User: laejoh

Re:How do you even spend that much?

On: Maglev On the Drawing Boards

You'll be given cushy jobs!

Re:Not France, the UK is!

On: France Leading Charge Against OOXML

You ofcourse are referring to UK Government Loses 15 Million Private Records.

Re:No Practical Value

On: Radiation Not As Hazardous As Once Believed

This article just has a bad smell.

Just thinking out loud: so what's keeping you from refactoring? (kudos to the </b> poster)

It's ...

On: How to Turn Your PC into a Mac

Perl, not Pearl, now get off my lawn!

Re:seen printed in the cell DNA....

On: Creationists Violating Copyright

Only in the good 'ol US of A people thing God speaks english :)

Re:Optimization

On: Researchers Sour on Vista Service Pack 1 Performance

What is there are comments inside of the 40 million lines of DRM, WGA, Windows Media Ultra Control Restricted Mode Crap? Your patch wouldn't work!

Re:See if they can decypher this

On: Skype Encryption Stumps German Police

Hold on while I consult me hungarian phrase book!

Re:Math

On: Turkey Day Chemistry in the Kitchen

Have you ever considered donating your own body to science after you die? Your post seems to suggest math so please do, you'd make some mathematicians happy!

39.5 inches? That's as small as...

On: NASA Goes Bargain Basement With New Satellite

... my cock!

Btw, my significant other wishes to welcome the spammer overlords who made all of this possible!

Re:What about us

On: Are Aliens Living Among Us?

Well, as long as lots of tentacles are involved who would object?

Re:I know the first two!

On: Technology Innovation Areas For 2025

I'm already lobbying the Ubuntu release team to name one of their next releases 'Hairy Hardon!'

infamous $500 wooden volume knob

On: 10 Great Snake-Oil Gadgets

What was so special about this volume knob? Did it go to eleven?

Natural Selection at work...

On: Anatomically Strange Dinosaur Vacuumed Up Food

The creature's vertebrae also consisted of more air than bone.

So these creatures 'evolved' into PHBs?'

Re:Only 1024?

On: Historians Recreate Source Code of First 4004 Application

Note that the answers vary across languages too...

Indeed:

0.10 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
0.20 PROGRAM-ID. JL01A.
0.40 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
0.50 CONFIGURATION SECTION.
0.60 SPECIAL-NAMES.
0.70 TERMINAL IS TERM.
0.80 INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION.
1.00 DATA DIVISION.
1.10 FILE SECTION.
1.30 WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
1.40 77 ANSWER PIC 99V99.
1.50 77 ANSWEROUT PIC +99.99.
1.70 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
1.80 JL01A.
2.00 COMPUTE ANSWER = 10.1 - 10 - 0.1.
2.10 MOVE ANSWER TO ANSWEROUT.
2.20 DISPLAY "THE ANSWER IS " ANSWEROUT UPON TERM.
2.30 *
2.40 FIN.
2.50 STOP RUN.

THE ANSWER IS +00.00

Please note that slashdot isn't very cobol friendly, it messes up the layout of the source :(

In...

On: How Much is Your Right to Vote Worth?

In dollars or in euros? It seems important to ask for the euro will buy you more than the dollar :)

Re:Stallman to the rescue...

On: Rowling Sues Harry Potter Lexicon

Shouldn't that be GNU/rms?

Re:That's a big "it depends"

On: How Fast is Your Turnaround Time?

I'm an embedded developer, ...

You're in Iraq?

Re:Strength is irrelevent

On: The Rules of the Swarm

Spelling is irrelevent. Me fail english???

Oh come on!!!

On: The Top Ten Off Switches

They don't even mention Blart Versenwald III!

vogon jeltz

On: Thought-Controlled Prosthetics

How poetic, a solution for Vogon poetry. I hope Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz sees the humor in this posting.

Re:You must be confused

On: Hidden Music Claimed In Da Vinci Painting

I thought that was EBCDIC. Oh... now I see, you're talking about Mormons, that's ASCII indeed. EBCDIC would be morons!

Re:I'm a bit worried

On: Crater From 1908 Tunguska Blast Found

Pfff, look how many people have trouble finding goatse.sx ...

Re:Crimes in space

On: Whose Laws Apply On the ISS?

You don't need to drown them (initially), you can weight them! It's duck typing in action! If they weight less or the same as a duck it means they can float and thus, are, a witch! If they weight more they'd sink and are thus, not a witch!

Come on people, it's all the pickaxe book!

Re:parallel universe

On: Red Hat Joins Open Source Java Project

I think you mean:

echo 'public class HelloWorldDemo {public static void main(String args[]){System.out.println("Hello World");}}' > HelloWorldDemo.java ; javac HelloWorldDemo.java ; java HelloWorldDemo

Because in perl it would be:

perl -e 'print "Hello World"';

Re:oh please

On: Australian Researcher Boosts ADSL Speeds

Tell'em, Bruce!