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  1. Re:Everybody hates it on EU Parliament Votes To End Daylight Savings (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    Bugs happen all the time. Until you compare this to normal bug rates for other issues and can show a major increase I really don't care. For getting that extra hour in the evening every day I will gladly take the extra risks.

  2. Re:Everybody hates it on EU Parliament Votes To End Daylight Savings (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    Not everybody hates it. I for one couldn't care less about the change of time, I don't even notice it. My alarm goes of an hour later or earlier and I just go about my day. It's just because the people for who it is a problem scream so loudly that you think the hate is universal.

    But not changing is fine by by me if and only if we then go to permanent DST. I don't want to lose the extra light in the evening and don't care about having to go to work in the dark.

    But under no circumstances do I want permanent winter time.

  3. Re:PR works well? Where? on Mathematicians Study Effects of Gerrymandering On 2012 Election · · Score: 1

    What is Belgium doing in your list of stable countries ?

  4. A (hidden) communication channel is not an attack on The Computer Security Threat From Ultrasonic Networks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    WTF ? That's a covert communication channel, not an attack.
    At least the original source gets that right. But what idiot writes the slashdot version of the article?

  5. Re:Cannot be on Oldest Known Star In the Universe Discovered · · Score: 1

    Even better, if the universe is 6000 years old and this star is 6000 light years away, it must be from the beginning of the universe, which is exactly what these researchers discovered. Scientific proof of the bible!

  6. Re:Link? on Comcast Apologizes For Super Bowl Porn Glitch · · Score: 1

    > I googled "Porn" and nothing came up

    React to some Viagra spam to solve that problem

  7. Re:Linux user - USB stick boot image? on Seagate Firmware Update Bricks 500GB Barracudas · · Score: 1

    If you have another computer you can also do a PXE of a freedos image to which you copy the firmware and update program. Nowadays i first have to resize the standard floppy image though (since the firmwares are getting so damn big). Then leave that setup around and simply update your floppy image whenever you need to do a new firmware upgrade, select PXE boot in your boot setup and do the update..

  8. Re:Features and whatnot. on Perl 5.10, 20 Year Anniversary · · Score: 1

    Yes. defined or is one of the most useful practical changes of perl 5.10.
    Maybe it's clearer when you realize it will mostly be used as "or otherwise use this default". Now a lot of existing code uses || for that purpose, and too often people don't realize that doesn't work the value was 0. But handling the 0 case properly makes the code very ugly.

  9. Re:Oh dear. on Perl 5.10, 20 Year Anniversary · · Score: 1

    Which also interpolates just fine:

    print "Looking up $foo->{bar}: could not find $bar->{baz}\n";

    It's things like actual function calls that don't interpolate cleanly (yes, I know the tricks, no in general I don't want to use them)

  10. Re:Oh dear. on Perl 5.10, 20 Year Anniversary · · Score: 1

    Because if speed is that important you shouldn't be using an interpreted language.

    Always write the clearest code (of the proper complexity class). Only optimize after
    the program turns out to be too slow and after you actually profiled that piece of
    code to be an important cause of the slowdown.

    Nothing destroys good code like premature optimization does.