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  1. Government on Robotic Kiosk Stores Digital Copies of Physical Keys · · Score: 0

    What happens if the government gets a tie-in to this database like they have in the phone/interne companies?

    "It's just for national security," says the naked guy you find sitting in your bathroom reading your newspaper.

  2. Re:Well... on Happy 20th Birthday, FreeBSD · · Score: 0

    NetBSD was found dead in his bathroom, adter overclocking himself once to often. Never able to keep up with his more famous brothers,netBSD freeBSD and BSD386, he locked himself in his mothers basement and hadn't been seen in years.

  3. Re:Annoying, but courts have already ruled on this on Patent Infringement Suit Includes Linking URLs In an Email · · Score: 0

    Can I patent using a URL "on a computer over the internet"?

    I'll bet nobody thought of using it that way before me!

  4. Re:1995, damnit. on Patent Infringement Suit Includes Linking URLs In an Email · · Score: 0

    I have a proof that I have prior art, butt there's not enough room in this margin to show my proof.

  5. Re:RT-11 SJ and Dungeo? on PDP-11 Still Working In Nuclear Plants - For 37 More Years · · Score: 0

    Look on the simh support sites, and you might be able to find some images for simh. If there isn't one, you can try building your own from the install tapes under simh.

    Once you have an image that works under simh, there are procedures that should allow you to transfer the simh image onto an actual floppy through a serial port.

    There is a simh mail list that you can ask more specific information from. They usually don't mind talking about real hardware.

  6. Re:Will it survive 2038? on PDP-11 Still Working In Nuclear Plants - For 37 More Years · · Score: 0

    the 2038 overflow is mostly a Unix thing.

    It really depends on what OS you are using. A lot of them don't even care about date or time. Others use a different storage format for time. And some of them failed when the date hit 2000.

  7. Add-on on Oculus Rift Raises Another $16 Million · · Score: 0

    If you mounted cameras on the back of this thing, and fed them back into the display, it would be just like you where where you were!

  8. Re:LOL .... on First Particle Comprising Four Quarks Discovered · · Score: 1

    Let's try a car analogy.

    Quarks are like cars. When an accident occurs with a Ford Pinto, a Barbie Convertible (with Ken), and a D-9 Cat g and they lock bumpers, they merge and you end up with a Subaru Legacy Outback.

    See, quarks can make sense in the real world too! Well, at least as much sense as they normally do.

  9. Re:Don't Do The Dig ... on Canadian Couple Charged $5k For Finding 400-Year-Old Skeleton · · Score: 0

    If you pay for it, then shouldn't it belong to you.

  10. Honey on World's Smallest Dual-Core ARM Cortex-A9 Module? · · Score: 1

    Honey, have you seen the server room? I can't remember where I left it. I hope rover hasn’t eaten it again.

  11. Re:Juxtaposed store signs? on Best Buy To Carve Out Space For Microsoft Stores · · Score: 0

    You should be able to get MS-HP Ink, and MS-Sony DVD's in their store. Just be glad they won't sell Linux, or you'll be looking at biyomg a Gnu/Microsoft/Ubunto/HP Laptop. By the time you get done ordering it, and the extra parts and bags (and getting the correct order for the prepended advertisements), it will be obsolete.

  12. Not for DoD on Backyard Brains Shows You How to Remote Control a Cockroach (Video) · · Score: 0

    The DoD won't want these because you can't mount significant weapons on them. For real weapons, you want to mount lasers on sharks!

  13. Re:I'm sorry, but... on The Lepsis Is a Terrarium For Growing Edible Insects At Home · · Score: 2, Insightful

    First, you'll hear reports about people who can't bear to eat their precious grasshoppers, so they have been returning them to the wild.
    Then, you'll hear about the swarms of locusts devastating the countryside.

  14. Re:I'm sorry, but... on The Lepsis Is a Terrarium For Growing Edible Insects At Home · · Score: 0

    With a pig that good, you can't eat it all at once?

  15. Re:Location, location, location on What Can You Find Out From Metadata? · · Score: 0

    With the assorted upgrades made to cell phone location information, in order to help locate victims if another 9/11 occurs, I believe that the location information is probably a lot more accurate than just which towr is closest. Also, they can track the phone even if you are not actively using it.
    I don't know if they are giving this accurate info to the government, but it could easily be used to track your movements. If you thought the IRS causing problems for people who had "Tea Party" in their name, think of what they could do to those who went to an opponents rally.
    They are already linking agencies together to target individual for multiple audits, so expect them to use tracking information to target those who show up at their opponents fundraisers.

  16. Re:I found your problem! on What Can You Find Out From Metadata? · · Score: 0

    But what has Obama done?
      Obamacare is Mit Romney s fault. The high debt is Bushes fault. Enemployment is caused by those kiosks. The IRS stuff is caused by a rogue employee. Gitmo can't be closed because of Congress. He was out of the office during Benghazi.
    He claims that he has done absolutely nothing while in office. It's all someone elses fault.

  17. Obama on TSA Decides Against Allowing Small Knives On Aircraft · · Score: 1

    Obama recently stated that the War on Terror was over, since we killed Al-Qaeda's .leaders, and that the terrorist threat was over. Since the TSA, and Homeland Security, are designed to protect us from terrorists, are they needed any more?

  18. Re:helpful benefits too on Japan's Radiation Disaster Toll: None Dead, None Sick · · Score: 1

    "There is no radiation related problems", said the committee chairman, as ge gesticulated wildly with his tentacles.

  19. Re:"Erased from history"? on Temporal Cloak Erases Data From History · · Score: 0

    This article used to be a DUP.

  20. Can I have them download breakfast to my Kindle?

  21. Re:Win 32bit only? Meh on Google Security Expert Finds, Publicly Discloses Windows Kernel Bug · · Score: 0

    Has anyone converted this to Linux yet? I'd like to try it too!

  22. Re:only way to get it fixed on Google Security Expert Finds, Publicly Discloses Windows Kernel Bug · · Score: 0

    Maybe he didn't have his credit card with him. Posting where he did probably saved him money.

  23. Re:Who cares. on Google Security Expert Finds, Publicly Discloses Windows Kernel Bug · · Score: 0

    If you're really paranoid, you'll have a regular user on an encrypted drive, and a special user in a virtualbox under another OS on an encrypted virtual disk, from which you'll telnet to your bank.

  24. 2 billion on IBM Buys Dallas Based Softlayer For $2 Billion · · Score: 0

    $2 billion? And they couldn't come up with a measley $4 billion to pay off SCO?

  25. Re:I for one welcome our new robot.... on IBM Uses Roomba Robots To Plot Data Center Heat · · Score: 0

    and then they started attacking humans. Soon, FloorNet had us on the run. That's when we built a time machine to send someone back to kill the inventor of the Roomba.