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  1. Design Patterns on What Today's Coders Don't Know and Why It Matters · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, despite having a bachelors in CS, and several years of web programming experience, I have only recently discovered OOP design patterns. They are very useful methodologies, and I think today's programmers, especially in the web development arena are far too ignorant of these useful additions to one's toolbelt.

  2. The Northwest is an awesome place to be from but.. on Pacific Northwest At Risk For Mega-Earthquake · · Score: 1

    Glad I moved to Boulder, Colorado (From Western Washington). Now as long as Yellowstone stays put, I'm fine.

  3. Re:Linux MCE on Best PC DVR Software, For Any Platform? · · Score: 1

    The way to pull that off, while not an option to most, is to get a TV that has netflix streaming built in, or a Roku, or other Device. The LG TV that I just got does this, and works well. My only other compaint is that Netflix's online streaming selection is rather limited.

  4. Re:Linux MCE on Best PC DVR Software, For Any Platform? · · Score: 1

    Novell's version of Silverlight has no DRM support, so it's 100% useless for using with Netflix. Really stinks if you ask me.

  5. Re:Ever typed a long WPA key into an iPhone? on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    Hehe... I'm a home automation programmer, and occasionally get to do this on AppleTVs. You get Up/Down/Left/Right cursors and a page full of letters. Sucks, to put it mildly!

  6. Re:New doomsday scenario? on Could Betelgeuse Go Boom? · · Score: 1, Redundant

    640 light years ought to be enough for anyone!

  7. VHDHell? on VHDL or Verilog For Learning FPGAs? · · Score: 1

    As a computer Science major, I only had one class involving this sort of thing, and it used VHDL. We all hated VHDL, and though I've never even used Verilog, and have only seen if briefly, I've heard others say its much better to deal with the VHDL. But then again this is all from memories I have from 3 years ago, and like I said, I've never used Verilog, so take this with a grain of salt.

  8. Re:Other bases? on New Pattern Found In Prime Numbers · · Score: 4, Funny

    A friend of mine went to Hawaii last week, and I asked her if she'd ever been to Pearl* Harbor, and she said she'd only seen it from the air.
    I replied, hey, just like the Japanese!

    *That was hard not to type "Perl". I failed at first

  9. Re:If they broke up the channels a la carte on The Problem With Cable Is Television · · Score: 1

    I do not have Cable right now, and probably won't for many years to come. I would if I could subscribe to your lineup for $13 a month.

  10. Re:Dear USA... on US Says Canadian Copyright As Bad As China's, Russia's · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ok, if you bring me some Tim Hortons. Tim's rocks!

  11. Re:Less Smugness? on What Features Should Be Included With iPhone 3.0? · · Score: 1

    Reminds of the time my sister called me a "yuppie scum" via an email which had a signature indicating it was sent from her Blackberry.

  12. Re:Hey Ted, maybe you can understand this on Ted "A Series of Tubes" Stevens Found Guilty · · Score: 1

    And in those series of cubes, Stevens finds himself behind a series of bars.

  13. Palestinian Territories, Occupied...Iraq, Occupied on A Cautionary Tale of Open Source Social Technologies · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I worked for the university webmaster back when I was in school. My boss noticed the option "Palestinian Territories, Occupied" appeared in the dropdown list of some web-form software we were using. Being kind of a joker, he then changed Iraq to "Iraq, Occupied". It remains like that to this day, years later.

  14. Re:Imaginary Property on Would You Rent a Song For a Dime? · · Score: 1

    Umm... no. Paying $0.10 adds it to your collection, which you can listen to "as many times as you like from any computer" Perhaps you should read the site in question before interjecting with ignorant, misleading comments. http://next.lala.com/#help/Web%20songs

  15. Re:Yes. on Should Scientists Date People Who Believe Astrology? · · Score: 1

    If she's female, go for it. Trust me, it's the right thing to do in your situation.

  16. Re:It's worked... on British Astronomers Turn To Interstellar Spam · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I have the same craving, although I think I'll just have some plain corn chips and homemade guacamole... much better, IMHO.

  17. Re:As a blackboard victim/user..... on Blackboard Wins Patent Suit Against Desire2Learn · · Score: 1

    yeah, my univ. used to use Blackboard, and it was a steaming pile of crap that we all hated. I was really happy when they switched to D2L. Way better. It's really a tragedy yet again that such a lousy company is using patents to stifle innovation.

  18. Re:Obviously on High School Sophomores Discover Asteroid · · Score: 1

    They should name it: Mohammad!

  19. Re:Riddle me this: on Web Ads Work Better Than TV Ads · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, the same happened to me, except it was a Wendy's ad in the Facebook news feed, except it backfired, since the grill/brewpub is closer than any Wendy's, and has really good burgers.

  20. That bastard on Voyager 2 Shows Solar System Is "Dented" · · Score: 1

    It must have been the same fucker who dented my car in the parking lot today and then took off.

  21. Re:Gives a whole new meaning... on The Russian Mafia Doesn't Like Spam Either · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, the "Can Spam Act" isn't a bill.

  22. Re:Stupid New Cars on Cell Phones Disable Keys for High-End Cars · · Score: 1

    While in Colorado two weeks ago, I rented a car, and they gave me one of these Nissans with these "intelligent keys".
    On Saturday I went kayaking, and we decided to leave the car at the downstream take-out point, and have a van upstream at the drop point. These i-keys have a mechanical key that pops out, and since the i-key fob wasn't waterproof, I decided to take the mechanical key with my while I kayaked. After the 7-mile trip downstream, I discovered that the mechanical key will only open the door, not start the car!

    Stupid i-key. At least we were able to hitchhike back to the van to get the rest of the key.
    So, if you are a kayaker, don't get this key.

    (Later I realized, I could have locked the electronic part in the car and kept the mechanical part)

  23. Coal Radioactivity on On Electricity (Generation) · · Score: 1

    Read http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/ colmain.html it will surprise you!

    A government physicist, Alex Gabbard, calculated that the general public is directly exposed to 100 times more radiation each from coal-fired plant, than from each nuclear plant of the same megawatt output.

    He also says that, while it is very widely distributed, lessening the danger, in 1982, each typical coal-fired plant released 5.2 tons of uranium, and 12.8 tons of radioactive thorium in to the environment. These elements are extremely long-lived, and accumulate in the environment over time.

    On top of that, massive amounts of heavy metals, sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide are released by burning coal.

  24. Eugenics on Did Humans Get Their Big Brains From Neanderthals? · · Score: 0, Troll

    The Gay Nigger Association of America is not amused.

  25. High Temp Booze Condensation? on High Temperature Bose-Einstein Condensation Observed · · Score: 0

    I was noticing it was pretty hot this afternoon. I guess Einsteins beer was left in the sun too long, and even though it was warm, condensation still formed on its bottle.
    A pretty amazing scientific phenomenon alright!