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  1. Re:That last sentence... on Harvard Hit With Racial Bias Complaint · · Score: 2

    Caltech is only 40% Asian so it probably won't be that good.

  2. Re:Why do CS grads become lowly programmers? on Ask Slashdot: "Real" Computer Scientists vs. Modern Curriculum? · · Score: 1

    Software engineering programs suck, that's why. Nobody needs to spend time in college learning stuff they'd end up learning in industry anyway.

  3. Re:Not to detract from our roots... on How To Fix The Shortage of K-5 Scholastic Chess Facilitators · · Score: 1

    Oh yes, how will a child barely ready for team sports ever be able to play a one-on-one board game?

    FFS, kids play on team sports at that age. Have you ever heard of tee-ball?

  4. Re:Did Fluke request this? on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 2

    If you just offer one-time exceptions whenever anybody whines, they'll have no incentive to not obey trademarks in the future. There is a huge difference between Flukes and cheap $15 multimeters, and it was completely unnecessary for these multimeters to copy Fluke's trademarked color scheme. They aren't exactly some no-name brand. The color scheme of these devices was chosen to mimic that of Fluke's. It's a clear cut case of trademark violation.e

  5. Re:On a philosophical level its just bits on Rick Falkvinge On Child Porn and Freedom Of the Press · · Score: 1, Redundant

    No, that's the physical level.

  6. Re:Study hard on Ask Slashdot: How To Begin Work In IT Freelancing? · · Score: 1

    The OP wasn't really talking about IT, despite his use of the word. He was talking about software engineering.

  7. Re:Don't. on Ask Slashdot: How To Begin Work In IT Freelancing? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Being able to "program" is a severely minor part of your job as a software engineer (or similar professions).

    I can't fathom the confusion and incompetence that would lead to such a statement.

  8. Re:WAIT!! new Macbook is due out soon! on Ask Slashdot: How To Shop For a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    USB 3.0 can handle 5Gb/s.

  9. Re:4:3 comes back! on iPad 3 Confirmed To Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution · · Score: 3, Informative

    The 17" MacBook Pro has a 1920x1200 screen. Is yours a 15" model?

    The only 1920x1200 in a 15.x" screen that I know of that's available on new laptops is on the Panasonic Toughbook CF-52.

  10. Re:One of the problems taken from wikipedia in eco on Want to Take On An Open/Unsolved Problem? · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. The one that maximizes freedom. Fuck survival.

  11. Re:Who The Hell Still Uses Perl? on XML::Simple for Perl Developers · · Score: 1, Flamebait
  12. Re:No great loss... on California Proposes to Ban Incandescent Lightbulbs · · Score: 1

    There are more than two sides to the aisle.

  13. Re:Hillary's talk is cheap on The Privacy Candidate · · Score: 1

    The reason we have murder being illegal is that the vast majority of people in this country don't want to be murdered. It isn't illegal because people decided that it was probably wrong.

    The whole reason for much of the way this country was designed, the way I see it, was to prevent morality from being put into legislation. Freedom of religion by definition implies that people are being made to tolerate actions of other people that they deem immoral. Then again, maybe they considered morality-based legislation to be immoral, thus imposing their own morality on our government.

    The purposes of government are mostly in the eye of the beholder. Generally speaking, people have some sort of parameters that they want government to extremize. For libertarians, it's freedom. For conservatives, it's, well, I don't know, the opposite of whatever it is the secular progressives are ruining America with. For "liberals" (I mean socialists and people who don't like George W. Bush), it's some kind of health care + 2.718 ^ education - sqrt(wiretapping) quotient.

  14. Re:Ongoing damage, political opposition to change on Inhabited Island Vanishes Forever Underwater · · Score: 1

    You mean to say that the U.S.'s standards are based closer to what people actually choose to buy, instead of what some know-betterists decide is appropriate? If freer choice is third-world, then I'll take it!

  15. Re:A famous quote on Origin of Quake3's Fast InvSqrt() · · Score: 0

    Um, no, it's 3i.

  16. Re:Oh no! on BitTorrent Site Admin Sent To Prison · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That's right -- it makes excessive punishment more acceptable.

  17. Re:Memory Upgrade Too on Apple Unveils MacBook Pro with Core 2 Duo · · Score: 1

    Just because the processor's word size is 64 bits doesn't mean it treats 32-bit integers any less efficiently.

  18. Re:Another language developed for compilers on Draft Scheme Standard R6RS Released · · Score: 1

    That's because you're an idiot. The parentheses are not a problem at all when reading code.

  19. Re:Apple are the cause of this particular problem on Apple Admits to Occasional Excessive Work Hours · · Score: 1

    So, I regularly work a 70 hr work week. That displaces one person or small family from the work force. So what.

    No, it doesn't! You're not displacing anybody. Employment is not a zero-sum game; there is not a fixed number of jobs available in the world.

  20. Re:And Num-Lock too! on War Declared on Caps Lock Key · · Score: 1

    but has a stack of plug in number pads to go with them.

    A /stack/? What, does he like, keep them distributed in various locations about his person? Why? Are the other companies hiring ninjas and ninjapickpockets to lower his productivity by stealing them?

    I must know!

  21. Re:NOOOOOOO #@$#$@ on Xcode Update Gives Objective-C Garbage Collection · · Score: 2, Funny

    In contrast to malloc/free implemented as linked list traversal, GC takes O(1) time to allocate, and O(n) time when it runs out of memory; malloc/free always takes O(n) time.

    First of all, even dumb mallocs do not 'always' take O(n) time.
    And comparing GC to a craptardic mallocation strategy is like comparing any sorting algorithm against bubble sort.

  22. Re:Chaos? on Japan Plans 30-Year Supercomputer Forecasts · · Score: 1

    Any predictive computer will ultimately fail, because you can't compress the universe into a computer smaller than that universe,

    Not if the universe is infinitely complex!

  23. Re:Subliterate Legislators on How The Internet Works - With Tubes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you do that, somebody smarter than you will come along and make the test too difficult for you. By the way, this was already tried. In the South. Guess why.

  24. Re:Missing the point on Open Source Could Learn from Capitalism · · Score: 1

    Eukrainians and other ethnic groups.

    Would you perchance be referring to the Simple Poles and Eurekaryotes?

  25. Re:Just an opinion on AllofMp3.com Breaks Silence · · Score: 1

    But there's a lot of folks involved in music production, the players, the singers, the writers, the studio (with their expensive equipment), marketing, talent scouts, etc. etc. etc. Lots of people are involved in the production of music and they should, by right, make a "fair wage" off of their work. Wouldn't you agree?

    No. They already are getting a fair wage. If any of those employees feel that they are getting an unfair wage, they're free to quit their job and find a fair wage somewhere else.