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  1. Re:Duh on World of Warcraft Gold Limit Reached, It's 2^31 · · Score: 1

    Ones complement has the same upper bound as twos complement, though.

  2. Re:Oval Office Scene.... on FBI Wiretaps Canceled for Non-Payment · · Score: 5, Funny

    "George Herbert Walker Bush is my dad, you old coot!"

  3. Re:Is it bad?? on The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time · · Score: 1

    If it is, it's probably worse that I want to know which four you're missing.

  4. "Personal Gain" indeed.... on School District Threatens Suit Over Parent's Blog · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The alleged libelous postings 'accuse Superintendent Lynne Cleveland, trustees and administrators of ... using their positions for "personal gain,"...'

    the lawyers say the firm 'would file a suit on behalf of administrators in their official capacities and individual board members. The suit, however, would be funded from the district's budget.'
    If the second isn't an example of the first, what is it? If they want to sue personally to attempt an end-run around the law, they should be prepared to pay for it personally.
  5. Re:Comcast is still lying -- and not just about th on Comcast Admits Delaying, Not Blocking, P2P Traffic · · Score: 1

    Web traffic, too. A couple nights ago, I was getting a persistent "unexpected reset" failure trying to get to - of all places - google.com. The same failure happened from multiple machines running multiple browsers and operating systems; the only common thread was that they were all using the same Comcast connection as one machine running a BT client. I stopped the BT client and a few minutes later, Google started replying normally again.

  6. The obvious joke... on Man Claims iPod Set His Pants Aflame · · Score: 4, Funny

    He's obviously lying.

    His pants are on fire.

  7. Re:Ha! on Storm Botnet Is Behind Two New Attacks · · Score: 1

    Only if you're already logged in as an admin. If you're logged in to an limited account - as you should be - you'll have to provide some administrative credentials.

  8. Re:The defeatocrats are the terrorists best ally on Subpoenas Issued Over NSA Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    The problem is, Bush would then appoint a squeaky-clean VP to replace Cheney, then resign himself. His newly-appointed VP's first act as President would then be to take a page from Gerald Ford's book and pardon everyone involved. Heck, you don't even have to impeach Cheney for this plan to work: if the heat on Bush gets too intense, Cheney just resigns and gets included in the eventual pardon. (Agnew resigned for other reasons, but the basic plot is the same.)

    It's no accident that there are so many people from the Nixon administration active in the Bush administration. They know how to run a corrupt government, and they know how to get away with it.

  9. Re:Word compression on Top Irritating Words Spawned by Internet · · Score: 1

    I think that touch-typists will tell you that words that alternate between two hands are generally easier and faster to type than one-handed words, and especially one-fingered words. One-fingered words are among the slowest to type, because you can't be setting up the next finger or two while typing the current letter. They clog the pipeline, as it were.

    Unless you're typing one-handed, in which case (for most people) LOL is on the wrong hand anyway.

    Besides, "ha" is even shorter than either word, just as effective, and lacking in the Nelson Muntz overtones. If you feel like splurging, you can even add an exclamation point.

  10. Re:SysRq on What's the Worst Technical Feature You've Used? · · Score: 1

    How about "break to the Windows kernel debugger?" That'd be a nice function to put on that key.

    You know, if it weren't already on that key.

    (If you're not in the habit of running the kernel debugger at all times, your life must be truly boring. As a bonus, having the kernel debugger active and attached to a debug terminal completely eliminates any risk of accidentally running Skype.)

  11. Re:Great CAPTCHA solution to solve people not RTFA on Fill Out CAPTCHAs, Digitize Books At The Same Time · · Score: 1

    Your solution assumes that it's actually possible to tell Slashdotters and assholes apart.

    I believe it is doomed to fail.

  12. Re:Accomodating religion on Holocaust Dropped From Some UK Schools · · Score: 1

    Protestantism and antisemitism have been associated with each other for a few centuries longer than anything Darwin might have written. Justifying hate and genocide with religion is about as old as religion itself.

