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  1. OS/2, operating system, age 20 on IBM Officially Kills OS/2 · · Score: 1

    Truly an operating system icon...

  2. Re:robots.txt on Googling May Break Copyright in Canada · · Score: 1

    See yesterday's story about archive.org, the Wayback Machine and robots.txt.

  3. Re:The real question is.... on Software Telescope · · Score: 1
    Just because something is Irreducably Complex, it doesn't mean that it was designed. Look at Windows...

    (Arguments that the complexity could be reduced by switching OS is beyond the scope of this discussion, stamped it!)

  4. Re:Why can't we distribute this work? on Software Telescope · · Score: 5, Funny
    If you participate, you get free access to all the high res graphics!

    And if you help out with the potato farm project, can you get an order of fries with that?

  5. Re:Soup on Self-Heating Coffee Hacking · · Score: 1

    At least three times. To build up a series of caches either requires a large group where half the team gets sent back at each stage, or a fsck of a lot of trips by one person (with diminishing returns as the cache line gets longer).

  6. Re:Soup on Self-Heating Coffee Hacking · · Score: 1

    A detector for those space-age cans would be useful. Then I could travel light and just live off of other people's caches. (I'd leave a thank you note. There's no point in being rude.)

  7. Re:Why do we never see GOVERNMENT agents on camera on Body Scanners for the London Underground · · Score: 1
    Maybe the secret agents bend over and pick their noses to throw you off?

    Increase your tin-foil dosage.

  8. Re:ditto... on Self-Heating Coffee Hacking · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Most of the money went to research legal defences in case someone ignites one of these in their lap then sues.

  9. Re:Implications on NASA to Research Antimatter Rocket · · Score: 1

    Or an Eevil Buzz Aldrin who punches people... Wait a minute .. that was our planet! God damn you, damn you all to hell!

  10. Re:More info needed on Tracking the IT Job Market with a Bot · · Score: 1
    Newsgroups (where the posting is free) are certainly populated by bots posting the same jobs over and over, or even bots posting ads for their sites that list job harvested from other lists by bots... I'd imagine that sites like monster, etc, that charge companies for listing jobs would have a much higher ratio of real jobs. (There are companies that stay in a state of perpetual hiring for the same job for months and pay for the listings. Weird.)

    As for income, couldn't say, but I do get the feeling that the market is rebounding for non-trivial skills.

  11. Rise of the Mutants! on New York Taxis Will Go Hybrid · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Most New York taxis were driven by mutants, and now the cars will match.

  12. Re:Duh on Genetic Research In The Heart of Amish Country · · Score: 1
    Because the Amish don't embrace the outward showy technology of the recent years, some think them backwards although I haven't heard of them rejecting useful knowledge.

    They're only backwards to us. To 99.99% of human history, they're hanging ten on the edge of the Singularity.

  13. Re:Late to the game on Guitarists, your Days are Numbered · · Score: 1
    And didn't Chuck E. Cheese have a guitar player in their animatronic band for years?

    Who knows, maybe some of those Disney presidents play some mean licks together after everyone (including the Disney Abductees) have gone home for the night...

  14. Re:Talk about bloat on Scientists Complete Universe Millennium Simulation · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's talk of Google buying them out and offering it as Google Everything.

  15. "Bloop monster" evolves to phase 2 on Japan Probes Mysterious Vapor Eruption · · Score: 3, Funny
    Tuning in to a deep sea monster (2002)
    Scientists have revealed a mysterious recording that they say could be the sound of a giant beast lurking in the depths of the ocean.

    Researchers have nicknamed the strange unidentified sound picked up by undersea microphones "Bloop."

    I'm sure we'll soon get underwater Sound Surveillance System reports of a giant "Ahhhh!" sound.
  16. Re:The last vestige of chilhood innocence has died on Statler And Waldorf From the Balcony · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Can anyone think of any great ways I can screw my fellow man?

    I've heard that if you really want to make money, the best way is to start a religion.

  17. Re:Saw the video... on Statler And Waldorf From the Balcony · · Score: 1
    after the first 5 seconds, the slashdot monster cut the power.

    Where can I get a copy of that monster? A blackout would have great.

  18. Yeeesh! on Statler And Waldorf From the Balcony · · Score: 1

    Whatever happened to Thugs on Film?

  19. Re:Violence in VideoGames on Columbine Student on VG Violence · · Score: 2, Funny
    and I've never had the urge to actually take out a gun and shoot someone.

    What if you found a scroll of genocide?

  20. Re:That's Easy To Say on Gates Says No to Implants · · Score: 1
    Gates himself has his company working hard on speech recognition

    Kind of on again/off again. They had a big push with SAPI4 and 5 at the end of the nineties, but nothing much since then that I know of. (They haven't even updated everything that used SAPI4 to 5 yet, so I have to keep both dev packages installed.)

    They were like that with pen/tablet computing too. Pen Windows was hot in 1994 just long enough to FUDicide Go and GRiD, then nothing for years.

  21. Re:Very prudent on Gates Says No to Implants · · Score: 5, Funny
    [..] as the BSA brain surgeons deal with my alleged patent infringements.

    The Boy Scouts of America have a merit badge for that? Whoa! No way!

  22. Dial it in, amp it up! on Gates Says No to Implants · · Score: 2, Funny

    See the Clippy, Feel the Clippy, Be the Clippy!

  23. Re:Wow, Bill says something witty on Gates Says No to Implants · · Score: 1

    Yeah, he has to keep his distance from computers these days.

  24. Over here, Over There on Gates Says No to Implants · · Score: 5, Funny
    I'm happy to have the computer over there and I'm over here.

    Jeez Bill, never heard of Bluetooth?

  25. Re:BS? on Deep Impact on Comet Theory · · Score: 1

    While you're up, check Immanuel Velikovsky too.