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  1. Re:Imperiled by binary decimals? on Excel 2007 Multiplication Bug · · Score: 1

    So in other words Excel is using some form of floating or fixed point BCD?

    Ouch.. I am not surprised bugs like this appears.

  2. Re:Good Luck! on Excel 2007 Multiplication Bug · · Score: 1

    Rubbish.

    spreadsheets have their place.


    Yes, in accounting.

  3. Re:Heuristics ARE algorithms on The Gradual Public Awareness of the Might of Algorithms · · Score: 1

    Heuristics are always algorithms and they always produce accurate results that depend on their input.

    Heuristics are only vague in the sense, that they don't ask the full question, their result is correct answer for algorithm, but not necessarily the answer for the full un-asked question.

    So heuristics are inaccurate question, NOT inaccurate results.

  4. Re:Asking the competitors what they think.. on Google Experiences EU Antitrust Friction Over Doubleclick · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've a question: who'll protect us from the monopoly of the EU? Did anyone ask YOU if you want them protecting your rights in THIS particular fashion? Did someone ask you when EU slapped VAT and sales tax on online purchases? Do I have a choice, short of moving to a different continent.

    They ask me, the European citizen. The candidate I voted for ran on that platform, and is now doing what he promised when I voted for him.

    If you disagree, vote for someone else.

  5. Re:"Yeah, those suspicious e-lectronics" on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 1

    I don't know about Madrid, but in the London explosions large bags was used.

  6. Re:"Yeah, those suspicious e-lectronics" on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is the threat of shooting innocent people that is wrong.

    The "security" at American (and now European) airports is phony. It is only there to make people feel safe, it has no real effect. This is why these events piss off people. We know they are not going to catch any serious threat, but instead they arrest or harass everybody else.

    You are not going to see Iraqi or Israel style suicide bombings in the US. They require weaponsgrade explosives, and still makes the suicide bomber looks bulging like he is carring a lot of heavy stuff tied to body (not something you can carry under a t-shirt!). The kind of explosives you can acquire and produce in a western country will only create events like that at Glasgow, which was a joke.

  7. Re:"Yeah, those suspicious e-lectronics" on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    She's very lucky they didn't shoot her through the head. With the crowds of people around the main concern is the safety of the bystanders. The guards responded with amazing self restraint: Remember, they are just people with families, lives etc.. If she HAD been fucking nuts, she could have killed them all in a picosecond.
    You are very lucky we don't shoot you through the head. With the crowds of people around the main concern is the safety of the bystanders. We can't let gun crazy nuts like you run around free.

  8. Re:"Strategy" is Not Rational on Gartner Says Open Source "Impossible To Avoid" · · Score: 1

    That's quite a sweeping statement. Since you're using it to back up your implied argument that free software is inherently superior, could you provide some examples of this?
    No it is inherently older. Back when the money was made on hardware, almost all software was open source.

  9. Re:I don't mind the cameras so much... on 10,000 Cameras Ineffective At Deterring Crime · · Score: 1

    And how do you catch them????

    You don't! You would need a very lucky camera at just the right angel at just the right place to get a good picture.

  10. Re:Efficiency? on 10,000 Cameras Ineffective At Deterring Crime · · Score: 1

    You can't identify a person from a video recording without a powerful zoom, and a camera aware actor. Second, those crimes you mention, while often reported in the news, are so rare that they hardly exists at all.

    For instance Sex offenders are 99.9% relatives and friends and not strangers on the street

  11. Re:Streisand effect? on MediaDefender and the Streisand Effect · · Score: 1

    New name for the Xenu effect. Don't know why they renamed it though. Strangely the wikipedia article doesn't even mention the much older Scientology conflict.

  12. Re:No on Boeing Dreamliner Safety Concerns Are Specious · · Score: 1

    No but usually more than half the passengers survive a "failed" crash-landing, so with everybody dead, it will quickly reach record potential.

  13. Re:.. And as usual.. on Australia Cracked US Combat Aircraft Codes · · Score: 1

    I am more worried when some major controversy erupts in Slovakia, since you can infact walk to Slovenia from it.

  14. Re:And yet again... on Examining Presidential Candidates' Tech Agendas · · Score: 1


    Withdraw from NAFTA, the WTO, the UN, NATO

    So he is an anti-UN nutcase?

    Geez. You americans really gets the worst of political candidates.

  15. Re:Every major candidate's agenda on Examining Presidential Candidates' Tech Agendas · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately Ron Paul is a fruitcake. I don't the lesson to be learned from electing a stupid president is electing a crazy one.

  16. Re:Someone has been brainswashed on AMD Announces Triple-Core Phenom Processors · · Score: 1

    In symmetric multiprocessors, all processors access the same shared memory uniformly. That is, memory access delays depend neither on what memory zone nor from which processor it is being accessed.
    No, that just crappy Intel SMP. Not true for SMP in general.

  17. Re:It's ironic choice of car analogy on Microsoft Loses EU Anti-Trust Appeal · · Score: 1

    If you were actually IN Europe such a statement would be groundless, and you could change the radio without fear of loosing warranty. Sorry for screwing you, but you either made the silly rules in your country, or listened to lying salesman.

  18. Re:So, it's free? on Apple, the RIAA, and Ringtones · · Score: 5, Informative
    Answering my own comment after RFTA:

    Derk Nek of Epplegacks explained that--unfortunately--what the RIAA actually won in the case cited by Engadget was instead the right to collect money for ringtones without distributing those fees to the artists they represent. There was no establishing that ringtones are not protected intellectual property, so the RIAA will continue collecting royalty fees, because distributing songs or portions of songs requires mechanical rights. Playing a ringtone might also--in the mind of the RIAA and the letter of the law--require performing rights.


    Though it doesn't get any less fucked up by this explaination.

  19. So, it's free? on Apple, the RIAA, and Ringtones · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If a song as a ringtone isn't a derived product, and RIAA can makes ringtones of popular music without infringing the copyright of the artists that means we (anyone) can also make our own ringtones of popular music without infringing anyones copyright...

  20. Re:Won't be long on Impassable Northwest Passage Open For First Time In History · · Score: 1

    Oh damn, it was the wrong passage that opened up. Sorry

  21. Re:world of hurt? on Is Apple Doing All It Can to Beat Vista? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Mac Mini's are way to slow to be acceptable for any real work. When you add the unnecessary animation delays built into the Mac OS X, then you need a world of patience to stop your self from throwing it out the window and go buy a PC.

  22. Re:FIST SPORT on Creationists Silence Critics with DMCA · · Score: 1

    Ehmm guys?

    I think he is being sarcastic.

  23. Re:Sovreignity rights on Impassable Northwest Passage Open For First Time In History · · Score: 1

    No. Denmark which also claims the sovereignty has a better navy, and more importantly, ships which better ice-breaking ability and better ice protection. We could actually sail the "passage" when it is closed.

    Canada though is starting to design and build ships to match the danish, so maybe in 5-10 years you won't be so hopelessly unable to defend your claims.

  24. Re:Won't be long on Impassable Northwest Passage Open For First Time In History · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course he disagrees. The Northwest Passage is danish sovereignty. The Canadians just doesn't know how to read maps.

  25. Re:READ. THE. ARTICLE. on Theo de Raadt On Relicensing BSD Code · · Score: 1

    The driver is linked to the linux kernel, the linux kernel is the derived product.