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  1. Re:Switch statements are syntactic sugar on Perl 5.10, 20 Year Anniversary · · Score: 1
    Yeah, I used to look for a switch statement in Perl until I came along this type of construct, which is far more powerful (regexps) and basically better than a switch:

    SWITCH: for ($checkme) {
                $_ eq "foo" and do
                    {
                        # Foo stuff...
     
                        last SWITCH;
                    };
     
                $_ == 123 and do
                    {
                        # 123 stuff...
     
                        last SWITCH;
                    };
     
                $_ eq "bar" and do
                    {
                        # Bar stuff...
     
                        last SWITCH;
                    };
            }
  2. Re:isn't democracy great? on FCC Ignores Public, Relaxes Media Ownership · · Score: 1

    Maybe things will improve again when the mass production of e-paper comes along and the internet can be used to get hold of news. Some suggestions for less biased (not unbiased) news:

    www.reuters.com
    english.aljazeera.net
    www.bbc.co.uk
    www.theregister.co.uk

  3. Re:Thank God on FCC Ignores Public, Relaxes Media Ownership · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure even the British government wants to see the contents of your intestines.

  4. Re:isn't democracy great? on FCC Ignores Public, Relaxes Media Ownership · · Score: 1

    And it's Fox NEWS.

  5. OSS is evil. on Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED] · · Score: 4, Funny

    The teacher was right. We have to stop this communism right here, right now!

  6. Re:Unbloating? on KDE 4 Uses 40% Less Memory Than 3 Despite Eye-Candy · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, open source software is Communist. Unbloating is Stalinist.

  7. Re:Microsoft brainwashing on The Setup Behind Microsoft.com · · Score: 5, Funny

    Uh, didn't I read an article not too long ago about how the update.microsoft.com site was broken into?

    Link, please? http://update.microsoft.com/
  8. Super charge on Toshiba To Launch "Super Charge" Batteries · · Score: 1

    And if you leave them charging for too long, they explode. Looks like Sony has a rival...

  9. Re:No problem as used in this case on ISP Inserting Content Into Users' Webpages · · Score: 1

    My ISP sends me an email when I hit 80% and again when I hit 100%.

    My ISP doesn't have retarded bandwidth caps. We should be fighting this shit.

  10. Re:Yawn... on Record Labels Change Minds About Sharing MP3s · · Score: 1

    The days of rock stars with million dollar salaries are over.

    Tell that to Led Zeppelin.

  11. Just film enjoyment? on Study Finds Film Enjoyment Is Contagious · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In general, humans like to share in emotions with other people, which is why groups of people tend to laugh together, cry together, smile together, get angry together, etc.

    Try cheering a sports team on on your own, vs. with a group of other people, and see which feels naturally easier.

  12. Re:Good. on NYT Editorial Slams ISPs Over Online Freedom · · Score: 1

    This is welcome in that it a step towards enforcing Universal Rights by our value system not rules to interpret of anothers.

    I'm sorry, but... what??

  13. Re:Simple answer on NYT Editorial Slams ISPs Over Online Freedom · · Score: 1

    And like hacker/cracker, it aint gonna happen.

  14. Re:fare thee well on CompUSA To Close All Stores · · Score: 1

    Wal-Mart pulled out of the German market in 2006 after losing ~$3 bn

    Strange, isn't it? Given their profit level, they could easily afford to absorb that hit, and I'm kinda surprised they didn't just wait it out until they'd figured out and assimilated the market, Microsoft-style.

  15. Re:Goodbye on CompUSA To Close All Stores · · Score: 1

    I Hope they slowly and carefully extend themselves to the East Coast and become available to more people. ... and then get bought up in one fell swoop by some billionaire, mismanaged, closed down, and liquidated. Capitalism is failing.

  16. Re:not the same on DoJ Sides With RIAA On Damages · · Score: 1

    Lockyer's a three-strikes case.

    Wow, just wow. I'm starting to realise why the land of the free has the highest number of prisoners in the world. You lock people up for LIFE because of 3 (perhaps) minor felonies? Puritans do not make for good government.

  17. Re:Love the logic. on DoJ Sides With RIAA On Damages · · Score: 1

    No, it's more like, there are 10,000 people who own the exact same gun and 1 person is found dead so we'll electrocute them all because each one might have done it.

    I am Spartacus!

  18. Re:no surprises here then... on DoJ Sides With RIAA On Damages · · Score: 1

    Our country has literally nothing else to offer the rest of the world.

    McDonalds?

  19. Re:Madness, I say on BBC Creates 'Perl on Rails' · · Score: 1

    Erm, over here at least (UK), Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares is on Channel 4, not the BBC.

  20. Re:Better than landline infrastructure on Number of Cellphones Now Equal To Half the Human Species · · Score: 1

    Developing countries are going straight to cell networks rather than bothering with landlines. The infrastructure is far cheaper (no last-mile problem) andthe technology is more convenient for users.

    Right. Try getting a fast, low-latency internet connection without a wired connection, though. For the masses. You might find it a bit more difficult.

  21. Re:Crime is relatively unchanged on FBI's Bot Roast II Sees Great Success · · Score: 1

    Easy answer:
    Hope you don't do business there, and block ALL e-mails originating from Russian, Nigerian, or Brazilian IPs. That'll hit spam hard.

  22. Re:Hopefully they're finally getting... on Are Spammers Giving Up? · · Score: 1

    Nah. I think they've been dying in a few fires.

  23. Re:Only burned his chest, but broke his spine? on Exploding Cell Phone Battery Kills · · Score: 1

    My husband fell in a similar situation, landed on his left side, but had his large walkie-talkie in his pocket. It cracked his ribs and destroyed the walkie-talkie; the fall would have smashed his ribs if he hadn't had it in his pocket.

    What? Was his walkie-talkie made out of foam, or something?

  24. Voyager 2... on Voyager 2 Set to Reach Termination Shock · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's a Voyager 2?! Oh God no; come back Enterprise, all is forgiven...

  25. Re:Air Fortress (NES) had exact same issue! on Game Boy Zelda Comes With Source, Sort Of · · Score: 1
    Re: Secret of Evermore

    Strange, unused, and testing text is scattered throughout the ROM, in addition to what looks like a chunk of C programming code. No, that's just the ingame script.