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  1. Re:lame on Shuttleworth Proposes Overhaul of Desktop Notifications · · Score: 1

    And you didn't consider that this might possibly be a joke?

  2. Re:Solution: Public Key Auth on The Slow Bruteforce Botnet(s) May Be Learning · · Score: 1

    Funny thing, though, if you'd followed that advice in the last couple years and were running Debian or one of its derivatives, you'd be wide open for pretty much anyone to log in, thanks to that OpenSSL fiasco.

  3. Re:Hashes in general on NIST Announces Round 1 Candidates For SHA-3 Competition · · Score: 1

    I hate to state the obvious

    Then why do you do it?

  4. Re:Merica on US Corps Want $1B From Gov't For Battery Factory · · Score: -1, Troll

    hey,hybrid american.
    i don't your future and killing soon!

  5. Re:The Best Job on O'Reilly Interview Digs Into the Tech of Storm Chasing · · Score: 1

    The wind isn't limited to just the funnel. You're going to have quite a time trying to fly an UAV near a tornado.

  6. Re:Simple? on iPhone Tops Windows Mobile Share; MS Releases iPhone App · · Score: 1

    Yes, technology can be pretty scary and unsettling, but there are plenty of simple phones for those who think technology isn't really for them. Such as http://www.dorophones.com/.

  7. Re:Cave Story on Great Games To Put On a Free PC? · · Score: 1

    Most posts in this thread are dead wrong, except for this one. Cave Story is what you want.

  8. Re:Minor? on Meteorite Destroys Warehouse In Auckland, NZ · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? Ghosts with whips are some of the scariest ones!

  9. Re:Minor? on Meteorite Destroys Warehouse In Auckland, NZ · · Score: 1

    A very good book about how democracy is horrible and corporeal punishment is awesome, indeed.

  10. Re:Minor? on Meteorite Destroys Warehouse In Auckland, NZ · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not really "light-hearted parody", it's satire. And it's hilarious and highly entertaining satire.

    And part of the fun is watching the fans of the book complain about it, and the people who take it at face value complain for almost opposite reasons.

  11. Re:Eve-online exploit: more information on Left 4 Dead Bug Patched Quickly, EVE Exploit Takes 4 Years · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you spend 40 hours a week in a high stress job, maybe you shouldn't play a game that is another job.

  12. Re:Screwed Into Skin on Brain Electrodes That Screw On the Skin · · Score: 1

    2.4mm sure goes further than the upper layer of skin, though, so that's hardly a good comparison.

  13. Re:Dreaming Is A Private Thing on Japanese Scientists Claim To Reconstruct Images From Brain Data · · Score: 1

    He predicted that people will overplay their discoveries and promise far more than they can deliver?

    This thing is not going to be reading any dreams any time soon.

  14. Re:Wouldn't there be an empty space? on Birth of the Moon: a Runaway Nuclear Reaction? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Others mentioned the Earth being molten, but even as it is now, the Earth is plastic enough that if you removed a big enough chunk, the rest of the planet would flow and deform until it was spherical again.

  15. Re:What a load. on Used Game Market Affecting Price, Quality of New Titles · · Score: 1

    which leads me to wonder if your firm is capable of making a great game

    LostWinds was a pretty good game.

  16. Re:doesn't sound too secure yet on Google Native Client Puts x86 On the Web · · Score: 1

    With the x86 instruction set, I can load a data file and execute a jump to a data segment without the code having passed through any sort of system loader.

    But not with the subset of x86 that NaCl allows, you can't.

  17. Re:doesn't sound too secure yet on Google Native Client Puts x86 On the Web · · Score: 1

    Which are both forbidden by the x86 subset used by NaCl.

  18. Re:well that's funny on What the Papers Don't Say About Vaccines · · Score: 1

    It's well known known and documented that some fraction of people have adverse reactions of pretty much any vaccine. That is a direct side-effect of what a vaccine is.

    That's not what this article is about.

  19. Re:It doesn't matter as long as it's on Linux on What Programming Language For Linux Development? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The you probably have either not used it much at all, or else you have used it far too much.

  20. Re:Iran? Uh huh ... yeah on US Tests New Missile Defense · · Score: 1

    Shelling cities sure is a great way to defend against terrorists.

  21. Re:Broken Algorithm BS on Time to Get Good At Functional Programming? · · Score: 1

    If you think they aren't, show me an example of using monads to represent side-effect programming effectively while allowing parallelization of the task.

  22. Re:Why would the Algorithm break? on Time to Get Good At Functional Programming? · · Score: 1

    Monads can encapsulate away the side-effects, but unless you show me a solid example of it I sincerely doubt that they can both be properly efficient and retain the multiprocessing advantages.

  23. Re:Amdahl's Law on Time to Get Good At Functional Programming? · · Score: 1

    Either way, everything said so far has been entirely baseless assumptions. Amdahl's law is logically strict and based on direct mathematical deductions. This "Gustafson's law" is based on nothing but wishful thinking.

  24. Re:Amdahl's Law on Time to Get Good At Functional Programming? · · Score: 1

    The more you're doing, the more it's going to be interconnected and not possible to do at the same time.

    Sounds reasonable too.

  25. Re:it's always a good time to try functional on Time to Get Good At Functional Programming? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ruby is nowhere near a functional language. It's imperative as anything else.