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  1. The Important Question is on Beginning Lua Programming · · Score: 1

    What advantage does Lua have over Scheme?

  2. Thankfully on RIAA Can't Have Defendant's Son's Desktop · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I stopped downloading music when audiogalaxy effectively died (ie, when they removed all copyrighted content). Ah, good days those were when it was active, what a wonderful site that was. Check out the section in this story about why it was better than other p2p networks http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/6/21/171321/675

  3. Can someone explain on RIAA Receives Stern Letter, Folds · · Score: 1

    Since my client's hard drive completely exculpates him, functionally compels dismissal, and opens the door to substantial recovery, he is doing everything in his power to preserve and protect his evidence. In our part of the world, that is a mid-six to low seven figure piece of computer gear.
    What does that mean? what is it that's "a mid-six to low seven figure piece of computer gear"?
  4. Re:Quad = 4?? on Single Gene Gives Mice Three-Color Vision · · Score: 1

    Apparently amphibians, reptiles and birds have four-colour vision too. I don't know what this says about women.

  5. Re:The Best Intelligence Agency in the US! on Widespread Spying Preceded '04 GOP Convention · · Score: 1

    the people that need to be in Iraq and Afghanistan are the NYPD and the LAPD
    And Martin Scorsese.
  6. Re:My favorite on Ze End of The Show · · Score: 1

    Haha. "you can tell a lot about someone by the way that they play scrabble, for example"

  7. Uh, Canadians on CBC Recommends Linux To Average User · · Score: 2, Informative

    Pinko commies.

  8. Re:still a long way to go on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Beta Released · · Score: 1

    You forgot about that "This Program Has Performed an Illegal Operation and Will Be Shut Down" that used to spook me out when I first started using napster.

  9. Re:Already has several others on Bill Gates to Finally Receive His Harvard Degree · · Score: 1

    I would think that he deserves more like a Master degree... maybe *even* a PhD (although maybe he is not familiar with research methodologies).
    Bill Gates spends billions per year on Microsoft Research, which even employs Hoare and other very notable computer scientists. He also spends billions through his foundation on medical research. As far as I know, he likes to get very involved in what he spends money on. So I'd guess that he's very clued up on research methodologies.
  10. Learn forth instead on Is Assembly Programming Still Relevant, Today? · · Score: 1

    As low level as you need it, yet as high level as you make it.

  11. Re:Gifted find *eating* heavy metal comforting on Gifted Children Find Heavy Metal Comforting · · Score: 1

    Actually, that was exactly what I thought when I saw this headline in my Akregator. I thought they'd set up an experiment where they fed gifted children some heavy metal.

  12. Re:Oh nooo!!! on NASA Confirms Solar Storm Near 2012 · · Score: 1

    4.) The United Nations found that there is more Methane produced from livestock, which raises global temperature greater than CO2 by a factor of approx. 20, than any human caused CO2 combined
    We gotta find a way to stop all those cows farting.
  13. Re:Next Week on Why Exercise Boosts Brainpower · · Score: 1

    You know, there's more to life and smartness than knowing UNIX, doncha think?

  14. Flickr in the UAE on Turkey Censors YouTube · · Score: 1

    Last I heard online you can't access flickr in the UAE.

  15. Google apps?! on FAA May Ditch Vista For Linux · · Score: 1

    Umm...Google apps?! That's even more "proprietary" than Microsoft's. Madness!

  16. How it happened for me on How Do You Advocate Linux in 5 Minutes? · · Score: 1

    Tell them to install cygwin on their windows machine and play with a few bash tutorials until they're comfortable with it, which will probably happen in a few weeks or months of repeated readings, rather than overnight. Once that happens, switching to linux will be trivial.

  17. Re:Lost rights to a beta product name... on Google "Loses" Gmail in Europe · · Score: 1

    Who cares. Yes, it is @googlemail in the UK, but nonetheless, if you sign up with an @googlemail address and send yourself an @gmail message you'd still get it. I therefore, though I have a @googlemail address, still give people a @gmail one and still get all they write to me.

  18. Re:US DOJ is the EXECUTIVE, not JUDICIAL, branch on Second Amendment Questioned · · Score: 1

    > The Department of Justice is part of the executive branch. It's not their job to "interpret" law or the constitution. It is their job to execute the law of the land. Hey, if idiots all over can blather outta their mouths and elsewhere on all aspects of law, then those whose job is to actually execute should have a say to be heard on it too. Sure, DOJ is not in the business of making laws, but I'd rather hear their say on existing ones than have it trumped outright by some radio pundit or internet troll.

  19. Re:More like "Deception Point" than the X-Files on Organic Matter Found In Canadian Meteorite · · Score: 1

    I remember a girl who went on and on about how she liked "literature". I thought, "oh, at last, a smart girl". When I asked her what "literature" she liked she said "Harry Potter". I don't remember what the other ones were but all were similar to "Harry Potter" (LOTR too? can't remember). She got pretty pissed off them I said "that's not literature, that's entertainment".

  20. Re:It has to be said on Pyramid Stones Were Poured, Not Quarried · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually, that's not the main difference that's noted in this discovery. After all, the pyramids builders did achieve mind boggling feats of logistics anyhow. The main difference is that it was thought that concrete had not been invented until the Romans. That's a 2500 years difference in dating an invention that's so critical to civilisation.

  21. Large Hadron Collider on World's Largest Atom Smasher Nears Completion · · Score: 3, Funny

    Interesting, no one in this thread has "misspelt" it yet as the large hardon collider.

  22. Re:NO! on Birmingham To Buy More, Not Less Open Source · · Score: 1

    Making changes to the code is all nice and dandy, but realistically, how many people actually have that expertise that'd enable them to make such changes?

  23. Re:It's a Civil war on Iraq Study Group Reaches Concensus · · Score: 1

    There are no honest middle east leaders.

  24. Re:Cough on Has Productivity Peaked? · · Score: 1

    The book is actually an extension of an article of the same name that Toffler wrote for the February 1970 issue of Playboy.

    Man, you sure don't wanna miss out on those Playboy article.

  25. umm on Nanoknives To Be Used to Cut Cells · · Score: 1

    After you cut, how do you suture it?