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  1. It must be Bin Laden again ! on Flare Sends A Gigaton Of Solar Detritus Toward Earth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No need for evidence, let's blame Bin Laden as last week's event. After all who can make a better scapegoat ? Any forgotten spacecraft operation manual written in arabic in the incoming garbage ?

  2. Welcome to Micronistan ! on Slashback: Licensure, Restriction, Cometry · · Score: 1

    Yeah, whoever uses FP to produce a web page, according to the EULA, is not allowed to remove the "active links" (advertisements ?) from the thing, you may not use it "in connection" with sites that diaparages M$, MSN, MSNBC, etc (note : nothing about those companies peoples, though).

    More interesting : you may not use it and infringe ANY state, federal, international laws ! Woooah, given that it's nearly impossible not infringe any law somewhere, that would be a real feat !

    Last but not least : you may not promote pr0n ! Yeah, sure, what do you think most porn site webmasters are using ?

  3. Non exclusiveness on Peter Tattam Of The PetrOS Project Talks To OSNews · · Score: 1

    A good reason to want a "windoze-compatible" thing would be, for example, the absence of an exclusive bootloader license for the OEM : this way, dual boot PCs could be sold by OEM without fear of losing their windoze PC markwetshare. In addition, that's a good point against some Redmond company's leverage on its monopole.

  4. What if people like it ? on Is StarOffice Ready To Take On Office? · · Score: 1

    Last week, at my office, I spotted one of my coworkers browsing the download page for StarOffice. The odd thing is, that he's using a windoze machine with the M$ Office stuff on it. I asked him with curiosity, and he simply replied that he would install it and use it because he prefers it to the other crap.

  5. Yet Another Caffeine Study on 1st Cup Of Coffee: Hardening Your Arteries · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They did it again ! Sometimes the study says "cofee bad", the next day another one claims "coffe good". With so many divergent results, how can one still trust any of those studies ?

  6. Knots, feet, miles, nautic miles... on Scramjet Test Successful · · Score: 1

    Yeah, sure, but what does all this stuff give in real scientific units (meters, meters/second, etc) ?

  7. Incompetent programmers always blame the tool on IBM Creates 1st Single Molecule Computer Circuit · · Score: 1

    Actually, it is perfectly possible to make really fast applications using Java (I do)... You just have not be a dumb programmer.

  8. Universal Bill on IBM Creates 1st Single Molecule Computer Circuit · · Score: 1

    ... And guess what will people ask in the first place ?

    To install Windoze 2020 service pack 13 on a
    molecular computer...

  9. not the government on IBM Creates 1st Single Molecule Computer Circuit · · Score: 1

    The government, changing every 4 years, doesn't care about you. But some private corporations and peuso-organizations (RIAA, MPAAA, BSA, etc) would be very interested in tracking people the worst way possible. You should worry about these, not about a useless "government" thingy.

  10. Of course they do. on Slashback: Memory, Constancy, Triumph · · Score: 1

    Or else, how will they be able to understand a message which says somethnig like "take the third word of reply #3 to message #39083 in alt.porn.sex.abuse.rape (back in 1991), then take word #17 in message [etc], etc ?

  11. It's not a moandelbrot set on Mandelbrot Set Originally Found In 13th Century (Early April's Fool) · · Score: 1

    Just think that the mandelbrot set is the result set of an imaginary numbers equation. When were the imaginary number invented ?

    Furthermore, this image bears only a very remote oliking to a mandelbrot set image in a x-y plane (which in turn is a recent invention too).

    It can be anything artistic, but definitely not a mandelbrot set image.

  12. Can do it on GAMEBOYs ! on DoD developing Linux-based "Soldier's Radio" · · Score: 1

    The GameBoy advance is based on the ARM processor... Guess that this peer-to-peer thing can be implemented on it !

  13. So what ? on B.C. Officially Proposes Video Game Regulations · · Score: 1

    Even if the films are rated, that does not prevent anyone from watching them. So even if the games become rated, that won't change anything.

