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  1. Re:Safe for 300 years on Leaning Tower of Pisa Secure For 300 More Years · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The tower is safe for 300 years!!
    This ship is unsinkable!!

    Anyone else seeing similarities?

  2. Re:doesn't work? on Microsoft Urges Windows Users To Shun Safari · · Score: 1

    Clearly you don't know what a svn repository is. They exist to store code and the only reason there is web access to them is to read the code.

  3. Re:doesn't work? on Microsoft Urges Windows Users To Shun Safari · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have a load of .php files in my downloads directory because I've clicked on things in online svn browsers and it's decided it can't render them.

    And how was it supposed to render them? There's nothing there that's gonna run the php script and serve the contents it provides. At best the browser would get headers that tell it "hey, this is a text file" and the browser would display it as such, but there is such a thing as headers that say "always download this no matter what you think you can do with it".

    Now I'm not sure whether that's the case or not, but files in svn repositories were never meant to be parsed by browsers.
  4. Re:Paper Tiger on Net Neutrality Bill Introduced In Canadian Parliament · · Score: 1

    Because we don't need food, coal or buildings? I'm sorry, how were any of those ever not good for the people? Perhaps not for the people working in/on those, but I can hardly imagine how the consumers didn't benefit from them.

  5. Regular degrees are simpler on Japan "Running Out of Engineers" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Let's face it. People are lazy and getting a bogus humanistic degree is much easier than an engineering one.

  6. Re:Doping goes to a whole new level on Amputee Sprinter Wins Olympic Appeal to Compete · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But people with glasses don't see better than people without glasses and so far it doesn't seem like they ever will, whereas prosthetics have already shown the ability to improve a person's performance, perhaps not (yet) against top athletes, but very certainly in comparison to an average human being.

  7. Re:He's using undoped human muscles on Amputee Sprinter Wins Olympic Appeal to Compete · · Score: 1

    Whereas I agree with what you're saying, fact remains he's not 100% human ... not physically at least.

    The point of the Olympics, as far as I understand, is to use only what was naturally given to you. Genetics, whereas it can help a lot, is still natural and thus any gains you get from that address are wholly you.

    Artificial limbs are far more in the field of drugs and such than in the field of "natural human body" if you ask me. But yes, giving him chance to compete would inspire hope in many. Then again, everyone using drugs could just say "What? I can't put extra blood in my system and that guy doesn't even have to use real legs!?"

  8. Doping goes to a whole new level on Amputee Sprinter Wins Olympic Appeal to Compete · · Score: 1

    This sets a really nice precedence. When people with artifically created, better, limbs can compete. What's so wrong with somebody who just takes some amphetamines or something? At least they're still using human body parts ...

    Once it takes robotic limbs to win olympic medals we've really taken all the fun out of competing.

  9. Accessing without authorization? on Woman Indicted In MySpace Suicide Case · · Score: 1

    one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to get information used to inflict emotional distress on the girl. Ok I understand the conspiracy bit, but accesing protected computers without authorization? What the hell? You don't really need to hack anyone's computer to toy with their head over myspace ...

    Or is there something I'm not getting here?
  10. Re:Recruit? on Recruitment Options For a Small-Scale FOSS Project? · · Score: 1

    As the saying goes:
    All programmerers can be good managers, but few actually are.

  11. Re:Radical solution: on Facebook Agrees To User Safety Plan · · Score: 1

    I've been doing all my research online since I was 16. It was quicker, simpler, more accurate and more up to date. Why go to a library and spend hours on end just finding the right book to browse for information for hours on end when I could just google and be done with it in half an hour then pull my whole assignment out of my arse roughly based on the source I found? Sure I'd do the same with a book, but it'd take too long.

    Before you ask, porn was also very very high on my internet agenda back then. It was just so ... simple and easy to access. Videostores and the rest of society just imposed restricting rules I didn't care for.

  12. The future? on RIAA Says No Mystery In Rash of College Complaints · · Score: 5, Funny

    So how long before they target kindergartens? Those little bastards aren't buying any CD's, clearly they're stealing them!

