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  1. Re:Owner? on Explosive-Laden California Home To Be Destroyed · · Score: 1

    He can even sell renter's insurance! Brilliant!

  2. NAMBLA on Lighthearted Facebook Friends Could Make You Join NAMBLA Group · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's wrong with the National Association of Marlon Brando Look-Alikes?

  3. Well on What To Do With an Old G5 Tower? · · Score: 1

    You could always grate cheese with it...

  4. Re:PXE/DHCP/AoE on Diskless Booting For the Modern Age · · Score: 1

    If you have the resources to set up Windows Deployment Services it's stupid easy to get a network install of Windows (Vista/7) going...

  5. Re:Groovy on The Struggle To Keep Java Relevant · · Score: 1
    The nice thing is that LINQ is just syntactic sugar. So the two cases are equivalent:

    List<int> numbers = { 5, 383, 291, 274, 104, 184, 63 };
    List<int> results = from n in numbers where n > 150 select n;
    List<int> results2 = numbers.Where(n => n > 150);

    If you like to write lambdas instead of SQL-like queries it works just as well and either is very expressive.

  6. Re:Wake up on US Immigration Bill May Bring a National Biometric ID Card · · Score: 1, Interesting

    track its own people without warrant

    How?

    lifetime punishments for every crime

    Huh?

    silence anyone with an unfavorable opinion

    What?

    Please stop being so paranoid. It's not healthy.

  7. Re:Let the techies at TV/radio stations speaks... on "Loud Commercial" Legislation Proposed In US Congress · · Score: 1

    Essentially, yes. The master control (final step before transmission) has the ability to change output volume. It isn't that hard to do so (either manually or automatically, depending on the existing setup).

  8. wait, what? on Even More Restriction For German Internet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "the great Internet is in danger of turning into a lawless range of chaos, where you're allowed to bully, insult, and deceive limitlessly."

    It's not already?

  9. Re:What languages? on Emigrating To a Freer Country? · · Score: 1

    He asked for a freer country. Australia seems destined to censor the entire Internet out of existence.

  10. Re:Because Snapdragon Is an ARM Processor! on Qualcomm Demos Eee PC Running Android OS · · Score: 1

    Apple had the advantage of inheriting NeXT's already architecture-independent API, and all of their new code respected that. Unfortunately, Win32 is *mostly* source-compatible between architectures but not entirely - it's only recently that you start seeing explicit type sizes such as UINT32 instead of just UINT - you still often have to guess what that will be on your target architecture.

    Apple also inherited the Mach-O format, which encapsulates code for different architectures into a single binary - core system libraries often have code for ppc, ppc64, i386, and x86_64 all in one. PE binaries don't have that luxury, so you often see multiple binaries per architecture - proggy_x86.exe and proggy_x64.exe, for example. Imagine the confusion that would cause for your average user with ARM thrown into the mix.

  11. Re:No - there are plenty of safer alternatives on Microsoft To Banish Memcpy() · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or, better yet, if security really was the goal, develop a C-like language that was secure by design?

    And then why don't you make it compile to non-native code, so you can do code analysis at runtime? Might as well give it a good standard library that uses all the features so people would try writing stuff. Of course, you can't name it C then, maybe you should give it a catchier name with some punctuation or other pun on the language.

    Hey, wait a minute...

  12. Re:Why would my Mom upgrade to Snow Leopard? on Apple Freezes Snow Leopard APIs · · Score: 1

    Snow Leopard is Intel-only, and apparently even encourages developers to target 64-bit primarily (thus leaving out the pre-Core 2 machines).

    To be pedantic, the PPC iMac was discontinued in January of 2006. If the machine is really two years old it will run Snow Leopard fine.

  13. Re:"Luke, I am your rock god father" on LEGO Rock Band Confirmed · · Score: 5, Informative
  14. Re:And that's different how? on Why Toddlers Don't Do What They're Told · · Score: 1

    I would like to raise your statement an order of magnitude and suggest it is before the age of 35 that people are incapable of understanding that.

  15. Re:but the real question is on id Releases Open Source Wolfenstein 3D for the iPhone · · Score: 1

    There's also the minor issue of having to port it to Java.

  16. Re:wha? on Princeton Student Finds Bug In LHC Experiment · · Score: 1

    and Von Neumann would do it in his head

    Ah yes, the classical separation of code and data.

  17. Re:GCC compatibility - Time to move to Java? on High Performance Linux Kernel Project — LinuxDNA · · Score: 1

    Java is a wonderful language

    I understand those words but not their meaning together.

  18. Re:No accident on Microsoft Asks For a Refund From Laid-Off Workers [updated] · · Score: 2, Funny

    pursuit by the Furies

    I initially read that as "furries", which made this article VERY disturbing...

  19. Re:I bet on S3 Graphics Responds About Linux Support · · Score: 1

    I'm reasonably certain that to get the full Vista WHQL logo a manufacturer has to provide both 32-bit and 64-bit drivers.

  20. Re:Slashdot on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1

    Interesting, I'm now a CS freshman at UHa and to my knowledge we own all of our equipment (sun + windows + linux servers, workstations in 3 labs) and are generally at odds with the IT department.

  21. Re:Slashdot on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1

    What state did that happen to be in? I've got the same setup in my CS department...

  22. Re:Ruby vs Python on Ruby 1.9.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Ruby doesn't have a problem allowing multiple ways to accomplish the same thing.

    Big disclaimer: Perl does as well. Ruby differentiates itself here by disallowing infinite ways.

  23. Re:"" may "" "" consider "" on Ubuntu Mobile Looks At Qt As GNOME Alternative · · Score: 1

    4. Audacity is GTK+

    Wrong. Audacity is wxWidgets, which uses GTK on X11, and the native windowing toolkit elsewhere.

  24. Re:Time on Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US · · Score: 1

    Has Congress ever had a high approval rating?

  25. Re:In this, as in everything... on RIAA Tries To Appeal Order Allowing Internet TV Court Broadcast · · Score: 2, Funny

    We need a "+5 eww" mod.