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  1. Re:Depends on the scope on How Fast is Your Turnaround Time? · · Score: 1

    of the issue.

    part of the sentence. Is SlashDot deleting some

  2. Re:The special hardware exists on 386s and later on MIT Releases the Source of MULTICS, Father of UNIX · · Score: 2, Interesting

    simh already handles 36 bit emulation for the PDP10. There is one eample to use if nothing else.

  3. Source? on MIT Releases the Source of MULTICS, Father of UNIX · · Score: 2, Interesting

    (it's the complete MR12.5 source dumped at CGI in Calgary in 2000, including the PL/1 compiler)

    Looking at random files, I see copyright notices dated 2006, so how can this be a dump from 2000?
    See the bottom of http://web.mit.edu/multics-history/source/Multics/tools/install_volume_backup.ec for example.

  4. Re:things that make you go hmmmm.... on MA Proposes Two Year Jail Term for Online Gambling · · Score: 1

    Standard operating procedure. You can tell when it's a democrat doing something stupid, because they leave off the party affiliation. If it's a republican, you can be sure that the party affiliation will be firmly attached. It's not like the press is biased in any way, is it? Makes you wonder what other news they are playing with.

  5. Any chance on MLB Fans Who Bought DRM Videos Get Hosed · · Score: 1

    Any chance that they can do this to my neighbors vacation movies?

  6. Why is this news for nerds again? on House Narrowly Avoids Having to Debate Impeachment of Cheney · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why is this news for nerds again?

    Oh, Keep forgetting the full quote:

    News for nerds, and propaganda against G.W Bush and the evil Americans.

  7. Re:Replacement had Nothing to do with it! on House Narrowly Avoids Having to Debate Impeachment of Cheney · · Score: 1

    the 17th president who was impeached.

    Who were the first 16 to be impeached?

  8. Heard saying on Microsoft CIO Stuart Scott Gets Axed · · Score: 0, Redundant

    He was heard saying "I can't find any copyright violations in Linux."

    They fined him $699, and canned him.

  9. Re:This is Sun's Fault on OpenDocument Foundation To Drop ODF · · Score: 1

    With a few small additions,

    Beyond the addition of an optional "doc" flag, which would contain the Word file encoded using a highly advanced and extended version of double rot13, what else would Microsoft want?

  10. Illegal wiretap on The Khaki Bandit Strikes At IT - 130 Stolen Laptops · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is another case of an illegal wiretap of American citizens! They did not get a warrent from the FISA court before installing the software on his laptop, making it completely illegal. This is an abuse of private citizens by an overzealous government! This poor fellow should be immediately freed, his criminal history cleared, and an apology with monetary reimbursements for his trouble! The owners of the Outback Steakhouse should immediately be imprisoned for casuing this travesty of justice!

  11. Who gets to be first on Astronauts Open ISS Station Room · · Score: 2, Funny

    Astronauts added the school bus-sized room

    Who gets to be the first to moon the Earth?

  12. Re:Pirated version? on Driver Update Can Cause Vista Deactivation · · Score: 1

    Thus saving the root kit installers the 15 seconds it takes for a Windows system to be comprimised?

  13. Re:sputnik? no. Launcher? hell yeah. on Make Your Own Sputnik · · Score: 1

    Well, I built my own rocket from surplus nigerian car parts, and it flies up to 7 feet high. The local space administration refused to make me their preferred supplier of satellite launches, and are wasting money on an expensive foreign establishment. My next version should reach up to 15 feet!

  14. Re:Project Gutenberg... on Internet Archive Challenges Google · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why not hear it from several authors, from one publisher:

    http://www.baen.com/library/

    Several authors use older releases as bait to tempt you to buy more recent books.

    Project Gutenberg is concerned mostly with old, out of copyright books, author usually long dead. Many of these books would be unavailable otherwise.

  15. Why shouldn't they buy? on Home-made Helicopters in Nigeria · · Score: 1

    I don't see why Nigeria wouldn't buy his helicopter, beyond the few problems:
    1. Built from random car parts. Parts from broken cars, obviously quality material to start with. Better make sure your junk yard is properly stocked with old buicks.
    2. Maximum altitude is 15 feet. But if anything goes wrong, you can just jump to the ground.
    3. Carrying capacity. If it can lift one person 15 feet, how high can it lift with 1 ton of cargo?
    4. Besides the maker, who are you going to convince to trust their life to this?

