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  1. Re:Oh, sure, this guy gets the accolades on Sys-Admin Dispenses Passwords With a Banana (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sometimes a WiFi password is just a WiFi password.

  2. Re:IOCCC style on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 1

    Oops, should have been
    inline int div(int a, int b) {
                    return (a&-!!b)/(b|!b);
    }

  3. IOCCC style on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 1

    For integer division, just say

    inline int div(int a, int b) {
            return (a&-!b)/(b|!b);
    }

    Then use div(x, y) to your heart's content.

  4. Re:Obscure dates/times, too on 22nd International Obfuscated C Code Contest Starts Thursday 1 Aug 2013 · · Score: 2

    Retrospectively,
    Aug. 1 is the birthday of Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician, author of The enjoyment of mathematics. Selections from mathematics for the amateur (with Hans Rademacher).
    Oct. 3 is the day Edouard Lucas, French mathematician, known for his study of the Fibonacci sequence, died.

  5. Re:Significance of the times on The 21st IOCCC Has Been Announced · · Score: 1

    pi = 3.141592653...

  6. Anonymous-shmanonymous on DNA Sequenced of Woman Who Lived To 115 · · Score: 2
  7. It's clearly a seisure! on Warrantless GPS Tracking Is Legal, Says WI Court · · Score: 1

    Adding weight to the car reduced gas mileage, thus it is a fuel seisure. The amount may be negligible, but the question is, is it reasonable?

  8. Re:Perpetuating old myths on Bizarre Properties of Glass Allow Creation of "Metallic Glass" · · Score: 1
    sagging effect

    Should read "manufacturing defects"

    Seriously, stop deluding yourself. Glass at room temperature is a solid.

  9. Perpetuating old myths on Bizarre Properties of Glass Allow Creation of "Metallic Glass" · · Score: 5, Informative
    The deceptively liquid-like behavior of glass can be seen when you look at glass in the windows of an old building. The glass begins to sag and distort internally over the centuries, due to the effect of gravity.

    This is crap. There have been windows of old buildings "sagging" upwards. The old technology of making windowpanes resulted in glass of uneven thickness, and it makes sense to install it the thick side down. Sometimes the installers did not care enough.

  10. An omission on Scientists Build Possibly The First Man-Made Genome · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The article does not say if it's methylated in the right places.

  11. Re:A bit of code... on IOCCC 2006 is now open · · Score: 1
  12. Re:2007 on IOCCC 2006 is now open · · Score: 1

    Eh... Maybe next year.

  13. Re:Y'all are on the wrong page... on Verizon Can't Do Math · · Score: 1

    The guy is an idiot. The first and only thing he should have done is to ask to convert the quote (0.002 cent/Kb) into $/Kb by dividing it by 100, then it would have been blatantly obvious even to the dumbest of CSRs.

  14. Re:a bit of relevant info.... on Intel Releases 4004 Microprocessor Schematics · · Score: 1

    I've asked that question Monday night diring the anniversary meeting at the Computer History Museum. They said "none", then, jokinly, "NOP". I haven't verified, but I believe their first answer was right.

  15. Re:GCHQ in 1973! on 30 Years of Public Key Cryptography · · Score: 1

    All their notes are classified by default. They did not bother to declassify it.

  16. Re:GCHQ in 1973! on 30 Years of Public Key Cryptography · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've attended the meeting, I've seen that evidence. The GCHQ articles on PKC had quite dismissive titles.

  17. Re:GCHQ in 1973! on 30 Years of Public Key Cryptography · · Score: 1

    Right, and Native Americans invented the wheel.

    At GCHQ, they did not understand the importance of it.

  18. Nothing to see here, move along. on TiVo Wins Permanent Injunction Against EchoStar · · Score: 2, Informative
  19. Just three words on Eight Hour Coding Session Causes DVT · · Score: 3, Informative

    Drink. More. Water.

  20. A low-tech approach on Device Developed To Help Socially Challenged · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be easier to wear a T-shirt that says:

    "If you're bored, just say so! Don't make faces at me!"

  21. And, in other news... on Study Says Cell Phones Can Interfere With Planes · · Score: 1

    A polar bear will, in all likelihood, someday choke on a penguin.

  22. Billions, so what? on Super Bowl Footballs Get The DNA Touch · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Who cares about the probability of replicating the exact sequence? What is the probability that an arbitrary sequence DNA will glow under that light?

  23. Re:Crunch time programmers sickly as ever on Coffee A Health Drink? · · Score: 1

    Moreover, coffee could bring to the diet as many antioxidants as they would like you to believe, but it also contains some products of thermal decomposition which are known to be bad for you.

  24. Re:yes, 5 mg each time on Ophthalmologists, Physicists Design Bionic Eye · · Score: 1
    The US RDA (diet guideline) says you need 15 mg per day. Wikipedia says you lose 5 mg each time you abuse yourself. So, at a rate of 3 squirts/day, you'll have no zinc left for your eyes. You'll go blind, just like your momma told you.

    As subsequent ejaculations are of lower volume, you'll need more than 3 "squirts"/day, and maybe at least for a few days if vit. A can be stored in the retina. Moreover, night blindness is completely reversible. With modern lighting it is very unlikely to experience night blindness, anyway.

  25. Re:Not for those who have been blind since birth.. on Ophthalmologists, Physicists Design Bionic Eye · · Score: 4, Informative

    Masturbation can only possibly cause night blindness if your diet does not have enough zinc or vitamin A. Zinc is needed to transport vit. A to the retina, where it is needed for the rods that provide black-and-white night vision, but it is excreted in relatively high amount with the semen.