  13. Re:what about the Indiana PI? on Hearst's Seattle PI to Test Market E-Paper · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But much harder to multiply in your head, which is really what I was thinking of when I said "for many purposes." If I had a calculator handy, I'd have no problem recalling that pi is approximately 3.14159265358979323ish.

    Alternatively, if you want to do it in your head AND you need better precision, multiply by three and then add 5%. 5% is easy to calculate, because it's just a halving and a decimal shift. If you need more precision than 0.2%, you're probably not standing in the aisle at Home Depot wondering about how much of something you need.

  14. Re:what about the Indiana PI? on Hearst's Seattle PI to Test Market E-Paper · · Score: 1

    They didn't actually legislate it to anything, and the legislation that was proposed (but never passed) would not have set the value to three, but to the result of some nonsensical computation that only a crank could understand.

    Of course, for many purposes, three is a perfectly good approximation to pi. It's only off by about five percent, after all.

  15. Re:Dropping the Web-based E-mail Ball on Users Being Migrated To New Version of Hotmail · · Score: 1

    The biggest missing feature is a way to keep the spam from Microsoft's "partners" from pushing the real mail out of your mailbox.

  16. Re:Frightening on Student Arrested for Making Videogame Map of School · · Score: 1

    I clearly need to be locked away for my own good. Five ball-pein hammers, three auto-body hammers, two framing hammers, a small "ladies'" hammer, and a sledgehammer. I've probably missed some. And just the other day I was thinking that what I need is more hammers. Specifically, a chasing hammer, a planishing hammer, and a dead-blow hammer.

    I mean, look at the names! A hammer for ladies? A hammer for chasing? A hammer for killing blows? Why, next thing you know I'll be coveting a hammer for chasing ladies! I'm obviously a madman who must be stopped.

  17. Re:Consider Your Music Library on Andersen Vs. RIAA Counterclaims Challenged · · Score: 5, Funny

    (but yours is still smaller, wow!)

    Only on Slashdot....

  18. Re:It's than the Summary makes out on Encouraging Students to Drop Mathematics · · Score: 1

    The realm of nitpicks is where mathematicians live. We don't have to stray there.

  19. Re:It's than the Summary makes out on Encouraging Students to Drop Mathematics · · Score: 1

    What he said. I posted the same thing somewhere around here, then discovered that others were posting at the same time as I.

    I also have a math degree, and do remember my trig.

  20. Re:It's than the Summary makes out on Encouraging Students to Drop Mathematics · · Score: 1

    If you can't define the angle between two non-coplanar lines, how did you solve the first part?

  21. Re:It's than the Summary makes out on Encouraging Students to Drop Mathematics · · Score: 1

    Actually, though the reformulation in your followup is provable, the second alternate question you propose here is similarly undefined. There are an infinite number of such projections, with an infinite number of angles between (but not including) zero and the solution you'd get with the vector-based question. You can fix it by requiring that the direction of the projection be perpendicular to both lines, or that one or the other of the original lines lie in the plane you're projecting the other into.

  22. Re:It's than the Summary makes out on Encouraging Students to Drop Mathematics · · Score: 1

    #3 isn't asking for the angle between two planes. It's asking for the angle between two lines that are not coplanar. I can't even imagine how to define the angle between two lines that don't intersect at some point. #1 has the same problem.

    The best I can guess is that they want the angle between one of the lines and some third line that is parallel to the second line and intersects the first line at some point. That would be what you're going to learn about in your class on vectors. But if that's what they want, they need to specify that; as stated, two of the three things they expect the test taker to prove are meaningless statements.

  23. Re:I don't see the problem with this law on NY Governor to Target Violent Video Games · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Unfortunately, in many cases, neither are the parents.

  24. Re:waaaait just one second... on Massive Spam Shot of "Storm Trojan" · · Score: 1

    Since when do you need admin rights to run a spam zombie? Keeping it hidden and keeping it from being easily removed might require admin rights, but just running it surely doesn't. And on Grandma's computer, how long will it live before someone with technical knowhow kills it?

  25. Re:computer IQ test? on Massive Spam Shot of "Storm Trojan" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    31.

    You didn't specify a base.