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Comment Re:Not keeping low profile? (Score 1) 888

I'm a big fan of textfiles and would hate to see shit taken down. (Aside from J Random Douchebag's name, they have anarchy files with bomb instructions, etc. You shouldn't try them, but it has historical and comical value and censoring won't stop terrorism). I don't know or care what the incident was, but chances are I would think "that's cool" rather than "don't hire" given the context.

Comment Re:Falsibility. (Score 2, Interesting) 746

If you look at the temperature from outer sky you might measure the heat emission from earth to outer space. The higher the temperature, the higher the heat emission. If a greenhouse effect is effective, it reduces the heat emission and thus the temperature. In this scenario there would be a lower temperature in the upper atmospheric region as long as until a new equilibrium is reached, with higher temperatures at the surface of the earth.

Comment Re:Honestly (Score 1) 157

Reading through the comments, it stroke me the same. Van Eck phreaking can't be a problem because it provides literally the same information as exit polls.

... it's only a problem if you are then able to associate votes with individuals.

What again is not a problem if one votes in densely populated area: emission from many voting machines would mix making it hard to differentiate a vote on a single machine.

It might be the problem with VIPs. But for the case one can really go extra mile and install proper shielding.

Comment Re:The comment may also be complex.. (Score 1) 660

Sir, your attitude is a breath a fresh air. Any programmer who doesn't submit a formal and rigorous proof of every algorithm they write to a peer reviewed academic research journal is an incompetent hack who couldn't program his way out of a cardboard box.

Are you *seriously* trying to equate the ability to understand one's own code with "a formal and rigorous proof"? Really? To that, all I can really say is: Wow. Please, get out of the industry. Now.

Comment Re:illegal? (Score 1) 773

No it, it doesn't. Cuban was only musing with some Microsoft lust, he wasn't serious...unless he has a thing for Uncle Fester look-a-likes. Okay, so maybe he was serious, lusting after Uncle Fester would come under Intent to Engage in Deviant Behavior.

Comment Private Fire Brigades. (Score 1) 3

They were a key element in the financial rise of Marcus Licinius Crassus - which certainly doomed the Republican government of Rome - concentrating power in Crassus and those he favoured which included the financing Caesar Julius.

Crassus ran real estate, insurance and fire-brigade services. He was at an intersection to extort huge amounts of money from people at the point of catastrophic loss.

It was hugely successful for him, in terms of a market.

http://www.google.com/search?q=crassus+fire+department

Comment Re:*First post.. (Score 1) 590

According to AFTTEACHERS make an avarage of $50k a year. This puts TEACHERS in the top half of our nations earners. That makes their pay average at worst. When you factor in the three months vacation a year that they get, their hourly rate makes them paid quite well.

So, no, evil adminstrators do not explain how every single teacher makes less than the average teacher salary.

Comment Re:Actually, the Mandelbrot set is already 4D (Score 2, Interesting) 255

You can find a picture of a "4-D" Mandlebrot set in a mid/late 80's issue of Scientific American. I was generating pictures of this on a 286 pc. (with EGA graphics) 15 years ago, and the pictures in TFA of z^2 look *nothing* like that did.

Hah, I can beat that! I used a Compaq portable with an 8088 processor, 256 K of RAM and 2 floppies! I wrote a C program based on that original Scientific American article, and then had a Basic program read the results and display it. I think the C program took a week to run.

The joke, of course, is that the Compaq didn't have a color screen—it had a small grayscale monitor built in. But I still thought it was really cool.

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