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  1. Message to all scientists: on White House Clamps Down On USGS Publishing · · Score: 1

    Make an escape plan before walls are built.

  2. Re:Russian Evolution Joke Toolkit on First Russian Anti-Evolution Suit Enters Court Room · · Score: 1

    Prior art three comments up.

  3. Re:Here's Something Inflammatory on First Russian Anti-Evolution Suit Enters Court Room · · Score: 1

    There was a debate between an ID'er and a scientist on swedish TV not too long ago, the ID'er a high school teacher I think, the other might have been in some university position. Anyway, the idea was of course to hear the points of either side on the issue, and the host tried to put some difficult questions to both parties. I don't remember much what was talked, other than that every argument the ID'er put forward was quite fluffy and vague, and was shot down with a sniper rifle by the scientist, until the host had to break off the massacre because of lack of time.

  4. Re:Article even has a slant! on First Russian Anti-Evolution Suit Enters Court Room · · Score: 1
    There's one thing that puzzles me, why do some extreme creationists believe the universe is only a few thousand years old? Is there an actual, clear reference in the bible or is it traditional humbug? Looking at the article in Wikipedia it seems there's no sound explanation, or rather, a circular explanation. Evolution cannot be because the earth is young, and the earth is conveniently young in order to "suppress" evolution.

    And, how many actually believe this anyway...

  5. Re:Neat, but... on A DIY Mid-Air Pointing Device · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing you'd build one out of a Logitech iFeel.

  6. Re:Obligatory futurama.. on Microsoft Formally Releases Robotics Software · · Score: 1

    Well, technically speaking, someone is willing. (Ya, I know it's a joke)

  7. Re:Words are not Deeds on UK Wants To Ban Computer-Generated Child Porn · · Score: 1
    letting people look at porn diffuses their 'lustful mentality' so that they are not as likely to commit an act of physical abuse
    But it also desensitizes people...
  8. Re:Hypocracy at its finest on Wal-Mart Asked to Drop Christian Video Game · · Score: 1

    So, basically Mohammed is the latest version. The problem lies not in the featuresets, but in version conflicts and incompatibilities. Also, upgrading is non-trivial, and some people even downgrade, not to mention discard the whole proprietary app because the code still kind of sucks. Where's our Open-Source religion...

  9. Re:Hardly free on Complete Mozart Works Now Free · · Score: 1

    You're getting 35 years worth of work without any cost to you. That's just about as free as things can get without a capital F.

  10. Re:Sheet music only? on Complete Mozart Works Now Free · · Score: 1

    Mozart in midi? I'd rather just enjoy reading the score then.

  11. Re:SNAKE OIL! on Quantum Cryptography Ready For Wide Adoption? · · Score: 1
    panties
    Just great, now we'll have the whole army after us!
  12. Re:Virgina on Sex Offenders to Register Emails in Virginia · · Score: 1

    Norway is a lot closer, thank you very much.

  13. Re:New Legislation on The Demise of the Professional Photojournalist · · Score: 1

    So what? Photoshopping skills are really not what you're looking for in photojournalism.

  14. Re:A place for the professional communicator... on The Demise of the Professional Photojournalist · · Score: 1

    Good point, but you still need skills to pick out a subject. Randomly shooting around in the heat of a battle is unlikely to give any interesting results. Also, camera phones have usually very bad zoom ability. Nobody wants wide-angle shots of something far away.

  15. Re:digg around on Advice For Programmers Right Out of School · · Score: 1

    It's not about cool, I'm trying to get it out of my brain!

  16. Re:digg around on Advice For Programmers Right Out of School · · Score: 2, Interesting

    findProject :: [Project] -> Project
    findProject [] = []
    findProject (p:ps)
    | not ((checkProj p)=="suitable") = findProject ps
    | otherwise = p

    -- now just implement the trivial function checkProj::Project->String and off you go:

    findProject sourceforge

  17. Re:Blame ACPI, not Vista on Vista an Uneasy Sleeper · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wow, it includes its own language too.

  18. Re:"no buggy software" on Vista an Uneasy Sleeper · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's not WTF enough to qualify:

    #include <stdio.h>

    int main(void) {
        char msg[10]; //should be enough
        // print user-input number
        gets(msg);
        printf("%d\n", (int) msg);
        // finally, print hello world.
        printf(msg, "Hello, World!");
        printf("%s\n", msg);
        return 1;
    }

  19. Re:Check their home machines. on 'Killer' Network Card Actually Reduces Latency · · Score: 1
    There's a script called 'crack.pl' in the SlashCode, which checks (among other things) if a post contains a car analogy. If it doesn't, the post is capped to +4 Insightful. Thus, the grandparent.

    This used to be done by the mods, but why spend human time on predictable behaviour?

  20. Re:How ... on 'Killer' Network Card Actually Reduces Latency · · Score: 1

    The real WTF is that they don't use 7zip.

  21. Re:How ... on 'Killer' Network Card Actually Reduces Latency · · Score: 1

    And don't suspend that thread either, or you'll cu

  22. Re:How ... on 'Killer' Network Card Actually Reduces Latency · · Score: 1

    I remember some earlier nForces were a bit flakey in several departments. If it has to install Apache as a service just for some local firewall configuration webpages, it can't/em be any good.

  23. Re:correct me if I'm wrong... on 'Killer' Network Card Actually Reduces Latency · · Score: 1

    Actually, in the electrical case you can't actually use any old cable, or the signal will constantly lose sync even over just a meter of cable. No need for monster cables, but regular audio leads won't do.

  24. Re:Euh on German Minister Seeks Jail Time For FPS Players · · Score: 1

    It's The Police, not R2-D2.

  25. Re:And this is important, why? on Professor Comes Up With a Way to Divide by Zero · · Score: 1
    (As if the ADA code in the air plane wouldn't throw an expression)
    So what kind of expression does ADA throw when dividing by zero?

    "AAARGH" ?