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  1. Re:Wait, so dropping bombs on people isn't working on U.S. Drone Attack Strategy Against Al-Qaeda May Be Wrong · · Score: 1

    It didn't work for Germany and Japan. When Germany (against Russia) and Japan (against the USA) tried dropping bombs on people, things turned out quite badly for them.

  2. Re:Mistrial! on Judge to Oracle: A High Schooler Could Write rangeCheck · · Score: 1

    Patent lawyers and judges often have an undergraduate degree in their field of specialization. It is implausible to have once earned a CS or related degree from a real university and then not be able to code something simple like the stated problem in few hours or days at most, perhaps equipped with reference guides for the language and / or editor. These are smart people with decent technical backgrounds. The judge isn't the anomaly; the patent lawyer who would take 6 months to code a simple problem is the anomoly.

  3. Re:This happens more than you think on Missouri High School Principal Resigns After Posing As Student On Facebook · · Score: 1

    I wonder what the best way would be to out a principal's account. You could feed it misinformation and see what happens afterwards, but it might be hard to determine whether the account is fake or just relayed the misinformation to the fake account. Maybe the easiest way is to accuse first (as the QB did) and ask for forgiveness later if the guess was wrong.

  4. Beware, I live! on Billionaires and Polymaths Expected To Unveil a Plan To Mine Asteroids · · Score: 1

    RUN, COWARD!

  5. Re:NEWSFLASH: Doctor makes money from sick. on Google Consolidates Privacy Policies Across Services · · Score: 1

    Will that warm, smug glow also keep the grues at bay?

  6. Re:Can't help but think on Anonymous Takes Down DOJ, RIAA, MPA and Universal Music · · Score: 5, Funny

    DOSing is not a violent act; it's just a major inconvenience for the users of the site that forces them to go elsewhere for a while. This is more akin to Rosa Parks taking a shit in the back of the bus.

  7. No psychological baggage my ass. on New Car Anti-Theft Device Profiles Your Rear End · · Score: 1

    In 2015, Koshimizu, struggling financially, sells his accumulated pressure sensor data to a third party software animation company. The third party matches the data with leaked DMV license photos and registration information. Two months later, sit-on-my-face-while-driving.jp is one of the 100 most visited sites in the world.

  8. Re:2.2250738585072011e-308 on PHP Floating Point Bug Crashes Servers · · Score: 1

    This number is just smaller than 2^(-1022).

    According to python, 2.0 ** -1022 == 2.2250738585072014e-308. You can check that last significant digit in the mantissa using integer math in python:

    >>> x = 22250738585072011
    >>> y = 22250738585072014
    >>> for num in xrange(1022): x *= 2; y *= 2 ...
    >>> print str(x)[:20], '...', str(x)[-20:]
    99999999999999987277 ... 51323238920926265344
    >>> print str(y)[:20], '...', str(y)[-20:]
    10000000000000000075 ... 77840486139094368256

    The number in question is just beyond the range that fp is intended enough to handle, but probably not far enough for some initial validation logic to catch. It is probably not too difficult for the bug fixers to verify that the range issues are handled properly now that they know about it.

  9. Re:Bullshit on Interpol Issues Wanted Notice For Julian Assange · · Score: 2, Funny

    In Sweden, it is considered rape if a woman asks a guy to stop, even if they have been rutting for twenty minutes and he's five seconds from orgasm.

    Five seconds? How many seconds of continuation does the guy get? Clearly, if she asks him to stop while he's starting his forward thrust he should be able to blame the subsequent motion on inertia, right? Is the threshold in seconds or cycles? Does it take position into account?

  10. Re:I wold love a car that drives itself... on Google Secretly Tests Autonomous Cars In Traffic · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of drivers who have driven hundreds of thousands of miles and not had to drive into ditches to avoid killing people. You should probably consider driving slower or more defensively.

  11. Re:I wold love a car that drives itself... on Google Secretly Tests Autonomous Cars In Traffic · · Score: 1

    awesome++

    To save money, you could also start drinking before you get to the bar, or en route to the bar. And if you pick someone up for casual sex, you can start on her in the back seat on the way home. Since the car will be doing the driving, the windows can be dark enough for you to have complete privacy.

