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  1. Forbidden Planet on Servers, Hackers, and Code In the Movies · · Score: 2, Informative

    The most powerful server was also the most dangerous. The 50 mile by 50 mile computer complex on "Forbidden Planet". The server could create anything a mind could think of. Even monsters from a Disney movie.

  2. Will the sun rise in the morning? on Richest 2% Own Half the World's Wealth · · Score: 1

    Rich people have money. Who would have thunk it!

  3. Re:Anyone ... on UK Schools Bans WiFi Due To Health Concerns · · Score: 1

    Exactly, I've been exposed to high levels of RF from 17KHZ to Ka/Ku band for almost 40 years. I'm not talking about cells phone levels but monster systems that could cook your balls at 1000 yards. Where the reports of cancer from this population?

  4. Re:Magnetism? on DC Power Saves 15% Energy and Cost @ Data Center · · Score: 1

    Unless your house is a big steel ship you won't have much to worry about.
    http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/weaps/dega ussing.htm

  5. Dusty old non news. on The NSA Knows Who You've Called · · Score: 1

    Dusty old non news.

  6. A little older on More Than 20 Years of the Web on the Big Screen · · Score: 1
  7. Too bad. on RadioShack CEO Resigns · · Score: 1

    Got my first real job at radioshack back during the CB craze. Made a ton of money installing radios on the side to truckers. For a little extra I would tweak the output stage to give them more than the legal 5 watts. Now RS is a joke but this week I needed to make a simple logic circuit board for work and they still had the parts on the wall.

  8. Mine on What Was Your First Computer? · · Score: 1
  9. Re:If you called Brezhnev from Mao's phone in Peki on Bush Backed Spying On Americans · · Score: 1

    Unless there is a known subject of an intercept all recording are just stored for later interpretation. Lots of US citizens calls/e-mails are in intel bulk storage. It's what you can do with that information that most laws govern. The NSA is like a massive ringbuffer of data. I sure that Jane Fonda's phone calls from Hanoi are still there.

  10. Re:NSA has been doing this for years on Bush Backed Spying On Americans · · Score: 1

    This is why this is a none story. Domestic USA commint has be handled by cutouts for ages.

  11. Re:WTF is rapid thermal processing? on Reduce Transistor Power Consumption · · Score: 1
  12. Re:While we're on the subject . . . on Building The Ultimate Home Theater PC · · Score: 1

    Current CVS of MYTHTV is very stable with the right hardware. I run a non-VIA motherboard(KTxxx types are crash-dummies), nvidia video card (fx5200), hd3000 for ATSC or QAM and two pvr-150mce cards for NTSC. Debian stable or sid for OS running at least 2.6.12 kernel with built-in DVB drivers.

  13. Great tool on Intelligence in the Internet Age · · Score: 1

    Computers, a great tool to do something dumb faster.
    Like write this.

  14. About time. on FCC Proposes Abolishing Morse Code Requirement · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This stupid code requirement has kept me from ham radio for 30 years. Had a FCC 1st class at 16. Went to military comm school, after a extra month in class learned to type (5 letter code groups perfect) but could not learn morse. (dyslexia)

    Drop it TODAY!

  15. Re:In the Soviet Union on Cometary Fireworks Go Off Without Hitch · · Score: 1
  16. Re:It's True on AMD Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Intel · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Reliance on Physical security has merit.. on Write Down Your Passwords · · Score: 1

    Exactly, I always kept the combo to the outer safe with the nuc release codes in my address book inside the wallet.

  18. Re:A horrible tragedy.. on Home Made Star Wars Movie Injury · · Score: 1

    And they will look like Vader, if they live.

  19. Re:Question: who here ever USED CP/M? on MS-DOS Paternity Dispute Goes to Court · · Score: 1

    20 years ago I setup a MP/M system that was donated to a church. It had wordstar, basic and a database system that ran on a monster 10Mb 8 inch platter drive.

  20. Code Breaker on U.S. Army Guide to Code Breaking · · Score: 2, Funny

    A couple of hot hookers and a lot of booze.

  21. Monsters from the id on Envisioning the Desktop Fabricator · · Score: 1

    Forbidden Planet

  22. Window cleaners on Evidence of Glaciers on Mars? · · Score: 1

    I suspect they ran into a couple of heroin addicted aliens who charged them a dollar to clean the solar-cells.

  23. Re:They still use ASICS !! on The Hardware Behind Echelon Revealed · · Score: 1

    I was making custom ASIC chips using e-beam to generate the masks 14 years ago. Old stuff.

    Current tech.
    Based on a raster-scan architecture and equipped with 50-Kv electron optics, the eXara tool enables the production of a photomask in less than seven hours, according to Etec. Competitive vector-scan tools can take up to 20-40 hours or longer to produce a similar photomask set.

  24. DIY 8080 on DIY Warriors Saluted And Sought · · Score: 1

    One of my DIY computers from about 1979. Video was 1024x1024 1 bit with a 80 line character overlay. 8080 processor code was downloaded from the main 8080.

    http://mysite.verizon.net/res02dad/sitebuildercont ent/sitebuilderpictures/ht_pictures_012.jpg

  25. Dan, What's the frequency? on CBS and Rather Admit Mistakes in Bush Documents · · Score: 1