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  1. Re:Not worth the time and effort on Money Python: Florida Contest Offers Rewards In 2013 Everglades Python Hunt · · Score: 1

    You tell that to the recreational hunters and fishermen. It's a sport.

  2. Re:Cobra effect on Money Python: Florida Contest Offers Rewards In 2013 Everglades Python Hunt · · Score: 1

    Not if only the the winner of catching the most, or the longest is awarded. No one is going to breed these pythons and release them to the wild just to have a chance to win $1500. Captive breeding is not an option because these pythons have to eat too, and will probably cost more than the award to raise them.

  3. Re:yet another language on Book Review: CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development · · Score: 1

    Sure, commit a team to a non-standardize language that can change on a whim. That's a lot of problems CoffeeScript is going to help solve. In the mean time, I have just invented a superior language called CrapScript that compiles into native CoffeeScript. You should use it.

  4. Re:What's wrong with jQuery? on Book Review: CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development · · Score: 1

    What's wrong is that jQuery is NOT CoffeeScript. In the computer science world, someone (must) come along to invent a new language to satisfy his own inflated ego. If I take a wild guess, I'd say that behind all the mumble jumbo, putting his name on a language, and eventually publishing a book about it is the real motivation.

  5. Here is how it is going to work on PayPal Predicts the End of the Wallet By 2015 · · Score: 1

    At the store checkout, stick out your back of your palm to the cashier. The cashier stamps your hand, and you take the goods. Next time you go to a bank, pay the bank and the bank teller rubs off the stamp on your hand. Transaction complete. No wallets required.

  6. Re:One less thing to carry on PayPal Predicts the End of the Wallet By 2015 · · Score: 2

    Thinking outside of the box -- why put condom inside a mobile phone? Put your mobile phone inside layers of condoms. just peel one off each time you need one. as a side benefit, it makes your phone instantly waterproof.

  7. Re:Patience! on SETI Is 50 Years Old; No Sign of ET · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If by means of intelligence, we are talking about lifeforms that invent religion, and would dedicate their lives killing each other because it's god's will, then no, dolphins and whales don't fit the bill. If this is how intelligent lifeforms should be, then any extraterritorial beings that are like us but are (more) intelligent probably don't exist anymore.

  8. Re:I'll believe it... on Dell Buying Perot Systems For $3.9 Billion · · Score: 1

    or in the 2012 presidential bid

  9. Re:GWT for Python? on Python Converted To JavaScript, Executed In-Browser · · Score: 1

    The principles sound good. In practice, things are done by conventions. Special method and member names for example. There is no access level modifiers, and as a result, every member, whether it is a method or a data in a class is public. Encapsulation is not enforced by the language. In fact, object data, methods, even class meta information is managed by dictionary. Any client who gets hold of a reference of a class can dynamically change it. To me, it *IS* a flexible language, but is often abused by creative python coders. My experience with python is that it is very easy to learn and to write, but hell to read if it is written by others.

  10. Re:third key question on Researcher Dies After Studying Plague Bacteria · · Score: 1

    no, by turning them into good looking mannequins.

  11. Re:GWT for Python? on Python Converted To JavaScript, Executed In-Browser · · Score: 1

    Ur... how is Python any less different? It's one of the most easily abused, badly written language because it is so flexible. There is practically no rule with Python.

  12. Re:But... on Nissan Gives Electric Cars Blade Runner Audio Effect · · Score: 1

    Unless Nissan ties the sound wire to the ignition, I am CERTAIN that people will find which wire to cut to shut it up.

  13. Re:Of course. on Who Wants To Be a Billionaire Coder? · · Score: 1

    People who program with passion write the best code because they care.

  14. Re:So essentially they want people to pay on ASCAP Says Apple Should Pay For 30-sec. Song Samples · · Score: 1

    Now let's be fair to RIAA and the artists. After all, they are human and how else do they all the money to finance their drug habit? I'd say that not only should they charge Apple, they should charge the customer who bought the songs each time they listen. Heck, they should charge any stores that openly displays the album covers. Any shoppers passing by that glances at the CD albums must also pay to be fair.

  15. Re:But still... on Panasonic's New LED Bulbs Shine For 19 Years · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, if you want both heat and light, you can replace the ceiling light socket with a wall mounted electrical heater. It's a win-win.

  16. Re:OK, let's talk perspective... on Microsoft Interns Still Feel the Love · · Score: 1

    Yes and No. It is crap. True. But everything else is also crap. Executives are grossly overpaid. Local politicians are overpaid. School board, water board officials are way overpaid. Where I live, a local gardener asks for $25/hr, and an electrician charges $80/hr. Granted, they don't work 8 hr days. But I also personally heard of a few union workers that are under perform, lazy, call sick when they don't feel like it, and make $18/hr plus benefits. While the rest of the nation is struggling to survive layoff, some unions have the ball to call strikes and coordinated sick leaves to bring commute and garbage collection to a halt. Think about the united autoworkers and executives and GM and how me as a tax player has to finance their overpaid, under performed product. They are all crap. But if Microsoft were to offer me crap like this, I will take it.

  17. Re:How do you get these internships? on Microsoft Interns Still Feel the Love · · Score: 1

    Short answer. Microsoft loves BS.

  18. Re:OK, let's talk perspective... on Microsoft Interns Still Feel the Love · · Score: 2, Informative

    $6000 X 12 = $72,000. Depending on the profession and the education degree, that can be a reasonable entry point. Note that Microsoft only has to commit a few months of pay to fully evaluate the potential of these interns before offering a full time position. It makes sense to treat them nicely to create a positive image. Letting this blow out of proportion is a dumb, however.

  19. Re:So, in short... on How Hollywood Tie-Ins Saved Lego · · Score: 1

    Wow, are you suggesting GM is powered by imagination and that's why it does not sell? I guess high quality energy efficient Japanese cars must be so lack of imagination that causes them to be selling like hotcakes!

  20. Myth Buster Special? on NASA To Trigger Massive Explosion On the Moon In Search of Ice · · Score: 1

    It feels like a special episode of Myth Buster that every end of episode ends with a big explosion in the name of science. Does science and research have to be destructive? What are the potential consequence of the explosion? Who owns the moon? Who gives the right to NASA to blow up a rocket in the moon? What if North Korea wants to performance the same scientific experiment? Will that be acceptable?