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  1. Math impairment on Open-Source Python Code Shows Lowest Defect Density · · Score: 5, Informative

    0.005 defects per thousand lines times 400,000 lines gives a total defect count of 2.

    So where did the other 994 defects come from?

  2. Re:Who watches the Watchman? on WikiLeaks Cash-For-Votes Exposé Rocks Indian Government · · Score: 1

    It would not be the first time that an "aide" to a powerful figure made "arrangements" on their bosses behalf and then the "aide" and the bribe was never seen again.

  3. Re:Quick question on A Mind Made From Memristors · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You can read it by applying AC to it, the state changes cancel each other out.

  4. Re:Bushehr as target on Stuxnet Infects 30,000 Industrial Computers In Iran · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is an analysis of the screenshot at http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/396-No-Nukes.html

    The conclusion is that it is probably a screenshot of a wast water treatment plan, not a nuke facility.

  5. Reboot? on Tracking Down a Single-Bit RAM Error · · Score: 1

    The article author has obviously never used windows. SOP would be a reboot, which would have solved the problem.

    The whole thing would have taken minutes.

  6. Re:Wow... on Lower Merion School's Report Says IT Dept. Did It, But Didn't Inhale · · Score: 5, Informative

    The report was written by the law firm that is defending the school district. Consequently it is attempting to spin everything in the most favourable light to the school district. Any attempt to pin the fault on rogue individuals in the IT department might just be an attempt to minimize liability.

    I simply don't trust the report.

  7. Re:dem dang numbers on Underwater Ocean Kites To Harvest Tidal Energy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Thats not how it works.

    The kite is really a steerable sail that moves back and forth across the current, thereby increasing the velocity through the attached turbine.

    An animation is available at http://www.ebase.se/minesto/animation.htm

    fava

  8. The best part on Girl Without Vagina Gets Pregnant Via Oral Sex and Stabbing · · Score: 1

    The best line in the story:

    The young mother, her family, and the likely father adapted themselves rapidly to the new situation and some cattle changed hands to prove that there were no hard feelings.

  9. The site uses cookies. on Tracking Browsers Without Cookies Or IP Addresses? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The irony is that the site uses cookies to determine if you are unique to the site or have been there before.

    Deleting the cookie (and maybe changing your IP address) and revisiting would introduce spurious duplicates into the database.

  10. Re:marketing speak = teh suck on IPv6 Challenges and Opportunities · · Score: 1

    Yea, but the latency will kill you.

  11. Re:This is only the beginning on Controversy Over San Francisco Public Transportation Data · · Score: 1

    There are 2 theys in the story, which one lost?

  12. Re:We've come a long way, baby on A History of 3D Cards From Voodoo To GeForce · · Score: 1

    The 160x100 mode reminds me of the code that I wrote that would remap the characters on the fly to get a graphical cursor on top of a text mode display with a 1 pixel resulution. It all worked quite well until I managed to write code that caused the hard drive to crash when I moved the mouse. I could hear the head crash, followed by the drive spinning down and then back up again. This happened twice in a row, exactly when I moved the mouse. I was never willing to risk running that code again and I did not have the previous, working version anymore.

    fava

  13. Re:Pretty soon ... on Google Tricycles To Map Footpaths For Street View · · Score: 4, Funny

    Considering the scale bars at the bottom are set to 200 miles, then I would say its a pretty big flat.

    There would be no problem seeing it from orbit, the coffee table is 100 miles by 200 miles just by itself, and the rug is a massive 700 miles square.

    Your brother must be rich to afford a flat that big!

  14. What the police were really after, on Phoenix Police Seize PCs of a Blogger Critical of the Department · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Harassing a critic is just a bonus, what the police really wanted was the names of the internal informants so that they can be silenced.

    No informants = No credible criticism.

  15. Another option for the eye chart on Diagnose Conficker With Web-Based Eye Chart · · Score: 5, Funny

    And if you can see the top row and not the bottom one it means you work at Microsoft.

  16. Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    Well technically my 6 digit ID contains 6 one digit IDs, 5 two digit IDs, 4 three digit IDs, 3 four digit IDs and 2 five digit IDs.

    Therefore I should get all of those achievements, thats a total of 20 right there, and 3 of them are user number 1! Poor CmdrTaco has to make due with only 1.

    Someone with a 7 digit ID could get 25 achievements and in the future when we hit 8 digit IDs, they will get a whopping 30 achievements simply by registering.

    Lucky stiffs.

  17. April Fool on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many idiots are going to post in this thread just to get the April fool achievement.

    Not that I would ever do a thing like that.

    Not me.

    Never.

  18. Re:terrible review on The Shadow Factory · · Score: 1

    Most conspiracy theorists also also assume that hundreds or thousands of co-conspirators can actually keep a joint secret for years. In reality it simply doesn't happen, someone will sooner or later spill the beans.

  19. Re:Misleading title. on The Real Reason For Microsoft's TomTom Lawsuit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    From a half remembered source:

    It takes a brave man to edit sendmail.cf by hand, it takes a stupid man to do it twice.

  20. Re:There will always be some "lucky" people on Outliers, The Story Of Success · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hmm... Can monkeys get /. accounts? :-)

    You don't read much at -1 do you?

  21. Re:Just don't on Securing PHP Web Applications · · Score: 1

    Heart surgery in isolation may be easy.

    What is hard is the knowledge of what to do when something goes wrong. What is hard is the planning in anticipation of things that might go wrong. What is hard is the ability to stay calm and focused when things start to go wrong.

    That takes years of study, years of practice and years of learning from your own and others mistakes.

    When the risks are high you don't call in a generalist, you call in an expert.

  22. Re:null or not null, that is the question on Null References, the Billion Dollar Mistake · · Score: 1

    If the author had not invented them, someone else would have. He is not the cause of the problem, merely the first to implement them.

  23. Re:Fair comparison considering the scenario on Open Source Usability — Joomla! Vs. WordPress · · Score: 1

    This sounds like a job for ...

    (Pause and cue dramatic music)

    a car analogy.

    Wordpress is like a small sedan, great for zipping around town and picking up groceries. Joomla! is like a semi, great for transporting large amounts of stuff across the country.

    You wouldn't use a semi to go shopping because its too hard to park in the crowded mall parking lot. You wouldn't want to transport 50 pallets of toilet paper across the country in your sedan either.

    Different jobs, Different tools.

  24. Re:Call him Monkey Boy all you want on Sony Makes It Hard To Develop For the PS3 On Purpose · · Score: 1

    You can buy 80GB drives in lots of 100 for as little as $18 to $23 each.

    http://www.goharddrive.com/category-s/74.htm

  25. Re:Yes, .NET may actually be the best bet on Hope For Multi-Language Programming? · · Score: 1

    Correct me if I am wrong, but powershell objects are xml based. Xml is text based. So a powershell pipeline is actually a text pipline.