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  1. Re:Obligatory statement on Ball Lightning Created In the Lab · · Score: 1

    I guess you eunux greybeards knew all about that...once.

  2. Re:Washington DC may have made the list... on Top U.S. Tech Cities · · Score: 1
    I would doubt that D.C itself has any significant industry.
    See, now, you probably didn't intend a joke about the government, which makes this all the funnier. ;)
  3. Re:Washington DC may have made the list... on Top U.S. Tech Cities · · Score: 1

    Dude, I live just SE of the Mixing Bowl, and I am not even slightly interested in trying to find good stuff like that: the traffic is too soul-crushing.

  4. Re:Horeshit.....javascript is crap but....horeshit on AJAX May Be Considered Harmful · · Score: 5, Insightful
    What we are seeing now is a push way beyond its original intended scope.

    Name a Turing-complete programming tool which has not seen this.

    I throw in the qualifier because, other than stuff like regular expressions and SQL, which are not Turing-complete and have blissfully narrow scopes, everything else has seen javascript-acular scope creep.

    Here, have an httpd written in PostScript: http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/pshttpd/

    Perhaps not being Turing-complete is a left-handed virtue.
  5. From TFA: on The Birth of vi · · Score: 3, Funny
    finally there was ex
    And there was much ejoycing.
    (ay)
  6. Re:Washington DC may have made the list... on Top U.S. Tech Cities · · Score: 1

    MicroCenter is OK, but Fry's is more gooder.

  7. Washington DC may have made the list... on Top U.S. Tech Cities · · Score: 1

    ...but it is nothing without Fry's!
    Please save us?

  8. Re:misplaced comma? on Office 2007 — Better But a Tough Switch · · Score: 2, Funny

    A woman without her man is nothing.
    A woman: without her, man is nothing.

  9. Re:the first half dozen were fun... on IOCCC 2006 is now open · · Score: 1

    You've swerved from one ditch to the other, sir.
    How about something moderate? Good tool/job match? Decent balance among power, performance, and ease of use?

  10. Re:the first half dozen were fun... on IOCCC 2006 is now open · · Score: 1

    Aw, c'mon: there is a time and place for everything.
    The number of large, successful projects coded in C thoroughly mocks your viewpoint.

  11. Re:What is it with Americans and drug tests on Scientist Organizes Resistance To Polygraphs · · Score: 1
    What is it with Americans and drug tests
    Three points not made in the thread above are:
    • The poly can have the effect of letting you know you're accountable (probably its least-worst feature)
    • The poly employs a bunch of people
    • The poly is a perfectly legal discriminatory tool
    As seen in CivIV: "The bureaucracy is expanding to support the needs of an expanding bureaucracy."
    Noise like the poly is merely a side effect of the kudzu-esque bureaucracy.
  12. Re:Fiji on Looking Beyond Vista To Fiji and Vienna · · Score: 0, Troll

    Fsck It, Japan Interjected.

  13. The Paper in Question on White House Forces Censorship of New York Times · · Score: 0, Troll

    Along with the WaPo, has insufficient credibility with me.
    In this particular case, all the parties involved know exactly WTF is going on when it comes to publishing 'edgy' material.
    The whole point of pushing this over the edge, and stirring an artificial controversy is to improve circulation.
    I yawn at the NYT.

  14. Re:Microsoft providing Linux Support? on Three Takers Named for Microsoft's Linux Support · · Score: 0, Flamebait
  15. Re:How long before the first class action suit in on Bad Web Sites Can Cause "Mouse Rage" · · Score: 1
    How long before the first class action suit in the U.S. over bad Web site design?
    I am so pwnz0zing j00:

    How long before the first class action suit against asinine class action suits?

    The remedy, of course, is that the victorious lawyers get to defenstrate themselves at a suitable altitude.
  16. Re:Socialism vs communism on Chess Grandmaster Kasparov Versus President Putin · · Score: 1

    Ah, but do not the mafia, communist, and socialist states all tend towards patronage systems, when you mix in the people?
    We can toss about all manner of sophistries, and I'm sure the academics in the crowd will go on at length about abstract differences between the various systems, but it all gets down to who you know.
    Actually, my political bias tends more towards libertarian than conservative.

  17. Re:Actually... on Chess Grandmaster Kasparov Versus President Putin · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wife says that a Romanian had three interviews to get a 10-day business visa to come to the US.
    We certainly filled out a truckload of paper to bring her here from Germany. As well as ~$1,500 in fees. My reaction was more sadness at the slowness of the bureaucracy than anything else. (The US has contributed massively to the advance of human technology, and THIS is what we have to show for it?!?!?!?!?)
    Back to Russia, she says that visiting the Russian Embassy to obtain the visa was extremely unpleasant, for whatever that is worth.

  18. Re:Actually... on Chess Grandmaster Kasparov Versus President Putin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm thinking that if someone set up a PayPal account, we could chip in $2 apiece, and send ShieldW0lf to Russia for a couple of years, to see whether a reality check alters the expressed opinion.
    My wife has been to St. Petersburg on business, and the first-hand experience didn't sound like one she'd care to repeat. One colleague carrying an El Salvadorean passport, for example, had to be fished out of customs with bribes.
    Russia is a mafia state. Get over it. Socialism models the human spirit poorly, hence its historically mixed results.

  19. Attention all planets of the Solar Federation! on In Defense of the Fanboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Attention all planets of the Solar Federation!!
    Attention all planets of the Solar Federation!!!
    We have assumed control.
    We have assumed control.
    We have assumed control.

  20. Re:misrepresentation of date? on Scientists Decry Political Interference · · Score: 1

    The pattern seems to be that people who live on islands, or continental tips in the SA case, seem to have an...insular mindset?

  21. Re:misrepresentation of date? on Scientists Decry Political Interference · · Score: 1

    So, the text representations of a set of dates in a certain year sort lexicographically?
    That was an engineering choice made in the days of hardware constraints.
    Teach the British to drive on the correct side of the road, and we'll talk. ;)
    As in the case of these scientists, people reject that which they don't take time to put into context.

  22. Re:Endnote? on Microsoft drops VBA in Mac Office 2007 · · Score: 1
    Endnote integration is done through VBA?
    Endnote, and any other Office integration, is done through Component Object Model (COM), which is ActiveX, which is Object Linking and Embedding (OLE).
    COM is an 800lb gorilla approach to making software that is language, but not platform, agnostic. COM is like the Truman Show for computers; it seems like the way to go, until you realize that there is a heck of a lot more world outside Redmond's bubble.
    Are they dropping all support from Office, just the IDE, what? Lots of ways for to skin the cat...
  23. He's not a Federal minister on German Minister Seeks Jail Time For FPS Players · · Score: 1

    He's actually the Interior Minister of the Free State of Bavaria
    That's like saying he's the Attorney General of Texas, or something.

  24. Re:Why not? on Windows Live and Privacy · · Score: 1

    Steven Wright:
    "I went back to my apartment and realized everything had been stolen and replaced with an exact copy.
    Brought my friend over and said 'Isn't this a great replica?'
    and he said 'Do I know you?'"

  25. Re:Toll free? on Gracenote Founder Rewriting History At Wikipedia · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I went the i-bless.com route, blessing "grace more notable than gracenote."
    All that negativity is too much like a political campaign.