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  1. Re:Well on How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence · · Score: 1

    Are the XX men fertile?

  2. Re:Well on How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence · · Score: 1

    There have been matriarchal societies. You are looking at the history you know as if it is the entirety of it.

  3. Re:Well, Duh on How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nearly the entirety of biological evidence is against it being an artifact of culture.

  4. Re:If women are so smart . . . on How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence · · Score: 1

    Old and sensitive, not a good combination.

  5. Re:Obviously on How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence · · Score: 2, Funny

    It has been a terrible 40 years.

  6. Re:What is clear to one ... on Defining Useful Coding Practices? · · Score: 1

    Most of the languages you are talking about are strongly typed (in that objects have a type and usually a new object needs to be constructed to get similar information as a different type), but also dynamically typed (meaning that variables are not restricted to a single type).

    They support different levels of ugly when it comes to automatic type coercion, of the ones I am at least passingly familiar, php is the worst, javascript is in the middle and python does okay (php and javascript will both coerce something like '1' to a number, python will not).

    Also, you are vastly underestimating the state of the art in type inference; I don't really know much about it, but Haskell does a lot of it, and there are compilers for subsets of python (Shedskin is one of them) that do lots of the type inference that you are implying is impossible.

  7. Re:Canonical examples of chutzpah? on Defining Useful Coding Practices? · · Score: 1

    Slashcode actually does a pretty good job of inferring intent when using plaintext mode (so two line-end characters in a row get interpreted as a paragraph), but if you really want to use html, why not use it correctly and just put in a <p>?

    Or am I missing sum bizarre subtlety in your post?

    (there is even some sort of tidy functionality that closes tags and things...)

  8. Re:"elegant code" overhead coefficient on Defining Useful Coding Practices? · · Score: 1

    For the sake of discussion, could you point to some code that you think is 'elegant' rather than 'simple', 'concise' and 'clear'?

  9. Re:That was pretty fast... on DARPA Network Challenge Lasts All of 9 Hours · · Score: 2, Informative

    At the moment, the grandparent post is showing 1 positive moderation and no negative moderation...

  10. Re:That was pretty fast... on DARPA Network Challenge Lasts All of 9 Hours · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So that can't use Google?

    It isn't exactly obscure.

  11. Re:That was pretty fast... on DARPA Network Challenge Lasts All of 9 Hours · · Score: 4, Funny

    How many times has that guy had angioplasty?

  12. Re:Plug and Pray... on Air Force Extends Plug-and-Play Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    Get an Epson and use TWAIN. The software is clunky, but reliable.

  13. Re:Cosmic rays on Aussie, Finnish Researchers Create a Single-Atom Transistor · · Score: 3, Informative

    I would think you either use the principles involved to make a slightly bigger, less sensitive transistor, or you run 10 or 20 of them in parallel and use the largest consensus.

  14. Re:"A highly respected journal" on Reducing One Amino Acid Could Increase Lifespan · · Score: 1

    Why is harping on this insightful? There simply isn't any coherent 'we' involved.

    Wow, what a complicated explanation.

  15. Re:Anonymous Coward on "Accidental" Download Sending 22-Year-Old Man To Prison · · Score: 1

    Oh, do tell.

  16. Re:huh? on Google Launches Dictionary, Drops Answers.com · · Score: 2, Informative

    Answers.com provides information from lots of other sources too. If you don't believe it, just go take a look...

  17. Re:Still needs work on Google Launches Dictionary, Drops Answers.com · · Score: 1

    If you have a sound card and the hated flash installed, you could clickly-clickly on the little speaker to hear it pronounced.

    Also, to help with this particular instance, say 'gi' like you would say it if you were saying giant, but instead of finishing with 'ant', say 'normous' as if you were saying enormous.

  18. Re:Google Dictionary? on Google Launches Dictionary, Drops Answers.com · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "very unhappy"?

    Really?

    Do you realize you can still use it?

  19. Re:Urban Dictionary and so on on Google Launches Dictionary, Drops Answers.com · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is moderated.

  20. Re:Innocuous Uses on ISS Can Now Watch Sea Traffic From Space · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So this horse walks into a bar, and the bartender takes out a shotgun and shoots him.

  21. Re:How pleasant on FCC Inquires About Controversial Verizon Fees · · Score: 1

    I'm not going to bother arguing what degree is reasonable with you (rape isn't even comparable to brief exposure of a slightly pinker circle of skin), I don't care that you disagree with me.

    I will point out that the executives at CBS (and the NFL, etc.) were probably far more mortified by the incident than you were, and that the FCC didn't really need to punish them, advertisers and upset viewers were happy to do it.

  22. Re:Anonymous Coward on "Accidental" Download Sending 22-Year-Old Man To Prison · · Score: 1

    I really don't care to speculate (it is basically pointless in a case like this...), I was just trying to help the poster I replied to correct their mental model of how a computer works, as it is pretty clear that it isn't quite right.

  23. Re:How pleasant on FCC Inquires About Controversial Verizon Fees · · Score: 1

    "Induce" is the key word there. And I would guess that the children you speak of were exposed to far more than just nipples.

    And really, at this point, any 12 year old that wants to see a nipple has done so.

  24. Re:Anonymous Coward on "Accidental" Download Sending 22-Year-Old Man To Prison · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Simply deleting a file doesn't remove the bits from the drive.

  25. Re:How pleasant on FCC Inquires About Controversial Verizon Fees · · Score: 1

    There really isn't any reason that text messaging *must* be implemented over SMS, all of the networks are data capable, and the great majority of phones are also data capable.