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• The airtrain (Aerotrain)
• Aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle
• Nuclear waste reprocessing, heh ? What about SuperPhenix?
• Oh, yeah, Concorde as well, France was so proud about it
• The infamous "ligne Maginot"
• Minitel, so successful in France, but not to be found anywhere else
• "La 5eme Republique" which brought the country on the verge of chaos on 2002-04-21

Maginot line virtual visit

Not the blunder it's made out to be

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(virtual tour you english speaking creten)

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What has this got to do with LILO ? Just a reminder that security is more about subtance than style ... and that one might want to look behind the GUI loaders before leaping.

Is Slashdot going mainstream??? I mean, going like mainstream media : addicted to sensationalist story that look so until you read the actual story???
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In a move that rocked the open source community, the Marconi Corp. today announced plans toGPL their "Morse Code" telegraphy protocol stack, formerly widely used for telegram transmission.

Either way, whether Microsoft opens it or not, this clearly shows that the weight of the idea behind open-source software has on the largest software company is far from being negligible.
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Who knows? This may bring about more good to Microsoft, too.

• Millions of eyes will be trained on Windows bugs, and what may not itch some microserf will mightily itch someone else...
• Microsoft may see that there are better OS cores (did I hear someone say "kernel"?) than what it currently offers... So, who knows, it may churn out Microsoft Wine ...
• This may signal a new beginning of absolute interoperability; software could run easily on much more platforms...
• Some zealots could even port Windows for the Macintrash...
• Or why doesn't Microsoft realize that it could benefit from OSing it's OSs? It could concentrate on lucrative application markets, and leave the debugging of the software running the servers to the people who have a bigger stake at having it bugless...

Ooops! I guess that Apple's decision to require license fees for each Firewire connector was the first nail in Firewire's coffin...
See what happens when you'te too greedy? People just ignore you...
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1.13 For Open Source applications, which license is most preferable to your organization see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html for a GNU.ORG perspective of various Open Source licenses

• GPL (GNU General Public License)
• LGPL (Lesser GPL)
• Mozilla
• QPL
• Any license recognized by the Open Source Initiative
• Does not matter
• Other

December 1980 Prototype

Browser-like display with individually resizable panes.
(Looks a lot like the NeXT-style "Browser View" coming in Mac OS X, doesn't it?)

One of the biggest reasons I CANNOT stand the Macintrash is that (on the version of the Finder I used last) when you had a long enough file name, the end of it got hidden under the file size, and that you cannot (could not?) resize the individual columns.

They had solved my principal Macintrash peeve 10 years before I started to use those beige boxen !!!!

Bunch of morons!
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What are grits, anyway???
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so maybe France will just seize all those tanks and F16s that the US has on the bases it rents from Germany...

There was once a project to build a dish antenna (a damn BIG one) for the NSA that was intended to pick up faint radio signals that were being reflected by THE MOON. I believe this project was cancelled. The engineering problems were myriad to say the least.

The satellite would be on a geostationary orbit. It must have been no mean feat to put that big a thing that high!!!
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Yankees are very quick to denounce France about individual freedoms, but whenever they are TRULY endangered, either by hare-brained governmental schemes (like Echelon), or by big corporations, guess who is the staunchest parangon of individual liberties?
Certainly not the country who has Babylon-on-the-Potomac for a capital...
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Ultimately I think we need to get completely away from the notion of measuring things in pixels, or defining stored images as arrays of pixels. Once you do that, the problem more or less goes away.

Yes, the smithsonian is not a bastion of truth.

Blatantly false! The honour belongs to Clément Ader's Éole , which flew as far back as 1890, in France.

The fact is that the Wright Brothers would not give the Smithsonian their (still) historic Flyer unless the Smithsonian claimed it was the FIRST "heavier-than-air" aircraft.

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And you yankees are lucky enough to have the 5th amendment, so you can't be forced to disclose your encryption key!!!
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... and zippy Intel (NT) machines.

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Quark tried to take over Adobe a year and a half ago.

This is nice in theory but remember the ISS will be orbiting a few hundred scant miles while the moon is a couple hundred thousand miles and Mars is half an AU. In relative terms the ISS is not a stepping stone, rather a pepple displaced by your foot.

What is needed is a better system for news sharing. Usenet has no decent moderation mechanism (Yes, you can Cancel messages, but it's inefective).

Going there is like going back in time: not only everyone's overly nice to each other, but we regularly organize get-togethers, and, most importantly, when you ask a technical question, you have two or three world authorities on the subject that are more than happy to explain it to you. Just like USENET was back in 1994...
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IBM, after their many year long anti-trust case, seem to have reformed. They are giving the code away, not under their own license, but under the one and only GPL. They can't claim it back. That shows a lot of understanding, and the will to play this game on our terms.

