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  1. Who wrote those questions? on U.S. Scientists Say They Are Told to Alter Finding · · Score: 1

    n+1. The people writing this survey like to wantonly split infinitives.
    strongly agree | agree | don't know | disagree | strongly disagree

  2. Oblig. joke on Personal Spaceflight Leaders Form New Federation · · Score: 1
    "For those with nothing left to buy on Earth..."
    What do you get someone who has anything? I suggest you get a rary, as you can at least be confident they won't throw it away.

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    It's a long way to tip a rary.

  3. Mod parent -1 clueless on How Heraclitus would Design a Programming Language · · Score: 1

    If the great-grandparent post had correctly spelled Ubuntu that would be a sensible reply. However, Umbongo has much closer ties to the Congo than to RSA.

  4. Re:Slippery Slope... on FreeBSD Announces Contest To Replace Daemon Logo · · Score: 1

    Saying "Bless you" when someone sneezes is a cultural thing, not a religious one. It may have originated in superstition, but nowadays it doesn't mean that the person saying it is a theist any more than it means that they're afraid you've got bubonic plague.

  5. UK perspective on EU Software Patent Law Moves Forward · · Score: 1

    Here in the UK it seems our best check is threatening to withdraw from the EU.

  6. Re:TCO of Windows vs. Linux on Ask Microsoft's Martin Taylor About Linux vs. Windows · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I believe they assume that the business already has Windows installed on all its machines.

  7. Minor quibble on How Heraclitus would Design a Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Nelson Mandela isn't from the Congo.

  8. Re:Linux/unix version on Artists Against 419 Releases Mugu Marauder · · Score: 1
    Why
    --delete-after
    rather than
    -O /dev/null
    ?
  9. Re:Centre of the world?! on Google Launches Mapping Service · · Score: 1
    I suppose I should have picked up from "centre" that you're a Brit
    ?! I'm not medraut.
  10. Re:Salsa on Cooling Down Hot Processors · · Score: 1

    I don't care what temperature it is: I don't want any salsa near my CPU.

  11. Re:Centre of the world?! on Google Launches Mapping Service · · Score: 1
    I'll avoid the we-sent-our-troops-in-WWII example
    Saves me pointing out that we sent our troops into Iraq...
    and just stick with which-internet-would-you-be-using-if-our-military- dollars-didn't-build-it question instead.
    And where would Google be without Tim Berners-Lee - a Brit? The people making economics points are being reasonable, but your argument seems to be "We invented ARPAnet, so you're indebted to us".
  12. Island state in Europe? Hmm on Google Launches Mapping Service · · Score: 1
    the tiny island state in Europe, what's its name already?
    Malta?
  13. Re:Forget IE/Firefox etc... on Google Launches Mapping Service · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's all right. I'm used to maps not working too well in Lynx.

  14. Prior (albeit classified) art on Microsoft Seeks Latitude/Longitude Patent · · Score: 1
    This algorithm wasn't created in the vacuum of academia.
    No. It was "created" in GCHQ, although they didn't publish it, for fairly obvious reasons.
  15. "Fair trade" means something here on Third-World Sweatshops Producing Virtual Goods · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Of course they can leave, but the "fair trade" people always conveniently forget that in their quest to justify protectionism.
    Genuine fair trade people work to help the poor make a living in better conditions: to create alternatives.
  16. Re:Hurry! on Household Emergent Behavior? · · Score: 1
    Someone get over there immediately and apply the turning test!
    I think a Roomba has to be able to turn. Or was that a reference to the auction story?
  17. Re:Different != Better on Gosling Claims Huge Security Hole in .NET · · Score: 1

    It would throw an unhandled exception (StackOverflowException) in Java too, unless you've allocated a stunning amount of stack.

  18. Woe? on Asteroid To Be Naked-Eye Visible In 2029 · · Score: 1
    Whoa is me!
    Neo?
  19. Re:I Always Wonder... on Asteroid To Be Naked-Eye Visible In 2029 · · Score: 4, Informative

    They've been tracking it for a while, and NASA has some pretty good quadrature software for numerical solutions to the N-body problem. I don't see any particularly precise figures in the summary anyway, and I'm not going to read the article, am I?

  20. Re:stegnography is security through obscurity on Secret Data: Steganography v Steganalysis · · Score: 1

    Eh? If you can transmit a signed and encrypted message, you can use stego with a signed and encrypted message. If the encryption's any good, your data should be indistinguishable from noise.

  21. Re:Passwords on Secret Data: Steganography v Steganalysis · · Score: 1

    Stego can also be used for storage. You may not send many images, but you probably have some sitting around - or if not images then PDFs or something. (I don't know how good PDF is for stego, but I suspect they're usable. Throw in an unncessary font definition or something).

  22. Re:Apples to oranges. on Knuth's Art of Computer Programming Vol. 4 · · Score: 1
    I don't think anyone really writes PS directly, unless they're l33t hackers.
    I think that's the first time I've ever been called a l33t hacker. My current personal project has one output option where it processes a PS file I hand-wrote and replaces certain special comments with the values to display.

    In addition, Sabin (of Doo-Sabin fame) lectures a graphics course in which he starts with PS so that people can use it to do the exercises. (His lecture notes were my first PS tutorial).

  23. Backronym on Canadian Government Weary of Patriot Act · · Score: 2, Informative
  24. Re:s/Weary/Wary/ on Canadian Government Weary of Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    At least they've got good food, then.

  25. Re:Just because the Brits object, it's not wrong! on EU Software Patents Dead Again · · Score: 1
    When people elect people who elect people, democracy is not the correct term.
    When people elect people democracy is not the correct term. Democracy is government by the people, not by the representatives (hah!) of the people. The only state or organisation of states that I know of with a realistic claim to be a democracy is Switzerland.