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Submission + - Counting the US population? Easy as pi... (reuters.com)

fruviad writes: "The Census Bureau said that the United States reached 314,159,265 residents, or the mathematical ratio pi times 100 million, shortly after 2:29 p.m. EDT (1829 GMT)."
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Submission + - IE is losing to Firefox in Europe? (nytimes.com)

fruviad writes: For the first time in a decade, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is no longer the leading Web browser in Europe, ceding the top position to Mozilla’s Firefox, an Irish research company that tracks Web surfing said Tuesday.

Comment Might be more common than one thinks... (Score 1) 151

I've wondered if I have any neanderthal lineage. Not because of my behavior but because I have a heavy west Irish genetic background. It would have been a corner into which the neanderthals would have retreated as they were beaten out of the rest of Europe. Google and you'll see that red hair -- a hallmark of Irish lineage -- has been postulated to be a genetic legacy of the neanderthals.

Comment Re:Better test! (Score 2, Insightful) 617

If you write a script, you're certain that the changes made will be identical on each box.

One little mistake in the script and you fuck up the whole organization.

Perhaps so, but the scripted mistake is easily fixed because every single machine exhibits the same symptoms. Easy to debug. Once debugged, easy to fix.

Do you think it better to have a half-dozen different mistakes on a half-dozen different servers in a pool of 40?

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