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  1. Re:Apply this to CS on Cashing in on Online Prediction Markets · · Score: -1
    do this with Linux Distros so we know which ones we should just abandon before wasting all our efforts.
    You can't just abandon them. You have to give 3 years notice if you don't want to get your ass kicked by RMS^H^H^H^H sued by the FSF for GPL violation.
  2. Re:Bad Article Title - Bad Summary Title on Cameroon Typo-Squats all of .com · · Score: -1

    They ordinary squatted all of ".cm". They typo-squatted anything that you could mistype as ".cm".

    A url can't typo squat itself, by definition.

  3. Re:No overlords after all on 'Life on Mars' Meteorite Rejected After 10 Years · · Score: -1

    Yeah. Next you'll spin us the "I was only trying to get their confidence so I could infiltrate them and discover their one fateful flaw like an unarmoured waste vent or something" line. Do you think we're stupid enough to fall for ... ooooh shiny.

  4. Re:Road Construction on Japan Plans a Moonbase by 2030 · · Score: 0, Funny
    the construction crew hits *something*. It could have been clearly marked and still hit. It could have been marked in the wrong place. It could have been put in before people started worrying about finding them again. This is usually followed by what is it? Is it abandoned? Is it still in use?
    Like a smooth black monolith of mathematically interesting proportions?
  5. Re:Actuary on What Jobs are Available for Math Majors? · · Score: -1
    If you can do mind numbing calculations for 8 hours straight
    ... you're probably a computer.
  6. Re:Electricity on Vinod Khosla Talks Ethanol · · Score: -1

    Why, hydrogen of course. And you can make that from water! Do I have to do all the thinking round here?

  7. Re:It's not sarcasm? Whoa... on Cheyenne Mountain Shutting Down · · Score: -1
    As far as I know, Kurt Russell never played McGuyver....
    Not yet.
  8. security by obscurity on Microsoft's Security Meeting Causes Unease · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If they gave technical details they might be used by h4x0rz or evet terrists!

  9. Re:Wha? on Free Visual Novel Design Engine Released · · Score: 1
    Because without such software, you'd have really brilliant minds not doing anything because they can't use the existing technology?!
    You seem to have missed the bit in the parent post about complementary skills and collaborating.
  10. Re:Evolution yes, singularity no on NPR Looks to Technological Singularity · · Score: 1

    Nope. You've had two goes now, and you still don't seem able to clearly differentiate between ability to process information and quantity of available information. They're like (whoop whoop bad computer analogy alert) processor speed and disk size. I'll leave out the quantity versus quality of information argument since DiamondGeezer (872237) addressed it more than adequately.

  11. Re:Since when ? on NPR Looks to Technological Singularity · · Score: 1
    focusing on absurd cases where "futurists" are wrong doesn't invalidate the endeavour.
    Focusing (with hindsight, which is always 20-20) on the cases where they guessed right is any better?
  12. Re:Evolution yes, singularity no on NPR Looks to Technological Singularity · · Score: 1
    For me Wikipedia is "augmented intelligence", but before that I had the Encyclopedia Britannica
    Perhaps if you augmented your intelligence a bit more, you'd understand that it's not the same as knowledge or information.
  13. Re:Proprietry lock-in on Managing Parallel Development in Two Languages? · · Score: 1

    If you're doing it first in Matlab and then using that as a spec to reverse engineer in C++ it doesn't sound very parallel to me. I guess whether or not it's worth doing the prototyping stage depends on how much it costs, compared to what scre-ups it helps you avoid. Maybe a few more details in the question would help?

  14. Re:My High School psychology class Experiment... on Virtual Worlds and ESP · · Score: 1

    No, maths.

  15. Re:My High School psychology class Experiment... on Virtual Worlds and ESP · · Score: 1
    The size of the class wasn't given, but this would be a statistically significant result regardless.
    Would it? At what level of p? Using which kind of test? One tailed or two tailed?
  16. Re:Nothing on A Preview of Election 08 - Podcasting Politicians · · Score: 5, Funny

    With spam going one way and pork going the other, we're going to need bigger tubes.

  17. Re:Benjamins on Examining the Era of Print-on-Demand · · Score: 1
    Distributors charge money to be there, eh? That's funny, although I've been in the business for 15 years, I've never experienced that. They want discounts to beef up their profit margins, but what else is new.
    Are you agreeing with him or disagreeing?

    a) Buying it for two bucks and charging back a dime for handling or "prime location endcap premium" or something.

    b) Buying it for two bucks less 5%

    c) negotiating the price down to $1.90

    I don't see much difference.
  18. Re:Not to be confused with publishing on Examining the Era of Print-on-Demand · · Score: 1
    want to take it further and pay for professional editing and help? you can. they'll let you pay. but you dont have to.
    Do they offer punctuation courses?
  19. Re:old school on Examining the Era of Print-on-Demand · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Hey Rob, remember how much fun you had on Space Mountain last year? Walt Disney World wants to invite you and your wife Andrea back for another ride ..."
    Unfortunately, not only does the timestamp on the picture coincide with the regional sales conference, the picture itself depicts him with Julie, the long-legged redhead from accounts.
  20. Re:Name? on Microsoft Confirms New Music Player · · Score: 1

    iLike your poem, really, yeah,
    But it lacks a mention of a chair.

    Take a chair, or else a stool
    - use it as an airborne tool

    Ballmer really likes to chuck 'em
    Well bugger. I seem to have a case of writer's block. Who'd have thought it.

  21. Re:My High School psychology class Experiment... on Virtual Worlds and ESP · · Score: 1

    And that proves what, exactly?

    Hint: if your answer isn't "nothing", then that explains why you aren't teaching maths or statistics.

  22. First Sovite Rsuuia psot! on UK Recording Industry Wants Allofmp3 An Issue at G8 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia, mp3 pirates YOU!!!!

  23. Re:Interesting Things Happen At Excessive Scales on Scientists Question Laws of Nature · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've never heard of P. How does it compare to emacs?

  24. Re:MANPADs on Northrop to Sell Laser Shield Bubble for Airports · · Score: 1

    Into the water tank where the sharks are.

  25. Re:MANPADs on Northrop to Sell Laser Shield Bubble for Airports · · Score: 2, Funny
    The best Suppression of an Enemy Air Defense system is to hard-kill that system.
    That's the second best way. Nuking it from orbit is the only way to be sure.