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  1. It is now on Yahoo! Maps :-) on Obsessively Detailed Map Of Springfield · · Score: 3, Funny

    Courtesy of map quest ;-)

    Springfield, MA

  2. 1...2...3... GTA Springfield! Hit and what? on Obsessively Detailed Map Of Springfield · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder if they used hit and run as a source of this.

    I would love to make this a GTA3 map... mod characters, there is a great GTA modding community, damn fine programmers too.

    Well, back to the map (they haven't got routing or landmarks sorted out, but I guess they are working on it)

  3. Re:Induce our vote on Ask Libertarian Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik · · Score: 1

    His response on the website is written for the general public, this is /., welcome to the real world.

    In addition, I would like explicit items, so we can tick them off or cross them out, if he ever gets enough support.

    It takes 8 hours for a 0.1% supported party to win an election, it is called election day.

    If enough people vote, anything can happen.

  4. Re:Another anagram... sorry playing around on Ask Libertarian Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik · · Score: 2, Funny

    That was a dictionary definition, which I ctrl-c ctrl-v'd in to help the likes o fyou to try and understand the anagram, now fuck off. read the ufffcking post again.

    and google for bilking (seinfeld quote - kramer, the help the aged foudation, bilking people out of thier savings! haha) and click the dictionary.reference.com link.

    You are the reason why the monty python foot section has the , it's funny, laugh, tagline, because you are a dolt.

  5. Perfectly legtimate on Independent Developers Fight Piracy & Lose · · Score: 1

    There is no legal worries about using this code in your program. After all, winXP bluescreened on a coworker yesterday, lost some precarious db work he was doing (it was a usb device that did it)

    So if this is a feature you pay for, why not features you get if you don't pay for it!

    simple, the registered version has some bud fixes that doesn't kill your system.

    I like this idea, but only feels good if it is froma small company, an underdog, and for software you are not going to use.

    I have read 'horror' stories about office xp deciding it isn't activated and causing people to loose productivity time. This is pretty much the same thing - although only shoots of its own foot, not the home directory.

  6. Mod parent up as funny? on Ask Libertarian Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik · · Score: 1

    I mean come on! Have a sense of humour! and it is a valid anagram!

  7. Another anagram... sorry playing around on Ask Libertarian Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik · · Score: 3, Funny

    Michael Badnarik = I'd hire a blackman

    Equal oppourtunity, he has my vote!

    Michael Badnarik = A chairman bilked

    bilked: To defraud, cheat, or swindle: made millions bilking wealthy clients on art sales.

    Michael Badnarik = A Chi Mandrake Lib

    So he uses mandrake huh? With balanced libraries!

    Michael Badnarik = A animal bred hick

    Out with the old, in with the new!

  8. Anagram of Michael Badnarik on Ask Libertarian Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Michael Badnarik = I'm a backhand lier

    Anagram of the day? (go on, test it! and yes, it isn't perfect)

  9. Induce our vote on Ask Libertarian Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What are you views and hopes for privacy and security for the citizens of the internet age, and how do you proactively aim to safegaurd and give back our rights that have been eroded away. (INDUCE act, PATRIOT act, et al)

  10. Re:JRuby versus Java [code comparison - short] on JRuby Great Addition To Java Development · · Score: 1

    Of course, it is a very nice language as scripting languages go, and I suppose the sample I choose (swing) was a little misleading, I guess simpler tasks, and more 'do this then that then the other' un-OO tasks might look cuter in JRuby.

    Who knows.

  11. JRuby versus Java [code comparison - short] on JRuby Great Addition To Java Development · · Score: 4, Funny
    JRuby
    require 'java'
    module Swing
    include_package 'java.awt'
    include_package 'javax.swing'
    end
    module AwtEvent
    include_package 'java.awt.event'
    end

    $calculator = Swing::JFrame.new
    class << $calculator

    def init
    end

    end

    $calculator.init
    $calculator.setSiz e(400, 400)
    $calculator.setVisible(true)
    versus Java
    import javax.swing.JFrame;
    public class Calculator extends JFrame {
    public Calculator(){
    super("Slashdot Rul3z");
    setSize(400, 400);
    setVisible(true);
    }
    public static void main(String[] args) {new Calculator();}
    }
    and we have a winner
  12. Re:You can protect your money on US Candidates Ignore Looming Debt Crisis · · Score: 3, Insightful

    if you're going to buy 80 kilos of uncut peruvian cocaine what are you going to pay with? drachmas?

    Drachmas? As if, Greece uses the Euro now.

    as a general rule: if it's against the law, it's paid for in greenbacks.

    Queue the american national anthem. You must be so proud!

    the greenback will stay the strongest currency

    You make the assumption that it is the strongest currency, which clearly it is not.

    Also, this outstanding debt means, that the greenabcks in your pocket, are not actually yours, but belong to someone else who has been promised to be paid back, and if this breaks down, then noone will want them.

    If the price of your cocaine sky rockets (in $$$), I wouldn't be suprised.

  13. Re:Bush mentions SS on his web site, Kerry doesn't on US Candidates Ignore Looming Debt Crisis · · Score: 1

    I think Bush view SS as the secret service, not the social security. Although I think he would blindly throw .5Billion USD at anything with the word security in it.

