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  1. He will be missed on Creator of TempleOS, Terry Davis, Has Passed Away (osnews.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We used to prank call Terry Davis sometimes, he used to have some good insights and he could carry on a conversation for a while until he would suddenly "switch gears" and hang up the phone. One time, we even had him and Richard Stallman speak to eachother for a moment.

    And he thought Linus Torvalds was a noob because he never wrote his own compiler.

  2. Cause and Effect on Atlanta Still Struggles To Recover From Ransomware Attack (reuters.com) · · Score: -1

    Probably happened in response to the expulsion of 60 diplomats

  3. Do you have an opinion on Interviews: Ask Mathematician Neil Sloane a Question · · Score: 0

    on whether P=NP or P!=NP?

  4. Step in the wrong direction? on Comcast the Latest ISP To Try DNS Hijacking · · Score: 0

    Now that customers will have to register their MAC address with Comcast does that mean they will have a legitimate argument when saying 'illegal downloading/content/etc' was coming from your MAC address?

    The 'MAC addresses aren't reliable identification' argument will be somewhat negated once customers are directly associated with their box's address, right?

  5. Does anybody know on A Black Day For Internet Freedom In Germany · · Score: 0

    the url that traffic is directed to?

  6. RISE(Research Internships in Science and Engr) on Study Abroad For Computer Science Majors? · · Score: 0

    This summer I partook in a summer research internship that was mostly paid for(â650/month) by the German's DAAD(Deutsche Austausch Akademisher Dienst, a.k.a. the German foreign exchange department). They select roughly 300 people each year to study and do research under German Ph.D. students at universities across the country. The website is http://www.daad.de/rise/en/index.html As the website says, "To apply for a RISE placement for summer 2009 you must: * be currently enrolled at a university/college in the United States, Canada or the UK as a full-time student in the field of biology, chemistry, physics, earth sciences or engineering (or a closely related field), * be an undergraduate who will have completed at least 2 years of a degree program by the time of the placement (graduates and graduate students from US or Canada should refer to RISE pro), * prove that you will be registered as an undergraduate at your university/college for the academic year 2008/2009 (i.e., that you will still have undergraduate status upon your return toyour home university)." And since you may not know the language.. "German language skills are not required for most positions but would be helpful to manage everyday life outside of the laboratory. The working language will generally be English." I survived the whole summer with moderate German skills, and some girls I knew in the program got by the whole summer without speaking any German. Some of the computer scientists I knew there were working on programs in virtual reality and a multitude of other topics. I got a chance to do some research in energy harvesting. It is an extremely fun time.

  7. Good on Identifying Manipulated Images · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Now we can analyze those fake moon landing pictures.

  8. Re:Unknown value? on Happy Pi Day · · Score: 1

    We all know pi is exactly 3

  9. Awesome! on Researchers Develop Self-Cleaning Clothes · · Score: 1

    Now I'll never need to leave my room

  10. Something weird is going on.. on Fifth Cable Cut To Middle East · · Score: 1

    First no gays.. now no internet

  11. They can call it.. on Rumors of Google and Dell iPhone Rival · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Googell

  12. Good ol' macros on Ultima Online Celebrates 10 Years · · Score: 1

    vendor buy bank guards i ban thee