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  1. Really really bad idea on CA's First Molten Salt Energy Plant Approved · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nothing from or controlled by Computer Associates should be trusted with warm water, much less molten salt.

  2. Re:Museum Fight! on Smithsonian Celebrates 50 Years of COBOL · · Score: 1

    Perl should have died at birth.

    Actually, Perl is an abortion.

  3. Re:Yay for Freedom of the Press... on Amazon Taking Down Erotica, Removing From Kindles · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My god man, can you imagine what a Constitution written in this politically-correct, image-driven, vagina-babble, lawyer-laden, market-speak, victim-mentality, feel-good, safety-at-all-costs, focus-on-the-nonessential, yada-yada-yada day and age would look like? Shit, the preamble would run 200 pages, and wouldn't say a damn thing.

    That said, I still say we kill all the lawyers and MBAs.

  4. Re:I Got A Bad Feeling About This... on LHC Prepares Marathon Higgs Hunt · · Score: 1

    It's only crazy if you keep getting the same results. Oh ... wait.

  5. Re:What if it doesn't exist? on LHC Prepares Marathon Higgs Hunt · · Score: 1

    DO NOT QUESTION THE STANDARD MODEL!

    It's worse than taunting the happy fun ball.

  6. What's the big deal? on Chrome OS Doesn't Trust Apps Or Users · · Score: 0

    I don't know any sysadmins who trust apps or users, either.

  7. Re:Assumption proven on SpaceX's Dragon Module Successfully Re-Enters · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's normal to assume that what was done by governments before will one day be done by commercial companies.

    Agree completely. Buchenwald, for example.

  8. Re:Pointer typedefs on Programming Mistakes To Avoid · · Score: 1

    Christ, I'd forgotten that. Thanks for reminding me, now I won't sleep tonight.

  9. Re:Pointer typedefs on Programming Mistakes To Avoid · · Score: 4, Informative

    His point was that a PFOO is a POINTER to a struct _FOO, and so when you say void SomeFunction(const PFOO), you're saying that the POINTER is constant, not the thing being pointed to, which is probably not what was intended. Since the definition of PFOO is located elsewhere, probably in another header file, it's easy to get yourself confused as to what data type you're dealing with.

  10. Re:Pointer typedefs on Programming Mistakes To Avoid · · Score: 1

    That const doesn't do what you think it does.

    It never does.

  11. Programming Mistakes To Avoid on Programming Mistakes To Avoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    1) VB
    2) Perl
    3) Silver bullets
    3) Writing your own "framework".
    4) Using somebody else's "framework".

  12. Take personal responsibility for your E-waste on Environmental Watchdogs Confused By E-Waste Practices · · Score: 1

    I gave up using the "delete" key years ago, because I didn't want my discarded ASCII characters ending up in some landfill, leaching into the groundwater, or worse, drifting in the ocean, endangering the wildlife. So now, when I make a typo, I just "cut" the character(s) with ^X, and move it into a character composting file I keep for that purpose; when I need new characters, rather than create them from scratch, (with all the attendant resource losses) I simply move it from the composting file to whatever document I happen to be working on.

    Recycling can make a difference, if you are willing to do your part!

  13. Re:I thought this was the law already... on House Passes TV Commercial Volume Bill · · Score: 1

    Start here with VU Meters. It's a question of saturation. If you're listening comfortably to a conversation in a movie is recorded at (say) an average -5 Db, and then a commercial comes on with music recorded at 0 Db, the music seems like it's going to blow you out of the room, yet it's (technically) recorded at the "correct" level.

  14. Re:In Soviet Russia... on Moscow Has Eyes On WikiLeaks, Too · · Score: -1, Troll

    Heh. "flamebait/troll" - yeah, just dangling raw meat in front of all those legions of "Julian Assange is teh Mother Theresa" types.

  15. Re:In Soviet Russia... on Moscow Has Eyes On WikiLeaks, Too · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ...Julian Assange isn't a grandstanding self-promotion whore.

  16. Re:why not, worked great for the banking system on Internet Routing, Looming Disaster? · · Score: 2

    Sarcasm detected. You really can, however, trust everything you see from Goldman Sachs, since they are The Government.

  17. Re:The internet needs an upgrade... on Internet Routing, Looming Disaster? · · Score: 2

    "rogers" on that one. What's this about "looming"? Internet routing started being a disaster two orders of (traffic) magnitude ago.

  18. Re:Corrupt legal system. on 8-Year-Old Receives Patent · · Score: 1

    I attended a parochial school system for 12 years, and after a decade of heavy drug abuse with no usage of, or refreshing of, my high school English skills, I was still in the 95th percentile in English skills when I thought about going to college. That tells me the public school system in this country very lousy.

    Damn. You had me up until that last bit.

  19. Re:Corrupt legal system. on 8-Year-Old Receives Patent · · Score: 1

    Be still my beating heart - "hoi polloi" spelled - and used - correctly(!!) - by an AC - on Slashdot! Perhaps there's hope for our education system after all ..... Naaaahhh.

  20. Re:Slashdotting on DDoS Attack On Wikileaks Increasing · · Score: 1

    As we discuss traffic peaks on wikileaks.org, peeking at your post piqued my curiosity: are you saying you come to a point? Or are you just pale and sickly looking?

  21. Re:Ut Oh! on DDoS Attack On Wikileaks Increasing · · Score: 1

    Electronic attacks like this are not what this government does; It's what its citizens do.

    You must mean unsophisticated electronic attacks. This is what governments do. DDoS is for the Pirate Bay and their ilk.

    Wait a minute - isn't WikiLeaks TPB's ilk? Maybe we should be looking more closely at Assange's "LOOK AT US, THEY'RE TRYING TO SILENCE US!" claims. Just sayin'.

  22. Re:Impossible on 60 Years of Hamming Codes · · Score: 1

    Not to burst your delusions, but MUCH of the Bell Labs research in this area had to do with communications (i.e. telephone) SATELLITES.

  23. Re:Little known? on 60 Years of Hamming Codes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's right. Had Hamming's discovery been more well known, he might have won the Claude E. Shannon Award.

    DUCWIDT?

  24. Re:What? on SpaceX Gets First Private FAA Space Reentry License · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It's the FAA, what did you expect?

    Actually, you're required to let the TSA touch your junk before you're allowed to re-enter.

  25. Excellent advice on UK Law Body Targets RIAA-Style Settlement Letters · · Score: 5, Insightful

    (UK Law) (Body Targets) (RIAA Style Settlement Letters)

    Double tap to the body, then the kill shot to the head.