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  1. Re:Do the number of calls really matter? on The Hairy State of Linux Filesystems · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Truely a Slashdot icon. You will be missed.

  2. Re:Hopefully there's a silver lining on Judge Rules WoW Bot Violates DMCA · · Score: 1

    hint: it's a game, not work.

  3. Re:That's Spooky! on Spookfish Uses Mirrors For Eyes · · Score: 1

    bring it to the 1 atm in a typical spectrometer and it will explode

    I call bullshit. Deep sea fish don't have any air/gasses in them, and water doesn't compress.

  4. Re:WTF on Rails and Merb Ruby Web Frameworks Merge · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I just have a hard time taking a language seriously that seems to overload integers to do date/time calculations. Everything seems mixed together in true spaghetti fashion, and that, more than anything, turns me off the language and framework entirely.

    Agreed, but note that it's rails that adds the date/time functionality, not ruby. While I think it's great that it's *possible* to change the behaviour of core classes, this should be done with extreme restraint, and rails seems to have gone a bit overboard with it.

  5. Re:surprise? on Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest · · Score: 3, Informative

    Denali is the highest peak in the western hemisphere at 20,320 ft

    Aconcagua (Argentina) is higher, and so are quite a lot of other Andes peaks.

  6. Re:surprise? on Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest · · Score: 1

    Yes, the most likely way to die on a mountain is being blown to bits by nitroglycerine.

    God, that movie was awful.

  7. Re:godelstheorem? on Achieving Mathematical Proofs Via Computers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sorry, I was wrong.

  8. Re:rm -rf / on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    It's not contained in the empty set, it is a subset of the empty set (though obviously not a proper subset)

  9. Re:godelstheorem? on Achieving Mathematical Proofs Via Computers · · Score: 2, Informative

    a formal system must be either incomplete or inconsistent -- and we do not really know which one applies to mathematics --

    Except that we do, and it's incomplete.

    Now, as to which applies to meatbags, my guess is they're both incomplete and inconsistent.

  10. Re:And the winner is... on XKCD Invited To New Yorker "Cartoon-Off" · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Did anyone else habitually hover over the pic to see the alt text?

  11. Re:it is PR on The Great Zero Challenge Remains Unaccepted · · Score: 1

    The way I read it, he's not trying to prove recovery companies are fake, he's trying to prove it's not possible to recover the data in the first place, and people shouldn't destroy perfectly ok drives with grinders, thermite, etc.

    None of those 3 companies claims to be able to recover the data. Are there even companies who do claim to be able to do this with any kind of success rate?

  12. Re:Snake Oil on Smilin' Bob Not Smilin' Anymore · · Score: 1

    So why wouldn't you just call your cc company and reverse the (follow-up) charges?

  13. Re:Sanskrit: singular, dual and plural on Amazonian Tribe Has No Word To Express Numbers · · Score: 1

    Anyone know of any other language tha has dual forms of words?

    According to wikipedia, quite a few languages, including Polish, Slovenian and Serbo-Croatian.

  14. Re:the SAME building blocks?! on First DNA Molecule Constructed from Mostly Synthetic Components · · Score: 3, Informative

    Viruses and prions are not, generally, considered to be alive.

  15. Re:Entertaining Theological question... on First DNA Molecule Constructed from Mostly Synthetic Components · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, inflammation wants to be free!

  16. Re:seen the video... on Using Magnets To Turn Off the Brain's Speech Center · · Score: 1

    They got
    The mustard
    Oooooooouuuuuuuut!

  17. Re:Twitter? on Earthquake In China · · Score: 5, Funny
    Sorry, but I just had to laugh at that translation:

    a large toad movement: hundreds of thousands of toads mighty size of a pharmaceutical factory in the vicinity of walking on the road, many vehicles were crushed


    Hundreds of thousands of toads the size of factories crushing vehicles? That makes the earthquake seem like a minor inconvenience...
  18. Educated evil on Books On Electronics For the Lay Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else expect that "Misconceptions About Electricity" page to suddenly tell you that you are EDUCATED EVIL?

    Still, it was an interesting read. :P

  19. Re:First Observation of The Meaning Of Life on First "Observation" of Hawking Radiation · · Score: 1

    You mean like 2?

  20. Re:thepiratebay on Sony's Idea of DRM-Free Music · · Score: 5, Funny

    I blame Java courses for people not understanding the difference.

  21. Re:Sheesh on Proof That Practice Does Make Perfect · · Score: 5, Funny

    knowing that the Earth curved space in such a way to allow this is something quite different
    That's only a (flawed) theory. Intelligent falling is a much more plausible explanation.
  22. Re:Still no job? on Rails Bigwig Rails on Rails Community · · Score: 1

    You first have to make a factory for creating bean guns, based on an xml configuration file somewhere.

  23. Re:Skeptical on Necessity of Dark Energy Questioned · · Score: 1

    Personally, I prefer 0/0, since that can be anything, depending from which side you approach it.

  24. Some things never change on Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED] · · Score: 5, Funny

    Haha, reminds me of how I got yelled at by an irate "computer-science" teacher ages ago, for breaking a monitor (ie. turning it off with the big red power button on the front)

  25. Re:Misleading on Computer Game Predicts Player Moves · · Score: 1

    It reminds me of people who practice martial arts and learn to read when/how someone is going to attack by looking at which muscles are tensing and such.


    I'll remember that, next time I'm fighting naked ninja's.