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  1. Re:it really works, its quite amazing on Google Goggles Solves Sudoku · · Score: 2

    I tried that, but instead of a solution the google goggles sent a Terminator that killed my boss. Now my company is outsourcing our whole department, to google. thanks a lot, google goggles.

  2. Re:Death ray? on Thunderstorms Proven To Create Antimatter · · Score: 1

    nonsense, article states the rate of production is something like 500 events a year over the whole planet. You're not going to build a planet-wide harvesting system, and if you could 500 anti-protons do not a death ray make.

  3. Re:Remember when you're reading this... on Aussie City Braces For Worst Flood In 118 Years · · Score: 0

    That's not "climate instability", and these floods and weather have happened before where you live, again and again. Don't fall into the trap of believing climatologist nonsense, who after the facts pull out one of thousands of models and say "oh, see climate change will cause floods!" when four years ago it was "climate change will cause droughts!" And in a violent hurricane season (which has happened cyclically for millennia) they'll say "oh, climate change will cause harsher hurricanes!" utter rubbish, not climate, unscientific garbage.

  4. so what's the big deal on Plan To Tax Romanian Witches Draws Curses · · Score: 1

    So the witches, astrologers, and fortune tellers will have to pay income tax like everyone else for their health and pension programs. Free loaders.....

  5. Re:Modern world has its priorities wrong on Tevatron To Shut Down At End of 2011 · · Score: 1

    what's at stake with the LHC is Knowing how the universe is put together.

    the Higgs boson is the capstone of the Standard Model and was proposed in 1964. If we don't find that with LHC, Standard Model fails.

    The cost of all HEP ever done is negligible compared to the cost of wars to line the pockets of the elite and bailouts to prop up their failed business model.

    there are other experiments on structure of universe going on beside the LHC, dark matter detection and CMB mapping too.

  6. Re:IBM made a breakthrough? on IBM Makes a Super Memory Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    no, IBM just has some divisions that do the (very profitable) mediocre stuff. They're a business. They are still leaders in R&D in physics (solid state, quantum computing and cryptography, optics, etc.), computer hardware (disk, memory, networking, storage, systems architecture, fabrication), ... what a silly narrow point of view you must have, maybe you have an IBM managerial consultant in your cube farm?

  7. Re:Here is the list. on NASA Names Best & Worst Sci-Fi Movies of All Time · · Score: 1

    well, that black monolith plot device is as silly as the holodeck.

  8. Re:Why give them the publicity on Democrats Crowdsourcing To Vote Palin In Primaries · · Score: 1

    It would not be worthless for someone who really wasn't going to be a mega-corporate bitch and was willing to be leader and work with congress to get the country going in a proper direction of real wealth production, breaking the positive feedback loop of healthcare costs, stopping wars of choice. Danger is the banking cartel or the other mega-corporations might assassinate such a person as that's probably happened a couple times already.

  9. Re:IBM made a breakthrough? on IBM Makes a Super Memory Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    eh? who makes the machines that hold and move money? who makes the machines that do the CADD / CAE / CAM for the military industrial complex? Those ain't wintel boxes, m'boy....

  10. Re:Microcomputers grew up with us. on Why Teach Programming With BASIC? · · Score: 1

    My first lines of code were in ForTran (yup, another shit sandwich) in the 70s, but of course that not on any machine I owned. Yes, played with BASIC a little but didn't care for it, though I did type in some BASIC electronics hobbyist programs from magazines (open source before Bruce and Eric, heh)

  11. Re:Esperanto on Chinese Written Language To Dominate Internet · · Score: 1

    Your fan-boy's cute article non-withstanding, any competent linguist will tell you that the phonology, grammar, vocabulary, and semantics of Esperanto are based on the western Indo-European languages, and nothing else. Funny that bit in article about the having the "spirit of Hebrew", as I can assure you Esperanto has none of the phonology, grammar, vocabulary nor semantics of any semite language.

    Persian is a western language, being Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European. Hence it was an easy addition to your exclusively western language repertoiure.

    That wikipedia that just proves a few esperanto speakers wasted an enormous amount of time to make a language wikipedia of little practical use.

