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  1. Re:"here, here" "hear, hear" on SQL and NoSQL are Two Sides of the Same Coin · · Score: 1

    The first is an outing of belittling sarcasm

    Citation needed

  2. Re:NoSQL is great when hiring developers. on SQL and NoSQL are Two Sides of the Same Coin · · Score: 1

    But if NoSQL data bases are just key/value stores, then why not simply use the key/value store provided by the operating system, generally known under the name "file system"?

  3. Re:Sensationalism but it gives nintendo a good exc on The Nintendo 3DS, Headaches, and Bad Journalism · · Score: 1

    Indeed, sports tends to increase your blood pressure quite a bit. Sports is dangerous for your kids! :-)

  4. Re:Omg..... on The Nintendo 3DS, Headaches, and Bad Journalism · · Score: 0

    People who say "sheep" / "sheeple" instantly lose whatever point they were trying to make. Think of it like a wooly Godwin's law.

    Wool comes from sheep ...

  5. Re:Dispose of that water .. on 30 Years To Clean Up Fukushima Dai-Ichi · · Score: 1

    If it's the latter, it's not a big worry anyway, tritium emissions can't even get through a sheet of paper.

    If it's the latter, they should sell it.

  6. Re:Great on Scientists Create a "Worth Saving" Index For Endangered Animals · · Score: 1

    If scientists knew a little bit about human nature they'd realize that now there will be entire groups of people who will start trying to save the animals at the bottom of that list.

    Who tells you that this wasn't the real goal?

  7. Re:Save Smallpox on Scientists Create a "Worth Saving" Index For Endangered Animals · · Score: 1

    What about the plague bacteria?

  8. Re:Predicted future news: on Scientists Create a "Worth Saving" Index For Endangered Animals · · Score: 1

    Citation needed? Google and Google News aren't turning up anything like that, or even an indication that he's dead.

    Read the comment's title:
    Predicted -- not yet verified, might turn out wrong
    future -- didn't happen yet

  9. Re:Slippery slope on Scientists Create a "Worth Saving" Index For Endangered Animals · · Score: 1

    We're also eating animals. Yet somehow very few people fear that we might be on a slippery slope to eating humans. And that includes those who think it is immoral to eat animals.

  10. Re:In school on Tennessee Bill Helps Teachers Challenge Evolution · · Score: 1

    OK, it depends on the scale. Actually, thinking about it, probably most fires are extinguished either by air (blowing out a candle) or simply by not adding any new combustible (about any controlled fire).

  11. Re:Battery on Quad-Core Mobile Chips Wasted On Mobiles? · · Score: 1

    Is this so when you have your main task going, there are 3 more cores to eat up battery power in the background?

    No, it's because to ultimately deserve the name "smart phone" they will eventually need strong AI, which means a lot of processing power. :-)

  12. Re:In school on Tennessee Bill Helps Teachers Challenge Evolution · · Score: 1

    You have to fight fire with fire. The people who preach creationism are far more smug and condescending towards non-believers.

    Actually, most fires are fought with water.

  13. Re:Nice! on Tennessee Bill Helps Teachers Challenge Evolution · · Score: 2

    "What is three times six?"
    "God did it."
    "Well, it's nice that God already calculated the result, but I want you to tell me the result."
    "God did it."
    "No, sorry, God didn't tell me the result. I would know if he did."
    "God did it."
    "Well, OK, let's assume that God indeed did it. But I didn't ask because I don't know the answer, but because I want to know if you know it. So tell me, what is three times six?"
    "God did it."
    "Sorry, you didn't answer my question. I have to give you an F."
    "You can't! 'God did it' is always the correct answer! Why do you think you can give me an F for this?"
    "God did it."

    :-)

  14. Re:Be careful what you wish for... on Tennessee Bill Helps Teachers Challenge Evolution · · Score: 1

    The other can also have a place in science classes: As example of a non-scientific "theory", with explanation of what makes it non-scientific.

  15. Re:1 is a prime. on Using Prime Numbers to Generate Backgrounds · · Score: 1

    Every integer n>1 has a unique factorisation as a product of primes (Prime factorisation)

    Is that theorem supposed to include the prime numbers?

    Yes. The prime factorization of 2 contains only the factor 2, once.
    Note that the product of one number is the number itself.
    Actually, you could even relax the ">1" requirement, because the product of no numbers is 1, thus the prime factorization of 1 is the unique product that has no factors at all.

  16. Re:Let me be the first to say... on Using Prime Numbers to Generate Backgrounds · · Score: 1

    Internet Explorer 6 is dead, unless you have visitors from China and a few other Asian countries: http://ie6countdown.com/ [ie6countdown.com] (That's a Microsoft site!)

    If you visit that site with JavaScript off, you get the nice statement:
    "100% | 2011 MAR
    of the world was using Internet Explorer 6, which was 8.1 percentage points less than the previous year"

  17. Re:java was ?, not invented on Judge In Oracle-Google Case Given Crash Course in Java · · Score: 1

    To create something is to make something out of 'nothing'.

    No. To create something means to bring things which already exist into a new form/structure/relationship which they didn't have before.
    Creation out of nothing doesn't exist in this world, therefore defining "to create" as such would make it useless for anything happening in the world.

  18. Re:Wait what? Bonuses depending on results? on Google Ties Employee Bonuses To +1 Success · · Score: 1

    They didn't tie it to the company's success. They tied it to the success of a very specific feature. A feature that I at least won't use (and if it gets obnoxious, I may very well ultimately decide to switch the search engine I use -- the last thing Google wants).

  19. Re:Next on Nokia Confirms Symbian Is No Longer Open Source · · Score: 1

    Not being Gnome isn't enough?

    Microsoft Windows isn't Gnome either.
    Just saying.

  20. Re:1 is a prime. on Using Prime Numbers to Generate Backgrounds · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I should have linked to http://oeis.org/A008578 (although it doesn't mention the year 1912).

  21. Re:1 is a prime. on Using Prime Numbers to Generate Backgrounds · · Score: 1

    Today, 1 isn't a prime. But 1912, it was.

  22. Re:1 is the loneliest (non-prime) number on Using Prime Numbers to Generate Backgrounds · · Score: 3, Informative

    Primes have, by definition, exactly two factors. 1 has only one: 1.

    Of course, you could define them differently, and a hundred years ago, 1 indeed was considered a prime. But the definition excluding 1 has turned out to be much more useful (because almost everywhere you use primes you'd have to add "except 1" otherwise), therefore 1 is no longer considered prime.

  23. Re:Not Midnight Friday on Feds Prep For E-Gov Shutdown · · Score: 1

    They mean at the end of the day Friday which is midnight Saturday. Midnight is the first moment of a new day. That is why it it 12:00 *am* or *00:00* hours.

    I'm sure you can cite an official standard telling to which day midnight belongs?

  24. Re:plain-text OS? on France Outlaws Hashed Passwords · · Score: 1

    You can store a hash on the server to check against, and a plain text copy at some system which can be written but not read from the online server. If the police (or whoever is allowed to demand the passwords) asks for a password, an employee logs into that specific system to get it.

    Not that I would expect many companies to do such a setup (it's much easier to just store the password in the clear), but it's definitively possible.

  25. Re:well... on France Outlaws Hashed Passwords · · Score: 1

    According to the page you linked, it's only half of a myth: The size was indeed determined indirectly by the size of two horse asses, but they were not Roman horses, but British horses.