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  1. Re:Things on Tap-Tap-Tapping the Net · · Score: 1

    'Papers' are mentioned distinctly from other stuff. I'd say that this indicates an intention to include documents (and hence the information contained) of whatever form.

  2. Slashdot spelling failure yet again on New Virus Can Strike Via HTML E-Mail · · Score: 1

    I always thought that the plural of 'virus' was 'viruses'. But then, I also think that the plural of 'box' is 'boxes', so what do I know?

  3. Re:"Plagiarize" is the correct spelling ;-) on Mainstream Media on Slashdot and Microsoft · · Score: 1

    At least he didn't put in all the pronunciation crap. That really gets my goat.

  4. Re:Conspiracy Theory? on ICANN Board Election Results · · Score: 1

    No other software crashes more, has as many bugs and faults, and is as hard to integrate with

    You haven't seen the crap I write :-)

  5. Re:100% Metric on Mars Orbiter Lost Over Metric Conversion Error · · Score: 1

    Err, no. A metre is defined as so many wavelengths of the light produced by a certain orbital transition in IIRC krypton.

  6. Re:Flowers for Algernon on Genetic engineering boosts mouse intelligence · · Score: 1

    My friend swears that the Michael Jackson song "Ben" is about Flowers for Algernon. Surely it's not, is it?

  7. What would be really cool... on FBI Keeps Seized Computers up to Five Years · · Score: 1

    If the Feds are building a Beowulf cluster...

  8. Assembly, pah on Vintage Computers on the New York Times · · Score: 1
    I used to code Z80 on the ZX81. You had to write your code in assembler, by hand, then look in the back of the manual where they had all the Z80 opcodes listed, and look for the hex that was your instruction. You left spaces for the relative jumps and counted the bytes later. All programs used to start

    2A 0C 40 ld hl, (16396) 'load the hl register with the first byte of the screen array

    When I started using ZASM, the assembler on the RML380Z at school, I was sure it stood for Z80-orgasm.

  9. "Microsoft hit by Cult of the Dead Cow" on BO2K cracked · · Score: 1

    This story by Julian Borger, in today's Guardian (UK newspaper) contains the following:

    "True to the hacker's word, anyone curious enough to log into the cult's website will find his or her computer automatically infected with a virus."

    How true is this?