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  1. Re:simple on Visual Hallucinations Are a Normal Grief Reaction · · Score: 1

    You're forgetting entropy. Entropy always increases, it is never preserved. Death means an increase of entropy, and there's nothing to suggest that a corresponding decrease (afterlife, etc.) somewhere else is happening. You are right that the total amount of energy (and information) is preserved in death, but after decomposition/cremation it is in a scattered, unrecoverable form.

  2. Re:I think I have observed this! on Visual Hallucinations Are a Normal Grief Reaction · · Score: 1

    For up to a year after moving out, I saw our cat in my new apartment out of the corner of my eye in every black shape. Anything would usually work, but a particular penguin soft toy was especially bad, when it lay on its side. I eventually had to move it out of sight because it would trigger my "cat!"-response of delight every damn time I went by, followed by disappointment that the cat had never even been in this apartment.

    Now this was after living with the cat for just 12 years, and it hasn't died yet. I can perfectly understand seeing hallucinations of dead people you've been living with for 25-50 years.

  3. Re:Any Other industry?? on Logitech Makes 1 Billionth Mouse · · Score: 1

    Are a computer mouse and a nail comparable products?

  4. Re:One billion what? on Logitech Makes 1 Billionth Mouse · · Score: 1

    if said stuff is small/ubiquitous enough

    Nice qualifier there. Now what about products as complex or more complex than a mouse? How many of those have been shipped 1 billion?

  5. Re:1 billion is not uncommon for some things on Logitech Makes 1 Billionth Mouse · · Score: 1

    Screws and Pepsis are very simple products, while a mouse is much more complex. I would agree with the comment that "it's very rare for one company to ship 1 billion of anything", where "anything" is qualified as a complex product.

  6. Re:wait a second! on Model-View-Controller — Misunderstood and Misused · · Score: 1

    The Universe is the only real algorithm anyway.

  7. Re:Hmmm... on Twenty Years of Dijkstra's Cruelty · · Score: 1

    But the C stands for console.

    Not to mention it isn't C, it's C++.

  8. Re:Hmmm... on Twenty Years of Dijkstra's Cruelty · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's nothing exceptionally wrong with Java as a starting language, though I may be biased since that's what we had. In any case, my uni has now switched to Python, which is probably even better.

  9. Re:Obvious? on Diet of Fast Food and Candy May Cause Alzheimer's · · Score: 1

    In particular, cheap chocolate is not chocolate, it's "chocolate".

  10. Re:Convoys on Google Map To Real Piracy · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, nobody who actually works on the ships want any weapons, because they don't want to go to war and get killed.

  11. Re:Careful what you wish for... on South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals · · Score: 1

    Your example is completely unrelated to the prison environment.

  12. Re:Old fashioned pagers... on South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals · · Score: 1

    Don't emergency numbers have some special provision that allow them through even in overcrowded cells?

  13. Re:I'm confused on Zapping Contrails With Microwave Emitters · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sorry, now I see. I thought you meant that the citations should be in the article. The abbreviation was probably copypasted from somewhere, though. For the interested, it's Geophysical Research Letters 32 (2005).

  14. Re:Because the... on Unix Dict/grep Solves Left-Side-of-Keyboard Puzzle · · Score: 1
    Were Brad ta eat da free watered tree-bread as dessert, e'd get de assfecc'd aftertaste, e?

    Disclaimer: punctuation doesn't count as leftie words.

  15. Re:I'm confused on Zapping Contrails With Microwave Emitters · · Score: 1

    Re: citations... you're supposed to be able to read the article, not stop-and-stutter over it.

  16. Re:I'm confused on Zapping Contrails With Microwave Emitters · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Correllation != Causation

    however: Correlation != Causation unlikely/impossible

  17. Re:Only nitrogen? on AMD Shows Upcoming Phenom II CPU At 6.0 GHz+ · · Score: 1

    I prefer a block of helium ice on top of the processor.

  18. Re:So, you're saying... on MIT and NASA Designing Silent Aircraft · · Score: 1

    The issue was airport-side properties. The thrust reversers will not deploy until the wheels have touched down, so they won't really affect anyone living nearby. The flaps and slats will make some noise, but I would guess the engines are still louder, even though they're at fairly low thrust, and even idle just before touchdown. The cabin is insulated, so a large part of internal noise is vibration of the airframe during landing. Outside noise is mostly wind (wing) and engine noise, however.

  19. Re:So, you're saying... on MIT and NASA Designing Silent Aircraft · · Score: 1

    But the engines are quieter since they're at lower thrust while landing, since the plane is lighter and is only going down or level.

  20. Re:Kent Brock - s/ro/e - Kent Beck on When Agile Projects Go Bad · · Score: 1

    The typo was in the article before it got updated.

  21. Re:Public domain? on Google To Host 10M Images From Life Magazine's Archive · · Score: 1

    Nevermind the ladies, the photography work is hot.

  22. Re:I read that wrong, and I have to admit... on 11,000-Year-Old Temple Found In Turkey · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought that, although I'm not aware of all the details of the US Thanksgiving custom, this is not the right stuffing. Besides, the temporal bone is hardly a delicacy.

  23. Re:fruitcake found in 11,000 yo temple on 11,000-Year-Old Temple Found In Turkey · · Score: 1

    I like fruitcake. At least in small doses.

  24. Re:What? on US Supreme Court Allows Sonar Use · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It seems to me that they didn't consider any position in particular, their position was just that the ban as such wasn't appropriate for the courts to make.

  25. Re:This disgusts me on Relentless Web Attack Hard To Kill · · Score: 1

    Using input validation to avoid malicious attacks requires enumerating evil, which is a bad idea. Use prepared statements early and often. If you later discover that a prepared statement doesn't really need to be prepared, hesitate before changing anything, because it might need some parameters in the future, and a future lazy coder will inevitably open up an injection point.

    Executing a concatenated string of sql is completely safe only when dealing with entirely internal variables that are never under any circumstances touched by outside influence, today or in the future. It may seem strict, but reckless coding is full of bugs.