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  1. Re:Other bases? on New Pattern Found In Prime Numbers · · Score: 1

    from TFA...

    So a finite interval must be chosen, even if it is not possible to do so completely randomly in a way that satisfies the laws of probability. To overcome this point, the researchers decided to chose several intervals of the shape [1, 10d]; for example, 1-100,000 for d = 5, etc. In these sets, all first digits are equally probable a priori

    you did d=6, try it for increasing values of d and then observe how the pattern changes

  2. Re:Weird site behavior on New Study Finds Flu Virus "Paralyzes" Immune System · · Score: 1

    What are you using ?

    I had to hand:
    -IE6 on XP
    -Firefox on Linux & XP
    -Safari/Firefox on OSX

    and could not reproduce. (Sorry, I dont have IE7 installed)

    You sure its got focus :)

  3. Re:Weird site behavior on New Study Finds Flu Virus "Paralyzes" Immune System · · Score: 4, Funny

    Its because your anti-virus has been paralysed.

  4. Re:Never ascribe to malice... on Office 2007SP2 ODF Interoperability Very Bad · · Score: 1

    I heard they wanted to, but couldn't find the "OpenOffice" download anywhere on MSDN.

  5. Re:Experts Exchange on Social Desktop Starts To Arrive In KDE · · Score: 2, Funny

    yeah, real matuer comment, maybe next time learn to type.

  6. Re:Experts Exchange on Social Desktop Starts To Arrive In KDE · · Score: 2, Funny

    $10/month != No Money
    $120/year != No Money
    $3600/30 year career (or should that be 'job' as you appear to be relying on experts exchange) != No Money

    Experts my ass... they should rename it ameturegenderadvice.com

  7. Re:Death to IE6! on IE8 Update Forces IE As Default Browser · · Score: 1

    /jealous

    most of my users come from N3 which probably explains a lot :/

  8. Re:Death to IE6! on IE8 Update Forces IE As Default Browser · · Score: 1

    Anecdotal I know, but of 20k visitors I got last month ~80% still on IE6... I'm not holding my breath.

  9. Re:Good idea on Windows 7 Will Be Free For a Year · · Score: 1

    depends why you have MCE, but have you looked at popcorn hour?

    if its for watching 'server-content' then a winner is you.

    if you want 'livetv' then move swiftly along. sorry for wasting your time.

  10. Re:undefined on Hundreds of Black Holes Roam Loose In Milky Way · · Score: 1

    I defined Terrorism with terrorism- a play on words if you will.

    the definition for terrorism (small t) was copypasta from dictionary.com so you'll need to speak to them

  11. Re:Good idea on Windows 7 Will Be Free For a Year · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Desperate Co. is desperate.

  12. Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? on Hundreds of Black Holes Roam Loose In Milky Way · · Score: 5, Insightful

    note capital 'T'

    Terrorism
    -noun
    Terrorism adj. use by the media to sensationalise otherwise typical occurances into newsworth articles.
    1. the use of panic and ignorance to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes
    2. the state of fear and submission produced by government or governance
    3. a Terroristic method of reporting or of interpreting news reports.

    terrorism
    -noun
    1. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.
    2. the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization.
    3. a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.

  13. Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? on Hundreds of Black Holes Roam Loose In Milky Way · · Score: 4, Informative

    How could you forget "Terrorism" more like.

  14. Re:Some, not all... on Old-School Coding Techniques You May Not Miss · · Score: 4, Insightful

    while we are being pedantic...

    From TFA: "most text editors instantly tell you the variable type"

    a *text editor* should do no such thing.

  15. Re:Windows 7 synopsis on Microsoft Leaks Windows 7 RC Date — Before May 5 · · Score: 1

    I think its really good that you brought such a useful feature into the spotlight. *ducks*

  16. Re:commercially driven on Pirate Bay Trial Ends In Jail Sentences · · Score: 1

    "Citizens they used to call them, now they are all consumers, not citizens. Term 'citizen' has an implication that you have obligations and rights at least within your country. Consumers have 'rights' but really it's mostly obligations, and it has nothing to do with countries. The obligations are to the commercial entities - large firms."

    Do you perhaps have a newsletter? Could one subscribe? I am intrigued.

    The curse of 'spent mod points' strikes again.

  17. Re:that was fast on Designer Accused of Copying His Own Work By Stock Art Website · · Score: 1

    It was on firehose 3 hours ago - when I looked about an hour ago he had 300+ posts and it was already doing the rounds on digg, stumble, reddit etc

    Rightly so. This kind of crap needs stamping on hard.

  18. Re:Subdomain certs on Making Sense of Mismatched Certificates? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Its obscurity 2.0 - Security through poverty.

  19. Re:Something stinks around here on DHS To Use Body Odor As a Lie Detector · · Score: 4, Funny

    They could be lining this up as the replacement for UAC!

  20. Re:Fast download on PCLinuxOS 2009 Goes Gold · · Score: 2, Funny

    shit. apostrophe police are gonna be on my ass.

  21. Re:Fast download on PCLinuxOS 2009 Goes Gold · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have to agree I just can't get away from it. The initial build is incredibly painful, doubly so atm because upgrading the default GCC in 2008.1 (4.1.2) to 4.3.3 so you can set your march to core2!

    I realise this makes me sound like your typical ricer, but make no mistake I *know* it aint gonna be (noticably) faster, but as parent said - its knowing that its right is what counts. If you can maximise how well your OS is tailored to your box, and minimise cruft it makes it far easier to figure out problems (imho). I certainly give credit wher it is due to distro's like ubuntu That also offer things like kde 4.2 I just feel that if something goes wrong - what then? The boards for ubuntu/gentoo are a world apart in my anecdotal experience. Understandably though. If you chose Ubuntu, its probably because you can't/won't understand whats going on behind the scenes.

    Anyway I feel gentoo is a delight to work with. Portage is incredible, it gives you so much control of your build and yet its learning curve is not too steep.

    I try not to promote gentoo by highlighting the problems with other distro's - I think it stand on its own merits. My personal experience with RPMs has been terrible, I like to hope that this is down to my failure to grok them, otherwise ther is a lot of pissed off people out there that don't know any better!

    In fact I would go so far as to only recommend gentoo to people who I think will understand where it is coming from, and why it is like it is. Everyone else? might as well just get a mac ;)

  22. Re:Counter Strike on Dealing With Fairness and Balance In Video Games · · Score: 1

    Hi! (admittedly its actually openarena, dunno where my CD is ...)

  23. Re:fast enough for a on New Electrode Lets Batteries Charge In 10 Seconds · · Score: 2, Funny

    I prefer to see how deep the rabbit hole goes!

  24. Re:fast enough for a on New Electrode Lets Batteries Charge In 10 Seconds · · Score: 1

    An interesting hypothesis! I wonder if they have done any preliminary testing as to the viabilty of getting past the POST\1

  25. Re:fast enough for a on New Electrode Lets Batteries Charge In 10 Seconds · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought of writing I disclaimer saying as much, but my submit button discharged too fast.