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Comment Re:46 DC EA D3 17 FE 45 D8 09 23 EB 97 E4 95 64 10 (Score -1) 254

That 46 DC EA D3 17 FE 45 D8 09 23 EB 97 E4 95 64 10 D4 CD B2 C2 is a funny number indeed. It's like sig-worthy.

I just put an even funnier number (00C5B2BFA1A413DD16F26D31C0F2ED4720DCFB0670) into Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3#Private_key_compromised

Comment Deprivation of Rights -- NOTICE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT (Score -1) 254

First of all, everybody should be familiar with 42 USC 1983, it ain't just for black ppl no mo.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/usc_sec_42_00001983----000-.html

And 18 USC 242:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000242----000-.html

Also, put this on all of your seizable equipment that resides within the United States:

NOTICE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENTS

The owners and users of this system are exercising First Amendment rights.

Some material on this system is in preparation for public dissemination
and is "work product material" protected under The First Amendment Privacy
Protection Act of 1980 (USC 42, Section 2000aa). Note that this is a
civil statute. Violation of this statute by law enforcement agents is
very likely to result in a civil suit as provided Section 2000aa-6. Each
and every person who has "work product material" stored on this system is
entitled to recover at least minimum damages of $1,000 plus all legal
expenses. Agents in some states may not be protected from personal civil
liability if they violate this statute.

In addition, there are e-mail and chat logs, i.e., "stored electronic
communications" as defined by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act
(ECPA) which have been in storage less than 180 days on this system. Such
stored electronic communications are protected by the ECPA from seizure or
even "preventing authorized access" without a warrant specific to each
person's electronic communications. Seizing the computer where these
communications reside would prevent such authorized access. There are
civil actions which may be taken against law enforcement agents under
provision of the Act. You can find them in USC 18, 2707. On this system
you can expect multiple people to have stored communications. Each of
them is entitled to collect at least $1,000 plus all legal expenses for
violations of Section 2700 and 2703.

Please ensure you have appropriate warrants before seizing this equipment.

Comment & Python considered harmful [n/t] (Score -1, Flamebait) 346

MySQL & Python are pieces of crap. Do yourself a favor: don't use them.

"Pythonistas" are deluded... None of the reasons they give for its usefulness are valid (e.g., these falsehoods: English-like, readable, 1-good-way-to-do-1-thing, elegant, consistent, simple, whitespace scoping is an improvement, etc.).

OMG "EXCEPTIONS FOR FLOW CONTROL & NAMESPACES?!?!" REALLY PYTHON NUTS? THAT IS SOOOOO 1991... ABC was a toy language, and I got my first Python from a Cracker Jack box...

I'm pretty sure that Python is a sophisticated yo mama joke.

Python is good for tongue twisters, though:

logger.LogEvent.log(log_event) --- yes, I wrote that
GENIUS!

Comment The Bible Even Says So! (Score 0, Funny) 356

Leave it to Deseret University (a.k.a., University of Utah), founded by Brigham Young, to come out with these scientific findings...

But the ancient wisdom of the Bible already spoke of this timeline... Daniel 5:25, 7:25, 12:7; Revelation 12:14: "time, times, and half a time", or [y = x + 2x + x/2].

In Revelation, "time, times, and half a time" is spoken of as a three and a half year period (to simplify the equation above, y = 3.5x [Rev. 11:2,3, 12:6, 13:5]). It is given as a time that man would flee from the beast (as nature is red in tooth and claw).

To interpret the length of this time period, we can employ the idea that "one day for God is as 1,000 years for us" (2 Peter 3:8, Psalm 90:4).

If x is equal to one year of days according to God's reckoning, then x = 365*1000... To substitute this value of x into our equation above, we get [y = 3.5(365*1000)].

Or...

y = 1.2775 million years that man has been fighting the fight of evolution with nature

These equations also relate to star polygonal arithmetic and points equidistant on the perimeter of perfect circles, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader (hint: y = 7 * x/2).

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