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  1. Soap on Are Booth Babes Going Away? (Video) · · Score: 1

    The booth babes aren't going anywhere only the nerds have discovered soap. I'd rather speak to a guy who knows what he's talking about only if he didn't smell. I don't mean Italian but just taking a shower more often works -- that's what the marketing have found out.

  2. Nothing to hide on USA Calling For the Extradition of Snowden · · Score: 1

    Dear NSA, if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.

  3. Re:Caffeine is a drug.. on Why It's So Hard To Predict How Caffeine Will Affect Your Body · · Score: 1

    But it does improve brain performance in a certain way [wikipedia]. It does not last though and the after effect can have an opposite effect.

  4. Re:Communism on Homeland Security Mining Social Media For Signs of Bio Attacks · · Score: 1

    Don't be mistaken it will stay with the USA. Other countries will follow happily.
    Right I am complaining about just that. It is so, anything can be viewed as threat. And surely it begins with weapons of mass destruction. It end with anything you say or do could be used against you. Should I feel guilty for something I say? Do I have to think twice before I say something on social media? I should feel the same as in totalitarianism (thanks AC).

  5. Communism on Homeland Security Mining Social Media For Signs of Bio Attacks · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Congratulations. I thought twice before saying anything outloud which could be overheard by authorities during the communism era. I was born in communism and I'm going to die in communism. Thank you. (I know it's not technically communism but you know)

  6. EMP grenades on Seattle Police Want More Drones, Even While Two Sit Unused · · Score: 1

    Finally I can put all the FPS training to use.

  7. Re:Natural gas is not clean energy on Is There Still a Ray of Hope On Climate Change? · · Score: 1

    Yes, you have to burn it to extract energy from it. Which means CO2 and water (at least) will be emitted, like for burning any other organic substance. That is so anti green one can only imagine.

  8. 9:15 is tiring on You're Driving All Wrong, Says NHTSA · · Score: 1

    One, try holding your arms in this position for two hours or more. And no, the wheel is not shaped for that I've tried.

    Two, better steering capability means you have to keey your hands steady more. Which is quite tiring with today's power steering.

    Please fix the airbags instead or give me the old wheels.

  9. Re:What's the definition of an extremist? on French President Proposes Jail For Terrorist Website Visitors · · Score: 1

    Maybe I could agree with you in reading about bomb making. What if the site only presents ideas which are perceived extreme by some, like the government? What if the line is actually very thin? Who is to say what is extreme? That was my point. We can establish what is child pornography and what is not but who's to say what is terror and extreme? Even wikipedia says it depends...

    For example, should be put in jail everyone who has seen the film Saw? (I did not and am not interested by the way).

  10. What's the definition of an extremist? on French President Proposes Jail For Terrorist Website Visitors · · Score: 2

    That the one who does not go with the rest. Should be bust all slashdotters too? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremist

  11. Firefox is losing users? on Mozilla Contemplating Five Week Release Cycle · · Score: 1

    Don't get me wrong, the chart from the description clearly shows IE is losing to Chrome -- unless I'm blind. Firefox has been losing but it's not that dramatic.

  12. Re:What, exactly, is 3-SAT? on Polynomial Time Code For 3-SAT Released, P==NP · · Score: 1

    From the practical point of view, NP != P would imply that certain problems cannot be solved by a clever (= fast) algorithm. You would just have to go through all the options to be sure you have found the best solution. For example, to be able to tell what is the most efficient way to visit all the cities along your trip, you would have to try all combinations: from A to B to C, from A to C to B, etc. and evaluate total length of the journey each time.

  13. Memory failing on Programming Mistakes To Avoid · · Score: 1
    • wondering how this could have ever worked
    • forgetting to save the file and wondering why it does not work
    • editing a different file and wondering why there is no change in the behavior
    • implementing the same part again while vaguely remembering to have seen it somewhere already
    • forgetting why I did not implemented it this way before
  14. Re:Why does it matter? on GE Introduces 500GB Holographic Disks · · Score: 1

    Thirty minutes by bike.

  15. Re:The oldest code in existence: on What Is the Oldest Code Written Still Running? · · Score: 1

    In addition, everyone's mitochondria with their own DNA (mitochondrial DNA, mtDNA) is separate from the rest of cellular DNA and does not change with conception; you inherit mitochondria and thus mtDNA from your mother (wikipedia). You can basically say mtDNA is as old as the human race itself.

  16. only some? on Windows Vista SP1 Meeting Sour Reception In Places · · Score: 1

    > ... barbs from some computer users who say the software wrecked their systems.

    Yeah, some got their systems wrecked and the others got their systems wrecked as well to the point they could not get to slashdot to report it.

  17. a pose, aren't we? on Elton John Says Internet is Destroying Music · · Score: 1

    > I don't have a mobile phone or an iPod or anything.

    You are so free, how I envy you. Wait Elton, doesn't your manager have a mobile phone?

  18. standard hatred on Student Arrested for Making Videogame Map of School · · Score: 2, Insightful
    How many of you have drawn a picture of your most hated teacher over a dart board? Or on a paper? Or put pins into a voodoo statue? Or pretend you kicked your principal when kicked a bin or a can? There will always be people we love and people we hate. We did this as children and we continue to do this - look at the comedy shows or movies.

    Thank god there are ways to let go of our frustrations and hatreds. The ways we do it have changed. We live in the computer era.

  19. Re:Last.FM on Internet Radio In Danger of Extinction in United States · · Score: 1

    Last.fm is UK based so I this does not apply.

  20. Collaborative Programming on Introduction to Competitive Programming · · Score: 2, Informative

    The most interesting thing I learned at the university later on was it is the cooperation that counts. I do not know why students should compete with each other when they will most often work in a team in their future jobs.

    That is why I value Google Summer of Code so much; because it forces students to work together with ones they do not know: they learn the social part of programming. This is what most programmers lack; including me of course. Or else I would not be reading and contributing to this very forum...

  21. Borland on Protecting Your Code While Allowing Source Access? · · Score: 1

    I use Borland Delphi and Borland C++Builder and both come with source code. Not everything is included (compiler), but it is enough to build the essential libraries from the source code. Check their license.
    I'm not sure but I think that's the same with MS Visual C++.

  22. Please explain on Interview With Gaël Duval of Mandrake Linux · · Score: 1

    "and partly by companies that make money with Mandrake products, including MandrakeSoft"

    I'm not sure I understand the concept. Does it imply for me being a developer, I will be made to pay for using ML on the commercial basis?
    Anyway, will ML stay free?

  23. Re:Donald Knuth's argument against patents on Making the Case Against Software Patents? · · Score: 1

    The thing is who can state something is truly new. It has been pointed several times here, many of the so-called inventions are in/direct consequences of other inventions. They become building blocks for others to come and so on.

    How can you tell which step in the sequence of inventions leading to a cool invention is then big enough to be pantented?

  24. savings? on Wireless Internet In An Off-Grid House · · Score: 1

    I have to say I don't completely agree with that the grid can save much of the energy and that we should all opt for it. Think of how much energy and resources and other resources in turn it costs when one wants to make a solar grid panel. Plus, how do you get rid of it when it for example stops working (breaks apart, etc.)?

    IMHO power plants treat the environ much better than we could should we all use the solar grid panels.