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  1. femtosecond on Secure Data Storage... On Your Fingernails · · Score: 2, Informative

    I wasn't sure what the measure femtosecond equated to so I Googled it.

    femtosecond - one quadrillionth of a second; one thousandth of a nanosecond.

    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/femtosecond

  2. Kevin Poulsen of the Watchman book? on Bram Cohen to Release BitTorrent Search Engine · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is the author of that article the same Kevin Poulsen as the Pac-Bell phreaker in the Watchman book?

  3. Archos PMA400 runs Linux on PalmOne Releases 4GB PDA [updated] · · Score: 1

    Here is a PDA that truly runs linux, you can shell out to a command prompt and run uname -a.

    Archos PMA400

  4. Vote with your wallet on Go Daddy Usurps Network Solutions · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In this service economy, consumers have chosen to vote with their wallet. No surprise there. Way back when in internet years, Joker.com was only ten euro's per year, which was about $6 US and they were the best. Joker didn't have the marketing clout that Godaddy had. Now GoDaddy has usurped the top spot.

  5. martian pr0n on New Movies of Whirlwinds on Mars · · Score: 2, Funny

    carbon based life forms copulating in connubial bliss.

    How do we know that these "dust devils" aren't really martian orgies? Or those whirlwinds when the road runner and Wile E. Coyote fight? Or the cloud created when Pigpen walks anywhere in Peanuts cartoons?

    (tongue firmly in cheek)

  6. misunderstanding on Sony Online To Sell Virtual Property · · Score: 2, Informative

    You have got your signals crossed. Sony is not making any new games of chance. This article is about the new servers which Sony will put into place to regulate a practice which has been going on behind the scenes for many years. That is the sale if virtual items i.e. swords, rings, gold coins, within the game of Everquest II.

  7. Tommy - The Who on Portrait of The Last Remaining Pinball Wizard · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought the story was going to be about an actual pinball machine player who gets massive highscores, not the CEO of a game corporation. That's one minute of my life I will never get back.

  8. Their response on Star Wars Fans in Line... at the Wrong Theater · · Score: 4, Informative
    The fans in line have heard your pleas and have answered with the following rfom liningup.net :


    Liningup.net is staying in the spot where we have great relationships with the theatre, the local businesses, and the Hollywood Division of the LAPD. We are lining up at the theatre where the first Star Wars premiered in 1977, where all of the prequels have played, where George Lucas, R2D2, Harrison Ford, and Darth Vader have their footprints in the world-famous "Forecourt of the Stars".

    We are raising money for an amazing charity, Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation, that works to brighten the lives of seriously ill children. We've only been in line for 3 days and we have already topped more than $6200 in donations, with hopefully tens of thousansds more to be raised.

    Twice before we've lined up at Grauman's Chinese Theatre without confirmation that the films would play there. Twice before, we've been told it was going to play somewhere else. Hopefully, our luck holds out for a third time. If not, we'll still have an incredibly fun time relaxing with other Star Wars fans and raising both funds and awareness for the Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation.
  9. Re:changelog on The History of Mozilla Firefox · · Score: 5, Informative

    Obligatory link to said historic changelogs list here

  10. Screenshots on PearPC Trying to Sue CherryOS · · Score: 0
  11. Spilt Milk on Apple Settles with Tiger Leaker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What was the tiger leaking?

    All humor aside. You have to assume when you receive a beta copy of something and signed an NDA there is some way for them to track you.

  12. Google Cache on iPod Shuffle RAID · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Historic consoles on Atari 2600 Mac Mod · · Score: 1

    Now if it were a Heavy Sixer then it might be worth more than $10.

    The Heavy Sixer had six switches rather than four, and the fake woodgrain was much thicker and heavier. Hence the name.

    Quote below is from Atariage.com Atari VCS - CX2600 Sunnyvale Edition - "This is the original 1977 Atari Video Computer System, and this particular design was only produced for one year. Because it features six chrome-like switches and has heavy internal RF Shielding, some collectors refer to this as a "Heavy Sixer". At first glance it looks just like the CX2600 that follows in 1978, but it is noticably heavier when compared, and has some extra plastic molding around the back and sides of the unit. These units were manufactured in Sunnyvale, California, and there is a tag on the underside from the manufacturing plant to indicate this. There is also a serial number on the unit itself with a matching serial number sticker on the box. The later model was manufactured in Hong Kong."

  14. Re:third cousin's brother? on Jail Time For P2P Developers? · · Score: 1

    By my calculations, you are correct. A cousin's brother, is always a cousin. And if the uncle has a third cousin (his great, great grandfather/mother is the same), then presumably you share a great,great,great granfather/mother with your uncle. Therefore fourth cousin.
    Cousin Definitions

  15. Re:Hey folks on Patrick Volkerding Battles Mystery Illness · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Feel Better Pat! We love your Distro. Looking forward to version 10!

  16. Re:He should be in a hospital on Patrick Volkerding Battles Mystery Illness · · Score: 1

    Feel Better Patrick! We are all praying for you to get well soon.

  17. count another vote for Dune by Frank Herbert ... on What Makes Great Science Fiction? · · Score: 1

    he's my favorite sci-fi writer.

  18. Babelfish says 12 cm on One Terabyte On a 12-inch^H^H^H^Hcm Disk · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The corporation optical wear the 1TB (the tera- byte) announced the optical disk technology " tera- byte optical disk system " whose it is possible to write capacity, to the disk of 12cm CD size in the comprehensive exhibition " InterOpto'02 " of optical industrial technology.


    From this Babelfish Translation
  19. ESR & RMS are not the same guy on Sundance Channel Showing "Revolution OS" Monday Night · · Score: 2, Interesting
    You seem to be talking about Richard M. Stallman. Yes, Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman were roomates in M.I.T. but they are not the same person. Get your facts straight.

    ESR is an excellent spokesperson and Open Source advocate. I've met him a couple times. Check out his webpage Eric Raymond's Homepage.

  20. Mail servers down on New (More) Annoying Microsoft Worm Hits Net · · Score: 1

    My mail server is down already. Thanks for this new virus in the wake of such a tragedy.

  21. ISS meets Junk yard Wars/Scrap Heap Challenge on Home Improvement · · Score: 2

    They just need a blonde, British pixie as the commentator and they have got a show. I bet Bill Sheppard could beat the "Brothers Long" any day
    of the week. Although that hovercraft episode was pretty awesome, you have to admit.

    Sheppard could have justified the time and labor required to build the table as a way to save the expense of carting the junk back to earth. They should build a whole extra addition on-to the space station with scrap metal and empty gas tanks.

  22. Guido Van Rossum is Dutch not Italian (nt) on Guido van Rossum Unleashed · · Score: 1

    nt

  23. Actual Google Cache on Spindl3top Introduces Latest "Super" Blackbird · · Score: 1
  24. RH 6.1/2 on Nautilus 1.0 Released Unto The World · · Score: 1

    This means Redhat 6.1 or Redhat 6.2.

  25. Power to the People! on Linux Case Study Project At Linux International · · Score: 1
    Anything to bring the masses to Linux has got my support. We have to empower the people and give them the opportunity to create better software. The Python language will be the first programming language for everyone. Student's will learn it in school and grow up programming.

    Thank you for your time :)

    Vam (stepping of the soap box)