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  1. From the year 2022 on Tim Berners-Lee Is Sorry About the Slashes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I used my time modem to login to the Internet3 in 2022 and pulled this review from cdweggbuy (yes, that's a full URL because people thought it was ok to remove gTLDs and also got rid of that pesky http:/// for a VeriLogiSoft Computer Interface device. But of course I got infected by a future virus because my Firefox plugin that matches malicious content didn't know how to identify as a URL.

    Ok back to the present.

    The problem with letting people have what they want is that the majority of people don't understand why things are the way they are. Tim made the right choice,
    he just feels that it is wrong now because he's had to hear people complain about it for the past 15-20 years. But when it comes down to it you need some parts of a URL to indicate what something is.

  2. Passing the buck on The Ultimate Limit of Moore's Law · · Score: 5, Funny

    Eh, let's let the singularity first, then we'll let the robots take care of the problem.

  3. Re:41? on BSA Says 41% of Software On Personal Computers Is Pirated · · Score: 5, Funny

    While you're guessing with such precision, why not choose 42% and grab more nerd eyes?

    Because pirating software is not the answer to life the universe and everything.

  4. Re:Think on Artist Not Allowed To Stream His Own Music · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wasn't it the major labels that implored us to think of the artists?

    Yeah.

    Only if there is money in it for them.

    Seriously though, someone please tell this guy that myspace is done.

  5. Re:Please stop... on Amazon's Cloud May Provision 50,000 VMs a Day · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh, stop raining on everyone's parade.

  6. Re:Effective way to keep screens locked on Schneier On Un-Authentication · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just curious what sally.au is? Can't find it online.

  7. Re:Effective way to keep screens locked on Schneier On Un-Authentication · · Score: 1

    Who says you need to be the sysadmin? Since email is insecure and most people can't read headers anyways, anyone could do that from their own system.

  8. Re:What's the point. on FreeBSD 8.0 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Yes and we can't have advertising on the net! *sarc*

  9. Re:Let's see these against my Gentoo... on FreeBSD 8.0 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well that depends, if you want to compare Open Office benchmarks, then you will be waiting until Ubuntu 10.04 comes out.

  10. Re:Ummm.... on Intel Connects PCs To Devices Using Light · · Score: 1

    Yes yes, but the difference is that you respect the fiber. Indeed I don't use fiber that much, but I have used it in the past 5 years for SAN connections and the WAN guys use it of course for switches and routers. But they certainly would be careful (and so would you) before subjecting it to the kind of abuse that people usually give ethernet, USB, VGA and power cables. People do all kinds of things like kink, pinch, stretch and slap other cables. I'm 100% sure that in the past 10 years, they haven't made fiber cables as durable as your average cat5 cable. I'm always kinda surprised when I do come across an ethernet cable that has broke in some way. But I'm never surprised if a fiber cable breaks.

  11. Re:Ummm.... on Intel Connects PCs To Devices Using Light · · Score: 1

    "Optical technology also allows for smaller connectors and longer, thinner, and more flexible cables than currently possible," according to the Intel entry.

    Survey says...... *bzzzzzzt*

    Fiber optic cable is much more fragile than almost all other cables. You can't bend it much before the fiber inside breaks. Now if they've invented some new type of optical cable that is more flexible, I'd say that's more interesting than whatever data protocol they've made. But I doubt it.

  12. Server vs. client on FCC Backs Net Neutrality, Chairman's Full Speech Posted · · Score: 5, Informative

    As a web hosting provider, I feel that they've left an important part of it out, the server side. At what point does net neutrality apply to me? They need to define this before they make any laws. Otherwise rules could be applied to things that they shouldn't.

  13. Re:Seems like a cool idea... on Student Designs Cardboard Computer Case · · Score: 1

    whoosh? Maybe you got the reference, maybe you didn't.

  14. Working for these companies on Left 4 Dead 2 Banned In Australia · · Score: 1

    The game contains realistic, frenetic, and unrelenting violence which is inflicted upon "the Infected" who are living humans infected with a rabies-like virus that causes them to act violently.

    It must be interesting to work in HR at this company.

  15. Re:Seems like a cool idea... on Student Designs Cardboard Computer Case · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, I read on the cover of a book once that paper ignites at 451 F.

  16. hard drives would have problems on Student Designs Cardboard Computer Case · · Score: 1

    I think modern hard drives rely on transferring some of their heat through the metal of a case. I remember Seagate back when they introduced the 10k drives where saying that they could reduce the heat of these drives by 5-10 degrees by using better case mounting that ensured the heat was transfered to the case.

  17. Re:Brillant! on Sony To Encase Half the Star Wars: Galaxies Servers In Carbonite · · Score: 1

    I don't know about that. I'm 33 and I've only used a REAL terminal maybe once or twice and it was only for novelty. I used modems extensively though.

  18. Re:Brillant! on Sony To Encase Half the Star Wars: Galaxies Servers In Carbonite · · Score: 1, Informative

    They are not really doing this, its just a slashdot mind trick. I suddenly felt that millions of voices yelled out and then were suddenly silenced or someth...... NO CARRIER

  19. Re:The problem is in job responsibility on SANS Report Says Organizations Focusing On the Wrong Security Threats · · Score: 1

    I was thinking of server side stuff, but that may be a good client side program.

    Actually, something like that for web applications would be nice. Probably is already something, just hard to find among the barrage of apps out there.

  20. The problem is in job responsibility on SANS Report Says Organizations Focusing On the Wrong Security Threats · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As a long time sysadmin and also as a programmer, I know that sysadmins generally try to draw their line of responsibilities or at least what they will take care of just below the "user installed software" level. I do have general knowledge of some of these applications and know which ones have vulnerabilities, but I usually ask that the programmer or user of the software maintain it. Although they seldom do and then ask for help when something gets hacked.

    Perhaps the responsibility for these apps should be in the hands of the sysadmin as well, but the number of apps you have to maintain as you go up to that level increases exponentially. Plus, since they are usually not part of the OS, your OS company is not going to provide you with an easy way to maintain them, so you either need an application administrator or you need to train the programmer/user. Companies probably don't see the point.

  21. The Bill Gates Lesson on Former Intel CEO Andy Grove Wants Struggling Industries To Stop Slacking · · Score: 1

    I guess Andy has forgotten what happened when Bill Gates tried to compare the computer industry to the car industry. GM CEO fired back with some embarrassing points about the computer industry.

  22. Originally had first post on Habitual Multitaskers Do It Badly · · Score: 2, Funny

    I originally had the first post to this article, but I got distracted and forgot to hit the submit button.

  23. Re:It's their own fault on Wikipedia Approaches Its Limits · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Precisely. But that's fine, I mean there are wikis for many other subjects so that you can delve into those subjects in much more detail. On these subject specific wikis, as long as its related to the subject, its ok.

  24. Re:GFS? on Google Two Years Into Overhaul of the Google File System · · Score: 1

    This is an important distinction because RedHat sells a cluster filesystem called GFS, which stands for Global File System. So it can be confusing to just say GFS.

  25. Re:Web searches aren't THAT bad... on New Company Seeks to Bring Semantic Context To Numbers · · Score: 1

    *WHOOSH*