It's definitely a Slashdot story out of the old days, down to Taco's getting the name of the app wrong in the headline.
And all of that is brought to you without any sheep sacrifice and hardly any virgin sacrifice ("hardly any" because I, as a representative virgin, am making a small sacrifice, but from what I understand it doesn't count as a full fledged "virgin sacrifice").
My all-time favorite, though, is still (from kde-devel): "I've fixed that bug but haven't checked the code in yet because I'm grounded and can't use my computer."
The data structures, validation and data tranformations are described in an excel spreadsheet (name, type, field size/# chars, range, enum, etc), which is exported to several xml docs which are sliced and diced through several passes of xslt to produce a system comprised ENTIRELY of generated code, from main() to exit(). Naturally, the generated code has zero comments. You want an explanation? Read the text in the spreadsheet!
1) arXiv pulls nearly 70 papers from Turkish physicists at four universities in a massive plagiarism scandal.
The trouble began last November, when Salti and another graduate student, Oktay Aydogdu, underwent oral examinations for their PhDs. Although both had an extensive list of publications in gravitational physics, they struggled to answer even basic, high-school-level questions, according to Özgür Sariog brevelu, an associate professor at METU. "They didn't know fundamental stuff like newtonian mechanics," he says.
Suspicious, one of Sariog brevelu's colleagues, Ays cedile Karasu, began to look through the duo's publication record. Using Google, she quickly turned up a paper from which it seemed the students had lifted several lengthy sections. By mid-February, faculty members had identified dozens of articles on arXiv that they say seemed to be partly or completely plagiarized.
2) Moray eels can thrust their toothed pharyngeal jaws forward to drag large prey into their gullets.
The discovery of this mechanism in the reticulated moray eel (Muraena retifera) is notable in several respects. First, it is a classic example of discovery-based science, stemming from an inspirational "oh wow!" moment. Such moments are crucial to the study of living organisms, for they complement the approach of testing a priori hypotheses with statistical analyses of large data sets. In this case, Mehta and Wainwright combined intellectual curiosity and visualization technology to reveal the moray eel's unusual behaviour. They had previously found that several types of eel do not use suction at all during feeding. This led them to search for alternative ways in which these predators could transport their prey into the oesophagus. By recording high-speed videos of eel feeding events in the laboratory, the mechanism became clear: the videos show the pharyngeal jaws projecting far forward into the mouth cavity to latch onto the food.
I wanted to read a book that was generally about the Titanic's sinking not the literal second by second account. Because of it's detailedness this book really drug on and on and on!!!!! It normally takes me at the most three weeks to read a book I'm not really interested in. A Night to Remember took me a wopping 7 months because it was soooo boring!!!!!
I liked how Lord gave details about what individual people were doing during certain events. But, then again, it was really dragged out and was boring at times. But it was interesting to know how poeple found out about hitting the iceburn, and what they went through.
I thought the book might be quite appropriate to read when I took a boat to Belgium - instead it gave me nightmares.
it stinks>>>>>>why must" i read this for school>>>>>i hate it
As several YouTube commenters note, the one thing missing is a track bike segment.
Good day to avoid cops. Crawl to work.
