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  1. Re:Well, that's one way to get the space race movi on Uranus and Neptune May Have "Oceans of Diamonds" · · Score: 1

    If there's that much diamond available on another planet and if we were able to obtain it and bring it back to earth, its value would diminish very very quickly.

  2. Diamond float, capillary action or other? on Uranus and Neptune May Have "Oceans of Diamonds" · · Score: 1

    When the scientists melted diamond and saw it resolidify and float on such a small scale, how can they assume diamond really floats on larger scales? Might not have capillary action come into play or some other force?

  3. Re:There was an early fax machine in the 1860s on Thomas Edison's Kindle · · Score: 2, Funny

    On that page, the background image and faded foreground text are clearly meant to slow down reading and comprehension so we can savor the article.

  4. time management on Rockstar Employees Badly Overworked, Say Wives · · Score: 1

    But what do their mistresses say?

  5. Ah yes, on Rockstar Employees Badly Overworked, Say Wives · · Score: 1

    the puppy mill for young and fledgling programmers.

  6. flogging a dead horse on ReactOS Being Rewritten, Gets Wine Infusion · · Score: 1

    People who want to run Windows will pay for it; they aren't going to opt for a free implementation that even has one difference. The days of the Window software clone is over because Linux is here to stay. There is no need for a binary compatible Windows anymore because there are good, alternative free choices.

  7. Re:Uh oh... on CMU Web-Scraping Learns English, One Word At a Time · · Score: 2, Funny

    What happens when it discovers /.? It will be able to argue incomprehensibly and illogically for hours on end.

  8. Re:No ReiserFS? on Google Switching To EXT4 Filesystem · · Score: 1

    The association is too close in this case because a murderer's name is part of the file system name. If the product had been named something else the association wouldn't be there. Might as well stock the shelves with Bernardo Bath Oil and Dahmer Doodads. How well do you think that would go in the eyes of the corporate world? So it's not because the creator of the filesystem committed a crime, it's because the product has an unsavoury name - those are two distinct and unrelated issues.

  9. Re:Amazon should love this precedent on US DOJ Says Kindle In Classroom Hurts Blind Students · · Score: 1

    Paper devices already discriminate against students with vision problems, and always have. I don't understand why Kindle is any less usable.

  10. Likely not as bad as it sounds. on Firm To Release Database, Web Server 0-Days · · Score: 1

    Maybe his remarks are just missing something in translation.

  11. Guy scanning is the only sane one on Airport Scanners Can Store and Transmit Images · · Score: 1

    Do you see what some people wear through airports? Really stereotyping their destinations in crazy Hawaiian shirts. At least the guy watching the body scan images sees them as human.

  12. other way around on Why Programmers Need To Learn Statistics · · Score: 1

    You can find a reason why a programmer needs to learn anything and everything - but that's not practical. I have no qualms about hiring a statistician for special programming work - any one worth their weight is somewhat familiar with tools and languages. As a programmer I'd rather find a reason for: Why Statisticians Need To Learn Programming! The statistician has much less to learn.

  13. Re:Do your part, waste scammers time on Hotmailers Hawking Hoax Hunan Half-Offs · · Score: 1

    The goal is to type as little as possible and make them type as much as possible without giving pre-made answers.
    Sounds a lot like /.

  14. Re:They forgot one on The 9 Most Tested Lab Animals · · Score: 1

    Songbirds are studied quiet
    That's irony, to study something quiet that's naturally not quiet.

  15. Re:What we have here... on Details On Natal's Motion Capture Technology · · Score: 1

    Yes, I want the surgeon trained on Natal to work on my heart valves:
    The system locates body parts to within a 4-centimetre cube
    The brain? Meh, it might not matter so much.

  16. Re:Fuck Monty and the horse he rode in on on Monty Wants To Save MySQL · · Score: 1

    A cool billion the first time?! Obviously he wants it back to sell again! Simple math.

  17. Re:100,000 times? on Novelist Blames Piracy On Open Source Culture · · Score: 1

    And do they think that means lost sales? Do they believe 100K people would have bought the book in 24 hours? Ludicrous! People who are real readers don't sit in front of their computers reading from their monitors - at least not the ones I know - they recline with a book.

  18. Instead on The Amiga, Circa 2010 — Dead and Loving It · · Score: 1

    The Amiga crowd might be placated by an X-Windows interface skinned to look and behave like Amiga. Then port everything to keep it alive on Linux.

    Yes I didn't read the whole thing and the part I skimmed I didn't understand, but I have the moral right on /. to comment especially after not reading properly.

  19. Re:Foolhardy. on Finding Someone To Manage Selling a Software Company? · · Score: 1

    Why don't you ask Vellmont to sell your company. He seems to know everything.

  20. Not necessarily the silver bullet however... on IDEs With VIM Text Editing Capability? · · Score: 1

    Edit your files with VIM as per usual. Also keep them open in your GUI IDE of choice. Most IDEs detect file changes and will either ask you to reload the files or you can sometimes set options to automatically reload. Now you have the best of both worlds on top of the same source code files - you have all the features of each solution. Also set up your GUI IDE to launch VIM on a source file using a keystroke.

  21. More answers on S.O. on How To Teach a 12-Year-Old To Program? · · Score: 1

    I've also seen similar questions having lots of great voted answers on StackOverflow.com. For example, see these similar questions: http://www.google.ca/search?q=Teach+Year+Old+To+Program%3F+site:stackoverflow.com

  22. Re:An interesting way to summarize the data ... on Firefox 3.5 Now the Most Popular Browser Worldwide · · Score: 1

    Can you imagine if ./ displayed all the titles now that might be correct in the future... we'd need a special topic dedicated to trends, forecasts and future-telling.

  23. Might as well keep going - why stop now on Psystar Not Closing Up Shop · · Score: 1

    Pystar might as well milk the publicity for more attention and sales. If they shut down now they won't be able to ride the wave.

  24. Mozilla's logic is not sound on Firefox Mobile Threatens Mobile App Stores, Says Mozilla · · Score: 1

    Sure the web always wins; however that doesn't mean Mozilla will win any more than Apple, because there are many other companies on the web too, using the web, developing features based on the web standards, creating new web standards.

  25. Re:So? on Gravatars Can Leak Users' Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    Except that the said mechanism provides a sure way to verify that an email address exists. Once an addy is correctly guessed the user cannot pretend to hide by not responding to resulting spam, because that account is *known* to exist prior to spamming (not a shot in the dark like most spam attempts) And it's known for sure because StackOverflow requires a valid email address when a user signs up for an account - to carry out StackOverflow account verification through an email link sent to the user for clicking. In other words, one layer of protection has been taken away, although I think it's very topical and personally am not worried about my SO account because the associated Gmail account filters out spam great.