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  1. Check out the circular printer in design explor on Industrial Design Winners Announced · · Score: 5, Interesting

    link is here:
    URL:http://www.idsa.org/idea/idea2004/g257. htm

    very nonstandard solution

  2. Illustra was also in the Ingres Postgres bloodline on CA Advantage Ingres To Be Released As Open Source · · Score: 1

    Stonebreaker also created the Illustra object relational database after leaving academia.

    It seemed to have been created with the intention of having the big players buy it out, just to eliminate it as a competitor.

    Informix bought them, then IBM bought Informix.

    The only Illustra bit that seems to have survived was the "datablade" terminology for sets of structures and functions for specific data types.

    Some of the original Illustra datablades were fun to fiddle with, a long time ago...

  3. Anyone know what happened to force this revelation on Cisco Products Have Backdoors · · Score: 1

    I doubt a newfound sense of benevolence initiated this admission.

    Something they couldn't buy off or threaten into silence most likely.

  4. I thought AT&T actually ran the DNC list on FCC Proposes Fining AT&T Over DNC Violation · · Score: 1

    I guess the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

  5. Powerboat fuel is expensive on Berkeley Breathed Back in the Funnies · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You gotta keep those revenue streams flowing when you pick up pricey hobbies like his.

  6. Will theaters be cooperating? on The Trilogy as One · · Score: 1

    If they could get away with charging more for a longer movie, the theaters might be more willing to play extended versions.

    Or maybe bring back the intermission candy runs.

  7. It depends on the paper it was printed on on X-Box Hackers Trying to Blackmail Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    If the extortion demand was written on some law office's stationary, then its legal.

    The exact same words on any other piece of paper, then its a crime. /loathes lawyers

  8. Fish tanks have used these for years on Tiny Bubbles Key to Cooling Crazy Hot CPUs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There one of the cheapest filter methods out there. The bubbles drive the flow through an uptake tube of an already established siphon between the tank and the filter resivoir.
    The hardware layout would need to be orientation independant for a laptop though.

  9. Send a pic of the check to Sun on OpenBSD Lands $2 Million In DARPA Money · · Score: 5, Funny

    and maybe theo will finally get the sparc docs he needs.

  10. Oooo Ahhh - pretty new topic icon on RotK Delayed Until May 2004 · · Score: 1

    Methinks this bogus story was just an excuise to put a new ring icon in the topics section.

  11. Mineral Oil would be a better choice on Oil-Cooling 802.11 Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    AFAIK no organisms can use mineral oil as food, and its far less likely to degrade into sludge than any cooking oil. Also it has clear color and relatively no odor.

  12. How many bugs are emergent phenomena? on Ask About Proprietary vs. Open Source Code Quality · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is a certain percentage of bugs that result from the interaction of two or more otherwise bug free components?

  13. Was there ever an engine that used reg. expression on Overture Buys Fast Search · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I vaguely remember a web search engine that allowed the use of regular expressions, or maybe its just early alzheimers kicking in.

  14. GRID was first name for AIDS on RIAA Unveils Net Tracking Tag for Online Sales · · Score: 0, Troll

    In the early 80's wasn't the name GRID "Gay Related Immune Deficeincy" renamed AIDS "Accuired Immune Deficeincy Syndrome"

    RIAA maybe trying to imply something?

  15. but the drivers? on MPEG-4 Hardware Decoder For $99 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Coming from sigma designs, you can expect them to get around to releasing the drivers for it in 2008.

  16. Feature fix on Help Test Exciting All-New Slashdot "Banjo" · · Score: 1

    Will the flag icon for topic=usa get its top stripe back?

  17. Lawyers cashing out while they can? on Travesty: Dmitry Sklyarov's Arrest · · Score: 1

    Could it be that the lawyers the tech companies have on retainer are instigating conflicts just to jack up their billable hours?

    They have seen others of their ilk lose time and money through their association with dot coms that went belly up, so there may be a desire to get while the gettings good.

    Shareholders need to question the decision making here, or at least ask their brokerage company for the due diligence report that determined ROT-13 encryption was a good idea.

  18. Sweet on Rambus Loses; Vows to Appeal · · Score: 1

    Memory, memory everywhere. Memory by the bushel. Memory in impulse packging between the gum and the candy bars at the check out counter. These are great days.

  19. Try Ball State's Math Dept. on Searching for Pro-Napster Experts and Speakers? · · Score: 1

    After you strip away all lawyer obfuscation, the entire concept of digital copyrights boils down to the understanding of mathmatics and the application of that understanding to ANY arrangement of ones and zeros in ANY file. The anti-napster people may squirm around the issue, but the only way they could ever truely get what they want would be to declare knowledge of mathmatics illegal; forbidden to be conveyed to others or have in your possesion. That said, Its a futile effort the riaa/mpaa are engaged in. They're just peddling influence and renting senators for some regulation they can siphon some cash from before the colapse of their industry ( as they now know it ).

  20. Does the owners manual have source references? on Sony Violating GPL? · · Score: 1

    Is there any fine print url: mentioned on any piece of paper in the original packaging? Sony might try to cover by claiming to make source available only to those owners that register with sony. The corporate monolith will probably comply with the gpl - eventualy; but only after the open source community burns up resources in the effort. From a practical point; is a url: the best way to provide source for a storage limited device?

  21. Re:What would techs do for humor? on A Home For The Technologically Inept · · Score: 3

    On the flip side; I wonder what percentage of /.'s could identify a pic of a sewing machine floor pedal switch out of a lineup of various mouse types?! Could be interesting / embarasing...

  22. Ugly themes reason for hostility? on Apple Threatens Open Source Theme Project · · Score: 2

    Maybe protecting IP wasn't the purpose here. Could it be that some joe 6-pack's theme offended the aesthetic karma of apple's staff colorists?