Spoken like a person who never owned a Macbook. I am a Linux guy, and I am by no stretch of the imagination an Apple fan, but misinformed hatred is just a form of ignorance.

Next time, take it out of your as and you won't have that issue. Say what you want about Apple, they make great hardware.

Did I say the price was out of line with the industry? I must have missed that.

Agreed:

1) Create a program, and call it SWAMP
2) Look for problems in the code that is sure to be buggy, as competent developers would never submit code
3) Announce that OMFG, Open Source is full of holes!
4) Watch more people stay with Windows due to the misinformation
5) Power Profit

Look Ma! No ???? step!

What exactly stops them from gathering their own FOSS software? See step 2.

"... known as DONKEY (Domestic Onion-Router Key Capture)

That would be DONKEY Capture, actually.

"Actually, my first thought is why isn't the NSA doing this?

Actually, my first thought was that they are, and that they're calling their initiative SWAMP Thing. Perhaps you missed the stories of agencies performing the tasks that others cannot and then "sharing" their data?

What makes you say that? You seem to be assuming that they are both competent and well meaning. These are two assumptions that are specious at best. Somewhere there are some DHS droids laughing their ass off: can you believe it. We even called it SWAMP and the morons still did the work of ferreting out software to find holes in for us!"

I almost don't feel sorry for the people stupid enough to fall for this scam.

I once went to the Apple website to price my ideal server. It cost well over $10,000.00. It was more like 18 thousand IIRC.

Don't forget the free sex!

"I am not really sure how you would interpret the GP to "second hand smoke is worse for you than first hand smoke." "

I didn't really claim he did say that, now did I? He merely reminded me of the Andrew Dice Clay scene, which is so funny I fell out of my chair when I first heard it, and continues to be hilarious to me to this day. I thought I'd share it with you all. I hope you enjoyed it before coming back here to attempt to put words in my mouth.

"Also to me, there is no level of danger between first and second hand smoker, but there is only harmful or not harmful."

I know this is Slashdot, but that is taking binary a bit too far. :-)

"Yes, we all are second hand smokers for many years (longer than a couple years you claimed), so being a second hand smoker has nothing to do with becoming a smoker."

You seem to be confusing me with the GP. Maybe second hand smoke affected your memory? :-)

Smoking as in smoking hot (NSFW) for the colloquial challenged.

There is even more solid evidence that people who believe everything they read shouldn't have children.

I really love the people who claim that second hand smoke is worse for you than first hand smoke. A person who smokes is getting both first hand smoke and second hand smoke, so the only logical conclusion if those who dont smoke are worse off than those who do is that smoking is actually better for you than not smoking! *

* Yes, I know this claim is based on the fact that there is carbon monoxide in second hand smoke, not from empirical evidence.

Yes. That's the point, isn't it. They didn't invent math for the show. Claiming that a score "works" has no meaning, other than to say that math "works". Therefore, the only interpretation of the hideously poor writing is that the submitter is claiming the algorithm works.

Holy shit! Math works! Somehow, I don't think you can have a discussion about if a formula really returns a result or not. I now see that the idiot who wrote the summary was trying to say that the algorithm doesn't work, but math does. Alas that idiot has no ability to write. ... oh wait, it was you! Never mind.