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  1. HA! on Worm With Rootkit Package Loose On AIM · · Score: 2, Funny

    *I* pressed the shiny red button and noth@#$@#$##)(*)()_(NO CARRIER

  2. Re:Totally sufficient resolution, you are on crack on Hubble Zooms In On Moon Minerals · · Score: 1

    I'd really like to see that, and so would a lot of other people - any idea why this is not public?

  3. Math and Magic the Gathering on Coding and Roleplaying - Is There a Connection? · · Score: 1

    When I was first exposed to MtG I realised that the system it worked with was a large group or monoid or some such fundamental algebraic structure.

    I researched the designer and sure enough - he has a Phd in Math. It has to be a large group (or whatever).

    Has anyone with more education explored this deeper than me, so I can learn more than 'whatever', please?

  4. Re:Now just slap a cyberthalamus in on DARPA Grand Challenge Finalists Announced · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah? What about a Respondometer? Remember Doc Magnus' Metal Men? THEY had Respondometers!

    Ob. Homer Simspon Metal Man quote - "Platinum... mmmMMMMmmmm"

  5. This is a disastrous mistake on Google Declares War on Microsoft · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Lighting up Bill Gate's competitive brain wiring is the stupidest mistake possible.

    Microsoft is good at certain things (they never quit, they only get better, they listen to their customers and they admit when they are wrong are just a few) but what they are REALLY good at is polishing off the competition - and Google just made themselves the competition.

    You could argue that MS picked the fight by going into the search business BUT that was like BUSINESS. This is PERSONAL.

    I give Google 5-7 years on the outside.

  6. The Army will be all over this on The Quintessential Sentry Gun · · Score: 1

    like ugly on an ape. Auto guns are effective though - I remember in Unreal, Half-Life and Duke Nukem 3D, auto guns were a pain in the ass to get by, and almost always killed you first time you met them.

  7. The price of computers halves every 18 months on Review: Monarch Computer's Nemesis FX-57 7800 SLI Gaming · · Score: 1

    but the one you WANT always costs $2,500 !

  8. I worry about Miyazaki... on Miyazaki Talks to the Guardian · · Score: 1

    because everyone one of his leading characters is an adolescent girl. I'm worried they'll catch him in the kip with one one day.

  9. British schoolboy trig trick on Trigonometry Redefined without Sines And Cosines · · Score: 1

    Some People Have Curly Brown Hair Till Painted Black.

    Some People Have
    Sin = Perpendicular / Hypotenuse

    Curly Brown Hair
    Cos = Base / Hypotenuse

    Till Painted Black.
    Tan = Perpendicular / Base

  10. The greatest medical achevement of all time on Australian Science Makes the Regenerating Mouse · · Score: 1

    IF this is for real.

    Bigger then Insulin.

    If it IS - they'll get the Nobel Prize and the committee will retire it. How can you top this?

    The blind will see and the lame will walk.

    What do you want?

    On second thought, there's still cancer, aids, a whole bunch of powerful viral and bacterial diseases and brain damage to solve yet.

    But still, this is the shit! (That's a technical term)

  11. Re:How would software patents have changed our tod on The First Killer App: VisiCalc · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up - he/she/it is absolutely right.

    Software patents are a cancer on the industry - the only reason MS DIDN'T patent the fundamentals of the business is even THEY have some shame.

    Oh wait, no they don't - they just didn't think of it at the time....

  12. Re:I can't believe I was actually worried about th on Microsoft Genuine Advantage Cracked in 24 Hours · · Score: 1

    They're too busy wondering why manhole covers are round.

  13. Invasion of America before 2030 on USA to Pass Science Crown to China · · Score: 1

    2000 years is not a long time to the Chinese. They remember how Rome took care of business in Carthage, and before 2030 they'll do the same thing to the USA.

    *IF* you are not careful (and I say this as a Canadian) they'll hit your west coast with 100 million cloned troops with the highest technology in the world and roll the USA up like a rug.

    You'll become the CAP (Chinese Agricultural Protectorate) and few remaining Americans will be tenant farmers for the Han.

    Flame me, but this is a warning.

  14. Re:Whatever happened to Crawford? on So You Want To Be a Game Designer? · · Score: 1

    IIRC, he got a job doing a game development column for the late lamented Next-Generation Magazine (Whatever happened to THAT might be a good topic) and couldn't stop libeling people, quarreled with management and got fired.

    Haven't heard from him since.

  15. Never happen on Morse Code on Cell Phones? · · Score: 1

    This will never happen as it takes skill and discipline to learn MC and these SMS phone kids are rapping idiot gangsta wanna-be wiggers.

    It might wind up a project on Sourceforge, but like Unix itself, it will; always be for the few.

  16. Re:sanity checking on A $251 Million Typo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I once had a job like this at a construction company. I messed up and it was caught by the boss but I told him the software should have caught it.

    He told me 'A poor workman blames his tools'.

  17. Re:Forget 3.4 Mill on How to Become A Real-World Superhero · · Score: 1

    I loved those books! Of all the tough guy books out there only two survived - the Destroyer and The Executioner - which spawned Marvel's rip-off The Punisher (which has eclipsed the original!)

    Too bad the Destroyer movie dropped the ball.. :-(

  18. Here's an improvment BT really needs on Microsoft Wants P2P Avalanche to Crush BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Often when dling a file I notice five sources have 80% of the file and one source has the whole file.

    BUT BT just treats the whole source as an ordinary source and just leechs data the others also have.

    What it SHOULD do is get the data only that one has. Get the rare pieces first, you see.

    This will prevent waiting ages for that last little bit.

  19. Re:naturally... on Nerds Make Better Lovers · · Score: 1

    You neglected to mention that we practice so much by ourselves....

  20. Re:Biased coins -- not good enough. on When Is It Random Enough? · · Score: 1
    Not bad - but what you do THEN is make N (a power of two) of these bits and XOR them together.

    If the prob of a head is (1 + Epsilon) / 2 then the prob of a head becomes (1 + Epsilon to the power of N) / 2.

    As Epsilon must be less than one this diminishes towards zero with remarkable speed, and the prob of a head approaches .5 just as fast.

  21. Re:Not only America on Critical Shortage of IT Workers in Coming Years · · Score: 1

    Best. Slashdot. Message. EVER.

  22. Cool! Now post some pictures on DIY High-Altitude Ballooning · · Score: 1

    of your being arrested by Homeland Security for your terrorist attack on the airport...

  23. BitKeeper just screwed the pooch on Linus Drops BitKeeper · · Score: 1

    Having Linus endorse BK was the best thing that ever happened to it, better than everything else put together.

    Now they've blown it because of some suit's decision.

  24. And the integrated DRM? on Intel Develops Hardware To Enhance TCP/IP Stacks · · Score: 5, Interesting
    and how much DRM are they going to build onto the motherboard, just in passing?

    Don't think for a minute the big boys aren't trying to take the Internet away from us. The missed the opportunity once, never twice.

  25. That would slow things down on How VeriSign Could Stop Drive-By Downloads · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And since the purpose of opportunistic companies like Verisign, who's keys are no better than anyone else's, is to make as much doe ray me as fast as possible, why are they going to do this?