Slashback: Hagiography, Oracle, Fusion

Slashback with updates on RMS's biography, PVRs vs. the endangered edifice of Western Civilization, Oracle's funny deal with California, cold fusion and more. Read on for the details! Can't we please have a picture of the winner? obsidianpreacher writes: "Apparently, SETI@Home has just recently released who the winner of the 500 millionth result "contest" is, and posted the news on the SETI@Home site. Too bad it wasn't me (or one of the people who turn in 300 bajillion results per day)."

Even lukewarm fusion would be satisfy me. driggers writes: "I wrote a review of the book "Excess Heat" for /. last year. I thought you might (or might not :) be interested to learn that the U.S. Navy in February 2002 issued Technical Report No. 1862 titled "Thermal and Nuclear Aspects of the Pd/D2O System," Vol. 1 of which summarizes A Decade of Research at Navy Laboratories."

Dr. Frank Gordon, Head, Navigation and Applied Sciences Department, concludes his foreword with the remark, "It is time for the government funding organizations to invest in this research."

If you modify the source you must keep it accurate, like a Mad Lib. An Anonymous Coward writes "I just noticed the biography of Richard M. Stallman, "Free as in Freedom" by Sam Williams is online at oreilly, released under the GNU Free Documentation License."

What vapors rule the modern day Oracle? MarkedMan writes: "The following CNET article outlines Oracle's reply to the State of California's announcement it was canceling a nearly $100 million dollar contract. It should not come as a surprise, as few companies would give up that kind of money without a fight, not to mention the domino effect if they just rolled over. It would be a tacit admission that they ripped off naive customers."

Comments

Re:Dick Stallman is an Asshole, plain and simple

[Anonymous Coward]

... had followed the old Picasso adage, "good artists borrow; great artists steal."

I believe that was Stravinsky, not Picasso (unless Stravinsky stole it from him :-), and the actual quote is "Lesser artists borrow; true artists steal."

Re:19 y/o Chech hottie

[bilbobuggins]

how did i know her 'prize' was going to be a /.ing of lame pickup attempts from every pasty rastor-burned geek in the U.S.
For her sake, I wish they'd skewed the results.

timothy is a sexist pig

[Anonymous Coward]

From the SETI story:

Can't we please have a picture of the winner?

WTF?

Would timothy have posted that if it was a guy?

Hell no.

Women deserve to be treated as individuals and not some piece of meat you're hoping to hook up, timothy. Is it any wonder there are so few women in tech with assholes acting like this all the time?

Show a monicrom of decency, stick to be an editor on slashdot, and continue to try and get laid on your damn dime.

Jerk.