  14. Here is the photo ! on NIMA Locates The Mars Polar Lander · · Score: 1

    The Polar Lander MUST be somewhere on that photo. Of course it takes sharp eyes to find it, but, eeeeh, it took also more than one full year to specialized spies to spot it ! http://photojournal-b.jpl.nasa.gov/outdir/PIA02393 .22379.jpeg

  15. Re:NO RADIOS IN VEHICLE sticker needed... on NIMA Locates The Mars Polar Lander · · Score: 1

    ... and don't forget all the fuel having been sucked dry.

    Damn'd martians. Thiefs, uncivilized. Sure they need a good police intervention to tech them to respect peaceful scientific equipment.

  16. Who cares about performances with Winblows98 ? on Emergence of SMT · · Score: 1

    I didn:t know that slashdot had been "acquired" by Microshit's PR dept...

  17. It seems true ! on Internet Speed Applied to Careers · · Score: 1

    I just wanted to check : the whois gives :

    Organization:
    Zethus, Inc.
    Jonathan Sill
    10302 Eaton Place, Suite 240
    Fairfax, VA 22030
    US
    Phone: 703-383-9891
    Email: jonathan.sill@zethus.com

    Registrar Name....: Register.com
    Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
    Registrar Homepage: http://www.register.com

    Domain Name: ZETHUS.COM

    Created on..............: Sat, Jan 08, 2000
    Expires on..............: Tue, Jan 08, 2002
    Record last updated on..: Fri, Jan 12, 2001

    Administrative Contact:
    Zethus, Inc.
    Jonathan Sill
    10302 Eaton Place, Suite 240
    Fairfax, VA 22030
    US
    Phone: 703-383-9891
    Email: jonathan.sill@zethus.com

    ... and zethus.com is not online anymore.

    The google cache seems to be garbled and all I can get is bits and pieces of information, such as

    ... Jim Hime, CEO. Tom Bacon, President and COO. Jeffrey Scott, President-Sales. Gerhard Karba, Chief Technology Officer. ...

    Coming Soon! Our state-of-the art commercial real estate platform will be launching in the coming ...

    ... the art commercial real estate platform will be launching in the coming months! Zethus will be the most powerful new technology available to all sectors of the ...

    There is also what seems to be a translation of that same site in italian (also not in the cache).

    News about that real-estate Zethus : http://www.localbusiness.com/Story/0,1118,HOU_2150 93,00.html

  18. Better than artificial life, on Creation: Life And How to Make It · · Score: 1

    Artificial Death !

    What a relief when that son-of-a-digital-bitch of tamagochi ends its endless whinning !

  19. Not so close though on Quantum Computers · · Score: 1

    We're not going to compile QMP (Quantum Multi Processing) enabled kernels tomorrow at 5PM either...

    But when it comes, we will have to QUICKLY design a better encryption system than our current public-key based one !

  20. Yeah, it even translates Volapuk ! on Data Mining And The CIA · · Score: 1
    Read this in the document:
    Languages that FLUENT can translate into English include Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Ukrainian.
    This is extremely funny, the so-called Serbo-Croatian does not even exist...
  21. Never heard of virtual hosts ? on The Opportunity of SOAP · · Score: 1

    $ telnet www.microsoft.com 80
    Trying 207.46.131.199...
    Connected to www.microsoft.akadns.net.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    GET / HTTP/1.0
    Host: www.microsoft.com

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
    Content-Location: http://www.microsoft.com/Default.htm
    Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 00:44:24 GMT
    Content-Type: text/html
    Accept-Ranges: bytes
    Last-Modified: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:08:27 GMT
    ETag: "be3b597fd9fc01:858"
    Content-Length: 18095

    (etc, etc...)

  22. Use FURI then ! on Gnutella "Virus" Roams · · Score: 1

    It:s written in Java and compatible with the Gnutella protocol, so it's impervious to windoze viruses : http://www.jps.net/williamw/furi/

  23. Gnutella Rulez on Napster Adding "Protection Layer" · · Score: 1

    Nuf Said.

  24. That system is already dead on DataPlay - Flash Killer or Copy-Control Nightmare? · · Score: 1

    I won't buy it, nobody will buy it, simply because copy is impossible with it. So it's doomed.

  25. Wow ! Deja Vu ! on Portable Linux Box · · Score: 2

    Beware ! Agents nearby ! This sensation occurs when they change something inside the Matrix !