  13. Re:Literate programming... on Donald Knuth Rips On Unit Tests and More · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I concur. Comments should tell WHY the while block is there and what it DOES. Not where it starts and where it ends, the code tells us that descriptively enough.

    I've met code blocks several hundred lines long and it was never ambigious where they started and ended.

  14. Re:Gattaca anyone? on Bill Prohibiting Genetic Discrimination Moves Forward · · Score: 1

    And since when has the big money shown any indication of caring about that?

  15. Gattaca anyone? on Bill Prohibiting Genetic Discrimination Moves Forward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wasn't there a movie about this?

    Because genetic planning, or whatever, exists it doesn't really matter whether genetic discrimination is allowed or not. It is simply the fact that genetically better people are more suited for things than genetically worse people. It's no more a matter of discrimination or not, but simply a matter of objectively looking at the attributes of each person.

  16. Re:WHAT!?! on Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files · · Score: 1

    Haha, well they WOULD have to check into what they find suspicious. The method can't be considered proof of anything, rather indicator of having to look into something.

    Just like if something smells really bad it doesn't mean a rat died there, it could just be some cheese.

  17. Re:WHAT!?! on Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even though at first glance it might seem filenames aren't that important, it's actually a pretty good heuristic method to gauge what a file might contain.

    This is because people are hardwired to organising their stuff. A filename by the name of "rapeMe" is far easier to find when you need id than the same file, but named "rU2:s" don't you think?

    Now, since people are also lazy they forget to rename these files before transmiting them.

    Sure, the method is not perfect and yes sooner or later filenames will be randomly generated when transmiting by P2P clients themselves, but until then the method provides a good guess as to who needs further inspection.

  18. Re:Researches on /. find article similar to this on Astronomers Locate Solar System Very Similar To Our Own · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Wow ... this has GOT to be one of the most pathetic dupes ever. It's still on the bloody front page for crying out loud!

  19. Re:god damn it on Daily Caffeine Protects Your Brain · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's the same bloody thing with just about everything we intake these days. The newage crazies versus the scientists versus the governments are in a battle. A battle for brainwashing the living shit out of us. In the end we'll all just have to accept that we believe pretty much anything anyone tells us.

  20. You can still make large apps without concurrency? on More Interest In Parallel Programming Outside the US? · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's just because I have under 15 years of experience, hell I have under five years of real world experience. But I develop nearly everything that's large enough to benefit from concurrency so it uses it. To be perfectly honest, I even develop web applications so they use concurrency extensively. It's an awesome concept and I cannot imagine how anyone could ever live without it.

  21. Re:General introductions to regex? on Regular Expression Pocket Reference · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can always try php.net. I find that it's a fairly good introductory tutorial into regular expressions going through all the basics and such. It might be a tad specific, but the general science behind them is there and should allow you to quickly learn them in any language.

  22. Re:I throw Vista away all the time on University of Penn. Recommends Against Vista SP1 · · Score: 0

    Macs have had a command line since the dawn of time ...

  23. Finally! on An Early Look at OpenOffice.org 3.0 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Finally us mac weirdos will be able to move away from NeoOffice and get to the sweet sweet sensation that is OOO. It was just way way too slow on Mac before because the support was fake.

  24. Re:Would they care? on One Minute of Science Per Five Hours of Cable News · · Score: 1

    It's .... news that we saw it? When you think about it, far as we're concerned it hasn't really happened until we in some way detect the event. If you go on to postulate that reality is merely a sum result of what our senses are telling us the galaxies did not even colide until we saw them.

  25. Would they care? on One Minute of Science Per Five Hours of Cable News · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It seems to me that the average television viewing person couldn't care less about science news. Unless it's groundbreaking and will most definitely change their lives they don't care and if it does, well then it's in the news anyway.

    Be honest, how many average people do you know who might care about a galaxy eating another galaxy ... and then again ... if memory serves I saw that on the news a few days after it was on Slashdot because the pictures were pretty.

    News networks don't care about news, they care about viewership.