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  1. Re:gross generalizations on Hacking the Governator · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nope, it's impossible to be racist against white people, in fact it's impossible to be racist if you're not white actually. Not nice, but an inconvenient truth.

  2. Re:Best bet: a good joke on Breaking Gender Cliques at Work? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Naw, you all have it wrong. How many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb? None, feminists can't change anything.

  3. Re:Pascal on Teaching Primary School Students Programming? · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough, it was not my first language, and I would never have tried it on my own, Then my dad mentioned that he loved Pascal, and I was interested, but it was not until I learned enough to do things that I fell in love. I can't communicate how much I like Pascal. Too bad in modern renditions it is either outdated or OS-specific (Delphi, I'm talking to you.).

  4. Re:Terrorists. on Neuroscientist Halts Research to Stop Extremists · · Score: 1

    I beg to differ. The mafia are terrorists just like any other in that they use fear to achieve a goal, political or otherwise. Men who take hostages and demand money are terrorists, but they could care less about politics.

  5. Re:Terrorists. on Neuroscientist Halts Research to Stop Extremists · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is something that all slashdotters can agree on, liberal or conservative, pro-animal rights or otherwise. These guys are as much terrorists as IED bombers or the mafia or those who hunted down civil rights activists in the past. regardless of your stance on whose politics are right, these people are deplorable and wrong.

  6. Pascal on Teaching Primary School Students Programming? · · Score: 1

    At my school we have Visual Studio and all manner of modern, high tech tools at our disposal, but we still use turbo Pascal to teach programming, and I love it. It truly is a marvelous language, and while easy, can do anything a more complicated laguage can and shows all the steps of real edit-compile-etc programming. Perhaps a modern version of pascal would be a good choice, I would pick Pascal along with a good instructional book. The best part is that pascal is structured so as long as they follow the rules it is difficult for them to write crappy code. w00t Pascal!

  7. Re:The problem is not the bomb itself on Iranian Heavy Water Nuke Plant Goes Online Today · · Score: 1

    Except that they did. Despite what some may want you to think, nukes are NOT the only WMDs. Chemical Weapons count too! [URL:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ article/2005/08/13/AR2005081300530.html] It was a known fact that Saddam had and used chemical weapons ON HIS OWN PEOPLE, and those chemical weapons are, despite popular twisted liberal belief, WMDs.

  8. Re:The problem is not the bomb itself on Iranian Heavy Water Nuke Plant Goes Online Today · · Score: 1

    Yeah, let alone 3.

  9. Re:I may want one of these after all on Microsoft leaks Zune Details in FCC filing · · Score: 1

    He meant to say that nobody would argue that their hardware wasnt good. I wholeheartedly, and I absolutely hate my logitech mouse, but all MS mice i use/have used are very high quality. For keyboards, however, none can unseat my venerable Model M.

  10. Re:2500 billion? on Cleaning Uranium Waste with Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Color, humor, flavor, etc. Waste not =D.

  11. Re:2500 billion? on Cleaning Uranium Waste with Bacteria · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wrong. In the commonly used system today, 2500 billion (2,500,000,000,000) IS equal to 2.5 Trillion (2,500,000,000,000) as 1 billion would equal 1,000,000 * 1,000. However, in the old system 2.5 Trillion would equal 2,500,000 Billion, as 1 billion would equal 1,000,000 * 1,000,000

  12. iMovie on Understanding DVD Compression? · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I believe iMovie and other Apple movie-making tools are able to do that from the tapes

  13. Re:1999: My Life *was* hell; then Columbine on Bully Trailer Hits the Web · · Score: 1

    That reminds me exactly of a kid I knew in middle school who even I would harass to tears. I feel really bad about that now and we became semi friends by 9th Grade. You don't Happen to be talking about Richie Shepardson do you?

  14. Re:Hood? on Cray Wins $52 Million Supercomputer Contract · · Score: 1

    ya, thouroughly pwnt

  15. Re:Doesn't seem too bad on Bully Trailer Hits the Web · · Score: 5, Funny

    you just won the presidential vote for Utah in 2008

  16. Re:Who cares? We do. on Call for Asia to Adopt ODF · · Score: 1

    To quote the same game, "Enemies of the Free World!"

  17. Re:Two Reactions on Homeland Security says 'Patch Windows Now' · · Score: 2, Funny

    That is the most level-headed thing I've EVER heard on this site, and that says very little. This just goes to show that the goal of this government is not to oppress you or take away all of your freedoms, they do genuinely care for this country and its people, even if their methods are flawed.

  18. Re:No macro's? on No Virtual PC for Intel-based Macs · · Score: 1

    What I want to see (an I'm sure I'm not alone) is iWork made into a full office suite. I've used it, and it simply works better than anything else on the mac, sans spreadsheet.

  19. Re:Darwin on PC on Apple Announces New Open Source Efforts · · Score: 1

    That's not really what it was made for, it was really only a development platform, a testbed, etc.

  20. Re:It concerns the education of our nation ... on County-Wide Wireless To Be Deployed in Michigan · · Score: 1

    DAMN! I live in Georgia, so we'll never get wireless. Damn conservatives ... Oh, wait, that's me. Poop.

  21. Re:Quit bitching on Combating Harassing Use of Mosquito Noise Device? · · Score: 1

    it acts very similar to 2-slit diffraction

  22. Re:Quit bitching on Combating Harassing Use of Mosquito Noise Device? · · Score: 2, Informative

    That will work, but only at certain angles. Really, you don't need to 'Phase shift' it, that happens naturally. All he needs to do is play the sound an integer + 1/2 number of wavelengths away from the original source and at the same volume, and he should be as close to inline with both sources as possible. Really, you were right in concept though. It's basically a moire effect for waves http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_noise_control http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_cancellation

  23. Re:no on Moon's Bulge Explained · · Score: 1

    If viagra says to seek medical help if you have an erection more that 4 hours, surely the moon has something really potent!

  24. Re:Progress on Japan's Petaflop Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Most of that power is in the GPU, and GPUs are extremely specialized and at the present are not very good at much of anything but graphics processing.

  25. Re:50% less bits of foam falling off!!! on Fewer Heat Shield Dings on Shuttle Discovery · · Score: 2, Informative

    Exactly. The more complex anything is, the more likely it is to be susceptible to many complex problems. We happen to have, for better or worse, a more complex space program than pretty much anyone else. Also, the more complex the support infrastructure that is needed, the more opportunities there are to screw up royally. While we should move on from the shuttle, It should by no means be dead yet. As the late Guss Grissom said, "If we die, do not mourn for us. This is a risky business we're in, and we accept those risks. The space program is too valuable to this country to be halted for too long if a disaster should ever happen." While this is adifferent time, his words still are as true and pertinent today as they were almost a half-century ago.