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  1. Re:That's two words on What To Do With Old USB Keys, Low-Capacity Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Functional programming goes a bit deeper than closures. Ecmascript is by all definitions an imperative language.

  2. Re:Job control. on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    For Winders, you can do the same by dragging the scroll bar, and it will pause a perl script or whatever until you let go.

    You can also just hit the pause key on the keyboard.

  3. Re:What happens... on Ultra-Light Micro Air Vehicles · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wasn't intended as a troll, I promise. :-) I was already aware that jets are tested with chickens, but chickens (bones included) are pretty soft compared to, say, batteries. And I think these could get pretty close to a jet on take-off or landing. Maybe you should re-read my comment and yours, and ask yourself which sounds more like a troll.

  4. What happens... on Ultra-Light Micro Air Vehicles · · Score: 1

    What happens if one of these gets sucked into a jet engine? Are they small and soft enough to not cause problems?

  5. Re:I hate... on Batman Discussion · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would much rather have seen Katie Holmes DIAF. She's a scientologist...? And married to Tom Cruise...?

    But you're right about the continuity. It'll unfortunately have to happen again with Heath Ledger.

  6. I hate... on Batman Discussion · · Score: 0

    I hate the part where Rachel Dawes DIAF's.

  7. Re:Uhhh OK. on Meet the Laptop You Will (Won't?) Use In 2015 · · Score: 1

    Are you serious? I thought they stopped making Diet Code Red. Where do you live?

  8. Re:phone number 7bit 8bit digit theory on Cognition Enhancer Research · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can remember long sequences of digits with relative ease. For example, my credit card number is 4744-7200-2258-9834. For bonus points, the expiration is 05/12 and the CCV number is 092. Beat that, Provigil!

  9. Re:Hmm... what to do... on Wikimedia Censors Wikinews · · Score: 1

    Officer, she told me she was 18! Honest!

  10. Inflation on Seagate Ships Billionth Hard Drive · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Seagate's first drive, shipped in 1979 was the ST506, which had a capacity of 5MB and cost a cool $1,500[...]
    Adjusting for inflation, that is $4,718.83 in today's money.
  11. Re:Will it solve captchas? on Google Crawls The Deep Web · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just what we need, some 'bot adding it's insightful comments based on other words in the same document.
    Are such questions on your mind often?

    ..then again, on most sites, would you be able to tell the difference between Google posting something and some 1337 kiddiez?!?!!1eleven?
    What does that suggest to you?
  12. Re:we already have youtube on Flickr Adds Video Capabilities to Service · · Score: 4, Informative
    There are already plenty of examples of artsy videos on flickr.

    No reason to think it won't keep up.

  13. Re:How do you find them? on Flickr Adds Video Capabilities to Service · · Score: 1

    There are several examples linked from this flickr blog post: http://blog.flickr.net/en/2008/04/09/video-on-flickr-2/.

  14. Not available "here"? on 10 Cool Gadgets You Can't Get Here · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not available "here"? As in "the internet"?

  15. Re:Well... on How to Deal With Stolen Code? · · Score: 1

    "My dog is black." is a true sentence. Every declarative sentence you write is something that you are asserting to be true.

    In C, the == operator compares two things for equality and results in a boolean--the truth value of the equality. It's a perfect match for declarative sentences.

    "color(my_dog) == black" evaluates to true.

    Same thing.

    Using a single equals sign makes sense if you are reading it as the equals of mathematics, which test for equality in the same way the C double-equals tests for equality. But if you use a single equals sign to mean C's assignment operator, then that doesn't make any sense. Unless you are omnipotent or something and you can change the color of your dog just by uttering a sentence.

  16. Oh noes!!!11! on Indian ISPs Taxed for Generating "Light Energy" · · Score: 4, Funny
    Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
    Oh noes, they already shut off the light!
  17. Not spam on How Do You Punish a 16-year-old Spammer? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sending "you will die in seven days" millions of times to your ex-employer does not qualify as spamming in my book. He wasn't sending advertisements. He wasn't collecting personal information to resell. He wasn't doing anything that typically qualifies as spamming.

    This is just plain old harassment, and the punishment sounds fine.

  18. Re:Square Pegs in Round Holes on Poincare Conjecture Proof Completed · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Man I have such a boner right now.

  19. Re:I doubt it is standard XP Pro... on Dell Reflects on 25 Years of PCs · · Score: 1

    "See" or "use"? XP Pro will "see" all 32 gig. Without IA64, though, it will only be used by things like SQL Server that are made specifically to work around the 32-bit address space of IA32.

  20. Re:At some point it doesn't matter... on Google Accessible Search Released · · Score: 1

    Far from it... try it for yourself with the compare tool that was linked in the summary.

  21. Re:Fuzzy Math on A Humorous Introduction To IPv6 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Here are some interesting order-of-magnitude comparisons.

  22. Re:Already fixed on Details on Refining Vista's User Control · · Score: 1

    "Documents and Settings\Default User" has been there since NT4. Back then it was "%systemroot%\profiles\default user", but close enough.

  23. Re:Well... on Social Consequences and Effects of RFID Implants? · · Score: 1
    That's what this world needs! RFID boob jobs! The ultimate fusion of silicon and silicone.
    Haha, those would be quite silly cones.
  24. Something to start with on Corporate Software Development Wiki? · · Score: 1
    I don't think this does exactly what you want, but it would be a good place to start.

    Trac: "Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects."

  25. Re:options Re:Slipstreaming on Installing Windows with Recent Updates? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Most windows programs will accept both slashes and dashes.