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  1. Re:Steve the Crocodile Hunter on American Movie Execs Could Face Aussie Jails For Hacking · · Score: 1

    "Elbow deep inside the borderline..."

    "Show me that you love me and that we belong together..."

  2. Re:aAAAAhEEEEMMM.... on Brian Walker (aka Rocket Guy) Fires Back · · Score: 1

    Yes, but their cuts were nice and disinfected!

  3. I am confident... on More on Riemann Hypothesis · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...that these proofs will not be solved using conventional methods, but they will eventually be solved using SMALL PROGRAMS with SIMPLE RULES. These rules can be run on a simple computer using my program, Mathematica. Easy!

    Either that, or you can solve them by buying REAL ESTATE with NO MONEY DOWN! or by placing SMALL ADS in NEWSPAPERS with your own 900 NUMBER!!!!!

  4. Re:"expose scholars around the world to... on 5000 year-old Cuneiform tablets Go Digital · · Score: 1

    "Too bad they don't know you like I do, Belloq."

    "Yes, too bad. You could warn them...if only you spoke Hovitos."

  5. Re:Madnick is not an MIT computer science professo on Microsoft Expert Witness Stumbles · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yeah, but all three degrees of his are from Course 6, so someone there's to blame...

    Of course, they're probably all dead now...

  6. Re:Entrapment on Wireless, GPS-Loaded 'Bait Car' Traps Thieves · · Score: 1

    Only if it was Vogon poetry...

  7. Re:When the functional paradigm is superior? on Functional Languages Under .NET/CLR · · Score: 1


    Go here, and be illuminated.

  8. Re:Why does it always have to be robot combat? on Junkyard Wars: The Next Generation · · Score: 1

    Yeah, then he flipped over like a dead goat.

    What an anticlimax...

  9. Re:To quote an AI Lab posting on MIT Media Lab Tightens Its Belt · · Score: 1

    ...Stallman's been there?

  10. Re:wait wait wait on NASA Researching Antimatter Engines · · Score: 1

    Now, now.

    Matter and energy are governed by the same conservation law and are different forms of the same thing. E=mc^2, right?

    So when you "annihilate" matter using antimatter, you're not removing it from the universe, you're turning into pure energy, which is just another of its forms. The system is closed; nothing is lost.

    As for spontaneous particle-anti-particle pairs, that's more to do with zero-point fluctuation and things like Hawking radiation.

  11. Re:What? on How To Make Software Projects Fail · · Score: 1

    That, and Kuro5hin's still down...

  12. Re:Why would we need another language? on The D Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Aaaaagh! Mine eyes! I cannot see! It burns us!

  13. Re:CL vs Scheme on Using Lisp to beat your Competition. · · Score: 1

    I don't know. I've always has a slight problem with Felleisen and Friedman's Q&A method. That and the fact that the book tends towards "10 uses of recursion" as opposed to Scheme.

  14. Re:CL vs Scheme on Using Lisp to beat your Competition. · · Score: 2

    Sigh. Young'uns.

    Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs>

    by Abelson and Sussman

  15. Re:Felten's at Princeton though, they can afford on RIAA, DMCA, EFF, And So Forth · · Score: 2

    Felten needs to pen his memoirs after this:

    "David and Goliath: A tale of the DMCA"
    or
    "How I rode the RIAA like a bad boy to tenure at Princeton"

  16. Re:Oh, but that has been done already :) on Learn The Language Of Math · · Score: 1

    That would be "Principia Mathematica" by Russell and Whitehead.

    See here.

  17. Re:Who cares? on Open Courses at MIT · · Score: 1

    It appears we have an ID-10T error here.

    You don't go to MIT for a strong humanities program. You can go to the school up Chuck River for that.

    You go to MIT to learn HOW to think technically. It's not important what you know, but how you digest and use scientific information. This is difficult to obtain from course materials alone.

    Think of it as being a chef and going to France. You are probably a damn good cook before hand, but until you have that something "extra", whether it be French attitudes or the ability to finish a Unified Engineering problem set in one overnight session, you'll never be as good as someone who's been there.

    And BTW, I've used Reversible Computing at my job. Then again, I am in research.

  18. Re:Err. on Dreamcast Postmortem · · Score: 1

    Nope. Genesis started out in front, but the SNES was waaay ahead by the time the next wave of consoles (Playstation, Saturn) was coming.

  19. Re:East Fishkill? on A PlayStation In Deep Blue, Or Vice Versa? · · Score: 1

    Sigh.

    OK. The original name of Fishkill is 'Vis Kill', which is Dutch for "Fish Stream". It was governed by the British, but many of the first settlers were Dutch. You can see many uses of the word under debate ("kill") in many of the other place names in the NYC area, such as Peekskill ("Peek's Steam") and Kill van Kull.

    Check out:
    http://www.fishkill-ny.org/com.html

    Next time, don't come to a kife fight armed with a hangnail.

  20. The Process.. on Windows 2000 Source Code Gets (A Few) More Eyes · · Score: 1

    Lemme see, open "ntoskrnl.c" into Emacs...

    Search for "int main(int argv, char **argc) {"

    And here we go..!

    AAAAAAAAGHH! AAUUUGGH! Mine Eyes! I Cannot See! I Cannot See!

  21. Re:I hope she makes a lot of money off of this on Paper Phones · · Score: 1

    "a very cleaver idea"

    So you could say it's "cutting edge"?

  22. Re:I think this is one of MIT's keys to a good rep on MIT 'Hall of Hacks' Gone · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that "Real Genius" was set in a euphemism for CalTech (Pacific Tech!?) but was based upon MIT shenannigans.
    Lord knows enough of that stuff went on when I was there. (Working Phone Booth on the Great Dome, anyone?)

  23. Heck with this... on Marine Corps Testing Maser for Anti-Personnel Use · · Score: 1

    So where's the damn lightning gun?
    Or the BFG?

  24. Re:The meaning of SCRAMJET on A Million Bucks, Mach 7.6, Straight Down · · Score: 1

    That why it's called a Supersonic Combustion Ramjet!

  25. Re:Five Words Sum it Up... on Berkely Breathed Interview · · Score: 1

    "Penguin burgers, extra lettuce
    special orders don't upset us!"