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  1. whistle while you work on How Are You Spending Your Christmas Vacation? · · Score: 3, Funny

    The long nights with the kids in bed and no need to rise early are just perfect for rewriting the text of an Internet-Draft that will become an RFC that registers a new top-level MIME media type.

  2. what happens when P2P uses SOAP? on UC Irvine Cracks Down on P2P · · Score: 1

    The UCI document indicates that all WWW traffic is given clear passage. This presumably means that SOAP traffic will also be unregulated. What if a new generation of P2P clients starts to use SOAP as its communications protocol? Then the P2P traffic will be flowing through ports currently identified as WWW, and the traffic shapers will have no way to distinguish between P2P and WWW.

  3. penalties for civil disobedience on Cringely On Civil Disobedience · · Score: 1

    Anyone who is planning on the authorities being unable to prosecute an incident of mass civil disobedience should go rent a copy of Spartacus.

  4. astronomical amounts of data on Snail Mail Still Winning The Bandwidth War · · Score: 1

    ... or perhaps that should read, amounts of astronomical data. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey participants often need to be able to replicate their database of astronomical objects. This is about a terabyte of data. One of their collaborators has a (ugh, Microsoft Word document) on why Tera-Scale Sneaker Net is the cheapest and fastest way to do it.

  5. no more slashdot effect? on Running 100,000 Parallel Threads · · Score: 1

    I suppose this means that sites will want to switch to Linux/Apache in order to avoid being incapacitated when linked by Slashdot?

  6. divide by Afghanistan on Information Valuation - The Most Buck for the Bits? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The US Department of Defense paid untold millions for zero bytes, which means there is a divide by zero error in this hypothesis. Recall that when the war on terror began the DOD bought all the time that Ikonos was over Afghanistan. This was effectively to ensure that it produced zero bytes of information.

  7. like ADA and the Nebula architecture? on Microsoft's CLR - Providing a Break from HW Vendors? · · Score: 3, Insightful
    20 years ago (yes, that means that the references are mostly available only as dead trees) people were joking that compiler writers were going to have to develop new skills. This was because DOD had outlined a plan to move all defense-related coding to the ADA language as implemented on machines with the "Nebula architecture".

    It didn't happen then.

    I'm not worried now.

  8. find ssh-agent script on SSH Key Management Part 2 · · Score: 1
    It looks to me as if the keychain process does not do much more than is done by the shell script described here.

    The allegory gives a classical view of key management.

  9. Re:Star Trek similarities unsurprising. on Andromeda · · Score: 2
    Andromeda is even more directly a rework of Roddenberry's Genesis II TV pilot. The name of the main character was Dylan Hunt, who originally was a NASA scientist experimenting with suspended animation in 1979. Something went wrong, and he awoke in a post-holocaust, societally-fragmented year 2133 as the only person left on the planet who understood much of the technology left lying around.

    This pilot failed to sell (in an era dominated by Planet of the Apes and Bionics), but the series concept was tried once more as Planet Earth which also did not sell. Majel starred in both of them.

  10. I don't see any ads on Salon Sans Ads, For A Price · · Score: 1

    I don't see ads. I don't see the on /. I don't see them on CNN. I don't see the on Salon. I don't see them on my local newspaper. It's called Internet Junkbuster and I pay nothing for it.

  11. all the GIS data you want on Free Map Repositories? · · Score: 1

    everything the US government has ever released and a whole lot more is at GIS Data Depot and links referenced therein

  12. one scan shopping on Barcode Maker Responds After Forcing Drivers Offline · · Score: 1
    I perceive a business model where you run out of an ingredient for dinner, run to your computer with the empty box, scan it, and somebody in a truck drives up with more.

    Quick, patent this idea before they do.

  13. EEV, not ZEV on What Does the Future Hold for Low Emission Vehicles? · · Score: 1

    I plea for the deprecation of the term "zero emissions vehicle" (ZEV) in favor of "emissions elsewhere vehicle" (EEV), for that is what they really are.

  14. Re:Time to manually block yesmail on MAPS RBL Challenged In Court Case · · Score: 1

    Yup, me too. MAPS is too good a thing to see dismantled. Any legal system that attempts to thwart it is working on the side of evil and not good. In any case, yesmail is history for the domains that matter to me.

  15. Re:Who provides the cycles? (and other ranting) on Pervasive Computing: Microsoft, MIT And The Future · · Score: 1
    Are we going to have companies which simply maintain large computers for performing standard tasks like voice recognition and Web searching on behalf of mobile users?

    And are they really going to do this for free? The name of the MIT project recalls Heinlein's lunar colonies where it was incumbent on everyone to pay for the privilege of breathing, for on the moon oxygen was not free. Although it is forseeable that computing will someday be so ubiquitous, there will be a long interval while we still have to pay for the air.

  16. don't kill the lawyers, starve them on Tim O'Reilly Debates Patent Office Director · · Score: 3

    Unless I'm mistaken Dickinson has just guaranteed the eventual starvation of all lawyers. He admits that he would permit a patent of a legal argument if it were software. As soon as the first software lawyer becomes presentable in court, all other lawyers are going to have their arguments taken by the software developers of CyberLawyer1.0