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  1. Re:orgasms and DNA research on Photoshop for DNA · · Score: 1

    You said something about a downside?

  2. Re:Err... "lying" is the default setting. RTFM. on Your Hard Drive Lies to You · · Score: 1

    That can be so fucking frustrating when you're working on a locked-up laptop...

  3. Re:There is a problem on Johnny Can So Program · · Score: 1

    You have got to be from a low-cost area of the country. You can make $20,000 a year at Best Buy, and when you go home you don't have to grade papers, and $40,000 is tech support.

    Unless you have a reference or two for that, there's no way I can believe they pay teachers that little.

    Although I do concede your main point, teachers aren't paid nearly enough.

  4. Re:Zonk.. on Current Crypto Trends with Bruce Schneier · · Score: 1

    It's unicode.

  5. Re:Great opportunity for OSS on UK Schools Told to Dump Microsoft · · Score: 1

    And the pickles?

  6. Which pretty much makes me a vegetarian... on From Carnivore to Herbivore · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obviously, Falcarius utahensis got a girlfriend.

    Tomato and spinach pizza, wtf.

  7. Re:"Merge onto I-5 HAL" "Sorry Dave, I can't do th on Cars that Can't Crash? · · Score: 2, Informative

    If your ABS came on, you were skidding, and you would not have stopped as fast if you didn't have ABS.

    If ABS came on before you lost traction, your ABS sensor is broken.

    The computer control stuff is what allows cars to be as good as they are today. If you prefer to not have that, restoring an old car to better than new condition can be done for less money than a new car today.

  8. Re:Is this a joke? on Safari And KHTML May Never Meet · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just one.

    Put it out! Put it out!

  9. Re:Other fun IP addresses to attack! on The Planet's Most Moronic Hacker · · Score: 4, Informative

    It means the entire 127.x.x.x block is loopback addresses, not just 127.0.0.1

  10. Re:No hope for named warnings on GCC 4.0.0 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Exactly, and that's what I want it to do, but it gets tricky when you're using templates...

    template <class T> class safeint {
    template <class FromT> safeint (FromT const number) {
    // I know this test will fail sometimes, it's just an example.
    if (number < numeric_limits<T>::min()) {
    throw "You stink!";
    }
    };
    };

    If FromT is an unsigned int, and T is an int, the check will never be true and should be optimized away. However, if it's the other way around, we need that check, or there can be overflow.

    Also, I'd like to have the warning only disabled for that one line of code, so that if I make a mistake elsewhere the compiler will help me find it.

    Visual C++ can do it, come on GNU!

  11. No hope for named warnings on GCC 4.0.0 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Will named warnings never be impemented? Or numbered? Something that lets me turn off a warning for a particular line of code?

    Have you ever tried writing an overflow safe integer class? I have, and I did, but I have to compile everything with -w because otherwise I get 40 pages of "condition will always be false due to limited range of data type". Bleh! If it will always be false, throw it away! I need the check in there for when the type will be a signed int.

    Does anyone have a ray of hope? I love most of GCC's warnings, and have always been able to work around them, but in this case there's just no way to get rid of them.

  12. Re:Lunar eclipse on Site for Moon Base Determined · · Score: 1

    No, that's a solar eclipse.

    A lunar eclipse is when Earth is between the Sun and the Moon. If you see a lunar eclipse on Earth, if you were on the moon at that same time, the whole thing would be dark.

  13. Re:Death? on Top 10 Evolutionary Adaptations · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ah, but if an organism that has the potential to live forever has children that will someday be able to compete with and eventually kill it, better to kill it asap instead of waiting for it to get strong. In fact, it's better to not have children at all.

    Only organisms that will die no matter what they do have a motivation for helping their children survive. Since organisms that do not die of old age will not evolve, organisms that do not die of old age will eventually be killed by those that do die of old age.

  14. Re:Erm on Google Adds Satellite Imagery to Maps · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Try getting directions, then change to satellite view. Your route is still overlayed perfectly over the roads you need to take, even though the images are slightly different than the vector map.

    This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. If it was possible to center the Google map based on lat/lon, just imagine how easy it would be to write a script that took input from your GPS and used it to scroll the map.

  15. Re:Not actively deleting cookies on New Technique for Tracking Web Site Visitors · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm surprised it's that low.

    I spent about 4 years in internet tech support, and pretty much everybody wants to delete their cookies for every problem imaginable.

    Can't browse?
    "How do I delete my cookies?"
    Can't view SSL sites?
    "I tried everything, even deleting my cookies."
    Daughter's knocked up?
    "I deleted her cookies."

    It's a cute, easy to remember name, and every "tech" article geared toward unwashed masses reminds people to delete cookies. Even if they don't know how, they'll ask, and somehow a person that loses their taskbar every 3 days will remember how to clear cookies the first time they see it.

  16. Re:Get the time here! on date +%s Turning 1111111111 · · Score: 1

    Looks like you needs some help from Mr. &lt;

  17. Re:Big 00000000 on date +%s Turning 1111111111 · · Score: 1

    You fail it too, it's 00 E1 F5 05.

  18. Re:Fork Gnome! on GNOME Ignoring its Own Users? · · Score: 1

    Bugs, mostly.

  19. Re:Brought to you by the letter 'c' on Too Darned Big to Test? · · Score: 1

    Put each digit in a <p> element, put the whole thing in a <div class="phone"> then make a stylesheet with "div.phone p { display: inline; }"

    If that's not enough for you I'm sure you can think of even more obfuscation, maybe by setting text direction to RTL or something.

  20. Re:It's worse than that. on Exultant · · Score: 1

    Oh. My. God.

    I don't think that there's anything wrong with being gay, and I don't think there's anything wrong with masturbation, but for some reason the idea of fucking yourself is just kind of gross to me...

    Then, I read your post. Thanks, I'll never sleep again.

  21. Re:Let's help them out on Astronomers Find Star-Less Galaxy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your ass gets bigger with just a rumour of pregnancy? That explains a lot!

  22. Re:Momento... on Object-Oriented 'Save Game' Techniques? · · Score: 1

    I don't know, but my car won't start.

  23. Re:Bad HTML alert on Kerberos: The Definitive Guide · · Score: 1

    Displays fine for me (FF 1.0). It's not even a particularly long table, it's broken up into 4 separate tables.

  24. Re:I'll tell you what's next on Verizon To Acquire MCI For $6.7 Billion · · Score: 1

    Fun for all ages, up to 1 player!

  25. Re:This is beginning to sound more like on Cell Architecture Explained · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the 10 minutes of vibrating eyes in the middle!