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  1. Re:I wonder what his Secret Service nickname is? on Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker · · Score: 1

    I have a buddy, his father is retired SS. At a BBQ a couple weeks ago, he referred to him as "plugs". Of course, he also referred to "nig-nog", so take it with a grain of salt.

  2. Re:Always a source of amusment on Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's assasination insurance.

  3. Re:I can see it now on Mozilla Preparing To Scrap Tabbed Browsing? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    These are the people who thought up the awesome bar.

  4. my trifecta on Finding a Personal Coding Trifecta · · Score: 5, Funny

    taking a shit, eating pizza, and a porn-star quality blow job.

  5. Re:Yes, but.... on MySQL Founder Starts Open Database Alliance, Plans Refactoring · · Score: 0, Troll

    MySQL isn't a database.

  6. Re:Google vs. Twitter...Once in an e-lifetime. on Confirmed Gmail / Google App Outage · · Score: 4, Funny

    not only that, but slashdot wasn't fucked up by some web 1.9998743234722415086 "improvement."

  7. Re:They asked for it on Remote Kill Flags Surface In Kindle · · Score: 1

    It can if you're a retard and are downloading shit at work.

  8. Re:So... on Illusion Cloak Makes One Object Look Like Another · · Score: 2, Funny

    In that case, it could keep David Copperfield in business.

  9. Dorks discover beer, film at 11 on Illusion Cloak Makes One Object Look Like Another · · Score: -1, Troll

    n/t

  10. Re:The first things to do on Qt Opens Source Code Repositories · · Score: 1

    Again, zero logic here. Boost is just another C++ library. It is not any more or less standard than Qt.

    We aim to establish "existing practice" and provide reference implementations so that Boost libraries are suitable for eventual standardization. Ten Boost libraries are already included in the C++ Standards Committee's Library Technical Report (TR1) and will be in the new C++0x Standard now being finalized. C++0x will also include several more Boost libraries in addition to those from TR1. More Boost libraries are proposed for TR2.

    Boost is more standard than Qt.

  11. Re:QT is used on cell phones as well on Qt Opens Source Code Repositories · · Score: 5, Informative
    Qt was Open Source in that it was GPL, however trolltech was dual licensing it. Being GPL, it was toxic to anything but GPL programs, which meant closed source (or even non-GPL open source) would need to pay for Qt.

    Nokia relicensed Qt as LGPL which makes it usable by non-GPL programs.

  12. Re:Jailbreak on Apple Refusing Any BitTorrent Related Apps? · · Score: 5, Funny

    So ... you photoshop your porn before a late night wank session?

  13. Re:R&D on Microsoft Releases New Concurrent Programming Language · · Score: 1

    The c# syntax is a real advantage over vb.net.

  14. Re:Needs a better name on Test Driving the Wolfram Alpha · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're thinking of richard stall (as in bathroom) man. True fact: his given last name is "Wilson". "Stallman" was a nickname from the 70s. (Hey, it was the 70s, no AIDs, and lots of cock and pussy to be had).

  15. Re:Comments on DOSBox Sees Continued Success · · Score: 1

    Hell no. CmdrTaco has a checkbox for "disable critcism"

  16. Re:Trademarks helps some of OSS best organisations on Trademarks Considered Harmful To Open Source · · Score: 1

    Congratulations. You didn't read the article, you didn't read the summary, you didn't read the title, and you didn't even read the comment you're replying to.

    Patents aren't trademarks.

  17. Re:Matt Asay on MS Releases Open Source Alternative To BigTable · · Score: 1

    Let me guess... same reaction every time you see goatse?

  18. Re:did they use hot chicks to promote it? on MS Releases Open Source Alternative To BigTable · · Score: 2, Insightful

    when to use couch?

    when availability is more important than consistency

    I think I'd rather not subscribe to that newsletter.

  19. Re:so what's the license? on MS Releases Open Source Alternative To BigTable · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's apache, which is more free than GPL.

  20. Re:Crap on MS Releases Open Source Alternative To BigTable · · Score: 0

    That reminds me of Hong Kong. When it was british ruled, it was a capitalistic oasis. When china took it over, they kept some of the capitalism, but there was no change elsewhere.

  21. Re:Of course on Oracle Won't Abandon SPARC, Says Ellison · · Score: 5, Informative

    The last year or so, Apple has been putting some serious effort into custom chip design, purchasing P.A. Semi and hiring key design guys from IBM and AMD/ATI.

  22. The answer: nothing on What's Getting Cut From Science Part of the Federal Budget · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not $17 billion in cuts, it's $17 billion in proposed cuts, 99% of which won't happen. For comparison, last year George W Bush proposed 434 billion in cuts, none of which happened.

  23. Re:Another smart move from the movers and shakers. on News Corp Will Charge For Newspaper Websites · · Score: 1
    WSJ is one of the only papers not losing subscribers (and money). I don't know how much they make from online subscriptions, but they are one of the only papers I would consider paying an online subscription for.

    That said, I don't see how that would work for something like foxnews or the new york post.

  24. full circle on News Corp Will Charge For Newspaper Websites · · Score: 1

    When News Corp bought the WSJ (which charged for some online content at the time), conventional wisdom was that it would be more profitable to end the subscriptions and make money from ads.

  25. Re:At Least It's Egier to Use and Less Glib on Debian Switching From Glibc To Eglibc · · Score: 5, Informative

    yes, nanoseconds. If that.

    Just for kicks, I compared memsetting 20 bytes (aligned) vs 3 bytes (unaligned) with llvm-gcc (which can output code in a dozen assembly languages).

    For mips, sparc, and ppc32, a 3-byte unaligned memset must be done 1 byte at a time, so the 20 byte memset is only 2 instructions more (5 32-bit stores).

    For 64-bit alpha and ppc64, the 20-byte memset only uses 3 instructions (2 64-bit stores + a 32-bit store).

    x86 (and arm, for that matter) can do a 3-byte memset as a 8-byte set and a 16-byte set.