User: tore

Well ftp-server at prep.ai.mit.edu still works!

On: I Bought a Book About the Internet From 1994 and None of the Links Worked (vice.com)

prep.ai.mit.edu still works!

My .ncftp-file was last updated in 1994, March 12, and contains these sites:

prep.ai.mit.edu
sunsite.unc.edu
spcot.sanders.com
harbor.ecn.purdue.edu

The first one, the home of GNU, still works and is being updated with the latest of GNU software. The others doesn't work anymore.

AI or a memory overwrite, that is the question

On: Facebook's AI Keeps Inventing Languages That Humans Can't Understand (fastcodesign.com)

This is probably just a memory overwrite. Somewhere, there's a programmer studying a stacktrace in gdb ...

Re:You Mean...?

On: Features That Windows 10 Will Deprecate

The first thing I would do to a new PC is install Linux.

anything

On: Breakpoints have now been patented

Well, if you really want to make money, patent not doing your job. That way you could probably earn a lot of money on slashdot readers.. :-)

Balrog

On: Earth's Constant Hum Explained

I always thought it was the Balrog humming.

malloc(strlen(\w\));

On: Google Code Search Reveals Dark Corners

These could be of special interest malloc(strlen(\w+));
and these new char[strlen(\w+)];

Bandwidth?

On: Would You Move to Space?

One rule: Will move for bandwidth

Elvis has just arrived....

On: NASA Mars Press Briefing & "Significant Findings"

for this years Elvis lookalike competition on Mars.