  14. Virtual machine technology on Universal Emulators Return · · Score: 1

    Having seen the benefits of Java, and marvelled at OS emulation with VMWare (Should be OS ware) I think this is the next evolved step.

    I have no idea how it works above the level of basic code execution (libraries etc) so I think this has no real 'now' uses. (unless running windows on a Sunfire is your thing)

    This still doesn't 'do' any emulation that can magic up any system library that is no longer present (becuase it is the different system)

    Will this however give rise to a whole bunch of cross compiled libraries that kill off the OS/Architecture debate by saying, write once, run on this.

    Will it run mame :-) Can this mean we can beowulf a SNES, A2600, Gameboy, dreamcast, Atari ST and Coleco?

    Who knows.

  15. running up on some architectural limitations on Intel Predicts Death Of WWW · · Score: 1

    I got some spam the other day about 'architectural limitations'. I think that is what they mean, they should give it a go, no gadgets and gizmos, no creams, no pumps required!

    Lets reinvent the web and have someone own it, and we all pay them! yes please! here is my credit-card number.

    1337H4X0R696969696

  16. Debt stats on US Candidates Ignore Looming Debt Crisis · · Score: 1

    From the debt clock:

    Each citizen's share of the US debt is $25,103.12

    The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $1.72 billion per day since September 30, 2003!

  17. Debt clock on US Candidates Ignore Looming Debt Crisis · · Score: 4, Interesting

    debt clock

    The problem is, if they do not get it under balance, the dollar will plummet, and then loose value as people loose faith in it.

    This is a real fear in 4-7 years. (I won't go into i18n economy bonds, and how they will weaken until the global economy becomes more bouyant)

  18. This SVP thingy, think like a programmer on SVP : More Video Anti-Copying Technology · · Score: 1

    I have a TV, I just bought it, fsk am I buying a new one for a 'DVD'.

    So thier SVP player comes along, wow. So my TV can get a signal. Surely my PC TV Card can too?

    So surely I can just rip the converted signal? With not much loss?

    *blinks*

    Unless they intend on keeping the signal encrpted until it hits our implanted optical nerve SVP chip.

  19. Have to? on 378 Terabytes Of Star Wars on 600 G5s · · Score: 0, Redundant

    making it so that people have to buy the trilogy six times, spending a couple hundred bucks.

    I think this needs no further comment. (other than to say)

  20. No link, but anyone else read on P2P Web searches · · Score: 1

    An article about research which showed that random network crawlers gave increased performance on P2P networks... perhaps this means that better performance could be managed if a skynet esque 'self aware) ie third party knowledgeable layer of the network existed to facilitate each node (searching)

    Sorry, I hope that makes sense in context.

  21. And if the whole net gets too congested... on P2P Web searches · · Score: 1

    They can always link to the googles very own cache. :-)

    Well, actually they might be on to something as I said in a comment on a post some months ago (Why can't I peruse all my comments? (sans subscription)) and also, I noted that a p2p encrypted backup technology would be a good idea, which was then taken off and written about

    I said, it'll be peer to peer everything. (in this case, p2p raid, for redundancy, not performance) using certs.

  22. Great idea, on XBox Can Now Be A Mini Rack Mount Server · · Score: 1

    Now it will take up less space while gathering dust.

    *cough* Sorry, someone has to make an unwarranted stand against XBox...

    Gonna play the Dawn of War demo now...

  23. Increased resolution thorugh sampling... on How About a Gigapixel Digital Camera? · · Score: 1

    is known as supersampling, and is used by security cameras to take several frames of footage and use this information to produce a high res version of the image.

    So whilst you cannot really introduce fake information ala charlies angels and find the bad guy, if you have several frame you can clear it up substantially.

    You can also undo motion blur, which is cool (I haven't the foggiest how they do it, probbaly some huffman transforms and a bit of luck!)

    How About a Gigapixel Digital Camera?

    Yes please.

    But it isn't a gigapixel camera, that is like saying if I tie a 8 thousand 128k spectrums togather I could call it a ~~~~~gigabyte of ram.

    If I did the math wrong, who cares.

  24. Nice graph, lots of cool numbers! on How Well Do You Estimate? · · Score: 1

    To clear up:

    Estimate: To calculate approximately (the amount, extent, magnitude, position, or value of something).

    Guess: To predict (a result or an event) without sufficient information.

    Predict: To state, tell about, or make known in advance, especially on the basis of special knowledge.

    Based on these definitions, different people would either guess or estimate (or state / predict) (the known value of) the distance between Edinburgh and Cardiff.

    I saw his nice graph, looks like SPSS.

  25. Found something nice on New Issue Of Independent Adventuring · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nothing to do with Gibson, but the Wintermute engine:

    Wintermute

    Wintermute Engine Development Kit is a set of tools for creating and running graphical "point&click" adventure games. The kit includes the runtime interpreter (Wintermute Engine, or WME) and GUI editors for managing and creating the game content (WME tools) as well as the documentation, demonstrational data and prefabricated templates.