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  1. Re:Eeep! on North Magnetic Pole Racing Toward Siberia · · Score: 1

    that's what his job description said, but he rarely actually showed up for duty. Just as well, what with his brain being addled with cocaine and booze abuse.

  2. Re:First? What about Chattanooga TN? on South Korea Launches First Electric Bus Fleet · · Score: 1

    Yes, internet so they can watch their mothers and sisters, whom after the requisite visit to the dentist for sparkling white dentures, star in porn.

    /me ducks and runs

  3. Re:American on Putin Orders Russian Move To GNU/Linux · · Score: 1

    1. Unless you're over 60 years old, those "wars" you served in were fabrications designed to further the agenda and line the pockets of the elite.
    2. Your country has been ruled by a mafia, central banking cartel, most of your life
    3. Putin is also a mobster, maybe he gives you a cozy feeling for that reason

  4. Re:Eeep! on North Magnetic Pole Racing Toward Siberia · · Score: 0

    oh, you imagine Bush would know the difference between magnetic and rotational poles?

  5. Re:Eeep! on North Magnetic Pole Racing Toward Siberia · · Score: 1

    too late, we in the USA have already decided we're going to regime-change the pole. It's on the planetary Axis of Evil along with the South Pole and the Earth's Center!

  6. Re:It will prety much suck for quite some time. on After IPv4, How Will the Internet Function? · · Score: 1

    actually, you are the clueless one.

    your idea is unworkable for many reason, major one because of required routing table size the core ISPs would have to have. IP6 keeps that very manageable.

  7. Re:Commodore 64 on What's the Oldest File You Can Restore? · · Score: 1

    nice! but maybe you should also save a .RTF file from Word 2000, just in case. Every word processor seems to read those.

  8. Re:China keeps coming on Record Set For World's Youngest Chess Champion · · Score: 1

    and India too. Since 2.5 billion people live in the two countries, I would only expect that as time goes on most things of note done by humans would likely be done in one place or the other.

  9. Re:The race that matters... on White House Warns of Supercomputer Arms Race · · Score: 1

    that was the military-industrial complex....if they fund and make the AI, it's the skynet / terminator scenario.

  10. Re:Deployment has improved, not quality on Progress In Algorithms Beats Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    if it's any consolation, human brains still struggle with speech recognition of Australians too

  11. Re:New molecule? on New Molecule Could Lead To Better Rocket Fuel · · Score: 1

    Since we have over 150,000 years experience with tylium, the human race doesn't need that thiotimoline crap.

  12. Re:Quantity versus Quality on RubyGems' Module Count Soon To Surpass CPAN's · · Score: 1

    Perl 5 has lost almost all of its share of powering the web, http://trends.builtwith.com/framework/Perl

    Scalable code can be written in any language, that's a question of architecture not a function of language choice. Any scalable algorithm can be realized in any language.

    Loading as much as possible into a single line is a recipe for hard to maintain and buggy code.

  13. Re:I'm Astounded on FBI Defend Raids On Texas Datacenter · · Score: 1

    we sho nuff have the biggest purt dater centahs y'all laid eyes on

  14. Re:Quantity versus Quality on RubyGems' Module Count Soon To Surpass CPAN's · · Score: 1

    The perl that gets ported is just stinky old Perl 5.x, porting doesn't add new features.

    The libraries of all the scripting languages have crap, cruft, and redundancies.

    You can write great code or crap code in any of the scripting languages, and choose great libraries or horrible ones.

    Interesting new useful constructs are more likely to be found in Python and Ruby than in Perl 5.

  15. Re:Great, now let's work together. on RubyGems' Module Count Soon To Surpass CPAN's · · Score: 1

    The guts of a thousand whales (Perl 6) are too heavy a baggage for Parrot to be anything other than a fringe project. Face it, Larry killed Perl.

  16. programming in java isn't cs either on Do High Schools Know What 'Computer Science' Is? · · Score: 1

    and they only know java. you'd think a good cs program would encourage students to implement principles using many tools.

  17. Re:From the article.... on Oracle Releases MySQL 5.5 · · Score: 1

    nope, the corrupt data was replicated by the async SAN replication host, same thing would have happened with rsync.

    That's a common misconception of those hwo replication will always save them, truth is when buggy software starts writing crap, the crap gets copied

  18. Re:It's not paranoia! on Intel's Sandy Bridge Processor Has a Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    tell me more about these braking condoms, are they shoe or disc brakes? Hydraulic or pneumatic? also, I'd like a subscription to your newsletter.

  19. Re:not so difficult on How To Cut a Nanotube? Lots Of Compression · · Score: 1

    I have a very hard time imagining 50 km. How many Library of Congress stairwells is that?

  20. Re:And everything went better than expected. on Microsoft Is Releasing an H.264 Plugin For Firefox · · Score: 2

    well, that's fine for you. but here it's a horrible day, which is normal for this season, and that damn happy bird of yours would be a frozen corpse in five minutes.

  21. Re:Laugh it up, kids! on Smithsonian Celebrates 50 Years of COBOL · · Score: 1

    J2EE certainly is the COBOL of the OO world. Just as Perl 5 is the COBOL of scripting languages.

  22. Re:I thought COBOL basically died after Y2K. on Smithsonian Celebrates 50 Years of COBOL · · Score: 1

    nonsense, COBOL is still used in code that moves money and processes insurance claims. I've been a part of adding new features with newer technology to some of those systems even in the last year. Still going strong, still people maintaining code bases of COBOL and related languages such as RPG and very old JCL. And no, we don't put the COBOL and related parts on our resumes either 8D

    How many closet dinosaur-language slashdotters are there?

  23. Re:Reminder from my High School Days on String Theory Tested, Fails Black Hole Predictions · · Score: 1

    this also is why the climate modeling of the "climatologists" is utter nonsense, they are forever re-cooking their books as reality doesn't support their predictions

  24. Re:From the article.... on Oracle Releases MySQL 5.5 · · Score: 1

    I've been a developer and admin on both over the last ten years, two horrendous crashes losing mission critical data with mysql and none yet with postgresql.

    mysql is ok for but I wouldn't build back end for say a medical insurance EDI system on it as I have recently with 18 month project on postgresql 7.3.10

  25. Re:From the article.... on Oracle Releases MySQL 5.5 · · Score: 1

    that's because it isn't needed, the equivalent operations can be done in any SQL compliant database (or for that matter in ISAM and VSAM systems too)

    you're wanting to use a less robust dbms because of your laziness.