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  1. Re:"No image of a thumbprint is ever stored" on Thumbprints Used To Check Books Out of School Library · · Score: 1

    It's a hash. Clearly there are better hashes that won't have the same result for RivenAleem and RovinBaleeeem.

  2. Re:This crap gives science a bad reputation on Study Claims Cellphones Implicated In Bee Loss · · Score: 1

    We need a term to describe things which appear to be science but in fact which are not.

    It's called FUD.

  3. Great - another niche brand on Japan Plans Moon Base Built By Robots For Robots · · Score: 1

    Just wait until all those humans start wearing the trademarked FRBR apparel.

  4. Re:Also: Jaundice! on Cutting Umbilical Cord Early Eliminates Stem Cells · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I hope you are not presenting your anecdotal evidence as proof of your claim... because...it's not.

  5. It's not that ugly people get harsher sentences... on Justice Not As Blind As Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    It's that jealous police officers like to arrest attractive innocent people.

  6. Re:My Estimate ... on Gulf Gusher Worst Case Scenario · · Score: 1

    Sure....that's bad, but how many football fields is it?

  7. Re:Maybe I'm missing something on Exam Board Deletes C and PHP From CompSci A-Levels · · Score: 1

    I would argue that a guy who writes code is a programmer. That is, someone who programs. Perhaps the term you're looking for is computer scientist?

  8. Re:Quantum computers aren't X times faster. on 1 Molecule Computes Thousands of Times Faster Than a PC · · Score: 1

    Problems in NP are problems such that there is an algorithm where the first step is guess the answer, and to then perform the verification in polynomial time. That is not to say that a nondeterministic algorithm necessarily does this. There is no reason to believe that quantum computers can solve NP-complete problems.

  9. Re:hypocrite on Steve Jobs Publishes Some "Thoughts On Flash" · · Score: 1

    An open standard is not the same thing as an open app store.

    (insert random invectives here)

  10. Re:proprietary and apple on Steve Jobs Publishes Some "Thoughts On Flash" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How is this hypocritical? Jobs makes no assertion one way or another about how Adobe should handle licensing flash to developers. He's just saying "If you want to see something in my store, it may not be flash." You may think it's a bad idea, but bad-in-your-opinion and hypocritical are two different concepts.

  11. Re:Sorry kids on "Install Other OS" Feature Removed From the PS3 · · Score: 1

    So, now I have to buy another piece of hardware if I want to connect a computer to that TV?

    It's not about wanting linux. Anyone who wants linux has it somewhere. It's about having it on the PS3. I really wanted to turn my PS3 into a media center that I could turn on when I wanted to watch some anime or whatever. Forget, for the moment, that I bought the "slim" version which never supported linux in the first place (grumble).

    Also, the PS3 is significantly more powerful than the average desktop machine, ESPECIALLY for its price. Forget about graphics. Just as a machine to crunch numbers.

  12. Re:That's a symptom, not a bug. on The Economics of Perfect Software · · Score: 1

    If a bug in your UI can possibly allow exploits on the backend, then your software design system has a bug.

  13. Re:Percentages...? on IE Not Faring Well In the EU Ballot · · Score: 1

    160% of the market share that FF has. Not "160% of the market share, period." For instance, if FF had 10% market share, this would give ie 16% market share. L2read.

  14. clearly, maintaining that bandwidth costs nothing on YouTube's Bandwidth Bill May be Zero · · Score: 1

    nt

  15. Re:What's the problem? on Schooling Microsoft On Random Browser Selection · · Score: 1

    If the probability of an algorithm going into an infinite loop is zero, then it can't go into an infinite loop.

  16. Re:Bad Article, Bad Summary on Schooling Microsoft On Random Browser Selection · · Score: 1, Informative

    Statisticians tend to draw a distinction between "random" and "stochastic". Random means from a uniform distribution - every possibility is as likely as every other. Stochastic just means drawn from a distribution.

  17. Re:Can't slashdot be readable outside the little f on Students Build 2752 MPG Hypermiling Vehicle · · Score: 1

    Commie.

  18. Re:News flash: you'll never make everyone happy. on Yale Switching To Gmail, Not Without Opposition · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I looked at that FAQ, and it says that Google employees will never have access to your email unless access is explicitly grated by your admin. It also says, in the same answer, that Google employees may delete things which violate their ToS, which seems to directly contradict this (how can they delete things without write access, how can they know it violates the ToS without read access?).

    Last I checked, programs were way better at virus scanning than humans.

  19. Re:Chuck Norris... on Facebook Master Password Was "Chuck Norris" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The joke is so clever that you get modded insightful for talking about how someone got modded insightful for calling it clever.

    Hopefully we'll see some recursion here...

  20. Re:Finally, people are getting AI right. on CMU Web-Scraping Learns English, One Word At a Time · · Score: 1

    [Citation needed]

    I suppose we shouldn't waste our time thinking about solutions to problems if a) you think a key-word assigned to that solution is inaccurate or b) it isn't the best possible thing right out of the box.

  21. Re:Agreed, 110%, & I was interviewed by MS... on How To Get a Job At a Mega-Corp · · Score: 1

    The discussion surrounding it? THAT, was "HUGE" here (especially on midpoints of arrays & performing a swap using 2 variables only (this ONLY works on INTEGER DATA though, afaik), vs. the typical 3 vars used ala "Father, Son, & Holy Ghost" as I call that method)... you MAY find it, an "interesting" read.

    ----

    All data is integer data. Recall that we're working with a computer, here.

  22. Re:Audio/Videophiles Beware on THX Caught With Pants Down Over Lexicon Blu-ray Player · · Score: 1

    To make it so it sounded synchronized to him, he would only have to sing normally with the music. Unless you mean make it so the amplified version of his voice was in sync, in which case it would sound great to everyone *except* him.

    Since only one of those requires effort, and he said there was effort involved, I'm gonna say it sounded great to the front row as well as the back.

    Assuming the music was great in the first place. s/great/in sync/

  23. Re:To see what happens next on Nanowires Inject Molecules Into Living Cells · · Score: 1

    Or Diamond Age, as that book is actually about nano-tech.

  24. Re:round round, I git around on PhD Candidate Talks About the Physics of Space Battles · · Score: 1

    Won't they want to be able to have a small profile?

    Seems like some sort of lozenge shape would work best for this.

  25. Re:It is? on Bing Cashback Can Cost You Money · · Score: 0

    This is a search engine we're talking about, here. What is there other than "Search for X" anecdotes?