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Comment Re:Habeas Corpus not "revoked" (Score 1) 790

"...this sentence makes it clear that you're not really interested in discussion, but in insults."

No fuckboy, I'm interested in discussion with people who do their research, and don't pretend they know what the fuck they're talking about like you have.

I told you once already that this was going to be futile, as my examples were obvious and easy to understand, yet you were ignorant of them.

So, explain to me why I would have anything but comtempt for some asshole (you) who decides to pop off about a subject he clearly is not informed about?

"IOW why are you even posting on Slashdot if you just want to be a dick anytime someone contradicts you at all?"

That might be a good point if that's what happened, but so far no one has contradicted me and I've only been a "dick" to people who were claiming some knowledge of the subject even though their posts show that they're ignorant and not worth attempting to educate (you).

See, I'm not a dick to people who learn about a subject before making assertions of fact. You did not, hence you get dickery.

In the future, if you wish to avoid dickery, stop lying and pretending you're not ignorant. Then you'll avoid getting insulted and being wrong all at once.

More importantly, I gave an example you can't refute, that was obvious like I said. At this point your only response is "Supergood, you're right".

Space

Meteorite Causes Illness in Peru 357

eldavojohn writes "A meteorite struck in Peru on Saturday leaving cinders, rock & water boiling out of the ground. Villagers nearby reported headaches & vomiting and attributed it to the event. From the article, 'Seven policemen who went to check on the reports also became ill and had to be given oxygen before being hospitalized, Lopez said. Rescue teams and experts were dispatched to the scene, where the meteorite left a 100-foot-wide (30-meter-wide) and 20-foot-deep (six-meter-deep) crater, said local official Marco Limache.' It's not yet clear whether this is from the meteorite, gas trapped underground that was released or a chemical reaction between the two."
Science

Most Science Studies Tainted by Sloppy Analysis 252

mlimber writes "The Wall Street Journal has a sobering piece describing the research of medical scholar John Ioannidis, who showed that in many peer-reviewed research papers 'most published research findings are wrong.' The article continues: 'These flawed findings, for the most part, stem not from fraud or formal misconduct, but from more mundane misbehavior: miscalculation, poor study design or self-serving data analysis. [...] To root out mistakes, scientists rely on each other to be vigilant. Even so, findings too rarely are checked by others or independently replicated. Retractions, while more common, are still relatively infrequent. Findings that have been refuted can linger in the scientific literature for years to be cited unwittingly by other researchers, compounding the errors.'"
Portables (Apple)

Submission + - Apple Cuts Linux iPod Users Off (blogspot.com)

Will Fisher writes: "New iPods will no longer be able to work with Linux. iTunes now writes some kind of hash (SHA1, md5?) to the iPod database which new iPods check against. If this check fails then the iPod reports that it contains 0 songs. This appears to be protection against 3rd party applications writing out their own databases. We haven't found out how to generate our own valid hashes (but we do know the hash includes the database itself, and possibly the iPod serial number), and are looking for help."

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