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  1. Hope the pilots have a good dental plan... on NASA Tests Hypersonic Blackswift · · Score: 3, Funny

    pulse engines will rattle them loose fer sure.

  2. Re:Raises tough questions on Blogger Launches 'Google Bomb' At McCain · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I certainly hope you don't think you can counter the likes of Karl Rove simply by being honorable...

    Had Rove been in the cast of "To Kill A Mockingbird", Atticus Finch would be whispered for being a gay single parent, Tom Robinson would have been fathering children of white women all across the south, and Boo Radley would be president. Oh, wait...

  3. Nobody said it was. on Foundations of Mac OS X Leopard Security · · Score: 1

    Sorry.

  4. Re:Bill was handed a monopoly ... and he learned. on Bill Gates Reveals Secret of Microsoft's Success · · Score: 1

    No, but they can use their significant market share to sooner operate as an abusive monopoly.

  5. This looks like a good time to rephrase... on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 1

    an oft-used educational maxim:

    "A rising tide may lift all boats, but it doesn't do a blessed thing for jet planes."

  6. Re:Physical access? on Mac OS X Root Escalation Through AppleScript · · Score: 1

    Right - which means ARD admin access would work using the remote control feature, and presumably Leopard Screen Share would be just as good - again, you have to be a legit user with the same access as an ARD admin. Which needs to be a very well guarded and secure username/password. We got read the riot act about this at the last Apple EDU update.

    If someone nasty has ARD admin or (presumably) Leopard share access to a legit user on your machines, you likely already have far more problems than this one exploit.

    I'll try through Leopard share on campus in the morning.

  7. Here's the full up-charge schedule... on $50 to Get XP On a New Dell · · Score: 1

    XP: $50
    2000: $100
    ME: $1,000
    98: $200
    98se: $250
    95: $500
    3.1: $2,000
    BOB: $1,000,000 *but* Steve Ballmer comes to your house and personally installs it, and you have no chairs left when he's done.

  8. Re:Either way, the real winner is Guinness... on Mozilla Outage On Firefox 3 Record Launch Day · · Score: 1

    Yep. Makes about as much sense as people trying to be part of the record attempt for Firefox. How long before we start seeing it on resumes, and will it be above or below the National Geographic Society membership?

  9. Either way, the real winner is Guinness... on Mozilla Outage On Firefox 3 Record Launch Day · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they make it, everyone goes to Guinness' book site to see the record.
    If they fail, they'll be drowning their sorrows in pints of Guinness...

  10. Re:Am I the only one... on First Ethernet Switch In Space · · Score: 1

    Our first campus network was Farallon Starlet hubs linked by thinnet. Mercifully it is no more.

  11. Bill Cheswick's original map - poster version. on Computer Art For a CS Dept Office? · · Score: 1

    Peacock maps was selling this - there is a newer one that's not as aesthetic, not sure where to get the original. You can't have mine. Their "old" network maps are pretty neat too.

  12. Just ask the robot folks at CMU... on The Red Team Wins · · Score: 1

    that's what they're betting on...

  13. Am I the only one... on First Ethernet Switch In Space · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... that was relieved and surprised it wasn't "hub" and "10Base2"?

  14. Listen. Read. on How To Teach a Healthy Dose of Skepticism? · · Score: 1

    Get the info and have a bit of fun doing so.
    You need a roughly tuned and tunable crap detector.
    Listen to anything James Randi put out.
    Read "How To Think About Weird Things" (Vaughn and someone...)
    Listen to Randi Again.
    Read and listen to Mike Shermer (the TED talk for starters)
    Watch Penn and Teller.
    Get the transcript or video of the Rogers Commission and watch Dick Feynman's coffee cup experiment.
    Read Feynman.

  15. Re:Why would you have to re-buy? on Apple Expected to Demo Leopard Successor Next Week · · Score: 1

    You do if you want the current functionality. I could live with a layer of 10.6 and 10.5 and 10.4 - and in some pockets I do still to 10.3... But our main labs have to be par and current - so kids can walk from machine to machine and get the same work done. And not just browsing - iLife and iWork are the workhorses. We're about to use iWeb and iCal for enterprise things. it is an issue to say to parents "yeah, that really cool stuff you just saw at the apple store and ads? We'll be able to do that in two more years."

  16. Re:Lots of PPC in EDU... on Apple Expected to Demo Leopard Successor Next Week · · Score: 1

    Except for a private institution the total cost of the lease and $1 buyout has been within a few bucks of an outright purchase.

  17. The Eddie Haskell defense. on China Says It Lacks Skills To Hack US Systems · · Score: 1

    "Gee, Mrs. Cleaver, I was just telling Wallace here how we could never figure out how to break your really great security features, weren't we? Golly, I'd better be getting home to help mom and dad clean up that really bad flood. That's a lovely dress, Mrs. Cleaver."

  18. 1. No Starbucks. on What Shall We Do With the Moon Once We Get There? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    2. Inspect the stuff we left there 40 years ago so we know what specs to build to for the next 40 years.

  19. Re:sweeeet. on HyperCard Comes Back From the Dead to the Web · · Score: 1

    Ah! I only knew the hypercard /mac version.

  20. Re:sweeeet. on HyperCard Comes Back From the Dead to the Web · · Score: 1

    5" floppies? running on what hardware?

  21. sweeeet. on HyperCard Comes Back From the Dead to the Web · · Score: 1

    i saw more kids get brave and smart on things like logo and hypercard, especially hypercard as you could get an original creation with creamy UI goodness, it did something useful and immediate and creative. the ones who were convinced mpw / pascal was the way to go would sit there like we had just given them a pile of planks and two wagon wheel hoops, waving as we sped off in our trusty gti. don't know if i'm willing to risk uploading a entire voyager expanded book... i have every one of them and nothing to read them on. anyone got an original "manhole"?

  22. Lots of PPC in EDU... on Apple Expected to Demo Leopard Successor Next Week · · Score: 1

    I'd be not too happy explaining to my boss how in order to be current you have to buy all that Lexan all over again at $1K per unit. I'd be really miserable having to explain why we'd have to re-buy racks full of iron at $2-$3K each.

  23. Still have the NEC PC-8201a on Inside the TRS-80 Model 100 · · Score: 1

    Which was the non-Radio Shack version. I try and remove or hide the RadioShack or Tandy logos on anything I have to buy there... so buying the NEC was easier. And it was a little more slanted. Bought it to write a book on schedule, which got me a time bonus that paid for it. Still works. Haven't transferred text from it since the serial mac days. We also have 2 Mod100s around here somewhere. At this point the amazing part of the comparison is that they cost as much as my iBookG4 and does as much as an AlphaSmart (if you're not a BASIC programmer...)

  24. Say, Doc... on Prince DMCAs YouTube To Block Radiohead Song · · Score: 1

    Can you direct me to the Coachella Valley and the giant carrot festival.... therein?

  25. Next George Clooney Movie: on Huge Data Center Going Up In Sin City · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ocean's 2^11