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  1. Re:Laptop Useage in Class? on Sniffing the Wireless Traffic of MIT Students · · Score: 1

    a) who would write Java in emacs? ;) j/k
    b) if language specialization has to occur in the real world, I still think it better that it begin after schooling. Surely Uni is the time for equal exposure to available tools.

  2. Re:Laptop Useage in Class? on Sniffing the Wireless Traffic of MIT Students · · Score: 1

    what languages they'd be most comfortable in,

    And here I thought programmers were meant to be versatile, and chose the best language for the task at hand.
    At least, that's the utopia we should be teaching students when they're just starting out, surely ;)

  3. Oblig. on Rich Pretexter, Poor Pretexter · · Score: 1

    When asked specifically which of Palin's emails he had read, Kernell replied "All of them"

  4. Re:No... on Does HP + Palm = Facepalm? · · Score: 1

    lets hope that hairydivas.com doesnt buy Palm then

  5. Re:An Opportunity on Anyone Can Play Big Brother With BitTorrent · · Score: 2, Informative

    Buying some Pringles is seriously magic for that exact purpose..

    Fixed that for ya ;)

  6. Re:What, now? on Biggest Study On Cellphone Health Effects Launched in Europe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    .. many people are losing faith in science.

    IMHO Faith and Science are exact opposites.

  7. Re:Erlang is an interesting language on Something For (Almost) Every Developer · · Score: 1

    uh yeah, I'd happily sacrifice code readability/maintainability/re-use for 'tightness'.
    After all, we run out of room on our source repo all the time, and typing is such a drag!

  8. Re:Snow Leopard on The 1 Terabyte SSD Arrives · · Score: 1

    That's interesting, but it's not really TRIM support. If you read TFA, It's *most* of the implementation of TRIM, implying that it will be supported at some future date. Perhaps the day after Duke Nukem Forever is released.

  9. Snow Leopard on The 1 Terabyte SSD Arrives · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's a real pity OSX 10.6 failed to add TRIM support. With Win7, this is the first time I've seen MS cut Apple's lunch.

  10. Older developers also have 'salary' experience on "Logan's Run" Syndrome In Programming · · Score: 1

    When considering this phenomena, I think it's important to observe the following;
    During the tech boom of 2000, and another mini-boom after that, developer's salaries went up substantially.
    'Older' developers who were employed during this period became accustomed to this salary level, and *in general* have wage expectations at this higher level.
    It's difficult for hiring guys to convince older developers to work at lower post-recession rates. It's easier to set the expectations of people new to the industry.

  11. Re:I'm pretty over IDEs on Eight PHP IDEs Compared · · Score: 1

    it'd be even more 'Informative' if you specified what it is about IDEs you consider disadvantageous

  12. Re:Apache & FreeBSD = bad code? on Offset Bad Code, With Bad Code Offsets · · Score: 1

    I skim read it that way too at first, and I was like 'whoa'!

  13. Re:Extraordinary claims... on Engaging With Climate Skeptics · · Score: 1

    I've heard a lot of criticism of the IPCC, but all of it is political. Are there any scientific rebuttals of their findings?

  14. Re:Extraordinary claims... on Engaging With Climate Skeptics · · Score: 2, Informative
  15. Bing! on Massive Badware Campaign Targets Google's "Long Tail" · · Score: 3, Funny

    Those guys at Bing have been busy.
    (I know the trojan targets Windows - I say it's a hit they were willing to take)

  16. Re:Some Funny Things About This Event on Climatic Research Unit Hacked, Files Leaked · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, as soon as one professes themselves to be a hacker, they lose all credibility. Hackers *never* self-identify.

  17. Re:128 bit OS? on Microsoft Leaks Details of 128-bit Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Man, these jokes are still getting modded up? I didn't realise... I guess it's worth trying then:
    I, for one, welcome our new 128 bit tinfoil hat wearing overlords off my lawn.

  18. Re:HA! My password is 123456 on Massive Phishing Campaign Hits Multiple Email Services · · Score: 1

    so, our passwords should really be just a long string of 'z' characters, because in the case of a brute-force attack, all-z's be the last combination tried, and therefore give the authorities the maximum amount of time to catch them before they can complete!

  19. Re:Just wait for the next version! on Windows Mobile 6.5 Launched, Panned · · Score: 1

    And by the time they've patched the hell out of it, and it resembles something relatively stable... it's time for the next major point release!
    3. Profit!

  20. Re:I disagree with this article on The Best Approach For Avoiding Zombies · · Score: 1

    Unlikely, given that:
    1. The zombies would have to first see your vessel from the shoreline and have the deductive powers to target it - without being able smelling your brains. Unless you're proposing random sea-floor walking zombies happen across your anchor, which I think would still take several years to occur by chance.
    2. Walking across the ocean floor would be extremely difficult (especially the first bit), given the oceanic currents at play even underwater. Not having air to breathe is not the only reasons humans can't do this, in practice.

  21. am I the only one who read... on Growing Power Gap Could Force Smartphone Tradeoffs · · Score: 1

    Schreck estimates power requirements can grow 15% a year.
    He made the assertion, before walking back down to his hovel in the swamp, with Donkey and Fiona.

  22. Re:Chrome Frame sucks for me on Google Barks Back At Microsoft Over Chrome Frame Security · · Score: 1

    FFS RTFM, and ppl stop modding this shit up.

  23. Re:Nice trick on Google Frame Benchmarks 9x Faster than IE8 · · Score: 2, Funny

    2. Profit!!

  24. legal? safe? ATC? on HD Video From the Edge of Space, On the Cheap · · Score: 1

    I haven't read TFA but one thing that springs to my mind whenever I read stories like this is: who do you have to get permission from? I mean, it can't be safe for people to randomly be launching electronic equipment, potentially into the flight path of commercial or amateur aircraft. Is this simply not an issue, or is there a controlling body who schedules such launches?

  25. Re:Why all the dissin'? on New Wheel of Time Book — Chapter One Online, Released Oct 27 · · Score: 1

    you "windows is crap - people only buy it because they're sheep" people are funny.