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  1. Re:a well-positioned goto is quite clear on Goto Leads to Faster Code · · Score: 1

    it blew my mind when I figured out that that was valid in C as well...

    you can break to a label.

    I think that though, there is a difference between goto and break used in this manner... when you break label1; you actually go to the statement after label1 though I'm not 100% certain on that.

  2. too far! on Goto Leads to Faster Code · · Score: 1
  3. almost... on Goto Leads to Faster Code · · Score: 1

    i=10;

  4. Re:Good old PCP on Scientists Produce Fearless Mice · · Score: 1

    Dude, I don't know, I feel like a rat in a cage... I get poked prodded and cajoled to get through lower education, and then I'm still prodded, but am expected to do the same to myself to get myself through higher education, and coming out of that the rest of my life I struggle to control the most resources, the philosophy being that if I am brilliant (control the "resource" of intelligence), or I am rich (control the monetary resource), or I am a pimp ( ;) ) I can easily get enough of any other resource to satisfy my needs without a good deal of effort.

    I get fines (monetary, or in the form of loss of respect) , or broken body parts if I don't follow the rules... if I try to step out of the cage... and in the end the great big cat pounces on my ass and I am buried.

    Tell me... how can we really be different then animals responding to stimuli... just because are response patterns are more complex? just because we can supposedly fully understand the responses of a mouse, but we can't understand our own?...

    Back to my cage I go.

  5. Re:The most undetectable keylogger on Keystroke Logging Increases · · Score: 1

    http://www.keyghost.com/images/closeup_sx_sm.gif :) they be tiny if you want them to be... Perfect for places like universities and the like... :( bad for me because I feel prompted to look around the back of every machine I ever use... The university does a great job of providing clean environments for its users, but something like a hardware logger would trap 50 users all powerful passwords in a single day in one of the university comp labs on a single computer...

  6. Re:*higher* signal-to-noise on Requiem for Usenet · · Score: 1

    just because you're willing to tell everyone and anyone what you do with that pitchfork, the cow, goat, bucket of glass shards, glue, and a single cherry does not mean that other people don't consider it unspeakable...

    *shakes head* ...the worst part is that the goat and the cow enjoyed it... ;)

  7. Re:Meh. on AIM Bots: Useful or Spam? · · Score: 1

    I'm using trillian, and I don't have the bots either...

    Nor did I get the AOL IM about them...

  8. Re:This is the Victoria's Secret thread on Use of Student Plants to Pitch Products Rising · · Score: 1

    Well... here at Umich, they started showing up thursday-friday night, and keep walking around till this monday... of course I don't know if they're models, or just dressing down for halloween...

  9. Re:What about Dr. Soong? on MIT Professor Fired over Fabricated Data · · Score: 1

    psh. you're on slashdot and you think a reference to star trek would be considered obscure??

  10. Re:Scientists need to stop playing God! on The Los Alamos Bug · · Score: 1

    minor nitpick: by allowed you probably mean intended... this of course assumes we have free will... God Allows us to do anything, God would rather we follow the righteous path. and the debate is whether creating life is a good or a bad thing(tm).

  11. Re:/.ed on Open Source AJAX Webmail · · Score: 1

    Hey I have a question... I can't seem to get it to work... I get
    IMAP Error in (): Authentication failed (LOGIN):
    "a001 NO Login only available under a layer"

    this of course is after I tried installing it on my own server and got the same errors Would you mind helping me out?

  12. Re:Condoms on Insect Substance Synthesized For Science · · Score: 1

    a million use condom though could have made slashdot unneccessary if it was time-shared!

  13. pssshhh stable. on OpenOffice 1.1.5 Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who uses the stable release... Beta is the way to go. Always. Real men don't do backup's, they upload their files to usenet or public ftp or bittorrent, and let the world mirror their files.

  14. Re:while (X4)?? on Learning to Code with a Boardgame · · Score: 1

    they lost a < symbol from the article text... its not <> in C anyways... its !=

  15. Re:A REAL Electrical Engineer on Statically Charged Man Ignites Office · · Score: 1

    I do.

  16. "special program" on Top 8 Reasons HCI is in its Stone Age · · Score: 1

    Windows XP will try to get you to up the resolution if it notices you're running in 640x480 with low colors... I know this because my ATI AIW 9600 is dieing and in the trouble shooting process I blew away its drivers in order to revert to an older revision... when the machine rebooted the settings were washed away and XP installed some generic crap. It didn't automatically change the settings, but it was a popup box that in 640x480 looked like it took up 1/4 of the screen and sat until you dismissed or dealt with it.

  17. Re:Java, yeah on OpenOffice Goes LGPL · · Score: 1

    its in the title of your comment and in this one too.

  18. not true on Google Talk Claims Openness, Lacks S2S Support · · Score: 2, Informative

    When was the last time you used gmail?

    It started supporting html mail months ago... There was even a hidden boolean javascript value that lets you edit html mail inline... I don't remember if that is still valid.... I have a bookmarklet in firefox
    the code was: javascript:function%20H(w){var%20i,c,h,f=w.documen t.forms;for(i=0;i
    It doesn't seem to do anything anymore, but now there is that rich text editor on the page which lets you put html in... albeit not handcoded html.

  19. no, it was Thor. on Weapons of War Now Include Lightning Guns · · Score: 1

    see title.

  20. Re:Could the house itself use bots? on Pokerbots Making Online Players Sad · · Score: 1

    risk of getting caught.

    They make money no matter who plays. Its called the rake, and its a certain percentage of whatever ends up on the table. The casinos make incredible amounts simply by hosting the games. They are more interested in keeping people playing than in trying to make money via bots. If they got caught their revenue stream would die. Hell, if they got caught, not only would their bots be stopped, so would their rake... and that is scary to casino owners.

  21. Pretend this is anonymous. on Algae Can Carry Cargo · · Score: 0

    What's an algae bear? Is this one of those UK things? Like a 'loo' is really a toilet? Is an 'algae bear' a goatse or something? ps. pretend this was anonymous... slashdot dosent' like my subnet anymore...

  22. Re:BlueTooth Hacking billboards! on Bluetooth Ads Beamed from Billboards · · Score: 1

    Goodbye John/James/Jacob/Johnathan/Jeremiah Dray.

  23. Re:And another thing... on Scientists Create New Human Embryonic Stem Cell · · Score: 2, Informative

    From what I remember from other articles concerning transplantation of organs/cells... its not the DNA that triggers the rejection... at least not right away... Initially your body recognizes cells as foreign by their surface proteins... each person has a more or less unique pattern... hence why family members are more likely to provide good transplants... the proteins are close enough... That's how certain diseases get beyond our defenses... they infect a cell, and suddenly have our surface protein pattern and hide from our immune system...

    This is also why some of those stem cell lines that had been created on a feed of mouse(?) skin and blood were contaminated... the surface proteins bled between the cells, and suddenly the stem cell lines had mouse proteins and thus could never be implanted in people... the host would immediately notice the proteins and would attack the cells as a foreign body "rejection"

  24. ooo... I know on Scientists Speed up Light · · Score: 1

    That's like saying STFU when they open their mouths!

  25. in addition on British Soldiers Get Germ-Fighting Undies · · Score: 1

    All the Royal Families in Europe interbred...

    Haemophilia was started in England by One of the Queens. She was a carrier and had a great number of children, most of whom were either afflicted or carriers of the defective gene. They bred with many of the other Royal family leading Haemophilia to be considered a royal disease...

    I did a HS Biology project 5 years ago trying to trace they gene as it made its way around all the Royal Families