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  1. Re:Hire more H-1bs! on What Kind of Data Center Can You Build With $500M? · · Score: 1

    To build a new data center for the Social Security Administration all you need is $200M for immigration lawyers to draft legislation to lift the H-1b cap, $200M to buy Congressmen to pass it

    I really don't get your point (or the joke, if there is one), but it's worth pointing out that influencing elected officials doesn't cost millions (short of large scale lobbying campaigns).

    Are you the bum with no sense of humor thats modding all the Cynics as trolls? If I must explain, he says that you can you can build a huge data center with immigrants and old XP boxes networked together. Yes, there Do exist Windows Clusters

  2. Re:A big one on What Kind of Data Center Can You Build With $500M? · · Score: 1

    clearly someone has mode points and NO sense of humor.

  3. Re:a mote on What Kind of Data Center Can You Build With $500M? · · Score: 1

    *Sigh* judging from your rating no one got this Austin Powers reference

  4. Re:Wow. Just Wow. on Oracle Buys Sun · · Score: 1

    same here, SUN servers Apple Desktops, awsome Hardware/Software marriage. *sigh* I guess we'll never see NextStep or XNU reach its full potential :-(

  5. Re:Finally! on Philosophies and Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I think that philosophy is like computer science, they invert the processes of law and science. Law starts at a conclusion uses logic to find what data supports the conclusion. Natural Science takes data uses logic to find a conclusion. Computer science is the act of generating logic to find data from given a conclusion or finds a conclusion given data. I may have to work on that thesis a little however

  6. I thought they discovered rafia/lafia on New Discovery May End Transplant Rejection · · Score: 1

    I thought they were going to announce that they discovered Rafia anime reference

  7. Re:NBC vs. AIG on Sci Fi Channel Becoming Less Geek-Centric "SyFy" · · Score: 1

    seeing how they some how continue get money while giving the US Gov the middle finger, I don't think they're the stupid ones. Someone explain, (i know, off topic) how government grant money can be legally misused

  8. Re:How Do Militaries Treat Their Nerds? on How Do Militaries Treat Their Nerds? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    kind of like an RPG sidequest

  9. Re:wasnt it already there? on Walter Bright Ports D To the Mac · · Score: 2, Informative

    there's an english link but for the lazy. http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/index_e.html

  10. wasnt it already there? on Walter Bright Ports D To the Mac · · Score: 2, Interesting

    does anyone else remember this already being on mac? I specifically remember downloading a D compiler plugin for XCode. It had a package and everything. I just never did anything with it. Also, it is what many Doshin shooters are written in. Epecially the ones written with BulletML. Many of these are crossplatform http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/

  11. Re:Doesn't this sound like... on Hacking With Synthetic Biology · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I would also like to see these http://www.genpets.com/index.php

    That has to be the most shocking thing I have ever seen. I almost couldn't judge how serious it was until someone called my attention. Im sure its just a plot to get page hits but... WTF?? After the shock wheres off, you realize how fake it looks.

  12. Re:Ruby vs Python on Ruby 1.9.1 Released · · Score: 1

    quite right. Cool being a double edge sword. obscure means less readable here. It also doesn't help my programing that there are so many dam ways to do it.

  13. Re:Ruby vs Python on Ruby 1.9.1 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    that is asking for a bloody long post that will boil down to. The ruby syntax is cooler yet more obscure, the vm is slower but just because there is less money behind it. It must be nice to have a big company like Google behind you. *scoffing at the php fans and their Zend touting* (PS, im a python fan) when I say that the syntax is cooler, i give the example that the for loop is implemented as a call to an iterator so you get this http://refactormycode.com/codes/2-ruby-simple-loop.

  14. Re:China on Obama Wants Broadband, Computers Part of Stimulus · · Score: 1

    what chinese manufacture broadband infrastructure (Mexicans maybe)? We are talking abut telephony jobs. Some one else pointed this out.

  15. Re:Uh? on Theora 1.0 Released, Supported By Firefox · · Score: 1

    simple, Like many of the presedential campains. people think that if they say the same lie often enough, it will become truth

  16. Re:Back to the better! on Theora 1.0 Released, Supported By Firefox · · Score: 1

    http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1017887&cid=25628083 same comment. and that also means WE CAN TURN OFF FLASH BASED ADDS!!!

  17. Re:Why not using the "object" tag? on Theora 1.0 Released, Supported By Firefox · · Score: 1

    ok, video is a tag thats spesificly for video. its APART of the spec. is not, object is a general dom object for embeding anything that's covered in the spec. that includes quicktime, mpeg, flv and swf files

  18. Re:Snarky AC comment on Google Adopts, Forks OpenID 1.0 · · Score: 1

    yeah, but i think he got OWNED, clearly, humility is something undervalued here at slashdot. especially or AC. I mysel have been trumped but i apologize.

  19. forien music on Music Game Competition Heats Up · · Score: 1

    when will they have J-rock i want my L'Arc n' Ciel

  20. has anyone looked at that graph on Obama Beats McCain In Spam Landslide · · Score: 1
    the occurances are directly correlating, the graph is almost symetric. That can't be a cooencidence. There must be some metric anomily that is being expressed here. Like perhaps, alphabetic choosing? from Wikipedia, on that day the first spike turned september 21 2008, heres what we get

    # 2008 - Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the two last remaining independent investment banks on Wall Street, become bank holding companies as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis.

    # 2008 - President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa resigns from office, effective September 25.

    # 2008 - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel formally resigns from office, effective as soon as his successor Tzipi Livni has successfully assembled a new government.

    # 2008 - Final baseball game played at Yankee Stadium

  21. Re:Here come the goatse jokes on No Naked Black Holes · · Score: 1

    not to mention collision. the entire first part of the post was full of sexual enuendo.
    Computer simulation of the most violent collision imaginable two black holes colliding head-on at nearly light-speed . Even in this extreme scenario, Roger Penrose's weak cosmic censorship hypothesis seems to hold â" the resulting black hole (after the gravitational waves have died down) retains its event horizon. (yeah you know what their getting at)

  22. Spelling? on Researchers Pave Way For Compressor-Free Refrigeration · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Zhang's approach uses the change form disorganized to organized that occurs in some polarpolymers when placed in an electric field
    emphasis mine. you think the pin state College of engineering would proofread spelling better. DON'T TRUST WORD's SPELLCHECK

  23. Re:Entropy on Researchers Pave Way For Compressor-Free Refrigeration · · Score: 1

    does \b man anything to u?

  24. Re:Not the same. on Linux Foundation Promises LSB4 · · Score: 1

    sorry about that. I'll try better next time.

  25. Re:Not the same. on Linux Foundation Promises LSB4 · · Score: 1

    let me clarify, Interestingly enough, the BSD varients pritty much qualify as different genus, but linux distros are more like clades, they have compatible dna (kernel source and Binary compatibility ) but perhaps a few prezigotic bariers (where the biological species consept gets rough, dogs and wolves are the same species but do not mate in nature, i guess this is where package managers lie) where BSD variants have source compatibility sometimes but not binary compatibility because the source of their kernels are different, so one exploit might not effect the others (like a plague) but all of linux are subject to the same kernel bugs (like the compiler bug found by the gcc programmer) and related distros are subject to the same exploits (like the Debian ssh) but not all distros (like how we're down to one clade of banana in north america.)