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  1. Re:Great on Foxconn Begins To Assemble Its Robot Army · · Score: 1

    My sarcas-o-meter just went into the red. Well done sir!

  2. Cooles on Linus Torvalds Will Answer Your Questions · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What is the coolest thing that you have heard of people doing with Linux recently?

  3. Re:Yay Canada on Canada: Police Do Not Have Power To Wiretap Without Warrant · · Score: 2

    Good point. I guess you never appreciate what you have till it's gone. BTW, my company in PEI needs senior web developers and project manager (I know, who doesn't). Mail me at magic_man87 at hot mail dot com. (spam account which i check once a week)

  4. Re:Yay Canada on Canada: Police Do Not Have Power To Wiretap Without Warrant · · Score: 2

    PEI is the same as NS, only more potatoes.

  5. Re:A statistical blimp on Why People Don't Live Past 114 · · Score: 1

    What we do know is that it’s absolutely essential to not jump to conclusions

    But then what will I use my auto posting jump to conclusions mat for?

  6. Perl on The 20th IOCCC Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    I wonder what obfuscated perl would look like...

  7. Re:Good book, but has some holes on Book Review: The Windup Girl · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How does it compare to Oryx and Crake? It sounds really similar.

  8. Re:Hi, Kevin. I'm one of your victims. on Ask Kevin Mitnick · · Score: 1

    Wow man, let it go. It's been a long time now. I've learned to forgive people. It's honestly better for everyone involved.

  9. Re:Insurance file torrent on WikiLeaks Starts Mass Mirroring Effort · · Score: 1
  10. Re:obvious on Google Preparing To Launch G-Town · · Score: 1

    This is common place in the northern Canada. The companies that hire workers send people to work camps when they are working. Some people elect to stay in camp the whole year round. You eat company food, watch company TV and sometimes smoke company dope.

    I lived in a house with 5 other people that I was working with (doing masonry) for a couple months. It is indeed disorienting to be kicked out of your place of work and be told you have a week to GTFO. It really helps to have some money saved up just for that situation.

  11. And now, for something completely different on 10/10/10 — a Nice Day To Celebrate the Meaning of Life · · Score: 1

    Well, not really
    00101010 is also PI in ASCII.

  12. You'd be surprised on Mega-Volcanoes Might Be Detectable On Exoplanets · · Score: 1

    how much energy is in a beam of light.
    Prot.

  13. Re:Efficient? Better in any way? on Wireless Power Group Has 'Qi' Prototypes · · Score: 1

    I was thinking that when in use, there would be a discharge through the contacts through the water. For example, if you drop your electric toothbrush in a full sink. I'm somewhat ignorant on electrical engineering, maybe there is an easy way to prevent this?

  14. Re:Efficient? Better in any way? on Wireless Power Group Has 'Qi' Prototypes · · Score: 1

    *current. Proofread fail

  15. Re:Efficient? Better in any way? on Wireless Power Group Has 'Qi' Prototypes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is there a currency drain through those contacts when immersed in water with high salinity or other contaminants?

  16. Re:Spot-on suggestions on Tech's Dark Secret, It's All About Age · · Score: 1

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    This is the guy I want to be when I turn 50, minus the kids.

  17. Re:Not ordinary Cosmic Rays on Antarctic Experiment Finds Puzzling Distribution of Cosmic Rays · · Score: 1

    No, its because the cosmic rays have mutated! Soon they will cause the earth's core to boil, causing earthquakes and a shifting of the earths' crust by 50 degrees!!

  18. Re:Odd, then... on A Planet That Orbits Its Star the Wrong Way · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would think that one side of the star would be blueshifted, the other side redshifted ever so slightly.
    I also wonder if the planet suffers more collisions than it would otherwise.

  19. Re:Nice on HP Restores Creased Photos With Flatbed Scanners · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My memory has just been sold.

  20. Re:In other news... on South Korea Deploys Cloned Drug-Sniffing Dogs · · Score: 1

    It strikes me that we increasingly look to cloning a certain animal for a particular purpose. If were were to extrapolate that into the future, what is to prevent us from cloning a particular person, in this case retired Gen. Rick Hillier, because they show a desired aptitude, and would that be beneficial for society at large.
    That, and I couldn't think of a comment good enough to be modded insightful. :-

  21. In other news... on South Korea Deploys Cloned Drug-Sniffing Dogs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "CBC reports that six soldiers cloned from Canadian-born Rick Hillier in late 2007 have reported for duty to check for terrorists in Afganistan after completing a 16-month training course. The Canadian Armed Forces says clones help to lower fighting costs as it is difficult to find good soldiers. Only about 30% of naturally-born soldiers make the grade, but Canadian scientists say that could rise to 90% using the cloning method. The soldier, each called 'Ricky', are part of a set of seven who were cloned from a 'superb' former chief of defense staff, General Rick Hillier, CMM, MSC, CD, at a cost of about $239,000. 'They are the world's first cloned soldiers deployed at work,' says current chief of defense General Walter Natynczyk. 'They showed better performances in detecting terrorists during the training than other naturally-born soldiers that we have.'"

  22. Re:laser pointer on Stealing Data Via Electrical Outlet · · Score: 2

    You might not at first, but you will when a disembodied voice says "NUCLEAR LAUNCH DETECTED"

  23. Re:1KB != 1B on Atari 1200XL Stacked Up Against a Dell Inspiron · · Score: 1

    Also, he makes a comparison based on the processor frequency. I didn't run the numbers, but I'll bet those are off by a fair bit as well.

  24. Here's a little jem. on Court Orders Breathalyzer Code Opened, Reveals Mess · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought it was funny.
    12. Defects In Three Out Of Five Lines Of Code: A universal tool in the open-source community, called Lint, was used to analyze the source code written in C. This program uncovers a range of problems from minor to serious problems that can halt or cripple the program operation. This Lint program has been used for many years. It uncovered that there are 3 error lines for every 5 lines of source code in C.

    While Draeger's counsel claims that the "The Alcotest [7110] is the single best microprocessor-driven evidential breath tester on the market", Draeger has already replaced the antiquated 7110 with a newer Windows® based version, the 9510.

  25. Re:As a Developer the Question I Have Is ... on New Firefox Project Could Mean Multi-Processor Support · · Score: 1

    IBM has a tool platform that is useful for developing C/C++ projects on.