Now, when will Apple realize that they really are a software company???

(I wonder what kind of company Micro@£ is...)

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I'll drink to that!
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You'll probably get a kick out of the http://www.overlawyered.com website, especially in the section about class-action lawsuits...
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... can we punch those monkeys????
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Before you never Forth with obviously programmed...
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Lord, can somebody teach those physicists the concept of the paragraph????
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(seen on the p age describing the robot) :

> Nomad is a powerful computing platform. Its size allows all necessary
> processing to be performed on the robot. There are four computers on Nomad
> during this expedition. Two PCs running Windows NT control the panoramic
> camera, perform landmark based navigation, and run the autonomous
> classification software. A third computer running Red Hat Linux
> coordinates robot navigation and obstacle avoidance with the stereo
> cameras and the laser rangefinder.
> Finally, a VME processor cage with a Motorola 68060 processor controls
> Nomad's real-time processing, such as translation of driving commands
> into servo motor movements and the monitoring of all systems on Nomad.

Now, let's introduce the schizo robot!!!

And I wonder what effet it will have to make the robot look through Microsoft-coloured glasses...

(Now, I wonder that OS runs on the 68060)...
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What amount of parental and family support have you been getting?

Amongst your immediate inner circle of friends, would you say that whether they are computer knowledgeable or not has affected the amount of support/disapprocal they displayed towards yourself?
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The problem is that it won't fly with the bourgeois mentality who need a steady flock of easily gullible people either to work for them or simply to buy the junk they sell...
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The most impressive part is when, in less than two minute, you see whe whole of Italy going by, on the screen, starting from the Piemonte and finishing in the Puglia.
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(Does someone has a MP3ed version of the radio show? I NEVER heard it and would dearly like to) Not necessarly good as a first read, but definitely de rigueur as a digestive after swallowing some Larry Niven, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Alfred E. Van Vogt or Jack Williamson...
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Come to think of it, in that respect, Dune (the movie) wasn't much better; the Atréides House staff uniforms were definitely of tsarist russian inspiration...

But Dune, the movie, was an excellent adaptation of the book; you identified the characters (especially Thufir Hawat, Gurney Halleck & Duncan Idaho) at first sight...
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Now, we'll have crappy, bugful software for Linux...
What a sad day!!!!
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But it will be sufficient in the eyes of your friends and loved ones...

The ultimate irony: immortality which doesn't benefit it's incument at all!!!
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But the researcher looked at me as if I asked him to jog naked around Times Square...
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Some 15 years ago, I proposed to a Neural Netowrks researcher to hook his own brain to an external neural network, and use it as an extension of his brein. Over time, and as the neural net is expanded, more and more brain functions would have migrated to the neural net, and, given the redundant nature of the human brain, at one point, one would arrive to the point that the biological brain can simply be discarded.
Voilà! Immortality without scanning! But the researcher looked at me as if I asked him to jog naked around Times Square...
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Yup! Turbo washing machines in 1904...
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The idea was to have a constant voltage out of a variable one coming from the axle-driven generator. This was cool: by pushing the solenoid by hand, you could have all the lights in the car fluctuating wildly...
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The first automobile was invented in 1769 (Yup! 6 years before the US Revolution) by Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot who built a crude front-wheel drive steam-powered tractor, primarly intended to haul cannons.

Unfortunately, the limitations of the technology of the times did not enable him to address the problems inherent in developping a compact-enough steam engines.
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By enabling cheap large-scale overland transportation of people and goods, the secular patterns of stagnating civilization that were the norm since the dawn of Humanity were irretrieavably shattered, leading to unprecedented wealth and freedom from the old demons of famin and isolation.

What? No, we're still in the XXth century, so the last century HAS to be the XIXth...
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The hubs are mounted on such a poor man's chassis, cheaply done:

Two parallel vertical plywood boards 19 inches apart (you could use 2x4s, actually), with one of those bolted "meccano"-like angled sheet metal strip with holes.

Voilà. Cheap rack.
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Like closing anon.penet.fi???
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One word: "Backup", my dear, backup early and often.
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And now, what do you play with? Yourself?
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> Nothing in this Order shall prohibit discussion, comment or
> criticism, so long as the proprietary information
> identified above is not disclosed or distributed.

Finally, here is one of the robed gentry who has truly grasped the significance of the philosophical issues that lay behind the Internet.
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We should all email this to Jack Valenti, c/o webmaster@mpaa.org...
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