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  1. Don't flatten it. on Multidimensional Crosswords? · · Score: 1

    Perspective view. +45/+45/+45 degrees, right distance, you'll see a lot of cubes, each one is one letter.

  2. OR... on Area 51 Hackers Map Buried Surveillance Network · · Score: 1

    They want you to think exactly that. Neat, unh? :-)

    ATTENTION HUMOUR-IMPAIRED /.ERS: This is a joke. Or isn't it?

  3. The USofA is the real threat to world democracy on China Developing own Standards · · Score: 1

    If you believe the USofAn govment "believed that Iraq had more WMD's than N korea", then you are seriously deluded. My logic has no flaws.
    1. The USofAn executive *knew*, since the beginning. there were no WMDs in Iraq. WMDs in Iraq was proved to be a complete lie. Ah, and they knew that Saddam had no Al-Qaeda links, too.
    2. OTOH, NKorea has at least one functional nuke.
    3. NKorea can be smaller than the USofA, but Bush &c won't risk the South Korean people -- and the USofAn troops stationed there -- going ka-boom.
    4. yes, I can say nukes, nukes, nukes.
    5. Guess who gave Saddam the only WMDs and WMD tech he ever possessed? Hint: starts with USof and ends with A.
    pfff... ez argument.

  4. The USofA is the real threat to world democracy. on China Developing own Standards · · Score: 1

    And yes, I am a Michael-Moore-hugging-tinfoil-hatted conspiracy nut.
    And no, your usofan republic is not a democracy, the current executive chief was not democratically elected, if he was elected at all.
    The current USofAn external policy is like the elementary school bully: the morons flock behind it (Aznar & Blair) and it picks only on the smaller boys (Iraq), and it yellows in front of the bigger boys (China and even North Korea).

  5. Example: on North American Corporate Privacy Comparison · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you buy (or not) something during a strike (at Wal-Mart for instance), and the shop (or tracking card) sells this information with a prospective employer, it will know the strength of your position IRT unions etc.

  6. Re:Nuclear power isn't all that bad on Creator of the Gaia Hypothesis Urges Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    I can't think of anything more likely to get nuclear weapons into the hands of someone who shouldn't have them.
    I'm sorry to be the one who'll break this to you, but: you are late.
    The nuclear weapons are already in the hands of people who should not have them: the USofAn govment, the Russian govment, China, South Korea, Israel, India, Pakistan, ....

  7. Who mentioned on Creator of the Gaia Hypothesis Urges Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    "well-sealed"? the idea, AFAIK, is to dump the raw stuff in the wilderness, and give the developers the hmmm, will you want to try to remove the plutonium out of this area before cutting wood?

  8. MODERATOR MADNESS on Process Improvements in the Kernel Development · · Score: 1

    there is no "development tree" at the moment. the 2.6 kernel tree is being managed by Linus. Andrew Morton is not yet in complete charge of it. development tree will be 2.7.

  9. Re:Who cares? on Shatner May Return to Star Trek (Briefly?) · · Score: 1

    I'm watching all of it. It was bad at the 2nd to 3rd season transition, but it's gettig better, better, better. Try it now. The season finale is next week.

  10. Re:Fuck you America on What's Your Terrorism Quotient? · · Score: 1

    motor car is French.

  11. The best part on Andy Tanenbaum on 'Who Wrote Linux' · · Score: 1

    No, it's definitively "As I sooned learned, Brown is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, ..."
    I ROTFLOLed in the office when I got to that point.

  12. Re:Perl? on Alternatives to Autoconf? · · Score: 1

    perl itself is autoconf'ed. perl Makefile.pl is just for XSs

  13. stolen/lost on Reporting Stolen Credit Card Lists? · · Score: 1

    This is not a security problem, it's an operational issue. block the card.

  14. You missed the boat... on Web Redesigned With Hindsight · · Score: 1

    it's OWL Web Ontology Language (OWL)

  15. Re:So what? on SBC CWA Strike Imminent · · Score: 1

    They may not *make* the pr0n, but they *take* it to alot of folks...

  16. Re:Vaporware on Super-Fast Python Implementation for .NET and Mono · · Score: 1

    It's not even closed source. There is no source or object code anywhere. If I can't test it, it does not exist. Even closed source can be demonstrated to exist. This can't.

  17. Vaporware on Super-Fast Python Implementation for .NET and Mono · · Score: 1

    the problem is that this stuff does not exist (until proven otherwise)

  18. OTOH on Higher Education for Mentally Handicapped? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I use calculus all the time. And for the last 2 years I've been an business app developer. But I still integrate and take derivatives when I have to estimate how the size of an Oracle table will influence the time a query will take to run. And to calculate short paths when the crappy oracle7 won't optimize something. And a lot of other stuff.
    Before that, even more so, because I worked in a geoprocessing program... that calculated loads in the electrical plant of a whole state (yeah, 12 million people). Global and local; dimensioning substations and trafos.

  19. Re:Let's not forget synthetics...and politics... on Out of Gas · · Score: 1

    Yes Brasil.
    In the late 1980's, we had 40% gasoline cars and 60% ethanol cars. Now we have something like 85% gasoline cars vs 15% ethanol cars because we had a supply crisis in the mid-90's. But 40% of all the new cars are ethanol, and 5% are hybrid gas-ethanol (you can put in any mix of both). Caveat emptor: our gasoline is 15% ethanol. And our ethanol is 20% gasoline. Go figure. Refineries are private, but one big player is Petrobras, which is 51% govment. owned. Ethanol refineries are private, and I don't know if Petrobras has an enormous share of the market as in the Petroleum-derived products.
    Disclaimer: All figures are TTBOMK IIRC and approximate. I'm going to bed now and I know you can do a better job googling for it...

  20. Not a wonder, a pity on Can Cell Phones Ignite Gasoline Vapors? · · Score: 1

    Some guys should be Darwined out for the greater good.

  21. Re:Let's not forget synthetics...and politics... on Out of Gas · · Score: 1

    Oh, boy, I'm glad my car, as million others in my country, is moved by Ethanol. (extracted from sugar cane)

  22. Yes. on UPN Renews 'Star Trek: Enterprise' · · Score: 2, Funny

    That is why only one other person knows what means "toteo sabetendo unforgiven never shines as the sun butt but I can shine as the bright white on black leather and blue velvet in the kitchen of the house of the Rose Lords that keeps Kathleen Turner, Cybill Shepard, Gillian Anderson, Natalie Portman, Jessica Alba and Jolene Blalock in my bed tonight".

  23. Yes! on UPN Renews 'Star Trek: Enterprise' · · Score: 1

    A lesbian hologram with Nurse Chapel and her 150-yo counterpart, Lwaxana Troi!!!

  24. Re:Good news... on UPN Renews 'Star Trek: Enterprise' · · Score: 2, Funny

    > How could you teach a course in warp propulsion dynamics, for example?

    Bulinko walked together in the den with Linia.
    The sons of Bukits stared and they went to the house of Mirkos.
    Shizuko - when Tirbuk got Tewerkal in the Sea of Lurkis.

    (translation: when the subspace fields takes the shell shape, and their frequency is 16 millicochranes, then the warp factor will surpass the next integer number and the energy intake will stabilize)

  25. Re:Baaahhh.... on Google to be Sued Over Name? · · Score: 1

    Man, a google is a lot, or better saying, a whole awful fscking lot of things. It is estimated that the universe has something in the range of 10^77 nucleons