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  1. Re:Who and How? on British Intel Shuts Down al-Qaeda Sites · · Score: 1

    Newsflash: The guys who did the failed bombings in London recently weren't a part of Al Qaeda.

  2. Re:As mentioned by Paul Graham on 'Design Patterns' Receives ACM SIGPLAN Award · · Score: 1

    A Lisp macro is absolutely nothing like a C macro. They do completely different things, so you can't compare them.

  3. Re:The competition isn't coming. on Firefox Downloads Reach 75 Million · · Score: 1

    Because they haven't been working on it for four years. They only reformed an IE group months ago, AFAIK.

  4. Re:Great! on Mac OS X Gaining Ground In Corporate Environs · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you're in the terminal, OS X doesn't hide directories. sudo will give you access to every unix command. You can turn off the genie minimize crap. You can use pretty much any mouse you want with OS X. You can configure the dock to your liking. And you can use the CLI for pretty much any task.

  5. Re:What I always liked about Stevens on Advanced Programming in the UNIX Env, 2nd Ed. · · Score: 1

    I think the Pragmatic Programmers do just that.

  6. Re:Thinly Veiled Job Request on The New C Standard · · Score: 1

    Those are the only reasons to know C?

    How about having the ability to extend, modify, and maintain the gazillion of programs out there that are written in C?

  7. Re:Common sense on Sunscreen Not So Good for You? · · Score: 1

    Ahahahhahaaa....

    The LDL is the "bad" kind, and no amount of it is "good" for you, not even in moderation.

    This probably is be news to you, but LDL is responsible for repairing cell membranes... making hormones... stuff like that.

    Like other posters said, if you didn't have any, you'd be dead.

    The statement Cholesterol, for example, is necessary for the body to function does not need be qualified, it's absolutely true in every respect.

  8. Re:Corrupted download on Google Earth Launching For Free · · Score: 1

    Then, uh, download it again. Not google's fault that your internet connection sucks.

  9. Re:This just in, North Korea has an army too! on North Korean Hackers Rival CIA? · · Score: 1

    Because either it tastes better than regular, or you don't want to eat 80 grams of sugar?

  10. Soo... on Simulated Universe · · Score: 1

    How many libraries of Congress is that?

  11. Who cares? on Google Never Forgets · · Score: 1

    If I'm worried about people reading my email or keeping it after I delete it, I'm going to run my own encrypted mail server, or pay someone who I trust to run one.

  12. Re:Pfffft on Too Much Homework Can Be Counterproductive · · Score: 1

    http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-gyp1.htm

    It's often said that to gyp derives from gypsy, and it seems highly probable. However, direct evidence is lacking, and the term arose in the US, where gypsies have been less common than in Europe. Gypsies don't call themselves that, by the way, but Roma, from their word Rom, a man. The verb only began to appear in print near the end of the nineteenth century and took some time to become well known (it's not in the 1913 edition of the Webster Unabridged Dictionary, for example).

    The confusion you mention may lie with another sense of the noun, for a college servant at the University of Cambridge (the English one). Though gyp in this sense is also sometimes said to come from gypsy, it may equally well come from the obsolete gippo, a menial kitchen servant; this once meant a man's short tunic, from the obsolete French jupeau. (Gyppo, as a modern derogatory term, does seem to come from gypsy, or at least, from the same source as to gyp.)

    Even if the verb does come from gypsy, most people who use it probably don't link the two ideas. It's a connection that has become stronger as we have become more sensitive to possible racial slurs, as a result of which the possibility of offence is treated more seriously than evidence of actual offence warrants. (Much the same process has happened with squaw).

    Incidentally, the word gypsy or gipsy itself was given to itinerants in Britain when they arrived from continental Europe in the sixteenth century; the word is a contracted form of Egyptian by a process called aphesis. It was thought that the people came from Egypt but they really have their origin in north-western India. Their language can be traced back to Hindi, Punjabi and Sanskrit roots, though with a lot of input from other languages that shows they spent extended periods in Persia and Armenia, among other places. They probably entered Europe via Constantinople in the fifteenth century.

  13. Re:The reasons for switching will be more complex on Mad as Hell, Switching to Mac · · Score: 1

    If you'd bother to RTFA or article summary more closely, you'd see that the guy is switching his company over to Macs. So, it's not just a home user.

    Business users probably don't have much use for 3D graphics and games. Lack of malware can save businesses some decent money.

  14. Re:please be more specific on AJAX Buzzword Reinvigorates Javascript · · Score: 1

    FYI,

    I found it useful to have a 'admin_edit' helper that checked to see if a user was logged in and had access to whatever they wanted to edit, and if they were, to display the edit/delete link. It helps a lot cleaning up the views.

  15. Re:But seriously, folks... on Google Might Disappear in Five Years · · Score: 1

    Google has purchased like 15 other smaller companies already, looks like they are following exactly in MS's footsteps. By purchasing them, GGL gets the money which those companies would otherwise have made from their products. No difference at all between Microsoft and Google.

    Yes, no difference at all! They both have bought companies! So no difference!

    Aaahahahahaa. Sorry, that post made my day.

  16. Re:Outlook Express on Washington State Outlaws Spyware · · Score: 1

    You're more of an idiot.

    That post was either referring to an Outlook Express service pack or OE-Quote Fix (http://email.about.com/b/a/075618.htm) in the Add/Remove programs box.

    In any event, if you go to WINDOWS COMPONENTS in the Add/Remove programs box, you'll see an option to uncheck and thus, uninstall OE.

  17. Re:Huge Loophole, Crappy Bill on Washington State Outlaws Spyware · · Score: 1

    What part of These prohibitions do not apply to any monitoring of a subscriber's internet service... don't you understand?

    That says nothing about allowing MS to delete files off your computer.

  18. Re:Outlook Express on Washington State Outlaws Spyware · · Score: 1

    Control Panel -> Add Remove Programs -> Windows Components -> Uncheck Outlook Express.

  19. Re:How to Suck in 21 days! on Web Designer's Reference · · Score: 1

    Insightful?? What the hell.

    The book is about xhtml and css. It has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with databases or server-side programming.

    God, honestly.

  20. Re:A plea to Paul Graham... on Paul Graham: Hiring is Obsolete · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why? You don't have to read them.

  21. Re:A plea to Paul Graham... on Paul Graham: Hiring is Obsolete · · Score: 1

    Why can't he write articles if he wants to?

  22. Re:A wise decision on Microsoft States Full TCP/IP Too Dangerous · · Score: 1

    And with CUPS, you connect a web browser to http://localhost631/ So much more intuitive!

  23. Re:Fuck Mac Users, you thiefs! on Apple Updates Power Mac Line · · Score: 1

    Did you verify that the address on the Paypal account matched the shipping address? If not, why?

  24. Re:it depends on Comments are More Important than Code · · Score: 1

    Comments don't take hardly any time to write. No clue what you're talking about.

  25. Re:And being Indian ... on Going Beyond Fermat's Last Theorem · · Score: 1

    And on that note, did you know that Chinese people love to clean clothes!