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  1. Re:Privelege on Photographing Police: Deletion Is Not Forever · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why haven't these police officers been arrested?

    Arrested by who? Their peers who do not want to be videotaped either?

    By metacops, naturally.

  2. Re:Eggs? on Microsoft's Azure Cloud Suffers Major Downtime · · Score: 1

    We've experienced zero downtime the past eight years running two colo's with a single IT guy (me). A single admin means no miscommunication. I'd hazard that number of IT staff correlates positively with the number of unplanned outages, the opposite of your assumption.

    Just don't get hit by a bus, man.

  3. Re:Disable metro? on Microsoft Launches Windows 8 Consumer Preview · · Score: 1

    To get the subset of new features of Windows 8 which does not include the metro interface?

  4. Re:First on Users Spend More Time On Myspace Than Google+ · · Score: 1

    Thank you Captain O..

  5. Re:First on Users Spend More Time On Myspace Than Google+ · · Score: 1

    One what?

  6. Re:Correllation != Causation on Those Sleeping Pills May Be Killing You · · Score: 1

    I'm tired of seeing these stupid comments every time an article on statistics is brought up.

    Me too.

    Clearly, a bunch of scientists doing studies along these lines know less about statistics and research design than some random Slashdot poster.

    Than a random slashdot poster, yes. That this implies that all slashdot posters don't know shit about statistics is fallacious.

  7. Re:He's optimistic on Stroustrup Reveals What's New In C++ 11 · · Score: 1

    We never had a "complete" C++98 or C++03 compiler, either. Didn't stop people from writing successful production software in that.

    Didn't Comeau C++ use to be 100% compliant, extern included?

  8. Re:For my next trick on Stroustrup Reveals What's New In C++ 11 · · Score: 1

    I am not sure if CUDA programming can only be done in C++, but I think that if one absolutely needs CUDA, then he is already doing some low-level stuff.

    CUDA Fortran is where it's at for hard-core number-crunching. See e.g. http://www.pgroup.com/resources/cudafortran.htm

  9. Re:What about the poles? on Astronomers Confirm a Hot and Steamy Exoplanet · · Score: 3, Funny

    What about the poles?

    They haven't got there yet.

  10. Re:"does some spying and reporting on you" on Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? · · Score: 2

    Wouldn't that make the other full-paying customers just say "I will only pay $X", cutting revenue significantly?

    In a perfect market where everyone knows everyone else's decisions, yes. In real life, probably no.

  11. Re:Simpler method on Optimizing Your Caffeine Intake With an App · · Score: 1

    Moreover, the fact whether one smokes cigarettes or is on birth control has a significant impact on the rate of metabolism of caffeine. Interestingly, grapefruit juice also affects caffeine metabolism (by inhibiting CYP3A4) I bet the app doesn't take this into account.

  12. Re:Caffeine on Optimizing Your Caffeine Intake With an App · · Score: 1

    Any amount of caffeine is bad for you. Stop trying to defend your addiction, you silly people.

    Could you please back this up with a citation?

  13. Re:What does this sentence mean? on Antibiotics Are Useless In Treating Most Sinus Infections · · Score: 1

    The compiler could, but it won't because one of the highest design criteria for a compiler is consistency. And guessing what the author meant will cause very inconsistent results.

    ... unless it guesses consistently :).

  14. Re:Like it would even matter. on Indian Government To Track Locations of All Cell Phone Users · · Score: 1

    India is so overpopulated that even if they could track your general location, they wouldn't be able to spot you in the thousands of people if they wanted to arrest you.

    But if they want to prove you were at A when you state you were at B, the crowd does not matter so much.

  15. Re:What does this sentence mean? on Antibiotics Are Useless In Treating Most Sinus Infections · · Score: 2

    Humans are bad at understanding nested stuff, luckily for me, I'm a programmer.

    You're definitely not a compiler -- you missed the syntax error at the end of the original sentence...

  16. Re:We should boycott only now? on Sony Raises Price of Whitney Houston's Music 30 Minutes After Death · · Score: 2

    and here [google.com] is the google translate.

    It says:

    This created the impression that the record label wanted to punch a salad from the death of the singer

    I think this explains sony's real motive.

  17. Re:Can you read this? on Followup: Ultraviolet Vision After Cataract Surgery · · Score: 1

    can anyone tell me what the poster above wrote? I can't seem to be able to read it :p

    He wrote his /. password. Apparently it is made invisible when posted.

  18. Re:10000 sheets per workbook? on LibreOffice 3.5 Released · · Score: 1

    Are those sheet double ply?

    No, but they are double precision.

  19. Re:10000 sheets per workbook? on LibreOffice 3.5 Released · · Score: 1

    I really don't understand why a programmer would put hard limits on stuff like this (besides limites thats comes from 2*32 for unsigned int in the source code).

    Perhaps it was this exact limit? Say, no more than 2^32-1 cells in entire workbook or something like that.

  20. Re:Here's another solution on Laser Scanner May Allow Passengers To Take Bottled Drinks On Planes Again · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or maybe, just maybe, people don't want their plastic bottles anymore after having drunk the water they couldn't take it with them.

  21. Re:Astronomical distances and poetry on New Horizons: One Billion Miles From Pluto · · Score: 1

    If you can get this through peer review, I'll be inclined to believe it.

  22. Re:Sometime the old ways on Ask Slashdot: How To Allow Test Takers Internet Access, But Minimize Cheating? · · Score: 1

    Is there a question which cannot be answered by visiting www.gmail.com and having a helpful friend or highly paid accomplice on the outside write up the solution for you?

    Yes. "Is Riemann hypothesis true?" could be a question like that.

    If your answer is 'Yes', then I have an amazing investment opportunity for you. It's a combination of a perpetual motion machine, time cube, and weight loss device that is made entirely from recycled ophidian extracts...

    Sounds interesting. Please elaborate :).

  23. ceteris paribus on Three Unexpected Data Points Describe Elementary School Quality · · Score: 3, Insightful

    2. Test Score Growth: Any single score can be socioeconomics, but growth is due to the school.

    ... if you can keep all other factors constant by freeze-framing the rest of the world.

  24. Re:Good grief. Religious zealots really annoy me. on Is the Earth Gaining Or Losing Mass? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    -- I am a crackpot

    So you are, so you are.

  25. Re:Diamond on What Makes Spider Webs Tough As Steel · · Score: 5, Informative

    So erm... under what possible conditions can carbon ever change it's atomic structure and chemical behavior to become a metal ? Short of nuclear transmutation - in which case the result is NOT carbon. Please, do explain as I would love to know.

    Sure thing.

    First, let's go beyond your high-school level description of what a metal is. There is no "specific set of elements" that are metallic. Rather, a metal is something that, owing to delocalized electrons, has no band gap at the Fermi level and thus is a good conductor of electricity and heat. This can be achieved in many elements, not necessarily those that are typically thought of as metals, by using fancy conditions, such as extreme pressures and/or temperatures.

    Take, for instance, this report on metallic carbon in Phys. Rev. Lett: http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v102/i5/e055703
    or the infamous metallic hydrogen, http://lt26.iphy.ac.cn/abstract/pdf/B1488.pdf