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  1. Re:3d interface... on Simon Phipps Looks At 'Looking Glass' · · Score: 1

    That interface in Jurassic Park is an actual UNIX filesystem interface called FSN (pronounced fusion if you're of the marketing persuasion), that ran under IRIX4.

  2. Uh, John, when you're done with this... on 'Operation Cyber Sweep' Nets 125 Arrests · · Score: 1


    I mean I think it's great you're getting tough on some guys who copped a free copy of MSOffice, and of course that Phillies guy had to be stopped before he annoyed again, but--when you're not so busy--there are these guys in Utah who might be perpetrating one of the biggest frauds in history.

  3. Control of territory on The Drone War · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To talk of winning a war without ground forces is silly. As Ted Fehrenback said. "You can fly over the land, you can bomb the land, you can render the land uninhabitable. But you don't own the land until you stand a 17 year old kid with a rifle on it." As of now, we haven't won the war. The Northern Alliance and other indigenous forces have. Note these groups recent indifference to US preferences regarding the release of high ranking Taliban prisoners.

  4. Just a suggestion... on Name The MySql Dolphin · · Score: 1


    schISM

  5. Re:Lifesavers on Light Stopped, Held And Re-emitted By A Crystal · · Score: 1

    That's actually called triboluminescence and is caused by breaking of certain crystal structures and is fairly common in sugar crystals of different types. (Thanks, RPF)

  6. Re:Are color laser printers really tagging? on U.S. Penalizes Ukraine for Abetting 'Piracy' · · Score: 1

    Primary source. Under 'Standard Features'