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  1. Re:Self Replicating? on Biologist (Almost) Creates Artificial Life · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Absolutely. He distills them to their pure essence. Very Platonic. Perfect form, unhindered by the distortive forces of mass. His writing complements it as well. I really think this world would be a better place, if we were all stick figures.

    Also, throughout high school I was marked down on my various school projects requiring artistic ability because I only used stick figures.

    Also, I think he's got some serious sexual issues. Lately, he's been crossing the invisible line between the way the world is, and the way it should not be and is not.

  2. Re:Racial Bigotry on YouTube Reposts Anti-Scientology Videos · · Score: 1

    Actually, now that I think about it, that's the whole reason why Moses wasn't allowed into the promised land. He didn't circumcise the Israelites like he was supposed to. If you actually read the Bible, its actually full of stories like this. God sends a prophet telling people to do or not do something. They ignore God, say the prophet is crazy, and woe is them. Even the prophets do it. So far from your post being insightful, its really really redundant ;)

  3. Re:Amendment on Why Mozilla Is Committed To Using Gecko · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah. That makes a thousand times more sense. I like how the original incorrect post is +5 insightful and this is only at +2. Good Job Mods. Good Job.

  4. Re:I thought Google is competing with Microsoft on USDOJ Sniffing Google Antitrust Suit, Hires Ex-Disney Lawyer · · Score: 1

    The government likes to look at market segments and make sure that there is healthy competition in each one. In providing search results, google and yahoo combined ( due to their recent agreement) takes up a huge portion of the market share. Its work keeping an eye on.

    Its worth noting as others have that Microsoft may be behind it. I think there is a tradition of the last big target of the trust busters fingering the next one. Att -> IBM-> Microsoft (and now) -> Google

  5. Re:Self Replicating? on Biologist (Almost) Creates Artificial Life · · Score: 1

    Well, this always helps me feel better at dying at their hands. But you're right, its not a question of if, but rather when. But at the end of the world, I'll feel fine. To everything a time. Everything that has a beginning has an end.

  6. Re:Racial Bigotry on YouTube Reposts Anti-Scientology Videos · · Score: 1

    Um dude. Circumcision was part of the Covenant with Abraham, not Moses.

  7. Re:Quicktime? on Video Shows Easy Hacking of E-Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    Why? At least real video can be read with the open source helix viewer. WM11 obviously doesn't work as well on macs as quicktime does on windows, so I guess for that reason its better. But their both proprietary.

  8. Re:What's the WEP key? on Wi-Fi, Now Available On the ISS · · Score: 1

    No you didn't. If you had built your own high gain WLAN antenna, you would be asking for the WPA2 AES based key.

  9. Re:Where are the challengers? on The Great Zero Challenge Remains Unaccepted · · Score: 1

    Well, its not impossible, but it would require the disassemble of the drive and the use of some expensive machinery or possibly knowledge of the harddrive's circuitry. . If I were in college, it might be a neat research project, but they explicitly say that you cannot disassemble it unless you are a for profit company or governmental agency. But yeah, for the "prize" its just plain stupid.

    I'd like to try that myself with my own disk. I have some sophisticated software that I've used in the past to recover lost items. When a hard drive is damaged and the magnetism of a bit can be close to the value needed for a 1, but not quite. So with several different scans it might show different values. I'm thinking if the zero was correctly written to the disk, it probably wouldn't be able to read it as a 1 with repeated tries. Maybe with the right magnetic field, externally applied you could bump the former one bits back to one without quite knocking up the original zeros to that level. So if the 1 bit was actually knocked down by dd to 0.5 (interpreted as 0) an increase of all the disk by .5 would bump it up to 1, but the old zeros would be at 0.5.

    Give me tenure and three grad students (at least two Chinese) and I'll do it.

  10. Re:Icon looks like a stick and puck? on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    Lacrosse, yes. Golf, no. With a golf club, the face is slanted the other way ie ( \. instead of /.)

  11. Re:Leave GIMP out of this. on Objective-J and Cappuccino Released · · Score: 1

    I don't know. Maybe I'll try J 2.0 if they add layers. For what its worth Gimp has its next generation engine available with an even better command line only interface. No more messy graphical controls to manipulate images with. Me, I wish they'd integrate it with a hex editor.

