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  1. Literally, dude on Fedora, SuSE And Mandrake Compared · · Score: 0
    From David Cross:
    Man, the other day I was laughing so hard I literally shit my pants!
    Really? That's gross. How long did it take you to clean it up?
    No, man. I didn't really shit my pants, I literally shit my pants.
    The best/worst thing about the misuse of the word "literally" is that people misuse it to mean the exact opposite of its definition.
  2. Insightful? Bah. Of course Insightful != Factual on Marking 50 Years Since Alan Turing's Death · · Score: 5, Informative
  3. MOD PARENT UP on Canon Digital Rebel Hacked Into A Pseudo-10D · · Score: 1

    nt

  4. This is probably a troll on The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet? · · Score: 1

    but the reason that he has the right to take the criminal's life to save his is because the criminal initiated the use of force.

  5. GD, RTFA! on How Apple's Mail.app Junk Filter Works · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you had read the article, you would know it uses vector representation and latent semantic analysis, not Bayesian filters, which in the words of the author, "are essentially weighted keyword systems."

  6. AdTI should be renamed... on Fathers of Linux Revealed: Tooth Fairy & Santa Claus · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Alexis de Tocqueville Institute should be renamed to the Elmer FUD Institute.

    Sorry, that was bad.

  7. What does everyone have against the letter 'E'? on nVidia Announces MXM for Notebooks · · Score: 4, Funny

    What does everyone hvae against (capitalizing) the letter 'E'?

    I guess in nVidia's case it's not just the letter 'E' that they subjugate for the more favored 'X' (eXpress), since they also choose 'V' over 'N' in their name (nVidia).

    I guess it's just so much cooler for stuff to be eXtreme or eXpress, rather than Extreme or Express. Bah, stupid marketing.

  8. Re:Mmmm... Pizza on Pizza From the Command Line · · Score: 1
    --All your stolen base are belong to Rickey Henderson
    I love your sig.
  9. Psychologically originated stress on Appreciating Your Stressful IT Job? · · Score: 1

    Your rant fails to take in account that human stress can be psychologically originated. Thus, people who have very stressful jobs can experience much more stress than people in seemingly worse situations. However, this does not mean that, materially speaking, these people don't have much easier lives.

    Check out this book by Robert Sapolsky for more information. I attended an amazing lecture by Sapolsky that really opened my eyes to this sort of thing.

  10. Gabriel's Horn on Is the Universe Shaped Like a Funnel? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Picard topology sounds like what was referred to in my math class as Gabriel's Horn.

    An apparent paradox concerning this shape's infinite interior surface area and finite volume is that one could never paint the entire surface area, but could simply fill it paint, thus painting it. However, the resolution to this paradox is that since the horn's diameter eventually becomes smaller than that of a paint molecule, that part of horn could never be painted.

  11. MOD PARENT UP on Little Robots Play Soccer · · Score: 1

    nt

  12. Bah on Gentoo Linux 2004.0 Released · · Score: 1

    That's what --menuconfig is for- before I let genkernel make nice filenames and compile everything, I make sure the kernel is tuned the way I like it.

  13. Can articles be modded? on The World's Safest Operating System · · Score: 1
    We need a way to mod articles.

    In this case, the article would most likely be modded as "-1, Troll".

  14. Mod UP? on RIAA Countersued Under Racketeering Laws · · Score: 4, Insightful
    ...regardless of the facts.

    That's definitely what we want. We don't want rational justice if it doesn't serve our purposes.

    In my limited understanding of the case, I would side with the woman. However, I believe this can be solved with the facts.

  15. Re:paid off already on WiFi Free-For-All · · Score: 1
    Does this mean that, yes, they have free WiFi, but ridiculously low bandwidth? If a lot of people access this at one time, it could become really slow and only further aggravate the frequent traveler who is accustomed to broadband.

    That being said, it is free, so no users would have cause to complain.

  16. Torrent problem? on Knoppix 3.3 Update, 3.4 C't Edition Are Out · · Score: 1

    When I try to download the torrent, I get the error "got bad file info -". Anybody what the problem is?

  17. SLAC is Stanford on The Best Colleges for Network Engineering? · · Score: 1

    SLAC is Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

  18. Re:Mathematics not universal? on The Golden Ratio · · Score: 1

    Reality != Perception. When I'm on LSD my perception of reality is changing, not reality. Reality is a primary to perception, perception being a cognitive reconstruction of reality. Without reality, such a cognitive construction is called imagination.

  19. Blimey! on So You Think Physics is Funny? · · Score: 1

    First of all, it's linear algebra, not calculus.

    Second, it's should be turkey * chicken * sin(theta)

    Wait... OMFG...

  20. Re:This guy is so off-base on The Rise of Cyber Bullying · · Score: 1

    But I fail to see the difference between the whole school seeing the webpage and the whole school hearing the rumor. The traditional rumor can be worse, too, in that it can evolve as it spreads, so that even more harmful things can be tacked on by whoever and will be treated as truth by the next person. A web page, on the other hand, is much more static and is typically the work of an individual or two, so that the target can know that there really is a very small minority who are attempting to harm them, whereas the rumor could be any number of people.

  21. This guy is so off-base on The Rise of Cyber Bullying · · Score: 1
    So, I made a website about him.

    Just kidding, I actually agree with a lot of what the guy is saying. One bone I have to pick, though, is his conclusion:

    "Cyber-bullies have their victims on an electronic tether," Stutzky says. "The kids on the receiving end can't get out of range."

    I don't buy the whole "electronic tether" theory; all the kid has to do is hit the ignore button, or not view the webpage, or reject the e-mail, etc. to avoid harassment. If all else fails, he/she could just turn off the computer.

  22. Your sig is great on Google Code Jam Winner Announced · · Score: 1

    Waking Life and lucid dreaming are the dog's bollox.

  23. Actually tomatoes naturally contain THC on Simpsons Fan Creates Real Tomacco Plant · · Score: 1

    Albeit, in minute amounts. Read the Botany of Desire for more info.

  24. Re:What sort of visual range does this thing have? on Sharp to Sell 3D laptop for $3299 · · Score: 1
    I can't imagine how working with this thing for long wouldn't lead to eye-strain headaches - that's been true of virtually every similar "fake" 3D system.

    Yeah, I don't see why they don't just design a "real" 3D system, especially in a laptop. The space, weight, and technology constraints would make it so easy.

  25. Circumnavigation, huh? on 'Winston Smith' Speaks Out On MS Reader Convertor · · Score: 1
    ...i hope that everyone does their absolute best to spread every bit of DRM circumnavigation...


    We should definitely publicize this. The DRM seas are still a vast, unknown, and malevolent region to all but the most well-traveled seamen. We can't allow others to circumvent our efforts, or to use circumvention.