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  1. Re:To avoid this.. on Was the Amazon De-Listing Situation a Glitch Or a Hack? · · Score: 1

    LSD does not alter reproductive DNA in any way, nor do other drugs, period. Just making sure.

  2. Re:small change... on Microsoft's Price Fixing Penalty, 9M Euros · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up!

  3. Re:In Europe on ISP Capping Is Becoming the New DRM · · Score: 1

    You are supposed to use HTML escape chars, in your case - €. HTH

  4. Re:Islam, eh? on UK To Train Pro-West Islamic Groups To Game Google · · Score: 1

    That actually sounds like an idea...

  5. Re:Not very well on How Facebook Runs Its LAMP Stack · · Score: 1

    I believe there was a LLVM front-end for PHP... Can't be arsed to get it.

  6. Re:How about other democracies? on The Net — Democratic Panacea Or Autocratic Tool? · · Score: 1

    Sadly, that makes sense...

  7. Re:COBOL, not so bad on COBOL Turning 50, Still Important · · Score: 1

    Well, the mantra of OOP is encapsulation, polymorphism and I forget the rest. So, you don't care how a class does it's magic, you only need to replicate the behaviour, and polymorphism allows more than one behavior. Those base classes can't be that different. The other option is GWT. Java goes down to JS, and it allows inlineing it, so you just have to decompile the actionscript to java+javascript. C# is going to be a little harder, though ;D.

  8. Re:COBOL, not so bad on COBOL Turning 50, Still Important · · Score: 1

    Dude, I saw your project earlier and was very impressed.
    My question was, do you think that it could be used with VMkit/LLVM/llc to rid us of the scourge of flash, java and silverlight in the browser? Compile the .NET/Java/(Actionscript?) bytecode to LLVM IR, then run it through the c generating back end, then through your compiler. It's far less elegant than I would prefer, but would be a score for the truly open web.
    Cheers!

  9. Re:have your own domain-get universal forwarding on Spam Replacing Postal Junk Mail? · · Score: 1

    What if your root address gets routed to /dev/null?

  10. Re:Anyone else surprised... on "Tweenbots" Test NYC Pedestrian-Robot Relations · · Score: 1

    He means tac, right?

  11. Re:Distro Bistro Kicks Keester on Linux On Netbooks — a Complicated Story · · Score: 1

    s/SUSE/Mandriva/g
    SUSE is Slackware in disguise, BTW.

  12. Re:Start saving... on What If Oracle Bought Sun Microsystems? · · Score: 1

    I think you skipped someone. Someone from the ye olden giants. They were notorious with their printers. The true committers of the Alphacide.
    *shuder*
    I need a hug right now.
    *sob*

  13. Re:Not Oracle, Microsoft.. on What If Oracle Bought Sun Microsystems? · · Score: 1

    .NET mean anything to you?

  14. Re:magnetic on Gecko-Inspired Dry Adhesive Set For Space · · Score: 1

    *headbang*
    When's the lynching?

  15. Re:Conficker on Multiple Fiber Cuts In San Francisco Area · · Score: 1

    Congrats!

  16. Re:Breathing gray water spray? on Data Centers Work To Reduce Water Usage · · Score: 1

    Can't you throw in a basic ozonator and get it over with?

  17. Re:Idea on Data Centers Work To Reduce Water Usage · · Score: 1

    They don't dissolve chlorine gas, genius. They use special chlorine salts.

  18. Re:Monopolies on FCC Seeks To Improve US Broadband Access · · Score: 1

    s/socialist/anarchist/g

  19. Re:Potato Blight for computers on Conficker Downloads Payload · · Score: 1

    That's why POSIX exists, AFAIK.

  20. Re:Linus and the other BSOD... on Microsoft Begs Win 7 Testers To Clean Install · · Score: 1

    I don't get what Linus has to do with this joke.

  21. Re:Microsoft Begs Win 7 Testers To Clean Install on Microsoft Begs Win 7 Testers To Clean Install · · Score: 1

    If you ask me, virtual folders should be integrated in the file system. There is no good reason for them not to. I mean, the file system is supposed to handle storage, right? And I believe that includes the representation. The hierarchical model is outdated and inflexible, as demonstrated by even the simplest apps, like a browser, resort to database storage for things like bookmarks. And no matter how you twist it, a database is just a drugged up file system. So why doesn't anyone come up with a simple network topology file system, possibly only for metadata,
    (oh, and let me emphasize, metadata is metadata is metadata. There should be no difference between a time stamp for a file modification and a file name. )
    and make a nice declarative interface for access. The hierarchical model could stay as basis, but should not be a limitation.

  22. Re:only works with on Privacy In BitTorrent By Hiding In the Crowd · · Score: 1

    Too bad Sun buried Lighthouse Design's apps just because they are in ObjC instead of Java. The open source landscape would be quite different if they had kept them alive.
      Read up on it.

  23. Re:Here we go... on Sunspot Activity Continues To Drop · · Score: 1

    <AOL> Completely agree. </AOL>

  24. Re:Here we go... on Sunspot Activity Continues To Drop · · Score: 1

    LED lamps live two orders of magnitude longer than incandescents, and you are implying that tungsten filament lighting bodies don't cause pollution during manufacture. Also, I fail to see where in the process of manufacturing semiconductors large amounts of acid have to be involved, so all I can say is - nice strawman.
    Same goes for batteries.
    Disclaimer: I 'm not a global warming alarmist, quite the opposite, but pollution alarmists like you annoy me just as much. Please justify your claims next time.

  25. Re:it's stuff like this on Sunspot Activity Continues To Drop · · Score: 1

    Actually, synthetic diamonds are quite cheap these days, if only we could make semiconductor tech with them instead.
    Anybody willing to dig up a price comparison between processor grade silicon and synthetic diamonds of similar quality? There may be some money in the idea.