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  1. Re:Hypothesis testing on The Voynich Manuscript May Have Been Decoded · · Score: 1

    If the text is sufficiently integral, and the captions match the illustrations, and the amount of languages as limited and relevant, then: yes.

  2. Re:Hypothesis testing on The Voynich Manuscript May Have Been Decoded · · Score: 1

    Only if the amount of words is large enough to have said letter frequencies and said relevant letters. I find the examples given very, very convincing. That doesn't mean that other examples are unconvincing, nor that most examples simply aren't given. But there may just be an explanation for that. As in: written in another language, or using another method of obfuscation.

  3. Re:C on an 8-bit microcontroller? on Microsoft's Top Devs Don't Seem To Like Own Tools · · Score: 1

    They do that because the i486 DX2 (I think) was a bug-free CPU that required no cooling. That's very nice in space.

  4. Countdown on iPhone App Store Rejects Find a New Home · · Score: 0, Troll

    Lawsuits and API changes in 3.. 2.. 1..

  5. Re:Impact on The World's First Osmotic Power Plant · · Score: 1

    If you do that nearish to a river estuary (which is a logical place to build these anyway), then that's something that would have occurred naturally.

  6. Re:Some suggestions on Inkscape 0.47 Released · · Score: 1

    Ok. Let me be clear(er). I make children's books. Those things have lots of images, but still require continuity in text. To assemble the illustrations and text into something that I can easily ship and manipulate, I've examined the gimp, skencil, inkscape and scribus. This was a while ago, so if things have changed in the mean time, forgive me. Inkscape and Scribus did graphics nicely, but were all stuck on one page. Skencil was the only tool that could so multiple pages well, but it sucked on text. The gimp, I did all the image-pre-processing with. Skencil kept the entire document in memory, instead of quickly loading a page (or a couple of pages) when needed. It was all a great, big nightmare.

    In the end I resorted to perl, make and pam-tools. Thank zeus for those. But still, I would've liked it if...

  7. Some suggestions on Inkscape 0.47 Released · · Score: 1

    As someone who works with these kinds of tools regularly, I'd like to blurt this out to the graphical tools people in the open source world:
    - Merge vector drawing into the gimp. Make it a layer like thing. Then add paging. Now you can produce a book.
    - Barring that, please make all these vector-drawing tools (inkscape, skencil) multi-page and when you do: try not to hold the whole document in memory. Please. I make books that hold images in 300 dpi. Anymore than twenty such pages and you're beginning to stutter; It just won't fit. Use a dbm as a file format and read and write as you please. There, that's better !
    - The capability to 'bubble in' text across multiple pages won't hurt anyone. Especially if that text can be aligned to fill the width of the box.

  8. Re:Really people on Microsoft Denies It Built Backdoor Into Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    So what's with this newsletter I hear so much about ?

  9. Re:I have no problem believing MS this time... on Microsoft Denies It Built Backdoor Into Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you've anonymized the IP address from which you're posting as well, haven't you ? Governments aren't very keen on people breaking those kinds of vows, even after a few years.

  10. Re:Math cannot exist before wind. on Tracking the World's Great Unsolved Math Mysteries · · Score: 2

    Linkie. Socrates questions his victims, but only in a subjective way, that is, only about their opinions and perceptions. His view of the world below the veneer of Hellenic city-state culture was based on the cave of shadows.

  11. Re:Math cannot exist before wind. on Tracking the World's Great Unsolved Math Mysteries · · Score: 1

    The former are Socratists, the latter are Aristotelians. The first group figures there must be an original, perfect form of everything; a blueprint, a divine thing. The second group are just nerds.

  12. New filesystems on Fedora 12 Lets Users Install Signed Packages, Sans Root Privileges · · Score: 1

    What you need is a complete filesystem lay-over for the specific user. Then it doesn't matter that a user has installed a certain package. It's just that the other users won't be able to see it.

  13. Re:Lecture Fruit! on Low-Energy Laser Etching May Replace Fruit Labels · · Score: 1

    Hey ! When having single apples is a crime, only criminals will have single apples.

  14. Re:If you play enough, you will ALWAYS lose. on Computer-Based System To Crack Down On Casino Card Counters · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is slashdot. We would assume the wedding wasn't yours. You're being verbose. /oblig

  15. Re:Maxwell Equations on Researchers Discover "Magnetic Current" · · Score: 1

    I dunno. How heavy is it ?

  16. Re:I've gone to the Dark Side... on Explaining Corporate Culture Through "The Office" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've discovered that it is generally rare to find a person, anyone, that isn't somehow a bit crazy or plainly batshit insane (although functioning in society). To meet a person that is balanced, is so much rarer than to meet their opposite number, especially after thirty or so. Before that they're obviously just as crazy, but at least you can forgive each other 'for being not yet completely grown-up', or something. So statistically, you'll see these people everywhere, also in higher functions in white-collar companies.

    This is just personal anecdote of course, and I wouldn't, for the life of me, rank myself amongst those balanced people I've just described. I just wouldn't.

  17. Re:So what do you think about the type of plants on Penny-Sized Nuclear Batteries Developed · · Score: 1

    How can you try to build a refinery and fail ?

  18. all businesses ? on Avatars To Have Business Dress Codes By 2013 · · Score: 1

    Will virtual burgerflippers also be required to wear a virtual cardboard hat with a logo on it ?

  19. Re:Also... on "Side By Side Assemblies" Bring DLL Hell 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Where are we with the multi-version file-systems ? It seems to me that this, along with many other niceties could be resolved using a file-system that can contain multiples of the same file (we have GUIs these days anyway to differentiate) or multiple versions, or both.

  20. Lily Allen. Right. on UK Musicians Back Watered-Down "Three-Strikes" Rule · · Score: 1

    Lily Allen. Isn't that the girl/woman who sings songs with naughty words in it in a baby's voice ? And she's against it ? Well then it must be good. Or something.

  21. Bad question, probably on US Wants UK Hacker To Pay To Fix Holes He Exposed · · Score: 1

    To answer the question posed in the write-up with a question: aren't the door and the lock one system ? Wouldn't replacing the door usually also mean: replacing the lock ?

  22. Re:Macs on Large-Scale Mac Deployment? · · Score: 1

    The parts are. I upgraded my wife's Imac's memory from 2 to 4 gigs; the Mac-store boys would have charged me THREE times the price of what that memory costs ordinarily. Same stuff. Same access times. No milspec or something; same thing. I honestly don't know if they ever wonder why knowledgeable people just buy their stuff and disappear (even though they wouldn't let me leave the store with my box initially, without me leaving them my email address, another gripe of mine).

  23. Naturally on E. Coli Can Be Used To Clean Up Nuclear Waste · · Score: 4, Funny

    Uranium is the element named after Uranus, right ? No wonder it attracts E.Coli.

  24. Eyes dry now on Alan Turing Gets an Apology From Prime Minister Brown · · Score: 1

    As many people have said before me; a rather helpless statement made by a politico who's certain to be out when the next election comes. Yet reading this reduced me to a slobbering blob of pudding in front of my monitor when I read it.

  25. Re:So it's a fnacy nmae on Schooling, Homeschooling, and Now, "Unschooling" · · Score: 1

    You get modded insightful, but I find your premise lacking and biased. The answer to your question should obviously be: I don't know.