Nice catch, Captain Obvious. That was my point!

...is that really a property of Javascript, though, or just your computer? Do the ECMA standards prescribe memory or reference size limits?

...And somehow, HTML is both on the list and lower than Java. Anyone got any theories?

I believe you'll find it's spelled "navel vassal."

My mistake; the original text merely said "thousands." See ctheme's comment.

That's the one! I would've posted the source but I'd only seen it as an image and didn't remember what to search for. Thanks.

There's this story about an off-duty bridge officer aboard a large US military ship who, groggy after having to get up rather early, called the bridge and requested that the vehicle, some quarter of a million tons of steel, personnel and equipment, be rotated 15 degrees, all so he didn't have to move an inch to get the sun out of his eyes while he drank his coffee.

Maybe whoever wrote that list merely wants to read the Linux Journal forums. Surely we're not pretending as if SELinux doesn't exist and that the NSA hasn't historically contributed to Linux. That would be a foolish thing to do. Of foolishness.

Figure skating just hasn't developed far enough yet—throw in a few mocap suits and compare the recorded data to an ideal performance. Root mean standard deviation == your score. Simple!

Pfft! We can still be disappointed.

You and me both. Let's spread the tag !nuclearpulsepropulsion to show our dismay!

It's more brilliant than you think—now the Microsoft employees who came up with this idea can get MacBooks without getting their boss's signature! In theory, anyway.

Well... there's the beachfront property market.

See also: Slashdot and unicode support.

Hey, definitely. I'm all for this sort of interest piece; I've done some truly worthless statistical analyses purely for the geek value. But it shouldn't be mislabeled, much less sitting on Arxiv. I guess maybe this happened because the lead author is a physicist? Assume a spherical cow, etc.

Exactly. The results of this study could not be more bullshit. It's the kind of "why would you even bother doing that" study that should make people double over laughing.