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  1. Re:The original quote on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Change Tech Careers At 30? · · Score: 2
  2. Re:Still Surprised By Wealth? on Interview: Ask Eric Raymond What You Will · · Score: 1

    He received 150,000 shares at the IPO
    If he held until today after a 1:10 reverse split he would now have 15,000 worth $14 each

  3. Aer Lingus in flight entertainment on What Are the Weirdest Places You've Spotted Linux? · · Score: 1

    I was on an Aer Lingus flight once between New York and Dublin. There were some issues with the inflight entertainment system so they needed to shut the system down and restart it.

    A Red Hat Linux boot sequence appeared on the screen.

  4. Onstar remote disabling on EU Secretly Plans To Put a Back Door In Every Car By 2020 · · Score: 1

    OnStar has had the ability to remotely disable a car for years

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.co...

  5. Two arms vs Two single arms on One-Armed UBR-1 Points the Way To Cheaper Robots · · Score: 2

    'Your robot is so inexpensive that if I needed to have a second arm, I'd just buy a second robot

    A single robot that can control two arms is very different from two separate robots that each have a single arm.

  6. Re:News for Nerds on 22-Year-Old Norwegian Magnus Carlsen Is the New World Chess Champion · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And editor Soulskill made some useful edits to my submission as well, adding links to the individual games and changing my "(+3 -0 =7)" results to a more understandable (to non chess players) "(3 wins, 0 losses, 7 draws)"

    http://slashdot.org/submission/3137241/22-year-old-norwegian-magnus-carlsen-is-the-new-world-chess-champion

  7. Sponsor logos on 22-Year-Old Norwegian Magnus Carlsen Is the New World Chess Champion · · Score: 2

    I realize that they have to make money, but I find the sponsor logos on their jackets rather tacky.

  8. Complete nonsense on Cost of Healthcare.gov: $634 Million — So Far · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This figure is not just for building a website.

    It is for all spending with CGI Federal over the time that they have been doing business with the Federal government, including payments from fiscal years before Obamacare was even passed.

    The figure is now being regurgitated by various right wing websites without anything that even passes for thinking.

    And also now slashdot, which is disappointing.

  9. Screen resolution on Amazon Launches Kindle Fire HDX Tablets · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Exclusive 8.9" HDX display (2560x1600)"

    Dear Laptops

    Please increase your screen resolution to something usable.

    Thanks

  10. Re:Anonymous Cowards on Huffington: Trolls Uglier Than Ever, So We're Cutting Off Anonymous Commenting · · Score: 1

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay were "Publius" not Patrick Henry.

  11. Re:Stolen or copied on Urban Terror Code Stolen · · Score: 1

    As Frozen Sand have admitted that the culprit was someone on their own team then "leaked" or "pirated" would work well.

  12. Stolen or copied on Urban Terror Code Stolen · · Score: 0, Troll

    If Frozen Sand no longer have the code for Urban Terror then it has been stolen. If they still have the code then it has been copied.

  13. Betteridge's law of headlines on Is New York City Ready For Digital Voting? · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

    "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

  14. Tried it on Describe Any Location On Earth In 3 Words · · Score: 1

    load.of.bollocks

    Search

    We couldn't find any results for load.of.bollocks

  15. 2 out of 3 on The Lies Disks and Their Drivers Tell · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Cheap, fast and reliable.

    Pick any two.

  16. A cheaper alternative on After Android Trial, Google Demands $4M From Oracle · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Google has not publicly revealed an itemized list of its expenses, but the total bill included $2.9 million spent copying and organizing documents. According to the brief, the company juggled a mind-boggled 97 million documents during the case.""

    Couldn't they have just put them on some sort of server and used some kind to search software to allow access.

  17. Steve Jobs death on Autism Traits Prove Valuable for Software Testing · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I assume there will be a Steve Jobs has died story soon.

  18. What is first post? on 'Jeopardy!' To Pit Humans Against IBM Machine · · Score: 5, Funny

    What is first post?

  19. Julius Assange on DDoS Attack On Wikileaks Increasing · · Score: 1

    "Julius Assange"

    Is he related to Julian Assange?

  20. Versions on Ubuntu 10.10, Maverick Meerkat, Now Available · · Score: 1

    and next is 11.04 Natty Narwhal.

    Can I suggest Obstreperous Orangutan for 11.10

  21. It really passed on Illinois Declares Pluto a Planet · · Score: 1

    I assumed that this was merely proposed and probably would not even get voted on but it actually passed.

    http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=0046&GAID=10&DocTypeID=SR&LegID=40752&SessionID=76&SpecSess=&Session=&GA=96

    Actions
    Date Chamber Action
    2/3/2009 Senate Filed with Secretary
    2/3/2009 Senate Referred to Assignments
    2/10/2009 Senate Assigned to Executive
    2/19/2009 Senate Be Adopted Executive; 012-000-000
    2/19/2009 Senate Placed on Calendar Order of Secretary's Desk Resolutions February 20, 2009
    2/26/2009 Senate Resolution Adopted

  22. VPN and Remote Desktop Connection on Doing the Laptop Drive of Shame · · Score: 1

    I have found that using VPN and Remote Desktop Connection to my office desktop is a fairly easy way to work from home.

  23. What constitutes the kernal ? on The Great Microkernel Debate Continues · · Score: 1

    Apologies for the dumb question.

    What actually makes up the kernel? If I am logged on to a unix/linux server what can I see that is part of the kernel?
    On a HP box that I use (see below) are any of the listed processes part of the kernel?
    $ uname -rs
    HP-UX B.11.11
    $ ps -ef
              UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME COMMAND
            root 0 0 0 Jan 11 ? 1:22 swapper
            root 8 0 0 Jan 11 ? 0:00 supsched
            root 9 0 0 Jan 11 ? 0:00 strmem
            root 10 0 0 Jan 11 ? 0:00 strweld
            root 11 0 0 Jan 11 ? 0:00 strfreebd
            root 2 0 0 Jan 11 ? 2:33 vhand
            root 3 0 0 Jan 11 ? 6:48 statdaemon
            root 4 0 0 Jan 11 ? 0:10 unhashdaemon
            root 12 0 0 Jan 11 ? 0:00 ttisr
            root 13 0 0 Jan 11 ? 0:00 ioconfigd
            root 1 0 0 Jan 11 ? 0:01 init
            root 27 0 0 Jan 11 ? 0:00 lvmkd
            root 28 0 0 Jan 11 ? 0:00 lvmkd

  24. Sounds like more work for IT on Is Web 2.0 A Bigger Threat Than Outsourcing? · · Score: 1

    The article talks about corporations that have laid off IT staff and replaced them with technologies like mashups and wikis that can help people get things done without involving IT.

    And who is going to set up and maintain these "mashups" and "wikis", philosophy graduates?

  25. Re:Now will the opposing party actually push back? on U.S. Attorney General Resigns · · Score: 1

    The Civil War was about State Rights, not slavery.

    States don't have rights. People have rights.