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  1. 1967 Outer Space Treaty... on President Trump Directs Pentagon To Create New 'Space Force' Military Branch (defensenews.com) · · Score: 1

    Abrogating treaties works both ways.

  2. Re: What an empty life on Right-Wing and Fake News Writers Are Now Going After Elon Musk (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes? Are they even still around?

  3. Re: Actually the opposite. on Google Fiber To Cut Staff In Half After User Totals Disappoint, Says Report (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    "new kid on the blog" Love it!

  4. Malda, get back in here right now! on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 1

    Not finding CmdrTaco postings here just won't be the same (yeah ok that's the point, I guess). Thanks to you and hemos for providing nerd company over the eons, specially during the zillion all night work burnouts. Sirs, I salute you both.

  5. Re:The precedent needs to be set on EFF Takes On Cisco's Role In China · · Score: 1

    Can it be that while we (the USA) strictly prohibit participation in bribes, pay-offs, and gifts to overseas customers, putting us at a big competitive disadvantage , hanging a security badge on the sale insulates our vendors from further ethical obligation? Is that it?

    Don't bother asking regular Cisco employees in silicon valley. In today's employment climate, we certainly cannot expect domestic employees of our multinationals to say anything - they're all afraid of defaulting on their mortgages, at the least.

  6. Re:First Call on World's First Voice Call From a Free GSM Stack · · Score: 1

    rofl wild applause!

  7. Pranav Mistry's MIT version demo'd 2009 TED on German Researchers Show Off a Gesture-Based Interface · · Score: 1

    This sure looks like the gimzo that Pranav Mistry developed at MIT. Here's a link to the demo of same at TED, last year: http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html

  8. Re:I'm not clear on what their case is... on JPL Background Check Case Reaches Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    Boy howdy. That which is not expressly permitted IS NOT THEREBY FORBIDDEN.

  9. Re:I hope they use "used" golf balls on Air Cannon Ties Pirates In Knots · · Score: 1

    Gah, were be me mod points now! Someone mod up brilliant AC!

  10. Re:NO TAXATION, WITHOUT REPRESENTATION on Calling B.S. On Amazon's Taxation Arguments · · Score: 1

    I want to hear more about this New York talking gull!

  11. Re:It's a tough job on Lost Northwest Pilots Were Trying Out New Software · · Score: 1

    More like Guilds - and part of the reason they're eating it now is that they've been functioning like a Guild, just like the (sell out) auto and iron worker unions did. As long as their own nests were feathered, they not only didn't care about the other unions, they joined in the Republican decades long project to disenfranchise and undermine them. Where were the pilots when PATCO was trashed? Along with the mechanics, they crossed the lines.

  12. Re:It's a tough job on Lost Northwest Pilots Were Trying Out New Software · · Score: 1

    Why the hell is the previous post modded to Flamebait?

  13. Re:Luck not shot down on Lost Northwest Pilots Were Trying Out New Software · · Score: 1

    Thanks for relating that. Interesting idea, that even if the jets had been shot down before hitting the WTC towers, we'd have gone through the same kind of things subsequently.

  14. Re:Quick answer and research links on Open Source Textbook For Computer Literacy? · · Score: 1

    Nice list'o'links. Thanks.

  15. Re:I for one welcome our robotic overlords on Air Force Planning New Drone Fleet For Pakistan · · Score: 1

    I would like to add that Windows Millennium was very much under appreciated! Thank you.

  16. Re:Well... on AVG Virus Scanner Removes Critical Windows File · · Score: 1

    You mean, my detachable Virii?

  17. Re:wait...what? on Google's Obfuscated TCP · · Score: 1

    > fix some of the cost/uptake issues with SSL

    Yep. Perhaps even (oh, heaven forfend!) publicly administered certs.

  18. Re:Welcome to the Egress on Microsoft's Mundie Sees a Future In Spatial Computing · · Score: 1

    Right. And then, later, you Enter to Exit!

  19. TalkWorks on Using My PC For Plain Old Telephone Service? · · Score: 1

    Yep, TalkWorks. It was either part of WinFax, or purchased and combined with it. Last I heard both were bought by Symantec, and eventually retired.

    There's a bit on TalkWorks here:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TalkWorks

  20. John McPhee, "Annals of The Former World" on Antarctica Once Abutted Death Valley · · Score: 1

    690 pages of small print on geology back to almost the beginning. I recommend it highly.

  21. Re:For the uninformed on The State Of Grayware On the PC · · Score: 1

    grayware?

    Huh. Grayware.. I figured this must be domestically branded software purchased overseas, reimported, and installed domestically.

  22. Re:Telecommunicating redistributes types of work! on Telecommuting Can Be Bad For Those Who Don't · · Score: 1

    Yep. It's a business challenge of the best type.

    Telecommuting does make the importance of actual management more obvious. When they can no longer rely on the inefficient stroll-around-the-cubes 'management' technique, then the working out of work systems, schedules, and the things that managers really should be doing becomes very, very clear. I've been remote working for over a decade now myself, and I really like how it helps to clarify the bs.

  23. Embryonic Patents from Outer Space on Sign Of "Embryonic Planets" Forming In Nearby Stellar Systems · · Score: 1

    It's not enough that patent trolls are trying to scour up and grab all prior art on Earth?

  24. Re:wow on Verizon vs. the Needham Fire Department · · Score: 1

    Righty-o. My friend's house burned right down to the ground after a utilities crew dropped a hot wire in the weeds. And you better believe the utility company tried to get out of it.

  25. Perfect for my new Dvorak Keyboard! on Scientists Offer New Way to Read Online Text · · Score: 1

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    wyth my qew dVarak kaybard!