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  1. Re: Enterprise 2.0... on Enterprise 2.0 · · Score: 1

    "Hi, My name is Jeffrey, I invented a tube."

    Lol...
    You owe me a new coffee.

  2. Re:Functional on Best Paradigm For a First Programming Course? · · Score: 1

    I agree about Darth Vader vs a Rodeo clown.

    I don't, it's a commonly excepted fact that all the Darths had to freelance as Rodeo clowns to complete their training.

  3. Re:Why Should Teacher Know or Care About Linux? on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 1

    And our point is....?

    Maybe you had a classmate that got a job as an acupuncturist. Is that reason to teach acupuncture to kids?

    No but it is a reason not to write angry letters telling people that acupuncture is illegal.

  4. Re:Why Should Teacher Know or Care About Linux? on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 1

    How many kids can count on getting jobs as Linux admins.

    I did, but of course my highschool teacher had actually heard of Linux so I had a little bit of an edge.

  5. Re:Why Should Teacher Know or Care About Linux? on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 1

    Telling a prospective employer that you know Linux but not Word is not the way to get a job.

    It is if you want to be a Linux admin.

  6. Re:Give me my shit back... on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 1

    ...or I'll fucking kill you! You have no right to steal my property. You are a thief and a liar. Give it back now, or I will hunt you down and kill you. That is how it should be handled.

    Yeah....that would work.

  7. Re:Let's cut the conspiracy theory on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 1

    I had to RTFA now after you using "she" and saying that she had used it.

    And yes, when you read the whole mail it's quite obvious it's just a troll, no-one can be that retarded, and there's no chance in hell she's actually used it but believe that it would be illegal.

    Oh, you woefully underestimate the stupidity of others.

  8. Re:Let's cut the conspiracy theory on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 1

    I think we should call it "freedomware" but my idea doesn't seem to have caught on. ;-)

    Too many bad puns can be made with that name.
    The most obvious of which is Freedom? Where?
    You can't name your kid Clancy and not expect him to get beatup.

  9. Re:You need to explain on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 1

    You are right, but gratis is much too high-falutin a word to use when you are trying to explain something. It makes you look like some sort of elitist.

    That's too clever your one of them!

  10. Re:Let's cut the conspiracy theory on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 1

    Is anyone else reminded of the religous teacher confiscating a biology book from a student, and writing a letter to their pro-evolution parents?

    Nope, this a whole nother level of stupid.

  11. Re:Don't forget the ninjas on Future of Space Elevator Looks Shaky · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm speaking from personal experience here. Do you ever look back at a joke that you told or got and laughed at and thought: "Wow, I really am a nerd."

    Sometimes I think I should but then I realize if I observe them I could change the outcome.

  12. Re:Don't forget the ninjas on Future of Space Elevator Looks Shaky · · Score: 1

    No need to name them when they're all sealed in boxes with cyanide capsules.

    They both have and haven't names until you open the box.

  13. Re:If they can't get a smart and social employee.. on Bjarne Stroustrup On Educating Software Developers · · Score: 5, Funny

    My production would definitely be down if I had a cheerleader.

    They have a pill for that now.

  14. Re:Mythical Creature... on Bjarne Stroustrup On Educating Software Developers · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am _not_ fat.

    Neither am I but I am mythical.

  15. Re:Always comes down to definitions on Student Faces Suspension For Spamming Profs · · Score: 1

    Not a single email.
    I have the world's greatest spam filter aparently.

  16. Re:Any GA implementation.. woo on Evolution of Mona Lisa Via Genetic Programming · · Score: 1

    Vi is divine.

    I'm honestly surprised there's not a fork of vi called "diVIne."

    It was all my idea. Patent pending! Patent Pending! All shall bow before my diVIne work.

  17. Re:Always comes down to definitions on Student Faces Suspension For Spamming Profs · · Score: 1

    SPAM doesn't require commercialism. If you don't believe me give me your e-mail address. I will post it on slashdot and ask everyone on slashdot e-mail you with "I love you", 50 times each.

    cooldude6993@popstar.com

    Hey, I'm a lonely guy I take what I can get.

  18. Re:Scary stuff on Future of Space Elevator Looks Shaky · · Score: 4, Funny

    Take a ball of paper and throw it at 100,000 miles an hour. Tell me that's not going to cause some damage.

    For starters it's really going to strain your arm.

  19. Re:Don't forget the ninjas on Future of Space Elevator Looks Shaky · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait till it 30.. it'll stabilize around then.

    Unless she's still single. Then she'll start collecting cats.

  20. Re:Don't forget the ninjas on Future of Space Elevator Looks Shaky · · Score: 1

    Like "warp speed" it's a neat scifi idea, but not going to happen within our lifetime. Possibly never.

    I see warp as something that's much more likely.

  21. Re:Any GA implementation.. woo on Evolution of Mona Lisa Via Genetic Programming · · Score: 1

    Vi is divine. Emacs is the work of man.

    vivivi is the editor of the beast.

    Lol you win.
    I guess I'll become a humble pico user.

  22. Re:Swell plan on Apple Disables Egyptian iPhones' GPS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Other than, say the ability to drop a UAV bomb on government buildings or open markets from hundreds of kilometers away ?

    Meh it's cheaper to have a true believer strap explosives to himself and guide himself there. When you have that kind if resource at your disposal why would you pay for iphones and predator drones.

  23. Re:Why do Egyptians need GPS anyway? on Apple Disables Egyptian iPhones' GPS · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can't they just look around and figure out which pyramids they are standing between and go from there?

    But they all look alike. This wouldn't be a problem if they had listened to my idea of bulding a square pyramid.

  24. Re:Brilliant! on Evolution of Mona Lisa Via Genetic Programming · · Score: 1

    No quite right. You need:

    2a) Randomly change those polygons for a number of copies 2b) Choose the "fittest" group based on its likeness to the Mona Lisa.

    Natural selection of random mutation is what is going on here. Just Random mutation will simply get you a random result.

    It's artifical selection. An intelligent being chose the target result. Nature had nothing to do with it.

  25. Re:Triangles on Evolution of Mona Lisa Via Genetic Programming · · Score: 1

    Real evolution works similarly, only instead of checking a source image, it checks whether you're more likely to reproduce. He simply changed the criteria.

    It's guided evolution so long as the program is checking the creators source image.