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  1. Kids and Old Games on Interactive Fiction Then and Now · · Score: 1

    I've tried to get kids interested in some of the old games I was interested in (IF, MUDs, etc.) but usually without much luck (which is a shame, some of those IF games were excellent). However, recently I was surprised how interested my cousin's kids were when I showed them one of those old games where you "program your own robot".

  2. Asimov: PhD in biochemistry on Global Warming Dissenters Suppressed? · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, according to Wikipedia, Isaac Asimov obtained his PhD in biochemistry when he was about 28.

  3. Extensions and Security on Firefox Extension Guide and More · · Score: 1

    How secure are extensions? I see from Wikipedia that the whitelist and 3 second delay are meant as defenses against malicious extensions, but do they get put under the microscope before they go on the whitelist?

  4. Splashscreens the Gimp way on GIMP 2.2 Splash Screen Contest Revisited · · Score: 3, Funny

    In other news, following GIMP tradition, all 666 splash screens were accepted by the developers and will appear in 666 separate splash windows when GIMP is started.

  5. .02% or 2%? on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    According to Greg Palast's site, the spoilage rate is more like 3% for the entire US.

  6. Is that anything like Omega? on The Latest And Greatest Console Applications? · · Score: 1

    It's been a (long) while, but that sounds distinctly like another game, Omega....

  7. Re:Google is not exactly a vanilla Linux install.. on Could Google Be SCO's Next Big Target? · · Score: 1

    (I should point out that I'm NOT supporting SCO by any means, just pointing out that they may have somehow convinced themselves that this is a case they can win)

  8. Re:Google is not exactly a vanilla Linux install.. on Could Google Be SCO's Next Big Target? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's a good point. However, I was thinking the opposite: Frank Sorenson's analysis seems to show that SCO believes that SMP, JFS, RCU, and NUMA belong to them. One would imagine that by it's very nature, Google might possibly be making extensive use of SMP, RCU and NUMA, at least.