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  1. Re:C compiler on What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? · · Score: 1

    Indeed, one just has to ask C's detractors, "so, what is your language written in?"

  2. Feynman on Nuclear Rocket Petition On White House Website · · Score: 1

    I hope they know that RPF has the patent on such things!

  3. Next on Woman Successfully Grows Ear From Arm · · Score: 1

    Now, an arse from an elbow can't be too far away!

  4. It's his ears! on Neil Young Pushes Pono, Says Piracy Is the New Radio · · Score: 1

    He was born in 1945, so it's most likely that most everything sounds like it's gone through a compressor to him now.

  5. Leave the dups on Ask Slashdot: How Do I De-Dupe a System With 4.2 Million Files? · · Score: 1

    Rationale:

    You don't need to free up space, heck, space is cheap so there's no real reason to recover it.

    Also, given that the worth of something is inversely proportional to its availability, it actually makes sense to have duplicates hanging around: once you loose your only copy of a file you'll be *very* happy to find its duplicate.

  6. Binary Watch on Ask Slashdot: Wrist Watch For the Tech Minded · · Score: 1

    I must admit that I sort of fell in love with the binary watches from ThinkGeek.

    So much so that I truly believe that my action shot (and the effort involved in producing it) should have yielded a prize

    Here's the training program for that watch.

  7. And how about .. on Google Updates Algorithm To Punish Websites With Excessive Ads · · Score: 1

    All those websites that contain the single article you're interested in in just a single column - all the other screen real estate being taken up with advertising!

  8. Re:Anyone else not surprised? on Iranian TV Shows Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    "the onboard AI" - lmao!

    Let me guess - you don't work in AI do you.

  9. Sob sob on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 1

    What's that you said, 'Thanks for all the fish'?

    Oh, and for the record, I agree that you should have retained the ability to post new stories if ever you felt like it.

  10. Re:Do you want computer science, or engineering? on CS Profs Debate Role of Math In CS Education · · Score: 1

    Software Engineering. Here's what my old school lists as appropriate:

    http://www.softeng.ox.ac.uk/courses/subjects.html

    By the way, this is for their M.Sc., Soft Eng isn't taught at the UG level in ox.

  11. Efficient Germans on German Foreign Office Going Back To Windows · · Score: 1

    Well, as they’re known for their efficiency, planning and methodical approach to engineering solutions, this doesn’t do much bode too well for Linux, does it?

  12. Not going to happen on UK Government Wants to Spring Ahead Two Hours · · Score: 1

    It's academic - any decision to change the clocks in the UK has to include a buy-in from the devolved Welsh and Scottish assemblies - both have a veto, and the Scottish will use theirs!

    It seems that we have this particular Chestnut come up every year, and every year it's the same - it isn't going to happen (sadly!)

  13. Great Idea on China Mandates Parental Controls For Online Games · · Score: 1

    All I can say is that I wish we had that here.

  14. Turing Too on Old Apple 1 Up For Auction, Expected To Go For $160,000+ · · Score: 1
  15. Universities in the UK on UK University Researchers Must Make Data Available · · Score: 1

    >>...which are all public in the UK

    Not so - there's one private university!

  16. Re:What a lot of work. on Scalpers Earned $25M Gaming Online Ticket Sellers · · Score: 1

    Me too - but I'd also like to know how they built this database - automating the responses.

  17. Re:This man is not studying in London on Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes · · Score: 1

    Oxford - mainly because of Frasier, and the Boat Race - although I found that most Americans couldn't believe why the [obviously] Harvard team were called Cambridge!

  18. Hold on on UK's FSA Finds No Health Benefits To Organic Food · · Score: 1

    Hold on - according to the other report when it references the FSA's ...

    According to the study's Executive Summary:

            "This review does not address contaminant content (such as herbicide, pesticide and fungicide residues) of organically and conventionally produced foodstuffs or the environmental impacts of organic and conventional agricultural practices."

    Why such a pejorative stance? All it's saying is that is hasn't taken into account - for either types of food - the effect of eating them unwashed - isn't it?

    And, also that it hasn't looked at environmental impacts etc., but that it's *just* looked at the nutritional value - which is the focus of the main report.

  19. Re:Thanks a lot on Launch of First International FOSS Law Review · · Score: 1

    You must be new here, despite that ID number. Slashdotters don't rtfa. They barely rtfs.

    Saves time that way. :)

    What ID, where?

  20. Re:The only thing I got out of TFA... on Shuttleworth's Take On GNOME 3.0, Coordination with Debian · · Score: 1

    From the OED

    file, n 2

                    1. ...
                    2. ...
                    3. a. A string or wire, on which papers and documents are strung for preservation and reference. In recent use extended to various other appliances for holding papers so that they can be easily referred to.

                                c. A catalogue, list, roll. Obs.

                    4. a. A collection of papers placed on a file, or merely arranged in order of date or subject for ready reference.

                            b. Computers. A collection of related records stored for use by a computer and able to be processed by it. Also attrib. and Comb.
    1954 Jrnl. Assoc. Comput. Mach. I. 8/2 A 'master' tape..contains the file of unit records as at the last date of processing. 1967 COX & GROSE Organiz. Bibl. Rec. by Computer 19 A file sequence may contain only one file, and this is generally the case when updating procedures are being carried out. 1969 Computers & Humanities III. 132 This search (once through the file), whether for a single interrogation or for several, is called a file-pass.

    Sounds like a file is a queue - or, is that a list!

  21. Re:The only thing I got out of TFA... on Shuttleworth's Take On GNOME 3.0, Coordination with Debian · · Score: 1

    From the OED

    file, n 2

            1. ...
            2. ...
            3. a. A string or wire, on which papers and documents are strung for preservation and reference. In recent use extended to various other appliances for holding papers so that they can be easily referred to.

                  c. A catalogue, list, roll. Obs.

            4. a. A collection of papers placed on a file, or merely arranged in order of date or subject for ready reference.

                b. Computers. A collection of related records stored for use by a computer and able to be processed by it. Also attrib. and Comb.
    1954 Jrnl. Assoc. Comput. Mach. I. 8/2 A 'master' tape..contains the file of unit records as at the last date of processing. 1967 COX & GROSE Organiz. Bibl. Rec. by Computer 19 A file sequence may contain only one file, and this is generally the case when updating procedures are being carried out. 1969 Computers & Humanities III. 132 This search (once through the file), whether for a single interrogation or for several, is called a file-pass.

    Sounds like a file is a queue - or, is that a list!

  22. Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? on Hundreds of Black Holes Roam Loose In Milky Way · · Score: 1

    Global warming, fundamentalist christian, jews, muslims, poisonous food additives,and a global echonomic collaps can be a good start. :D

    Who's this 'fundamentalist christian' you're referring to - the Pope?

  23. The Galaxy Song on Milky Way Heavier Than Thought, and Spinning Faster · · Score: 1

    So, how does this 'bollocks up' Eric Idle's Galaxy Song?

  24. Re:Tip to arabs: don't wear towel on head in airpo on Overzealous AirTran Boots 9 Passengers Off · · Score: 1

    >>Granted, it's idiotic to think a real terrorist would dress the part to get on an airplane ...

    As terrorists are apt to blow themselves up, believe in faries etc, I think it's safe to assume that they're morons - rather than being simply idiotic. As such, and given that they're 'as thick as shit', I wouldn't put it past them!

  25. Some others on Your Favorite Tech / Eng. / CS Books? · · Score: 1