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  1. Re:Better to keep work life and home life separate on Using the Open Records Law To Intimidate Critics · · Score: 1

    I think that this is a perfect reason to create a honey-pot like environment. If they're going to search, it's going to be a tough search.

    Like a vacuum truck AKA a honey sipper?

  2. Re:I LOVE ANALOGIES! on If Search Is Google's Castle, Android Is the Moat · · Score: 1

    I really miss both of them but especially the pizzaanalogyguy. He always made me LOL.

    The last post I recall from pizzaanalogyguy was comparing an OS to a pizzaria. The solution was to create an authentic cooking school on the least busy day of the week. Come back PAG.

  3. Re:Priorities on Leonard Nimoy Turns 80 · · Score: 1

    Nobody said the virgins looked like Allison Stokke. What if the sacrificed virgins were Rosie O'Donnells?

    Rosie owns virgins? Who knew?

  4. Re:Yay for C++'0B on ISO C++ Committee Approves C++0x Final Draft · · Score: 1

    Enough said!

    -Chris

    Olly Olly 0x 'an C

  5. Re:Hmmm ... on CMU Eliminates Object Oriented Programming For Freshman · · Score: 1

    I never thought there was a functional difference between a lone line containing "i++;" "++i;". Of course, for variable assignment it matters, but what's going on under the covers? If you stop and think about it, i++ actually has to return the old value. ++i can destroy that old value and never needs to worry about returning the old value (you can avoid an extra copy).

    You need not worry about that anymore nowadays, at least in C and C++. Recent compilers optimize the useless instructions out automatically.

    Load register from memory
    Increment register
    Store register to memory
    If post ++ then decrement register

  6. Re:Nice stunt on Top French Chess Players Suspended For Cheating · · Score: 1

    It's very easy. There are 64 squares on a chessboard, so if you have 64 chairs you can just sit in one of the 64 chairs and that's all it takes. With less chairs, you can do other things if needed: cross your legs or don't, lean back or don't, and so on. Just crossing your legs and leaning back cuts the number of chairs required down to 16, and that's assuming that you actually need to account for every single square, which you probably don't actually need to do in a real game.

    Now if you're thinking that a mere board location doesn't always tell you what piece to put there (depending on the current arrangement) that's accounted for by the fact that these guys actually do know how to play chess so they can decide on the best move themselves after being directed to the proper square to land on.

    It must have looked like wizards' chess. Ron sacrifices himself so Harry can checkmate whilst reminding Hermione not to move.

  7. Re:A sheet of plastic is not "foil". on The First Plastic Computer Processor · · Score: 1

    foil noun

    Definition of FOIL
    1 : very thin sheet metal <aluminum foil>

    Curses foiled again.

  8. Re:Terrifying. on Brain-Computer Interface Still Going After 1,000 Days · · Score: 1

    Looking at the picture, it looks like that poor S3 has a massive SCSI cable connected to her head. It looks really awkward and uncomfortable. They couldn't use USB? Or Bluetooth?

    If you wiggle the cable... can she feel the implant shift slightly in her BRAIN?!

    I'm going to stop, I'm freaking myself out.

    How about an arm interface?

  9. Re:Viral DNA? on DNA Analysis Hints At a Fourth Domain of Life · · Score: 2

    http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2011/03/story-behind-story-of-my-new-plosone.html

    They may be from novel viruses. The They may be ancient paralogs of the marker genes. Or they may be from a new branch of cellular organisms in the tree of life, distinct from bacteria, archaea or eukaryotes. I think most likely they are from novel viruses.

    I'm going to go with this last opinion as well, it's probably from some virus, which would account for the sequence wackiness. I'm wondering if they can construct some speculative primers and (without isolating the organism) start sequencing outwards from these novel sequences, maybe get enough to tell if it's a virus or a novel organism.

    They nearly destroyed Skynet last time, but some of the Novell viruses survived.

  10. Re:Here goes last supporter of open-source on Red Hat Nears $1 Billion In Revenues, Closing Door On Clones · · Score: 1

    Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Even in open source.

    Power corrupts, and absolute power is kind of interesting. John Lehman

  11. Re:Degrees of definition on Surveillance Robot That is Programmed To Hide · · Score: 1

    To a robot, "The Good Guys" are the ones supplying your electricity!

    A robot has to eat (Rule 3). Its hard to tell good juice from bad, especially after a long pilgrimage to an outlet.

  12. Re:Important Message from Kremlen on Surveillance Robot That is Programmed To Hide · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia robots hide from YOU!

