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  1. Started in 2001 on TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes · · Score: 1

    Here's a Slashdot story from 2001 wherein I recount my experience with having to power on each of my devices before boarding a flight:

    http://news.slashdot.org/story...

    Technically, that wasn't even the TSA since that agency didn't exist until a few weeks later.

  2. Pinouts.ru on Where Are the Joysticks For Retro Gaming? · · Score: 1

    Check out the Videogame Connector Pinouts at Pinouts.ru. Many of them include suggestions for connecting them directly to a PC.

    You could also get something like the Ultimarc U-HID or I-PAC. Many MAME users have been using these for years to adapt the controls in their arcade cabinets to work with PCs. You'll have to wire up a connector to let you plug in whatever kind of joystick you want but the flexibility means you can use it with several different controller types.

  3. Re:Free Market on The Sopranos Meet H-1B In New Jersey · · Score: 1

    I suggest you go reread that booklet. Andersen Consulting completed its spin-off from Arthur Andersen in mid-2000 after a two-year legal battle. The Accenture name became official later that year (I happen to have a copy of both their original Indian Certificate of Incorporation and their "Fresh Certificate of Incorporation Consequent on Change of Name" which is dated December 5th, 2000). The Enron scandal surfaced in October 2001, 3 years after Accenture began its separation from Arthur Andersen.

  4. Re:Let it begin on The Sopranos Meet H-1B In New Jersey · · Score: 1

    The only point of your post that I take issue with is the first part. H1B resources are SUPPOSED to be paid the same as an American worker would be paid and this is certainly the case for many of them. I'm an American currently working in India and India has a similar rule for granting employment visas.

    Since I've been here, however, I've heard many stories about people who have been "hired" by contract firms who sponsor them for an H1B visa. I put "hired" in quotation marks because the employees actually pay the contract firm for the privilege. They are told that it's much easier for them to seek citizenship or, at least, another employer who will take over their H1B visa sponsorship once they're in the US.

  5. Re:Name it V'GER on Reusing Old TiVo Hardware? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why have two carbon units entered T'VO?

  6. The Big Bus on Russia Develops Spaceship With Nuclear Engine · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wake me up when they've built a nuclear powered bus.

  7. Egg Freckles? on Google Voice Now Works WIth Existing Mobile Numbers · · Score: 1

    Google Voice voicemail transcription is the new Newton.

    Eat Up Martha.

  8. Re:Cosmic Warming? on Cosmic Ray Intensity Reaches Highest Levels In 50 years · · Score: 1

    It's all due to our refusal to support an Intergalactic Cap and Trade plan.

  9. I Know What They Mean on Web Creators Call Internet Outdated · · Score: 1

    Outdated indeed! I keep checking every day, but suck.com still hasn't been updated in over six years!

  10. The Barry Bonds Bug on Bring Down Internet Explorer In Six Words · · Score: 1

    That asterisk is trouble for everyone now.

  11. Plenty of Irony to Go Around on Multiple Sites Down In SF Power Outage · · Score: 1
    The press release that 365Main had on their site this morning about having two years of continuous uptime is now gone (after nearly every news article on this outage pointed it out).

    Digging back a few months, I found another gem...

    365 Main Recognized by PG&E...for taking proactive steps to reduce power usage.

    This is what technical folk refer to as an "understatement".

  12. Two more weeks to go on SCO Stock In Danger of Delisting, Again · · Score: 2, Informative

    Something that most people seem to be missing is that, according to Investopedia, the 30-days-below-one-dollar rule means 30 business days and it isn't just the closing price, if the stock trades above $1 in intraday trading, that's enough to satisfy the rule.

    As of market closing today, they've traded below $1 for 21 consecutive business days. That means they have almost two full weeks before they could hit that 30-day trigger. The stock has been climbing slowly the last few days and there's at least some chance the interested parties will successfully paint it over $1 before it's too late.

    If April 27th arrives and they haven't made it over a dollar, though, a reverse-split is probably their only hope (barring some magical court rulings in their favor) since the stigma of receiving that warning could shake what little confidence investors have left making it all but impossible to get over a buck for the ten consecutive days required.

  13. Colored, Collated, Stapled on Errors in Spreadsheets are Pandemic · · Score: 1

    Wait, do you mean to say that there is a use for spreadsheets beyond football pools and Project Managers printing schedules?

  14. Ignoring Small Scale on New OSS Doomed In Enterprise? · · Score: 1
    Even Microsoft supports a type of open source development in the enterprise. Look at their Scripting Center. They've recently added a section for community-contributed scripts.

    I'd be willing to bet that most large companies have at least one person on their IT staff who participates in this type of community development system to create tools for their enterprise.

    It may not be what most people think of when they talk about open source, but I'd say it's an example that is too often ignored.

  15. Text Messaging? on Inside the BlackBerry Workaround · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe I'm completely missing the boat here, but I recall when I got my first cellphone capable of receiving text messages 10 years ago that those messages would be queued up on the carrier's servers until I turned my phone on or was in signal range. Would that not be prior art?

  16. They're GIFTS! on Apple Holding Back the Music Business? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, iPod sales are up, but those sales aren't going to transalte to iTMS purchases until AFTER the iPods have been opened. The story says that gift card sales are "off the charts". You can expect downloads to jump dramatically beginning December 24th.

  17. Re:Here's the resolution... on Opera to Put User's Face in Times Square · · Score: 1

    That's just for the text-craw bands.

    The screen itself is supposed to take a Betacam SP feed which would mean roughly 453x340 if I remember correctly.

  18. New Playing Field on MySQL and SCO Join Forces · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I imagine nobody is happier to hear this that PostgreSQL. Their popularity is about to skyrocket as countless OSS projects look for alternatives to MySQL.

  19. Outcry on LA City Votes For Municipal Fiber Network · · Score: 4, Funny

    I imagine all four of the citizens who watch the religious channels were lobbying heavily against this.

  20. Where's the HTPC Distro? on Build Your Own Linux Home Theater PC · · Score: 3, Funny

    When are we going to see a Linux distribution specifically geared toward home theater PCs?

    Sure, I probably should research this before posting, but if I did that, I wouldn't be a proper Slashdot reader, would I?

  21. Re:I was hot and I was hungry on First Peek at Robosapien V2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Err... sorry... "Kent's tracking system". Grr.

  22. I was hot and I was hungry on First Peek at Robosapien V2 · · Score: 1

    Oh, great. Ken's tracking system is gone.

  23. But what about the galaxy? on New Infrared Camera Gets Amazing Orion Images · · Score: 2, Funny

    Were they able to get nice, clear shots of Orion's belt?

  24. Re:Rather Fishy on Analyst Doubts Intel's Dual-Core Demo · · Score: 1
    Oh, don't doubt the technology.

    See also, Microsoft Office '71.

  25. Rather Fishy on Analyst Doubts Intel's Dual-Core Demo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dan Rather has uncovered 8th-generation photocopies of some internal Intel memos confirming that the actual dual-core processor was AWOL during the Devloper Forum.