User: Urtica dioica

I'll get around to it

On: Beating Procrastination with Self-Imposed Deadlines

I'll be sure to rtfa. Some day.

Re:Welcome back to Slashdot - we missed you yester

On: David Brin Laments Absence of Programming For Kids

Urtica Dioica Laments Absence of Dupe Control For Slashdot

Amazing

On: AMD Says Power Efficiency Still Key

...they are still letting people in on what some of the new features will be.

A company announcing upcoming features in order to create hype for their product? Who'd have thought of that.

Bah

On: Cedega and Linux Games

Moon-buggy and Nethack are all I need.

I was going to post earlier...

On: Thunderbird 2.0 Alpha 1, Firefox 1.5.0.5 Available

but my Firefox crashed. :(

You Shouldn't Change Base Classes

On: A Humorous Introduction To IPv6

I don't know how he decided 2 ** 32 is anything other than 4294967296. Maybe he used this snippet:

class Fixnum
def **(other)
result = 1
other.times do
result *= self
end
result ** 4
end
end

Now how he decided the successor to IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses is beyond me. The Wikipedia article says it uses 128-bit addresses (of course, that could easily be changed...).

People deserve it

On: Symantec Posts Fix To Vulnerability

Folks, this is what you get for using anti-computer software.