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  1. Could they have built it without Asimo? on Virginia Tech Students Build CHARLI, a Human-Sized Robot · · Score: 1

    Copying is easy.
     

  2. why would there be only one missile? on New Russian Weapon Hides In Shipping Container · · Score: 1

    you could fit several in a container, and container ships could carry thousands.

    Also. Why even bother hitting a carrier when you can bypass the military at will and have weaponry delivered to his door? Hell, if i was developing a tech like this, it would only go on sale once I already had big enough nukes sitting at all of the strategic targets.

    3 minute warning? What is the ping time to China?

  3. i fully support the regularisation of english on How To Grow a Head · · Score: 1

    growed
    knowed

    it's going to happen anyway as the lanuage spreads into the far corners.

  4. Divide 2 by 3 on a financial calculator on At Issue In a Massachusetts Town, the Value of Two-Thirds · · Score: 1

    See what you get.

    But yeah.
     

  5. Yeah damnit on South Park's Episode 201 — the Expurgated Version · · Score: 4, Insightful

    . The current trend in upper American government is to treat these loons with kid gloves all based on this idiot idea if we are nice to them they will be nice to us.

    You should go over there and bomb them into... Wait, didn't you do that already?

     

  6. Course it's relevant if you want it to pass on At Issue In a Massachusetts Town, the Value of Two-Thirds · · Score: 1

    Set your calculator to 2 decimal places.

    Hell on Unix, use bc. 2/3 is multiply by 2 & divide by 3

    206 / 3 = 68
    68 * 2 = 136

    Not to mention 0.66 anywhere.

    Typically financial calculators are limited to 2 decimal places, some will even throw away the figures beyond the 2nd place. 2/3 = 0.66 They can prove the answer is 136. They can do the calculation in front of you and you can see it on the screen. If you've been taught that the computer or calculator is gospel, the result is 136.
     

  7. Re:Release later on Ubuntu LTS Experiences X.org Memory Leak · · Score: 1

    The world won't end if Ubuntu is two months late.

    But the management won't get their bonuses. Isn't that almost exactly the same thing?

     

  8. Re:I don't get it on Software SSD Cache Implementation For Linux? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    so

    CPU L1
    CPU L2
    CPU L3
    RAM
    SSD
    DISK
    NETWORK
    Internet

    I estimate SSDs would be closer to Level 5 cache.

     

  9. OCS inventory and GLPI on GUI-Based Asset-Tracking Tools For a Datacenter? · · Score: 1

    GLPI is the asset management DB and OCS Inventory, inventories your inventory.

    There are 2 sides to asset management.

    What should be.
    Reality.

  10. Re:A spreadsheet on GUI-Based Asset-Tracking Tools For a Datacenter? · · Score: 1

    You could code up a simple app + database system to do that in less than 2 days.

    Go on then. Show us how good you are.

     

  11. Re:Practical considerations. on At Last, Flying Cars? · · Score: 1

    You have a very strange definition of safety if putting a nuclear reactor in a flying vehicle owned and operated by random civilians is your idea of "safe."

    Wow. Whoosh.

    Lets make an assumption. Someone developed a personal nuclear reactor or similar with very high energy density, and, which was also safe, in fact certified for random civilian use. only then would personal flying cars come about.
     

  12. Ding on How I Saved the Gaming Industry · · Score: 3, Funny

    Corporate America.

    I'm surprised the shareholders aren't out in the streets with pitchforks.
     

  13. ARM *IS* mobile phones on Apple To Buy ARM? · · Score: 1

    Own ARM and you own Nokia and Motorola and Google and Sony and Sharp and Blackberry and HP and HTC and and and ...

    8 billion, is a joke. It is a steal if they get them.

    You don't kill sales to other customers. You just get the new chip, better products 18 months before the other guys, and charge the competition more.

    The alternative is what? Intel?

  14. so... He's saying... on Steve Jobs Recommends Android For Fans of Porn · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apple products are for girly men... Or not.

  15. You like making life difficult? on Adding Some Spice To *nix Shell Scripts · · Score: 1

    Please show us all your most elegant solution, in shell script, to the problem of identifying whether a file has any extension from (".temp", ".tmp", ".junk).

    ls filename* | egrep "\.temp$|\.tmp$|\.junk$" ... No?

    And what's with all the regex stuff with find rather than just globbing?

    find path -name "*.temp" -o -name "*.tmp" -o -name "*.junk"

    Also, -exec with find kicks off a command for each hit. Pipe it to xargs, particularly with large numbers.

    find path -name "*.temp" -o -name "*.tmp" -o -name "*.junk" --print0 | xargs -0 rm

    Okay, I wrote lots of code. Your turn.

    I wrote hardly any code.

    Sorry. Maybe I'm just getting old. It's the fingers getting a bit stiff. I'm sure I could write lots and lots of code to grep for a filename but I'm just not up to it this evening.

  16. Shell scripts can be object oriented on Adding Some Spice To *nix Shell Scripts · · Score: 1

    Many of these so-called "scripting languages" allows for object-oriented programming. Bash, of course, does not.

    Shell scripts can be objects. See for example shar files and here documents for examples. Course you can write network servers in shell as well, doesn't make it a good idea.
     

  17. Oh... Ok then. on Source Code To Google Authentication System Stolen · · Score: 1, Troll

    Nothing to worry about.

    I'm so relieved you pointed out the way things should and should not be for the rest of us. We can just go ahead and keep storing our corporate data in google apps keep all our personal info in google mail and not worry about identity theft, corporate espionage etc.

    And back on planet earth. You have to be taking the piss. If the real world worked the way your ideal one did then they would never have been hacked in the first place. Of course they are doing things that ,"they should not be doing".

  18. lol. fabulous architecture on Network Solutions Sites Hacked Again · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I love the javascript client/server application concept.

     

  19. The open ended food chain on Cows On Treadmills Produce Clean Power For Farms · · Score: 1

    People eat the cows and everything which isn't spread on the fields ends up in the ocean. There's a conveyor belt of mass from the farm to the seabed, powered by oil.

     

  20. Politics on Anatomy of Linux Kernel Shared Memory · · Score: 1

    No, really.

     

  21. Don't worry on Oracle Wants Proof That Open Source Is Profitable · · Score: 1

    With his attitude, he's a genetic dead end.

     

  22. energy density on At Last, Flying Cars? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Till we all get personal nuclear power stations in our cars, they ain't going to fly. There simply isn't enough energy density in our current fuels to power a flying car safely.

     

  23. Interesting, cos a bank account isn't your money on What Can Be Done About Security of Debit Cards? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Legally.

    In most countries a bank account is legally a loan to the bank. Legally it isn't a safety deposit box where they store your money for you.

    This means the money is theirs to do with as they please and they are graciously allowing you to use their credit instead, with the attached terms and conditions.
     

  24. A couple of percent a year on American Lung Association Pushes For Ban On Electronic Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    Lung function reduction.

    By the time you get to your fifties, you're down below 50% function and your oxygen saturation levels go off a cliff if you even stand up and take a few steps. Walking, isn't possible.

    It might be worth thinking about what your lungs are for a moment. They are a very high surface area membrane which allows oxygen and CO2 to pass across between the environment and blood stream. Anything which damages it is likely to cause scarring, probably permanent and the scarred membrane no longer functions.

    Just a percent or two a year, you probably won't even notice it happening. But go ahead, the world is overpopulated anyway.
     

  25. Um, working for whom? on Microsoft Refuses To Patch Rootkit-Compromised XP Machines · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A) A working machine that has a rootkit installed.

    And is sending all key presses and bank account details to criminals.