Comment: Re:Super Mario Bros. (Score 1) 288
Came here to say this.
Comment: Re:Souls crushed, while you wait! (Score 1) 390
Personally I'm waiting for[...] "Oww my balls" to air
That was an act on "America's Got 'Talent' " a few seasons ago. It even went through a few rounds. No $#!@. I haven't watched since.
Ask Slashdot: Name Conflicts In Automatically Generated Email Addresses? 383
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timothy
from the hash-of-full-name-plus-birthday dept.
from the hash-of-full-name-plus-birthday dept.
New submitter matteocorti writes "I work at medium-sized university and we are considering reducing the number of domains used for email addresses (now around 350): the goal is to have all the 30K personal addresses in a single domain. This will increase the clashes for the local part of the address for people with the same first and last name (1.6%). We are considering several options: one of them is to use 'username@domain.tld' and the other is to use 'first.last@domain.tld.' The first case will avoid any conflict in the addresses (usernames are unique) but the second is fancier. Which approach does your organization use? How are name conflicts (homonyms) solved? Manually or automatically (e.g., by adding a number)?"
Comment: Re:A major flaw (Score 1) 88
Correct: we have one of these, so I immediately went to perform the update just to find it was already done.
Comment: Re:Dancing around race issue? (Score 1) 412
Thank you: that's the first reasonable explanation I've heard for why the data misrepresentation might occur. It seems obvious now that it's spelled out, but many others seem to have overlooked that reasoning as well.
Comment: Re:Which holiday? (Score 1) 304
So then "How Far [you are] Traveling For the Holidays" would be the total amount of driving needed for both holidays.
Comment: Re:Which holiday? (Score 1) 304
I say Happy Holidays if I want someone to have happy holidays. I say Merry Christmas if I want them to have a Merry Christmas and then contract AIDS while being raped by rabid gorillas on New Years Day, which happens to be another upcoming holiday... I mean New Years, not Gorilla Rape Day: that's no fun at all.
Comment: Re:Extinct? (Score 1) 121
Perhaps more "been given some helpful information" — are conversations really fights?!
Them's fightin' words, buddy!
Comment: Re:A very unusual toad (Score 1) 121
I don't think you can argue that building dams is a requirement of survival. It is disconnected from evolution.
It is certainly not disconnected from evolution: they started doing for some reason, and continued to do it as they evolved. Maybe at some point it WAS a matter of survival, such as lowering down-stream water levels so larger water predators couldn't swim up-stream to get at them.
Comment: Re:Who takes the minutes? (Score 3, Insightful) 85
The auto-transcribed document wouldn't be able to identify who is speaking at any given time.
Comment: Re:Darn you Google! (Score 5, Insightful) 167
The problem isn't that I'm offering fake Rolexes for sale, it's that some law breaker is telling people about it!
Comment: Re:Oh Canada! (Score 2) 999
Well, there's another mark in the "pro" side of Vancouver!
Comment: Re:Hackable? (Score 3, Funny) 194
Racing stripes, a spoiler, maybe cut a hole in the side and add an LED or two. Water cooling is the next step after that.
Comment: Re:Simple algorithm (Score 1) 273
Where's the badge pinned? Kinky.
Comment: Re:The Trouble with Ignorance (Score 1) 279
No, but killing a lot of bacteria from a surface leaves more room, and less competition, for the drug/chemical-resistant ones to grow and spread further.