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  1. Moo on The Dopamine - Impulse Buy link · · Score: 1

    Dopamine:

    Caused by information.
    Creates code monkeys that actually work.
    Used as a natural reward.

    IOW, reading Slashdot causes people to work, who can then be rewarded with reading more Slashdot. Or, Slashdot is the Pravda of the Digital Proletarian. Hmm, the slash is the action of the sickle, the dot looks like a star, if we could just hammer away at the idea of changing the green to read, and removing all the non-Socialist comments here.

    Unfortuantely, this latest find is probably ther work of evil capitalist swine (detectable by his silly use of the awkward word "experiencer", when "subject" is more apropriate). And we should not tolerate this latest insolence.

  2. Moo on Why AMD Is Still In The Race · · Score: 1

    I still don't like the ids Intel put on the chip. For that alone i'd prefer AMD.

  3. Moo on A Lot of Money for Playing Games · · Score: 1

    There's a Far Side akin to this.

  4. Moo on Laser TV — the Death of Plasma? · · Score: 1

    Will India raise taxes on these TVs?

  5. Moo on Hans Reiser Arrested On Suspicion of Murder · · Score: 1

    Did anyone check his journal?

  6. Moo on Indian ISPs Taxed for Generating "Light Energy" · · Score: 1

    Why is noone taking this lightly?

  7. Moo on One Last Spamhaus Warning Before The End · · Score: 1

    So they lose their DNS. Can't they just publish their IP address?

  8. Moo on Windows XP SP1 Support Ends Tuesday · · Score: 1

    What would be scary is, if the OS turned itself off.

  9. Moo on One Mars Probe Photographs Another · · Score: 3, Funny

    Opportunity Mars rover: I can't believe it, it's like a dream. What's wrong?
    Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: I just had a terrible thought: what if this is a dream?
    Opportunity Mars rover: Well then photograph me quick before you wake up.

  10. Moo on Google in Talks to Buy YouTube · · Score: 1

    from the dogs-and-cats-living-together-mass-hysteria dept.

    What? It hasn't even been a year since the last time.

    Oh my.

  11. Re:Moo on Robotic Whiskers Sense Shape and Texture · · Score: 1

    Rabbi Telushkin is an Orthodox Rabbi, though.

    So?

    Either he has it correctly, or he doesn't. And i do not believe that he does. As i have mentioned the reason. And i can quote chapter and verse, Siman and S'if, for the relevant laws, and i know why people do it in Hebrew, and i know that it has carried over into English.

  12. Moo on 20 Tech Ideas VCs Want to Fund · · Score: 1

    Does Rimer _want_ to support bad ideas? As they say, where there's a will, there's a way (to $300 million.)

    Maybe he'll support my idea of dragging Arctic ice to the Sahara desert.

  13. Moo on Microsoft Piracy Plan Means Concerns for IT · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Link.

  14. Moo on Youths No Longer Predominant on MySpace · · Score: 1

    "The Associated Press is reporting on the rapid aging of MySpace.

    Video at 11.

  15. Re:Opposite of my experience on Gap Between Google and Competition Widening · · Score: 2

    If I want to find out about some general topic, I use wikipedia.

    Of course you can't use Google for that. Content on Wikipedia changes often enough that Google couldn't possibly index it! And, you can't change Google search results (easily).

    But searching google gets a plethora of sites, and not just what's currently popular.

    If I want to find out about a specific thing, I use a site such as riskglossary or MSDN.

    I also go to MSDN. But i search it through Google. MS's search is the absolute worst searching i have ever seen.

    If I want detailed facts, I use a bookshop, still as true today as it was before teh n3t started.

    And with Google's text book searching up and coming...

  16. Moo on Extent of Government Computers Infected By Bots Uncertain · · Score: 1

    Which is worse? Youngsters voting patterns or Evil nations controlling things?

    Hmm.. i'm not even sure there's a difference. So, in some way, you're vote does count.

  17. Moo on Migrating Birds Take Hundreds of Powernaps. · · Score: 1

    Ergo. Anyone who sleeps for short periods during the daytime is a bird brain.

  18. Re:Moo on Robotic Whiskers Sense Shape and Texture · · Score: 1

    Rabbi Telushkin points out that placing a dash in God is based on a misreading of Torah.

    And i will point out that Rabbi Telushkin is wrong.

    See "A Code of Jewish Ethics: Volume 1: You Shall Be Holy." I can't remember the exact passage, as it was from a library book.

    No thanx. I don't really care enough to go get the book to see some passage that i know to be incorrect. However, if you feel so inclined, you may point it out to me, and i will show you the fallacy.

    Although the reason you give is a different reason, partly.

    The reason that i gave is _the_ reason Orthodox Jews do it (not everyone has the custom, however). Respect for G-d's name is a major part of halachah, the foremost case is one of the Ten Commandments, and plays a major part of Hilchos B'rachos.

  19. Re:Moo on How Prevalent Are SQL Injection Vulnerabilities? · · Score: 1

    >>MySQL is not a database.
    >So how come I can store and retrieve data from it?

    Because it has a mock-SQL interface.

    You can also store and retrieve data from a file. That doesn't make it a database.

    I've seen a lot of variation in SQL syntax between different vendors. MySQL is nothing unusual in this respect.

    They have additions to the SQL standard, and the standard is the main syntax.

  20. Re:Moo on Lego Mindstorms + Lasers · · Score: 1

    now you're just showing your age :P

    What, you think i'm a short circuit too?

    The original was much better anyway

    Yes. Disassemble? Dead? Disassemble? Dead? No Disassemble number five!

  21. Moo on Geekspeak Baffles Web Users · · Score: 1

    Brits don't understand acronyms?

    Just intersperse a generous amount of "u"s. They seems to like that.

    For example: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ is very hard to understand:

    Acronyms Brits Can't Deduce Even Fine Good Heads I Just Know Look Meek Now Or Pretty Quick Rationals Slow To Understand Very Widely X Yesterday's Zeitgeist

    However, X marks the spot where an Xtra "U" could go:

    Acronyms Brits Can't Deduce Even Fine Good Heads I Just Know Look Meek Now Or Pretty Quick Rationals Slow To Understand Very Widely Used Yesterday's Zeitgeist

    See?

  22. Moo on Lego Mindstorms + Lasers · · Score: 1

    Next thing you know, he'll replace the laser with a plunger and a string.

    I hear it's great for catching taxis.

  23. Moo on Pi Recited to 100,000 Digits · · Score: 1

    I thought pi was three?

  24. Re:Moo on What a Vista Upgrade Will Really Cost You · · Score: 1

    The people who have been assuming that any machines critical to the functioning of a company are going to immediately upgrade I think are largely mistaken.

    Well, they've started testing Vista here. Methinks (seriously) this will be release in 2009. They're generally two years behind every Microsoft release.

  25. Re:Moo on Dutch Blackbox Voting Pwned · · Score: 1

    There isn't yet a clear plan

    Is there ever? :)

    although hopefully with this latest publicity the possibility of their ever being used is nil.

    True.