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  1. Re:Do a test to find the psychopaths/sociopaths... on Evaluating the 'Doofus Factor' In Corporate Governance · · Score: 1

    on my website I named a bunch since 2003 related to airtravel industry

    Link?

  2. More worried about the other flying object on Double Eclipse Photographed, Sun, Moon, and ISS · · Score: 1
    From the blog:

    one spot isn’t a spot at all, it’s the International Space Station!

    The dimensions for ISS are 357 feet by 167 feet. A simple search for spy satellite yields this:

    "The satellite likely consists of sensitive radio receivers and an antenna generally believed to span up to 328 feet to gather electronic intelligence for the National Security Agency," Molczan told Spaceflight Now.

    How can we tell a sun spot is a sun spot?

  3. From the TV Announcement on NASA Finds New Life (This Afternoon) · · Score: 1

    There's still phosphorus in the cells, just too little. It's not like arsenic completely replaces phosphorus.

  4. From TFB: on JavaScript Cookbook · · Score: 1
    Problem 1.11 (last one in the String chapter):

    Left- or Right-Pad a String

    Solution:

    for (var i = 0; i < diff; i++) {
    oldStr=filler + oldStr;
    }

    For who is written this solution? Loops are as basic as you can go in programming.

  5. Re:Why support companies that pull crap like this? on Droid X Gets Rooted · · Score: 0

    This is a limitation of GPLv2. That's why it's so important to switch the Linux kernel to GPL version 3.

  6. Re:Well... on Getty's Flickr Sales, Money Spinner Or Ripoff? · · Score: 1

    It's like Lenin says: you look for the person who will benefit

    In communism many famous words were falsely attributed to Lenin. "To whose benefit?" is actually a latin adage: Cui bono.

  7. Re:Enlightening! on Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration · · Score: 1

    I know exactly what I'm getting both my friends for Christmas this year

    You could buy me one. I am more real than your imaginary friends: Ostap Bender

  8. OpenLdap Incompatibilities on Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala · · Score: 1

    The only problem I encountered moving from 9.04 to 9.10 was in OpenLdap. The new version 2.4.18 complained about a configuration file in a subdirectory under /etc/ldap/slapd.d. After reading the OpenLdap source it turned out that it required all access rules to be numbered if at least one was numbered. The files in question were produced by the earlier version of slapd by parsing slapd.conf.auth. So I edited them manually adding a number prefix to the last rule and then it worked OK.

  9. Re:Dear content producers... on Hulu Blocks International Access Via Witopia · · Score: 1

    True but Bank of America would still rather advertise in the U.S., where the ads are relevant to SOME of the people

    I receive at least one email a day from BoA telling me I have to confirm my account details because of the new security system they just put in place. If we have to go though this ordeal we are entitled to sponsored content as well.

    Need to go now, I just got an email about this once in a lifetime opportunity from Nigeria

  10. Re:Analysis of Miguel's article on De Icaza Responds To Stallman · · Score: 1

    There is no purely functional language (on any platform) with enough mind share to qualify as "popular".

    Javascript is functional.

  11. Re:The guys behind EXTJS are terrible on Learning Ext JS · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why did you switch from Dojo to ExtJS? Does the criteria still apply today?

  12. Nvidia Atom on Maingear Touts New Rig As "Planet's Greenest Gaming PC" · · Score: 1

    Intel's new Ion graphics

    This can only be right when the story title is: Intel buys Nvidia

  13. Just bought a PSP 3000 on Piracy and the PSP · · Score: 1
    The PSP 3000 comes in a pack with a camera, PSP-300 that was supposed to provide videochat. Except Go Messenger stopped at the end of last month and Skype can't use the camera. I tried to use it in the older PSP 2000 just for microphone in it but PSP 2000 won't recognize the usb cam in spite of being on the same software revision as the new 3000.

    OTOH the power button is still in the same place so accidentally switching off the console during game play is a feature that has been preserved in the new version.

  14. Re:The environmental cost? on Feds To Offer Cash For Your Clunker · · Score: 1

    to by a new car (that isn't guaranteed to be American)

    There's nothing stopping them limiting the vouchers to a specific list of manufacturers, if they so choose.

    Not only that but they should give vouchers worlwide, there are a lot of American cars sold abroad.

  15. Re:America, for one, welcomes... on Visitors To US Now Required To Register Online · · Score: 1

    Having her bags opened and searched by a stranger openly wielding an automatic rifle was seen as quite disgustingly 'totalitarian' at the time.

    It was not totalitarian for westerners, it was totalitarian for the locals. For most of them travel across Europe meant digging tunnels under the Wall or swimming across large rivers at night.

    About going to the US, if you are willing to pay the price, I don't think the coyote is going to ask for fingerprints. So in a way, nothing changed.

  16. Re:Wouldn't there be an empty space? on Birth of the Moon: a Runaway Nuclear Reaction? · · Score: 1

    However, the lower crust and the deep ocean crust are made primarily from heavy Basalt.

    Maybe a bit offtopic but does anyone know if we managed to dig deep enough to reach the basalt layer? All the deep drills that I read about never found anything but granite even at depths were basalt was expected.

  17. Intel is building an FPGA on Intel Says to Prepare For "Thousands of Cores" · · Score: 2, Interesting
    From TFA:

    Dozens, hundreds, and even thousands of cores are not unusual design points

    I don't think they mean cores like the regular x86 cores, I think they will put an FPGA on the same die together with the regular four/six cores.

  18. Re:General request! on Have Mathematics Exams Become Easier? · · Score: 2, Funny

    All your matematica are belong to us!

  19. Gnu/Solaris on Why OpenSolaris Failed To Build a Community · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Licensing Solaris under the GPL might give it a chance and now is the time. Due to the GPL 2 vs 3 debate it has a good opportunity of becoming the second Gnu kernel.

  20. Re:That's Positive? Positively clueless. on Analyst Admits Open Source Will Quietly Take Over · · Score: 1

    I don't know what went wrong in your case but I have seen many children use Ubuntu with no problems at all. Actually I have seen children choose Compiz over Vista.

  21. Re:off your central topic, but... on Firefox 4 Will Push Edges of Browser Definition · · Score: 2, Informative

    Do you know how many times I've wished for vi style editing in text boxes?
    Here you have vi in a text area.

  22. Re:MS already has unattended scripted installs on Microsoft Trying To Appeal to the Unix Crowd? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not any more, now you have to double click on those email attachments.

  23. Re:No, they do exist. on Wonder Woman Gets a Woman's Point-of-View · · Score: 1

    You know, it's because of domineering, overbearing males like you that one in four college women is raped!" Was she complaining about being the one in four or being one of the neglected three?
  24. Re:Death by coffee on Unusual Data Disaster Horror Stories · · Score: 1

    We took the disk out, put fingerprints all over it, threw it on the floor and stomped on it with dirty shoes, wrote on it with a marker, and were still able to read it.
    You should have used Norton Disk Doctor.
  25. DVB-S on Know Any Hardware Needing Better Linux Support? · · Score: 1

    I would like to have more satellite receiver cards supported under Linux.