    In Soviet Russia robots pretend to work like you. (Best way to pissadear)

  13. Re:Degrees of definition on Surveillance Robot That is Programmed To Hide · · Score: 3

    So, if the "bad guys" have this, does it still transmit information to the "good guys"? I suspect the good guys are simply the fellows with the bigger checkbook. But I'm an optimist.

    Its robotic relativism.

  14. Re:International Talk Like William Shatner Day on Futurama Renewed For 7th Season · · Score: 2

    When...everyone....here....TALKS....like Shatner...theyforgetthathealwaysrusheshsispeakingatsomepoint....in...his....monologues.

    EveryonelovesitwhenLeonardNimoydoesthat.

  15. Re:Don't ya think? on China Starts Censoring Phone Calls Mid Sentence · · Score: 1

    I like the Socratic form of irony, which may be familiar to many Internet trolls: feigning ignorance to provoke an opponent. I also like the Blackadder definition: "It's like goldy or bronzy, only with iron."

    They supported themselves by taking in irony.

  16. Re:Um, don't safe reactors already exist? on A New Class of Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    Fit the diesels with a snorkel. Two pipes supported by the containment building: One for air, and the other for exhaust.

    From time to time, start the diesels and later add steam to get white smoke to remind everyone that you are thinking of safety.

    Either design the backup power building to run 10m underwater or move it up.

  17. Re:The Hobbit on The Hobbit Finally Starts Shooting · · Score: 1

    We made it into a musical back in 1965 during summer camp. I was a tree.. or frog, something like that, I forget. It was such a smash, it was held over for a second night.

    Tom Bombadil, is that you?

  18. Re:Uh... on Mirah Tries To Make Java Fun With Ruby Syntax · · Score: 0

    Exactly, you have to have a PhD to make up words.

    You might want to consider "must have" or "need to have" instead of "have to have". You don't need a PhD to make up words, but a mediocre understanding of the language is preferred.

    Performant highly Dispositive

  19. Re:Uh... on Mirah Tries To Make Java Fun With Ruby Syntax · · Score: 0

    None of those definitions apply to Java.

    There is no ain't in Java?

    --

    When I was much younger, I attempted strong language. I said "AIN'T AIN'T AIN'T."

    I thought I had really done it when my aunt had to leave the room.

  20. Re:Madman Muntz went bankrupt on 'Pruned' Microchips Twice As Fast and Efficient · · Score: 1

    Long ago, I had a demonstration radio in class.

    One day a student challenged the function of component after component which I then removed.

    It turned out later that he had been shocked and wanted company.

  21. Re:Hm on 'Pruned' Microchips Twice As Fast and Efficient · · Score: 1

    Been doing that since I bought my very first car - oh, wait. Slashdot. Car analogies. Crap. Here come the mods from hell . . . .

    How about a pizza analogy. That slice isn't doing anything; yum.

  22. Re:Crash on See The Supermoon Tonight · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I was reading this in the newspaper a few days ago and it really does look bigger. Almost as if it might crash into us.

    So the moon spins around us in an ellipsis, where it's closest to us at perigee and furthest at apogee. Apparently it's blamed for the tsunami.

    That's erripse not erripsis.

    BTW the tsunami was caused by grobar walming.

  23. Re:Ouch on RSA's Servers Hacked · · Score: 1

    You notice that they talk of "RSA, an EMC company" - Rivest, Shamir, and Adelman probably sold their company (maybe to EMC, maybe to someone who sold it to EMC).

    Besides, they invented the algorithm/s which became famous, and the company was created to exploit said algorithms. They certainly gave their initials to the algorithm, and thence to the company, but they may have been nothing but figureheads in the company.

    BTW: I recall with amusement the T-shirts that the company gave out at a conference when the patent on RSA was expiring ("RSA - it's just an algorithm") - it looked like someone was regretting naming the company after the algorithm :)

    Rename it Cockes then.

  24. Re:TSA involvement on Cocaine Found At Kennedy Space Center · · Score: 1

    This shows a clear need for TSA screenings of all astronauts prior boarding.

    "I have to take off my boots, too? OH COME ON, ARE YOU SERIOUS?!"

    Obligatory WKRP payola reference: I've got a monkey on my foot.

  25. Re:Utah: More of the same on Utah Governor 'Honored' With Blackhole Award · · Score: 2

    Good grief, there are Muslims who blow themselves up to kill people who don't share their beliefs. And yet I don't see Slashdotters cracking jokes about them.

    Sounds logical to me.