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  1. Re:$9.1M to teach us... on Largest High-Tech Tornado Chase Set To Begin · · Score: 1

    $9.1M to teach us.. that tornadoes are attracted to mobile homes?

    No idiots are attracted to tornadoes. Not sure what that says about these "scientists", but it can't be good, and will be fun to watch.

  2. Re:Grok? on Nine Words From Science Which Originated In Science Fiction · · Score: 3, Funny

    Grok is an old maritime word. It means watered down rum, and was served the Royal British Navy to keep sailors from mutineering and to give them some essential vitamins. Sailors could demand a minimum of two cups of grok every day.

  3. Re:other potential things on Nine Words From Science Which Originated In Science Fiction · · Score: 1

    If there are no real rules, and anything can happen, this is called "deus ex machina", and it's pretty lame.

    While extremely lame that sort of literature is still sold as Fantasy for children, see for instance the popular "Harry Potter" series.

  4. Re:Don't leave early. on Trick Used To Pass French "Three Strikes" · · Score: 1

    In a juster world, they would be hanging from the lampposts this morning

    This is France, so it is not entirely unlikely..

  5. Re:Shame on Trick Used To Pass French "Three Strikes" · · Score: 1

    My kingdom for Mod Points.

    According the GP your kingdom is a scummy as any other, and not worth much in a bargain ;)

  6. Re:Shame on Trick Used To Pass French "Three Strikes" · · Score: 5, Informative

    Executive orders are not laws. It is in the name; they are orders!

    If they contradict the law, they are no different from an illegal order from your private boss, and the dilemma is the same.

    If they don't contradict the law, they are no different from an other legal order from a private boss, and just have to be followed by his employees.

  7. Re:Glad to see.. on Angry Villagers Run Google Out of Town · · Score: 1

    - Is it an invasion of privacy to film her as she changes her chothes from a public street, then upload the video to the internet?

    You may not believe this but the answer is YES. To film people publicly you have to film them openly, they have to be aware that they are filmed, and if they object to being filmed you cannot publish the recording. Notice that for them to have the option of objecting they have to be aware, so filming people secretly even in public, is a violation of privacy.

  8. Re:Slashdot achievements on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    Get a comment so balanced it ends up getting more than 20 moderations.

    Done that. Though I was aiming for "Make a +5 moderated post explaining why Apple are rubbish.". By ending at -1, it was a failure but still had more than 20 +1 moderations.

    Oh yeah. In case anyone tries that, a quick warning: The shear number of negative moderations got me suspended from posting on slashdot for two weeks. Remember when suspending they only count negative moderations.

  9. Re:A little too alarmist on Graphic Artists Condemn UK Ban On Erotic Comics · · Score: 1

    And in Watchmen

    In Watchmen Dr. Manhattan has sex with a 17 year old. His wife accuses him of leaving her for jailbait and he really is. There is only a scene with them making out in the movie, can't remember if it is more explicit in the comic.

  10. Re:lkml.org server is slashdotted. on Kernel Hackers On Ext3/4 After 2.6.29 Release · · Score: 1

    As the GP said that only applies to metadata. In ext3 you configure it to journal data as well, but you don't want to do that, it is very slow.

  11. Re:Said with no wish for partisanship on KDE Project Invites Ideas With Online Brainstorm · · Score: 0

    But that gives you less control. You can not test a feature and easily revert, you have to reselect the option, and if the option is dangerous you are fucked. Doing something stupid is no less stupid just because the gnomes did it first.

  12. Re:today's xkcd on Taxpayers Fund AIG Lawsuit Against US · · Score: 1

    This issue is that we are rewarding the people in power for fucking us over.

    Where do you think the other 99.9% of the bailout is doing???

    Hint, they are going into the pockets of the assholes that fucked you over, covering their loses for being idiots, in the futile hope that the scam-artists will spend their ill-gotten gains in the US economy (trickle-down theory). The bonuses just like any other parts of the bailout go to undeserving people in the hope that they will spend it and help the economy. There is no difference between the bonuses and any other parts of the bailout, you have just catch a tiny glimpse of where your money is actually going. Stop worrying about the stupid 165million, and start worrying about the several hundred billions. This is what the comic is trying to show you: You are completely missing perspective.

  13. Re:brilliant or dangerous? on Are Quirky Developers Brilliant Or Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    Of course, really extremely smart people can outsmart fools into getting them to do what they want. Really smart people get more irritated working with other smart people who have opposing agendas.

