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  1. Universal batteries on US Corps Want $1B From Gov't For Battery Factory · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This should carry the requirement that batteries be interchangeable.

  2. Re:Eve-online exploit: more information on Left 4 Dead Bug Patched Quickly, EVE Exploit Takes 4 Years · · Score: 1

    That's a bit harsh. Those Icelandic economists are really sharp.

  3. These are more than ads on Teacher Sells Ads On Tests · · Score: 2, Interesting

    These carry more value than just the money they bring in. They are encouragement that a kid's efforts in calculus (and education in general) are valued by the parents and local businesses.

    Face it, the general message a well behaved student without academic problems gets is that they are the last people to spend money on.

  4. Re:No way on Groklaw Says Microsoft Patent Portfolio Now Worthless · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't think there is anything about intelligence in the test, merely that the taker be indistinguishable from a human.

  5. Re:Warfare without Clippy? on Worm Attack Prompts DoD To Ban Use of External Media · · Score: 5, Funny

    4)Windows

  6. Re:Sheesh on US Officials Flunk Test On Civic Knowledge · · Score: 1

    Start with drug testing them.

  7. Re:What mistakes have you made? on Interviewing Experienced IT People? · · Score: 1

    I was mostly joking.

    But as I think about it now, I realize that college got a lot better for me when I no longer had any labs killing my afternoons.

  8. Re:What mistakes have you made? on Interviewing Experienced IT People? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That good GPA indicates you passed up a lot of opportunities that you'll regret later.

  9. Re:Nice form factor but... on Plastic Logic E-Newspaper · · Score: 1

    8.5"x11" and A4 display would imply to me printing edge to edge. But I look at the picture and there appears to be large areas on top, bottom and both sides that don't print.

    The plastic logic site itself mentions over and again the form factor size but has no mention of the actual screen size. They seem to be glossing over the actual size. It's not that hard and screen size is an expected stat for something that is a viewing device.

  10. Nice form factor but... on Plastic Logic E-Newspaper · · Score: 1

    They keep emphasizing the form factor is the size of a piece of paper. But a piece of paper has a display size equal to a piece of paper, this doesn't.

    No mention of the display size.

  11. Re:ummm. on Argentine Judges Disappear Celebrities From Internet · · Score: 1

    What you say?!

  12. Re:They're insane. on Vital Parts of Games As DLC? · · Score: 1

    Uh, while that may look like cosplay, before you get dressed up and head outside you might want to check.

  13. Re:Lots of them on (Stupid) Useful Emacs Tricks? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    C-x r k ;; kill-rectangle
    C-x r y ;; yank-rectangle

    Cut and paste columns of text.

  14. Re:One reason why VI is better... on (Stupid) Useful Emacs Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Except for:
    1. constantly moving in and out of command mode
    2. reaching for ESC
    3. wtf is with the movement keys being shifted one off from the home position for the right hand?

    vi seems to be optimized for hunt and peck typers.

    Complaining that your pinky buckles under heavy emacs use may be a more valid, but saying that vi is more efficient on typing is only true if you can't really type.

  15. Re:Lots of them on (Stupid) Useful Emacs Tricks? · · Score: 1

    rot13-region
    morse-region
    gomoku
    hanoi

  16. Re:Rooted? on T-Mobile G1 Rooted · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clearly, we should avoid using windows.

  17. Re:Ivy League on Researchers Decentralize BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    The games distributed by bt are tyipcally fired up from a torrent link on their site. Why would you need to search internet at large for an alternate copy of it? Oh yea, you want the free one.

  18. Re:We already have one... on Fictional Town "Eureka" To Become Real? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd be betting on Los Alamos should the two ever go head to head.

  19. Re:Fast javascript on 10 Forces Guiding the Future of Scripting · · Score: 1

    So these people that know C well enough to write something like Perl or Python found a need for a dynamically typed language.

    Why should the language enforce this anyway? It really should be optional, more of a compiler hint anyway.

  20. Re:Turn down the volume on Study Links Personal Music Players To Hearing Loss · · Score: 1

    Fair enough.

    I suggest you play the music just loud enough to hear and sing along with it. It works when mowing the lawn.

  21. Re:Turn down the volume on Study Links Personal Music Players To Hearing Loss · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Put down the music and run without it.

    Your real objection is that you can't be alone with yourself for an extended time. You need something to drown that out.

  22. Re:Dumb on Windows 7 To Dial Down UAC · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does it really have to prompt me every single time? After prompting me to run the same program 5 times, couldn't it just ask me if I want to white list that program until the executable changes?

  23. Re:Well... on New Contestants On the Turing Test · · Score: 1

    The real question is can the people speaking to Eliza pass the Turing Test?

  24. Re:Reach for the switch... on New Contestants On the Turing Test · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Data was "alive" because he was defined as such in a work of *fiction*.

    He could have equally been a one eyed one horned flying purple people eater if they decided to spend 5 minutes one episode writing that in. It would have fit in as well as any other "plot" in Star Trek.

    All that Star Trek shows is that man can conceive of a machine that could be alive. It is a statement about man (the author) not any machine.

  25. Re:No one made it cause no one cares on Where's the "IronPerl" Project? · · Score: 1

    The inexperienced tend not to get any code done in other languages. So is it really a bad thing that Perl let's someone get their project done poorly instead of not at all?

    Oh, and with all of Java's misdirections (or abstractions), while any one line may be readable, the program can be completely incomprehensible.