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  1. Re:SCO's 'legal' theory on SCO Accuses IBM of Destruction of Evidence · · Score: 1

    Problem with 5 is that JFS was originally written for OS/2.

  2. Re:Transport vehicle on 30th Anniversary of Viking Landing on Mars · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Viking landers didn't use wind power to get to Mars, they used SPAM (tm)!

    SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM! Wonderful SPAM!

    Note: SPAM (all caps) is a trademark of Hormel.

  3. Re:How Far Into the Rabbit Hole Are We? on EFF Case Against AT&T To Go Forward · · Score: 1
    However, in the US, treason is legally defined in the Constitution.
    Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
  4. Re:Microsoft Only? on Legal DVD Burnable Downloads Launched · · Score: 1

    I suspect they think that the legislators are *theirs*, since they've bought and paid for them. :-(

  5. Re:Solution on Dvorak Rants on CSS · · Score: 4, Funny
    Actually, that's a good one. Remember those sites that say "This site requires IE..."

    If the user's running IE, redirect to a page that says something to the effect of:

    This page uses standards compliant CSS for layout. You are running IE, which does not render CSS properly. Please upgrade to Opera [link] or Firefox [link] to experience this website properly


    Turnabout is, after all, fair play.
  6. Two letters.... on Worst Tech CEOs Earn the Most Money · · Score: 1, Insightful

    HP.

    I wonder where Carly was on that list.

  7. Re:Old debate on High-level Languages and Speed · · Score: 1

    Re [2]: I believe it was Lattice C.

  8. Re:Warning... on Lithium-Ion Batteries Linked to Airplane Fires · · Score: 1

    Yes, we should use the much safer Oxygen Dihydride :-)

  9. Re:Woodcrest for the high end, Conroe for others on The Future of Apple's Pro Desktop Line · · Score: 1

    No, for $4 more, you get Dell support, direct from Bangalore!

  10. Re:So let me get this straight... on The Fine Print On Wiretapping Review · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is possible to be a traitor without being a terrorist. I can't think of any examples off the top of my head, so if someone could provide one, I'd appreciate it.

    Benedict Arnold.
    The Rosenbergs.

  11. Re:question on Catching Photons Coming from the Moon · · Score: 1

    Do not be fooled by the phrase "Beautiful Downtown Burbank". Burbank is a strange and hostile environment, unfriendly to human survival.

  12. Re:Terrorists? on Northrop to Sell Laser Shield Bubble for Airports · · Score: 1

    You've got it in one.

    The object of this thing is C-RAM (Counter Rocket/Artillery/Mortar). I worked for a whort while on a comparable system.

  13. Re:Protect the Airports? on Northrop to Sell Laser Shield Bubble for Airports · · Score: 1

    Because Smallpox vaccine doesn't protect against the common cold, what's the point of vaccination?

  14. Re:Interesting Things Happen At Excessive Scales on Scientists Question Laws of Nature · · Score: 1

    So can I plug you into my flux capacitor?

    Oh, and for the physics challenged:

    P = VI

  15. Re:The point everyone seems to have missed... on Open Source In the National Interest · · Score: 1

    ...is that Closed Source vendors have opposed Open Source "in the national interest" and "for reasons of security" for some time now. Regardless of whether the DoD ever actually follows through on this, there is now an official statement by the US Government no less that these claims are false

    So you're telling me that Darl McBride was wrong? No! It can't be!!!!!

  16. Re:I pay a tax on blanks on BPI Requests ISPs Suspend Suspected Filesharers · · Score: 1

    Are Jaffa Cakes served by Goa'uld?

    KREE!

  17. Re:From a developper point of vue on Opera Seeks Developer Input For Opera 10 · · Score: 1

    And from a user point of vue: - Extensions

    That's in Opera9. They're called "Widgets".

  18. Re:OK... on Dell Chastized Over Customer Service · · Score: 1

    Here's mine.

    Bought a couple of 2400s for my kids. One of them had problems with the on-board.

    The Broadcomm diagnostics found the problem, but the stock Dell diagnostics wouldn't. Of course, "Brian" from Bangalore (and yes, he was in India) refused to accept the diagnosis, even when an identically configured second machine worked perfectly. Rather than fight them any more, I went out and bought a D-Link card for $10, and dropped it in a PCI slot.

    Dell support sucks.

  19. Re:lost it! on Star Wars Episode III Teaser Trailer Today · · Score: 2, Funny

    your mom is pregnant with an aol executives child.

    Well what do you expect when she runs all over the executive board's table? That was her in those commercials, right?

  20. Re:How does it defeat repeaters? on First Bank Transfer via Quantum Cryptography · · Score: 1

    In essence, the message is "read once."

    In related news, the RIAA announced it was investigating quantum encoding for audio tracks, rendering them uncopyable.

  21. Re:Complicated on First Bank Transfer via Quantum Cryptography · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and we get union scale.

    From a slashdot sig: "Quantum Mechanics -- the dreams stuff is made of".

  22. Re:Remeber TGA/PCX/LBM on What Is The Future of PNG? · · Score: 1

    TIFF is not dead. It is widely used in GIS systems (OK, not TIFF exactly, but GeoTIFF).

  23. Re:FUD! on SCO Shows 80 Lines of Evidence? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What if the kernel changelog shows it was submitted by Sven Hacker in Norway, who never had any contact with IBM?

    SCO might have a case against Sven, but why would they win against IBM?

    I agree with an earlier poster, though. By claiming only 80 lines, it kind of shoots their "Bicycle/Sports Car" analogy in the foot, doesn't it?

  24. Re:big deal on Build Your Own Computer · · Score: 1

    In 1980 as class project, my lab partner and I took 20 chips and built a 4 bit computer in about 3 hours. The instruction set was based on the 4 bit ALU.

    Dude, were you at UC Santa Cruz? That was CIS 120!!!!

  25. Re:Not too far out--really! on Build Your Own Computer · · Score: 1

    We did something similar back in CS111 at UC Santa Cruz in the early 80s. We started with an MSI ALU, and designed a slave CPU. We hooked it up to the parallel port (8255) of a PC clone, and used a control program on the machine as the memory. Fun stuff... We only got to breadboard it, though, no soldering irons or wire wraps.