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  1. Sir Spam Alot on Man Threatened Spam Attack In $200,000 Extortion Plot · · Score: 0

    We dine well here in Camelot, we eat ham and jam and spamalot.

  2. LA on Hollywood Treats Hackers Pretty Well · · Score: 1

    Either there are too many hackers or almost none in LA (I think almost none). It is pretty scarce to find free internet or even reliable internet in this town, or even anyone who know what their talking about unless they are holding up a company. Then again, I'm from the SV.

  3. Re:Most Difficult Bug for Me on Are All Bugs Shallow? Questioning Linus's Law · · Score: 2, Informative

    Apparently some system that I didn't have source code to was interpreting files based on the prefix of their name, and I thought I was following convention. Turns out, if the file wasn't of a particular format, it would hang. I didn't realize that by following convention, i was causing a bug, so I had to rename the data object file to not include the special prefix.. with was do_ when normally all data objects would simply be prefixed with do .

  4. Silent L on Are All Bugs Shallow? Questioning Linus's Law · · Score: 1

    Many bugs are caused by the silent L in in the word USER.

  5. Most Difficult Bug for Me on Are All Bugs Shallow? Questioning Linus's Law · · Score: 2, Insightful

    One of my most difficult bugs was fixed by simply rescheduling the time a datamining job was to run (which was integrated in to a massive ERP system with other major components of which i had no insight). It took at least 24 hours to test everytime i created a new build. Essentially it was a scheduling ordering issue, where pre-processing of other processes wasn't done in time.. It took me a month to figure this one out. Some times the bugs are outside of the scope of your own system, and the bug will probably re-arise as data grows. I've also had some difficult threading issues where a wait is never notified caused by bad error handling, which was fixed by simply renaming a file (after 1 month of multi threaded debugging with the final session taking 3 days for one execution).

  6. Visual Python on Visual Studio 2010 Forces Tab Indenting · · Score: 1

    Visual Python anyone? Doesn't Python force tabbed spacing for scoping?

  7. Common vs. Prefered on Facebook Stock Going Public? · · Score: 1

    Isn't that the difference between Common Stock and Preferred Stock? Common is an actual percentage of ownage, while Preferred is a dilutted slice of the pie. I've vested and exercised 1/2 of some preferred options on a low cents amount, although the company chooses to remain private, hence, I effectively loaned them money at best.

  8. Cal - Math Problems on TI vs. Calculator Hackers · · Score: 1

    I remember at Cal, they would deliberately give problems to solve that they know the calculator would get wrong.

  9. Succint on Who Wants To Be a Billionaire Coder? · · Score: 1

    I would only ask for a more succinct statement that sums it up as this.

  10. Voice Apps on Google, Apple Joust Over Rejected Voice App · · Score: 1

    Skype did this 1st, but thats eBay.

    So apple wants control over their voice input output devices in prospective to 3/4G. Who owns the proxy to WiFI/Max?

  11. Glasses for Color Blindness Correction on Gene Therapy Cures Color-Blind Monkeys · · Score: 1

    I've heard of glasses that help correct colorblindness and found the following link.

    http://www.dyslexia-help.co.uk/chromagen_colour_deficiency.html

    They even have stuff for dyslexia.. weird.

    Whats interesting is i can partially pass the tests and I don't land into any of the categories of color blindness. If i blur my eyes i can pass the tests, although i remember it being difficult in the "real" test.

  12. Re:Excellent on Gene Therapy Cures Color-Blind Monkeys · · Score: 1

    I'm red color blind too.. and most of the items and clothing I own are red.. I even drive a cherry red camaro. I can see better in the dark and I have a sharp resolution.

  13. Pirates Eye Patches! on Microsoft Says No TCP/IP Patches For XP · · Score: 1

    Maybe they should make a campaign distributing pirates eye patches! Arrrrgh.!

  14. What is Cloning? on Scientists Clone Oldest Living Organism · · Score: 1

    Exactly what is cloning? I've heard of people cloning plants, but i think thats when they cut off a stem with leaves to regrow it. Is that what they are talking about?

    -M

  15. 256 on Russia's New Official Holiday — Programmer's Day · · Score: 1

    Funny, my location at 3com was 8.4.256 at Cisco it was 21.286

  16. On Crack? on Netscape Founder Backs New Browser · · Score: 1

    Rock Melt? Sounds like these guys are on crack.

  17. friggin laser beams on Team Aims To Create Pure Evil AI · · Score: 1

    But, will they have friggin laser beams on their heads?

  18. Beano Ads? on Cell Phones That Learn the Sounds of Your Life · · Score: 2, Funny

    So if you fart a lot you'd get beano ads on your iPhone?

  19. Cobol vs. Data Entry on Retired Mainframe Pros Lured Back Into Workforce · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I learned and taught cobol for awhile, and i can say that cobol is not too far from data entry. It is way too much work to do simple things, and it is way too weak of a language for most things. Its functionality is low that it takes a lot of code to implement simple things. The compiler gives you weird error messages. The language is archane. It is a very miserable language to write in, and I wouldn't code in it for less than several hundreds of dollars per hour, just because its so boring and takes way too much typing to do simple things that would be a snap in other languages.

  20. SCOTUS ? on Jammie Thomas Moves To Strike RIAA $1.92M Verdict · · Score: 1

    SCOTUS ? Sounds like a bunch of TP.

  21. BMI? on Toyota Demonstrates Brain Control of Wheelchair · · Score: 1

    Now if the BMI can help me when I BM, then I can retire happily.

  22. Re:Graphics AWT / SWING on Unlocking Android · · Score: 1

    I just have to argue, that java and awt were originally born in the embedded space, hence, why the need to re-invent the wheel, and not support AWT? Maybe there are some controls that are not in AWT, so why not extend it. Perhaps phone devices require a new paradigm, otherwise, i see no need for them to publish yet another api. I guess thats how it goes...

  23. Re:Graphics AWT / SWING on Unlocking Android · · Score: 1

    Problem is, I have the tackle for bass, but is it worth fishing trout?

  24. Graphics AWT / SWING on Unlocking Android · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the response, and it seems as if AWT/SWING aren't supported. I wonder what they use.. their own set of JButton's JCanvas's... etc? Whats the over heard on learning the UI elements? Is it thread safe unlike swing?

  25. The Android Platform on Unlocking Android · · Score: 1

    Can someone please simplify the Android Platform for us developers? Is it a Java VM with some extra libs, and a linux kernel?