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  1. Re:GNU/Linux on Sixteen Years Later: GNU Still Needs An Extension Language · · Score: 1

    Free software projects with normal humans that haven't delivered give up sometime before 15 or 20 years have elapsed, but HURD is still wanking it after 24 years.

    Let's revisit this topic again in 8 years when Perl 6 has been wanking it for 20 years.

  2. Re:And they laughed at me on Panda Poo Yields Key To Cheaper Biofuels · · Score: 1

    wanking off to German Scheisse porn doesn't count

  3. Re:Efficient my ass on Panda Poo Yields Key To Cheaper Biofuels · · Score: 1

    Pandas do eat birds and rodents on occassion, they are somewhat like gorillas in that regard, can be carnivorous and have the teeth and system for doing so.

  4. Re:Efficient my ass on Panda Poo Yields Key To Cheaper Biofuels · · Score: 1

    You only see Panda's at zoo, I take it. Sure they are depressed and inactive in captivity, not even having much interest in sex. They took the route of eating mostly bamboo rather than meat in ages past, however they sometimes eat birds and rodents. DNA shows they are true bears (see wikipedia article)

  5. Re:Python ka-SLAM! Python ka-Pow! on Sixteen Years Later: GNU Still Needs An Extension Language · · Score: 1

    that's a silly argument against Python, a particular Python implementation can be made without global lock. Jython and IronPython don't have one.

  6. Re:No Sarcasm: Do People Care? on Sixteen Years Later: GNU Still Needs An Extension Language · · Score: 1

    There probably are more than a thousand developers who would like a better extension language, though a LISPy one certainly would not be it

  7. Re:LISP? really??? really?? on Sixteen Years Later: GNU Still Needs An Extension Language · · Score: 1

    Actually, there are huge commercial uses of LISP. It is used for scheduling, modeling and rendering, CADD, and business analysis.

    Examples include American Express' Authorization Assistant, Autodesk's AutoLISP for programming AutoCAD (my nemesis and love for many years), Gensym's G2 business rules engine, Marai (one of the rendering applications used for effects for Lord of the Rings), and the SPIKE scheduling system for satellites and telescopes.

  8. Re:Yes, sure. on Sixteen Years Later: GNU Still Needs An Extension Language · · Score: 2

    it's a passable operating system too, but yeah lacks a decent editor

  9. Re:GNU/Linux on Sixteen Years Later: GNU Still Needs An Extension Language · · Score: 1, Interesting

    hahaha - what a cop-out. that's a nice mealy-mouthed way to say they totally and utterly failed to produce a viable kernel after decades of farting around. Let's face it, a task that requires real world engineering ability rather than ivory tower theory and navel-gazing is always beyond RMS and his close cohorts. Even the gcc would have been dead had not the engineering types rescued it (egc history)

  10. Re:People hate paren languanges on Sixteen Years Later: GNU Still Needs An Extension Language · · Score: 0, Troll

    do all that and it still looks like ass and is a PITA. I did LISP professionally for years. yes, it's the queen of the languages and can do everything and anything any other language can do, and it can compile to native code even when modifying the language itself......but I'm glad I can do the same jobs in easier to read and debug languages

  11. Re:Huh? on Making Fuel With Newspapers and Bacteria · · Score: 4, Funny

    more to the point, we'd like to see him stuff rolls of newspapers into his "it's just sugar" face for breakfast, lunch and dinner; and see how much energy he gets.

  12. Re:Goldfish shoals, nibbling at my toes on Baby Red Dwarf Found Just 27 Light Years Away · · Score: 1

    You're cold inside, all devoid of atmosphere,
    You're all alone
    more or less
    jokes by the main,
    nibbling at your brain
    whine whine whine
    all the time, time, time

  13. Re:ad-hoc http encryption? on Pakistan Bans Encryption · · Score: 1

    the normal port for http isn't blocked, and one can run any protocol one wants, plenty of better ones than ssl.

