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  1. depends on definition of tech worker on Half of All Tech Workers Surveyed Think Their Workplace Is 'Unhealthy' (wfaa.com) · · Score: 1

    is someone who assembles smartphones in a sweatshop a tech worker? How about someone who works in a cobalt mine?

  2. electronic currency on Facebook Smartphone a Dumb Idea, Says Farhad Manjoo · · Score: 1

    they should turn it into a platform for electronic payments between people, a Facebook electronic currency. you prepay an amount to Facebook, then you can transfer money between facebook accounts using NFC or barcode scanning.

  3. Re:Singularity on World's First Formally-Proven OS Kernel · · Score: 1

    Singularity (or better, sing#) formally describes the communication between subsystems. At the code level there are still "black boxes" of code that are not specified or verified.

  4. Re:Provable? on World's First Formally-Proven OS Kernel · · Score: 2, Informative

    only if you want to prove it automatically. this proof is constructed by hand, with some automatical steps in between, and then *verified* automatically. to manage the complexity of the proof, the proof is done in a more abstract formal specification language , then refined two times (haskel, C) . the correctness of the refinements are formally proven by the Isabelle system.

  5. Re:Godel's Incompleteness Theorem? on World's First Formally-Proven OS Kernel · · Score: 2, Interesting

    you dont have to "get around Godel's Incompleteness Theorem". (from wikipedia:): "Any effectively generated theory capable of expressing elementary arithmetic cannot be both consistent and complete. In particular, for any consistent, effectively generated formal theory that proves certain basic arithmetic truths, there is an arithmetical statement that is true, but not provable in the theory". it says "a statement" not "every statement". So, you can make formal theories where a lot of statements are provable, including a large class of computer programs.

  6. certainly not white on blue on What Font Color Is Best For Eyes? · · Score: 1

    not white on a blue, I have a panic attack every time I see this combination because I always think I got a BSOD.

  7. hey! on James Randi Posts $1M Award On Speaker Cables · · Score: 1

    Dave Clarke is my GOD!

  8. Re:am I the only one who is tired of terrorism? on Sci-fi Writers Join War on Terror · · Score: 1

    those poor bastards in Guantanamo sure are

  9. don't even try on Wolfram Offers Prize For (2,3) Turing Machine · · Score: 1

    If you are not a professional mathematician, I doubt they will even read your proof. For the milennium problems this is even a policy, it is a way to filter out most of the garbage.

  10. +1 on Projecting Data on a Sphere · · Score: 1

    JPod is great. Every programmer should read it.

  11. pirates + water? on Using Watermarks to Combat Piracy · · Score: 1

    Genius! Everyone knows pirates are afraid of water!

  12. AU Government To Pilot Target Zombies on AU Government To Pilot Target Zombies · · Score: 1
    AU Government To Pilot Target Zombies

    wasn't halloween last week?

  13. link pimping on Comics Escape a Paper Box and Evolve to the Web · · Score: 1

    Link pimping day!! My dailies are sinfest and suburbantribe

  14. Al Gore's sun on Meet The Co-Creator of Firefox · · Score: 0

    I'll bet Al Gore will claim it's his sun!

  15. Secret? on Google To Release AdWords API · · Score: 5, Funny

    the company secretly brought 1,800 marketing and sales people to San Francisco
    Sure, if you want to keep a secret, invite 1,800 marketing and sales people!

  16. Re:project's aims (from site) on Free IDE Gambas Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    I notice you wink a lot. Is there something in your eye?

  17. Da Vinci steampunk book on The Real da Vinci Code · · Score: 1

    If you like steampunk and Da Vinci, you shoud read Pasquale's angel. The book also features Machiavelli (as a tabloid journalist with a drinking problem) and Raphael.

  18. better call it Gimme on How Google Could Overthrow AIM · · Score: 1

    like in "gimme the money". They went IPO, remember?

  19. MMRLRPG on Net Sticky Notes All Over London · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Massive Multiplayer Real Live Role playing Game!!

    You could bring Leisure Suit Larry to the streets. Imagine walking around in London and getting "item" notes that can trigger access to "door" notes.

  20. Re:INCORRECT TITLE on Sun COO Schwartz Promises Open Source Solaris · · Score: 1

    what I read first was: "SCO Promises Open Source Solaris"

  21. Re:pascal on Programming For Terrified Adults? · · Score: 1

    Totally agree. Pascal is *the* language to learn programming.

  22. $200.000 I understand on Anti-HIV Virus Developed · · Score: 1

    But why do they need the grad student? Oh, I get it, there were no monkeys available.

  23. Re:That's impossible... on Hubble Snaps Farthest / Oldest Galaxy · · Score: 1

    only if there's a restaurant, it really is at the end of the universe.

  24. nobody can beat Belgium on Do You Accept Cellphone Payments? · · Score: 1

    some time ago I visited a belgian archeological site that was probably 2500 years old. The guide told us that no telephone cables where found during the dig-up. why? Because the old belgians had MOBILE that's why!!

  25. Re:i predict on The Oldest Mouse Contest · · Score: 1

    if you replace the brain it would not be the same mouse anymore, except if you can transfer the brain pattern which make up the mouse's unique behaviour (identity?). Would you go for a "brain pattern transplant" where your brain structure is rebuild in another brain? It would be a perfect mimic of you, but it wouldn't be you.