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  1. something must be drying up on Italy May Hold Its Own Pirate Bay Trial · · Score: 1

    That is just to protect their source.

  2. Re:Java???? on Scalable Nonblocking Data Structures · · Score: 1
  3. Re:More investment needed in e.g Erlang on NVIDIA Shaking Up the Parallel Programming World · · Score: 1

    See also Perl6.
    For example hyperoperators: Perl6 Hyperoperators

  4. Re:Better late than early on Sun to Fully Open Source Java · · Score: 0, Troll

    40 skilled and seasoned Perl developers can do better than a group of 1500 Java developers. (we do it every day)

  5. Re:Its pretty simple, really on Brain Study Calls Free Will Into Question · · Score: 1

    If the resources that your "free will" actions on, is limited (like "matter"), than your "free will" limits everybody elses "free will", and v.v.

  6. Re:Aren't these two unrelated events? on Perl 5.10, 20 Year Anniversary · · Score: 1

    > Of course they are going publish a new release on
    > the twentieth anniversary. I dont think it
    > occurred to anyone in the perl community not to.

    Patch number 32767 would also have been nice.

    The name of the language is Perl.

  7. Perl 6 on Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust · · Score: 1
  8. mbit = millibit on Aussie Claims Copper Broadband now 200x Faster · · Score: 1

    s/m(?=bit)/M/g

  9. Re:Slow & Inefficient: Use mobilephone data on New GPS Navigator Relies On 'Wisdom of the Crowds' · · Score: 1

    Jun 26 2007 - TomTom and Vodafone UK To Introduce the World's Most Advanced Travel Time Information System for Superior Navigation in the UK

    http://www.tomtom.com/news/category.php?ID=4&NID=374

  10. nails and a magnetic fluid on Optical Solution For an NP-Complete Problem? · · Score: 1

    Hit some nails in a block of wood, representing the cities. Carve the roads between the cities as trenches between the nails. Pour some "magnetic" fluid of a certain thickness in the trenches and wait for it to settle.

  11. Lemmings? Larry? on The Ten Most Important Games · · Score: 1

    Where's Lemmings? Where's Leisure Suit Larry?

  12. Re:They hide from OCR, so why not detect that? on Spam Volume Jumps 35% In November · · Score: 2, Informative

    procmail to the rescue:

        procmail code by Dr.Ruud
        -> procmailrc.anti-gifspam, or
        -> procmailrc.anti-gifspam.mini

  13. procmail to the rescue on What's With All This Spam? · · Score: 1

    Here a procmail recipe set to catch the gifspams: anti-gifspam

  14. EekBoek on Managing Money With Linux Apps · · Score: 1

    See also EekBoek

    CLI and in Dutch, but GUI and English translation are in progress.

    Written in Perl, runs on PostgreSQL and on SQLite, which is part of the current ActiveState perl installment.

  15. geographic layers on Wikipedia's $100 Million Dream · · Score: 1

    I would go for geographic layers. All kinds of maps and other geographic data (like POI).

  16. Re:Solution. on Compress Wikipedia and Win AI Prize · · Score: 1

    All your millibits are belong to us.

  17. Re:Talk about Fear Mongering on RAID Problems With Intel Core 2? · · Score: 1

    RAID by language: also ... as well.

  18. Good for 90%, bad for 10% on Overly Sanitized Environments Lead to Poor Health? · · Score: 1

    Increased hygiene is good-to-extremely-good for 90% of us. And bad-to-extremely-bad for 10% of us. The Bell-curve again.

  19. 2003 on Company Makes Inconspicuous Secure Cellphone · · Score: 1

    See also NAH6

  20. Re:why is computer-theft still an issue? on Handling Corporate Laptop Theft Gracefully · · Score: 1
    if a machine is reported as stolen, the server that has the task of sending the passwords gets advised of this, and simply wont send the corresponding password anymore.


    How about the time between the actual stealing and the moment it is reported? Could be several days.
  21. Casing and layout of SQL-examples. on SQL Cookbook · · Score: 1

    From the pdf of _Chapter 11_

    select a.ename,
                  (select count(*)
                      from emp b
                    where b.ename <= a.ename) as rn
        from emp a

    I would layout that like

    SELECT a.ename,
                  (SELECT COUNT(*)
                      FROM emp AS b
                    WHERE b.ename <= a.ename) AS rn
        FROM emp AS a

    or like

    select a.ename,
                  (select count(*)
                      from emp as b
                    where b.ename <= a.ename) as rn
        from emp as a

  22. moving parts on Fundamental Constant Possibly Inconsistent · · Score: 1

    Because protons contain moving parts, its mass changes all the time.

  23. List of Essential Software on Useful Apps for First-Time Windows Users? · · Score: 1
  24. bacteriophages on The Most Dangerous Bacteria · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Another punny name on Goto Leads to Faster Code · · Score: 1

    You made a statement that was a cliché error so you shouldn't be surprised to get a reaction that points to better information. I won't go into your wrong assumptions again, new and repeated ones, because there seems to be no end to them.