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  1. I got #1 on The World's Largest Scavenger Hunt Returns · · Score: 2, Funny

    I give you as many as 5 lines: int main() { throw NotImplementedException(); return 0; }

  2. Re:Star Wars rules... but Lucas is a moron on George Lucas Predicts Death of Big Budget Movies · · Score: 3, Funny

    I believe the term you are looking for is "premake".

  3. Re:And then there's how to game for $500 on How to Build a $500 Gaming Machine · · Score: 1

    + $2k for your new HDTV

  4. They don't really go ~through~ your head... on Wireless Networking Speeds of 540 Mbps w/ 802.11n · · Score: 1

    Since, after all, they are wider than your head.

  5. Re:Chillax? on w00t is 3rd Favorite Non-Dictionary Word · · Score: 1

    I had a friend who used it all the time. It got kind of annoying after a while, although I guess it has some usefulness.

  6. Re:Hemos: on Benioff and Weiss To Write Ender's Game Script · · Score: 1

    There are half a billion English speakers in the world, of which some 280 million are in the United States. QED!

  7. Oops, the last set of digits is wrong (fixed) on 42nd Mersenne Prime Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Primes can't be even:

    12216463006127794810775396403128843926736142422307 5246409537660469964558090568 61569077485126904041824640546847438710050537492630 0211252045279090179843593936 65081567696785664085904567474142 [...] 385490495601035978179020911166625548392 45482841605918218299877770398697774443727671302636 0619053009303039928104331685 207750711330535159626516698933257280577077247

  8. All the digits! on 42nd Mersenne Prime Confirmed · · Score: 1

    12216463006127794810775396403128843926736142422307 5246409537660469964558090568 61569077485126904041824640546847438710050537492630 0211252045279090179843593936 65081567696785664085904567474142 [...] 122164630061277948107753964031288439267 36142422307524640953766046996455809056861569077485 1269040418246405468474387100 50537492630021125204527909017984359393665081567696 785664085904567474142 If you care for all of them you can get them here.

  9. Re:Anyone Else? on Experts Suggest Replacing Definition of Kilogram · · Score: 5, Informative

    The SI unit of mass is the kilogram, not the gram.

  10. Re:Internal conflict is what I worry about... on In the Year 2020 · · Score: 1

    Then why did we have (yet another) record trade deficit in November? Must have been that competitive dollar...

  11. Re:+5: Anti-Bush Tirade on In the Year 2020 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes... clearly it is the poor people which should shoulder the majority of the tax burden... not those who can... actually... pay... it...

  12. Not Really on DARPA Offers No Food for Thought · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Your clever use of selective quotes masks the fact that the education total is for _every single state_! Also you are quoting figures for different years... While in 2003 the government spent $404 billion on 'national defense', it spent almost five times less--$82 billion--on education.

  13. It isn't NutraSweet on Apple Releases iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1

    The artifical sweetner used in Diet Pepsi (and Diet Coke, for that matter), is aspartame, which is IMO much better. They also say it's addictive. That might be so, but I can't stop drinking Diet since I've started.

  14. Re:solution to national debt on Down and Out in White-Collar America · · Score: 1

    The US has a trade deficit of something like $450 billion per year--the highest of any country. Germany, for instance, has a trade surplus of about $100 billion per year. The US exports $750 billion and Germany exports $600 billion. France exports another $300 billion (with a small surplus), etc. The EU easily exports much more than the US. And much, much more than China.

  15. San Jose on Los Angeles Gets Own TLD · · Score: 1

    I'm sure no one from the "Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands" really needs a domain, so why can't San Jose have .sj ;)?

  16. Re:That's not the real question on Mozilla, Gecko, Netscape, And Their Future At AOL · · Score: 1

    Back when I used AOL, at one point I accidently told it to dial a long distance number. Although AOL had flat-rate pricing at this point, the phone company did not, and my bill at the end of that month was over $700...

  17. Let's not forget Moscow's Metro on London to Introduce Traffic Congestion Charge · · Score: 1

    Moscow has the busiest system in the world (over 9 million trips daily), and by far the best looking stations (especially the older ones). NYC's subway is my least favorite out of the four I've used (NYC, London, Paris, Moscow), it's just so... dirty in comparison.