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  1. Re:Anonymous teacher rating sites are worthless on TeacherReviews.com Forced Offline · · Score: 1

    If you run into that problem, your university should have some sort of academic grievance procedure you can follow, so you can lodge an official complaint if you feel people are being unreasonable. Mine does - the new software for it was developed by students :-)

  2. Re:SWEET! 0wnz0red is up for best novellette... on Nebula Award Nominees Online · · Score: 2, Insightful

    *Bloody brilliant*? It's like early crap Bruce Sterling (if you thought Involution Ocean had a coherent plot, you're free to disagree), written by a script kiddie whose entire interaction with the entire world is via Slashdot.

  3. Re:Attention Microsoft and Yahoo on Microsoft, Yahoo Investigate Spam Solution · · Score: 1

    It already costs money to get email into ISP networks, in the same way it costs money to get any packets into ISP networks. Email isn't free, it's just really, really, cheap. And heaps of *good* applications are based on this fact. Killing them off is bad.

  4. Re:And you understand that x86 FP instructions.. on Intel Shifting 64-bit Plans · · Score: 1

    Well, the 8086 (or its 8087 coprocessor), actually...

  5. Re:All we want is some accountability on Comcast Targets Internet "Abusers" · · Score: 1

    My cable connection is like that:

    512/128
    1GB/month
    NZ$2048/mo per extra 10GB

    Pity me.

    (okay, so traffic that stays within the country counts as a tenth of that, but it's still less than wonderful)

  6. Re:Test of a language on Learning Python, 2nd Edition · · Score: 1

    Whereas in Haskell...

    quick :: Ord a => [a] -> [a] --optional type specification

    quick [] = []
    quick (h:t) = quick [ x | x <- t, x < h] ++
    h :
    quick [ x | x <- t, x > h]

    although IMHO list comprehensions make more sense in declarative languages.

  7. Re:Nice variety of words in the title on Scientists Invent Scientist · · Score: 1
    I'd have thought it would be

    Slashdot: Slashdotters Slashdot SlasCSTY*(#RDAW NO CARRIER

  8. Re:No, only 0.9094 TB on A Terabyte In A Cigar Box · · Score: 1

    They're not part of SI (System International), though: they're made up by some other random standards organisation (the IEC). And the names sound silly, anyway - I've never actually heard anyone say the word "mebibyte".

  9. Re:for non-pro/home broadcasting to take off on Icecast 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Multicast would work, too, and would waste less bandwidth. If your ISP actually supported it. Audio "streaming" over TCP is a fundamentally bad idea.

  10. Re:Simple Solution on How Much Broadband Usage is Too Much? · · Score: 1

    In that context you probably meant symmetric, not synchronous.

  11. Re:Summary of competition (HP calculators) on TI Launches Three New Graphing Calculators · · Score: 1
    Note that if you're not already enamoured with RPN, or have had much exposure to normal algebraic calculators, you should really make sure you're actually going to use an HP calculator before you pay a potentially sizeable chunk of cash for it.

    bc does the job for me. The HP48 is just annoying.

  12. Re:What's the definition of terrorism? on FBI Can Inspect Bank Records w/o Court Orders · · Score: 1

    It sounds vaguely like the South African government's attempt in the 1950s to define things they didn't like as communism, via the Surpression of Communism Act.

    At the time, however, their judiciary was reasonably independent, and acquitted at least one defendant on the basis that the government's definition of communism was overly broad.

  13. Re:Not enough alphablending on The State Of The GTK+ File Selector · · Score: 1

    Gradients! They need gradients! Haven't the GNOME developers seen the massive usability enhancements that KDE sustains due to their extensive use of gradients?

  14. Re:Latency. on Long Term Effects of Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    You can always, er, move India closer to the US, or US closer to India. Just need to find some experts in plate tectonics :-)

  15. Re:XFS Filesystem on Linux 2.4.24 Release Fixes Root Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    That HD drive is attached to a SCSI interface, right? And you transfer files to it over the network using the FTP protocol...

  16. Re:Don't you have to be English to be knighted? on Tim Berners-Lee Attains Knighthood · · Score: 1

    ... and Blade Runner (well, associate producer, anyway)