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  1. Marooned in Realtime on True Names · · Score: 2

    Was the first Vinge book I read, back when it was serialized in Analog. Bobbles, life after the infocalypse, and a mystery. Good read.

  2. Doc 2 html on RMS: Putting an End to Word Attachments · · Score: 2

    It may be easy (as he says) to convert doc to html, but you can lose formatting. Auto-numbered lists, especially, seem to get munged in the conversion.

  3. Linux PDA on Slashback: Squashing, N'Synch, Yopy · · Score: 3, Informative
    From ZDNET

    "Royal Consumer Information Products, best known for low-cost commodity appliances like shredders and postal scales, this week became the first to announce a low-cost color PDA based on the Linux operating system.

    The $299 device, set for launch in the U.S. by the middle of this year, will be one of the cheapest color handhelds on the market, and also promises to bring Linux to a wider potential market. New color devices from Palm, for example, cost about $100 more than Royal's handheld. "

  4. Re:I tossed .NET in the fire and this came up! on First (proof-of-concept) .NET virus · · Score: 2
    The meter is much better if you say:

    In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.

  5. Moral implications on The Drone War · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A military commander should value his soldiers lives higher than he does the lives of hostile noncombatants.

  6. That's been happening on The Drone War · · Score: 2

    Yemen, which stonewalled the USS Cole investigation, is going after terrorists in a big way all of a sudden.

  7. Warning, bogon flux on The Drone War · · Score: 2
    If you don't think that Navy Seals have been in Afghanastan since September 12th, and that some of them died before we even declared war, then you shouldn't even speak of war, cause you are out of the loop.

    And you are in the loop? Work for JCS perhaps? Or the CIA? Do you have anything, other than wild conspiracy theories to back up your assertions?

  8. Summary from ZDNET on SuSE No Longer Barred From Selling · · Score: 5, Informative

    Zdnet reports that the "Krayon" app isn't even included in the distro. Also, "Crayon apparently was not interested in pursuing the case" and "In Germany, trademark suits can be filed by any attorney, even if that attorney doesn't represent the trademark holder" So it looks like the lawyer saw the opportunity for a quick kill, and missed.

  9. Pu test cores on Regarding the WWII Meeting of Bohr & Heisenberg · · Score: 2

    They made two cores. One was used at Trinity, the other at Nagasaki. Those two cores were all the US had available for a couple months. The Pu came from Hanford Washington. The Hiroshima bomb was a gun type Uranium bomb, which was so simple it didn't require testing. Which is why people are more worried about enriched uranium getting to terrorists than they are about Plutonium. U is much easier to make a bomb out of.

  10. The chemist was Seaborg on Regarding the WWII Meeting of Bohr & Heisenberg · · Score: 2

    He worked at Berkeley.

  11. ditto Virginia on Driver's Licenses to Become National ID Cards · · Score: 2

    We call it a "walker ID".

  12. I did! on When Spammers Try To Sue You · · Score: 2

    From: "Bernard Shifman"

  13. me too. on When Spammers Try To Sue You · · Score: 2

    At least, I think so. I know that at about that time I got a resume, in doc format, from someone in Chicago. I sent him a "Dear Asshole" reply and added a Rule to kmail. Hmmm, wonder if I saved the resume?

  14. Re:Funniest quote ever on When Spammers Try To Sue You · · Score: 2

    Dewey, Cheatam, and Howe.

  15. I never have mod points on Microsoft Caught Rigging ZD Net Poll · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    when I need them.

  16. Next thing you know on Microsoft Caught Rigging ZD Net Poll · · Score: 4, Funny

    They'll be trolling slashdot and having dead people send letters to their congresscritters.

  17. Chicken of the Sea? on Name The MySql Dolphin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or "Starkist"?

  18. Slide Rule on Texas Instruments Announces New Calculator · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Seriously, that's what we were taught in freshman year of high school. I didn't use a calculator in HS, or College either. I, personally, don't think calculators should be used in high school math classes.

  19. 9-0 decision on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome not a Disability · · Score: 2

    Interesting reading. The disability has to permanently impair "major life activities". Which means more than just the ability to perform the work in a certain job. So if your carpal tunnel syndrome prevents you from keyboarding, but not from driving, cooking, etc, and it's not permanent, it's not a disability. You mean that an inability to type isn't as disabling as losing a leg? Whoda thunk it.

  20. I dunno on How Google Saved USENET · · Score: 2

    It would depend upon the lead time. Given ten years, and a similar budget, I think it could be done. Actually, I think we could get to Mars, given those conditions. It cost, IIRC, $10 billion in the 1960's. These days we wouldn't use a Saturn V. We'd haul the pieces up in space shuttles, assemble them at the space station, and launch from there.

  21. Abmahnungen on Preliminary Injunction Against SuSE · · Score: 3, Informative
  22. Nasa on How Google Saved USENET · · Score: 2

    Nasa has an ongoing program to transfer all their data to new formats. Last I heard they were (still) moving it all from tape to 12" optical disks. They have lots of data.

  23. The recipie: on Review: The Linux Cookbook · · Score: 5, Funny
    • First, catch the penguin.
    • Pluck and clean the bird.
    • Cut up the bird.
    • Since penguins are tough, it will have to be marinated, I recommend overnight in a good strong red wine.
    • Place bird in pot with red wine to cover, some chopped onions, some garlic, the usual herbs.
    • Put pot in preheated 300 degree (Farenheit) oven. Cook for two hours.
    • Strain the sauce, thicken with a roux, spoon over bird bits.
  24. The next Tunguska on Another Asteroid Close Call · · Score: 4, Funny

    But where do we want it too hit? Redmond is too obvious. Washington DC is out, cause I live near there. Hartsfield Airport maybe? Never changing planes in Atlanta again has its attractions... New Holland, Michigan?

  25. Yes, they can on Judge Upholds FBI Keyboard Sniffing · · Score: 3, Redundant

    If they get a warrant first.