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  1. Why the need to supress debate? on Scientific Journal Nature Finds Nothing Notable In CRU Leak · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If it's such god-damnned good science, why then are people saying "we must not have any more debate. Debate is closed. It's time to move on."

  2. Re:Rupert Murdock... on The Noisy and Prolonged Death of Journalism · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Really, that's such a naive point of view. Of course Fox has an obvious opinion, but it's also quite full of facts. Exactly like PBS news.

    C-Span is an example of something that doesn't have an opinion; not Fox or CNN or CBS or ABC or PBS or MSNBC or anybody.

    All the rest of them are exactly the same; Fox is just more obvious because they don't hide behind the appearance of self-grandeur the rest of them do.

  3. Re:Heh, simple. Don't update. on Microsoft Investigates Windows 7 "Black Screen of Death" · · Score: 3, Funny

    What the hell do you do with an unpatched box from 2003?

    Play Solitaire?

  4. Re:First Rev of New Architecture on Microsoft Advice Against Nehalem Xeons Snuffed Out · · Score: 1

    don't buy windows server 2008 r2 because the interrupt doesn't work as advertised?

  5. Re:NSA helped on Linux as well on Microsoft Denies It Built Backdoor Into Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    If you've read Inside Windows 2000 by Russinovich and know how to use the kernel debugger and the DDK you really don't need the source. Virtually every important structure is described, with all the symbols available. I know - I've seen the source. It's all described, if you mess around with drivers.

  6. Re:Performance gap but not Conformance gap on Microsoft Aims To Close Performance Gap With Internet Explorer 9 · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/infapp.htm

    The cardinality of a finite line segment, a line, and a plane are all the same.

    Theorem 21. The set of all points in an infinite plane has the same cardinality as the set of all points in a finite line segment, namely, c.
        # Proof. Think of the plane as marked off into an infinite number of square cells, like graph paper. First we show that there will be denumerably many, or À0, such square cells. Pick one cell arbitrarily, and number it 0. Go to the cell above it and number that cell 1. Go one cell to the right and number it 2. Continue in this way to circle the "0" cell. The result will be a spiral that would eventually cover the plane. Yet each cell contains a natural number. Hence the cells and the natural numbers can be put into one-to-one correspondence. Second we note that each cell contains c points, under Theorem 18. Therefore, the number of points in the infinite plane is the number of cells, À0, times the number of points in a cell, c (by Theorem 18), which we know is equal to c (by Theorem 15).

  7. Re:It depends on the music. on Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I was going to say it's the cymbals that sound like shit on mp3. You get used to mp3, but hell, I used to rock out on cassettes too. cd is always refreshing

  8. Gee, it's almost like they have a monopoly or some on Less Than Free · · Score: 5, Insightful

    or something...

    Let's see, using dominance in one market to establish dominance in another market. Check!

  9. Re:It's called Asterisk on Home Phone System That Syncs To Computer? · · Score: 1

    I read this and remember the days of "64K" modems. Quite a few had PBX-ish capabilities. Guy should go dumpster-diving for a modem bank.

  10. Re: Brother HL-2150N on Choosing a Personal Printer For the Long Haul · · Score: 1

    I have the WL-2150N of this but I don't use it wirelessly, I plug it into the network.

    I love it! It's small enough to fit under my TV in the bedroom.

  11. Re:Pigs will like this on Hardware Hackers Create a Cheaper Bedazzler · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Stop saying stuff like Pigs. It's dumb.

  12. Simple: arrest people making them on Revisiting DIY HERF Guns · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm old enough to have lived through Race Riots in my high school. People making stuff like this to use "against the man" - people have no business doing that. I have no problem criminalizing normal stuff and arresting people "interested" in making them - because it's just plain old simple terrorism.

    Those of you supporting this have taken one little step from being just anti-Bush to pro Blow Stuff Up. Slippery slope.

    Cops are supposed to have an unfair advantage. What do you think about armor piercing bullets?

  13. Horseshit on Math Indicates Pollster Is Forging Results · · Score: 3, Funny

    I call total, 100%, biased, fuck me up the ass horseshit on this inane accusation. Lies, damn lies, and statistics.

  14. Re:Which is why on Why Games Cost $60 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I like Steam because I feel too ridiculous buying a game in a Best Buy in my late 30s :-) Really, Steam is like a brown paper wrapper for Half-Life and Crysis :-)

  15. Re:Bad Mischaracterization on The Duct Tape Programmer · · Score: 1

    I don't agree. I've seen people "duct tape" copies of the same code literally 10,000 times, with slight variations. I've seen people "duct tape" using old crappy technology just because it's the first thing they thought of.

