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  1. Re:Open Source != Linux on Open Source Expertise in Short Supply · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I kept reading the article to figure out why they were concerned with open source expertise rather than Linux. (They found that UNIX people worked well. Umm, well, duh!) I think Open Source is their new buzzword, and they don't quite understand it yet (= clueless). I can't wait for the job listings that ask for "5 years or more Open Source experience". (Yup, all my Timex-Sinclair code is open source, sure thing!)

  2. Wah, crybabies on Open Source Expertise in Short Supply · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So companies can't find as many people experienced in projects with Linux as the hordes of VB MCSDs, and they'll have to pay a little more? No kidding.

  3. Re:Again? on Beat Spam Using Hashcash · · Score: 3, Funny
  4. Re:Report them to Microsoft on Ekush: A CherryOS For the Windows World? · · Score: 1

    So, do we cheer while Microsoft does that, or should be like this guy?

  5. Re:Anonymous source within the company... on Ekush: A CherryOS For the Windows World? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Eeeugh! Who would want to order drinks in their bar? They'd fill your glass from other glasses, puddles on the bar and slop from the taps-- IF you're lucky!

  6. Re:THE bot? on Microsoft To Launch Homegrown Search Engine · · Score: 1

    According to reports, it does obey /robots.txt and the meta tags. (It only reads /robots.txt once a day.) Are you using an exclusion tag of "msnbot"?

  7. Re:About time on Microsoft To Launch Homegrown Search Engine · · Score: 3, Informative

    It looks like it checks for meta tags too. (Useful when /robots.txt isn't convienent.) MSNBot page and other info. Also note that it only checks /robots.txt once a day, so policy changes might not take effect right away.

  8. Re:About time on Microsoft To Launch Homegrown Search Engine · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Blocked it with what? Is it playing nice with robots.txt and meta-tags, or did you have to get rough?

  9. Re:Payback attempt on Microsoft To Launch Homegrown Search Engine · · Score: 1

    My freebee Hotmail account is still 2M. (Already have a gmail account, thanks.)

  10. Re:About time on Microsoft To Launch Homegrown Search Engine · · Score: 1

    Are you sure that it's not their security department? How else would they know that I need all those security updates that they keep sending me?

  11. Re:Does anyone remember... on Videoblog Revolution · · Score: 1

    That sounds like too much exercise. How are clients going to get thin if they're always riding their lazy butts from place to place on Segways?

  12. Re:Bandwidth... on Videoblog Revolution · · Score: 1
    Back in my day, we called them "web cams".

    Remember all those company webcams in the lunch rooms? Me neither. (Fun for blackmail capture during the office Christmas parties.)

  13. Re:I. Florida on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    It doesn't look as if he's stopped. "I'm trying to set up an infrastructure of empowerment and understanding power." (He speaks rap and PHB.)

  14. Re:Counting backwards? on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It was the Eevil Y2K Bomber. After the Legion of Cobol Coders foiled his schemes, he went into voting machines. So far, it's been more successful than his IPv4 and 8.3 filename plots.

  15. Opposed by GNAW&NPS on Ion Rocket to Map Moon with X-Rays · · Score: 1
    Scientists believe nuclear-powered ion-drives are their only real hope of exploring deep space, and vigorously support their development. Not surprisingly, anti-nuclear protesters, like the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, have pledged opposition.
    Too much time on Slashdot. Any group that starts GNA... automaticly activates my mental filters. (No great loss in the case of Huggers In Space.)
  16. Re:Obligatory Robocop Quote on US Army Testing Robots with Shotguns · · Score: 1

    I was thinking mainly of TV series. (I don't think I ever watched it, so I'm not sure how ill-advised it was.)

  17. Re:Short Circuit on US Army Testing Robots with Shotguns · · Score: 1

    Sure! I have a RS232-to-speech card using 70s chips.

  18. Re:Hmmm safe way to rob a bank? on US Army Testing Robots with Shotguns · · Score: 1

    The teller-bots push the alarm to summon the police bots.

  19. Re:Obligatory Robocop Quote on US Army Testing Robots with Shotguns · · Score: 1
    If they turned them loose in OCP's Detroit, at the very least they'd be stripped and up on blocks by morning.

    (And since it was usually really Toronto in disguise, someone would put them in the blue box for recycling pickup.)

  20. Re:Short Circuit on US Army Testing Robots with Shotguns · · Score: 1

    Bad 80s synth? Even Stephen Hawking is getting a make-over these days.

  21. Coming Soon on US Army Testing Robots with Shotguns · · Score: 1

    They'll soon be able to have a contest for Upper Class Robotic Twit of the Year.

  22. Re:Word of advice... on Megapixel Cameraphones Compared · · Score: 2, Funny

    Using them as shoe cameras (pointing up) probably isn't wise either.

  23. Re:I can envision it already on Evidence of Glaciers on Mars? · · Score: 1

    In the original version Spirit kicked first!

  24. Re:Powerboost on Evidence of Glaciers on Mars? · · Score: 1

    I'll bet that Sojourner was just laying low and camping for all this time.

  25. Re:The wheel? on Evidence of Glaciers on Mars? · · Score: 1

    Have the seismic teams check for a *thump*thump*thump* sound/vibration and look for bunny tracks.