  16. What it really would be on First Details of Windows 7 Emerge · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ok, need smaller kernel. Grab a copy of Linux. Nobody will know because we don't let them see the souce code anyway. We'll do something stupid to hide all the boot messages behind a scroll bar.

    Next, graphical system. Swipe X.Open. Nobody will know because we don't let them see the souce code anyway.

    Now, we need a gui interface. Either gneme or kde will work for that since they both want to look exactly like Windows anyway. Just a couple of tweaks to the graphics to change the command button to "start", and nobody will know because we don't let them see the souce code anyway.

    Now, we need windows compatibility. Wine. What more needs to be said. ....

  17. Re:Congratulations Al! on Al Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize with UN Panel · · Score: 1

    well publicised "Artic ice melt"

    I've been told, many times, that if the ice caps melted, the sea would rise at least 30 feet. Now we have, from the many news reports, that more than 30% of the artic ice cap has melted. So, where is the rise in the sea level? It should be up more than 5 feet, which ought to be easily measured by examining the sunken cities along the coast.

  18. Re:No confidence on Al Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize with UN Panel · · Score: 1

    All the "research" I've seen on this has been nothing more than a poll. It's like using a "slashdot poll" to determine which is heavier, a cup of water or a cup of tomato juice. Nothing is proved by a poll, and you won't have the truth without actually weighing them. It's been mostly "bad science", and until they operate on this using actual science instead of religious panderings, I'm not going to be impressed by any of it. A lot of this "consensus" is from people who have been threatened with a loss of funds if they don't agree.

    A "consenses" without any research behind it is nothing more than a poll. If you evangelize enough, you can get a consensus from a group of school girls that Pee-Wee Herman is really hot, especially if you promise them money for saying so. It still doesn't make it true.

  19. Re:Doubt it on Dragonfly-Sized Insect Spies Spotted, Denied · · Score: 1

    In the 1960s and 70s spy sats still dropped film back to earth using a parachute because they didn't have high the digital imaging that you can find in the average digital camera.

    That's what "the man" wants you to think! Isn't the government the one who told you this? It's obviously technology based on the Area-51 alien crash!

  20. Space Monkey? on Space Money Invented For Space Tourists · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else misread this as Space Monkey Invented For Space Tourists?

    It caused some very strange thoughts about how a Space Monkey would be used.

  21. Re:Uhh, Price? on 640gb PCIe Solid-State Drive Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    At $30/GB, that would make an 80GB drive around $2,400. Hopefully the price will eventually come down, as "He even hinted that the company is looking into some gaming applications, but didn't want to give any further details."

    So, a playstation 4 starting at $5,000 for the 80Gb unit, and $25,000 for the 640 Gb unit?

  22. Re:Mail Fraud eh? on Justice Department's Bio-terror Mistake · · Score: 1

    If you were going to build actual biological weapons, wouldn't you first test your equipment with something less lethal, in order to find problems in the system that might infect yourself? How hard is it to take something that produces "non-lethal" bioweapons to "lethal"? All you need to do is change your bug.

    So, was it a "performance piece", or is it really a "test", which "accidently" ended up killing his wife?

    Also, what happens if his "non-lethal" bug mutates?

    This is just another stupid "artist", with less common sense than God gave to houseflies. Another "lets take a fake bomb to the airport and see what happens" kind of idiot, who is surprised when people get upset.

  23. Re:Terror is winning on Justice Department's Bio-terror Mistake · · Score: 1

    But perhaps you think that journalists who smuggle guns on airplanes and then reveal the flaws in airport security to the public should be thrown in jail as well.

    Haa haa! No, officer, I'm not trying to smuggle a crate of plutonium to a terrorest cell, I'm just a journalist testing your security. Haa haa! See, no problem at all. Haa haa! You didn't happen to read my article about how evil Americans are, and how they should all be killed with nuclear bombs, did you? See, ligitimate journalist, not a terrorist! Haa haa!

  24. Re:Can you blame them really? on Less Than 2 Percent of UK Companies Have Upgraded Windows · · Score: 1

    I'll finally be able to run our Numerical Weather Forecasting system

    Are you trying to forecast weather, or cause it? The heat coming off those things will need to be included in any accurate forecast.

  25. Moving up. on Microsoft No Longer a 'Laughingstock' of Security? · · Score: 1

    They have advanced in their strategy to control all bad security. Moving on from laughing stock, they should soon have complete mastery of the entire laughing lock, stock, and barrel categories.