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  1. Spam vaccination on Researchers Claim "Effectively Perfect" Spam Blocking Discovery · · Score: 1

    Hah, leaky disciplines.

  2. Buzz on Mozilla Tries New "Lorentz" Dev Model · · Score: 1

    God forbids if a name should suggest something of substance.

  3. Re:This is news at any level how? on Visual Studio 2010 Forces Tab Indenting · · Score: 1

    Dude, you are so fired for not clearing with the legal before posting.

  4. "RMS Free" on Mozilla's VP of Engineering On H.264 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You know, "RMS Free" is a lot clearer than "Free", "Libre", blah blah. You say "RMS Free", and we all know what that means, and those that don't know won't falsely assume they know.

  5. Re:There's a problem with this coverage on Claims of Himalayan Glacier Disaster Melt Away · · Score: 1

    You carbon-spewing denier fool! ;-)

  6. Re:Only $20K? on Data Mining Competition To Improve Drug Safety · · Score: 1

    Yep. I'd hold my nose and hock it to class-action specialists just to piss off the pharma bastards. Spending gobloads on TV ads, but a measly 20k for this? Scumbags.

  7. And there is more! on Slime Mold Could Lead To Better Tech · · Score: 1

    One day my dog can trade in the market, generate enough income to pay for its dog food and let me retire.

  8. "out-of-band" on Microsoft Patches "Google Hack" Flaw In IE · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ooooh, we all talk like com techs. Aren't we all so clever?

  9. Short-term volunteering on How Do You Volunteer Professional Services? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Professional service is not suitable for short-term volunteering - better dig a ditch or something simple like that.

  10. Python in a Nutshell on Python Essential Reference 4th Ed. · · Score: 2, Interesting

    O'Reilly's Nutshell series have become rather inconsistent. Java series particularly I found useless waste of tree, but the Python one by Martelli was very good, complements the online doc very well.

    Would be good to compare this title with Martelli's.

  11. Re:Visual Studio replacement on Linux on What Tools Do FLOSS Developers Need? · · Score: 1

    Haven't mucked with GDB for a long time. Are you still SOA when it comes to threading? Maybe GDB can use some work on that?

  12. People under 40 report here on CBS Refuses To Preserve Jack Benny Footage · · Score: 1

    I thought I was old cuz I lost plenty hair, but I'm lost on this one.

  13. Re:The two papers aren't identical on The Weird Science of Tossing Stones Into a Lake · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yep, one costs you 25, the other diddly squat.

  14. Re:Nobody in here make any cracks on Police In Britain Arrest Man For Bomb-Threat Joke On Twitter · · Score: 1

    You should have listened to Heathrow, not that it would help...

  15. Re:Level playing field on US Blocking Costa Rican Sugar Trade To Force IP Laws · · Score: 3, Funny

    Get a clue. We are just waiting for SP3 before upgrading.

  16. Re:Free trade on US Blocking Costa Rican Sugar Trade To Force IP Laws · · Score: 1

    There is this book "Bad Samaritan" - a well-argued polemic making the case. Worth a read.

  17. "Free" like I say on US Blocking Costa Rican Sugar Trade To Force IP Laws · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I still cannot understand why intellectual monopoly protectionism -- the exact opposite of "free trade" -- gets included in free trade agreements...

    Cuz increasingly that's all we have left. Especially now that money-printing business has hit the fan.

  18. Re:Code in high-level on Cliff Click's Crash Course In Modern Hardware · · Score: 1

    Is there a study of why we sometimes sub same-sounding words when typing in stream-of-conscious style? Might be something there...

  19. Re:Code in high-level on Cliff Click's Crash Course In Modern Hardware · · Score: 1

    Yeah, probably makes sense only for DSPs and microcontrollers. But then isn't 68k used as microcontrollers now?

    We used to say there were two many layers of shit. Now it's truly "turtles all the way down."

  20. Re:Looks like email and the desktop were not enoug on China Emphasizes Laws As Google Defies Censorship · · Score: 1

    What you say? This aggression will not stand? That's like, your opinion, man.

  21. Re:I think on Porn Industry Tiptoes Into 3D Video · · Score: 1

    Comes off, you say?

  22. I agree on The Economy of Wikileaks · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But I tell you, Jay Leno is a total douche. And NBC is sabotaging itself right as it is being bought by that evil cable company.

    All hail COCO!

  23. 1000 times on Bell Labs Says Networks Can Be 1000 Times More Energy Efficient · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is that number just pulled out of their ass? Is there a base for it?

  24. Re:Understanding statistics is hard... on Why Programmers Need To Learn Statistics · · Score: 1

    I've only done one semester of one of them "stats for engineering and science", and even that little made me realize how hairy stats are, and that was decades ago. Just try define precisely what "probability" means.

    The sorriest thing is the social scientists trying to make their case using stats they have little understanding of, applying to their subjects which are way, way more more complex than those of physical science. Even worse is the medical science.

  25. Re:Medical science is bunk on Cellphone Radiation May Protect Brain From Alzheimers · · Score: 1

    It's like thousand primitive blind men making barely educated guesses, and the money involved gags any notion of humility in their proclamations.