  12. Re:as someone who take care of a pool on 100-Sq.-Mile Ice Island Breaks Off Greenland Glacier · · Score: 1

    According to the satellite photo, the object is still in Greenland's lower colon. No need to clear the pool just yet.

    http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/08/08/opinion/08dotearthglacier/08dotearthglacier-blogSpan.jpg

  13. Guido's style guide suggests 2. on Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2? · · Score: 1

    http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/: You should use two spaces after a sentence-ending period. When writing English, Strunk and White apply.

  14. Re:Justice is Served on Ex-SF Admin Terry Childs Gets 4-Year Sentence · · Score: 1

    That's faulty reasoning. The people who don't mind prison life aren't the ones getting butt-raped. The people who don't fit in are. Butt-raping, and any other prisoner v. prisoner battery tends to affect those for whom prison life is already the worst. Prison butt-rape is extreme bullying in an environment where bullying is condoned by the administration. As bullying, it IS funny, once you manage to suppress your pesky sense of altruism.

  15. Name your child something common on Google CEO Schmidt Predicts End of Online Anonymity · · Score: 1

    If you have a new child, name him/her the most popular birth name for that gender for that year. This will absolutely ruin the hash of (gender x birth year x first name), assuming a large number of people use this strategy.

  16. Re:Honestly... on Major Flaws Found In Recent BitTorrent Study · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Probably not. They probably got paid whether the misinformation eventually gets called out or not. I'm sure they are quite happy with the mileage they got out of their "study."

  17. Re:Sink it. on Pacific Trash Vortex To Become Habitable Island? · · Score: 1

    Let me know when you figure out a method to glue 1 trillion individual molecules to pieces of rocks.

    An armada of tiny glue-bots.

  18. Re:Slashdot doesn't really get it on Google Releases Wi-Fi Sniffing Audit · · Score: 1

    Easy targets invite crime. If I leave my house doors wide open, not only am I an easy target, but I'm also putting my neighborhood at greater risk. If your parents leave their computer systems unprotected, they're easy targets and they are incrementally putting the internet community at risk. Your parents probably spent many, many patient hours teaching you how to be safe and how to secure the house when you were young. They didn't let you grow up "blissful and ignorant." How about you return the favor to the people who spent 18 years raising you and spend a few patient hours teaching them how to be safe on the internet?

  19. Re:Competition on Google PAC-MAN Cost 4.8M Person-Hours · · Score: 1

    This is a skewed study. If you ask kids to draw a picture of a fireman, some of them will end up drawing a picture of an erect penis, which you are probably counting as a male individual.

  20. Re:So Many Questions on Gaming in the 4th Dimension · · Score: 1

    A washer is homeomorphic to a torus, but is not a torus itself. You are homeomorphic to a torus as well, more or less.

  21. Re:So Many Questions on Gaming in the 4th Dimension · · Score: 1

    No, a 2d representation of a torus is an annulus.

  22. What a stupid idea. on How To Build Roads To Control How Fast You Drive · · Score: 1

    Making more blind spots only makes sense if you're looking at velocity as the sole independent variable. Besides, you could accomplish a similar effect for a much lower cost by lowering the overhead street lights to 4 feet above the ground so that the blinding glare of the lights forces drivers to slow down every 100 feet.

    At the local road level, this "worse roads == better safety" notion could conceivably work by diverting traffic, but this would probably end up having a long-term destructive effect on the commons. If I don't want drivers using my street as a connector, I fill it with hazards until drivers learn to take alternate routes. People living on the alternate routes then fill their streets with hazards and the drivers are back on my street. I then have to out-hazard the other routes. Eventually the whole neighborhood looks like a junkyard, filled with hazards, with everyone's car banged up because they can't even get their car out of their driveway without running into something.

  23. Re:Hillary Clinton released a statement? on Google.cn Attack Part of a Broad Spying Effort · · Score: 1

    That makes sense, I think. Wait, is Monica the RAID array or the new drug in this analogy?

  24. Re:everything is breakable on CES, Reporter Breaks "Unbreakable" Mobile Phone · · Score: 1

    There's no such thing as unbreakable.

    When something is marketed as 'unbreakable', it really means nigh-unbreakable. This phone should have been marketed as 'nigh-unbreakable', since clearly it was nigh-nigh-unbreakable at best.

  25. Re:Society Expands Up to Constraints of the System on Modeling the Economy As a Physics Problem · · Score: 1

    Being an atheist does not preclude having supernatural beliefs. It only means one's belief system does not contain a divine being. There is nothing hypocritical about an atheist believing in undiscovered technology.