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  1. Re:C too complex? Hilarious. on Google Engineer Decries Complexity of Java, C++ · · Score: 1

    So what does it even mean? Is it shorthand for "Mod THIS up"? It's not exactly the kind of thing you can plug into a search engine...

  2. Re:Simple on Passwords That Are Simple — and Safe(?) · · Score: 1

    pneumonic

    Is that a cross between pneumatic and mnemonic? The device which a robot uses to recall information?

    Also, it strikes me that this idea only helps at all on the assumption that the site involved enforces the "three strikes and lockout" policy. Otherwise, it's even easier to bruteforce them. (I actually read the article) Or am I missing something?

  3. Re:Time to add a little crazy into that character on Matt Smith Leaving Doctor Who Already? · · Score: 1

    Say what? Acronymn Finder returns 0 results.

  4. Re:Microsoft Surface on Online Chess With Physical Pieces On a Chessboard · · Score: 1

    given that chess is only one change at a time

    was what I was addressing. En passant, by comparison, is pretty easy after you've detected it's a legal move.

  5. Re:Why do the best ones always leave early? on Matt Smith Leaving Doctor Who Already? · · Score: 1

    Not to mention at the end when he got re-recreated as a human (presumably) by Amy after the universe was destroyed.

  6. Re:Time to add a little crazy into that character on Matt Smith Leaving Doctor Who Already? · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between crazy and insane. The Doctor is already crazy.

  7. Re:Then... why not release a hackable calculator? on TI vs. Calculator Hobbyists, Again · · Score: 1

    And this is a calculator how? By "calculator" I'm pretty sure he meant "portable enough to carry in one hand" not "something that performs calculations."

    And, y'know, something that came out slightly more recently than 1981.

  8. Re:Very troubling on US Deploys 'Heat-Ray' In Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    Argh, I lost my link: maser

  9. Re:Very troubling on US Deploys 'Heat-Ray' In Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    Just a point of clarification here, but do those protocols apply to non-lasers too? Because it looks to me like the system is actually a maser or something...

  10. Re:It's being done in the US too on New Chinese Rule Requires Real Names Online · · Score: 1

    ...asks the Anonymous Coward.

  11. "Chicken first"? on The Chicken May Have Come Before the Egg · · Score: 1

    Am I missing something? It sounds like they're saying that the egg came first, but they explicitly state the exact opposite.

  12. Re:Not conclusive on Toyota Sudden Acceleration Is Driver Error · · Score: 1

    I don't have "blind spots"; they're cruising where my blind spot would be

    Your blind spot is the area you are physically incapable of seeing without turning your head. If you turn your head to stay aware of it, that doesn't mean it isn't your blind spot anymore; you still can't see it without turning. Unless you have a second set of side mirrors or something.

  13. Re:Post the IP address on Retrieving a Stolen Laptop By IP Address Alone? · · Score: 1

    Glad to see you went to the trouble of concatenating the IP properly so his separating it in the first place was entirely negated.

  14. Re:kdawson strikes again! on Bitcoin Releases Version 0.3 · · Score: 1

    No, I'm serious: What the heck is "This." supposed to mean?

  15. Re:Peter Jackson on Hollywood Accounting — How Harry Potter Loses Money · · Score: 1

    A lot of companies apply DRM. Ergo, there are a lot of thieves. QED.

  16. Re:variable names and data structures. on Claimed Proof That UNIX Code Was Copied Into Linux · · Score: 1

    Well hell, if it's only 20 lines of assembly, how many different ways can there be to code it? I suppose you could use different naming and maybe registers, but with standard naming conventions...

    Disclaimer: I have only taken a course in x86 assembly.

  17. Re:kdawson strikes again! on Bitcoin Releases Version 0.3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What?

  18. Re:Wow, that looks entirely legit! on Bitcoin Releases Version 0.3 · · Score: 1

    Except for the fact that some people on Slashdot would notice because we have so many paranoiacs around who would actually do the research. Unfortunately nobody outside of Slashdot would care, and if it was pointed out, most of the Slashdot article about it would probably be spent arguing about poor grammar in the headline instead of the actual issue.

    Profit!

  19. Re:Peter Jackson on Hollywood Accounting — How Harry Potter Loses Money · · Score: 0, Troll

    I do so love it when people tell me I can't read when I disagree with them.

    thieves think everyone is a thief. If you see any kind of DRM on anything, you can be pretty sure its creator is a thief, and a stupid one at that.

    The majority of proprietary games released these days are DRM-encumbered, therefore (by your own logic) the majority of proprietary game producers are thieves, therefore you are calling a majority of said producers thieves, therefore you are a thief. Maybe if feepness had elucidated his chain of reasoning we could have avoided this whole nasty insulting of English proficiencies, etc.

    I can see that you have a wholly adequate understanding of English, so lacking grounds for insulting your abilities in that area, I will call you rude. "Here, have some spaghetti; you're very rude."

  20. Re:Microsoft Surface on Online Chess With Physical Pieces On a Chessboard · · Score: 1

    Castling might be a little tricky...it would need a special rule I suppose.

  21. Special Effects == Everything on YouTube Adds 'Leanback,' Support For 4K Video · · Score: 1

    This whole HD thing, and how high-res video games are being made these days...uggh. If the thing isn't actually interesting/fun, I don't care *how* much detail and resolution you throw at it.

    I don't feel the need to experience an eyegasm every time I look at a monitor. Honestly, we're pampered.

  22. Re:Maybe you should ask the right question: on Microsoft Applies For Page-Turn Animation Patent · · Score: 1

    Why would I want the page to turn transparent during the animation anyway? If it only takes like half a second to flip the page...

  23. Re:Spot the prior art on Microsoft Applies For Page-Turn Animation Patent · · Score: 1

    It's already been patented. Wasn't there an article a few months back about HP or somebody patenting the process of finding patentable processes?

  24. Re:Spot the prior art on Microsoft Applies For Page-Turn Animation Patent · · Score: 1

    there is nothing innovative about using a touch gesture to turn a page

    Legally? Are we sure?

  25. Re:Not a new trick on Hollywood Accounting — How Harry Potter Loses Money · · Score: 1

    the guy who was actually in Darth Vader's suite never got paid

    Hey, who are you calling a prostitute?