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  1. Re:Windows phone??? on Microsoft Research Adds 'Mood Detection' To Smartphones · · Score: 1

    I'm afraid I don't follow the logic behind something you hate but that was free ... ghonorea is free too.

    So, you've been monitoring my breeding program (paragraph 3) have you?

  2. Re:Get out of my personal space Microsoft on Microsoft Research Adds 'Mood Detection' To Smartphones · · Score: 1

    I'm not as bad as you, but I thought people were exagerating smells (and they thought I was exagerating how little I could smell)... I too would love an olfactory addon.

  3. Re:I was so excited when I read the headline on In Praise of Hackerspaces · · Score: 1

    I think it's page two where the mention this as one sub-groups Big Hairy Audatious Goals... so you wouldn't be as disapointed if you'd RTFA!

  4. Re:No risks here on The Security Risks of HTML5 Development · · Score: 1

    dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda

    Ahhhh, stop it, [ctrl]-c, eeek, [ctrl]-x, ahhh, [ctrl]-d [ctrl]-[esc], HELP!

    [ahem], oh, that's just in a text field [cough], well, umm, sorry you just gave me flashbacks of when i typed something similar by mistake... should have been sdc of course, and of course your right too, I was thinking it could be more JS and then the origional may be able to trigger that one, but I don't even know if that's possible to be honest.

  5. Re:To quote Einstein on Dr. Dobb's Calls BS On Obsession With Simple Code · · Score: 1

    Took one hell of a long time to debug.

    Haha, realy?

  6. Re:The truth revealed on Dr. Dobb's Calls BS On Obsession With Simple Code · · Score: 1

    "I had incorporated some sophisticated regular expression pattern-matching.."

    So many simple projects turn the corner of complexity, and never look back, right about at that statement.

    Yeah, he could have just used an ad hoc, implementation of Common Lisp to do the regular expression pattern-matching;p

  7. Re:To quote Einstein on Dr. Dobb's Calls BS On Obsession With Simple Code · · Score: 1

    But . . . but what if you need to reconfigure the value of pi during runtime?!

    or 5?

  8. Re:No risks here on The Security Risks of HTML5 Development · · Score: 1

    The worst scenario I can picture, is my MANUALLY authorizing literally millons of websites and them filling up my disk.

    You can't imagine that that 5mb file might contain a worm/virus?

  9. Re:Quotation marks on Interview: Ask Jon "maddog" Hall What You Will · · Score: 1

    Do you find that having unusual characters in your name helps with name recognition and memory?

    There are four of them famous enough to have a wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall_(disambiguation)
    11 if you count the Jonathans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Hall_(disambiguation)
    and I'm not even counting the Johns: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hall_(disambiguation)

    ...The dude has a need to differentiate with a name like that.

  10. Re:New Hampshire License Plate on Interview: Ask Jon "maddog" Hall What You Will · · Score: 1

    To save anyone else the trouble of googling it, copy here: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/origins-of-geek-plates/

  11. Re:I start reading other's code with... on Ask Slashdot: How To Start Reading Other's Code? · · Score: 1

    You didn't grep into it first? :p

  12. What about me... on Memory Gaffe Leaves Aussie Bank Accounts Open To Theft · · Score: 1

    ... I'm with a credit union? :p

  13. Re:Groklaw's Gas Pedal analogy on Opposition Mounts To Oracle's Attempt To Copyright Java APIs · · Score: 1

    Then you'll need to apply an analogous band-aid.

  14. Thank god... on Aussie Government Proposes OpenDocument As the Standard Format · · Score: 1

    ... It's not Austria, as i was expecting.

  15. Re:Uhm on Printable Gun Downloads Top 100k In 2 Days, Thanks to Kim Dotcom · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up.

    We can never have too much Oracle bashing.

  16. Re:How many printed? on Printable Gun Downloads Top 100k In 2 Days, Thanks to Kim Dotcom · · Score: 1

    I'n not even an enthusiast, infact I quite dislike guns... but I did too :]

  17. Googles Bouncer on Popular Android Anti-Virus Software Fooled By Trivial Techniques · · Score: 1

    Does Bouncer detect the origional? I'd be (possibly more) curious to know if Bouncer could detect the variants too.

  18. or it might just end... on Xkcd's Long-running "Time" Comic: Work of Art Or Nerd Sniping? · · Score: 1

    or it might just end...

    ... in decay: http://thecodelesscode.com/case/68

  19. Re:Tracking? on Firefox OS Phone on Display at LinuxFest NorthWest (Video) · · Score: 1

    Short answer: "No!"

    Long answer: "You do know what Firefox is right?"

  20. Re:After RTFA on Video Poker Firmware Bug Yields Big Money, Federal Charges · · Score: 1

    The software was tested and certified to be free of defects and in compliance with the standards. This machine was running software that checks out against the certification. The player does not get the specs, but the regulators and casinos do.

  21. Re:Single Point of Failure on Linux 3.9 Released · · Score: 1

    I am a little concerned about this wonderful OS ecology apparently in just one Torvalds-shaped basket.

    Then fork it :p ... thats how it works, see how many users of Linus kernel switch to yours.

  22. No...I am the leader of LulzSec :p on Self-Proclaimed LulzSec Leader Arrested In Australia · · Score: 1

    No...I am the leader of LulzSec :p

  23. Re:Food rewards on Dropcam CEO's Beef With Brogramming and Free Dinners · · Score: 1

    ...and then comment anonymously? :p

  24. Re:not a complete success on 'CodeSpells' Video Game Teaches Children Java Programming · · Score: 1

    Obligatory link here.

    That is _so cool_... stupid, but cool (I like stupid and cool... like duffs device or self replicating code, stupid, but fun)... how can a guy called b4dc0d3r not like code that bad !?! :D

  25. Re:How about Python or something? on 'CodeSpells' Video Game Teaches Children Java Programming · · Score: 1

    Yep... you seem to not like java because you don't know it (very well, which is fine, I'm a bit sucky at C myself)... no packaging or folders are needed for hello world, one extra line for the class is all.