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  1. Re:And to celebrate, it issued the command: on Unix Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    Bah. Your command would fail.

    Only if there were files in his current working directory that matched the pattern "kids*". Granted, he should quote because he shouldn't depend on there not being any such files.

  2. Re:National Ignition Key? on Vicariously Tour the National Ignition Facility · · Score: 1

    No, it's cool, it's keyless ignition. They've got the National Ignition Beepy Thing, so it'll all be fine.

  3. Re:"controlled nuclear explosion" on Vicariously Tour the National Ignition Facility · · Score: 1

    So obviously we need to provide the facility with Faye Wray in case of emergencies.

  4. Re:Warning light? on Vicariously Tour the National Ignition Facility · · Score: 1

    Throughout the entire NIF facility, emergency shutdown panels listing the status of the laser (using both text and light) provide a level of safety for the hapless scientist or technician who happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time before a firing of the lasers.

    Well, I think I speak for everyone here when I say that it was thoughtful of them to provide a warning light before they turn it on... ;-)

    Well, given that they call them emergency shutdown panels, I assume they not only notify possible targets-to-be of their impending demise, but also provide them a way to avoid it by shutting everything down.

  5. Re:Solution For College's Bad Network Policy? on Solution For College's Bad Network Policy? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And then you don't get on their network. You're not grasping the concept here--you don't use their trojan, you don't get a connection.

  6. Re:Stay With Me Here on What Do You Do With a Personal Domain? · · Score: 1

    You know, X.Org would probably appreciate it if you didn't appropriate their website name. Use "example.org". That's what it's there for.

  7. Re:MyDomain.com on What Do You Do With a Personal Domain? · · Score: 1

    Why "sadly"? He is exactly correct. When you use the domain "mydomain.com" as a placeholder, you are referring to an actual domain. If you want to use a URL or a domain that does not refer to an actual existing domain, you use example.com (or example.net, or whatever), because that is name that is guaranteed by RFC to never exist.

  8. Re:MyDomain.com on What Do You Do With a Personal Domain? · · Score: 1

    I had no idea example.com was reserved. +e insightful.

    You're being irrational.

    I think that mod is absolutely transcendental.

  9. Re:Oh, this sounds like a good idea... on Should Auditors Be Liable For Certifications? · · Score: 2, Informative

    from what I've heard from my sister-in-law in the US the Americans don't have a similar "road-worthiness test"

    It's up to the individual states, but most states have them. Here in Virginia, I have to get my car safety inspected once a year (and carry an inspection sticker on my windshield) and emissions tested once every two years (or they won't let me renew the car's registration).

  10. Re:Transformers did it first on $10M For Unmanned Aircraft That Can Perch Like a Bird · · Score: 1

    Nowadays you'd need a separate transformer to be able to turn into a cassette player to play it back

    Soundwave. Yeah, they had that covered.

  11. Re:Painful to Watch on Open Government Brainstorm Defies Wisdom of Crowds · · Score: 1

    Of course, they're not the final arbiter. Congress and the people can amend the constitution.

    The ability to amend the constitution is meaningless if the constitution and its amendments don't mean what they say, but instead mean whatever the Supreme Court says they mean.

  12. Re:"for civilian use" on Secret US List of Civil Nuclear Sites Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That Three Mile Island and Chernobyl were completely different nuclear plants was not the point:

    No, it's exactly the point.

    The point was that Chernobyl exploded and caused many casualties and a highly contaminated environment, while Three Mile Island had luck.

    No, Three Mile Island made several critical design decisions that prevented a massive disaster, and it had operators who could understand what they were looking at. That is not luck. That is the opposite of luck.

  13. Re:Painful to Watch on Open Government Brainstorm Defies Wisdom of Crowds · · Score: 1

    The constitution is fine and working as designed.

    Yep, sure. Point out to me the clause in the Constitution where the Supreme Court is made the arbiter of what is constitutional and what is not.

    It's okay, I'll wait.

    No, stating that the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to try federal cases is not the same thing.

  14. Re:Two Things on Dinosaur Posture Still Wrong, Says Study · · Score: 1

    I spent the last half hour looking for Jurassic Park 4 because of you. Now, I am disappointed because it was most likely canceled with the death of Michael Crichton.

    Jurassic Park 4: Dinosaurmageddon!

  15. Re:As Someone Who Has to Support IE6 at Work ... on Internet Explorer 6 Will Not Die · · Score: 1

    And discover that the system administrator, who knows his job, doesn't allow files that the user can create or write to to be loaded for execution. Have a nice day.

  16. Re:High-efficeiency incandescent bulbs on Laser Blast Makes Regular Light Bulbs Super-Efficient · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Watch for sales of incandescent bulbs to triple in 2013.

  17. Re:iNexpensive? on Rumors Flying About New iPhone Capabilities · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think that's iMaginary.

  18. Microtransactions: The business of the future... on How Micro-Transactions Will Shake Up iPhone · · Score: 1

    ...and it always will be!

  19. Re:GOTTA CATCH EM ALL on The Psychology of Collection and Hoarding In Games · · Score: 1

    Is Perl Harbor where Larry Wall docks his boat?

  20. Re:How would this fail the hunter-gatherer? on The Psychology of Collection and Hoarding In Games · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I also think that monster ecologies would be cool. Kill all the fur seal in freezly land when power leveling and fuck... they went extinct. Kill all the predators and shit we are overrun with disease carrying rats!

    Ultima Online actually did this when it first came out. It was removed when it turned out that there was a small but sufficient minority who enjoyed *deliberately* exhausting a resource for no other reason than the sheer joy of screwing over all the players who needed it.

  21. Re:On paper? Why? on Electronic Gaming Monthly Coming Back · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Sir, I sit in the smallest room in my house with your insightful article on Starcraft II before me. Shortly, it will be behind me."

  22. Re:Already have it on Android on Classic Doom Coming To the iPhone Next Month · · Score: 1

    He didn't say that it was hard to make it run on a platform without a keyboard; in fact, he said the opposite. What he said is that it's hard to make it *good* on a platform without a keyboard.

  23. Re:I'm pissed on SOE Pulls the Plug On The Matrix Online · · Score: 2, Informative

    Don't feel too bad, you didn't miss much. It was a failure from the start; that's why it's shutting down.

  24. Re:Back then on 45-Year-Old Modem Used To Surf the Web · · Score: 2, Funny

    What do you mean, "not lifetime"? It lasted for the entire lifetime of the card, didn't it?

  25. Re:Jack Bauer on Green GT's All-Electric Supercar Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Jack Bauer can go from zero to 60 in 0.1 seconds. He does not need a car to accomplish this.