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  1. only on earth on Did a Genome Copying Mistake Lead To Human Intelligence? · · Score: 1

    the universe could be teeming with life, all of it unintelligent life.

  2. Re:For a good time... on Ask Slashdot: What Language Should a Former Coder Dig Into? · · Score: 1

    That's been changed, methods in Ruby are (have been for a few years) indeed objects of class Method. Many, many things in Python are not objects. Is it an issue? can be, it is many times convenient to add methods to data types or redefine operators. not necessary, though, always an alternative way to accomplish the end results. I think Ruby is more fun than Python, that's all, not a better language. I find Java to be warmed over C++ from concepts point of view, seems to take 5 to 10 times the code to do the same job that Ruby, Python or even Perl could do.

  3. Re:Neal Stephenson hits another one on Diamonds Used To Increase Density, Performance of Phase-Change Memory · · Score: 1

    at $1,200 per ton, industrial diamond isn't that expensive.

  4. Re:Great step. Now about the plutonium. on Japan's Last Nuclear Reactor Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    no significant level of radiation landed in your back yard. you were not harmed in any way..

  5. Re:Biggest social disaster in millenia. on Japan's Last Nuclear Reactor Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    and when will fusion power finally work? 50 years? 75 years? (or in two years if EMC2's polywell pans out?) or never? you are the one who needs to return to real life. probably fission is the only option to fuel progress, quality of life, and civilisation for at least the next half century.

  6. Re:C! on Ask Slashdot: What Language Should a Former Coder Dig Into? · · Score: 1

    nope, you get a "throw" which you can test for

  7. Re:For a good time... on Ask Slashdot: What Language Should a Former Coder Dig Into? · · Score: 1

    Java is NOT an "everything is an object" language, the primitives are not objects. In Ruby I can add methods to integers, reals, boolean true and false, and nil.

  8. Re:Beware of dynamic languages for large projects. on Ask Slashdot: What Language Should a Former Coder Dig Into? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nonsense, you are talking out of your ass. huge projects have been done in all the languages you name. there are web pages devoted to list huge projects in each one

  9. Re:My outdated list on Ask Slashdot: What Language Should a Former Coder Dig Into? · · Score: 1

    you can get a paying job easily knowing VB, shitty as it is. If you're an expert of a "cool" language, you might be going hungry during a recession. If you want higher pay, learn Java/J2EE, shitty also but it pays.

  10. Re:C! on Ask Slashdot: What Language Should a Former Coder Dig Into? · · Score: 1

    Forth can be considered a low level language too, yes operating systems have been written in Forth.

  11. Re:You shouldn't. Nobody should. on Recently Exposed PHP Hole's Official Fix Ineffective · · Score: 1

    wrong, writing application-helping modules can be a hard core form of it. a far cry from the usual artsy-fartsy crowd's endeavors

  12. Re:You shouldn't. Nobody should. on Recently Exposed PHP Hole's Official Fix Ineffective · · Score: 1

    only morons do it that way, good practice is to concatenate and use single argument form, after verifying each component not null.

  13. Re:fun for hobbyists on 3D-Printed Circuit Boards, For Solder-Free Printable Electronics · · Score: 2

    Automated wire wrapping done with boxed wire was indeed used for spacecraft, satellites and aircraft in the 1960s and 1970s, but the technique largely fell out of favour due to cost (not reliability) reasons. Surface mount is the usual way now.

  14. Re:You shouldn't. Nobody should. on Recently Exposed PHP Hole's Official Fix Ineffective · · Score: 1

    in practice, you couldn't be more silly, you link to article about people who call crypt() with only an md5 salt? what idiot does that? not any wares I've ever written nor seen.

  15. Re:You shouldn't. Nobody should. on Recently Exposed PHP Hole's Official Fix Ineffective · · Score: 1, Troll

    oh, your company's httpd and its modules are written in a script, and not C? do tell. your web framework language of choice isn't written in C or C++, do tell. Of course YOU DO use C or C++ for web facing wares.

  16. Re:EDF? on Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat · · Score: 0

    the elite with our government in their pockets has found ways to profit from cap & trade, carbon credits, AGW. therefore, their minions will push the agenda. take their tool Al Gore, for instance.....

  17. Re:No one sees... on Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat · · Score: 1

    Sure we do, the sea levels have been rising since the last ice age, the one polar cap melts each and every year, while parts of the antarctic gain cover while other parts lose it, the global average temperature has been both hotter and colder than it is now....climate varies, and always will, with or without man.

  18. Re:You shouldn't. Nobody should. on Recently Exposed PHP Hole's Official Fix Ineffective · · Score: 0

    Tens of billions of dollars a year say you have a foolish point of view that is not held by successful people and business. You post as AC because you are a serial loser, of arguments and life.

  19. Re:Invest? on Auto Makers Announce Electric Car Charging Standard · · Score: 1

    Outside of the US, Japan and certain European countries, in lands where people have some brains, yes.

  20. Re:We are running out of helium on Auto Makers Announce Electric Car Charging Standard · · Score: 1

    that's alarmist fud, we are not running out of helium. helium can be extracted from the atmosphere, and the atmosphere is where all that past used helium went. A perfect application for solar power panels out in wasteland, to provide the energy source for the refrigeration.

  21. Re:Whither Tesla? on Auto Makers Announce Electric Car Charging Standard · · Score: 1

    no problem, they can also quickly produce anything a mass market in US and Europe adopts.

  22. Re:Pit stop on Auto Makers Announce Electric Car Charging Standard · · Score: 1

    Lie on your side, and make it your partner's problem

  23. Re:You shouldn't. Nobody should. on Recently Exposed PHP Hole's Official Fix Ineffective · · Score: 1

    No, I'm quite well paid, thank you very much.

  24. Re:Support on 1 World Trade Center Becomes the Tallest Building In NYC · · Score: 1

    You are worst of them all, you are supporting hundreds of thousands of deaths of those that did not attack anyone. You have the same disease of mind and bloodlust of which you accuse others, while supporting a government that commits mass murder.

  25. Re:What's up with the trolls? on 1 World Trade Center Becomes the Tallest Building In NYC · · Score: 1

    As an engineer, I can tell you those buildings were cost reduced insubstantial garbage. That is why people died, a properly constructed skyscraper would have merely ruined two perfectly good aircraft. The main tragedy was our government have some of the terrorists under observation to see what they would do. well, we saw what they would do, and those in government are complicit traitors. Then the USA went on a mass murdering spree of over a decade against those that DID NOT attack us, as the particular Taliban group (there are many) and Al Q left Afghanistan while we waged our bullshit wars to line pockets and increase power of evil elite.