    I've seen people write sloppy code because "it's not important what the code layout looks like."

    I've seen people spend ages getting stuff to work because they didn't do it right the first time.

    I think the problem here is people are complaining about crappy architecture and rather than do their job RIGHT just make fashionable whatever they were going to do anyway.

  16. Re:It will also "start to boot" Linux in 1 Second! on New Phoenix BIOS Starts Windows 7 Boot In 1 Second · · Score: 1

    The twenty second link you posted described a plan to GET to 20 second boot. When I read it, I see a lot of bugs and test results from people saying it's a goal they are trying to get to, and I don't see conclusively that "in all cases fedora always gets there in 20 seconds."

    I think that most real-world linux users take longer. Your statement is misleading.

  17. Mmm... nothing like synthetic benchmarks! on Google Frame Benchmarks 9x Faster than IE8 · · Score: 1

    Gotta love synthetic benchmarks!

  18. Backdoor for fairness doctrine on FCC To Propose Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I know this is going to modded troll, but you know how Congress always tacks on stuff to bills, nobody will dispute that.

    I heard a warning in November (from Republicans of course) that the Fairness Doctrine, trying to legislate the content of the internet and talk radio, would come under the guise of Net Neutrality.

    I bet a dollar and a nickel that debate will somehow come out of this bill.

  19. get to jupiter in a few weeks on Gravitational Currents Could Slash Fuel Needed For Space Flight · · Score: 0, Troll

    I saw a show once that demod two spining bicycle wheels at right angles lifting of the ground. It works off the right-hand rule - the sideways spin feeds the other and it feds back in. its not perpetual motion but its some way of cheating where you go faster and faster. they theorized you could get to jup in a few weeks! anybody know this?

  20. Re:Only Vista on Windows 7 Upgrade Can Take Nearly a Day · · Score: 2, Funny

    I built a 64-bit Vista box last year for gaming and it hasn't picked up lint. The reason? Everything other than gaming goes in an XP virtual machine. I've rolled back to the snapshot, applied patches, retaken the snapshot, and then reinstalled apps 3 times in the VM, but the main box has stayed minty fresh.

  21. Re:OK, let's talk perspective... on Microsoft Interns Still Feel the Love · · Score: 1

    I remember when I was in Silicon Valley, around 2002, high schoolers were debating whether or not college was worth it when they could easily get $90K at a starting salary. The the whole puff of smoke burst and people realized life was more normal.

    $70,000 is a hell of a lot of money for a starting job, wherever you live. I'd say $50,000 is about typical. It's time for this coastal bullshit to get a rest.

  22. Astroturfing on HR 3200 Considered As Software · · Score: 1, Troll

    The fact that Astroturf showed up as one of the recommended tags for this story made me feel a lot better about Slashdot.

    Maybe Toms Hardware can do a 12 page article on how to DIY your own HR 3200-approved RAID array for under $14 billion :-)

  23. Re:Cormac McCarthy Stlye? on Writing Style Fingerprint Tool Easily Fooled · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, I was just as confused as you were, but it's fairly obvious that he writes in some gimmicky convuluted way that people think is cool. Did you ever try to read Michel Focault? He would string together sentences with about 6 clauses each containing participle/subject/predicate lists of 3 of 4 items, and the whole damn sentence would take up about a page or more.

    And then there is James Joyce in Finnegan's Wake, and that dumb guy we all had to read in college that told the story about the retarded guy and it jumped back and forth in time, so called "stream of consciousness."

    So it's fairly safe to assume that he has some other gimmick that just makes his shit hard to parse. Unless I thought maybe he prints his letters in some unusual way like ee cummings.

    Who the fuck knows.

  24. Re:Because this strategy worked so well for Napste on How the Pirate Bay Will Be Legalized · · Score: 1

    I think they are operating in milk the money from the suckers mode while TPB still has buzz.

  25. Bosch on Behind Menuet, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly · · Score: 1

    I got into Machine Language (not assembly) for a while once and wrote the "bare minimum" machine language (just writing the bytes at sector zero of a virtual bosch HD.)

    I recall there was a simple character repeater (print the character the user typed on the terminal) that was like 3 bytes of machine language, something else interesting I could do in 13 bytes, and I could get the machine into 32-bit protected mode in about 35 bytes.

    After a while it wasn't too hard to think in Machine language, the assembler symbols weren't really necessary. I recall thinking how cool it would be if I got good enough at it that I could read my own binary as if it were source, so long as I followed consistent patterns (not talking about reading compiler output).

    Good times.