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  1. Privacy Nazis on Google's Gdrive Raises Instant Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    If the Privacy Nazis kill my google data service or render it unusable, I'm going to be furious. For chrissakes, let me decide what to do with my data!

  2. Re: ipod in blade3 on Mathematicians Become Hollywood Consultants · · Score: 1

    I went to a free sneak preview of that awful movie. When that scene happened (twice!!) I just burst out laughing and couldn't stop - I didn't care about all the dirty looks. Unintentional comedy at its finest!

  3. you can't use python classes yet on IronPython Moving Forward Again · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It can *hypothetically* use Python classes - if you look at the release, there's not actually much there that you can use. As the compiler gets more stable and modern, you'll be able to use more of the python library (hopefully).

  4. Re:more no fair... on IBM Sponsors Linux on POWER Contest · · Score: 1

    How about now? I signed up a couple hours ago, still got nothing. I was wondering if you got your account.

  5. The guy is probably Robert Varkonyi on Geeks Playing Poker? · · Score: 1
  6. you're wrong about U of A poker bots on Geeks Playing Poker? · · Score: 1
    First off, the U of A's bots (they have a bunch) do not play only one-on-one. Go download poki and play against them if you'd like. If you want to write a bot to play against their bots in limit ring games, just implement the online poker protocol and write a bot for it (or use their implementations. I wrote one in python, if you want it).

    Furthermore, their bots are good, and they have published the majority of how those bots work. Check it out.

  7. sure, piece of cake on Foundations of Python Network Programming · · Score: 1

    Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Plato, and lots of others are available copyright-free at the Gutenberg Project.

  8. re: Downloadable Dive Into Python on Foundations of Python Network Programming · · Score: 1

    Mark Pilgrim pretty much got a special exception from apress to allow his book to be downloaded, IIRC.

  9. Re:I dream of a world without quicktime... on Review of Team America World Police · · Score: 1

    That's a good idea, but it doesn't work at all for me. I got it to run, but it skips a ton and without sound.

  10. kinda true, but... on Hackers As Factory Workers? · · Score: 2, Funny
    Yes, Microsoft does hire very smart people while recommending that companies hire the people with the right buzzwords. The reason that the companies that they sell software to can get away with people who are less smart/qualified than MS's people is that they are usually all developing in-house, form-based, data entry applications. These comprise the large majority (IMNSHO) of business applications, and it doesn't take a PHd to write one.

    In fact, it would be detrimental to have a PHd working on one. Thus, the companies can have a person that will take their orders well, while MS can hire people that will (hopefully) develop well.

  11. fake email address on Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go? · · Score: 1

    before I knew that the example.com address was basically reserved for this type of purpose, I always used 2@2.com - it's the shortest to type.

  12. vim is scriptable in python on Why this? Yet Another vi-based Editor? · · Score: 1

    link. It has been for a long time.

  13. sure he would on The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet? · · Score: 1

    but it'd be the cops doing the mugging.

  14. compile gtkmm under D on C, Objective-C, C++... D! Future Or failure? · · Score: 1

    I think that's being a little optimistic. While not technically untrue, I feel that a large C++ library wrapped around a large C library probably requires more than "minor modification".

  15. Re:wow on C, Objective-C, C++... D! Future Or failure? · · Score: 4, Informative

    D's only link-compatible with vanilla C, so you'd need to create a GTKD wrapper, or just use regular old gtk.

  16. Gotta disagree on Switching from Another Industry to Engineering/CS? · · Score: 1

    I would like to point out that YNHH is not a hospital where only the poor people go. In fact, it is rated as one of the top research hospitals in the US. While I would be the last to agree that YNHH is problem-free, I don't think that YNHH is a racist or classist hospital.

  17. 7zip's interface on Top 10 Software Titles Every Home PC Needs? · · Score: 1

    is it just me, or does 7zip's interface blow? I use it on my windows partition, but if I didn't know what I was doing, I'd be totally unable to use it.

  18. Load fine on RH 9 for me on Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1 Released · · Score: 1

    I have no trouble running it on RH 9. In fact, I've been using Thunderbird for a couple months now without any problems on RH 9, and it's open just behind firebird right now.

  19. we're on slashdot, not k5 on Are You Using Z-Notation to Validate Your Software? · · Score: 1

    adjust your monocle polish jokes accordingly.

  20. Re:Mandrake to Debian on Ark Linux · · Score: 1

    Texstar already has synaptic and apt-get implemented and downloadable in rpm format.

    You're right, they do, but the number of packages that it offers on the default server (rpmfind.net I believe) is not stunning. On your standard deb server, I have been able to find far more obscure packages than on the rpm apt-get implementation. I really like Red Hat, but I'm thinking of returning to Debian just to get everything i need in apt.

  21. Re:Yup. Go is for real men. qjkx on Slashback: Dilemma, Privacy, Chess · · Score: 1

    How can you separate minimax and pruning? One is generating the tree, the other is optimizing it.

    Seems you just sepearated it to me. A-b pruning is one particular method of pruning a minimax tree. Quoting Norvig & Russell from "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach":

    "The particular technique we will examine [for pruning a minimax tree] is called alpha-beta pruning"

  22. Yup. Go is for real men. on Slashback: Dilemma, Privacy, Chess · · Score: 1

    It's true. Real men program where there's no effective evaluation algorithm. Regardless of the massive search space for go, there's no way to accurately judge a position (hence no minimax or a-b pruning); in a year you can become as good as the best go program out there.

  23. Re:Federal funding? Good luck... on Linux and Public Access Computing? · · Score: 1

    I actually work in Schwenksville, PA (seriously, zip code 19473). Let me tell you, the town needs anything it can get for computer facilities.