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  1. Re:What this will mean for games on NVIDIA Shows Interactive Ray Tracing On GPUs · · Score: 1

    He already covered that case. Even the Stanford bunny is equivalent to a torus.

  2. Re:He does what with his girlfriend ? on Usability Testing Hardy Heron With a Girlfriend · · Score: 1

    ... what kind of girl this is that has a right and left pooper. Ever heard of conjoined twins? :-)
  3. Re:Ya gotta wonder.. on Bar Codes Keep Surgical Objects Outside Patients · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you truly think that, then you should probably read this eye-opening article: The Checklist.

  4. Re:FUD? on Graph of Linux Vs. Windows System Calls · · Score: 1

    Well, I get the front page too (the url goes back to http://slashdot.org/). I guess I'll have to wait until it goes out of beta!

  5. This is good news, everyone on Alan Cox's Exploding Laptop · · Score: 3, Funny

    Great! Sounds like Alan Cox has finally added support for the RJE and EOI opcodes to the Linux kernel.

  6. Re:gui and native code - Mind Bender. on C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4 · · Score: 1
    "I've coded a lot of GUI code, in everything. Pascal, C, C++, Java, Tcl/Tk, Perl/Tk, HTML, you name it."
    Brainfuck?
    Whitespace?
  7. Java? I thought it was PHP! on Interview With the Father of Java · · Score: 2, Funny

    And here I thought that James Gosling invented PHP.

  8. Re:KISS on Wisconsin Requires Open Source, Verifiable Voting · · Score: 1

    Good point. But also keep in mind that the compiler that compiles the executable that will actually be running on these production ballots doesn't necessarily have to be GNU's. They control that aspect of the system, and then you're back to trusting them again. That's the whole point I was trying to make. They can show you all the clean code you want, but compile it in the manner described in Ken Thompson's paper.

  9. Re:KISS on Wisconsin Requires Open Source, Verifiable Voting · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, but even if it was open source, you'd never really be to trust it unless you compiled it yourself. For example, Ken Thompson was able to bug the compiler so that it installed a backdoor whenever the login(1) program was compiled. For details you should see his paper Reflections on Trusting Trust.

  10. Re:Well... on Bush Backed Spying On Americans · · Score: 1

    Didn't you know? There's an early beta available from http://www.nsa.gov/software/eavesdrop/gaim-2.0beta /

  11. Re:Ironically on The Register Takes Aim at Wikipedia Again · · Score: 1

    Well, duh. What do you expect? They used Wikipedia to look up the meaning of MMORPGs :-)

  12. Re:What Myspace shows on The MySpace Generation · · Score: 1

    "dotcom"-ming, i guess

  13. wxPython on What Tools Do You Use for UI Prototyping? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You should try using wxPython. Python is terrific for fast prototyping. Hell, I'm still using the prototypes I've developed.

  14. Re:How does this compare? on How Darwin Managed His Inbox · · Score: 1

    No, he's making fun of your tinyping.

  15. Re:More appropriate title on RIAA Suit Rejected With Prejudice · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, aren't you a cunning linguist

  16. Re:Every time I run a 500 proc batch job ... on TeraGrid Gets an Upgrade · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you're a member of an academic institution, you can just submit a proposal to the NSF to apply for time on the TeraGrid. I've heard at conferences that it's quite easy to get time, provided you give them a good account of the time complexity of the algorithm you want to run on their machines. And of course, that you attempt to answer a science question :-)

  17. Re:You have a point. on Linux Based CarPC · · Score: 2, Funny
    I think about the only killer app in a car would be ...
    I don't know about you, but the last thing I want in my car is a killer app!!
  18. Re:Hmmm, I wonder... on Sarge is Now Frozen · · Score: 1
    I'm guessing that the other three are
    1. Longhorn
    2. Duke Nukem Forever
    3. ...Profit!!
    Truly, the end is near!
  19. Re:search engine bots don't send a referrer on Millions of Pages Google Hijacked using ODP Feed · · Score: 1

    Google referrer? Are you talking about the Googlebot user-agent string?

  20. Re:A language in their own right. on Regular Expression Recipes · · Score: 1

    Probably OOOO....O11111....111, with n of each symbol.

  21. Re:Well.... on Caltech and JPL Build 50ft Robot · · Score: 1

    Dude, of course. It's caltech :-)

    We'll just get one of the freshmen to pilot it.

  22. Re:BRILLIANT on Interview With Math Legend Benoit Mandelbrot · · Score: 1

    Room temperature IQ? Be careful, we measure temperature in Kelvin around these parts...

  23. Passing parameters? easy! on PostgreSQL 8.0 Enters Beta · · Score: 2, Informative

    Try this one:

    CREATE FUNCTION name(int) RETURNS SETOF test AS '
    SELECT * FROM test WHERE id=$1;
    ' LANGUAGE SQL;

    Then try using:

    select * from name(1);

    Should work pretty well.

  24. Re:The scary part... on Porn Beats Search Engines in Internet Traffic · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't know about you, but I wouldn't go to no open sores porn site.

    I mean....EWWWW

  25. Re:Accidents happen on Notebooks Replace Textbooks in Texas · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Oh. You can say that again. I got the CF-37 Toughbook, and nearly got a heart attack about six months ago when a tall glass full of water fell on it. The keyboard was drenched. I quickly disconnected everything and took apart as much as I could, and then I let the parts air dry.

    And now I sit here typing this post in that very laptop. A mere two weeks after that incident, the computer turned on without any serious problems. (At first the 'n' key didn't work reliably after a few hours of operation). It's been a few months now and it works as well as it did originally. Now that is a Toughbook.