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  1. better sources for zaurii on Linux PDA Resurfaces in U.S. · · Score: 3, Interesting
    While the SL-6000 is in fact the last model made for sale in the US, it's not the most recent model, nor arguably the best.

    The folding clamshell zauruses, while somewhat awkward as a pda/pim have much better keyboards, and are much more usable as mini-pc. Only problem is: they're Japanese- so change the locale, or buy from a US reseller that will change it for you.

    Your best bets are:

    • Price Japan
      Cheapest prices for new Zaurus. Based in Japan. Minimal service.
    • Streamline CPUs
      Decent prices, based in US.
    • Trisoft
      Major importer/reseller in Deutscheland/EU
    • Dynamism
      Most established US importer/retailer. Not cheap, but excellent service.
    • Conics
      Excellent prices, new and used, but hasn't been responsive recently. Japan based.
  2. Re:DVD Jon, where are you??? on Batman Begins Trailer Released · · Score: 2, Funny
    I don't know about you, but I'm anxiously waiting for another super-hero, DVD Jon,

    No, no, you've got that all wrong.

    DVD Jon is the Arch Villain- stealing

    • TV shows from babies
    • Software from bodacious busty blondes
    • and Music from little old ladies
    The loathsome cur!
    I hope that Batman totally kicks his ass.
  3. Re:Search? on Honeytokens: The Other Honeypot · · Score: 1
    really?

    I could have sworn I saw him post to this this site last week.

  4. TRON or TCPA? on TRON: The Unknown Open-Source? · · Score: 1
    From his programming, TRON was actually, entirely beholden to the Users, who he regarded as mythical, god-like beings. He may have turned a few keys- even de-rezzed a few others, but he was made to serve the Users by seeking out and terminating illegal processes. Unfortunately, it turned out that the OS itself was illegal (Pirating warez!) so he had to shut that down, too.

    What we don't get to see, is 10ms after the story ended, the system hung with a BSOD.

    Kudos to Disney for early recognition that nerdy corporate software developers get all the babes, and software pirates wear black, and are despicable vermin.

  5. Re:What would the US reaction be if ... on Israeli X Prize Overview · · Score: 1

    Ask Gerald Bull.

  6. Re:Too easy to find ... on NASA Eyes Svalbard For Mars Research · · Score: 3, Funny
    >Worse, the life - seal, polar bear, fox, and walrus
    >[cia.gov] - is potentially hazardous to equipment.
    >^^^^^^

    Of these few, surely the most hazardous animals of all.

  7. Re:Censored information about SARS in the USA? on SMS, SARS, And Censorship · · Score: 1

    Well, if China is successful in their SMS blocking, they should end up with the same number.

  8. Re:At least we know now what they're "smoking" on SCO Amends Suit, Clarifies "Violations", Triples Damages · · Score: 1

    And Spock must have been stuck in Utah with SCO, advising them on the logic of their pursuits.

  9. Re:Philosophy on Edison to Hillary Rosen - Parts 3, 4 and 5 · · Score: 1
    Indeed. To serve the public.

    In the same way the Kanamits came- to serve man.

  10. Hotel of the Future? on A Night in the Hotel of the Future · · Score: 1
    Bob Shaw got it right. Try:

    In The Hereafter Hilton, (short story) Omni Sep '80

    (Poor bastardized Babelfish English->Russian->English follows, which oddly, is still readable)

  11. Re:They ruined it! on Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation · · Score: 4, Funny
    Actually, they replaced the scimitar with a walkie-talkie.

  12. Re:Good for them! on Chinese Moon Base by 2012 - or 2006? · · Score: 1
    Can you have a bigger violation of international law than invading another country without provocation?

    < TROLL>

    Like Iraq invading Kuwait?

    or like US invading Iraq?

    < /TROLL>

    For rabid oil-thirsty war-mongers, there's always sufficient provocation. Of course, you can be over-greedy; Iraq couldn't hold on her spoils. We'll have see how well Haliburton does with hers.

  13. Re:SCO on SCO To Show Copied Code · · Score: 1
    SCO sounds a lot like the RIAA... maybe they'll merge into the SCAA?

    No...

    but they might merge, and become Antonin Scalia.

