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  1. Obligatory William Gibson Quote on New High Tech $100 Bills Start To Circulate Today · · Score: 1

    “The U.S. hundred is the international currency of bad shit, Hollis, and by the same token the number one target of counterfeiters.”

  2. Video Lenght on Meet the Stampede Supercomputing Cluster's Administrator (Video) · · Score: 1

    17:01... just sayin'.

  3. Imagine on Breaking Supercomputers' Exaflops Barrier · · Score: 1

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of.... What? All supercomputers are basically beowolf clusters now? Umm...Ok, is Natalie Portman still topical?

  4. Re:Douglas Adams was correct on Developers Rolling Out Pebble Smartwatch Apps · · Score: 2

    Too wordy. How 'bout just "harmless".

  5. Re:Trading's Too Fast When It Ceases to Mean Anyth on More Warnings About High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 0

    Was I the only one distracted by the lack of "to"s.

  6. Bah. on Chinese To Supply 600 MW Wind Farm In Texas · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wait, Texas EXPORTS windmills, mostly to the Netherlands. I see the blades going by rail to the port all the time. The Beaumont Enterprise lists what ships are in port with cargo and destination information.

  7. Re:Acid2 on Konqueror Passes the Acid2 Test Too · · Score: 1

    It's called SVN trunk now. 3.4 and 4.0 have thier own branch

  8. Re:Is it April Fools Day? - must be on Offshoring to a Ship in International Waters · · Score: 1

    google and 30s tells you that Texas is an exception, using old spanish laws (you get special privleges when joining the US if you come from a position of total sovreinity). http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/oceanography- book/coastalzone.htm: By 1975 the Texas Coastal Management Program had defined the Texas coastal zone as "southwest along the coast from the Sabine to the Rio Grande, seaward into the Gulf of Mexico for a distance of 10.35 miles (9 nautical miles, which was originally 3 leagues under Spanish law), and inland to include 36 counties." (Handbook of Texas)

  9. Re:MS interoperability on Opera Claims Microsoft Has Poor Interoperability · · Score: 1

    I've never had a problem with hotmail in either mozilla or firefox, however i use freepops (http://www.freepops.org/) to check my hotmail account. (and my mail.com account)

  10. Jim Fscking Adler?!?! on Experiences with Laser Eye Surgery? · · Score: 1

    I read slashdot to keep from that crap on tv, at least it's not this Juhan (that's JEW-han) guy we have in Beaumont with the box of Arm & Hamer. Using it to make fun of those lawyers from Houston. And isn't Jim Adler the one in the road rage PSA, yelling at the drivers like he does at his potential customers in his commercials?

  11. Re:T-shirt super secret message on PC Case For Hamsters, EZ Bake Oven in a Drive Bay · · Score: 1
    I like C++ better:
    #include <iostream>
    #include <fstream>
    using namespace std;

    int main(){
    fstream in("/root/bin",ios_base::in);
    int i;
    string f="";
    char s[9];
    while(in.getline(s,9)){
    i=0;
    for(int x=0;x<8;x++)
    (s[x]=='1')?i+=pow(2.0,7-x):i+=0;
    f+=char(i);
    }
    cout<<f<<endl;
    return 0;
    }
    Of course, i formated the binary to one byte per line, i guess that might be cheeting a little