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  1. What asbout on Jerry Falwell Wins Dispute Over Fallwell.com · · Score: 1

    Rev. Falwell's free speech? And his right to his own name?

  2. We can get humans there on NASA Gives OK to Fix Hubble Telescope · · Score: 1

    it's getting them back that's the problem.

  3. Wouldn't that generate on NASA To Get 10,240 Node Itanium 2 Linux Cluster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    a Beowulf cluster of 503's?

  4. parallelizable on NVIDIA Gives Details On New GeForce 6 · · Score: 0

    Say that 5 times fast.

  5. You had a 6 Mhz Z80? on Cornell Builds Autonomous UAV · · Score: 3, Funny
    Lucky bastard. We had to use a PDP 11/780 on a flatbed!

    Uphill! Both ways! In the snow!

  6. From the latest Byte on Exploring Linux Desktop Myths · · Score: 1

    Pournelle says:"They've made it: a Linux for Aunt Minnie."

  7. I thought the myth was on Exploring Linux Desktop Myths · · Score: 1

    that penguins on TV's exploded.

  8. It never was. on Dr Who, Daleks Kiss And Make Up · · Score: 1

    lashdot requires you to wait 20 seconds between hitting 'reply' and submitting a comment.

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  9. Ummm, no. on The Rise Of Reg-Only Media · · Score: 1

    The idea is to have survivable communications after a nuclear war. Well, that's why US DoD funded it, anyway.

  10. The difference is... on The Rise Of Reg-Only Media · · Score: 2, Insightful

    at a vending machine you're buying the newspaper with a quarter. How do you pay for it online? With information. Or (as at Salon.com) sitting through some advertisement. Advertisers want to know the demographics of the people seeing the ads. At Slashdot that's easy to figure out, at NYTimes or WashingtonPost it's not. Thus the registration.

  11. Only with Firefox on Debian Aims For September Release Date · · Score: 1

    Haven't seen it yet with IE.

  12. Let's see... on Debian Aims For September Release Date · · Score: 5, Funny
    Doom III released... Check

    Sarge released... Check

    Slashdot works better with Internet Explorer than with Firefox... Check

    Walls bleeding...Check.

    Yup, it's the End Times.

  13. Z-160 on AMD Releases Sempron Earlier Than Expected · · Score: 1, Funny

    Twice as good as a Z-80!

  14. It's A Sign Of The End Times! (n/t) on Netscape 7.2 To Be Released August 3rd · · Score: 0

    Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment ... like the body or the subject!) ,/i>

  15. So is my UID... on Sony U-70 Micro PC Reviewed · · Score: 1

    But, yes, USB (and 1394) plug and play do work very well. Much better than the old PCI (and ISA) plug and play did back then.

  16. It can on Sony U-70 Micro PC Reviewed · · Score: 1

    it has a USB port. Plug 'n' Pray.

  17. -pedantic on Open Source a National Security Threat · · Score: 1
    But letters are words!

    On some architectures, anyway.

  18. That's three words.. on Open Source a National Security Threat · · Score: 1

    N S A. Three words. Not one.

  19. Re:Speaking of censorship.... on Japanese Balloon Battle · · Score: 1

    Even today one of the quickest ways to get the shit beat out of you is to call a Korean a Jap.

  20. how he got into that on Army Plans Overhaul of Infantry Gear · · Score: 1
    Well, first he made it through Officer Basic course. Then Infantry Officer Course. Then jump school. Then Ranger School, one of the toughest 11 weeks anyone will ever experience. Then several years as a Lt Plt Ldr, then a couple years as Co XO. Various staff assignments interspersed throughout.

    He probably took lots of technical training too.

  21. Actually, they can on Army Plans Overhaul of Infantry Gear · · Score: 1

    Soviet equipment was designed to be able to use captured US/NATO supplies.

  22. teaching the basics on Army Plans Overhaul of Infantry Gear · · Score: 1

    The Army and Marine Corps still teach the bayonet.

  23. From The April 98 Byte: on IBM's Mainframe Dinosaur Turns 40 · · Score: 4, Interesting
  24. preview is my friend... on C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3 · · Score: 1
    something that people who've never done it don't understand

    arrgh.

  25. 800k ROM just for the graphics on C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3 · · Score: 1
    QT would be used where you wanted a very rich interface, and fitting that into 800k is amazing.

    Now, yeah, if you only have 400k then you don't want QT. You want something that's much lighter and has fewer features. But that's the nature of embedded programming and something that people who've never done it understand. You're highly constrained by the platform. Just as we were back in the day when 640k was all you had for os, code, and data on a 16 bit platform.