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Comment: So what happens to the hydrogen? That's usable... (Score 3, Insightful) 375

by itsybitsy (#45974065) Attached to: Revolutionary Scuba Mask Creates Breathable Oxygen Underwater On Its Own

Too good to be true.

So if it actually separates the oxygen what about the hydrogen? That's fuel.

If this is real it's more than just a breathing device, it's a low cost way to separate water into 2 Hydrogen atoms and 1 Oxygen atom. That is a much more significant breakthrough... then again that's a big IF.

Evidence please.

Comment: Saw Apple ][ DOS 3.3 6502 Source during Terminator (Score -1) 211

by itsybitsy (#45406515) Attached to: Apple II DOS Source Code Released

During the first showing of The Terminator they already showed the source code, or disassembled and re-commented source code for Apple ][ DOS 3.3! While nice this is a wee bit late.

As a hardcore 6502 programmer who wrote successful apple ][ assembly language video games in that era it was quite funny seeing Apple Dos 3.3 Listings, likely from the amazing book Beneath Apple Dos, on the big screen.


Comment: Dull weirdo coder says Telegraph Contributor Sucks (Score -1) 453

Yes this Dull weirdo coder says Telegraph Contributor Sucks Balls and not well at all.

Part of the problem with Telegraph Contributor is that he actually thinks that he knows what he's talking about. At least us Dull Weirdo Coders connect with objective reality in our computer programs, if they don't work we know we got it wrong. When would a Telegraph Contributor know he got it wrong? Never.

Comment: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. (Score -1) 281

by itsybitsy (#45042815) Attached to: Do Comments On Web Pages Ruin Science?


"We have many studies in teaching, for example, in which people make observations, make lists, do statistics, and so on, but these do not thereby become established science, established knowledge. They are merely an imitative form of science-analogous to the South Sea island airfields, radio towers, etc., made out of wood. The islanders expect a great airplane to arrive. They even build wooden airplanes of the same shape as they see in foreigners' airfields around them, but strangely enough, their wood planes do not fly. The results of this pseudoscientific imitation is to produce experts, which many of you are. You teachers who are really teaching children at the bottom of the heap can maybe doubt the experts once in a while. Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." ~ Richard Feynman (The Physics Teacher, 7 September, 1969, 313-320)

Comment: Re:Your science can't handle comments? Back to wor (Score -1) 281

by itsybitsy (#45023721) Attached to: Do Comments On Web Pages Ruin Science?

It can take years to do research on HIV and how it leads to AIDS, and it can take some maniac or holistic medicine astroturfer roughly twenty seconds to post an absurd and false claim against your research.

Indeed science can take a very long time and cost a lot of money. It can also have flaws if not done well.

Attempting to control what people say is known as censorship. Good to know that's where you fall seemingly advocating censorship.

If your science is sound then who cares what people on the intertubes say about it? Seriously.

If your science is weak then it needs to be improved.

If your science is bogus then it needs to be falsified.

Regardless science is an adversarial system and if you can't handle the heat of comments, valid and invalid, then you're going to have to dig deep and attempt to communicate or demonstrate your science in a clear way. Or simply ignore or rebut the comments.

Censorship isn't the answer as that leads to dark places that science has striven to get out of.

Comment: Re:Your science can't handle comments? Back to wor (Score 0) 281

by itsybitsy (#45022423) Attached to: Do Comments On Web Pages Ruin Science?

Wow, no actual arguments presented by you whatsoever in your ad hominem personal attack. Congratulations on your failure at (1) rational discourse, (2) comprehension of how science and the scientific method actually works, (3) being raised a really nasty person who spews trash when he fails to comprehend a comment.
