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  1. Browser Zealots on A Few Firefox 3 Followups · · Score: 1

    In the grand scheme of things, this probably means nothing to the general security of Firefox, but you can be sure the browser zealots on all sides will be watching carefully."
    Is that how slashdotters are now called?
  2. Re:Suprise! on The Accidental Astrophysicists · · Score: 1

    Talk for you. Logic serves people with real sense of logic. The only place where you may have trouble is with individuals of opposit sex. Seems like different logics don't mix well.

  3. Re:my $0.02 on How To Convince My Boss Not To Spam? · · Score: 1
    There is nothing like practice. I second this idea.

    Though I don't think of /. as the justice league.

  4. Re:Really? on Understanding How CAPTCHA Is Broken · · Score: 1

    Where can I find those funny forms?

  5. Re:And how does this help them against Google? on Yahoo! Expands Open Web Platform Plans · · Score: 1

    Death by extinction? Remember everyone, suicide is not the answer.

  6. Re:Panic? on Panic in Multicore Land · · Score: 1

    Most functionnal programming languages are a good step in this direction. Either Erlang with a message base approach or the pure way of (most interesting in my opinion) Haskell are very easy to run concurrently. Pure languages avoids mutable elements (think variables) so only the sequencing issue remains. That can be done with special instructions (seq) or by the language itseft (there is many Haskell variants going this way).

  7. Can't find it on Online Reputation Management To Keep Your Nose Clean? · · Score: 1

    I can't find anything related to what you say. It redirects to a page titled "greatest woman of all time" and it tells how great Barbra Streisand is.

    As it something to do with the last editor named bstreisand? Who knows?

  8. Not every one is suffering on The Effects of the Fibre Outage Throughout the Mediterranean · · Score: 1

    Not everyone is suffering from this outage. Looking at the throughput map, we can see that Iran and China have increased (2x) their throughputs. I presume this can be explained by the fact they don't share the surviving lines anymore.

  9. Re:But does it run Linux? on AMD's Dual GPU Monster, The Radeon HD 3870 X2 · · Score: 1

    So why did you buy it?

    Are you so insensitive to its feelings? Don't you feel its pain? Such a tragedy.

  10. Re:My favorite example on You Used Perl to Write WHAT?! · · Score: 1
    That's the strategy openSSL uses. To manage plateform specific code, instead of playing the #ifdef game, they use different files and use a perl script to manage the code. After compiling, you end up with four different bunch of code:
    • what's indepedant of the plateform and generic code
    • what's depedant of the plateform and generic code
    • what's indepedant of the plateform and optimized code (e.g. to compute ciphers)
    • what's depedant of the plateform and optimized code

    You must be carefull not to change the compiled code unless you want your change to suddenly disapear because the perl script copies code in temporary folders. At first it's strange but when you know what is going on, the code is clearer.
  11. Re:They just wanted... on Two AI Pioneers, Two Bizarre Suicides · · Score: 1

    I would say that's about as close to Geek Tragedy as you can get.

  12. Sun indirectly controlling ODF on Study Touting OOXML Over ODF Is Debunked · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sun indirectly controlling ODF
    That is really nice. I didn't know ODF was solar powered. Open energy source rocks.
    Think green. ;)
  13. Already there on Firefox 3 Antiphishing Sends Your URLs To Google · · Score: 1

    What's the point of focusing with Firefox v3 as it is already here with FFv2? Just take a look at your preferences, in the security tab. You got the choice whether to check for suspected forgery or not and if so, to look against a downloaded list or to give your privacy to some organization (google is the only one listed). So is this news? Maybe I missed something?

  14. Re:Ubuntu comes preinstalled with the solution on Which Lost/Stolen Laptop Trackers Do You Like? · · Score: 1

    As a matter of fact, Ubuntu does not install gcc by default.
    Gentoo does it since it's source driven (every package is compiled).

  15. How much does it takes... on Wikipedia Corrects Encyclopedia Britannica · · Score: 1

    How much does it takes to correct an error in Britannica? Couple of discussions by a closed group, years and at least a forrest.
    How much does it takes to correct an error in Wikipedia? It's a matter of seconds, by any individual. It takes a few keystrokes, couple of clics and that's it.

    As a matter of fact, the same is true to introduce errors.

  16. Re:What's the incentive? on Turns Out Ubuntu Dell Costs $225 More · · Score: 1

    Maybe that was a little bit condescending, but I would be interested to see the numbers.

    By the way, do you use Windows? ;)

  17. Re:What's the incentive? on Turns Out Ubuntu Dell Costs $225 More · · Score: 1

    As most Windows users don't know what RAM is, they don't use this free upgrade. On the other end, every GNU/Linux user would take it. So, DELL probably did the math and realised that it was more lucrative to be unfair.

  18. Completly fair = communist? on Linux Gets Completely Fair Scheduler · · Score: 3, Funny

    So does Linux reached the computer's communist's holy grail?

  19. Re:Neato on Linux Gets Completely Fair Scheduler · · Score: 5, Funny

    you'll feel a placebo effect.

  20. Re:What is it? on The Psychology of Facebook Examined · · Score: 1

    I share your view.

  21. Re:That's cool.. on Text Compressor 1% Away From AI Threshold · · Score: 1

    0

    Fixed to maximum compression. Don't ask me to decompress though.

  22. Re:The more accurate the better on Does Wikipedia Suck on Science Stories? · · Score: 1

    Why should Wikipedia have to choose? Shouldn't it be possible to make different articles about the same subject with different target audiance? Or at least mark some sections as more 'formal' some others as more 'entry level'.

  23. Mod parent up! on Super-Fast RDF Search Engine Developed · · Score: 1

    ... for obvious reasons.

  24. Re:Evolution vs Inteligence Re:Creationists on Chimps Evolved More Than Humans · · Score: 1

    Let me guess... in reality shows?

  25. Stallone... on Why Exercise Boosts Brainpower · · Score: 1

    Maybe look at Rocky, you'll find the start of an answer.

    Boxing is a great sport for the mind.