  12. Re:Slashot? Hockey? on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    I was thinking pictorially. Take a look a the icon. /.

    If you squint a bit it looks like the edge of a hockey blade (the /) hitting a puck ( the . ).

  13. Leave GIMP out of this. on Objective-J and Cappuccino Released · · Score: 1

    GIMP is usable now. The older interface was a mess, but its not as bad anymore. I'm not sure when that changed like with version 2.0 maybe? Take a look at cinepaint ( the fork of gimp for movie editing formally know as FilmGIMP) it has the older interface. Its not even remotely usable.

    But everything else you mentioned holds true. Or at least it seems as if it could.

  14. Re:MIPS will make it a hard sell on Sub-$100 Laptops Have Finally Arrived · · Score: 1

    Ah, ok I see that now. I'm still not sure why it would be a difference due to processor architecture. Is varargs really implemented on that low of a level?

    on a slashdot side note, my previous post didn't appear for hours. I thought it had been lost somewhere along the way. Anyone else experience that before?

  15. Re:Hmmm.... on Objective-J and Cappuccino Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    I really wasn't sure if you were talking about Java, or another language simply called J that I had never heard of. Turns out there is a language named J that I've never heard of before. I can't imagine too many people would be confused. Most people have never even heard of J++ or J#,let a lone J.

  16. Re:MIPS will make it a hard sell on Sub-$100 Laptops Have Finally Arrived · · Score: 1

    That's really odd. I found this old archived gcc post, saying it shouldn't be a problem anymore with egcs. So yeah, the post is from 1998. I'm guessing that all of those weird differences have been smoothed out by now.

  17. Re:The problem is... on Redesigned, Bulkier Honda Insight to Challenge Prius · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's not even close to being insightful. In fact, that insightless. After reading it, the reader will have even less insight into the topic.

  18. Re:Non-Tech Percent of Web Traffic from Chrome on Google Chrome, Day 2 · · Score: 1

    No, No the painting isn't what sells the tickets. They come for the drying. The painting is obscured with a portable wall to cleanse the visual palate. The great reveal occurs to thunderous applause as the freshly painted wall finally appears behind the collapsing wall.

  19. Re:Non-Tech Percent of Web Traffic from Chrome on Google Chrome, Day 2 · · Score: 1

    No, the grass isn't scheduled to grow until the grassapolooza fest next month. Until then, its kept under a protective tarp.

  20. Re:terrible idea on Ghostbusters Is First Film Released On USB Key · · Score: 1

    He only said he had a copy of Ghostbusters, not that he had purchased it. It could have been borrowed from a friend, rented, or checked out from the library.

  21. Re:oblig. on $208 Million Petascale Computer Gets Green Light · · Score: 2, Informative

    No. This is Urbana,Illinois. HAL 9000 would be more appropriate.

  22. Re:Non-Tech Percent of Web Traffic from Chrome on Google Chrome, Day 2 · · Score: 2

    No the information was informative, which is different than entertaining. It would have been better in an article format, it was a chore for me to read with the content spread out like that to make room for the pictures of people and stuff. It was just lame. It was the Microsoft Bob of articles. I suppose you would rather convert the UNIX man pages to comic format as well. Do Not, encourage more tech companies to present their info in this atrocious manner.

  23. Re:Non-Tech Percent of Web Traffic from Chrome on Google Chrome, Day 2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, you found the comic entertaining? I've got some buckets of paint that are going up on walls soon. Want to buy some tickets for the drying? Only $5 for the lawn tickets, $20 for the reserved seating.

  24. Re:Bioshock was way overrated on The Making of Bioshock · · Score: 1

    Yes, it was overrated, but being overrated is highly underrated these days. With all of negativity of all of the game review sites out there now a days, its tough to be highly rated from whence to be dubbed overrated. It really makes being a contraririan hipster tough these days. Now, we just have to get by with nogistalia over the dream cast, and hoping they've fallen out of memory and possession fast enough to burnish our cred.

  25. Re:Very Interesting... on Google Chrome, the Google Browser · · Score: 1

    It will surely be interesting :).

    No, no it won't. Plus you forgot Adobe's flash based solution to the same problem. Flex, I think. It won't happen. It won't be interesting. It will be a dead end. I'm already bored. Its like watching grass fail to grow, due to lack of water.