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  1. Re:Simple formula on World's Biggest 'Agile' Software Project Close To Failure · · Score: 1

    Not a real biggie, just a replacement for Jobseeker’s Allowance, Income-related Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support, Child Tax Credits, Working Tax Credits, Housing Benefit for the whole of the UK population. I mean how hard can it be? Given your obvious talents I am sure you could knock something together using a few Excel macros by next Tuesday.

    Don't be silly - this is obviously a job for perl.

  2. WOMUMP on Mice, Newts Retrieved After a Month Orbiting Earth At 345 Miles Up · · Score: 1

    The Wortlethorpe MUnicipal Moon Program was putting mice on rockets decades ago - I read about this when I was a kid.

  3. Re:Not a true quantum computer on Google and NASA Snap Up D-Wave Quantum Computer · · Score: 1

    Hybrid machines seem to be the way to go, pure quantum computers are cumbersome for such things as addition.

  4. Re:Gun control however... on California Lawmaker Wants 3-D Printers To Be Regulated · · Score: 1

    Dunno if this will work on grandchildren, I've only ever tried on nephews. These.

  5. Re:LOL on CO2 Levels Reach 400ppm at Mauna Loa For First Time On Record · · Score: 1

    What's that in hectofortnights?

  6. Re:Start8 on Microsoft Prepares Rethink On Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Windows 8 + Start8 is good. Very good. Nearly as good as Windows 7.

  7. Re:Lies and statistics on Microsoft Prepares Rethink On Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    The lower demand for PCs in general is the fault of Windows 8.

  8. Re:Focus on what they want to know on Ask Slashdot: How To Teach IT To Senior Management? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shock collars and chocolate drops.

  9. Re:Going to Hell in a (brightly lit) Handbasket on Genetically Modified Plants To Produce Natural Lighting · · Score: 1

    It's been called colza oil for quite a while, as well.

  10. OpenSCAD on What's Holding Back 3-D Printing · · Score: 2

    OpenSCAD seems to be relatively unheard of, but just what I needed for getting a couple of bits 3D printed (and one milled from metal).

  11. Re:Cue all the problems that AOL had when they tri on No Porn From Public WiFi Hotspots In the UK Proposed · · Score: 2

    Penistone, Scunthorpe and Clitheroe. But Milton Keynes was OK???!?

  12. Re:Porn is bad and dirty on No Porn From Public WiFi Hotspots In the UK Proposed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ban the "hacker tool" linux :-(

  13. Re:Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle growt on Excel Error Contributes To Problems With Austerity Study · · Score: 3

    BZZZT! Wrong

  14. Re:you can have my solitare on ZDNet Proclaims "Windows: It's Over" · · Score: 1
  15. Re:uhhh on ZDNet Proclaims "Windows: It's Over" · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Good riddance on Margaret Thatcher Dies At 87 · · Score: 1

    Anyone who has tried real ice cream.

  17. Re:Apples vs. Oranges on Apple Devices To Outsell Windows For First Time Ever In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Apple server offerings here.
    Apple office suite here.
    Neither are particularly new, though. And the server offerings have actually been decreased, no more rack mount Apples.

  18. Re:And it still looks like on Windows Blue 9364 Screenshots Show Feature Enhancements · · Score: 1

    There was a weird system early on that did color on a flat phosphor by using a phosphor mix that glowed different colors at different electron energies, so modulating the electron beam strength changed the color. Think they only ever caught on in air traffic control?

  19. Re:solar panel on pack on Bosch Finds Solar Business Unprofitable, Exits · · Score: 2

    I have one of these, clicky which charges a LiPoly unit from a panel on top of my backpack. Well, the LiPoly unit never got fully charged, and then dumping that into a camera or GPS, hardly worth the bother. And you see that wire linking the panel to the battery pack? It got ripped off going through brush. I've seen the BioLite stove, which charges off a peltier from the fire's heat, but I'm not convinced. Any suggestions for something better?

  20. Re:oh no on Political Pressure Pushes NASA Technical Reports Offline · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If they transfer valuable secrets, prosecute them for that, and if they didn't then leave their political beliefs out of it.

  21. Re:Errant twaddle on How Beer Gave Us Civilization · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Someone should do this coal power on Windfarm Sickness Spreads By Word of Mouth · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There seems to be this contemporary fetish for raw (or nearly raw beef). I guess once someone's been conned once they just won't shut up about it and go all evangelical and angry that there are folks that don't follow the latest stupid fashion. Stupidity loves company.

  23. Re:Someone should do this coal power on Windfarm Sickness Spreads By Word of Mouth · · Score: 1
    Beef should always be well done, and served with mustard.

    If you refuse to cook it right, I'll walk out.

  24. Re:Perl for sysadmins on Perl's Glory Days Are Behind It, But It Isn't Going Anywhere · · Score: 1

    By the time a shell command get roughly to "find -xdev .... -print0 | xargs -0 awk ...." its time for a short shell script. When the shell script evolves roughly to the point of needing arrays, well time for perl. And by the time the perl script needs graphical output or objects - python. (Or that much under used scripting cruncher, octave.)

  25. Re:64-bit computers DO NOT solve this problem on You've Got 25 Years Until UNIX Time Overflows · · Score: 1

    Recompile. And re-enter the data.