  14. Re:The Black Death isn't coming back on Scientists Sequence Black Death Bacteria · · Score: 1

    It is indeed 2011, and my post is absolutely accurate. I did not mention female incidence of AIDS at all, did I?

  15. Re:"she should have known" on Publicly Shaming Laptop Thieves Catches Bystanders in the Crossfire · · Score: 1

    article said it needed to be fixed first. I love buying $2000 systems on ebay for $75 that need $100 part

  16. Re:Seriously? $60? on Publicly Shaming Laptop Thieves Catches Bystanders in the Crossfire · · Score: 1

    from the article, the laptop was in need of repair before being usable.

    many of us troll ebay for "junk" computers in need of some parts to magically become worth ten times more.

  17. Re:The Black Death might be BROUGHT back on Scientists Sequence Black Death Bacteria · · Score: 2

    Asthma incidence has strong correlation to having parents who smoke. Allergy incidence to those who were not breastfed but consumed formula.

    Craig Venter did NOT "create life from scratch", he put a modified Mycoplasma genitalium genome into a mycoplasma. His team "stripped down" the genome to find a minimal set that would support life, then added some "nonsense" like encoded people's names and a web site address. Then they sythesized that sequence and injected it. To put it another way, just because you download a kernel from kernel.org, rip out everything that won't support your particular machine, compile and install it...doesn't make you a Linus who "built his own kernel from scratch".

  18. Re:The Black Death isn't coming back on Scientists Sequence Black Death Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Separating the reanimation bacterium dna from that of the black plague proved the most troublesome step, but fortunately they were able to contact an experienced undead dna sample collector in the housewares section of a local department store. His methodology included:

    *cocking lever action carbine* C'mon she-bitch, let's go!

  19. Re:The Black Death isn't coming back on Scientists Sequence Black Death Bacteria · · Score: 1

    No, only certain demographic groups have the rising incidence of infection. For example, if you are white male who doesn't engage in homosexual activity (e.g. taking it in the ass with a penis), your chances of getting AID are mighty slim.

  20. Re:Stopping the black death on Scientists Sequence Black Death Bacteria · · Score: 1

    nonsense, the knowledge of how to preserve meat for months has been around for thousands of years. Salt, jerky, smoking, etc.

  21. Re:For just... on New USB 3.0 Flash Drive Has 2 TB of Storage · · Score: 0

    You are committing the logical fallacy of saying the source of current sea level rise is man's CO2 emissions. A cursory glance at natural historical records shows that to be utter rubbish, the sea has been rising, is continuing to rise, with no part of it provably attributable to man.

  22. Re:I have no doubts 2TB is real on New USB 3.0 Flash Drive Has 2 TB of Storage · · Score: 1

    they've advanced on the just the write-only part, now they can read endless zeroes too. Just think, an operating system and computer have been required to have a /dev/zero up to now, but now you can have a 1.936 T of /dev/zero plus 64GB of read/write in a miraculous little stick.

  23. Re:For just... on New USB 3.0 Flash Drive Has 2 TB of Storage · · Score: 0

    The oceans have been rising since the last ice age, and if you look at graph of past 10,000 years, there were thousands of years where it was rising at a much faster rate than now. But alarmists look at inhabited places essentially at sea level and get alarmed when they get overrun with water. Those places were doomed anyway, just as more of them will certainly be.

  24. Re:simulating zero gravity on Ugandan Seeks To Build Backyard Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    I don't think you understand, to go above a certain altitude you will need hundreds of millions of dollars worth of tool and die, testing gear. and advanced materials. You will NOT be using recycled steel or aluminum, hand welds, and a fifty year old milling machine snatched off ebay. The needed balance, precision, strength will not be there.

  25. Re:word of a jackbooted feltch wad on Environmental Enforcement Agents Targeting Guitars · · Score: 1

    Once again, you are speaking the words and story of the accuser, and taking them as truth.