    No, that is a psychopath. Really smart normal people has natural empathy. Human empathy will constantly guide them to expect other people to behave similar to themselves, and be disappointed everytime other people fails. Some learn to live with the disappointments, others become anti-social.

  14. Re:What about ... on What Features Should Be Included With iPhone 3.0? · · Score: 1

    ... a keyboard?

    While we are at wonderful, but extremely unlikely wishes:

    An SD Card slot.

    It would make it standard compatible with non-Apple MP3-player, non-Apple Mobile phones, and every digital camera on earth. Of course it would also force Apple to lower prices for high capacity versions. Of course it is as unlikely as any other step towards standard interfaces.

  15. Re:It's a Saturday on March 14th Officially Becomes National Pi Day · · Score: 1

    <blockquote>
    No need to worry, since over time the meaning will be lost and it will be assumed it was national 'Pie day'. For the years to come Apple pies will be sold in millions on this special day ;)
    </blockquote>

    Not just apple pie, but Apple pie? I had no idea Apple made pies.

  16. Re:speed is everything? on Microsoft Says IE Faster Than Chrome and Firefox · · Score: 2, Informative

    No IE has handled CSS1 fine since IE4. Microsoft pioneered the standard back when they were the underdog. They just never accepted the Mozilla-based correction to it (border-box vs content-box, root vs body). And by the time of CSS2 they had 90% marketshare and had no interest in standards anymore.

  17. Re:I CHALLENGE THE BBC TO DO THIS TO U.S. COMPUTER on BBC Hijacks 22,000 PCs In Botnet Demonstration · · Score: 1

    I don't think entering a home through an open door and looking around is not a crime, only breaking-and-entering or refusing to leave are crimes. Maybe it is just that way in the US?

  18. Re:Doesn't Make Economic Sense on GM Cornered Into Defending the Volt · · Score: 1

    Octane 92 is common many places in Europe. It is much more common than Octane 98 which is getting harder and harder to find outside Germany.

  19. Re:No swaggering... on A Short Summary Following the Pirate Bay Trial · · Score: 1

    Personally I have a major problem with a legal system that can deprive me of my liberty without the consent of the community. One more reason to be happy I was born in the United States I suppose.

    Wouldn't happen... I don't know the Swedish judicial system, but in Denmark and a few other countries I know with similar systems. That could never happen. While juries are rare, a jury is always required if the prosecutor is asking for a prison sentence. In this case the trial was a civil trial combined with a criminal trial for a fined offense. No need for a jury.

  20. Re:null or not null, that is the question on Null References, the Billion Dollar Mistake · · Score: 1

    While it is true there is no simple way to reassign a value of a reference because the '&' operator acts as id-operator on references, it still can be uninitialized, simply by "initializing" it to an uninitialized pointer:


    Object *p;
    Object &r = *p;

  21. Re:Jambi (Qt for Java) discontinued on QT 4.5 Released, Plus New IDE and Analysis Tool · · Score: 2, Interesting

    PyQt and several other Qt-bindings are community maintained, and I think there are more Java users in the world than the Python users. I could be wrong though, or the Java users could all be corporate slaves and not interested in free software development. Still I would put my money on Jambi surviving.

  22. Re:Nice on QT 4.5 Released, Plus New IDE and Analysis Tool · · Score: 1

    Separate interfaces and implementation then. Signals and slot are interface tools, templates are implementation tools. Yes you can mix that in C++ but it's usually not a good idea. Even is you disagree, nothing is really lost, except the ability to combine two great tools, and you can't really complain that the power drill doesn't make the chainsaw easier to use.

  23. Re:null or not null, that is the question on Null References, the Billion Dollar Mistake · · Score: 1

    Yes, that is exactly what this article is about! Null references, the problem with is that they are give undefined behavior.

  24. Re:null or not null, that is the question on Null References, the Billion Dollar Mistake · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You have much to learn. Don't mix how the language is supposed to work and what is actually possible.

    P *p = 0;
    P &r = *p;

    References that are NULL are the worst kind.

  25. Re:IMDB was up on Jurassic Web · · Score: 2, Insightful

    alt.binaries on usenet, open FTP servers, DDC channels on IRC

    While not P2P technology, the servers was not sued by RIAA or confiscated by the police. So P2P would have been a solution to a not yet existing problem.