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  1. Re:Non-Flash Equivalent on US Fed Gov. Says All Music Downloads Are Theft · · Score: 1

    Flash != shitty web design.

  2. Re:One word.. on Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline · · Score: 1
    It's not the underlying machine code that's the problem, it's the GOTOs in the high-level language that presents maintainability problems. Hell, food just ends up as one paste in your stomach, so why go to the trouble of cooking?

    Also, some GOTOs are not really GOTOs, for example breaking out of a deeply nested loop is properly known as a break of the loop. If you GOTO some other place than immediately after the loop, then you have a "real" GOTO, i.e. going to an arbitrary place in memory.

    Golden rule of programming: software is best written for humans to read and computers to compile, not vice versa.

  3. Re:Humans Can't Multitask on Habitual Multitaskers Do It Badly · · Score: 1

    At what level? I'll have you know I can process inputs from several senses at once, because they're on parallel paths. Isn't that a form of multitasking?

  4. Re:Tags on Fully Functional Bioengineered Tooth Grown In a Mouse · · Score: 1

    Actually, that's the name of the extraterrestrial doctor we got this technology from: Yagotem Smok'eemif.

  5. Re:Strange Leap on Fully Functional Bioengineered Tooth Grown In a Mouse · · Score: 1

    Our bodies go to great lengths to prevent cells from multiplying anywhere and it is only allowed by the human DNA in very specific cases : blood production in the bone marrow, when a woman becomes pregnant, and just before a woman gives birth.

    W. T. F.

    Tell that to the numerous wounds I have received over the years, which no longer exist as if by magic.

  6. Re:Sprites on "Gigantic Jets" Blast Electricity Into the Ionosphere · · Score: 1

    "The flow of charged particles" is the very definition of an electric current but mainstream science doesn't regard the solar wind (or any other celestial phenomena) in those terms.

    But if I throw a lit flashlight from here to the next planet, I wouldn't call that interplanetary flow of electric current. Certainly an electric charge is moving. That doesn't mean it makes sense to talk about electricity.

  7. Re:Thwarted by properly designed online banking on Real-Time Keyloggers · · Score: 1

    Technically, it's possible to modify the browser itself so it inserts unwanted transactions into the list, but hides them from view for the user, and then just waits for them to get confirmed in conjunction with some other transaction made by the user. Don't know if it's worth the trouble though.

  8. Re:Really? on Facebook App Exposes Abject Insecurity · · Score: 1

    What part of 'reasonable' is hard to understand?

  9. Re:Slashkos on US Life Expectancy May Have Peaked · · Score: 1

    So this all boils down to the question: is it right to force someone to, say, get educated, if they're not clever enough to make that choice themselves?

  10. Re:Already Been Done on Wired Writer Disappears, Find Him and Make $5k · · Score: 1

    So you're doing it for the thrill of it, necessity, or paranoia?

  11. Re:Worried about the cost of your actions? on Why Should I Trust My Network Administrator? · · Score: 1

    If no-one is hurt by the theft in any way whatsoever, then I can't think of a situation where it actually would be theft.

  12. Re:Credit reports in Europe? on Will Your Credit Report Disqualify You For a Job? · · Score: 1

    There are credit reports, but it may be they are more strictly regulated. For example in Finland, non-payment of a bill can only appear on the report if the issue goes all the way through the court system. A collection agency can't add it by themselves, for example.

  13. Re:Who cares!?! on Reports of IE Hijacking NXDOMAINs, Routing To Bing · · Score: 1

    I agree fully that "example.com" really ought to be used as the example domain.

    Argh, no. The domain "example.com" is an example of an existing domain and resolves to an active server. "example.invalid" is an example of a nonexisting domain.

  14. Re:Artist's impression? on Surface Plume On Betelgeuse Imaged · · Score: 1

    Then let me reinstate some excitement: compare with a photo of Pluto's surface taken by Hubble. Betelgeuse is at least 800 000 times further away.

  15. Re:Caizen is actually spelt with a K on KDE 4.3 Released · · Score: 1

    Since we're splitting hairs - you mean spelled?

    He merely meant that KDE is an ancient crop nearly declared extinct by Netcraft. I don't know where to put the 'K' in spelt, though.

  16. Re:Toe Jam & Earl on Which Game Series Would You Reboot? · · Score: 1

    Chrono Trigger has been re-released for the DS. It's the Playstation version that includes cutscenes, AFAIK.

  17. Re:Blackboard execs should all be killed on Blackboard Patent Invalidated By Appellate Court · · Score: 0

    Wait, so does Moodle have license issues with Blackboard?

  18. Re:Oh Noes! on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 1
    Note-taking is useful for collecting the information into a coherent structure that can be put down on paper, i.e. thinking about what you're hearing as you're hearing it. You can do it without writing too, but writing helps engage other senses than sight and hearing.

    I cannot even begin to imagine how I would take class notes on a computer however, even though I'm in CS. A piece of paper allows me complete freedom and perfect tactile response for writing, drawing odd characters and symbols, drawing small pictures to figure out what was just said, all jumbled up in a shorthand "mess" that corresponds to what I'm thinking. Reading it later on is usually not a concern, only the writing of it.

    In a sense, note-taking is the scratch area for my brain. A tablet PC might work, but paper is cheaper, more reliable, has a better tactile response, and does not require charging.

  19. Re:Oh Noes! on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 1

    Luxembourg. One click and one hover (www.addedsense.lu at the bottom of your .sigged site gives the hint away). So the languages would be Luxembourgish, French, German and.. Dutch/Flemish, I presume?

  20. Re:Oh Noes! on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 1
    The whole document can still be altered, unless timestamps are included. But then you have to rely on some external service to stay in business.

    Technology provides much better solutions with higher survivability, better accessiblity, easier production and much, much higher integrity verification.

    Technically, yes. But really?

  21. Re:BASIC is good. on Bill Gates Remembers 1979 · · Score: 1

    BASIC is like childhood. Really nice to start out with as a kid (or older), but if you don't outgrow it you're fucked for life.

  22. Re:HTML 5 Canvas tag on Opera CTO Thinks IE Will Be Forced To Support SVG · · Score: 1

    Where is the canvas tag widely used? I know that SVG is considered the standard for vector graphics on Wikipedia.

  23. Re:Profits, but for whom? on Stock Market Manipulation By Millisecond Trading · · Score: 1

    ironically, slashdot news posts and comments don't show the year...?!

    Change the date style in your user prefs, Mr. AC.

  24. Re:DX9 vs DX10 / 11 on Gaming On Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Please, avoid the glossy pamphlet-speak, even if it is a copy-paste.

  25. Re:Everything works for me on Gaming On Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    That's nice and all, but what are you comparing to?