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  1. Re:Its not that hard on Blind Man Navigates Obstacle Maze Unaided · · Score: 1

    that would be a good name for the decision making process used by a president who never used foresight nor hindsight

  2. Re:impervious shivurvious on Storing Photons In a Solid State Device · · Score: 1

    that's assuming the model we call quantum mechanics is actually accurate. maybe it's merely useful for now.

  3. Re:Octopuses Have No Personalities and Enjoy HDTV on Octopuses Have No Personalities and Enjoy HDTV · · Score: 2, Funny

    they like tentacle sex too, so specifically are like hentai anime otako slashdotters.

  4. Re:Graphene for write-only memory on Researchers Create Graphite Memory 10 Atoms Thick · · Score: 1

    I have even heard of a company called Enron that employed a bulk-erase mechanism to vastly speed up the delete cycle, it was called the Arthur Anderson, but it self-destructed

  5. Re:Charging an electric car on Chinese Automaker Unveils First Electric Car · · Score: 1

    a 20 amp outlet at 120V is capable of putting out over 3 horsepower. So in ten hours could put out the power to run fully loaded 30 horsepower motor one hour.

  6. Re:Yay, Unicode! on Python 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    but your example is the "sloppy coding" I mentioned, you didn't check the encoding of the string before you just went off and dicked with it.

    and the reason for Ruby having support for string data other than Unicode is that for many asian languages, Unicode is ass, committees of native speakers were ignored while a bunch of pasty white honkies crammed their limited knowledge and incorrect world-view down everyone's throats. Quite a few asian countries with pissed off standards committees over this

  7. Re:Yay, Unicode! on Python 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Unicode is sloppy for many asian languages (Japanese), done poorly or standard rammed through by non-native speakers over objections of experts (for example, Khmer)

    so yes, Ruby will support better representations than the shitty Unicode crap for languages that have superior representations available.

  8. Re:Yay, Unicode! on Python 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    since methods exist to examine what the encoding of a string is, and to change it, how would there be a disaster unless the coder was sloppy?

  9. Re:fairness on Bittorrent To Cause Internet Meltdown · · Score: 1

    nah, that's so 90s in thinking. A business can get a proper router that does traffic shaping or just blocks protocols. If one guy at your work is clogging up the tubes your networking admin is an idiot.

  10. Re:Problems: on What Needs Fixing In Linux · · Score: 0, Troll

    since Linux is just a kernel, you're saying only certain privileged groups can put utilities and libraries around it to make an operating system? you're qualified to say which one I must use?

    only one answer to that, fuck you.

  11. Re:Time to start a fund for Lori Drew on Groklaw Summarizes the Lori Drew Verdict · · Score: 1

    no, he's a warlock, you insensitive cyber-bully! prepare to be served!

  12. Re:ZFS!! on On the State of Linux File Systems · · Score: 1

    hah, was manager of j2ee group until four years ago, I make more money now.

    I use plenty of other licenses like BSD, just saying Sun made yet another bad choice, been on a non-roll since they started just riding the name in the late 90s, trying to come back these past few years but too little too late outside of hardware.

  13. Re:Who can afford it? on "Cyber Monday" Expected To Draw Virtual Crowds · · Score: 1

    no, but the post-soviet Russian mafia one includes those

  14. Re:blue sky on Excluding Intelligent Design Principles From the Search For Alien Life · · Score: 1

    a couple of those supposedly "higher-entropy clumps" are known as you and me.

  15. Re:ZFS!! on On the State of Linux File Systems · · Score: 1

    yes, problem is Sun's stupid licensing once again preventing them from gaining wide adoption or turning a profit with software (see also Java). Sun is losing money, too little too late in the direction of open source. bye bye Sun.

  16. sky is blue because of a star and some leftover accumulations of what mostly became that star. So some order and organizing there, by gravity and the other forces, on both the formation and continuation of sun and earth. We're of the same origin as the blue sky.

  17. Re:Silicon, not Silicone on History of the LED — the Movie · · Score: 1

    silicone is not a single compound, there are many different silicones which are polymers containing silicon.

  18. Re:Still no contact info, so I'll post here... on Adobe Releases C/C++ To Flash Compiler · · Score: 2, Informative

    no, but boiling their skins, bones, tendons and tissues makes the most awesome wood glue.

  19. Re:In other news: on Fewer Than 1% Arrested From TSA's "Behavior Detection" · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually, flying toasters in themselves are quite harmless. It's that damned exploding toast that is a threat to world peace.

  20. Re:Duck Typing on Ray Kurzweil Wonders, Can Machines Ever Have Souls? · · Score: 1

    a video recording has a soul?

  21. Re:Lies Kill on LHC Repair To Cost At Least $21 Million · · Score: 1

    that's good, because I heard a whopper of one. Supposedly this east coast oil tycoon who poses as a Texan, totally fries his brain on cocaine and alcohol, then becomes president of the U.S., creates a police state and runs the country into the ground and starts this huge expensive war to help his oil interests and his buddy's defense contractor business. Right before he leaves office, he convinces Congress to "save the economy" with a law costing hundreds of billions of dollars, but the money just gets given to large banks who piss it away on acquisitions and executive compensation and bonus packages while the country and economy continues to tank.

    I know, pretty far fetched. but it sounded so plausible the way it was told.

  22. Re:No, on AIX On the Desktop Is Getting the Boot · · Score: 1

    marginal? the server markets for HP/UX and AIX is declining, but still in the billions of dollars in sales per quarter. IRIX is dumped in favor of Linux and Windows.

  23. Re:Quick question for anyone with the knowledge on Anti-Matter Created By Laser At Livermore · · Score: 2, Informative

    inertial confinement fusion with deuterium pellets surrounded by gold has already been done, but antimatter isn't a significant part of the fusion process. Even in this article, the amount of antimatter produced is miniscule

  24. Re:Nashville's recording industry on New TN Law Forces Universities To Patrol For Copyright Violations · · Score: 5, Funny

    how bigoted of you. People in that region listen to more than just country music. They have both kinds of music, country and western.

  25. Re:Well on Northrop Grumman Markets Weaponized Laser System · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your right to bear arms only includes the types known to the Founding Fathers, therefore you shall only be allowed to bear laser muskets.