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  1. Re:Electricity vs cost of more machines and labor on Harvesting & Reusing Idle Computer Cycles · · Score: 5, Funny

    Worse, they contribue to global entropy, thus reducing universe lifetime... What are we doing?

  2. Re:What about other sorts? on Impressive Benchmarks: Sorting with a GPU · · Score: 1

    Radix sort is nlogn also. The only known O(n) algorithm is pigeon hole... which is really flawed for sorting floats (or even just 16bits integer).

  3. Re:I've got one thing going for me! on Many Scientists Admit Unethical Practices · · Score: 1

    I don't know. You sure?

  4. Re:I know how to deal with spam. on I am the Most Spammed Person in the World · · Score: 5, Funny

    Funny, I delete all of my visitors as soon as they show up. I figure if it's important, the police will come and circle the house.

  5. Re:I don't need a disc... on Blu-Ray DVDs Hit 100 GB · · Score: 1
    Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it.

    Gotta love those Torvalds quotes.

  6. Re:Newsflash! on Morse Code Faster Than SMS · · Score: 1

    That's only in america. In Europe, where you pay when you call, prices are much much higher.

  7. Re:They bought it? on Acquittal in Drunken Homicide via GTA · · Score: 0

    This is chubaka, he is a seven foot wookie, he lives on endor. now why would a wookie live on endor? it makes no sense...this case makes no sense!

  8. Re:true on Yankee Group Slams Linux 'Extremists' · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Doesn't the same goes for linux if you don't have the drivers? I've tried to install some linux distros on my old workstation (with some "special" hardware I must admit), and finally got a FreeBSD running, windows installing problem free, and no linux could make me satisfied (either hanging up at boot time or needing some spicy driver installing kernel hacking that I didn't want to do).

    When I want a workstation that works as soon as I can, I use Windows. Sure it's not 100% installation bullet-proof, but sometimes 99.9% is, well, close enough.

  9. Re:Science by AI on The End of Mathematical Proofs by Humans? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I think that even if we are taught the solutions in highschool, some proofs in the future might not be provable by humans.

    We'll have to agree to the result and learn it, without knowing if it is true. Some proof will become impossibly large and complex, and with it will bring theorems that are more complex but still understandable... yet further proofs will be based on those theorem, and so on.

    So yes, I think the theorems proven this way will be taught in highschool, but not the proofs in theirselves. After all, everyone has a limit, we just need to find the global limit to humankind, which comes closer and closer with the use of the computer.

  10. Re:April Fools! on Apple Releasing Home Media Center: iHome · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it's so neat that only apple engineers can come up with this kind of design. How could it be an april fool? Nobody can fake it...

  11. Re:pointless? on Mozilla Foundation in More Development Trouble · · Score: 2, Insightful
    If both forks end up dying, there's always Opera, IE, or Safari.

    Wouldn't it destroy the goals of the project in itself?

  12. Re:My experience on Wikipedia on Wikipedia Criticised by Its Co-founder · · Score: 1
    Don't think you actually know yourself what happened. We cannot judge POV without being POVed ourselves. Is there a way to save it with Wikipedia?

    If I may, I would suggest to remove every single link in wikipedia, except between articles. No encyclopedia should link to other works than encyclopic ones (so links to other academic essays should be permitted to some extent), because it intrinsicly links to a biased POV.

  13. Re:My experience on Wikipedia on Wikipedia Criticised by Its Co-founder · · Score: 1

    Sorry dude, the article title IS rape, not "Rape and Sexual Torture". I cannot understand why 4 insightful was given to someone who need to RTFP (post) and RTFW (wiki).

  14. Re:Sollog? on Usenet Psychic Wars With Wikipedia · · Score: 5, Informative
    I will attempt to give you some hint and ressources to understand the topic :) Hope it will be enough (note that I don't care to be moded down as troll by TOH followers).

    Read the Wikipedia article as well as its history for a start.

    Then what may interest you is that WikiPediA Sucks is run by himself (as said in article), but also that most of the proofs that is said against wikipedia comes from a single source, that is, Adoni Corporation.

    you shall note too, that The E undergroud, which sells "SEX and DEATH video" (cited from the website), is also owned by the same company, as said here and here, with sollog.com proof here. THIS IS THE SAME CORPORATION, if you read whois carefully. So he accuses a guy of being associated with BOMIS (which is true or false, i dunno, whatever) and is HIMSELF SELLING porn and death videos over the net. That kills all credibility he might have before.

    This is just the peak of the iceberg, though, but I'm too lazy to write much more, but it gives you a general picture of the guy (actually, I'm against him, so maybe some member of TOH would want to reply, and I'll appreciate the opened discussion with him/her).

