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  1. Re:But they cannot fix the isk farming problem? on EVE Online's First Quarterly Economics Report Published · · Score: 1

    Except it isn't that easy when they fly ravens with cloaks and possibly warp stabilizators, and instantly warp to a safe-spot and cloaks when someone enters local. Pretty much impossible to catch them when they do that.

  2. Re:Huge in Japan on Leopard Claims Half the Japanese OS Market In October · · Score: 1

    Never heard his name here... But on the other hand Michael Jackson is _huge_. I'm still a bit confused about their taste in music and cloths.

    Oh... And I got my Leopard in Chiba an hour after the launch. ^_^

  3. Re:Wow! on EVE Online's Linux/Mac Client Goes Live Tuesday · · Score: 1

    And in WoW you will have adrenaline rushes worthy of that one hour you'll have to spend earning back that money.

  4. Re:tshirt and no shoes? on Stallman Attacked by Ninjas · · Score: 0

    Free weed?... Forget about this software thing, I want Free Weed!

  5. Re:Peer-reviewed source? Come on on Linux on the Desktop Doubles in 2007 · · Score: 2, Informative

    The OP didn't pay to be published in a peer-reviewed paper.

  6. Re:Peer-reviewed source? Come on on Linux on the Desktop Doubles in 2007 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Next you'll claim science isn't peer-reviewed because no one reviewed an obscure sociology paper on the spitting habits of an insignificant african tribe?

  7. Re:Avoiding negations on Why Myths Persist · · Score: 1

    I did not read the article. I did not read the article. I did not read the article.

  8. Avoiding negations on Why Myths Persist · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So when informing the public about false information, one should avoid using negations?

    Instead of saying "Saddam Hussein was not involved in 9/11.", you should instead say something like "It was al-qaida, who didn't particularly like Saddam Hussein, that were responsible for 9/11."

  9. Re:blinded by ads on New Google Apps For Linux Coming · · Score: 1

    What ads? You must have been clicking on the wrong interwebs or something.

  10. Re:Not because of Microsofts actions on Sweden's Vote on OOXML Invalidated · · Score: 1

    So it seems, I should have read the original press release. That is without MicroSoft they're referring to.

  11. Re:Not because of Microsofts actions on Sweden's Vote on OOXML Invalidated · · Score: 3, Informative

    The one voting twice would be MicroSoft, through the company that admitted to having voted on their behalf. The reason only two votes were mentioned, it probably because that is the only confirmed case they know about.

  12. Re:Three things. on How Would You Refocus Linux Development? · · Score: 1

    With a squad of ninjas.

  13. Re:If I can't sell to Peter, I'll rob from Paul on Antigua May Be Allowed To Violate US Copyrights · · Score: 1

    But Peter and Paul are in the same family business, and grandfather Dick is the one who decided that you can't sell to Peter.

  14. Re:1 kilometer == Distance of a Single Shot on Gunplay Blamed For Cutting Fiber · · Score: 1

    You know, a cable could be _inside_ a tube. Imagine that, a tube made for running stuff through it.

  15. Re:I remember that on MMORPG Used to Model Real World Disease · · Score: 1

    Except they lost nothing of value, as deaths in WoW have little impact.

    Now, a virus infecting your flight control systems in EVE, _that_ would be terrifying.

  16. Re:I must be missing something on Alienware Won't Sell Consumers CableCard PCs · · Score: 1

    Basically if someone can make toast, they can install a cable card.

    That's the problem right there; people who know how to make toast trying to install those cards. Someone is bound to stick a fork in there or worse, try to make toast.

  17. Re:E-mail? on RIAA Short on Funds? Fails to Pay Attorney Fees · · Score: 2, Funny

    I installed a 'spam filter', or should we say 'spam shredder', in my RL mailbox. After that I haven't gotten a single herbal advertisement, etc.

    Oh, and I'm loaded now since my cell-phone provider and landlord seems to have forgotten to send me the bills these past few months.

  18. Re:From the (Wrong) Horse's Mouth on YouTube Begins Defense, Seeks Depositions · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, it's thanks to all those those clips on Youtube that i started regularly watching The Colbert Report, which I get from mininova.org.

  19. Re:Benefit or detriment? on Why We Need to Expand into Space · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Conscious things like ourselves are the only way the universe can be concerned about anything."

    Easily disproved. Conscious things NOT like ourselves also work. Mechanical intelligences, hive minds, and stuff that is so alien to us that we can't even begin to conceive it also work.


    Your examples are all 'conscious things like ourselves'. It is the consciousness that is being used to decide what is included in the set, not some arbitrary stuff like being a bag of hydrocarbons.

  20. Re:Not RTFA? Read this at least. on BitTorrent Closes Source Code · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Err, so I need to obtain an SDK license to see the latest specs so I can implement them in my client?

    Well, fuck them.

  21. Re:Looks good, but a little hampered by C++ on Intel Releases Threading Library Under GPL 2 · · Score: 1

    But. As much as I love C++ ( and I do ) the real weakness is the lack of usable closures/lambda.

    Then I guess you'll be happy to hear that the proposal for lambda expressions is well on its way to getting included in C++09.

  22. Re:Wasted chance on Fox News' FTP Password Anyone? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's also a difference between 'believing they're there' and 'going to war cause you know they're there, no matter what others think about your plans'.

  23. Re:Proof that open formats are a good idea? on Microsoft's OOXML Formulas Could Be Dangerous · · Score: 4, Interesting

    MS pretty much seems to have cut-n-pasted their MSOffice help files and decided to call that a 'standard'. Only thing good about it, is that it will make ISO be so much less willing to ratify their standard. If you look at their CEILING definition, as linked in the article's comments, it is so unprofessionally written you'd wonder at the size of EMCA's checks.

  24. Re:Artificial Intelligence? on Text Compressor 1% Away From AI Threshold · · Score: 1

    Not it won't... The thing here is that each option has a different weight, and I assume the compressed data would just contain the rank of the word to be selected.

    So if you have "The sky is", and the AI ranks "blue", "red", "falling", ... then the data stream just needs to contain the index 2 if the original text was "The sky is red".

  25. Re:That's cool.. on Text Compressor 1% Away From AI Threshold · · Score: 1

    What do you mean, you see no reason it would be asymmetric? Pretty much all decompression algorithms are.

    Choosing the optimal way to compress is probably NP-hard or close to it, but once it has been compressed it's just a matter of recreating the data.