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  1. Re:Quake Haiku's on Poetry For The Gaming Crowd Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Like a wingless moth, using the word "abotu" is against Nature.

  2. Re:Wait... on Paul Graham: Hackers and Painters · · Score: 1

    "Rocket Science" = Ballistics. The fancy latin name prevails!

  3. Marble voting on DDoS for Fun and Profit · · Score: 1

    And if a marble breaks into two pieces, does that count or one or two votes?

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  4. IN SOVIET RUSSIA on Review Of Upcoming Projection Keyboards · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...virtual keyboard switches YOU!

  5. Re:Calculus Carols on LinuX-Mas Caroling We Shall Go · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whoops, go ahead and mod the parent down. Here it is with the proper versification.

    Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus,
    (To:"Oh, Christmas Tree")

    Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus,
    How tough are both your branches.
    Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus,
    To pass, what are my chances?
    Derivatives I cannot take,
    At integrals my fingers shake.
    Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus,
    How tough are both your branches.

    Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus,
    Your theorems I can't master.
    Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus,
    My proofs are a disaster.
    You pull a trick our of the air,
    Or find a reason, God knows where.
    Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus,
    Your theorems I can't master.

    Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus,
    Your problems do distress me.
    Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus,
    Related rates depress me.
    I walk toward lampposts in my sleep,
    And running water makes me weep.
    Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus,
    Your problems do distress me.

    Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus,
    My limit I am reaching.
    Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus,
    For mercy I'm beseeching.
    My grades do not approach B,
    They're just an epsilon from D.
    Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus,
    My limit I am reaching.

    Fill the boards with Differentials
    (To:"Deck the Halls")

    Fill the boards with differentials,
    FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA -LA-LA-LA-LA,
    Note that du's are essential,
    FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA -LA-LA-LA-LA,
    C's are constants here before us,
    FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA -LA-LA-LA-LA,
    Integration cannot floor us
    FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA -LA-LA-LA-LA,

    Quizzes always make us queasy,
    FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA -LA-LA-LA-LA,
    Max and mins are never easy,
    FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA -LA-LA-LA-LA,
    Conic volumes we can measure,
    FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA -LA-LA-LA-LA,
    Fours and fives we'll always treasure,
    FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA -LA-LA-LA-LA

    You know, you might want to mod this one down too.

  6. Calculus Carols on LinuX-Mas Caroling We Shall Go · · Score: 1

    This has been making the rounds at my place of employment. Enjoy! Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus, (To:"Oh, Christmas Tree") Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus, How tough are both your branches. Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus, To pass, what are my chances? Derivatives I cannot take, At integrals my fingers shake. Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus, How tough are both your branches. Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus, Your theorems I can't master. Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus, My proofs are a disaster. You pull a trick our of the air, Or find a reason, God knows where. Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus, Your theorems I can't master. Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus, Your problems do distress me. Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus, Related rates depress me. I walk toward lampposts in my sleep, And running water makes me weep. Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus, Your problems do distress me. Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus, My limit I am reaching. Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus, For mercy I'm beseeching. My grades do not approach B, They're just an epsilon from D. Oh, Calculus; Oh Calculus, My limit I am reaching. Fill the boards with Differentials (To:"Deck the Halls") Fill the boards with differentials, FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA -LA-LA-LA-LA, Note that du's are essential, FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA -LA-LA-LA-LA, C's are constants here before us, FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA -LA-LA-LA-LA, Integration cannot floor us FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA -LA-LA-LA-LA, Quizzes always make us queasy, FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA -LA-LA-LA-LA, Max and mins are never easy, FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA -LA-LA-LA-LA, Conic volumes we can measure, FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA -LA-LA-LA-LA, Fours and fives we'll always treasure, FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA -LA-LA-LA-LA

  7. Ok, I'll dumb it down for you. on Decentralization · · Score: 1

    1. Make new stuff.
    2. ???
    3. Profit!

  8. Re:g'yeah! on DARPA Has $3.2M to Sniff You Out · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1st/2nd/3rd post?! You're not even trying anymore, are you?

  9. You forgot... on Geminid Meteor Shower · · Score: 1

    3) ??? 4) Profit!

  10. Re:Run UD as a publicity stunt on Gateway Puts Wasted Cycles to Work · · Score: 1

    That will teach me to read the article next time! (puts foot in mouth)

  11. Run UD as a publicity stunt on Gateway Puts Wasted Cycles to Work · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why not just run the Cancer agent on them? The publicity generated from this will certainly be worth more for Gateway than selling processor time, simply considering how much money (and time) it would cost to set up the network.

  12. Re:Good! on Archaeologists Clean Dirty Monuments With Face Packs · · Score: 4, Informative
    Ok, I'll bite...

    The mud draws out the polluting sulphates and carbonates.

    I'd imagine that the active ingredient would be the lime (CaO), which reacts with the pollutants in the following manner:
    CaO + XCO3 -> CaCO3 + XO
    .

    Notice that one of the products, CaCO3, is the chemical formula for marble. In a similar manner, the lime reacts with sulfates to produce CaSO4, which would most likely take the form of gypsum, which I'd imagine would contribute to the bright white finish.
  13. Re:This should've been a BBC comedy... on The Heretofore Unpublished Letters of Ernest Glitch · · Score: 1

    For some reason, when I read the stories, my imagery was Glitch = Blackadder and Hodges = Baldrick.

  14. Re:Hello? on Because Only Terrorists Use 802.11 · · Score: 1

    Would "everybody and everybody" include spammers and DDoSers that would be more than willing to use your connection as a spoof IP?

  15. Re:Mornington Crescent! on Ghost Stations of the London Underground · · Score: 2, Informative

    Point in order. Your opening move at Aldwich clearly put Wood Lane inside the elliptic, so according to the Hugenots' Sphere Convention, your next move must be inside the corrolary zone.

  16. Re:Bull on IEEE Spectrum Surveys Current Games' AI Technology · · Score: 1

    I thought that this was covered under Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. In order to simulate human intelligence, first we must be able to understand human intelligence. However, we cannot do this because human intelligence is ultimately axiomatic, and Godel states that we cannot create an axiomatic system without going beyond its constraints. Since we are obviously constrained by human intelligence, we cannot understand it, much less recreate it ourselves. If we could understand human thought, the social sciences would become true mathematical sciences, rather than humanities which use scientific thought processes. Perhaps we could eventually develop AI to the point where it can simulate lower animal behavior, but the search for machines capable of human levels of thought is ultimately futile.

  17. Wow! on 1.0GHz P3 In A CD-ROM Drive Bay · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now THAT'S what I call a cupholder! (ducks)

  18. Re:A New Form of Steganography? on Tablet PC Rorschach Inkblot Test · · Score: 1

    Interesting in theory, but the software seems to interpret images almost randomly (see the three different ways it interpreted the same hand drawing). It would probably be too difficult to fine-tune the doodles well enough so that you can predict what they will be converted to in text.