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Slashback: 640K, Pioneer, Payback
Kudos to the guys behind Pioneer 10! Soft writes: "As a follow-up to yesterday's story, Pioneer 10 was successfully contacted for its 30th birthday, as announced in sci.space.news. The commands that were sent yesterday have been executed by the spacecraft, and more data has been collected by the Geiger Tube Telescope." lostchicken adds a link to Associated Press wire story on Yahoo!', writing "Not bad for a 30 year-old spacecraft. Perhaps those making time capsules could learn something from this?" Several readers also pointed out the SpaceDaily version of the goings on.
What, in the middle of Canadian winter?! schon writes: "An update to this /. story - The Canadian Copyright Board has announced the details of the public hearings on Canadian Digital Copyrights, at http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/rp00838e.html. Interested parties should register before attending (details available on the page.)"
Sent to you in compliance with the current Federal legislation An Anonymous Coward writes: "Back in June of 2000 Slashdot.org reported a story called ' Taking On A Spammer' about a spammer being hacked by a pissed sys-admin. The Behind Enemy Lines web page talked about a pump-and-dump spam done by Premier Services and Mark Rice."
(See this page for more information on that scam.)
"Well on February 25, 2002 the SEC filed charges against Mark Rice!"
Death of a legend? Jean-Luc writes "The New York Review of Books has published an article that contains an e-mail from Bill Gates denying he ever said the infamous "640K should be enough for anyone" quote. He foists the blame on IBM and claims he tried to convince them to include more address space from the get go. Very technical and fairly convincing, showing that for all his might Bill is still basically a geek's geek."
They hadn't even gotten to the bowlderizing chip yet ... Dan Gilmor pointed out Intel's strong statement Thursday on copy protection front, "much stronger than the letter sent yesterday. Surprising given their history..." Maybe Intel believes they can do a better job of what deciding what goes into Silicon than a committee of bureaucrats steered by the entertainment moguls can.
Shame on Slashdot for beginning to use popup ads (via DoubleClick)!!! I suppose Slashdot contributors (aka customers) are "wrong."
Exercise for the reader: Reconcile a commitment to "open source" (and the enriched democracy/freedom entailed with this) with foisting a popup ad on a user by launching a separate instance of the user's browser without the user's consent (which will almost always never exist).
Note: I was actually considering subscribing to Slashdot before the popups started. Now, I am backing away from that, and probably burning up Karma to boot. Does Slashdot understand the "Consumers vs. MPAA/RIAA/Eisner" fight now?
Steve Magruder, Metro Foodist
I don't know which topic this is in regard to, but it looks hella cool. Some friends of mine mentioned playing it. Apparently it is developing quite a following.
Freeware also. Nice.
Check out their forums. Not bad.
-Rothfuss
having money does not make one moral, just, kind, fair, likeable, intelligent, etc. In Bill Gates' case, there's not much of a reason to "look up to" the man. IMHO.
please spare us the "but it can buy...." jokes.
LoB
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
It's full of stars!