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  1. Re: He really is old, isn't he? on Eric S. Raymond Identifies A Common Programming Trap: 'Shtoopid' Problems (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    That's a kind of backwards way of naming it, I think ;-)

  2. Re:Board a plane? on Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If One Is On a Watchlist? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sikhs wear turbans, not Muslims

    Well duh! Of course Sikhs don't wear Muslims.

  3. Re:And this is news because ? on Linus Torvalds Says Linux 4.0 Could Be Out In Three Years · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Sorry Slashdot, I expected a bit better from you.

    You must be too old here.

  4. Re:Step 1 on Ask Slashdot: What Would Your 'I've Got To Disappear' Plan Look Like? · · Score: 1

    Or best give a buddy who looks like you $500 to drive the car to city X and fly back.

    Make that a buddy you don't care too much about, just in case.

  5. Re:He's right. on Has the Command Line Outstayed Its Welcome? · · Score: 1

    The command line is great for people that have memorized all the commands, know exactly what they want to do, and can run the operations in their sleep. But for everyone else it's a hinderence.

    ...

    Look, most people have working legs so all those wheelchair ramps are a hinderance.

    Are you saying that people who use the CLI are handicapped??

  6. Creepy! on Japanese Researchers Create A Crab-Based Computer · · Score: 1

    That is genuinely creepy!

  7. Sentence too long on Android Kinect Projector Interface · · Score: 2

    "A guy who goes by the online handle DDRBoxman decided it would be fun to blow up his Samsung Galaxy Nexus"

    The sentence should have stopped there.

  8. Re:lawyers on How Litigation Only Spurred On P2P File Sharing · · Score: 1
    Actually, I think it's more like:

    You don't have the right to do anything, except what we tell you.

  9. Re:Dear CERN, on Can Relativity Explain Faster Than Light Particles? · · Score: 2

    Sorry, I don't believe you are Einstein. Einstein was neither anonymous nor a coward.

  10. Backronym alert! on NASA's Twin GRAIL Craft On Their Way To the Moon · · Score: 1

    The full name is of course: High Orbit Lunar trajectorY Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, making it the HOLY GRAIL.

  11. Re:So... on A Custom Objectionable Word List Ate My Homework · · Score: 1

    Probably worked for you because you are already logged in to google.

    Use this link to avoid logging in.

  12. Re:Meh on Ubuntu Unity: The Great Divider · · Score: 1

    You can turn off auto-hide, but you have to install CompizConfig Settings Manager (ccsm). Once you've done that, find the Ubuntu Unity Plugin and set the "Hide Launcher" setting to "Never".

  13. Re:How about.. on New Dinosaur Species Found In China · · Score: 1

    I suggest "Chinasaur".

  14. Backronym on New Tool Blocks Downloads From Malicious Sites · · Score: 3, Funny

    The first version of their tool was called "BLock All Drive-by Download Exploit scRipts" - or BLADDER. For some reason it was not very popular.

  15. Re:God, god, god.... on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 2, Informative

    No. "1" is always 1 in any number system, independent of the base. "10" is always equal to the base. In this case, pi squared would be "100", pi cubed would be "1000" and so on.

    Compare with base 10, in which "10" is 10, "100" is 10 squared and "1000" is 10 cubed.

  16. Re:Bullshit on Sex Boosts Brain Growth · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just remember, every time you masturbate, god kills a kitten.

    I just realized something: No pussy => masturbate => kitten dies => no pussy. It's an evil circle!

  17. Re:How is that novel? on BlindType — the Amazing Keyboard of the Future · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That was my reaction too, until I RTFA and realized that it is about phones with a touchscreen.
    Summaries published by kdawson ought to have some kind of warning label, perhaps something like "Warning: This summary may not reflect the contents of the related article!"

  18. Re:Amatuer idea on Passwords That Are Simple — and Safe(?) · · Score: 1

    How about if we change the idea slightly to not only block existing passwords, but also block passwords that are similar to existing passwords? "Similar" could for example mean a Levenshtein distance less than 3.
    Even if you knew a blocked password, you would not know if that particular password had actually been used.

  19. Re:Breaking! mlpm on 2 In 3 Misunderstand Gas Mileage; Here's Why · · Score: 1

    it slowly creeps the US mind toward the metric system, one small step at a time!

    You mean, like, inch by inch?

  20. Re:i stopped using avast because of popups on What Free Antivirus Do You Install On Windows? · · Score: 1

    It's quite easy to disable the popup, though. Just google for "disable avira popup". You can find a description here. The idea is to disallow the executable avnotify.exe to run.

  21. Interesting... on Scientists Turn Wood Into Bone · · Score: 1

    Well that's very interesting, because I am in fact made entirely of wood.

  22. Re:One person's myth is another person's fact. on Myths About Code Comments · · Score: 1

    You may benefit by taking a look at Joel Spolsky's opinion of that particular hammer.

    That article does not argue against refactoring, it argues against rewriting your code from scratch. In fact, the author mentions refactoring as a good alternative to rewriting the code.

  23. Grouping method? on Habitual Multitaskers Do It Badly · · Score: 1
    I wonder how the researchers determined if a person is a multitasker?

    The article says:

    In each of their tests, the researchers split their subjects into two groups: those who regularly do a lot of media multitasking and those who don't.

    Do they simply ask "Do you do a lot of media multitasking?" ?

  24. Re:5 and 2 years old? on Tomorrow's Science Heroes? · · Score: 1

    Children are very good at filtering what they understand and what they don't from material aimed at adults.

    Yeah. I show my kids porn. They go: "Ooh dad look! Now she's pretending to be a dog!"

  25. Re:swapping two values without a temporary variabl on Old-School Coding Techniques You May Not Miss · · Score: 1

    Ok, now do it with strings!