  14. IN SOVIET RUSSIA on Earthlink Wins Another Spam Award: $16 million · · Score: 1
    linuxwrangler writes "U.S. District Judge George W. Bush Jr. awarded Earth $16 million and an injunction against John Carmack for Carmack's use of Earth to deliver "spam in a can".

  15. Re:"junk mail" on Brad Templeton On Spam's Silver Anniversary · · Score: 1
    I wasn't at Berkeley, I gathered as much; that the end-users probably did not consider these messages "junky". For network admins though, or anyone with concerns about traffic and bandwidth utilization, the pain of excessively redundant content strikes a familiar chord.

    The user experience of overagressive PULL traffic is somewhat different from that of PUSH traffic, but the net effect (on link utilization and admin sanity) is degradation of service in either case.

    You may be correct in arguing that the Berkeley list mailings were not Spam-as-we-know-it but I'd regard them as an evolutionary stage toward the mess of "junk mail" we've inherited today.

  16. "junk mail" on Brad Templeton On Spam's Silver Anniversary · · Score: 4, Informative
    The earliest posting I can find on the whole of Google's cache has this curious subject:

    the end is near .

    I think there should not be any individual copies of human-nets or any of the "junk-mail" messages sent or stored on any machine at Berkeley. That there are multiple copies of this sent to individuals from Ernie to Cory and perhaps elsewhere is not permissible. I think that "getting flak from users" is not the way to guide system development. I suggest that individual names be removed from these lists immediately. If the ethernet changes things so that sending messages is free and fast, they can be put back on.

    This is especially critical right now because all of the printers on CSVAX are down, and people are jamming the 1200 baud network link to cory with printouts. There is no excuse for duplicate traffic under such circumstances.

  17. tape's still bigger on Hard Drives Instead of Tapes? · · Score: 2, Funny
    Let's see...

    576 x 160GB
    = 92 terabytes
    = .092 petabytes
    = .00009 exabytes
    So... my vintage EXB-8200 beats your puny RAID by a factor of more than ten thousand.
  18. Re:Hm.... on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 1
    Moderator, you have no sense of history!

  19. Hm.... on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ( Read More... | 898 of 1349 comments )

    Pretty much says it all.

  20. test on The Real Scoop On Philips' Streamium · · Score: 1

    blah. last post, troll tuesday, soviet russia, karma spiral of death

  21. nfo on Ask Kevin Mitnick · · Score: 1
    0 m1tey K3V1N plz t3ll u$.

    \/\/H0 1Z 31337

  22. Re:Expert? on Surprising Superconduction in Plutonium · · Score: 1
    For those less usenet-travelled, Archimedes Plutonium is one of the great net.kook wackos of all time. His countless insufferable posts to the physics and science groups, have long since driven all but Kibo to distraction.

    And anyway, considering his post I linked to was actually ON the subject of "the superconductivity of plutonium", I find it hard to see how the post would be moderated offtopic.

    Troll, sure, but that's not what I got.

  23. more info on Surprising Superconduction in Plutonium · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    More detail from the expert.

    At long last, maybe Archimedes Plutonium will get the attention he deserves for his brilliant theories explaining how the entire universe is really a single atom of plutonium.

    001 A picture introduction to the ONE ATOM PLUTONIUM EVERYTHING UNIVERSE, 231PU ATOM TOTALITY theory

    Excerpt follows:

    Note that the start of this website is the Atom Totality theory and the end of this website is sci.religion which is apt, for think of the website rankings not as linear but as a circle coming back around. So we start with the hard core most general of all sciences and the most easily verified of all sciences-- physics and like a circle we come around to the worship of physics in sci.religion. Below in chemistry I have a circular periodic table, so think of the rankings on this website as sci.physics at the top and coming full circle back around is sci.religion which is basically the worship of physics since God is 231Pu and the best bible is the best most up-to-date physics textbook.

  24. Re:Sturgeon's law on New Book Says The Meter Is all Wrong · · Score: 2

    Um... no.

    Sturgeon said, "90% of everything is crud."

    Thanks for contributing to the 90%!

  25. Re:I understand playing a relaxing game occasional on Organizing Sim Protests · · Score: 2
    But, if you are this concerned about your SIMS stats, maybe you need to quit watching simulated people with lives and get one yourself.

    Might want to quit posting slashtrolls that simulate your having real-world karma, and instead go out and do something with it?

    No... I suspect you don't.