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  1. Re:SMTP trademark? on MIT Blackjack King Takes SMTP Public · · Score: 2

    My initial reaction was that he clearly didn't care about people being able to Google for his company.

  2. Re:Real programmers... on Developing Android Apps Visually, In 3 parts · · Score: 2

    I haven't used VS2010 yet, so I'm not sure whether they've fixed it, but the biggest problem with the winforms designer in VS2008 isn't that it's too easy. It's that if you touch anything it rewrites half the .designer file. Must have been implemented by someone who didn't ever look at diffs in their source control program.

  3. Re:Something wrong here on Robo-Gunsight System Makes Sniper's Life Easier · · Score: 1

    Because getting blood out of a good suit is a pain in the arse.

  4. Re:Walk away on Robo-Gunsight System Makes Sniper's Life Easier · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're mishearing. It's actually the war on tourism. They're trying to make airports so unpleasant that no-one uses them.

  5. Re:What about radioactive water? on Is Sugar Toxic? · · Score: 1

    Angina is a heart problem. Heartburn is something completely different.

  6. Re:Dramatic effect and scientific precision on Is Sugar Toxic? · · Score: 1

    Interesting. I thought that sugar beet would be a counterexample, but according to Wikipedia although it has been known for a very long time in Europe it has only been used for large-scale sugar extraction for about 200 years.

  7. Re:Interesting on Judge Reveals Secret Righthaven Copyright Contract · · Score: 1

    The RIAA, at least, doesn't sue: it's the individual records companies who do that.

  8. Re:Not unexpected... on Judge Rules That Police Can Bar High I.Q. Scores · · Score: 1

    Or IEEE 754 / 854.

  9. Re:TFA isn't the full story. on Murdoch Voicemail Hacking Story 'Ain't Over Yet' · · Score: 1

    Bear in mind that anything which exposes someone with access to secret documents to blackmail ought to qualify.

  10. Re:mod parent up on FTP Is 40 Years Old · · Score: 1

    For files where you don't care about security, like say plopping some Linux ISOs on a server somewhere then FTP is as good as any.

    No. For servers where you don't care about security, FTP will transfer files. Given that the cost is sending your password en clair it's just not worth it.

  11. Re:Nope on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    Seminaries are more likely to teach koine Greek, which is substantially different from ancient Greek.

  12. Re:Last words... on FBI Releases Document Confirming Roswell UFO · · Score: 1

    So it worked, then?

  13. Re:asda on Kyoto Prize Laureate Unsnarls Electronic Networks · · Score: 2

    I know Tarjan published a paper on it in the 70s because I once tried to implement it.

  14. Re:1 is the loneliest (non-prime) number on Using Prime Numbers to Generate Backgrounds · · Score: 1

    It's rather convenient to be able to say that every natural number has a unique factorisation. It allows you, for example, to take products over the factorisation (e.g. Euler's totient function phi(n) = n * PROD_p|n (1-1/p) which would have to be a product over "p|n AND p>1").

  15. Re:Poor helpless critters on The Case Against GUIs, Revisited · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that the whole premise of the discussion is kicking mice.

  16. Re:Brevity, Brevity, Brevity!! on Book Review: 15 Minutes Including Q&A · · Score: 1

    Get them to watch the presentation standing on their heads.

  17. Re:Brevity, Brevity, Brevity!! on Book Review: 15 Minutes Including Q&A · · Score: 1

    Eschew verbosity.

  18. Re:You raise, I call on Robots Find Wreckage of AF447 · · Score: 0

    By name or by value?

  19. Re:tao of physics?? on Pioneer Anomaly Solved By 1970s Computer Graphics · · Score: 1

    Most certainly not. Jeeves was a gentleman's gentleman, a valet, not a butler.

  20. Re:Blimps on Artificial Clouds To Cool Qatar World Cup Stadiums · · Score: 2
  21. Re:Easy to remedy on MS Removes HTTPS From Hotmail For Troubled Nations · · Score: 1

    Given that you can receive bucketloads of spam just by opening a hotmail account and waiting 6 hours, that's rather tautologous.

  22. Re:If you're taking a game that serously, you fail on Top French Chess Players Suspended For Cheating · · Score: 1

    given the stigma attached to athletes in intellectual communities

    I don't think you've taken on board Santax's point that the USA's culture doesn't extend beyond the USA.

  23. Re:If you're taking a game that serously, you fail on Top French Chess Players Suspended For Cheating · · Score: 1

    Sure, you can qualify "chess", but can you find a phrase as snappy as "mind sports" which is broad enough to cover tournament chess, bridge, and crossword solving?

  24. Re:At the risk of my nerd card... on Ask Slashdot: How/Where To Start Watching Dr. Who? · · Score: 1

    At least you've seen the Star Wars films. I saw Attack of the Clones when I called round on a friend just as he was putting the DVD into the drive, but other than that I haven't seen them. However, just from hanging around /. and reading Darths and Droids I know enough to be the person everyone looks to when SW comes up in the pub quiz.

  25. Re:Copyrights on facts on RMS On Header Files and Derivative Works · · Score: 1

    I think that's EU database rights, which aren't the same as copyright.