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  1. I'll buy my next smart watch when someone makes it on People Still Aren't Buying Smartwatches -- and It's Only Going To Get Worse (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I kickstarted the Pebble (grey). It wasn't bad at all, though getting it took a while. AndroidWear looked awesome to me. I ordered a Moto 360 the day they became available to order, and then I wore it until its battery gave out nearly two years later. At that point, I was all set to order a 3rd generation Moto 360, but Motorola cancelled it. I was eager for what became the LG Watch Sport when it was a rumored Google release, but the thing was huge. Every so often I look at what is available, but nothing calls to me like the Moto 360 did.

    Meanwhile, my first smartwatch, an old Ironman Datalink, keeps chugging along.

  2. Re:An audible keyboard is like audible links on Old-School Keyboard Makes Comeback of Sorts · · Score: 1

    I, and the Model M at my fingertips, will respectfully disagree. I use one at work, one at home, and keep some spares around.

    However, I will agree with you about IE's (and Windows Explorer's) obnoxious click sound. That's one of the first the first things I disable after a fresh Windows install.

  3. I'm reminded of a story... on Give Your DVD Player The Finger · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Am I the only one reminded of The Right to Read, by Richard Stallman?

    http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

  4. The Convention on Time Travelers' Convention · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I went, and let me tell you, it will have been a blast!

  5. Re:Respect is earned on Google Revises Usenet Search · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We'll agree to disagree on this then.

    While GG is not an NNTP server (as far as I know), it's basically a kind of USENET server where "a while" is defined in the same way as "for limited times" is effectivly defined for copyright, along with some nifty search features.

  6. Re:Respect is earned on Google Revises Usenet Search · · Score: 2, Insightful

    People who post to usenet do so knowing damn well they're posting to a public forum that will be replicated to servers around the world. I don't know about you, but I think that implies that the "work" enters the public domain, or is otherwise public information.

    That said, the loss of features disappoints me, and I hope those /. readers at Google rectify the situation quickly.

  7. Re:i threw up a mirror of sp2 on Windows XP SP2 Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    I'm getting 1.14MB/Sec right now, it'll be done by the time I finish this post.

  8. Re:tough competition on Hall of Fame Voting For Computer Museum of America · · Score: 1

    Preview, not submit!
    continuing...

    See http://www.computerhalloffame.org/

  9. Re:tough competition on Hall of Fame Voting For Computer Museum of America · · Score: 2, Informative

    While Wozniak and Jobs might have been worthy candidates, the fact that they're already in the Computer Hall of Fame (inducted in 2000) probably disqualified them from being nominated again.

    See the

  10. Re:A good quote. on SCO: Code Proof Analyzed, Linus Interviewed · · Score: 1

    worse? It feels just about the same to me. Every SCO story is a dupe. :)

    At least I get a laugh out of them.

    this is not the .sig you are looking for.
    -Link310

  11. This seems like as good a time as any on The Disappearance of Saturday Morning · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Reminds me of my old favorites, in no particular order:
    The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda
    Fantastic Max
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    Voltron
    Gummy Bears
    Midnight Patrol (does anyone else remember this one?)
    Sonic the Hedgehog (That's Sonic SatAM, the cool and well animated one, not the crappy ones)

    probably a bunch more I can't remember anymore

    And possibly my worst favorite SatAM memory:
    the death of Gargoyles...why did they ever move it out of the afternoon lineup? grr

    It also is interesting to see some of the old classics (for me anyways...I know that's a relative term) being brought back, like the new He-Man cartoon (not to be confused with The New Heman, which sucked) and the new Turtles cartoon.

  12. Legend of Zelda, Chrono Trigger, and Chrono Cross on What Games Have Actually Affected You? · · Score: 1

    Those "three" (Zelda counts for more than one, really) are my top favorites. I always got sucked into their plots and am a big fan of their soundtracks.

  13. Re:GOT A GNOME PROBLEM?? on MIT Gnome Invasion · · Score: 1

    Troll? You've gotta be kidding...I should be madded informative or something!

