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  1. Hmmm... on What Should We Do About Wikipedia's Porn Problem? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I wonder why Larry Sanger could possibly have an interest in making WP look problematic.

  2. Not terribly impressed with the story on Are Programmers Ruining the Design of eBooks? · · Score: 1

    It takes a single quote from a review about a particular company's book/app -- it's not a statement in the Book Review's voice. Of course the interviewee wants to make "programmers" look bad - it makes his work look better by comparison. Not that it isn't amazing by any standards, but...

  3. Berlioz Requiem on The Loudness Wars May Be Ending · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's the only CD I ever owned where I could hear the engineers turning the mikes down in the middle, because it had just gotten Way Too Loud. :-)

  4. Creative Commons on Ask Jonathan Coulton About the Transformation From Code Monkey to Internet Star · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Reposting my accidentally-anonymous question from earlier:

    You've released some (all?) of your music under the CC-BY-NC license. What are some of the coolest things you've seen done by other people with your songs?

  5. Re:Creative Commons on Ask Jonathan Coulton About the Transformation From Code Monkey to Internet Star · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Oops, that was me. Reposting.

  6. Re:The latest five pictures... on Facebook Rolls Out Redesigned Profile Pages · · Score: 1

    No, but you can remove pictures you don't want on the ribbon.

  7. Re:Simple on Wikipedia Reveals Secret of 'The Mousetrap' · · Score: 1

    Without the spoiler, I would venture to guess that despite being given all the clues, around 80% of the audience would fall to one of the many misdirections and identify the wrong actor as the killer.

    Heck, when I did it, my daughter thought it was me until the ultimate reveal. :-)

  8. Wikiwars on x86 Assembler JWASM Hits Stable Release · · Score: 5, Informative

    Be warned -- JWASM's Wikipedia article was nominated for deletion, as it was thought that notability was not sufficiently asserted. The flame war there might spill over here as well. :-(

  9. Re:Over the course of 10 years on SETI@Home Install Leads To School Tech Supervisor's Resignation · · Score: 1

    "12 months a year, every day of the school year"?

    *waits expectantly*

  10. But the real question is... on Go, Google's New Open Source Programming Language · · Score: 2, Funny

    Has anyone implemented Go in Go yet?

  11. Re:Here they are. on Wikipedia Debates Rorschach Censorship · · Score: 1

    HPL FTW. :-)

  12. Re:yeah, I agree with that on Tool Shows the Arguments Behind Wikipedia Entries · · Score: 1

    Somebody nominated Khan Noonien Singh for deletion -- a year later, it was a Featured Article. :-)

  13. Re:Public availability on The Presidential Portrait Goes Digital · · Score: 2, Funny

    Should be instructive to compare the number of grey hairs now and in 8 years. With this shot, you actually can count them...

  14. Re:Obligatory on Christmas Tree Made From 70 SCSI Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Ah, good, someone got it. :-)

  15. Re:Obligatory on Christmas Tree Made From 70 SCSI Hard Drives · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, you don't want a Beowulf forest, because then you have to worry about Grendel showing up.

  16. Re:this is some sort of archetype on Streaming Election Night Broadcast TV? · · Score: 1

    I have a TV, I just don't have the money to pay the cable bill right now, and I don't particularly want to pay for an antenna that's just going to be uselessly taking up room after I restore service.

    (Besides, it's nice not being able to park in front of the TV all prime time anymore. :-) )

  17. Re:Dual Boot on Securing Your Notebook Against US Customs · · Score: 1

    I think I saw it suggested elsewhere on /. that you should have someone else encrypt your proprietary data and email you the key _after_ you go through customs.

    And there's always thumb drives...

  18. Re:Dual Boot on Securing Your Notebook Against US Customs · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Theory and Practice on Party Ideas For Math Nerds? · · Score: 1

    Is anyone else having Real Genius flashbacks at this point?

  20. Desktop Tower Defense on What Is Your Game of the Year? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm surprised nobody above me mentioned it -- in the subject at least. That game is way too damned addictive...

    And it got worse, when they released the Multiplayer version at http://www.casualcollective.com/.

  21. Re:Miraculously.. on Thousands of White House E-mails Deleted · · Score: 1

    Clinton was impeached by the House, but not convicted by the Senate.

  22. Re:We should start voting on the next release's na on New Ubuntu Project Code Named 'Gutsy Gibbon' · · Score: 1
  23. Downloading the trial on Delphi For PHP Released · · Score: 1

    I'd love to give it a try, but it requires a login for download, and there's no "Forgot your password?" option.

    (And yes, I have a whole bunch of other email addresses I could use. That's not the point.)

  24. Re:Irrelevant on Microsoft to Open Source FoxPro · · Score: 1

    Remember, though, that scalability is not always an issue: simplicity can be a good thing. If you're looking for an accounting and ordering system for your two-computer business, taking the time to install and maintain a server instead of a few files could be a deal-breaker.

  25. Re:This is what you wanted on Bush Signs Bill Enabling Martial Law · · Score: 1
    Besides, the devil is in the details.

    (2) A condition described in this paragraph is a condition that--

    (A) so hinders the execution of the laws of a State or possession, as applicable, and of the United States within that State or possession, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the constituted authorities of that State or possession are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or

    (B) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.


    We're all geeks, so we know what "OR" means. He can send in the troops for a violation of any federal law he chooses. I'd really like to get this resolved before the troops have to choose whether to obey an illegal order or not...