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  1. Re:Pretty cool on Visualizing Stories On Current Events With Newsmap · · Score: 1
    Maybe the best way to get a job with a company you like is to write some slick code that helps to benefit the company. Once the company finds out about your project, they might decide to hire you.

    They might also decide to sue you.

  2. Re:Easy... on The Worst Development Job You've Ever Had? · · Score: 1

    His nick is Eric_Cartman_South_P. Of course he's being sarcastic...

  3. Re:What the EU did was perfect, fuck the DOJ. on DOJ Calls EU Microsoft Decision "Unfortunate" · · Score: 1

    How does this send the message "WE WILL HUNT YOU DOWN"? Was Microsoft hiding?

  4. local directory on What's Your Browser Start Page? · · Score: 1

    I set it to a local "news" directory where I download news HTML pages during the day so that I can read them in the evening when I'm not at work. Before that I used either google.com or about:blank. Both are fast enough to start up (though compared to how slowly Mozilla starts up, it hardly matters...), but I often use my laptop offline.

  5. bricolage on Plone 2.0 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    For a perl CMS, try Bricolage.

  6. Re:A chilling phrase if you're MS on Microsoft and EU Talks End · · Score: 1

    I'm glad someone gets my humor. :)

  7. Re:A chilling phrase if you're MS on Microsoft and EU Talks End · · Score: -1, Troll

    Rather than pay a $1,000,000,000 fine, why can't they just not sell software in Europe? When Europeans find that they can't live without MS products, MS demands commie Europe pay $1,000,000,000 for the right to suck on MS's tittie.

  8. Re:Some free alternatives on Learning Functional Programming through Multimedia · · Score: 1

    > 3. The Haskell Language definition

    Perhaps better would be a link to the page
    where you can download it as PDF or PS:
    http://haskell.org/definition/

  9. poli sci on Computer Studies w/o Excessive Coding? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Have you considered Political Science?

  10. gateway on Moving from Linux to Windows Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Set up the windows box as a router for a linux laptop.

  11. Re:Reconfigure the Lines on Electromagnetic Emission Art · · Score: 1

    Yes. Does that give them the right to own sunrays?

  12. Re:Dynamic typing on International Workshop on Interpreted Languages · · Score: 1

    > at least the ones I use, are dynamically typed. It's
    > wonderful being free from the yoke of static type checking.

    On the other hand, there is some satisfaction from getting
    a language like Ocaml to compile. That language in particular
    seems almost self-testing.

  13. Re:Reconfigure the Lines on Electromagnetic Emission Art · · Score: 1

    No, also people who support large corporations over actual people.

    Someday it will be illegal to use the sunlight directly from the sun.

  14. Re:free power on Electromagnetic Emission Art · · Score: 1

    I'd tell the power companies if they want me to not use the power, then keep it off my property.

  15. Re:Anyone who intimately knows 5 on Perl's Extreme Makeover · · Score: 1

    And that is just to get perl itself done. I think there will be a long period in which incompatibilities in existing code, reluctance to break things, etc., will hold back perl 6's widespread acceptance. I'm thinking of mod_perl 2, for example.

  16. Re:Classic, huh? on Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's what I was thinking, too. When I think of classic, I think of Stevens books or the perl Camel book, for example, not something analogous to somethingawful.com (though I guess somethingawful is classic in it's own category of web site).

  17. crew floating away on Space Station Slowly Falling Apart? · · Score: 1

    "MSNBC discusses debris apparently seen by the crew floating away from the International Space Station."

    Why is everyone talking about debris when the crew is fucking floating away!

    (Note: intentional (mis)placement of word "fucking")

  18. Re:Open Source More Secure... maybe not on Exploit Based On Leaked Windows Code Released · · Score: 1

    There is a difference though in that MS code wasn't open source all along. Maybe it is analogous to releasing a tame animal into the wild.

  19. Re:Other options? on End of Life for Red Hat 7.x, 8.0 · · Score: 1

    And RPMs are cpio files. I think what matters, however, isn't the actual mechanism for bundling the files, but the way the file and module dependencies are handled.

  20. Re:Is this really necessary? on Universal Goo · · Score: 1

    If an explosion sufficient to destroy the universe occurred here on Earth, I doubt anyone would be aware of it because we'd be instantly vaporized, so why worry about it?

  21. slashdot effect on AP Article On Cyborg Steve Mann · · Score: 1

    Fortunately, the web server with the article isn't running on Mr. Mann himself.

  22. Re:Hooray for the status quo... on Surprise Galaxies at the Edge of Observable Space · · Score: 1

    I sometimes think we'd be centuries ahead in science if theorists could lay aside their egos and realize that hardly any theory lasts forever in its entirety.

    1) In what sense would we be "ahead" if the theories are always basically meaningless (we're going to replace them eventually anyway). 2) If every theory was taken seriously, there would be a lot of overhead added, so maybe we would not in fact be farther ahead (what evidence do you have other than your intuition?).

    Maybe overdramatic, but my point stands.

    Hey, this debating shit is easy!
  23. empty on Has CD Quality Control Slipped? · · Score: 1

    I bought a DVD recently, and the box was empty. I shit you not. Fortunately the store believed me and gave me another one.

  24. Re:They use spectrometry to measure the heat on Astronomers Find Sun's Twin · · Score: 1

    Whether the measures are funny depends on how you look at it I guess, as 373K is as arbitrary as 212F for boiling water. Not to mention you have to memorize arbitrary names like nano and deci in the metric system.

    Temperature could be measured in fractions of an inch if you're looking at the wavelength of the light.

    (And a delta of 12K is the same as a delta of 12C.)

  25. here l am on PalmSource Ships Palm OS 6 · · Score: 2, Funny

    l'm actually reading and replying to th is message from my Tungsten C through a wireless network in the cafeteria at work.. :) (though it's Palm OS 5.2.1, so it's not on-topic)