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  1. Re:Feelings on The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet? · · Score: 1

    And if the guy hadn't posted as AC, you'd easily be able to verify the story?

  2. Re:Feelings on The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet? · · Score: 2, Informative

    British police carrying firearms is being common in the big cities, and all police forces will have an Armed Response Unit. They'll also have truncheons and something Mace-like, and there are currently Taser trials being conducted.

  3. Re:Primality is in P on New Largest Prime Found: Over 7 Million Digits · · Score: 1

    IIRC it's O(n^12) unless the GRH holds, in which case O(n^6).

  4. Re:Probably because on Online Plagiarist Sues University · · Score: 1
    Reminds me of a snippet of conversation I recorded about a year ago:
    Joanna: Did you sign to agree to the rules of this College?
    Adam: Yes, but half of them are inconsistent with European legislation.
  5. Re:Need Yet Another Warning Label? on Online Plagiarist Sues University · · Score: 1

    Three years, not four.

  6. Re:If you think this is scary... on Periodic Table of the Operators · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dexter used to drink a lot, but now he drinks no more:
    For what he thought was H2O was H2SO4.

  7. Re:The amount of time guys waste on this stuff ... on The Single Man's Guide To TV Dinners · · Score: 1

    The First Men's Guide to Ironing. Although it dedicates most of the space to telling you the type of shirt which is easiest to iron.

  8. Re:Hilarious on The World's Most Dangerous Password · · Score: 1

    Anyone who goes through that many passwords manually is insane. A hacker who can't write a script to sequentially try passwords is implausible.

  9. Re:Question about ICANN's place in the world on ICANN Budget Questioned · · Score: 1

    I'm puzzled as to why that would be a selling point to Europe's registries.

  10. Re:One thing we'll never run short of... on There Are Infinitely Many Prime Twins · · Score: 1

    I'm afraid you've been misinformed. The tree in your link was planted in 1954, although it was "descended from one at Newton's home, Woolsthorpe Manor". (Source: Trinity College, An Historical Sketch, by G. M. Trevelyan, former Master of the College.) It was at Woolsthorpe that the alleged apple incident occurred.

  11. Re:Interesting, but what's the practical value? on There Are Infinitely Many Prime Twins · · Score: 1
    Therefore information about how primes are relatively distributed is useful.
    And to add to that, anything which tells us more about the distribution of primes is a potential step on the way to proving the Riemann Hypothesis; there are a rather large number of papers which start along the lines of "Assuming the Riemann Hypothesis..."
  12. Re:Too ignorant to be funny. on There Are Infinitely Many Prime Twins · · Score: 1

    Strange. The first Google hit for Tom Lehrer Ph.D. is this biography, which says "In 1960 he stopped performing and devoted himself to his academic calling, returning to Harvard and earning his Ph.D.".

  13. Lehrer on There Are Infinitely Many Prime Twins · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Have you never heard of Tom Lehrer? If not, shame on you.

  14. Re:Prime Arithmetic Progression also in the news on There Are Infinitely Many Prime Twins · · Score: 1

    There's an old proof that there can't be an arithmetic progression all of whose members are prime. Such a progression is of the form f(x) = ax + b, and gives a composite number for all values of x which are a multiple of b (or, indeed, which aren't coprime with b). So since your link requires a subscription, could you please explain what the theorem actually says?

  15. Re:Re viri: MacOSX is the one to watch on Lindows Allowed to Use Company Name in Holland · · Score: 1

    Apple just released a patch against the first concept virus specifically aimed at OS X. (It does, of course, also have to patch vulnerabilities found in things like OpenSSH). There have also been one or two trojans which have made the news.

  16. Re:Not Holland... on Lindows Allowed to Use Company Name in Holland · · Score: 1

    Although I saw a statistic a few years back that claimed 80% of US citizens thought the capital of the US was New York.

  17. Re:RIAA Attacks Single Mom on Italy Approves Jail for P2P Users · · Score: 1

    If you didn't know that the person offering it for download had the right to distribute it, you're making a copy without a licence, and thus violating any copyright inherent in the work.

  18. That's nothing on A Complete Map To Springfield · · Score: 1

    You clearly haven't seen the vast quantity of fanfic, fanart, etc for other brands. You could probably spend 12 hours a day for a couple of years reading Harry Potter fanfic and not read anything twice.

  19. Re:To quote Slashdot itself on 'Pirate Act' Would Shift Copyright Civil Suits To DoJ · · Score: 1

    NOTA isn't the same as abstention. In those places which have it, if NOTA wins the election must be run again, and candidates from the previous one are excluded. It's not voting "against everything", either, but saying that none of the candidates who stood are capable of representing you. Call me a cynic, but I default to classing all professional politicians as "scoundrels", and I'd certainly include anyone who tries to get my vote in that category - if they're willing to change their stance now to get my vote, who's to say they won't change it again should they be elected?

  20. Loophole on 'Pirate Act' Would Shift Copyright Civil Suits To DoJ · · Score: 1

    The company simply makes its campaign contributions in the names of its directors and employees to get round it.

  21. Re:Best Governement $$ can buy! on 'Pirate Act' Would Shift Copyright Civil Suits To DoJ · · Score: 4, Insightful
    vote all the scoundrels out!
    You have "None of the Above" as an option in your ballot?
  22. Re:So he removed one? on Area 51 Hackers Map Buried Surveillance Network · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought due process disappeared two years ago. Does "Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay" ring any bells?

  23. Invalidated or circumvented? on Clear Channel Buys Patent For Instant Live CDs · · Score: 1

    As subject. To invalidate a patent is to have it revoked by the Patent Office / courts.

  24. Well, I'm impressed on The DDR Workout - It's Official · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're a brave man, promoting a MS product on /. ;-)

  25. Re:Don't be afraid of looking silly! on The DDR Workout - It's Official · · Score: 2, Insightful

    OTOH, if it's confidence in talking to girls that you want you may find ballroom dancing more helpful than DDR. The two things I found hardest when I started ballroom were finding the beat of the music and going up to a girl I'd never met and saying "Would you like to dance?" Now the only problem I have with the latter is getting her attention when she's chatting to her friends.