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  1. Re:Unacceptable false positive rate on Autism Diagnosed With a Fifteen Minute Brain Scan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds like every episode of House.

  2. Re:What about chicken hearts? on Chemical Cocktail Can Keep a Heart Viable 10 Days, Outside the Body · · Score: 1

    Time to start smearing that jello.

  3. Re:Literate programming... on Donald Knuth Rips On Unit Tests and More · · Score: 1

    Asssumptions make an ass out of u and mptions?

  4. Re:Funny summary on Canadian University Puts Tech Whiz Kids in 'Dormcubator' · · Score: 1

    Are you sure about that one? Maybe you're thinking of Kitchener which used to be called Berlin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo,_Ontario

  5. Re:Then it is true on OLPC Used to Browse Porn · · Score: 3, Funny

    Doesn't everyone know that the internet is for porn?

  6. Re:Oh, The Horror on European Parliament Rejects Software Patents · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They're paid to convince people to adopt software patents, not to be logical. Don't imagine that what a lobby group says is actually someone's real point of view.

  7. Re:You have to prioritize on New Climate Change Warning · · Score: 1

    Germany and Japan were never hotbeds of terrorism. They were countries that went to war. Totally different.

  8. Re:Western Engineering vs. Chinese Theft on Gigabit Transfer Rates Over Power Lines? · · Score: 1

    Well, don't forget it has to go up to the stellite, down to the connection to the real internet, through that to the destination and back, then up to the satillite and back down again to you. You have to double your estimate and then add the regular latencies.

  9. Re:Expensive? on World of Warcraft Launches · · Score: 1

    It seems pretty fair to me. I pay $60 for your average game and I'll typically play it for one month before I'm bored. I pay $60 for WoW and I'll play it for one month. If they keep adding new content and keeping me interensted I'll keep playing $15/month.

    If new content in WoW keeps me interested enough not to buy a new game every couple of months I'm out ahead, and if not I'll cancel my subscription.

  10. Re:In Soviet China... on China to Have Over 100 Eyes in the Sky · · Score: -1, Redundant

    How about:
    In Soviet China the stars gaze at you!

  11. Re:economies of scale on Wal-Mart's Data Obsession · · Score: 1

    how the hell do you even begin to search it?

    You don't.

    You process the data you want from the raw data week by week. You keep the raw for reloads if needed but you never do one-off queries off the raw.

  12. Re:I will bite on Would John Kerry Defang the DMCA? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    wow, only 10 years between changes of opinion. It's not like China's changed at all in the last 9 years, and it's certainly not like or ability to control and treat AIDS has changed since 1993.

    You may as well have said the US is flip flopping because first they funded Osama Bin Laden and his gurella warfare and now they are against it.

  13. Re:The Iraq Kidnappings on Star Wars Minutiae · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's true in a conventional war, but the people the Americans are fighting now aren't the same people they invaded a year ago.

    Back in 1998 a World Islamic Front statement justified killing Americians and their allies by stating that America wanted to distroy Iraq and "humiliate their Muslim neighbours" (full text here).

    With the invasion of Iraq these claims seem a lot more credible, and by destabilizing Iraq there is now a convienent battleground for anyone with a bone to pick with the Americans.

    The result is an unwinable situation. Until Iraq is stable the people of Iraq are really not better off, and America is definantly not safer than it was before the invasion. If the US pulls out now Iraq may never be stable and will become another Afganistan, but the longer the US stays the more hatred they engender and the more attackers come into Iraq.

  14. Re:As long as he is not management, he's fine by m on Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering · · Score: 1

    If you were a coder in the "web area", how about some markup to make your message readable? Maybe a /> or a <p>?

    Sigh...managers :)

  15. Re:Har on Pay To Have Your Phone Tapped · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nope, this is a proposal by Canadian police chiefs. We don't have patriotism here....we have "at least we're not americans".

  16. Re:whoo hoo? on Artificial Prion Created · · Score: 1

    But cows and pigs do not naturally eat cows and pigs. Especially not their brains. For this disease to really spread you'd need some kind of situation where animal A eats animal B, and animal B eats animal A. Maybe scavengers? They'd need to share the meat too, or it would only ever be 1 to 1 transmission. They'd also have to live more than a few years after ingestion....sounds pretty tough to spread.

  17. Re:Deja vue on Debugging in Plain English? · · Score: 1
    "Why did my window go away?"
    X11 Window connection closed on SEGABRT
    "Why did it seg?"
    Deferencing invalid pointer 0x0
    "Why was it invalid?"
    Pointer was assigned as return value of OpenForWrite function call
    "Why did the function return 0x0?"
    Drive D: does not exist
    If the computer knows those are the recent errors that occurred, why force the user to type in questions? You may as well just print the error chain in the initial exception message and forget the pseudo AI.
  18. Re:Wow on Duke University Giving iPods To 1650 Freshmen · · Score: 1

    But an iPod can be a valid learning tool. Right now I'm trying to learn a third language (Cantonese) and I've got all the material I could find loaded onto my iPod. I listen on my way to and from work and I have to say it's going quite well.

    I hope this school provides the material that was loaded onto the iPods for download by their older students.

  19. Re:grow canabis, stupid morons.... on How Would You Handle a $1,000,000 Coding Error? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not to rain on your parade, but you won't get stoned off that.

    "Fibre hemp is an annual herbaceous plant which flourishes in temperate regions. All cultivars tested in Alberta have been low-THC (delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol) cultivars. Canada has adopted the 0.3% THC standard established by the European Union as the concentration which separates non-psychoactive strains suitable for legal fibre production from those which are illegally grown for their properties of intoxication. The 0.3% THC designation is very conservative. Most narcotic strains range from 3-5% THC, with cleaned, high potency material reaching as high as 15% THC."

  20. Re:This is new? on FourHead: One PC, Four Users · · Score: 1

    But typically your X servers are all running on different computers, you just have multipe X clients running on your server. The difference here is you aren't listending on any ports, it's all off the same CPU. Having a single computer with 4 mouses and 4 keyboards plugged in sounds pretty new to me.

  21. Re:Obligatory Great Firewall of China Reference on China Deploys IPv9 Network · · Score: 1

    From Monty Python's Life of Brian:

    "All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

  22. Re:I RTFA and it's not the computers, it's the flo on Zinc Whiskers Cripple Colorado's Computers · · Score: 1

    Yikes, I'd be more worried about getting these things in my lungs...that can't be healthy.

  23. Re:That reminds me... on IE Download.Ject Exploit Fixed · · Score: 1

    Um...actually anyone running a Mac, Linux, or even windows with a browser other than ie is immune to this problem. Also, no other platform performs OS upgrades through a web browser, so no other web browsers need permission to write random crap to the hard drive then execute it, therefore no other platform can get a virus simply from visiting a website.

  24. Re:Well.... on A Parent's Guide To Linux Web Filtering · · Score: 1

    What I would probably do if I had kids would be to turn on the router logging, and periodocally check the logs. If a child sees something they shouldn't it's not the end of the world, but best to know it happened and talk to them about it.

    Of course it depends on the age of your kids, under 10 or so I'd be more comfortable looking over their sholders.

  25. Re:For all those that keep asking..... on Apple Releases Rendezvous for Linux, Java, Windows · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Definitly not hardware controlled. I was annoyed when my powerbook running yellow dog linux wouldn't go to sleep when I closed the lid.