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  1. It's here, it work, you can buy one. on The Future of Holograms · · Score: 1

    Well, not a true hologram but a great 3D display that you can walk around from all sides: http://www.actuality-systems.com/

  2. Re:Doing Something Quickly on Google Battles Fraudulent Clicks · · Score: 1

    >Why don't advertisers track *sales*

    Probably cost of accounting. An actual sale is worth much more than an actual click (for information) but the model would probably break down if that was the only niche that provided real income.

  3. Now wait... on Gone Phishing? · · Score: 1

    How can I be sure that this [slashdoter.org] is the real slashdot? Hmmm... and why did it suddenly require my credit card for verification this time? Gosh could someone email me and let me know if all is on the up and up here.

  4. Ok, ok, ok, I just can not stand it on Build Your Own Flying Lawn Mower · · Score: 1

    How clueless are people in this world that these guys need a disclaimer at the bottom of their page:

    ...For those who do not understand what we do, all our products fly, not mow...

  5. Microsoft knows that it need a moble platform on Microsoft Advised To Learn To Love Linux · · Score: 1

    They just have not found a way to secure a monopoly stake in the industry.

  6. Re:Amazing. on Brain Controlled Computing a Reality · · Score: 1

    It would be the first post if you'd had a direct connection. None of this wimpy keyboard crap, I'm getting one of those!

  7. Re:Bottle Cap Tri-Pod on A Hack A Day · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yep, very clever idea, although probably stolen from a photo mag column. It would be silly to leave the coke. Refill with water, or better yet, sand.

    They did make a note in humor but I think it should be emphised: use stainless!

  8. Google Lab fails too on Google's Math Puzzle · · Score: 1

    I was deeply sincerely hoping that this trick at Google labs would give a bit of insight: Google Sets attempt But no, no results, nada, nothing.

    fe fi fo foo

  9. Social (sic) Security? on Is Science Fiction About The Future Anymore? · · Score: 1

    Ha, kinds like that Pay it Forward faux science fiction film.

    Everything will be just fine.

    My you be eaten first ;-)

  10. Future or syntax? on Open-Destination Quantum Teleportation · · Score: 5, Funny

    "they found a way to check computational errors in future quantum computers."

    Just how far in the future will we be able to check? Should be a great aid to debugging! But what happens if I fix a problem that causes my great grandson to come back in time to help me to meet my wife? Oh, wait.

  11. This fit surprisingly well on Tao of Security Monitoring · · Score: 0, Redundant

    27.
    A good traveler leaves no trail.
    A good speaker leaves no argument.
    A good planner needs no sketch.
    A good door needs no latch.
    A good binding needs no rope.
    Thus the sage is good at helping, so no one is rejected;
    Good at saving, so nothing is wasted.
    This is called Stealing the Light.
    Good is the model for bad, but bad is the origin of good.

  12. Totally off topic but this is from Silberstein vs on SIGGraph and Open Source · · Score: 1

    Fox:

    In spite of this scramble to assert ownership of the Beaver copyright, defendants are not contending that they based their Scrat on the Beaver.

    Yep, I wanna get involved in IP law...

  13. Only open source submissions? on Ask Sam Greenblatt About CA's $1 Million Open Source Prize · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does the submission need to be open source? If so which licenses are acceptable? If not do you require the source code to review?

  14. Hollywood fears Everything on Hollywood afraid of Microsoft · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But more than any-any-anything else, it fears losing money. So find an application (like, oh say, linux rendering servers) that saves significant money, and that crowd will jump at it. Give them a linux movie client that returns real dollar to them and they will jump at the new distribution media.

    Remember: Hollywood will go with Linux if it Makes Money.

  15. EOD: End of Dell? on Dell fights Alien Invasion · · Score: -1

    When a company starts scrambling for other business it's a sign that they are on the way down. Now who is in the market for a computer company?

  16. The keyword here is "Autonomous" on Cornell Builds Autonomous UAV · · Score: 1

    Avionics software, GPS, and the OS are just the testbed, all pretty standard and could be swapped out for something more robust. The control software the decides where and how to conduct it's mission is the interesting part. If it can locate a particular house or vehicle, the conduct smart surveillance and return to the home base, who cares what the OS is?

  17. Well, wow on Blender Demo Reel Released · · Score: 1

    Just from a brief peek there has been tremendous advances since the last time I looked at this app! Seems vastly more stable, the menus are clearer and the UI very responsive.

    3D modeling preferences will continue to be subjective for a long time due to the large learning curve for any of the packages. Blender should allow kids the determined to do amazing work. I bet folks have built portfolios that got them jobs with Blender.

  18. Food fight with spritzer bottles? on Requiem For A Motherboard · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I dunno, I tried real hard on a graphics card comparison to kill a board, swapping cards fast, and, oops, forgot to power off before reboot...

    That was several years ago and all the boards survived. Buy quality components is probably the best lesson!

  19. Garage.com on Using Blogs To Dispense Venture Capital · · Score: 1

    Garage liked Steve Jurvetson (the J) well enough to invite him to a panel at thier 'Start' conference.

    I visualize these venture guys at an expensive diner , opening with a lame joke, 'The Idea is Out There'

  20. Vector in the locations viewed from 2000 years ago on Hubble Discovers a Hundred New Planets · · Score: 0

    Subtract a bit of fudge factor.

    And some one will use this to prove that the apocolypse is just 15 days away!

    We welcome out new planetary overlords.

  21. Email wars, probably predictable on Hotmail Blocks Gmail Emails (and Invites) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Very funny in a warped sort of way. If email begins to fail regularly, this may be the straw that brings in full goverment regulation and all the blessings and other stuff that entails...

    Remember at the dawn of the electrical age there were competing companies with many different voltages, made for exciting interoperability issues. Goverment regulation could be a blessing.

  22. No real innovation... on Government-Funded GPL Software · · Score: 5, Funny

    But now the Linux kernal will be rewritten in ADA!

  23. Well at least it worked, er, somewhat on Flashing Back to the Dotcom Era: 24 Hour Dotcom · · Score: 1

    I added Ask Jeeves to their SE list with Konqu eror. The cgi response errors and success messages needed to be downloaded to a textfile (mime types, kids) but that's a config tweak I'm sure they have on a list...

    Anyway, some of their code is working, now a meta search engine that returns only the links that I really want, now that'll be a trillion...

    Neeeever mind...

  24. Green? on First Looks At PCI-X, BTX, New Chipsets, And More · · Score: 1

    Ok, ok, now does anyone know which of these fancy smanchy new protocols is more green? eh? No PCI-nuclear for me.

    Oh, btw, PCI-X is not PCI Express.

  25. Blind UI elephants on Still More on Open Source Usability · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oliphants? Weezles? Trees? Snakes?

    UI design is often like the story of the blind men and an elephant, very different, depending.

    So who will win? I asked about Longhorn at the RedHat world tour, won a cd but got disinterested scowls... who will win? Too bad there isn't a USPO.gov/preview site. 4-5 years from now 88% of the worlds users may be *used* to a patented UI so good OSS UI design could be a moot issue anyway.