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  1. Re:Premature on Gov't Proposes "National Climate Service" For the US · · Score: 2, Insightful

    how is this a troll? climatologists are making mutually exclusive predictions. No snow? Global warming. Lots of snow? Global warming. Cowboy Neal shits his pants after eating at taco bell? Global warming.

  2. Re:Premature on Gov't Proposes "National Climate Service" For the US · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If I predict the saints will win the superbowl but I also predict the colts will win the superbowl, where's the confidence? Last year the climatologists were touting their predictions that washington DC would never see snow again. This year they dug up their predictions that winters will be more severe.

  3. Re:Let's just ditch JavaScript. on Opera 10.50 Beta Out, With Competitive JavaScript · · Score: 1

    for the record, IE also supports VBScript and PerlScript. Maybe you should spend more time with IE.

  4. Re:But what did Apple want? on IdeaPad U1, What We Wanted the iPad To Be · · Score: 1

    iWorks will be available on day 1. The omni group is porting/rewriting all their business apps for the iPad. Even Microsoft is considering putting office on it. There are a lot of potential business uses for it and the software will either lead the way or follow the money.

  5. Re:"Natural Born Clickers" vs. Google on Google Considered Too Big To Fail · · Score: 1

    I tried running some adwords a couple months ago (google gave me a $100 credit, not my money!). The content networks seemed to be a major waste of money. Lots of clicks, lots of incentive for click fraud, no way to tell why my ads are showing up, no return on investment. With search page ads, i can see what keywords are being used and make sure the ads are relevant. Assuming you're doing a reasonably intelligent campaign, people are searching for what you're advertising.

  6. Re:No Joke on Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina · · Score: 0, Troll
    here's the actual text:

    Every member of a subversive organization, or an organization subject to foreign control, every foreign agent and every person who advocates, teaches, advises or practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States, of this State or of any political subdivision thereof by force or violence or other unlawful means, who resides, transacts any business or attempts to influence political action in this State, shall register with the Secretary of State on the forms and at the times prescribed by him.

    But you're not using force or violence, so no problem, right? But thanks to the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform (aka the Recumbent Re-election Act), blogging about an candidate within 60 days of an election might be unlawful.

  7. Re:First and Last solution? on Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From what I've read and remember, in ancient Greece, a legislator who sponsored a law which was struck down by the court (??) was fined.

  8. Re:+10 Flamebait on Linux Foundation Announces 2010 "We're Linux" Video Contest · · Score: 1

    so you've met slashdot editor roblimo.

    anyone else get a laugh out of this? (warning! potentially worse than goatse and tubgirl combined)

  9. Re:WTF? on Power To the Pop-Ups · · Score: 1

    Shit man, you need to see some of the text-walls that Micheal Crawford has produced. The dude makes Barack "I" Obama seem humble.

  10. use tor on Power To the Pop-Ups · · Score: 1

    ok, it's slow sometimes. Well, do your part. Run a node (and ideally an exit node).

  11. Re:Java vs Objective C - is iPhone always faster? on Swiss Firm Claims Boost In Android App Performance · · Score: 1

    By default they still use gcc though there is an option to use clang (llvm-g++ for c++) or llvm-gcc.

  12. Re:Java vs Objective C - is iPhone always faster? on Swiss Firm Claims Boost In Android App Performance · · Score: 1

    objective c is compiled BUT sending a message / calling a method goes through a runtime system which allows all kinds of awesome shit but is slower than a direct function call or an indirection table ala C++ virtual functions. Best case, compiled java could beat objective c by flattening out method calls.

  13. Re:Sweet on KDE 4.4 Released Alongside Website Redesign · · Score: 2, Informative

    try shift-f1 (or possibly shift-f3).

  14. Re:It would seem... on White House Claims Copyright On Flickr Photos · · Score: 1

    smokey the bear was given special protection by law, most likely the presidential seal (and probably other shit) has specific legal protection as well

  15. Re:Paypal's unspoken motto on Paypal Reverses Payments Made To Indians · · Score: 1

    "losing". Also, "sales"

  16. Re:did anyone actually buy a Nexus One? on Google's Nexus One, a Steal At $49 Unlocked? · · Score: 1

    They've developed a new business model.

    1. depend on partners
    2. piss off partners
    3. ????

  17. Re:You are an idiot but at least youre a happy idi on Apple's Change of Heart On Flash · · Score: 1

    I'm glad youtube is now serving videos with the video tag instead of flash.

  18. TOR on FBI Pushing For 2-Year Retention of Web Traffic Logs · · Score: 1

    TOR is your friend. Run a tor exit node (and unsecured wifi) to provide plausibly deniability and help others keep their privacy.

  19. Re:Mmm on Fallout: New Vegas Coming This Fall, Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    there were a lot of bugs on the PS3 version. disappearing characters, getting stuck in rocks, walls that you could walk through, VATS mode slowing to a crawl or unable to pick the right target, getting stuck in vats mode while the fight continues, and the entire system hanging. The first few are a problem for all systems.

  20. Re:The real question is... on Pluto — a Complex and Changing World · · Score: 1

    he's a goat, see?

  21. Re:Sounds pretty right to me on How Infighting Hampers Innovation At Microsoft · · Score: 1

    the ipad won't be available for a couple months and even then it may be another year before the possibilities are more fully explored. It is just a big iPhone, but at the same time, it isn't. Yeah, you can surf the internet while you take a shit or read a book, but I can picture a lot of business uses that are a lot more exciting. iWorks is there. The Omni group will be rewriting all their applications. There will undoubtably be creative audio visual apps.

  22. all of the above on Keep SSH Sessions Active, Or Reconnect? · · Score: 1

    reconnect as needed, but tunnel your ssh over an ssh session which is always active.

  23. Re:I'm pretty over IDEs on Eight PHP IDEs Compared · · Score: 2, Funny

    Aside from using one specific IDE, he pretty much never uses IDEs. Here are some more for you to practice on:

    Aside from tylenol, I pretty much never use drugs.

    Aside from kathleen fent, I pretty much never fuck fat girls.

    Aside from New Year's eve, I pretty much never get shit faced.

  24. Re:A stupid question... on Facebook's HipHop Also a PHP Webserver · · Score: 1
    About @ ... There's only one reason I've used it.

    let's say you might have a cookie or post variable. Maybe it's there, maybe it's not. With perl or javascript, an undefined variable is undef (or undefined). In PHP, it's an error. x = @$_POST['x']; is a shortcut for x = isset($_POST['x']) ? $_POST['x'] : '';

    It kind of reminds me of references. Most language designers would pass objects and arrays by reference. But the PHP guys thought (?) it would be better to pass by value.And return by value. Even from constructors. Somebody eventually pointed out that was stupid, so they added references (&). But references aren't pointers to data, they're pointers to an entry in the symbol table or something equally bizarre. PHP 5 got slightly more reasonable so objects are always passed (and returned) by reference.

  25. Re:A stupid question... on Facebook's HipHop Also a PHP Webserver · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this gem stood out when I read about this earlier:

    We are able to get new engineers ramped up at Facebook a lot faster with PHP than with other languages, which allows us to innovate faster.

    What kind of experience and intellect do they have -- or not have -- if that's an issue?