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  1. Re:Well, duh on Claimed Proof That P != NP · · Score: 1

    It can be a bit difficult to convey this logic to an audience that's borderline Asperger. Your humour is as good as your crowd, they say.

  2. Re:No, I don't on Google CEO Schmidt Predicts End of Online Anonymity · · Score: 1

    That's not a goat. That's me.

  3. Re:Somebody call the waaaambulance on High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay · · Score: 1

    Revenues should always be marginal. That goes for wages too. Otherwise the system doesn't work, or is rigged.

  4. Re:Or you could on If You Don't Want Your Car Stolen, Make It Pink · · Score: 1

    only stateside. In the rest of the world, car-thieves don't have a problem with stick shift.

  5. Re:Maybe not the only one on IEEE Looks At Kevin Costner's Oil Cleanup Machines · · Score: 1

    If oilspills would be more prevalent, and the companies causing them would be fully responsible for cleaning it up, then you bet your ass it would be profitable to invest in cleaning tech.

  6. Re:Is a trap! on Recomputing the Sky · · Score: 1

    Weren't they behind this whole 'reconstruct a 3D world from a lot of 2D pictures found on Google' a while ago as well ?

  7. Re:First post on Claimed Proof That UNIX Code Was Copied Into Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    One function per file, and the same name for the file as the function, is actually damn good C coding practice. Nothing else.

  8. GOML test, really on The Creativity Crisis · · Score: 2, Funny

    This sounds like a test developed by baby boomers to test baby-boomerishness in people. It's the get-of-my-lawn test.

  9. Re:I think there's something to that on Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy? · · Score: 1, Informative

    I'm like you. My neighbour however, who has just as many means as I do (more or less), chooses to pirate stuff all the bloody time.

  10. Re:Style choice? on Science Historian Deciphers Plato's Code · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Average word-size times amount of words shouldn't deviate too much from amount of letters used. Especially over large amounts of words, as seems to be the case here. So Plato might as well have been using a rhythm, instead of a numerological concept.

  11. Re:Riiiiight on Science Historian Deciphers Plato's Code · · Score: 1

    This is why I loooooove Slashdot. Why post this as AC, though.

  12. Re:PhilosoFAIL on Science Historian Deciphers Plato's Code · · Score: 1

    It goes further:

    Socrates -> Plato -> Aristotle -> Alexander the Great

  13. Re:Dan Brown just came. on Science Historian Deciphers Plato's Code · · Score: 1

    Does this mean that we will soon have a book and a movie in which the protagonist spends five meaningless minutes in every tourist trap in Athens, encounters a murderer and a clue in each one of them, and gets to kiss the pretty archaeologist at the end ? I suppose it will do something for the Greek economy...

  14. Re:Socrates, not Aristotle on Science Historian Deciphers Plato's Code · · Score: 1

    Well, Plato legitimized religion to a certain extent with his 'cave of shadows', if you're willing to assume that religion in this case, means that it provides a way of seeing the 'real' and 'perfect' examples of all that is imperfect in this life. Christianity liked it a lot, anyway.

  15. Re:Socrates, not Aristotle on Science Historian Deciphers Plato's Code · · Score: 1

    Yes but he can also have been the village nutcase, whom it was safe to make fun of.

  16. Re:Tip for kdawson on Khan Academy Delivers 100,000 Lectures Daily · · Score: 1

    What are recognized ethnicities, and who recognizes them ?

  17. It's getting out of hand. on New Zealand U-Turns, Will Grant Software Patents · · Score: 1

    This whole blogging thing needs to be stopped.

  18. Re:Small minds... on Europe To Import Sahara Solar Power Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    I hear the atlantic is quite around the corner when you're in certain places in the Sahara. Also, they need a lot of drinking water over there. So... seawater, heat, molten salt, drinking water.. No. I can't seem to think of a solution.

  19. Re:whoopie on Utah Attorney General Tweets Execution Order · · Score: 1

    Don't forget to capitalize that word, son. Hell is worse when it's in big letters, so it's only right to capitalize.

  20. Re:Customer Service on Verizon Makes Offering Service Blocks a Fireable Offense · · Score: 1

    Short term or long term eh ? Pick one.

  21. Saudi Arabia again ? on Harry Reid Pushes Nevada As "Saudi Arabia of Geothermal Energy" · · Score: 1

    That whole 'Saudi Arabia' thing is getting to be a tad overused. I, for one, am the Saudi Arabia of sexytime. Ladies, please. Not all at once. Mecca is down there, if you know what I mean.

  22. Re:I don't know what the complaint is about? on Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names · · Score: 1

    That question is there so that, if you *do* commit an act of terror *and* you survive *and* you get caught, you can have an additional charge of 'lying' stuck on you. Right next to 'committing an act of terrorism'. Because lying is bad, Ok ?

  23. Re:And this is different to Walmart.... on Apple Censors Ulysses App In Time For Bloomsday · · Score: 1

    False. I voluntarily read it. Twice. Granted, I was sixteen, but still. Finnegan's Wake, however, I never got beyond page 32 on that one.

  24. PowerPC on BIOS Will Be Dead In Three Years · · Score: 1

    I'm working with embedded (Power and ARM) hardware these days, and I especially like the way that this PowerPC (freescale) board of mine boots. You are immediately dropped to a shell, essentially. This shell is quite powerful (you can move memory, boot from a certain offset in memory, debug memory, tftp something to a place in memory, mount a usb device, etc) and then, when you're done deciding how you want to boot, you script that.

  25. And on HP Gives Printers Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    And scanners must be webservers. I mean, it fits the paradigm completely - small, parametrizable requests, big gobs of response, and done. Why haven't they been built ?