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  1. Re:If it's unbeatable.... on Checkers Solved, Unbeatable Database Created · · Score: 1

    Not only has that question been posited so many times it's ridiculous, but it's a draw.

  2. Re:The reason why Macs are so much more secure... on The Computer Virus Turns 25 in July · · Score: 1

    Dude, that comic sucks.

  3. Re:uh oh... on MIT Finds Cure For Fear · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm Batman, and I can breathe in space.

  4. Re:It must be in clinical testing... on MIT Finds Cure For Fear · · Score: 1

    MIT is 45% female. There were probably girls working on this.

  5. Re:"just as bad" on "Tubes" Senator Being Investigated For Corruption · · Score: 1

    McCarthy's also indirectly responsible for Vietnam quagmire--he got all the Asian experts fired, the ones that might have given the advice of not propping up someone like Diem.

  6. Re:It's just the new bigotry propaganda on "Tubes" Senator Being Investigated For Corruption · · Score: 1

    I once heard somebody say that we shouldn't allow gay marriage because it would reward them for being gay.

  7. Re:You're very stupid on "Tubes" Senator Being Investigated For Corruption · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because governments are stupid, corrupt, and wasteful, and handing them control of my health care is an idea that scares the hell out of me. And the HMOs are like that, but worse.
  8. Really Really Really Not the oldest. on The Computer Virus Turns 25 in July · · Score: 1

    You know that "life" thing? That was me. I got cast down to my creation after infecting the Matrix.

  9. Re:Amiga required a lack of memory protection on Will Pervasive Multithreading Make a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    even the best programmers make mistakes And then there's the time when it's not a mistake. If what you say is true, the Amiga would never had survived the era of the Internet. Hell, Windows barely did!
  10. Re:It makes sense with multi-core cpus on Will Pervasive Multithreading Make a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    A bare-bones Gentoo system is very, very fast, and it's not because of compiler optimizations, it's because of a much smaller number of daemons than other distros by default.

  11. Re:It makes sense with multi-core cpus on Will Pervasive Multithreading Make a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    This haiku has the
    power to defy the meter
    in the middle line.

  12. Re:also a Republican ... on "Tubes" Senator Being Investigated For Corruption · · Score: 0

    When are the stories of democratic corruption coming to /. ? When they happen. Unfortunately for you, Republicans seem to have a monopoly on corruption.
  13. Re:A Better Way..... on "Tubes" Senator Being Investigated For Corruption · · Score: 1

    Are you sure that wasn't Douglas Adams?

  14. Re:Who are these guys? on "Tubes" Senator Being Investigated For Corruption · · Score: 1

    His tubes speech was a pretty damned good explanation of bandwidth and network congestion, considering the guy has probably never used a computer before. The tubes bit was actually the least bad part of the speech. The rest of the speech was disjointed logic and claiming he got an internet from his staff.
  15. Re:we need to call BS on "small government" on "Tubes" Senator Being Investigated For Corruption · · Score: 1

    The term "fuck you" is a metaphor. It's an expression of anger, often against machines. Rape goes a bit beyond sexual morality and into the abuse category.

  16. Re:Shock horror on "Tubes" Senator Being Investigated For Corruption · · Score: 1

    respectable journalists (i.e. not the Daily Show) Um, the Daily Show is actually more accurate than "respectable" journalists, although the Daily Show calling him Ted "Bridge to Nowhere" Stevens means nothing.
  17. Re:python on Any "Pretty" Code Out There? · · Score: 1

    Why the fuck would you be using raw triple strings for something like that? The Zen of Python says that there should be one obvious way to do things(as opposed to Perl's TIMTOWTDI) and that is obviously the wrong way.

  18. Re:RAll? on Any "Pretty" Code Out There? · · Score: 1

    He misspelled the Is as ls.

  19. Re:BOOST::Python, but you haven't seen the source? on Any "Pretty" Code Out There? · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between a problem being difficult(anything NP-complete) and the language making a problem difficult.

  20. Re:B b b but... on Optimum Copyright Period Decided by Math · · Score: 1

    90% of everything sounds the same.

  21. Re:what? on Any "Pretty" Code Out There? · · Score: 1

    Actually X is one of the packages you hear criticized a lot from the people who want code to bring the pretty.

  22. Re:Maturity = Mess on Any "Pretty" Code Out There? · · Score: 1

    My code is the spawn of Cthulhu. I've seen it, and only the fact that I was already insane protected me.
  23. Re:Like a celebrity deathmatch... on Sony Sues Rootkit Maker · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Korea did build those nukes in self-defense.

  24. Re:command-line environment! on Ubuntu Continues to Grab Market Share · · Score: 1

    GOD HIMSELF COULD NOT BUILD A COMPUTER WITHOUT A COMMAND LINE ENVIRONMENT Early Macintosh.

    AS HE COULD NOT CONSTRUCT A LIFE FORM THAT DOES NOT EAT, BREATHE, AND REPRODUCE! Bacteria.
  25. Re:My Opinion on Ubuntu Continues to Grab Market Share · · Score: 1

    I'd actually say Ubuntu didn't go far enough with choosing a good interface. GNOME is still too much like Windows.