  15. Re:PPC on Limitations in Current Breed of Palm Handhelds? · · Score: 1
    As for an answer to parent, someone told me once that Pocket PC were for people wanting to look cool with neat features they use once in a year and pay the price for it, Palm people were those who wanted to work efficiently without the burden of eyecandies. I still think after all these years that he was right. Same war as Windows vs *X.

    Back to topic, there are a lot of programs out there that let you copy to your SD as if it were a disk on your computer (removable drive or simple usbfs)... I don't know if there is one for Tungsten, but I don't see why there wouldn't be.

    And for the own thing, you are right and wrong: applications have to own this on the Palm FS (because of the inherent structure of the file system), but things are otherwise on the SD. Not all applications (and that's a shame) will see to the SD though... and back to the original problem.

    Go shop at www.palmsource.com, I'm sure there is what you seek. In fact, there is everything one may need with a palm there.

  16. Re: Trick to pass time.... on Sony PSP Launched With Long Queues In Akihabara · · Score: 0, Redundant

    While waiting on the line for the PSP, why don't you play with some friends on your NDS? ...

  17. Re:Exploit? on MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday · · Score: 1
    Well, I don't get it, so AT LEAST I'm sure I'm not mistaken.

    I'll have to re-read my md5 hash math... :(

  18. Re:I for one.. on The Threat From Life on Mars · · Score: 1
    ..welcome you to the "hey look I can make the same joke as anyone else" community. This joke IS of course offtopic and redundant. Where is it written that it brings something to the discussion?

    I wonder when people will learn that a joke isn't good after the 1024th time... or that a slashdot news without that line is still a good news... or just that it is possible with every freaking thing in this universe (I'm not sure for beyond, but I'd conjecture so) and so it isn't thoughtful anymore.

  19. Re:Improvements in data center technologies? on Half of U.S. I.T. Operations Jobs to Vanish · · Score: 1
    6) Drug testing. Unless you know something I don't this isn't even close to ready yet either.

    So we'll just all become drug testers. Great future...

  20. Re:Simplest strategy on Lycos Anti-Spam Site Compromised [Updated] · · Score: 1

    This guy has many friends for having me put at -1, flamebait while all I did was, as you said, make a point. Oh well, I guess I'll have to post somewhere else to receive the small credit I deserve for thinking more than talking. :)

  21. Re:Simplest strategy on Lycos Anti-Spam Site Compromised [Updated] · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Hummmm.... actually, I'm sure one way to counteract this is simply to attack by IP addr instead of DNS name.

    One way to counter-counter-act would then be to change IP.... but you can hit back by compiling new screensavers that attack the new IP. Wait, maybe the screensaver downloads the IPs to attack from Lycos, that way DNS resolving wouldn't occur, and they cannot change their IP without being targetted again. Now, 2cents worth of code have put your 5,Interesting comment back to dusts. I hope you're not a team leader.

    And "Well-done Lycos", is kind of retarded. Not because you had a single idea that's already used by spammers (targeting DNS names) doesn't mean that it's perfect. It's easy to counter, and I'm sure Lycos has some realy programmers who actually know what they are doing. I'm not sure what they did, but it must be around those lines. Those are most probably paid more than you.

    PS to moderators (those who aren't his friend), this guy has more than 50% posts 0 or -1, either offtopic or troll. He's karma whoring, he admits it in his journal. Just for people to know.

    Moderate this -1, unuseful and meaningless life.

  22. Re:Old School on 30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of D&D · · Score: 1
    Seconded.

    Leaps out of the discussion, waiting for moderation -1, unuseful and meaningless life.

  23. Re:Consequences? on Kyoto Treaty to Enter Into Force · · Score: 1

    Please, make a difference between pollution and smell. It's not because it smells bad that it's polluting more. CO2 smells nothing, btw.

  24. Re:Artifical foot? on Dolphin Jumps Again with Artificial Fin · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I realize this. I understand a certain extent of this: what you describe is not a branching tree, it's a graph of cooperation between researchers and centers.

    Problem is, to me, that most of the time people base their research subject on how much it can brings in terms of money/entertainment, instead of what improvement it can brings to our lives/evolution.

    I understand your frustation, but what I wanted to point out is that, mysteriouly, a slashdot post about a dolphin was on first page, but there is rarely an update about human research topic. Not that I don't care about the dolphin, but we should give more importance to what concerns us, somehow.

    not sure if my point is clear :P Gotta sleep. Or more coffee.
  25. Re:Artifical foot? on Dolphin Jumps Again with Artificial Fin · · Score: 1
    Thanks. At the very least, it recomforts me to know that there is some good developments regarding this.

    Sometimes I wonder what's more important: doing something that is easy, or doing something that's useful... we have to admit that giving an artificial fin to a dolphin brings nothing important to humankind, except maybe entertainment.