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  1. And this geek responds... on The NSA Is Looking For a Few Good Geeks · · Score: 1

    See figure one.

  2. Re:Sorry, but.. on Will Firefox Lose Google Funding? · · Score: 1

    That's what? A buck a user? My kids want me to spend that for stupid hat to put on a TF2 sniper. Sounds
    pretty fair to me.

  3. Re:Conartist Party Lies on Canadian Government Muzzling Scientists · · Score: 1

    What a crock of shit. [It stinks.]

    It is a pail of dung, and none may abide the odor thereof.

  4. Re:Will Qt become owned by or part of KDE? on KDE 4.7 RC Is Here: GRUB2 Integration, KWin Mobile · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There are too many folks that use Qt to make large sums of money for it to go away.
    It will find a good foster home and be well taken care of if it is ever actually orphaned.

  5. Vehicle2Vehicle Communications... on Six Cities Named For Vehicle2Vehicle Communications Trial · · Score: 0

    Yeah, I've already got all the V2V communications I need packed into my middle finger.

    See figure one.

  6. But,... on Graphene Super Paper Is 10x Stronger Than Steel · · Score: 1

    ...does it blend?

  7. Re:At the risk of my nerd card... on Ask Slashdot: How/Where To Start Watching Dr. Who? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, K9 was tolerable because you were eight. At fourteen K9 was an unforgivable joke but Tom Baker was still the best Doctor.

  8. Re:Or possibly... on Retro Browser War: IE6 Vs. Netscape In 2011 · · Score: 1

    That's a great idea, but stop calling me surely!

  9. Re:Testing? on London Stock Exchange Price Errors 'Emerged At Linux Launch' · · Score: 2

    Indeed, but please stop calling me Shirly.

  10. Re:Try XFOIL... leave CFD for later on Best OSS CFD Package For High School Physics? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is the advice you want to follow. Use XFOIL or some other panel method based program to analyze airfoils along side of your wind tunnel stuff.

    You can talk about all the things it doesn't do well (boundary layer separation, transonic flow...) and show them some Color Fancy Drawings made by a more advanced simulation as an aside.

  11. Re:Attendence in college? on RFID Checks Student Attendance in Arizona · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, it's opt out rather than opt in but they could just keep their cards in aluminum foil and attend class every day too. If you get enough folks in on the joke someone might notice their attendance numbers were a bit off.

  12. Re:title should read "Google App Engine NOT a Clou on When the Power Goes Out At Google · · Score: 1

    Sounds more like fog to me.

  13. Re:Do any of them assess performance? on Eight PHP IDEs Compared · · Score: 1

    True, but if you are optimizing, you've already gone past that and most of the time everything is coming out of memcache or some such thing. Now you want to profile the rest of your app.

  14. Re:Is this the KDE 4.0 we've all been waiting for? on KDE 4.3 Released · · Score: 1

    I think I still have his tape cassette somewhere. 10 classics in 10 minutes...

  15. Iranian leaders read Calvin and Hobbes? on Iran Tries To Pacify Protesters With Lord of The Rings Marathon · · Score: 1

    Calvin: It says here, "Religion is the opiate of the masses."...What do you suppose that means?
    TV: ...It means Karl Marx hasn't seen anything yet...

  16. Re:Say It Ain't So on The Real Reason For Microsoft's TomTom Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Why wait? IBM is probably already at risk from the current FAT suit. They should send a UDF shot across MS's bow now.

  17. Re:McNealy? on Obama Looking At Open Source? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    All that looks good except I'm curious why you would choose MSSQL. Did you consider PostgreSQL in your quest for pragmatism? Was it features, reliability, ease of use or something else?

    Just curious.

  18. Re:Linus does not mean obfuscation on Linux's Security Through Obscurity · · Score: 2, Funny

    Haven't you seen Tron?

  19. Re:Never got why people like Guitar Hero on Details for Guitar Hero 4 Released · · Score: 1

    I don't think anyone has the preconception of actually being a guitar god while playing it. Heh, you haven't seen my 7 year old then. He is a legend in his own mind.
  20. Re:Sites Moved to Rails? on Ruby on Rails 2.0 is Done · · Score: 3, Funny

    11,000 requests in one second.... wow, that's huge!

    How many did the system respond to?

  21. Re:Best way to get a quick answer. on Numerically Approximating the Wave Equation? · · Score: 3, Funny

    To quote an old numerical methods for PDE's specializing professor of mine...

      "Godunov is good enough."

    Sorry, couldn't resist.

    Seriously though, if you have to ask all these questions what you really need is some mentoring. If you aren't at a university, go to one and find either the applied math guys or the engineers. Or maybe just call up the people who make fluent...

  22. Well.... on Is Videotaping the Police a Felony? · · Score: 1

    It says so right here on my ticket that cameras and recording equipment are strictly forbidding so I'm guessing they can at least kick you out of the statdium.

    Oh well, see you at the concert tonight!

  23. Saw it coming on The Future of ReiserFS · · Score: 2, Informative

    For those who don't live out here the 'saw it coming' part *should* have been refering to the month long drama that has preceded this. Reiser going in to talk to police repeatedly, then refusing to cooperate, camera crews chasing him around, interview with his (or her?) mother. It's the full three ring treatment really but I don't know that it's gone into full circus mode nationally yet.

  24. Re:Fear and Protection Rackets on Can the Malware Industry be Trusted? · · Score: 1

    The whole thing? Let's not get carried away, please. The bad guys are out there. They are writing viruses and ammassing botnets for fun and profit. They are out to get you.

    TFA is on the mark in terms of the vacuous ethics of computer security software press releases and scare mongering but that doesn't mean that solid, secure operating systems would elliminate the need for anti-malware products. Maybe I'm wrong but I don't think the patching mechanisms for Linux distros and Macs or are so fantastic and/or timely that they could keep infestations at bay in the face of the zero-days they would face if they each had a third of the market.

  25. Re:Great News on Timeline Set for Intel/AMD Antitrust Trial · · Score: 1
    It's actually not that obvious from the *current* dell situation since you can ask questions like:
    Could AMD actually supply Dell with the number of processors required?

    Is Intel bullying Dell or Dell bullying Intel at this point?

    Does Dell's recent aquisition of Alienware being used as a stepping stone into a more diverse product lineup?

    So sure, the past situation were different and more clearly anticompetitive on Intel's part. And no I'm not really arguing with the substance of your post. Like you say, anticompetitive behavior appears rampant these days, but it's more than just Intel that should face up to it.