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  1. The disappearance of Ron Paul on Santorum Suspends Presidential Campaign · · Score: 2

    What strikes me about this contest is how the candidature of Ron Paul hasd been ignored by the entire US media.

    "The countywide totals for Dr. Paul include 246 Congressional delegates, more than double Mitt Romney's 120, and 360 alternate delegates for Ron Paul, a clean sweep in that regard". link

  2. Chrome OS Technical Account Manager wanted on Chrome OS Introduces Aura Window Manager · · Score: 1

    "It surprises me they are still working on Chrome OS"

    Yea, they should stick to search and let OS design to the professionals, industry standards like Microsoft Windows 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Windows 95, 98, NT, Windows 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8. I mean just how long is it going to take Google to get it right - huh !!

    "Manage strategic Chrome OS partnership with large PC hardware manufacturers and network operators". link

  3. Microsofts' NCSA Mosaic patents? on AOL Patent Deal Means Microsoft Now Holds Vestiges of Netscape · · Score: 1

    "On the other hand, they didn't try to use their NCSA Mosaic patents to kill-off Netscape Navigator, so maybe they'll behave", cpu6502

    What NCSA Mosaic patents, MS didn't have any patents or a browser which is why it first approached NCSA for an exclusive license, then MS approached Netscape and only then got a license from Spyglass. They promised Spyglass a royalty for every version sold and the proceeded to give away the co-branded browser as Internet Explorer. Spyglass later on sued Microsoft and then went out of business. The below is a sample of how Microsoft went about `netscaping' Netscape ..

    "Clone their client technology early and often (full embrace strategy)" link, Oct 1995

    "PSD needs to get serious about cloning Netscape" link

    "As Netscape comes into the industry .. They've been making lots of changes to JavaScript. We think they should document that", BillG 1996

  4. Re:An even longer way on CPU DB: Looking At 40 Years of Processor Improvements · · Score: 1

    "Processors have come an even longer way wince the days when main memory was on a magnetic drum, and the machine had to wait for the drum to revolve before it could fetch the next instruction. That was the first machine I used.", hendrikboom

    If I recall correctly the drums used capacitors to store the data, very early dynamic RAM ...

  5. ANDROID Mini Laptop Notebook on OLPC Project Disappoints In Peru · · Score: 0

    "ANDROID RED 7" Mini Laptop Notebook Netbook PC WiFi TONS of Apps Games Android 2.2 Market Flash Player Built-in Camera 4gb HD 256mb Ram 1-2HR Battery Life by WOLVOL" link

  6. CIA Whistleblower indicted on Waterboarding Whistleblower Indicted Under Espionage Act · · Score: 1

    "John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer from 1999 to 2004, was indicted on Thursday for allegedly disclosing classified information to journalists" link

    "John Kiriakou .. is notable as the first official within the U.S. government to confirm the use of waterboarding of al-Qaeda prisoners as an interrogation technique, which he described as torture." link

  7. Re:Canada Here I Come on Supreme Court Approves Strip Searches For Any Arrestable Offense · · Score: 1

    In order to protect you over their in the Homeland, us out here in the gap [anywhere else] have voluntarily given up any pretense to democracy. Ubiquitous warrantless surveillance being the norm and the right to silence dispenced with. So you won't be safe anywhere, even in Canada.

  8. What Microsoft contributed to the Linux kernel on Microsoft Counted As Key Linux Contributor · · Score: 1

    And these contributions are all for the Microsoft Hyper-V driver.

  9. Re: I can't really tell WTF your point is on The Fall of Data Haven Sealand · · Score: 1

    "Work on NT started before before work on the web itself did"

    Good fucking Grief on a Candy Stick, would you please take this self serving revisionist rewriting of history elsewhere, to a fiction writing forum perhaps, like Wikipedia ...

    "Trumpet Winsock .. provided TCP/IP functionality .. back in 1994-1995"

  10. Re:Windows NT not designed for the Internet on The Fall of Data Haven Sealand · · Score: 1

    "In order to make the process easier, Microsoft included in Windows 95, and now has in Windows 98, an Internet referral Server", link

    "Everything .. about NT security .. was purely about .. already authenticated LAN users", styrotech

    Then please describe how people were supposed to run eCommerce platforms on NTs Internet Server?

    Demonstrate NTServer as THE Internet platform
    * NTServer as Internet platform whitepaper done
    * Analyst/lab press tour by 3/30/95
    * Internet World show: mid-April
    * Momentum: demonstrate 10 of the top 12 Internet sites now running on NTServer platforms

    * External Beta of Internet Server: 7/1/95
    * RTM: before end of 1995

  11. Wikipedia the online encyclopedia on Software-Defined Radio For $11 · · Score: 0

    "I found this great new site you may be unaware of. It's called Wikipedia. It is kinda of like an online encyclopedia that has brief summaries of almost anything", trout007

    Is this the same Wikipedia that says Windows NT wasn't designed for the Internet?

