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  1. Re:Free Terry Childs! on Terry Childs Case Puts All Admins In Danger · · Score: 1

    This product is known by the State of California to cause cancer...or that at least is one explanations for how the politicians of SF reacted.

  2. Re:Supernovae Found In Ice Cores on First Evidence of Supernovae Found In Ice Cores · · Score: 1

    No, but we may be able to use it to cancel out the world ending black hole caused by the LHC when it comes online.

  3. Re:C isn't the problem, it is really... on Security Review Summary of NIST SHA-3 Round 1 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I suspect the problem is related to the poor coding practices used in academia. I see college professors who write code that barely compiles in GCC without a bunch of warnings about anachronistic syntax.

    You know you'll learn a lot in a class when, after being told at the very least his c++ code is using deprecated includes, the professor tells you to just use '-Wno-deprecated'. I've basically come to the conclusion that I am just paying the school for a piece of paper, and I will learn little outside my personal study.

  4. Re:You're right--convenience sucks on Sun Slips Firefox Extension Into Java Update · · Score: 1

    It's made to have shocking sexual acts in. I hear the optional Tesla seat warmers help to electrify the mood on a cold night.

  5. Re:Wonder if this is one of the reasons? on The "Bloody Mess" That Is Intel's Poulsbo Driver · · Score: 1

    While it may not be malice, Hanlon's razor doesn't mean people should get a free ride just because they are idiots.

  6. Re:Not that I condone piracy but on Trojan Hides In Pirated Copies of Apple iWork '09 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then you don't get the trojan from iWorks, but from the keygen that further frustrates you by playing an annoying and loud tune while you go through the serial generating process.

    Note to keygen creators: I do not want to hear your brother's crappy techno remixes when using your app. Is there some way I can pay you to disable this feature?

  7. Re:Mystery Pits on Oldest Weapons-grade Plutonium Found In Dump · · Score: 1

    Because many in power in the USA, Britain, and France viewed the USSR more as 'the enemy of of my enemy', and felt that communism and capitalism could never coexist (see: the cold war).

  8. Re:Japanese were prepared to surrender on Battlestar Galactica's Last Days · · Score: 1

    the last thing the USA wanted was Russia occupying the Japanese islands.

    Fixed

  9. Re:The US military disagreed with your opinion on Battlestar Galactica's Last Days · · Score: 1

    As I have grown older and learned more about WWII, it seems more probable that the higher echelons of the US political/military system at the time were motivated to drop the bombs in order to minimize the Soviet involvement in Japan's surrender. Even before Germany's surrender there was a growing concern in the US and Brittan that the war in Europe would continue after the fall of Germany, an become US/UK vs USSR. Furthermore, the US didn't want a repeat of the division of Germany, and be forced to share Japan with the USSR because they dumped another million troops as cannon fodder in an invasion of the main islands.

  10. Re:Main mistake they made? on Circuit City Closes Its Doors For Good · · Score: 1

    Why was this modded as a troll. It seems a very accurate description of what happened when CompUSA went out of business in my area. Most likely with CC's going out of business sale everything will be marked down by some huge % to just a little below MSRP.

  11. Re:I don't get it on Google Challenging Proposition 8 · · Score: 1

    If you actually cared to look into the matter you'd find the 10% figure a general reference to the Kinsey Reports, and not some bs about rape in prisons.

  12. Re:Dear ACM, STOP. on ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core · · Score: 1

    If you can find any state capable of funding the majority of its infrastructure solely through the taxation of its inhabitants and without accepting federal money then you might have a point. The fact of the matter is that so long as a person is subject to federal taxes then states must take federal money. This money for the most part isn't a "handout" but simply the government giving back to the state what the federal government already took less their administrative fees.

  13. Re:Safe Harbor made innovation work on 10 Years Later, Misunderstood DMCA Is the Law That "Saved the Web" · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nobody prusues it because congress knew the clause was a joke when they made it a part of the law. I can not find one instance where perjury charges have been brought against false and/or purely malicious DMCA take-down notices. The reason being is that the DCMA being a federal law, your local/state DA doesn't care, and good luck getting the feds to ever go after corporate corruption, unless they aren't paying their taxes.

  14. At least 20 Pb on How Big Should My Swap Partition Be? · · Score: 1

    We all know storage and memory prices will continue to fall as capacity rises, and 2x ram will continue to have about the same cost in terms of $ and percent of disk space used. However, where many people have been lead astray is that there exists a means to make your swap space as large as you want with no cost. Just do like me and map your swap space to /dev/null. Now you can have petabytes of swap space on any size disk with no additional cost. What could possibly go wrong?

  15. Re:testing is a waste of time on Working Effectively with Legacy Code · · Score: 1

    It appears that at lest one mod took your recommendation to heart and ignored the test case that you were being sarcastic. I guess the proof will be if you keep the troll moderation.

  16. Re:Actually they are right on eBay To Disallow Checks and Money Orders In US · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And the seller will pass on a part that PayPal fee with higher shipping and handling fees.

  17. Re:Seriously... on Hubble Finds Unidentified Object In Space · · Score: 1

    Seriously, 50 light-DAYS?!? A single light-day is more than 5x further out than the average orbit of Neptune, and more than 50% further than Voyager 1 has managed to get.

    Perhaps you meant 50 light-minutes, or about 1 AU further out than the average orbit of Jupiter.

  18. My carbon girl... on Research Finds Carbon Dating Flawed · · Score: 1

    I met a carbon atom, and she was C 1 3,
    Won her over with a diamond,
    Then showed her my two buckyballs.
    She said, "spread that graphite on me baby!"
    We were bumping valence shells all the time,
    And all was well till I met her twin, a C 1 2,
    That ratio made them 140 million years older than me.

  19. Re:Early vote makes your vote count (better chance on Video Shows Easy Hacking of E-Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    Ignoring the movie (hardly Heinlein cannon), I seem to recall in the book that the vast majority of "veterans" prior to the human-bug war were little more than janitors and laborers in hazardous environments. A possible modern analog would be having the Army Corp of Engineers be responsible for 99% of all national infrastructure and disaster rebuilding. In turn all the majority of veterans did was build/repair roads. This of course assumes nationalizing all non-private construction is "a good thing".

  20. Re:High School Graduate Computer Careers? on Computer Textbooks For High Schoolers? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe he was thinking on teaching from 'The C Programming Language' by K&R, and the class project would be writing a Turing complete interpreter for the Game of Life.

  21. Re:The devil is in the details on Judge Rules Man Cannot Be Forced To Decrypt HD · · Score: 2, Funny

    As Austin Powers would say:

    That's not Sailor Moon, that's a man, baby.

  22. Re:a match made in heaven . . . on MediaSentry Hired By People's Republic of China · · Score: 1

    > it's often like that and it just depends on the weather.

    Is that when the eye of the typhoon is overhead?

  23. Re:I don't know about you all... on Prominent Mathematicians Rebuke Recent Riemann Hypothesis Proof · · Score: 1

    This is actually a simple mistake to make after reading too much Zen and the Art of Mathematics. This once caused me to fail a calculus test after leaving all the answers blank, I apparently was under the mistaken philosophy that the empty set represented all correct sets.

  24. Problems on Proposed Telescope Focuses Light Without Mirror Or Lens · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think it would be clear to anyone who examines it, the idea clearly has some holes in it.

  25. Re:*whoosh* on Schoolboy Corrects NASA's Math On Killer Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Well as long as the asteroid passes over my head without hitting me, that all I really care about.