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  1. Re: Pi on Origami and Math · · Score: 4, Informative

    Pi is irrational. Pi has been proved irrational long ago. That means there is no repeating pattern. A formula to calculate a digit (in any base) is not a pattern, just a formula. There is still no pattern.

    Honestly, some people...

  2. Re:Please say it's so on Is The Software Industry Dead? · · Score: 1

    Nintendo (and especially Shigeru Miyamoto) continue to produce innovatve, fun games. Perhaps you should consider a GameCube instead of PS2 or Xbox.

  3. Re:great idea... on PLoS Launches Open Access Biology Journal · · Score: 1

    Yeah, ArXiv is great. My problem is with PROLA (APS = Phys. Rev. A-E, Lett.). I'm in high school, so whenever I need one of their papers, I have to talk my way into a local students-only university library.

  4. What about MS? on Available To The Right Buyer: Sun Microsystems · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They've got plenty of [for mods: ill-gotten :)] money, and they've been looking to capture the server market as well.

  5. Re:but on RIAA Plans Cyberwar Effort · · Score: 1

    That's got to be the best sig I've seen in a while.

    (Score e^(pi*i), Offtopic)

  6. Re:Let's hope on AOL, MS & Yahoo Unite On Anti-Spam Initiative · · Score: 1

    Its a measure of how pervasive spam is that you say 0%. Personally, my spam has jumped from 5% to 60% in a year.

  7. Re:Next trip on the airplane... on MP3 Player In An AK-47 Magazine · · Score: 1

    Apparently, Canadians can't digest statistics. DC has x murders per 100k, and Canada has yx per 100k. You're comparing a city to a whole country and trying to say that the city has more murders than the country? Compare Toronto to Ohio and you'll get similar results.

  8. Re:Drug dealing is victimless? on A Timeline Of Spam And Antispam · · Score: 1

    Drugs are guarenteed to be bad for you. Additives at least try to be beneficial. You feel safer w/ drugs? Too much "experimentation."

  9. This thing kicks ass on Micro-Helicopter Fun · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It also reminds me of the opening of MIB - you see an insect, it looks like highly advanced tech. Then it splats onto a windshield. This sort of durability limits battlefied (and many other) apps, right?

  10. Re:Okay, bring 'em on on Spammers Threaten Techdirt With Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Since this guy doesn't like "opt-in" spam, or information on valuable oppotunities, say it with mail-bombs.

  11. Re:One Super Alloy? on New Titanium Alloy Bends the Rules · · Score: 1

    I think its a class that shares all of those properties.

  12. Re:And remember folks on Women Need Larger Screens for Desktop Navigation? · · Score: 1

    There is no solid demarkation line in biology or psychology that says "No Men/Women Beyond this Point".

    How about childbirth?

  13. Hmm. on Contractor Proposes Laser Rifles for US Military · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Would mirrors be effective?

  14. I'd assume on GZipping Life Forms: Deflate Reveals Bare-Bones · · Score: 2, Interesting

    that this has something to due with patterns and image continuity. If so (enlighten me!), then it would be a decent filtering tool, but reliability would be a major problem. Geological (or whatever) patterns could fool the algorithm. Finally, the most compressible image consists of monochrome - is it alive?

    (Mods: the last line was a joke, intended to point out a particularly simple example of a problem - not a troll)

  15. Are you sure you want this? on Geocoding All Content · · Score: 1

    Hmm...looks like you're in China - time for the industrial strength spam filter. And then a copy of the message will be automatically forwarded to your government.

    Anonymity is an extremely important part of the Internet - we shouldn't try to lose it. Geocoding has possibilities, but many constitute major invasions of privacy.

    PS - Today, the principal of my school pissed me off, so I signed him up for every newsletter I could find. I want the ability to do that in the future - but I bet he doesn't want me to have it. It's trivial to see that this cuts both ways.

  16. Re:Okay and now on to some important things.. on Linux Running on Xbox Without Modchip! · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1. Linux needs to be ubiquitous. Non-PC is not yet dominated by Windows, so if Linux gets established there, it could gradually take over the rest of the market. 2. MS loses money with each Xbox. If you could run Linux on a cheap, subsidized machine and create a Beowulf cluster (!) or something, then you're using your enemy to prosper -> good. 3. It's a hack. This is how Linux was created!

  17. Re:I hate cheaters! on Cheating Online Gamers · · Score: 1

    l: fermilab p: library

  18. No, really? on Shuttle Data Recorder May be Key to Accident · · Score: 1

    It's great that they found the recorder, but I hope nobody is surprised that it will be useful!

  19. This guy doesn't get it. on Too Cool For Secure Code? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "In an age where processing power is cheap, there's no excuse for a mail client written in C or C++."
    This sounds like Microsoft's philosophy - bloat because we can afford to.

  20. Re:Too cool for security on Too Cool For Secure Code? · · Score: 1

    Security through obscurity? Yeah, that works, just ask MS.

  21. Re:Too cool for security on Too Cool For Secure Code? · · Score: 1

    "In an age where processing power is cheap, there's no excuse for a mail client written in C or C++."
    This sounds like Microsoft's philosophy - bloat because we can afford to.
    Why not use security tools and a dedication to high performance?

  22. Right On on More on Lenses with a Negative Index of Refraction · · Score: 1

    Just like MetaCrawler can find results no other search engine can. Seriously though, this is just a case of bad naming and good engineering. Think about an animal - a metaorganism that moves on its own! No transcendence of nature's laws, just complexity theory at work.

  23. Re:"880 million" on Dictionary Spammer Fined $55,000 for Spam Attack · · Score: 1

    with the slashdotting?

  24. Re:to the victors goes the spoils.. on More PlayStation 3 Predictions · · Score: 1

    Christ, you must be blind. Metroid Prime is not kiddy. Eternal Darkness is the very antithesis of kiddy. The GC has fewer kiddy titles that PS2.

  25. All companies must remember- on DRM and Threat Analysis · · Score: 1

    If I can hear it, I can copy it. Any usable media is inherently unsafe.