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  1. Re:Not really on Power Failure Shuts Down 50 US Nuclear Missiles · · Score: 1

    My prof mentioned this yesterday, actually. He worked for AT&T at the time and he said that all the fault tolerance systems flagged all neighboring nodes as in an error state, so they incorrectly all ignored each other.

  2. Re:Mixed Feelings on Google CEO Confirms Social Integration · · Score: 1

    Plural is the British usage, and singular is American.

  3. Re:Oh, Those Evil Conservative Christians!! on Alan Turing Apology Campaign Grows · · Score: 1

    Here it is: [link]

  4. "lodge opposition"... on Amazon Gift Ordering Patent Revoked In EU · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...Is that when the Elks make trouble for you?

  5. Re:Why even have electronic/computer voting? on Researchers Crack Every Certified CA Voting Machine · · Score: 1

    The rules in my district (Yolo County, CA) are that paper is indeed the main device for voting, and so the voting system is used as a glorified copier and tallyer. Of course, they need to keep around some DRE machines to comply with HAVA.

    I'm also a member of the UC Davis E-voting Committee, headed by Matt Bishop. We personally looked at the Hart Intercivic voting system that's used in Yolo County.

  6. Doesn't TCP... on FastTCP Commercialized Into An FTP Appliance · · Score: 1

    ...already use a smoothed moving average of RTTs? (Remembered from a few terms old networking class)

  7. So after Google does this you could say... on Google to Offer Free Wi-Fi? · · Score: 1

    Everybody's got the Feeva?

  8. Re:Drudge - WTF?!? on NASA Scrubs Launch Due to Faulty Fuel-Tank Sensor · · Score: 3, Funny

    I totally read that as Kentucky Space Chicken.

  9. Re:Steam on Japan Probes Mysterious Vapor Eruption · · Score: 1

    Yeah, whoever invented steam sucks! Ah, Dane Cook, truly a man among men.

  10. Re:Speling and gramer on Hackers, Spelling, and Grammar? · · Score: 1

    Not sure if this was intentionally misspelled, as the title clearly was, but grammer in the body should be grammar.

  11. Lycos... on For Sale: Lycos.com · · Score: 3, Funny

    Come get some.

  12. Viral Sig Mutation on Apple Sued in France for iPod Music Royalties · · Score: 1

    V nz n abg irel rssrpgvir iveny fvt. Cyrnfr uryc zr fcernq naq zhgngr. ...it appears that ROT13 is not a beneficial mutation.

  13. Don't WASTE code... on Properly Contributing to Open Source While on Company Time? · · Score: 1

    Just put your company's code up on the Internet under the GPL.

  14. Re:PULLED on AOL Pulls Nullsoft's WASTE · · Score: 1

    Ab, yes. Because we know the over-arching purpose of slashdot is the survival of servers...

  15. Lifetime? on SonicBlue (Replay/Rio) Bought By D&M · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Lifetime support has always meant the lifetime of the company. They got what they paid for; it was a gamble, and, unfortunately, they lost.

  16. Dynamic Zoning on Airships Tested As Two-Way Telecom Beacons · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd like to see how they handle the dynamic zone changes as the beach balls drift around.

  17. Re:Any of the Feynman Lectures ... will kill you! on Physics Books for the Novice? · · Score: 1

    Just a small pet peeve. It's Caltech. Not CalTech, or CALtech, and certainly not Caltek. And my God it is NOT CalTek. That's the worst perversion of the abbreviation I've seen yet.

    -The Good Sumerian (Hoping to get into Caltech

  18. Re: Seven Days Project on National Security Cuts Into NASA's Plutonium · · Score: 1

    It's called the Backstep Project, I believe.

  19. Re:Read this on Star In A Jar · · Score: 1

    Also the exact same concept in Earth, by David Brin, I think.

  20. I Don't See What's So Difficult... on U.S. Judge To Hear Yahoo! Web-Blocking Case · · Score: 1

    Is it so hard to simply not permit shipping of Nazi memorabilia to France, or is there more to it than that?