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  1. Re:Also try Perl 6 on Perl 5.11.0 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    uh, I'd rather do an implementation in a language that's not in pre-release status. My clients like their money handled by language that 1. exists 2. has stable specification 3. has stable releases

  2. Re:netcraft didn't confirm but Perl is dying on Perl 5.11.0 Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    nice to hear of universe between your ears, where it's 1999. outside of that, in real world use, Perl has plummeted in use in last five years, from third most widely used language to eleventh. the language has stagnated and any Perl creative effort being wasted on the undead Perl 6.

  3. Re:If it had happened under the USSR... on Fatal Explosion At Russian Hydroelectric Dam · · Score: 1

    the positive void coefficient was made lower but its still there in all RBMK reactors, means control system must be extremely reliable or feedback loop of bubbles in water lowering expected absorption and increasing neutron flux gets going. Other design flaws include the horizontal direction of the coolant pipes. Sure, plenty of soviet engineers at the time knew better, but well-connected ones got to call the shots.

  4. Re:If it had happened under the USSR... on Fatal Explosion At Russian Hydroelectric Dam · · Score: 1

    That was commie-era engineering that blew up. Cheer up, there are 12 Chernobyl-type RBMK reactors still in operation, with the same high positive void coefficient design flaw. Fucking goddamn commie "obey the party at all costs" engineering.

  5. Re:ARM has advantagse over ix86 on Dell Considering ARM-Based Smartbooks · · Score: 1

    Eh, there's plenty to run if you're a MIPS fan.

    Debian runs MIPS both ways, big and little endian (for whether you happen to have SGI or Cobalt). OpenBSD MIPS runs on the 64 bit SGI though only o2 runs graphics.

    Plenty of IRIX disk sets floating around on eBay

  6. Re:Java is duck-typed and dynamic too on C# and Java Weekday Languages, Python and Ruby For Weekends? · · Score: 1

    how's that ol' reflection work on nulls, booleans and strings.

    java is ducked typed like a stomped-on duck.

  7. Re:Grow a new fovea? on Gene Therapy Causes Blind Woman To Grow New Fovea · · Score: 1, Redundant

    it is, people who watch porn are stimulating their fovea.

  8. Re:Those are toys on Airborne Laser Successfully Tracks, Hits Missile · · Score: 1

    aahhh, airborne starfish with frickin' lasers attached to their heads! mwuhahahahaha.

  9. Re:For our American viewers.. on Mystery of Sun's Outer Atmosphere Solved · · Score: 2, Interesting

    real Americans use Rankine (F + 460) for absolute temperature - We don't use them Gawdless frogger-varmint socialist measures!

  10. Re:Been done by computer scientists already on A Mathematical Model For a Spreading Zombie Infestation · · Score: 1

    be more fun if some of the humans could get to tool sheds with chainsaws

  11. Re:CentOS, FOSS, and leadership problems. on CentOS Administrator Reappears · · Score: 1

    I can think of many corporations with the intrigue and murder as a business model that have flourished for decades in our petrodollar empire. Profit on the misery and death and exploitation of others works in this world.

  12. Re:Some distros less vulnerable by default on Local Privilege Escalation On All Linux Kernels · · Score: 2, Interesting

    on my Debian 5 (Lenny ) it's zero

  13. wrong, there are no problems on New Company Seeks to Bring Semantic Context To Numbers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Put in "58.44 moles" and you'll have proper answers in the top ten, putting in units makes all the difference for number searches.

    And as for dimensionless numbers, 3.14149 gives wikipedia article for pi, 2.71828 gives wikipedia for e as top answer, even "square root -1" gives i.

    Absolutely false the premise or conclusion of this article. Searching for numbers gives useful information

  14. Re:Why didn't the interviewer kill the guys? on Times Are Tough For Nigerian Scammers · · Score: 1

    you might be interested in my comedy novelet, where this slashdot guy, call him whoseisname, just hates nigerian scammers and performs a social engineering experiment. He responds to several of their spam scams, gets their instructions and strings them along getting them to believe large sums of money are coming their way. But slashdot guy starts sending them responses leading them to believe one scammer group has interfered with and intercepted the funds meant for another. Thus he gets the Nigerian scammers to kill each other off. Hilarity ensues.

  15. Re:Did anyone else think... on Large Hadron Collider Struggling · · Score: 1

    you're close, each magnet has a standard cord and they all meet at nested stacks of cube connectors all plugged into a six-outlet power strip from wall mart, with a neon "on" light that flickers annoyingly.

  16. Re:nobody worries about Slackware like CentOS on CentOS Administrator Reappears · · Score: 1

    yike! was talking about something hopefully decades away, but the point is that slackware is more the one-man-band type distro than many others.

  17. Re:Sure there is on Funds Dwindle To Dismantle Old Nuclear Plants · · Score: 1

    the absurd foundation of the completely unsustainable U.S. monetary system is about to collapse

  18. Re:nobody worries about Slackware like CentOS on CentOS Administrator Reappears · · Score: 3, Interesting

    but slackware will probably die when Patrick does

  19. Re:CentOS, FOSS, and leadership problems. on CentOS Administrator Reappears · · Score: 1

    utter bullshit, proprietary corporations have exactly the same issues, and even with world-wide scandals a thousand times worse than this even with murders and spy intrigue. Mountains compared to this little anthill chickenshit issue.

  20. Re:They better watch out on CentOS Administrator Reappears · · Score: 1

    that's silly, Reagan *always* was a robot, that's how he took the bullets and bounced back. But he was programmed in COBOL with a VSAM back-end.

  21. Re:More likely on CentOS Administrator Reappears · · Score: 1

    you're a little late. now the project domains, artwork, materials, trademarks are under control of project team (which were the people who's product you were using) and not Lance anymore. And by the way the issues were ongoing for *months* not weeks. So you weren't really paying attention anyway, and not until a slashdot news article did you even know what was going on. Your servers might be in danger, but not from Centos. More like your lax attitude.....

  22. Re:Car analogy continued on RIAA Says "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever" · · Score: 1

    car analogies work fine. I invent a machine that can replicate any object at which it is pointed. I replicate a car. I get sued by the automakers for violation of patents and lose. See, same thing. And by the way, I think going forward we're going to just have to give up on patents and copyrights and trade secrets, as the ability to replicate most things will become common.

  23. Re:Same as gas stations on Funds Dwindle To Dismantle Old Nuclear Plants · · Score: 1

    hah, there is no such financial vehicle

  24. Re:Why DID the aluminum have to be transparent? on Transparent Aluminum Is "New State of Matter" · · Score: 1

    sad that some neurons in my brain must still be Trekkies, because I can answer that. In the movie, only the formula for transparent aluminum was exchanged by Scotty to Dr. Nichols of Plexicorp for plexiglass 6" thick formed into a whale-aquarium.

  25. Re:This sort of thing would make anyone suspicious on Temperature Data Wants To Be Free · · Score: 1

    you are even wrong about the current quiet sun, the earth is in fact cooling in response to it the past two years.