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  1. Re:yay, pointers... on Linus Torvalds Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Cartridges.

    Programs come installed on RAM bearing cartridges. Need more memory to save your photoshop files? well, you should have bought the Pro version with a larger SSD. Not enough RAM to render your CAD drawing? Too bad you didn't by the Enterprise Extended Edition, it came with 32Gb of RAM and a faster GPU.

  2. Re:Project 1794?? on US Air Force's 1950s Supersonic Flying Saucer Declassified · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't this be clearer for the slashdot crowd?

    int [] nameProjectFromDate( int [] date ){
    int i = date.length -1
    while( i > 1 ){
              int tmp = date[i];
            date[i--] = date[i];
            date[i] = tmp;
    }
    return date;
    }
    (and yes I should have made it a void method that edited date directly, but you're not paying me to make good code.)

  3. Re:The End on Linus Torvalds Will Answer Your Questions · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Speaking of ends, one day you'll pass on your duties. How do you envision the kernel and the Linux ecosystem after passing your reigns?

  4. Re:1 billion users on The Computer Science Behind Facebook's 1 Billion Users · · Score: 1

    Put me down for 0.5 since I check it 1 day per fortnight and I don't use any features besides app blocking, ignoring people, and rejecting photo tags.

  5. Re:The first rule of copyright on Google Blocks Author's Ads For Offering Torrent Of His Own Book · · Score: 1

    The fifth rule of copyright is that all copyrights not held by big rights aggregators and media monopolies are inconvenient^W automatically invalid and ownership is to be transferred to the appropriate copyright holding body for safe keeping and royalty collections.

  6. Begs the question on Google Blocks Author's Ads For Offering Torrent Of His Own Book · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Given the numerous articles about copyright enforcement bots recently, it makes me wonder why there is so little human oversight about account banning. Or even attempting to match the author to the work to the copyright in question to the offending post. Apparently, it is better to throw out all the apples, and review the ones that that claim they aren't bad.

    It also makes me wonder why it seems difficult to talk to an actual person at google about account restoration. I hope to never have to go through the process.

  7. Re:Would Neil want this? on United States Navy Names Ship After Neil Armstrong · · Score: 1

    I would find it more appropriate to name a human exploration rocket, lunar lander, or mars lander after him than a boat. It's about the same as naming a covered 'exploration' wagon after Columbus.

  8. Re:How is he going to become a citizen? on Woz Applying For Australian Citizenship Because of the NBN · · Score: 2

    I don't know what's better, a government that determines and redefines your rights at their leisure or a government that defines your rights, and then passes secret and not-so-secret laws that supersede and suspend your rights for the government's convenience.

  9. Re:Maybe not such a good Idea on How Microsoft Is Wooing College Kids To Write Apps For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    I looked up the error, good chance it's the HFS+ drivers installed with bootcamp. Once the full time guys controlling the image disabled them, the iMacs have been rock steady. Of course I think the only time they're in Windows these days is when I update Windows.

  10. Clearly on Hotmail No Longer Accepts Long Passwords, Shortens Them For You · · Score: 2, Informative

    Somebody hasn't read the relevant xkcd.

  11. Re:Maybe... on Iran Behind Cyber Attacks On U.S. Banks · · Score: 1

    Do you mean Iraq? Or did all of Iran vote for the president of the neighboring country?

  12. Re:Maybe not such a good Idea on How Microsoft Is Wooing College Kids To Write Apps For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    While running Windows software updates and program installs on the 6 dozen iMacs in my University's labs, one in five would blue-screen during the 5 hour upgrade process after imaging. This was Windows 7, and it was this year. Admittedly, the blue-screen rate is better on Win7, but I wouldn't call 1 in 5 to be non-existent nor would I dismiss others' reports just because you've had good luck with your hardware and drivers.

  13. Re:EA vs Zynga on Zynga Sues EA For 'Anti-competitive' Practices · · Score: 1

    Well, if you mean to choose the winning side, then its the lawyers obviously.

  14. Re:Oh yeah?? on Apple Announces iPhone 5 · · Score: 0

    Steve died.

  15. Re:Meme overload on University Team Builds Lego and Raspberry Pi Cluster · · Score: 1

    So... are they mining bitcoins on that cluster yet?

  16. Re:Civil unrest on Complex Systems Theorists Predict We're About One Year From Global Food Riots · · Score: 4, Funny

    Rape. Then pillage. THEN burn.

    I can't find that button. What's the keyboard shortcut?

  17. Registry Opt-out on FBI Launches $1 Billion Nationwide Face Recognition System · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I'm not particularly interested in this service. Where's the opt-out (do-not-fly) list signup?

  18. Re:Oh shit! on Doctorow on the War on General Purpose Computing · · Score: 1

    PulseAudio is just an ALSA cult that thinks more that one application should be able to send sound to the audio devices. And for those unaware of the the history, ALSA was the result of a schism where OSS committed sacrilege against the holy gospel and forsake free open source, thus the believers were left to roll their own audio.

  19. Expected TL:DR Transcript on Shatner and Wheaton Narrate Mars Rover's Landing Sequence · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wheaton: We're still waiting for the first signal.
    Shatner: The... probe... must have... broken... up.

  20. Re:Easy on Nanoparticle Completely Eradicates Hepatitis C Virus · · Score: 1

    Pamela Anderson is back on the bang list!

  21. Re:RIM, you're not paying attention on RIM CEO On What Went Wrong · · Score: 1

    ADAPT, what does that acronym stand for again? --RIM CEO

  22. Re:They STILL have the BEST KEYBOARD on RIM CEO On What Went Wrong · · Score: 1

    I liked my Android G1 keyboard and the old Sidekick 2 keyboard better than my blackberry. Pretty much the only thing I liked about the blackberry was the battery life and the alarm clock. But, I doubt the battery would last as long as it did if I actually could use my phone.

  23. Re:HP v. Oracle on HP Asks Judge To Enforce Itanium Contract Vs. Oracle · · Score: 1

    Lose Lose
    Oracle: Loses the lawsuit and pays HP cash to buy out the contract, but still refuses to fully support Itanium.
    HP: Due to pending lawsuits, customers abandon HP and loses market share. HP is forced to migrate to yet another architecture and loses more customers.

  24. Re:Always the same BS: 'My way is better because' on Are We Failing To Prepare Children For Leadership In the US? · · Score: 1

    And look what happened to Greece.

  25. Related News: on IBM Deploys Hot-Water Cooled Supercomputer · · Score: 1, Troll

    In related news, the UN Security Council has scheduled the start of WW3 to coincide with the 5 year anniversary of SuperMUC's online-date, pending the lack of adequate air-conditioning in the angry German scientists' offices.