claws Of Doom on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @06:49PM (#37334010) Attached to: Dark Matter Hinted at Again at Cresst Experiment

4 sigma detection != (officially) found. You need 5 sigma for "discovery" status. The BBC have a good explanatory piece: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14811580

Comment Re:Website hacked? (Score 1) 192

by Claws Of Doom on Sunday September 04, 2011 @04:33PM (#37304068) Attached to: The Register Hacked

With apologies to the reg's admins, I tried to get to a story I was reading earlier on, and got the following in return:

Not Found The requested URL /2011/09/02/samsung_webos_acquisition_no_not_ever/ was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.8.8 Server at www.theregister.co.uk Port 80

Comment Re:Website hacked? (Score 2) 192

by Claws Of Doom on Sunday September 04, 2011 @04:25PM (#37304016) Attached to: The Register Hacked

As I write, the site is still defaced. It's been up and down in the last few minutes though...

Comment Re:You Don't. That's the point. (Score 1) 218

by Claws Of Doom on Friday November 13, 2009 @05:43AM (#30084784) Attached to: Recovering the Slums of the Internet?

Car Analogy: If you're doing your own oil changes, and instead of hauling the waste oil to a recycler, you dump it into your backyard, don't complain when you try and sell your house and the highest bid still leaves you $100,000 underwater on your mortgage, or requires you to spend $150,000 remediating it. Your property is worth less than it could have been, had you only been a better steward of it.

I'd hate to see your house analogies.

Comment Re:Rule of thumb with the Daily Mail (Score 1) 366

by Claws Of Doom on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @01:36PM (#29368413) Attached to: Teenager Invents Cheap Solar Panel From Human Hair

I'd have just gone with: if daily mail, no. This is the paper that is (unknown to them, apparently) the British cousin of The Onion - despite Private Eye's best efforts.

Comment As an astrophys graduate (Score 1) 276

by Claws Of Doom on Monday July 14, 2008 @06:15AM (#24178979) Attached to: Book Recommendations For Maths To Astrophysics?

I have to confess that sometimes the gentlest intoductions were the best. The most expensive book on my reading list was Astronomy: The Evolving Universe, by Zeilik. I still love reading it to this day. Yes, maybe too many pictures for those that like the heavy stuff. If you really want to understand the basic principles - introduced in an absolutely clear manner - you won't get better.

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