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  1. Re:Agree, but... on W3C's Role In the Growth of a Proprietary Web · · Score: 1

    "The difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than in theory."

  2. Re:So give a layman explanation on Massive, Coordinated Patch To the DNS Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    Recommendation is more CERTS, as they will help with the sand breath.

  3. Re:Agree, but... on W3C's Role In the Growth of a Proprietary Web · · Score: 5, Funny

    The government already fucks up everything it touches.

    Yes, the colossal failure of TCP/IP is one clear example.

  4. Note from teh Pendantic Squid on Cable-Laying Boom Will Boost Internet Capacity · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Anchors Aweigh" means that the anchor is free of the bottom.
    Your trusty Quartermaster logs the event, and the ship is legally underway (should paint be traded with another vessel, and a trip to the "Long Green Table" ensue).
    The command (in the US Navy, anyway) is "Let go the anchor", and the bosun trips the pelican hook (usually with a sledge hammer), a deafening roar ensues as the chain comes flying out of the chain locker, and everyone on the fo'c'sle has a religious experience.

  5. Re:Hum interesting on Telecom Amnesty Opponents Back New Amendment · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Coming at your point another way, without things like immunity and a 5th Amendment, there is less incentive to violate the status quo by doing something revolutionary, e.g., behaving ethically.

  6. Going compact on Simple Mod Turns Diodes Into Photon Counters · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Felling the photons
    By fives, sevens, fives again
    Is like Burma Shave

  7. Re:Suggestions... on Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Firefox users can get a head start on learning through the use of this extension:
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/507

  8. Re:Suggestions... on Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer? · · Score: 4, Informative

    That would be Romansh

  9. Re:Suggestions... on Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer? · · Score: 1

    Spoken Japanese isn't a deep challenge.
    Best wishes on the various alphabets, though.
    On the specific topic of female voices, though, Japanese girls always sound like they are on helium. Indian girls, with that soft little way they approach an "r" (not the faux "l" sound of the Japanse accent) is really endearing.

  10. Re:Can you handle the truth? on Giant Snake-Shaped Generators Could Capture Wave Power · · Score: 1

    Agreed on greed.
    The trick is to ensure the tactical flexibility to overlook motives doesn't turn into a strategic entrapment, as they get ahold of the tender parts.

  11. Can you handle the truth? on Giant Snake-Shaped Generators Could Capture Wave Power · · Score: 1

    I've said it before and I'll say it again; why pick one?

    Not to undercut the serious issues of good stewardship of the environment, but
    there is a huge capitalist component underlying all of the alternative energy crap in circulation today.
    While I'm overjoyed that the current geo-political situation has finally made it cost-effective to think beyond hydrocarbons,
    I'm saddened by the credulity of some, who can't see the business models behind all the green propaganda.

  12. Re:Just one more errosion.... on Boiling Down Books, Algorithmically · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What I find more fascinating than your observation is that there appears to be no filtration of noise from the signal.
    Given a relatively free petri dish for information to slosh around in, there seems a shocking lack of condensation of real knowledge out of all the crap.
    Wikipedia seems like a step of sorts in the preferred direction.

  13. Re:Is that a bug or a feature? on Boiling Down Books, Algorithmically · · Score: 1

    Per the classic /. sig:
    "Information wants to be anthropomorphized."

  14. Re:Just one more errosion.... on Boiling Down Books, Algorithmically · · Score: 1

    I've been reading Neal Stephenson of late.

  15. Re:Anyone tried other source based distros? on Gentoo 2008.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Fair enough. I was just being snarky. In truth, while Gentoo implements an event model in bash, the dependency resolution systems are done in python (emerge), C++ (paludis), or a C python extension (pkgcore).
    That whole dependency graph resolution thing is a non-trivial problem.

  16. Re:Smart computer on Boiling Down Books, Algorithmically · · Score: 1

    Just as every forest needs its http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhamnus_purshiana, so I suppose every library to need these two, too.

  17. Re:Just one more errosion.... on Boiling Down Books, Algorithmically · · Score: 1

    "What's another word for thesaurus?" --Steven Wright

  18. Re:It already exists. on Boiling Down Books, Algorithmically · · Score: 1

    That would be the oldest known _printed_ book, sir.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex notes "The basic form of the codex was invented in Pergamon in the 3rd Century BCE".

  19. Re:Smart computer on Boiling Down Books, Algorithmically · · Score: 1

    So, you'd punt Agatha and leave in Danielle Steele?

  20. Re:It already exists. on Boiling Down Books, Algorithmically · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well ex-scrolls me, you codex-fancying fascist! ;)

  21. Solomon replies on Boiling Down Books, Algorithmically · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

    Ecclesiastes 1:10

  22. Re:Newspeak on Boiling Down Books, Algorithmically · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd do anything to get a decent government again.

    "Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for." --Will Rogers

  23. Re:Newspeak on Boiling Down Books, Algorithmically · · Score: 1

    You need an "if he" or "who" in that second sentence.

  24. Re:Newspeak on Boiling Down Books, Algorithmically · · Score: 0, Troll

    One man's joke is another /.er's pathetic little reality.

  25. Is that a bug or a feature? on Boiling Down Books, Algorithmically · · Score: 1

    What really hits a nerve with me is why the scientific community hasn't opened up all their journals for others to read.

    Do you know what you're saying? Do you really want to release possible Weapons of Intellectual Destruction on the world?
    I look at the titles in the archives of
    http://www.misq.org/
    and I'm thinking that some of this stuff is best kept locked in the ivory tower.