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  1. Re:More Perl Advent Calendars on Advent Calendar For Geeks · · Score: 2

    Yes, the -M missing colon is a copy and paste/revision typo, I will fix it this evening.

    No, there is no missing r. The operator used is qr, not q; the delimiter is %
    Indeed, this is even addressed in the article text ;-)

    As for the GP, I link to all the relevant calendars that I know of on delicious,
    accessible via "Links" in the footer of the splash page.

    Yes there are a lot of them, but this is the continuation of the original, which was
    created by Mark Fowler in 2000.

  2. Re:I assume on Apple Approves Opera Mini For iPhone · · Score: 1

    Just because we haven't really enforced them since Ma Bell was busted up doesn't mean they don't exist:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law

  3. Re:I assume on Apple Approves Opera Mini For iPhone · · Score: 1

    >There is no anti-trust problems here. Apple has full rights to a monopoly on Apple branded hardware.
    No, they don't. Vertical monopolies are just as illegal as horizontal ones.
    DOJ's plans for MS were a vertical split, not horizontal, after all.

  4. Re:What I would ask Google is.. on Google to Open Source the VP8 Codec · · Score: 1

    >I think the lobbying and urging by FSF to a corporate like Google seems somewhat undignified, at least to me.

    Why? If corporations get to lobby government, which is supposed to be of and by the *people*, and
    non-profits can do so as well, why can't a non-profit lobby a corporation? Compare a (call to) boycott.

  5. Re:-1 Troll on Open Source Is Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    Stardock WindowBlinds anyone?
    Surely of the hundreds of themes available, there must be one with the controls on the left :-P

  6. Re:Hey Everybody! on Details Emerge On Futurama's "Rebirth" (and Return) · · Score: 1

    It's called context bitch, learn to read the status bar.

  7. Re:Reminds me of broadband internet in the beginni on Gas Wants To Kill the Wind · · Score: 1

    But that 3 KW is in a 24 MPH wind. How often does the wind blow that fast?

    More often than you think because that's at the height of the turbine, which in this case
    looks to be about 100 feet.

  8. Re:Bring forth ye Olde English Grammar Nazis on 19th-Century Photographer Captured 5,000 Snowflakes · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Note though that "temporary" rigging lacks the negative connotation of
    "bubblegum & bailing wire" or "mickey-moused" that jerry-rigged implies.

    So actually, yeah, the original use of jury-rigged was appropriate here.

  9. Re:Bring forth ye Olde English Grammar Nazis on 19th-Century Photographer Captured 5,000 Snowflakes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The book was published in 1788... Is that old enough for you?

    Irk? I already referred to this form with the second link. Note though that
    "temporary" rigging lacks the negative connotation of "bubblegum & bailing wire"
    or "mickey-moused" that jerry-rigged implies.

  10. Re:Bring forth ye Olde English Grammar Nazis on 19th-Century Photographer Captured 5,000 Snowflakes · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It should be spelled jerry-rigged is a slight on World War I Germans.
        http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=jerry-rigged
    Jury-rigged is apparently an acceptable term derived from French.
        http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=jury

    Personally, I spell it jerry but pronounce it jury.

  11. Re:US bullying and demanding other countries.. on Canada's Airlines Face a Privacy Dilemma · · Score: 1

    Now, granted, it doesn't say that people will be prevented from leaving, but I suggest you think about it for a moment. What is the purpose of identifying people who leave, other than to control who leaves?

    To have some better idea of who might be (re-)entering the country in the future. Clearly if JoeBlow644 left for vacation in Egypt and comes back two weeks later, he cannot return yet again the week after.

  12. Re:Lots for every budget., even free on Science Gifts For Kids? · · Score: 1

    James Burke's Connections series are excellent.

    Also don't forget the books. Henry Reed, The Great Brain, and Mad Scientists Club
    are all excellent series of tales about adventure, independence and using your noodle.

  13. Re:Funny...I was just pondering the fact on Lifecycle Energy Costs of LED, CFL Bulbs Calculated · · Score: 1

    This is well established as the worst-use case for CFLs. CFLs, like any fluorescent, are more limited by starts than total burn time, unlike incandescents. Therefore short-cycle duty will drastically limit their lifespans.

  14. Re:2007 Acrtic Ice Sheet data.... Sunspot Data.... on Climatic Research Unit Hacked, Files Leaked · · Score: 1

    Climate change was a reframing by the right as it's a more innocuous term. It was eventually adopted by much of the scientific community as being "more accurate" and easier to understand by lay people i.e; it more clearly encompasses the broader suite of ensuing changes... rather than global warming which accurately describes the increase in mean global temperature due to the retention of energy in the atmospheric system. Joe Sixpack doesn't grok that weather is not climate, and that a single "freakishly cold" winter in Duluth doesn't mean anything to someone sizzling in Sydney or Sao Paolo year after year.

  15. Re:Derivative works and interpreted languages on Doubts Raised About Legal Soundness of GPL2 · · Score: 1

    FYI Perl's a bad example. It is actually compiled (at invocation), and dual-licensed.

  16. Re:GP is overrated on MIT Axes the 500-Word Application Essay · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry, that should have been parent, not grand-parent. Now it's grand-parent.

  17. GP is overrated on MIT Axes the 500-Word Application Essay · · Score: 1

    It wasn't creative writing, it was about what you wanted to do with your life, and how MIT might help.
    And no, the numbers are not all that matter. The Institute is trying to turn out better rounded alums
    than that, hence the numerous humanities and writing requirements.

  18. Re:3 Days Turnaround on "Going Google" Exposes Students' Email · · Score: 1

    Is this still the gmail that you don't pay for btw?

    No, it's the education edition of Google Apps. They've been offering
    for a while now to colleges and universities.

  19. Re:My copy of wordpress doesn't have this problem on WordPress Exploit Allows Admin Password Reset · · Score: 1

    And how did you manage to get wordpress to not insist on redirecting everything to a single host?

  20. Re:The Geek Atlas on Science, Technology, Natural History Museums? · · Score: 1
  21. Re:this is science? on Need a Favor? Talk To My Right Ear · · Score: 1

    No, because a ration right-handed person would use their *left-hand*
    so that they could multi-task without an awkward crook in their neck.

  22. Re:If you can't get people to wear seat-belts on What a Hacked PC Can Be Used For · · Score: 1

    Tragedy of the commons

  23. Re:I call BS on Dr. Chu's statement on Painting The World's Roofs White Could Slow Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Umm, when people first started recognizing the problem the issue *was* just a degree or two.
    On a global scale, one degree mean temperature increase is a shit load of energy being dumped
    into the weather system. Now we're looking at several degrees due to inaction:
    http://globalchange.mit.edu/resources/gamble/

  24. Re:White? on Painting The World's Roofs White Could Slow Climate Change · · Score: 1

    a) Urban heat-island effect.
    b) In the mid-latitudes you could theoretically benefit from a higher albedo in the winter,
          but likely suffer from snow-covered roofs (or should, if you have proper insulation).

  25. Re:Robinson Crusoe on Mars... on Mars Robot May Destroy Life It Was Sent To Find · · Score: 1

    No, sorry. Check your high school chemistry book or Wikipedia please.
    Oxidation is (roughly) the loss of electrons. It is the opposite of reduction.