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  1. Re:Maybe I'm just too close to the forest here but on Leaked Microsoft Dossier on Journalist · · Score: 1

    Ronald Reagan's briefs were one page. If I were being interviewed, I would rather be handed one page of background and bullets than to drown in thirteen pages of mush.

    OT: Favorite part of the document is where they try to squelch any thought that there might be bureaucracy afoot. The section kind of reads like, "We consulted all the bureaus, and the message from the top bureau is that there is no bureaucracy at our company. If there were any traces that somehow remained, the Bureau of Bureaucracy Eradication would soon ferret them out and communicate that fact through the appropriate channels (and with proper adherence to internal protocols)."

  2. In case of avian flu pandemic on How Would You Deal With A Global Bandwidth Crisis? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess IP over carrier pigeon would be out.

  3. Re:It's not the software. on "Very Severe Hole" In Vista UAC Design · · Score: 1

    Once when I wanted Clippy to buzz off, I typed in Windows Help: "Kill Clippy." Help complied and gave me the proper instructions to complete the task.

  4. Climate science needs researchers on Starting a Career in Science at Age 38? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hear there is good money in debunking these scurrilous theories about man's effect on climate.

  5. Finally, we have the evidence on Atlantis: Discovered at Last? · · Score: 1

    Incontrovertible proof of the weapons of mass destruction.

  6. They left out . . . on Eight Biggest Tech Flops Ever · · Score: 1

    How could they have missed the iLoo?

  7. Re:Good question! on 100 Years of Macintosh · · Score: 1

    There is an rfc proposal that in some ways adresses these concerns.





    Increase your PENIS! size while working from HOME!
    (Ask me how.)

  8. And SuSE? on SCO Preparing Linux Licensing Program · · Score: 1

    On the 25th of June, the UnitedLinux partners, including SuSE, announced the "UnitedLinux Ready" Partner Program for Independent Software Vendors.

    "Developers" can download a copy of UnitedLinux in exchange for an email address, as long as they check a box to receive communication from one of the four UnitedLinux partners, including SuSE.

    The SuSE site makes no obvious mention of the SCO debacle.

    Questions:
    Is SuSE with SCO or against them?
    Did any SuSE customers receive any of the infamous 1,500 letters?
    If I download UnitedLinux, and don't put a check in the SCO box, will I get a nasty letter?

  9. Re:In the news , tonight !!! on My Visit to SCO · · Score: 1

    Again, note the obstruction in the flow of the text in this Solaris article--why, it's an IBM ad!

  10. Re:Sun Microsystems joins the debate on SCO Amends Suit, Clarifies "Violations", Triples Damages · · Score: 1

    Anyone notice the IBM ad right in the middle of the

    article?

  11. who's first on Pentium-M Notebook Put To The Test · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    who is first post?

  12. (U. S.) 1970s NOVA on BBC To Ditch "Tomorrow's World" · · Score: 1

    Those early NOVAs were like little detective stories. They left loose ends loose and open questions open. Everything was not wrapped up at the end of an episode. Production values were low, but the narration (great narrator, too) would stand by itself with the picture turned off.

    I would love to see a remake (a la Michael Apted's "Seven Up") reuniting the original NOVA crew with the original scientists. Did they keep at it or drift off and let others answer those all-consuming questions? Did the questions ever get answered satisfactorily?

    If anyone knows of transcripts or tapes of these old shows, do tell!

  13. Re:Is it five years only? on Slashdot Turns 5 · · Score: 1

    How many years did the late Mr. King stay at age 54?

    And how is Alan Thicke doing?

  14. Weird BIOS settings on ASUS A7V333 on Secrets Of BIOS Tweaking · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I was poking around the Vcore settings on my ASUS board with an Athlon XP 1700 processor. The settings range from the expected 1.675V - 1.85V, but if you hold down the righthand Alt key and then Page Up and Page Down, you get values ranging from 500kV to 1.5MV in 50kV intervals.

    Does anyone know why these settings should exist?

  15. Re:don't forget Cringely's warning on Garage Tinkerers Claim Wireless Last-Mile Solution · · Score: 1

    Could those lightbulbs be used to transmit data?

  16. Re:Russia's Space Program. on Buy a Russian Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    Antonov An-225

    Instead of going to the effort of making a twin-tailed plane, why didn't they just give the An-225 pilots control over the Buran's tailfin?

  17. russian shuttle on the auction block on NASA Parts Scroungers Resort To eBay For Parts · · Score: 1

    Before they gave up and put it on the auction block (see slashdot story) the Russians had their own hard-to-find parts "wish list" for their shuttle:

    2 (two) Chicago Faucet Company water valves, one
    marked "H" and one marked "C"

    1 (one) Coleman brand fuel tank with built-in
    hand pump

    178 (one hundred seventy-eight) 5-gallon "gerry
    can" fuel containers

    30 (thirty) meters of Nichrome wire

    1 (one) Edmund Scientific large-display countdown
    timer

    [omitted]

  18. mash made in heaven on Mashed-Up Music · · Score: 1

    Ever since George Harrison got in trouble I hum to myself My Sweet Lord and He's so Fine

    My Sweet Lord, du lang, du lang, du lang. . .

    Did they mash those together and present them as a trial exhibit?

  19. Re:P2P meets wireless on Wireless Networking Research at Berkeley · · Score: 1

    Kinda reminds me of how ants communicate: One ant detects danger and sends a signal that is relayed. A2A network?

  20. Re:The Human Repeater on Wireless Networking Research at Berkeley · · Score: 1

    Put these in cars. If your house is too far from the nearest "tower," a car between you and the tower could relay a couple of packets, and then the next car could relay a few more. . . .

  21. So, if Newton . . . on Playing Ball in Space · · Score: 1

    . . . had been sitting under an apple tree in space instead of on earth, the trajectory of the apple that hit him on the head would have been soooo much more easily calculated?

  22. Re:Sorry, it hasn't happened yet on Requirements for Embedded Linux · · Score: 1

    The EE Times has an article on the Embedded Linux Consortium. The tone of the article is discouraging, but it also says that embedded Linux will be number one by the end of 2002! Is the truth somewhere in-between?

  23. Re:The issue of "secondary meaning"... on Questions over the Windows Trademark · · Score: 1

    but "LeCar" is ok

  24. Re:Why now? on Be Sues Microsoft for Violations of Antitrust Laws · · Score: 1

    Watch your apostrophes, grammar nazi. Or are you not a punctuation nazi?

  25. Tapes in Texas? on Lost Moon-Landing Tape Recovered, Restored · · Score: 1

    You mean the tapes are just rotting away in Texas? Shouldn't one of the greatest recordings in history be preserved in the National Archives?