  12. Windows NT not designed for the Internet on The Fall of Data Haven Sealand · · Score: 1

    That whole section is a bunch of self serving advertising.

    "Windows NT .. were not initially designed with Internet security in mind" link

  13. Re:Tape never died or lost its supremacy on After 60 Years, Tape Reinserts Itself · · Score: 1

    "I have twenty terabyte backups NIGHTLY. I am required to keep certain tables (files by another name) for seven years"

    Tell that to News International ...

  14. problem in HDMI cable on Raspberry Pi Gets a Red-Tape Delay; Awaits CE Certificate · · Score: 1

    The problem seems to be the HDMI cable radiating extraneous signals and a solution maybe found in the cable.

  15. And the solution is .. on Firefox: In With the New, Out With the Compatibility · · Score: 1

    "Mozilla's 'endless parade' of Firefox updates adds no visible benefit to users but breaks common functions"

    And the solution is to not update to the latest version ...

  16. re: discuss on Wikipedia on The Fall of Data Haven Sealand · · Score: 1

    Is this the same Wikipedia that says Windows wasn't designed for the Internet? link

  17. Enough already on Richard Clarke: All Major U.S. Firms Hacked By China · · Score: 1

    Would certain vested in the US milatary/industrial comples please find another bogey man to scare us all with, this one is getting tediious.

  18. And the solution is .. on Richard Clarke: All Major U.S. Firms Hacked By China · · Score: 1

    "Former White House cybersecurity advisor Richard Clarke says state-sanctioned Chinese hackers are stealing R&D from U.S. companies, threatening the long-term competitiveness of the nation".

    And the solution is to stop using Microsoft Windows .. :)

  19. Space Shuttle Computers on Inside the Mummification of Space Shuttle Discovery · · Score: 1

    GPC - General-Purpose Computers - "Five identical general-purpose computers aboard the orbiter control space shuttle vehicle systems. Each GPC is composed of two separate units, a central processor unit and an input/output processor. All five GPCs are IBM AP-101 computers. Each CPU and IOP contains a memory area for storing software and data. These memory areas are collectively referred to as the GPC's main memory."

    GPC-4 issue awakens crew - July 2011

    General-Purpose Computers - NASA

  20. Re:They are afraid of GPL on How Big US Firms Use Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    "Most companies are afraid to derive products from projects with GPL license, in fear that they will have to share all their code ", postmortem

    About the LGPL

  21. MS development IDE on How Big US Firms Use Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    "You can trash MS all you want but their development IDE and related services are pretty good compared to the others", cavreader

    As compared to what, I would have thought the EclipseSDK was well up to the job?

  22. Re:In case anyone was wondering when Tim Cook... on Apple to Buy Back $10bn of Its Shares and Pay Dividend · · Score: 1

    > Tim Cook asserted himself just 2 weeks after he became CEO, before Steve Jobs passed away. Cook reinstated Apple's charitable gift matching program which Jobs had killed in 1997 ..

    What reasons did Jobs give for doing this in 1997 and do you have any links for the above?

  23. Never mention Windows .. on Java Web Attack Installs Malware In RAM · · Score: 1

    As elsewhere, is it now slashdot policy to only mention '`computer` malware ..
    "After seizing all necessary privileges on the victim computer, the exploit does not install malware on the hard drive using Java. Instead, it uses its payload to inject an encrypted dll from the web directly into the memory of the" javaw.exe process

  24. Fox News reports on the retraction :) on This American Life Retracts Episode On Apple Factories In China · · Score: 2

    Fox News: "The number of factories Daisey visited in China was listed incorrectly, for example, as well as the number of workers he spoke with"

    Ira Glass: "Daisey admits to fabricating these characters .. that he met underage workers at Foxconn, and that a man with a mangled hand was injured at Foxconn making iPads (and that Daisey's iPad was the first one he ever saw in operation)"

  25. Who is David Coppedge? on Lawsuit Claims NASA Specialist Was Fired Over Intelligent Design Belief · · Score: 1

    The case is being funded by the `Alliance Defense Fund', a fundementalist Christian advocacy group. Coppedge is highly active in the `intelligent design' movement and serves on the board of Illustra Media, which produced the videos that he distributed at JPL. I wonder what would the responce be if he hung round churches and passed out copies of Richard Dawkins books?