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  1. Achievement Unlocked! on Predicting Color Blindness, ADD, or Learning Disorders From Game Data · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have earnt: Colourblindness!

    Wear this badge of pride on your Steam Profile.

  2. what exactly are they sensing? on Electricity Over Glass · · Score: 1

    why do they need electricity? if it's to monitor the level of the tanks you could use a purely mechanical device surely?

  3. Re:Why? on Graph Shows Fraud in Russian Elections · · Score: 4, Funny

    didn't you see the futurama movie!!?!

  4. Re:Mmm... on Woman Killed In Wii-Related Competition · · Score: 1

    this just goes to show you what happens when you think of the children!

  5. Re:So, what's the problem? on Is Google Too Smart For Its Own Good? · · Score: 1

    no problem! robin, pass me down the shark repellent spray!

  6. Sirius Cybernetics Corporation beat them to it. on Don't Be Rude To This Robot · · Score: 1

    do these ones have Genuine People Personalities?

  7. Re:It's not about privacy on Panasonic May Relaunch In-flight Broadband · · Score: 1
    Please explain how talking about this on a cellphone is different from talking to the person next to him.
    because you only get to listen in to one half of the conversation.
    of course this means you can fill in the other half yourself to entertain yourself in your boredom.
  8. why did it kill him? on Steve Irwin Dead · · Score: 5, Interesting
    from wikipedia:
    Dasyatids do not attack aggressively, or even actively defend themselves. When threatened their primary reaction is to swim away. However, when they are attacked by predators or stepped on, the barbed stinger in their tail is mechanically whipped up, usually into the offending foot; it is also possible, although less likely, to be stung "accidentally" by brushing against the stinger.
    what did he do to cause a stingray to kill him? TFA says it was a freak accident. but was it really? what were the stingray's intentions?
  9. Re:How difficult is it. on SQL Injection Attacks Increasing · · Score: 2, Informative

    actually PHP does do this, if you use PostgreSQL, which is a much nicer solution than using MySQL anyway

    pg_execute("SELECT * FROM blah WHERE meow = ? AND octopus = ?", array($meow, $octopus));

    and then of course there are the numerous abstraction layers like peardb and adodb which work quite beautifully at a bit of expense of speed, but makes up for it in portability if you need to change database backends.

  10. Re:A Satellite? on New Tenth Planet Has a Moon · · Score: 0

    no more so than any other physical object/body.

  11. Re:A Satellite? on New Tenth Planet Has a Moon · · Score: 0

    "It is a moon if the body it orbits is a planet." wow, earth has a lot of moons then.

  12. Re:Get computers OUT of schools! on MIT Unveils Prototype for $100 Linux Laptop · · Score: 0

    yes get computers out of schools and to where the children are,
    children should be learning on their laptop, not be wasting time in school once they've learnt to read and use their computer.
    children who have motivation to learn only need access to information and they can teach themselves.

  13. Re:C? on KDE 4 Promises Large Changes · · Score: 1

    thanks for the informative post, but where can these bindings be found? http://developer.kde.org/language-bindings/ does not list any C bindings

  14. Re:C? on KDE 4 Promises Large Changes · · Score: 1

    if KDE had a C interface we could code KDE applications in C which is the defacto standard programming language on unix so it would get a lot more use. And it could maintain the current C++ interface as a wrapper around the C interface so there wouldnt be a problem with compatibility.

  15. C? on KDE 4 Promises Large Changes · · Score: -1, Troll

    are they going to switch to using C? that would be nice. Or use GTK as a base.

  16. square? on Oregon Is Growing A Mystery Bulge · · Score: 5, Funny

    since when are volcanos square? must be some giant square monolith planted by aliens years ago rising out of the ground

  17. bastards! on LGP Announces New Competition · · Score: 2, Funny

    they stole the source to my unreleased version of #define WIDTH 1280 #define HEIGHT 960 int main(int argc, char** argv) { unsigned short x, y; srand(time(NULL)); for(y = 0; y HEIGHT; y++) { for(x = 0; x WIDTH; x++) { putpixel(x, y, makecol(rand(255), rand(255), rand(255))); } } }

  18. they need to search through stolen linux code on MySQL and SCO Join Forces · · Score: 3, Funny

    grep isnt good enough for them, they need a database to insert all the linux code into so they can search it. and they cant use it under the GPL anymore and postgres is out of the question looks like they'll have to do business with mysql

  19. universal binaries on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger for x86 Leaked? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Mac OS X has been "leading a secret double life" for the past five years, said Jobs. "So today for the first time, I can confirm the rumors that every release of Mac OS X has been compiled for PowerPC and Intel. This has been going on for the last five years." http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/06/06/liveupdate /index.php why cant they just run the normal Max OS X binaries on X86 if they're universal binaries like they speak of?