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  1. Re:Mark Who? on Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google · · Score: 1

    So, a domain name squatter, eh?

    Figures.

  2. Re:Or a management failure on If the Comments Are Ugly, the Code Is Ugly · · Score: 1

    Nah, turns out "she" was just a regex.

  3. Re:Oh no on NASA To Try Powering Mars Rover "Spirit" Out of Sand Trap · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe they should switch to a ten iron instead. That should work.

  4. Re:How Much Damage? on Unknown 7m Asteroid Almost Impacted Earth · · Score: 1

    Come one, everyone knows meteor swarm is reflex (half).

  5. Re:So Where Exactly is this 'Leaked' Document? on Secret Copyright Treaty Leaks. It's Bad. Very Bad. · · Score: 1

    The president does have a magic wand - the unbeatable combo of control of the armed services and the presidential pardon.

    Unfortunately, it's rather a bad idea.

  6. Re:Where's the... on Murderer With "Aggression Genes" Gets Reduced Sentence · · Score: 1

    Personal responsibility is a pure fiction in a deterministic universe.
    Everything that will ever happen was decided at the time of the Big Bang.
    We just don't have the instruments to predict everything yet.

    So why are you posting that comment?

  7. Re:NASA's priorities....? on "Frickin' Fantastic" Launch of NASA's Ares I-X Rocket · · Score: 1

    Haven't you heard of a control group?

  8. Re:Phonon, not phomon on New Optomechanical Crystal Allows Confinement of Light and Sound · · Score: 2, Funny

    Phomon phonon!

    Doo doo-doo doo doo!

  9. Re:the bug is not in ldd on Arbitrary Code Execution With "ldd" · · Score: 1

    Let's say you have code for a compiler (Code A), and a couple of compilers you want to test (compilers B, C, D, and E).

    So we run code A through compilers B,C,D, and E. The executables (B_A, C_A, D_A and E_A) from them will obviously be different, but they should all function identically.

    So we run code A through compilers B_A, C_A, D_A and E_A. If the resulting output executable is the same from all compilers, then we sure that all the compilers are either evil in exactly the same manner or all good.

  10. Re:the bug is not in ldd on Arbitrary Code Execution With "ldd" · · Score: 1

    The article vastly overstates the danger. It's fairly trivial to tell if a compiler is evil, so long as not all compilers are evil in exactly the same way.

  11. Re:It's because meters and feet are the same on 125 Years of Longitude 0 0' 00" At Greenwich · · Score: 1

    One pint of water is one pound. Eight pints in a gallon.

    Done.

  12. Re:hmmm on Plagiarism-Detection Software Confirms Shakespeare Play · · Score: 1

    He's William freakin' Shakespeare. He doesn't need to plagiarize anyone else.

  13. Re:Influenza Vaccines are Ineffective at Best on Nationwide Shortage In Supply of Swine Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Of course, if you've had chicken pox normally, then the viruses are still chilling in your nerve cells, and you're at risk for shingles anyway.

    The vaccine is better at preventing shingles, since the virus typically doesn't end up in your nerves.

  14. Re:Experience from academia on Student Loan Interest Rankles College Grads · · Score: 1

    It's not as if the shortfall could have been caused by some sort of massive economic downturn souring their endowment's investments. I think I would have heard of that.

  15. Re:All mine were cheap! on Student Loan Interest Rankles College Grads · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unless you're Thrawn, I doubt an art history degree is going to be useful.

  16. Re:Just Don't Get It on Verizon's Challenge To the iPhone Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Then why does Apple's software have such bad user interfaces?

  17. Re:Yes. Computers are unnatural. on Are Software Developers Naturally Weird? · · Score: 1

    Nah, Galileo faced persecution because he was being a dick.

    And his astronomical ideas were a bit of a crapshoot (see his thoughts on comets).

  18. Re:Passing the buck on The Ultimate Limit of Moore's Law · · Score: 2, Funny

    But the singularity might accidentally the world.

  19. Re:Back in high school creative writing class ... on The LHC, the Higgs Boson, and Fate · · Score: 1

    The universe is not deterministic. If you got stuck in a loop like that, eventually you'd break out due to some crazy quantum coincidence.

  20. Re:Pffft on Ted Dziuba Says, "I Don't Code In My Free Time" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, sure, if you want to do it the easy way.

  21. Re:Gerald Bull on Gigantic Air Gun To Blast Cargo Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    They're a reason they called Chemical Ali Chemical Ali.

  22. Re:my hobby on Sky Watchers Want Recognized a Newly Described Type of Cloud · · Score: 1

    I can tell by the pixels, and from having seen quite a few shops in my time.

  23. Neurosky can do it better. on Computer-Aided ESP Transmits Binary Numbers, Slowly · · Score: 1

    Neurosky's brain computer interface hardware/software would work much more effectively for this.

  24. Re:How shocking on Star Guard — an Old-School Platformer Done Right · · Score: 1

    Plus, it's (eventually) coming to Wiiware, with quadruple the graphics resolution.

    (enhanced graphics/music is toggleable)

  25. Re:You know what they say about the ratings board. on Left 4 Dead 2 Approved In Australia After Edits · · Score: 4, Funny

    Really?

    I thought they got aroused by banning things.