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  1. Re:Change is good on Steve Ballmer Blew Up At the Microsoft Board Before Retiring · · Score: 2

    Microsoft has not been a "success." It's been a cancer eating away at decent automation.

  2. Re:What's your average day like? on Interview: Ask Theo de Raadt What You Will · · Score: 1

    No one on their deathbed ever said "Gee, I wish I had spent more time at the office."

  3. Re:Large saber toothed cats... on The Mammoth Cometh: Revive & Restore Tackles De-Extinction · · Score: 1

    Not everyone lives in the city. Making kids in Montana walk 20 miles to school is not realistic especially if there are packs of dire wolves around!

  4. Re:I win! on The Mammoth Cometh: Revive & Restore Tackles De-Extinction · · Score: 1

    Thanks. Trolling takes a lot of energy!

  5. I win! on The Mammoth Cometh: Revive & Restore Tackles De-Extinction · · Score: 1

    nt

  6. Many dumb... on The Mammoth Cometh: Revive & Restore Tackles De-Extinction · · Score: 1

    people do not read the subject line. It is their loss plus it is an easy way to bifurcate threads.

    Some advice to you: many people do not read comments that start off with a score of zero. :-)

  7. Re:Do not start your comment in the subject ... on The Mammoth Cometh: Revive & Restore Tackles De-Extinction · · Score: 1

    If you take the time to see what post I am replying to you should not get confused.

  8. Re:Do not start your comment in the subject ... on The Mammoth Cometh: Revive & Restore Tackles De-Extinction · · Score: 1

    Get bent anonymous coward. It's one of my favorite techniques.

  9. Re:hunters and conservation on The Mammoth Cometh: Revive & Restore Tackles De-Extinction · · Score: 2

    The conservation/hunting group Ducks Unlimited is pretty much the only reason that we have wetlands protection and geese and ducks are still around.

  10. Re:Large saber toothed cats... on The Mammoth Cometh: Revive & Restore Tackles De-Extinction · · Score: 1

    It was a book then a movie, not a TV show.

  11. Re:Large saber toothed cats... on The Mammoth Cometh: Revive & Restore Tackles De-Extinction · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's currently illegal to shoot raptors (hawks, eagles, falcons etc.) in the US and Canada.

  12. Re:Large saber toothed cats... on The Mammoth Cometh: Revive & Restore Tackles De-Extinction · · Score: 1

    You need to read my post again more slowly.

  13. Re:They can but SHOULD THEY on The Mammoth Cometh: Revive & Restore Tackles De-Extinction · · Score: 1

    The M-60 blows chunks. It overheats and jams. The Marines wanted to go with the current M-240 way back when but the Army put the kibosh on it. At least we have it now.

  14. Re:WTF? on Damming News From Washington State · · Score: 1

    It certainly is badly written and factually incorrect. There are free running sections of the Columbia both above and below this particular dam. Think above Roosevelt Lake on the Canadian side of the boarder and below Bonneville for starters.

  15. Re:They can but SHOULD THEY on The Mammoth Cometh: Revive & Restore Tackles De-Extinction · · Score: 1

    Ant African big game rifle should suffice. Think 375 Holland&Holland on up.

  16. Large saber toothed cats... on The Mammoth Cometh: Revive & Restore Tackles De-Extinction · · Score: 2

    will no doubt be thrilling (although I would personally prefer seeing a return of packs of dire wolves) unless you are out for a hike. They will certainly be one more nail in the coffin of gun control.

  17. Re:Might as well teach them Latin on Ask Slashdot: Educating Kids About Older Technologies? · · Score: 1

    OK then:

    (program(learn(LISP)))

  18. Re:Might as well teach them Latin on Ask Slashdot: Educating Kids About Older Technologies? · · Score: 1

    ...and how to program in LISP!

  19. A night time drive through the Rocky Mountains? on Will Electric Cars and Solar Power Make Gasoline and Utilities Obsolete? · · Score: 2

    Better bring that Coleman stove. Oh wait...

  20. That's just great... on MIT Develops Inexpensive Transparent Display Using Nanoparticles · · Score: 1

    All high-rises will become huge billboards. Shades of our future Blade Runner aesthetic.

  21. Re:Horseshit. on How Reactive Programming Differs From Procedural Programming · · Score: 1

    It's absolutely insane to recompile the entire fucking application every time a line item in an invoice gets updated or even moved to a different invoice. The young morons who program today haven't a clue about the power of the relational model when it comes to transaction processing and ACID transactions.

    You calculate the totals at query time not when you are updating a single instance of a column fer chrissakes! NOSQL, star schemas, and the like are for reporting copies not live on-line systems.

    The example given doesn't even require a trigger at all just and insert or update statement in a stored procedure. People have to learn the power of databases to abstract the data layer from the application layer and user interface.

  22. Horseshit. on How Reactive Programming Differs From Procedural Programming · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Stored procedures and triggers are already here and I see no evidence that there is anything new here. If the database is in a correct normalized form this will not reduce the amount of code one iota.

    Do ***NOT*** put this sort of logic in the application code. Use properly written stored procedures, foreign key constraints, and database triggers and don't let "application" programmers (especially not agile ones or those who invent new terminology for well known and previously solved problems) within 100 miles of the logic.

    And as far as the users being able to understand it "better" I have only one word to say: Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!

  23. This story is old news on Losing Aaron · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    and the NYT is only whining because it's a Jewish paper. It's up to the universities to release their research for free not some freelance thief.

  24. I'll have to remember... on Western Australian Sharks Send Tweets To Swimmers · · Score: 1

    to be sure to bring my laptop with me in the water the next time I go surfing.

  25. Re:Whew. on Searching the Internet For Evidence of Time Travelers · · Score: 1

    If you do not speak English, I am at your disposal with 187 other languages along with their various dialects and sub-tongues.