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  1. 'Space War' on an IBM1130 circa 1974 on What Was Your First Gaming Experience? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Precursor to asteroids, two triangle spaceships fly around a sun spitting missile pixels at each other.

    Be careful not to fly too close to the sun!

  2. I don't know what I'm doing tommorrow. on What MSN, Google, Yahoo and AOL Know About You · · Score: 1

    But Google does.

  3. Don't feed the troll on EFF Forces DMCA Abuser to Apologize · · Score: 1

    Come on, this is not news. That sierra foxtrot is a non-entity who will resort to whatever it takes to get attention of any polarity.

    One would think that Slashdot -- after Fark, Drudge, and the 'internet' had covered this already ad nauseam -- would have chosen to ignore this.

  4. I guess I was just misinformed. on Earth's Constant Hum Explained · · Score: 1

    I thought Zappa had explained this one years ago.

  5. Another barrier falls! on Hitachi's Tiny RFID Chips · · Score: 1

    The sub-picoacre RFID chip has arrived: 0.618.

  6. Don'y you mean 1E8 downloads of IE7? on After 100M IE7 Downloads, Firefox Still Gaining · · Score: 1

    Or if you prefer engineering units, 100E06 units of 10E06 maybe?

  7. Yes I coded COBOL in college... on Modernizing the Common Language - COBOL · · Score: 1


    but I never compiled!

  8. Speaking of robots... on Bill Gates on Robots · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else notice the pronunciation of 'robot' during certain episodes of the Twilight Zone marathon over the holidays?

    'ROW-but' as opposed to today's 'ROW-BOT'.

  9. Wait a minute! on Antarctic Microbes Could Live on Mars · · Score: 1

    I thought Antactic microbes came from Mars.

  10. Re:How do they avoid crashing? on Migrating Birds Take Hundreds of Powernaps. · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe their glide ratio surpasses that of a ball of uranium.

  11. Esc unil it beeps, on A Visual Walkthrough of New Features in Vim 7.0 · · Score: 1

    sync until it's still,
    salt until it crunches.

  12. liquid gallon vs dry gallon on Ripeness Sticker Coming to Supermarket Fruit · · Score: 2, Informative

    1989 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units

    You have: bushel
    You want: gallon
            * 9.3091775
            / 0.10742088
    You have: bushel
    You want: drygallon
            * 8
            / 0.125
    You have: bushel
    You want: peck
            * 4
            / 0.25
    You have: bushel
    You want: quart
            * 37.23671
            / 0.026855219
    You have: bushel
    You want: liter
            * 35.23907
            / 0.028377593

  13. I'm still a baby... on Babybot Learns Like You Did · · Score: 1

    you insensitve clod.

  14. You bet it will... on WoW the Next "Golf"? · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... about the same time Linux rules the desktop.

  15. I'm amazed on Nuna 3 wins World Solar Cup for the 3rd Time · · Score: 5, Funny

    Being from Delft those guys were lucky to even recognize what sunlight looks like, let alone design an auto that runs off it.

  16. That's nothing... on AOL Fined for Making it Hard to Cancel Service · · Score: 1

    we're still trying to cancel out VAXen service agreement!

  17. Re:Embedded Systems on Daylight Savings Change Proposed · · Score: 1

    Many embedded systems report directly to their users who expect logs to comform to a parochial way of thinking.

    Also there are many embedded systems that must work according to local time in order to schedule events properly, e.g. programmable thermostats and traffic lights.

  18. Re:Here's what sad... on Judge in SCO Case Notes Lack of Evidence · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But if you read all of TSG's regulatory filings, you'll see that they consistenly characterize the chances of realizing income as begin slim to none. Caveat emptor.

  19. Elastic shipping wrap for protecting keyboards on PCs For A Workshop Environment? · · Score: 1

    Works great, easy to replace.

  20. Cast in concrete, carve in stone. on Supreme Court Rejects RIAA Appeal · · Score: 1

    But then most people could care less.

  21. This is not news to any nerd... on NYC Crosswalk Buttons are Inoperative · · Score: 1

    and obiviously it doesn't matter!

  22. Kiss of Death on Should Hackers Get Their Own Logo? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, go for it. Maybe you'll even get an interview on NPR.

  23. Yeah, but vi still rulz! on 20th Anniversary of RMS's Original GNU Post · · Score: 1

    Fits on a floppy, takes a day to learn and another day to master, and you never need to become a guru.

  24. DWIM goes way back on Cognitive Machines Help Decision-Making · · Score: 1


    http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/d/DWIM.html

  25. Not much you can do at the office on Getting Back Into Shape While At The Office? · · Score: 1

    Without breaking a sweat you can't have much of a workout, and breaking a sweat implies shower availability and so forth. However you can do some strength work at the workplace with isometrics or stair climbing that will build muscle mass, which burns calories 24/7 just by being there.

    The most time-efficient conditioning regimen I've found is the Concept2 rowing machine, which builds both strength and endurance for the entire body. Took 20 kilos off with one ten years ago at age 40 and it hasn't come back.