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  1. Re:Next step? on Word Processors — One Writer's Further Retreat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bah, you're still fussing over small details.
    LET THERE BE LIGHT!

  2. Re:Not a direct provocation, but... on Audio Analysis Brings New Revelations From Kent State Shooting · · Score: 1

    And presumably because we only hear about U.S. policework through incidents like this.

  3. Re:Not a direct provocation, but... on Audio Analysis Brings New Revelations From Kent State Shooting · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ja, maybe you are right. Not to be surly, but we outside of the US sort of take for granted that all US cops are gung-ho people who "do whatever it takes", and cook up their own solutions and conspiracies to solve everything.

  4. Not a direct provocation, but... on Audio Analysis Brings New Revelations From Kent State Shooting · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The article states that there is video evidence of Terry Norman being chased by someone claiming he shot someone, running away and handing his gun to an officer that opens it and states that it's been fired 4 times. This before, as the article calls it, "the volley". The most empathetic suggestion would be that Terry was attacked physically, then answered with shooting. This wouldn't have been a direct provocation to open fire, but it would have increased tensions quite a bit, obviously. In no way would he be directly responsible for triggering the massacre.

  5. Re:Inform 7 on Interactive Text Adventures Come To the Kindle · · Score: 1

    Remember to look up the syntax for expressing things by choosing "index" -> "phrasebook" in the right pane. It's a bit hidden, and it's bloody hell to try to remember the correct grammar for relations especially. Remember that the syntax is strict. Also, dynamic objects doesn't exist, but aren't really needed - you need to slash someones head off? Declare that a head is part of every person, and move it off the person when it's sliced off, declaring a rule for printing the name of heads that it mentions the name of the person it last was attached to. It's entirely rational, but goes against many programming instincts.

  6. Re:From TFS on Interactive Text Adventures Come To the Kindle · · Score: 1

    ...
    GYAAAAAAAH!
    *downs half a bottle of high-strung jack's cheap bugbear whiskey*
    AAAAaaahhhhh...

  7. Inform 7 on Interactive Text Adventures Come To the Kindle · · Score: 3, Informative

    For those who felt a creative urge when hearing this, take a look at http://inform7.com./ It's easy to use, but it helps if you're a programmer since the way the "english langauge" and grammar gets translated to objects and relations have some gotchas.

  8. Re:Why this kind of crap always comes from the UK? on New CCTV Site In UK Pays People To Watch · · Score: 1

    Weird old class system?

  9. Re:Welcom heavy metals on West Virginia Is Geothermically Active · · Score: 1

    "In the borehole pressure mines 100km beneath Planetsurface, at the Mohorovicic Discontinuity where crust gives way to mantle, temperatures often reach levels well in excess of 1000 degrees Celsius. Exploitation of Planet's resources under such brutal conditions has required quantum advances in robotic and teleoperational technology."

    Morgan Industries, Ltd.
    "Annual Report"

  10. Re:Never thought I would defend Iran, but... on Stuxnet Worms On · · Score: 1

    Why is the above modded troll? It's a perfectly good thing to be morally outraged over.

  11. Re:Never thought I would defend Iran, but... on Stuxnet Worms On · · Score: 1

    It's sprung out of culture. I guess you could view it as a formalized mask of cultural morality, warts and all?

  12. Re:This isn't helping on Anonymous Knocks Out Ministry of Sound Website · · Score: 1

    A tour-guide for alcatraz might have been a somewhat self-selecting sample. But I agree with you. Some sympathy must be had with the people who think "If i just do everything right, I'm a good person and everything will be okay."

  13. Re:Not enough lulz, it is insufficient. on Anonymous Knocks Out Ministry of Sound Website · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, I'd simply love to 3. But I'm a bit blushing towards building up the protected double-life required for my mommy/gf not finding out about my randy gay orgies with turkish assboys and imported russian manwhores. She'd be so very, very disappointed in me. Ah, santorum, how I long for thee.

  14. Re:Not enough lulz, it is insufficient. on Anonymous Knocks Out Ministry of Sound Website · · Score: 1

    It would be thrown out. I do however see some potential for disrupting the personal lives of the people actually in the organization. Collateral damage should be easy to control as long as the attacker has access to internal communication, yes?

  15. Re:Not enough lulz, it is insufficient. on Anonymous Knocks Out Ministry of Sound Website · · Score: 4, Funny

    People just don't understand me. Why can't they just accept that we have different sexual drives in life? ;_;

  16. Re:File size on Bittorrent To Replace Standard Downloads? · · Score: 1

    This is what I meant to point out - my fault; I thought he was saying the inverse of what he said.

  17. Not enough lulz, it is insufficient. on Anonymous Knocks Out Ministry of Sound Website · · Score: 2, Interesting

    From a purely digital pyromania perspective (I am not a participant in this, but I like to watch things burn) it would be much more fun if the internal networks and personal computers of these organizations where infiltrated (and counterattacks mounted by hired crackers, of course.) Why doesn't this happen? Would we ever know if it had? (I think we would, actually, as long as the attack was detected.) Is it a question of competence or cowardice? These ineffectual DDOS attacks are getting boring. ;_;

  18. Re:File size on Bittorrent To Replace Standard Downloads? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No, no you're not. Not unless the attacker can intercept your connection.

  19. Re:multi-track please on CD Sales Continue To Plummet, Vinyl Records Soar · · Score: 1

    But art has even more talented amateurs than software programming?

  20. Re:Begun, the Cyber Wars Have. on Stuxnet Worm May Have Targeted Iranian Reactor · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's enough if people in the right positions *think* there is a national cyber security lobby? After all, a large undefended "battlefield" will certainly not escape the minds of someone who does war for a living.

  21. Re:What? on WikiLeaks Founder 'Free To Leave Sweden' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not true. I'm Swedish, and the U.S. is "the center of the world."

  22. Re:watch animals on Learning By Playing · · Score: 1

    Well, I'd say that's more like "learn by practicing in a playful manner."

  23. QTL on Learning By Playing · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why would you complicate things like that? And wouldn't the children without much ability to put themselves in another's shoes and ability to abstract be quite disadvantaged by a method of teaching like that? It's just the kind of "muddy" mixed-up way of teaching which I loathed in school - like mathbooks wich used such heavy layers of methaphor and allegory (to teach the kids to "use their skills in real life?") that getting a fix on the underlying system was 5x the normal work. This was fortunately absent from the physics books. When I got my college algebra textbook it was a godsend.

  24. Can you elaborate on *why* it is stupid?

  25. Re:payback at later date on PA's Dept. of Homeland Security Shared Oil-Shale Protester Info With Companies · · Score: 1

    In Cina, they apparently do this. But they give them the courtesy of dying by lethal injection in the back of a wagon instead of the usual headshot - that sounds like an ice-cream truck when it drives up to their home, so as to not scare the children.