    (Actual invoice recieved by MIT's Student Information Processing Board, modified to pass the /. lameness filter)

    Rooms sprayed
    Name sq. ft

    W20-575C 1,105
    W20-575D 654
    W20-575F 1,080
    W20-575G 1,070

    3,909 sq. feet

    KDE usage
    KDE canisters used: 3

    (KDE is Kompressed Degnoming Essence, our patented formula for guaranteed Gnome removal)

    Gnomes Relocated
    Number room

    1 W20-575F

    Total bill
    128K (in cache, please)

  14. Re:GOT A GNOME PROBLEM?? on MIT Gnome Invasion · · Score: 1, Troll

    KDE* was in fact used to eliminate the Gnome infestation.

    *Kompressed Degnoming Essence

  15. Re:Why UNIX kernel must not be GPLed! on Analysis of SCO vs. IBM · · Score: 1

    Naw, nothing that bad would happen. GNU would just vanish in a puff of logic, and that puff itself would coalesce into a new entity:
    GNU (GNU's Now Unix)

  16. Re:superman! on New Substrate Tech Creates System LCDs · · Score: 2

    IBM, Thinkpad 755CV. It's an old, but spiffy laptop...Ted Selker still has one (I believe it was his idea in the first place...), and I've actually played with it.

    See figure 6 of this document for a picture. See this article for more info. Then, if you want more, ask google.

  17. Re:First problem with this solution: on Lessig Wagers His Job On Anti-Spam Theory · · Score: 1

    The key with a Bayesian filter is that it learns. Whatever the spammers do, the filter should be able to learn to deal with. Spam looks different from your normal mail (at least I hope your non-spam email doesn't look like spam), uses different words, has different characteristics. So long as this is true, they can't get past a bayesian filter for long if at all.

  18. Re:How much? on Knoppix for Rapid Desktop Deployment · · Score: 5, Funny

    It typically costs at least a few hours of downtime on your server, and possibly a surge in bandwidth usage.

    /. is not responsible for increased bandwidth usage due to a slashdotting or any costs incured.

    Please submit ads using the "submit story" link on the side of the page. Things to include:
    * A simple way for people to bash microsoft.
    * Something that can be turned into a beowulf cluster.

  19. Re:Horseshoe orbit? on Earth's Little Brother Found · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.paias.com/paias/home/Science/Newton/New t8Fig5Orbits.htm explains it. From what I understood, it's actually orbiting the L4 and L5 Lagrange points of earth.

    This picture illustrates it pretty well.

  20. Re:The eternal question... on Connectors: A History of Their Technology? · · Score: 1

    Reading carefully improves the usefulness of the Preview button... /s/Cayonet/Bayonet/

  21. Re:The eternal question... on Connectors: A History of Their Technology? · · Score: 2, Informative

    My book of more network information than you can shake a stick at says:

    Several possiblilities are usually suggested as to the origin of the term BNC:
    - British Naval Connector
    - Bayonet Nut Connector
    - Cayonet-Neill-Concelman (probably the correct explaination somce the connector was named after Neill and Concelman, its two creators)

    [Encyclopedia of Networking, v2. Tulloch and Tulloch]

  22. Re:Awesome on PGP Acquired From NAI · · Score: 1

    I had that problem...did some research into the issue with google/deja and found out what happened. Having another net-connected computer was useful for this.

    Turns out that PGP disabled the IPSec Service for some reason, and IPSec seems to be more than the name implies. I think it's most or all of IP, including the IP Stack as well (not sure, but an educated guess here). Of course I also uninstalled PGP entirely and then reinstalled without the VPN Components.

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  23. Re:"Europe must take back the Web" on A Private European Internet? · · Score: 1

    Point taken.
    Heh...I actually learned something on /. today.

  24. "Europe must take back the Web" on A Private European Internet? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Umm...taking it back implies it was theirs to begin with. Although I do agree that the web should be an international thing, didn't the US start the whole thing? I think it'd be a shame to start up segregated internet-like things that aren't the internet, but lets get one thing straight: They can't "take back" what wasn't "theirs" to begin with.

    Of course, the article does have a point...the US has passed laws, and is considering laws, that suck, and could be outright unconstitutional. (DMCA and its kin)

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  25. The (Meta)Zone on Gaming Zone? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder if reserarchers ever go into the zone while researching the zone? Would this be a meta-zone perhaps? Did these scientists reach that meta-zone? We should get some people on this quick!

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