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  1. Oh, the Irony on Slashback: Shelter, Panic, Intrusion · · Score: 1
    ?...Working with Windows 2000 and its successor operating systems ?should reduce lifecycle crewing and maintenance costs, as well as procurement costs,? he said. ?They will be running Windows or ?Son of Windows? by the time this ship deploys.?
    • This article about the advantages of MS software was obviously written on MS software, as it has been damaged by MS proprietary characters.
    • One of the "advantages" is a reduction in maintenance costs, but they're proud of the need to use a newer version of Windows and the expense of upgrading?
  2. Re:So does this mean... on Kernel Configuration As An Adventure · · Score: 1

    There is a buggy 3c507 driver here.
    > hit 3c507
    The driver vanishes in a cloud of greasy black smoke.
    >

  3. Re:Isn't this obvious on Can University Students GPL Their Submitted Works? · · Score: 1

    Yes, as it's non-exclusive then you can give one copy to the school under their license, and you can GPL a separate copy. Or label one copy with "your choice of the following two licenses".

  4. Re:Film on CD-Eating Fungus Among Us · · Score: 3

    The trick is to embed your data within a blockbuster film, as the film industry will then preserve it and imprint it on each decade's preferred media.

  5. ...and Product on CD-Eating Fungus Among Us · · Score: 1
    ...and the new Tenactin Tough CD Case.

    The only CD case that helps your CDs reach their estimated lifetime.

  6. Re:Not "freely hackable" on Digital Convergence Bites the Dust · · Score: 2
    Yes, the rights of DC are still owned by the company. If the company formally fails, then those will be owned by whoever gets the assets, then by whoever buys that asset.

    If bankruptcy is declared, feel free to make them an offer to buy whatever asset you want to control. If you buy it, you can declare it open.

  7. Bill Clinton, War Criminal on Harm From The Hague · · Score: 2

    Actually, there have been attempts by several groups to bring Bill Clinton to trial for war crimes in eastern Europe. Clinton should have known better than to have tried to approve the international courts.

  8. What About Accidental Scans? on Supreme Court Limits High-Tech Snooping · · Score: 1
    I wonder how long it will be until an officer of the court will notice a police car's video camera shows a house with odd colors in the background of some random traffic stop?

    (Small video cameras often are sensitive to infrared, although usually there is a filter to block IR)

  9. Captain, Do You Have A Warrant? on Supreme Court Limits High-Tech Snooping · · Score: 2

    Spock: "Captain, do you have a search warrant for this sensor scan?"

  10. More on Amusing Job Titles for Business Cards? · · Score: 1
    There's an article at TechWeb, but the server is down at the moment.

    • Queen of (insert subject here)
    • Cruise Director
    • Editrix
    • Webtyrant
    • Webmistress
    • Master of Information
    • Maesto of Design
    • Turnaround Titan
  11. FastCompany.Com List on Amusing Job Titles for Business Cards? · · Score: 3
    Job Titles of the Future

    Notionologist?

  12. Re:Watchutalkinbout Hemos? on "Cplant" Parallel Computing Tool · · Score: 1
    The press release refers to "licensing terms", but the license is the GPL.
    What in the world does this mean? The GPL was a license and had several terms last time I checked.

    The press release actually mentions that it is necessary to agree to some licensing terms before downloading. This unnamed license turns out to be the GPL, which many of us know.

  13. Re:Cool on "Cplant" Parallel Computing Tool · · Score: 1

    This is related to what is running on ASCI Red. The pages suggest that this is not exactly what is running on ASCI Red.

  14. Indoor GPS supplement on The Lamps Are The Network · · Score: 1

    Notice that GPS receivers have problems indoors. If there were a standard way to broadcast location information, GPS receivers could use this data when it is available.

  15. Keep Off My Secret Coordinates! on Buxley's GPS Geocache Maps Offline, Now Back · · Score: 3

    I have, of course, encrypted the GPS coordinates which I use. That way nobody can enter those areas without buying my location decryption software.

  16. Easy CD Creator? WARNING! on CD burning Will Never Be The Same · · Score: 5

    Are we talking about the Easy CD Creator 4-5 which has been destroying W2K and W95 machines? The above links say that the Microsoft instructions might not save your machine. Be careful out there.

  17. DCMA Violation on The Reviewer Who Wasn't · · Score: 2

    Now you can expect to be sued for attempting to reverse-engineer Sony's encrypted copy-protection method. Sony tried to protect their copyright on those movie reviews by hiding the fact that they held the copyright (because they were the author). Now you're creating reviews and hiding their origin too.

  18. Story Is Poorly Phrased on The Reviewer Who Wasn't · · Score: 2
    The page linked to is a news report that Sony's advertising agency created fake movie review quotes using a nonexistent reviewer.

    Confusion is understandable, as the /. story is in the headline. The /. summary sounds as if the link is pointing at a summary of summer movies.

  19. Re:Nothing to do with the new engine. on Scramjet Test Flight Less Than Successful · · Score: 1
    I know what the theory says about the minimum speed. I don't know how fast the scramjet was moving when the problems started.

    My point is: What was there to lose? The ship was about to be destroyed, so let it loose and see what happens.

    These brief news reports don't mention such details. Maybe the destruction was automatic, maybe there was no manual separation ability, maybe the test area was linear -- thus going in the wrong direction might overly a populated area.

  20. Re:Nothing to do with the new engine. on Scramjet Test Flight Less Than Successful · · Score: 1

    It's a shame they didn't simply hit the TEST button and let the X-43 loose before they destroyed the rocket. Maybe the engine would have done something interesting.

  21. Greenhouse Gas Omitted on Scramjet Test Flight Less Than Successful · · Score: 1

    That list of ingredients omits this planet's most significant greenhouse gas: water vapor.

  22. Re:Casting Call on 3D Glove Input Device · · Score: 1

    Modeling Agency: Okay, we have four paradigm models available, and another six who can only think without paradigms. But three of those six are also actors who can do a paradigm impression.

  23. Re:What's next? on Who Owns Your Culture? · · Score: 1
    "*boggle* ... get our words ...
    All your Boggle words are belong to Hasbro/Parker Brothers.
  24. Shaped Like A Pebble Bed Plutonium Burner on Building a Plutonium Memorial · · Score: 3
    A breeder makes more plutonium.

    A pebble bed plutonium burner is safer and can burn several fuels, including plutonium.

  25. Re:My idea.. on Building a Plutonium Memorial · · Score: 1

    There's a little problem with that. Total destruction means that not all the victims are known. In Vietnam, there were records of the U.S. soldiers which were sent there and who did not return.