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  1. Re:Searching affect your writing on Grokker Search Engine Provides Visual Search Results · · Score: 1

    I vehermently disagree. Using search engines exposes you to more language and ideas that you would otherwise encounter if you stick to a small set of research materials.

    Exposure to different peoples' views and methods of communication can only increase your vocabulery and other skillsets.

  2. Re:Code Vaults on Examples of Programming Gone Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Moral of the story... Beware of checking in incompleted work into a Code Vault.

    No, the moral of the story is don't ship an update if you have no idea what is in it. I hope whoever shipped that update from a random nightly build got bollocked.

  3. Re:Stay tuned, big guy on Helix DNA Client Source On Oct 29 · · Score: 1

    There's nothing special about "us Excellent folks"; it is possible to get 'Excellent' karma in a couple of days; less if you actually put some effort into it.

  4. Tools on As Languages Evolve... · · Score: 5, Insightful


    When it comes to languages, the answer is use the right tool for the job. Low level languages will always coexist with high level ones.

  5. Assumptions on EU May Issue Preliminary Microsoft Ruling This Year · · Score: 3, Informative

    but the ruling itself may serve to wake some people

    You're assuming they're going to find against Microsoft.

  6. Use Slash. on Storefront-in-a-Box · · Score: 2, Funny

    Use Slash.

    You can get it here.

    Just look at how versatile it is

    Exhibit 1
    Exhibit 2
    Exhibit 3

    The instructions for turning on the shopping cart code are in the source.

  7. Aluminium on Sheared Aluminum's Odd, Possibly Useful Behavior · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The name of the element is Aluminium

  8. Re:WARNING: incorrect quote on Linus says 2.6 kernel will be out by June 2003 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And we have a winner!

  9. Transmeta on Linus says 2.6 kernel will be out by June 2003 · · Score: -1, Interesting

    "I really dislike IA-64. I think it's a losing strategy," Torvalds said. "My personal hope is that IA-64 withers and dies because there's no point. It performs badly; it's expensive; it's an all-new instruction set that the Transmeta Crusoe processors can't emulate."

    Why the digs at Intel in an article about Linux?

  10. Re:Mod parent up! on A (Correct) Poincare Proof!? · · Score: 1

    I went through moderator indoctrination once; it's easy.

    Stephen King : Troll
    John Carmack : Informative.
    Goatse : Troll
    "Do we like the RIAA today?" : Funny.
    Microsoft : Troll
    Linux : Insightful interesting information.

  11. Re: 256287 Square Feet per person. on Humans Use 83 Percent of Earth's Surface · · Score: 1

    Which is 4.5 football fields or 1/150th of a Library of Congress.

  12. Re:Sad news ... Stephen King dead at 55 on A (Correct) Poincare Proof!? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There weren't any more details

    I have more details, which this margin is too small to contain.

  13. Re:WD40 on Internet Backbone DDOS "Largest Ever" · · Score: 1

    a) didn't take out significant "good" traffic, and
    b) did take out significant "bad" traffic.


    Perhaps this will help.

  14. Why a book? on Programming Linux Games Available Online · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why do you need a book called "Programming Linux Games"? Can't you just post the source to Tux Racer?

  15. MPAA on How to Open a "Movie Cafe"? · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is answered in the MPAA FAQ :- How do I open a Movie Cafe?

  16. Re:Wrong Genus. on Airborne Mouse · · Score: 1

    At least I didn't get any +1 informatives for this one.

    Mice and Bats are in different orders (Bats=Chiroptera, Mice=Rodentia). Genera are a much more specific classification than orders.

  17. Wrong Genus. on Airborne Mouse · · Score: 5, Funny


    If it flies it's a bat, not a mouse.

  18. Protection. on The Free State Project · · Score: 2, Insightful



    After opting out of everything, I bet they'll still want protecting by the US Army, Navy and Air Force.

  19. Re:This is not a rhetorical question. on RandR Support on XFree86 4.3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    It brings new life to tired, old, porn?

  20. Re:Nicely written... on Build Your Own Cyclotron · · Score: 1

    You can sell it NASA

  21. Hemispheric safety. on Build Your Own Cyclotron · · Score: 5, Funny

    These amateur experiments are very impressive but I'm always worried that the lack of safety guidance will lead imitators into trouble. For example, with this equipment there are potential safety issues if the experiment is replicated in the southern hemisphere.

    In the southern hemisphere or, more specifically, south of the topic of Capricorn, the particles will need to spin the other way.
    This can be achieved in many ways; none of which were mentioned in the original article.
    For example;
    1) Turn the equipment upside down.
    2) Use magnets of opposite polarity.
    3) Use anti-protons instead of protons,

    Just one of these needs to be done to transofrm a southern cyclotron from a deathtrap into a fun and safe piece of equipment.

  22. Terrorism on Build Your Own Cyclotron · · Score: -1, Troll


    All this nuclear stuff is exactly what Iraq et.al. are trying to develop.
    a) We shouldn't be letting those without security clearance be experimenting with such things
    and b) we certainly shouldn't be letting them publish their results for the world to see.

  23. Keyboard error. on Gnarly Error Messages · · Score: 5, Funny

    Press F9 to continue.

  24. Court. on The Rise Of Counter-Strike · · Score: -1, Troll


    Valve is suing counter-strike though, I think, for IP violations. When is the decision due?

  25. Re:Largest? on Smallest Possible ELF Executable? · · Score: 1

    Donation drives for the Heart and Lung Association

    "Just lie back, this won't hurt. When it's done you can have a cup of tea and a biscuit and then go home. Don't do any strenuous exercise or fall in love for the next 24 hours."