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  1. Re:Safe science is gay on How To Get High-Schoolers Involved In Real Science? · · Score: 1

    Why is this getting modded as funny? It's true, safe science really is gay.

    Unless you really really like math then science isn't very interesting unless you get hooked on it some how.

  2. Re:Keep it simple! on Best and Worst Coding Standards? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm sorry, but that code goes against our coding standard by having non-const parameters and a goto. I suggest the following before submitting your changes:

    int multiply(int const a, int const b)
    {
      assert(a >= 0 );
      int x = 0, aNc = a;
      while (aNc--) x += b;
      return x;
    }

  3. Re:For those who make games. on Do Games Industry Folks Buy Games New or Used? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's pretty much the same where I work. Since everyone's into video games I find out more about games that I'm interested in more than when I worked outside of the industry. If there's a lot of buzz about a game that I might like then I'll buy it new. Most times people will play through games and you can buy the games off of them really cheap or just borrow it. We have people that don't have some of the consoles, but will buy or borrow games and play them at work.

    I don't think we're any different than just a bunch of friends that like games. As far as the article is concerned I don't even know if the people in the industry making purchase decisions are enough to affect the overall economy of the industry.

  4. Re:not just Linux... on SCO Invokes DMCA, Names Headers, Novell Steps In · · Score: 1

    // One last try, using the original post's // return X; != return(X); // (This one compiles)

    #define X 1 + 1
    #define return return 2 *
    int main( int const argc, char const * const argv[] )
    {
    return (X);
    }

  5. Re:Performance increase on Swiss Researchers Exploit Windows Password Flaw · · Score: 1

    If you have to go bad enough couldn't you just slide under the door?

  6. Re:DMCA on Brain Privacy · · Score: 1

    Too bad your brain is analog.

  7. engine.c ? on Duke Nukem 3D Source Released to GPL · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else notice that engine.c is provided as a precompiled engine.obj? This may make it a bit harder to port the game to a different platform.

  8. Re:Sad thing is... on Still More 'Copy Protected' CDs · · Score: 1

    I didn't own a burner until my wife wanted to burn mp3's.

  9. Re:Hey Lavadog on ORBS Lookup Entries Undergo Major Revamping · · Score: 1

    It also seems that the urls were mangled by slashdot. It was worth a shot.

  10. Re:Hey Lavadog on ORBS Lookup Entries Undergo Major Revamping · · Score: 1

    The source I have up now doesn't have the sessionid in it, but I don't know if that has any effect.

  11. Re:I can help! on ORBS Lookup Entries Undergo Major Revamping · · Score: 1

    Check my user bio for a Java program that will let you do this
    http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=userinfo&nick=Lava Dog

  12. Re:not a Java expert *but* on Does .NET Sound Like Java? · · Score: 1

    Sure they are making the specification for the language open, but you can get the entire source to Java: VM, runtime, and JIT.

  13. Re:Don't waste nuclear waste! on Sea Floor - Surface - Satellite - Shore · · Score: 2

    The big problem is that >95% of the radioactive waste is stuff like wrenches and clothing. This stuff is still very poisinous and we preduce many tons of the stuff per year.

  14. Re:7.0 on Kernel Pool Is Back For 2.6 · · Score: 1

    Maybe all of the distributions should move their version back to 2.4 to match the kernel.

  15. Re:Quality on Contests: Mind-Twisting Winners And Tiny Entrants · · Score: 1

    how do you come up with things like that? i mean, how do you plan/organize it?

    It's a bit difficult to do if you don't plan. I started by coming up with the idea of what I wanted the program to do. I then wrote the program out. Then I stepped back and tried to figure how could obfuscate it by doing things like using recursion instead of loops and then seeing if I could fit all my recursion into one function, then seeing if all my recursion and logic would fit on one line, and then I modified the main function so I wouldn't have to make a fuction call to get things started.

    There are a lot of ways that you can obfuscate as well, like giving all of your variables similar names like combinations of o, O, and 0 or i, I and 1. You can also add redudant information like !I||!1.

  16. Speaking of Quality on Contests: Mind-Twisting Winners And Tiny Entrants · · Score: 1

    Forgot about those <'s

    main(a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h){return a<<1>a?main(!a,-24):!a?!b?b:main(-79,++b, a):!c?putchar(((c=main(a,b,1,main(a+1,b,0),0,0,0,0 ))&&a+79?c:0)["\n .,-+;=<(l!?t1aeCj2496GpA0&#$RBWMQ"]):c-37?f+h >>10?c:main(a,b,++c,f-h-(a+60)*3,g+g+(b+11)* 7,d*d/80,d*e/80,e*e/80):1;}

  17. Re:Quality on Contests: Mind-Twisting Winners And Tiny Entrants · · Score: 1

    My one liner from 4 or 5 years ago that didn't make it:

    main(a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h){ return aa?main(!a,-24):!a?!b?b:main(-79,++b,a):!c?putchar (((c=main(a,b,1, main(a+1,b,0),0,0,0,0))&&a+79?c:0)["\n .,-+;=<(l!?t1aeCj2496GpA0&#$RBWMQ"]):c -37?f+h>>10?c:main(a,b,++c,f-h-(a+60)*3,g+g+(b+11) *7 ,d*d/80,d*e/80,e*e/80):1; }

  18. Re:While we're at it... on Spammer Pleads Guilty · · Score: 1

    It's not that hard to just connect to the destination machine and forge all the email you want. Would this be considered hijacking?

  19. World Domination on Geomagnetic Storm To Begin Tonight · · Score: 3

    Does this mean that the major world powers will be powerless for 12 hours? I can see it now, the world will be taken over by some third world country with a whole bunch of rocks.

  20. Re:Ownership on On Asteroid Mining · · Score: 1

    If anything it will be the same as earth. Depending on the size of the area being fought over, the person with the most fire power will win.

  21. Re:I want Linux in my car... on Embedded Linux at COMDEX · · Score: 1

    Can you imagine the number of hackers that would try to hack your car? It might make a good excuse not to go into work. It may get to the point where you would have to apply patches everytime you get your oil changed.

  22. Re:No, we're measuring things the right way. on Crusoe and Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    What I would like to see is how well Java runs on x86 OS compared to an an x86 VM. I wonder how long it will be before we see a large variety of other platforms supported.
    I'm just curious as to how well the processor will virutalize something like your video card if X or Windows is running. Are they going to be releasing apps that run under Linux that access the processor to get this kind of stuff up and running?

  23. Re:Batman just seems really unrealistic on Next Batman to be Directed By Pi's Darren Aronofsky · · Score: 1

    Frank Miller's stuff is a bit edgier than the previous batman movies have been. Hopefully their will be less silly crap and more of a plot.

  24. How much do you learn from your classes? on Techies Saying No To College · · Score: 1

    I found that I learned more outside of classes while in college than I ever learned while working. College gives you a lot of freedom that you won't have once you start working. I also started college not knowing how to program and switched majors after I found out how easy programming was for me. It also depends on how much you know coming out of highschool. If I had spent the same amount of time with computers in high school as I did in college there's a good chance I could have just skipped college.

  25. Re:Cool. Another "place." on ACM World Final Standings Posted · · Score: 1

    I can tell you that practicing certainly helps. I competed in 98 and the team only solved one problem, then we started practicing every single day until the contest for 99 and tied for 18th (6th out of the US teams), so I can say that practice helps.