  12. Re:Is it 1994 again? on Why Teach Programming With BASIC? · · Score: 1

    I'd rather my students not think of white space as significant. that's so gay

  13. Re:Microcomputers grew up with us. on Why Teach Programming With BASIC? · · Score: 1

    funny, I programmed in Pascal on my microcomputer in the early 80s. BASIC was the shit sandwich choice.

  14. Re:Allow me... on Open Source After 12 Years · · Score: 1

    Yes, our BSD Unix came with the source and multiple compilers, just for the asking.

    The TRS-80, hah, that was late 70s. The PDPs first came out in 60s.

    I tellz ya, deez cute but iggernit young punks.....git yer tricycle off mah lawn!

  15. Re:Misleading, Perl 6 is NOT available, not done y on 23 Years of Culture Hacking With Perl · · Score: 1

    oh, it exists all right. But unusable for serious work, no one is going to hire me to develop in Perl 6.

    Not whining, I've done plenty of Perl 5 development over the last 20 years. Sorry to see Larry try to turn Perl 6 into mutant Swiss Army Knife with fold-out condom and umbrella and eggbeater and cuckcoo clock.

    the guts of a thousand whales fed through a wood chipper....

  16. Re:Esperanto on Chinese Written Language To Dominate Internet · · Score: 1

    Doesn't change the fact those people are using western constructs; again *Your Esperanto is a Latinate Language* It's totally western.

    How many eastern languages do you speak? zero, I'll bet. Your only frame of reference is western languages.

    Funny how I hear these tired worn arguments from people who can speak Esperanto. You have an obscure fringe hobby, there are more people who have used pig-latin in their childhood than who will ever speak Esperanto.

  17. Re:Integrity of language on Chinese Written Language To Dominate Internet · · Score: 1

    on the other hand, we can all enjoy internet pr0n regardless of language being spoken or grunted or shouted

  18. Re:Unlikely on Chinese Written Language To Dominate Internet · · Score: 1

    wrong, China is a Sino-Tibetan language. That language group has more first-language speakers than Indo-European, Sino-Tebetan languages includes by the way northeast India (shame on you for assuming all Indians speak an Indo-European langauge)

    http://stedt.berkeley.edu/html/STfamily.html

    Arabic is member of the Semitic language family.

  19. Re:Esperanto on Chinese Written Language To Dominate Internet · · Score: 1

    that's just silly. Esperanto is a Latinate language, and thus suitable solely for western thought and concepts. We already have a logical, consistent Latinate language that isn't an artificial construct and in fact has over a million speakers, as opposed to Esperanto's few thousand (inflated lies to the contrary): Latin! Might as well waste one's time learning Klingon.

  20. Re:Solved with dogs on TSA Investigates Pilot Who Exposed Security Flaws · · Score: 1

    You've convinced me. We should use pigs; they have more developed sense of smell anyway.

  21. Re:Don't compromise ... on TSA Investigates Pilot Who Exposed Security Flaws · · Score: 1

    That in no way is a valid argument against secession. A seceding entity need not care what the Supreme Court's opinion is. Since our federal government is already committing far more grievous transgressions against the life, liberty and security of the people than England did in the 18th century, a similar declaration of independence is of course justified.

  22. Re:I'm not dead yet! on 23 Years of Culture Hacking With Perl · · Score: 1

    used for build and ports, but who's writing any new things in it. I make BSD appliance software, but haven't done Perl in six years.

  23. Misleading, Perl 6 is NOT available, not done yet on 23 Years of Culture Hacking With Perl · · Score: 2

    Perl 6 spec is still in development, not done yet. Rakudo is an implementation of something that is not done yet, and pugs even less so. Anyone who uses this for any remotely production related is insane. Face it folks, Larry killed Perl.

  24. Re:findings misunderstood on Placebos Work -- Even Without Deception · · Score: 1

    if taken when blood sugar drops dangerously low, then yes, should work wonderfully.

  25. in the west, it's time to shun college on Problems With Truncation On the Common Application · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The foundation of the economies of most the world are continuing to collapse, the spending of the common man that drives it continues to decrease. Never mind the central banks efforts to pump the markets with their injections, the ability to generate real wealth is being destroyed. Already young college degree holders are already either unemployed or waiting tables. If your college won't be 80% or more paid for, take your money and buy tangible goods that will hold their value as everything paper based collapses. Spend your time learning a skill that will be worth something in a depression.