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  1. good luck on Finding a Tech Museum For Your Beloved Retired Computer(s) · · Score: 2

    About 2002, i tried to find a museum to take a VaxStation II with a serial number of WFPROTO001 and still no takers. Unless it fits with with they're looking for and particularly rare, it's unlikely a museum wants what you might have on offer.

  2. Re:What about,,, on Honoring Alan Turing, "Father of Computer Science" · · Score: 1

    And if you bring up them, how about when they go and fight crime!

  3. Re:Many Avenues to Help on Disaster Recovery For Haiti's Cell Phone Networks · · Score: 1

    The Comfort is not on its way as of 1300. It was in port in Baltimore.

  4. Re:comets on Is Earth's Atmosphere an Import? · · Score: 1
    > You forgot to capitalize an instance of "water" in your first and last sentences. I also think you should capitalize "moons", "worldly", and "substances", for good measure.

    What are You, German?

  5. normal for Fairfax County on Computer Failure Causes Gridlock In MD County · · Score: 1

    Just across the river in Fairfax County, Virginia, this is the normal behavior for lights. In fact, i suspect some of them are timed so as you get released from one light, the next one (200m away) turns red.

  6. Re:Slashdot shoud buy Sun . . . on What If Oracle Bought Sun Microsystems? · · Score: 1

    Start putting together a deal. Publicize it. Be open and transparent. If you're legitimate and it's viable, I'll put in a lot more than $10.

  7. Re:great news on Court Nixes National Security Letter Gag Provision · · Score: 1
    George Bush has proven that the American constitution has no teeth.

    No, but it does have shoes.

  8. how to write unmaintainable code on Best Reference Site For Each Programming Language? · · Score: 3, Funny

    This site is good for a number of languages, particularly for Java. Just read it and do the opposite.

  9. Re:Surprising on Yahoo Offers Compensation For Unplayable Music · · Score: 1

    Maybe Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo because they're tired of even them making them look bad? -- We are all little storms.

  10. flickr on Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Takeover Offer · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And a million (give or take) flickr users breathed a sigh of relief (and of course narcissistically photographed themselves breathing that sigh of relief).

  11. GIS / geography on Disillusioned With IT? · · Score: 1

    I was in your shoes after a little more than 12 years in programming. I'm back in school studying Geography and Geographic Information Systems. Is the eventual job going to be IT? Maybe, but there's also a lot more possibilities out there too.

    More to your point, see if there's something else that interests you that leverages your experience but also takes you in a different direction. Geography is it for me, what's it for you?

  12. not best, but one guy's try on What Are the Best Laptop Theft Recovery Measures? · · Score: 1

    I saw this sign on the street in downtown Washington. I don't know how well it worked out for him, but it's pretty much an act of desperation for him at this point.

  13. Re:divergence of interest... on Canada Blocks Sale of Space Tech Company To US · · Score: 1

    Oh, i've heard of bathymetry, and your post even got me looking to make sure it's not being done by radar and it's not, at least not directly. Satellite based bathymetry is done by measuring sea surface altitude and then matching that up with perturbations in the local gravity (usually detected from another satellite). It can give results with resolutions of around 100 m. I believe it can do ship detection and classification, but those ships are on the surface.

  14. Re:divergence of interest... on Canada Blocks Sale of Space Tech Company To US · · Score: 1

    they can, I imagine, spot submarines as well,

    To the best of my knowledge (i'm working on my masters in Geography / Remote Sensing), radar can't penetrate water. So on the surface, yes it could see a submarine, but if it's submerged, it's still invisible to this.

    Not that the US isn't paranoid ab't this stuff, it's just i don't think it's ab't submarines in this case.

  15. yahoo owns flickr on Shareholder Backs Yahoo!, Supports Independence · · Score: 1

    Flickr has always embraced 3rd party utilities and has an API that allows you to roll your own application using the photos on their site. They also are pretty up front with their attitude of "the service is ours, but the photos remain the photographer's". If Microsoft buys them, how long will that last?

  16. Re:Double-edged sword on Google to Begin Storing Patients' Health Records · · Score: 1

    What makes you think INS will take google's say so that you've been immunized, and if you're the one responsible for putting the data into their system, it's just your say so. It might be useful for your own records (or it might creep you out), but i wouldn't expect it to be able to count as evidence...

  17. Re:COTS is the problem. on Narrowing the Space Flight Gap · · Score: 1

    Actually Landsat 6 wasn't built or launched by the government (not sure about how much they had to do with the design. Of course, it failed to reach orbit after being delayed for several years.

  18. Re:So what happens if the magnetic field changes? on Bird's-Eye View May Include Magnetic Fields · · Score: 1

    And given how long birds have been around and how many times the magnetic field has flipped in that history, those that couldn't adapt, didn't, and evolution is what happened.

  19. Re:Teachers on High Paying Jobs in Math and Science? · · Score: 1
    If you somehow think that this doesn't apply to teachers just as much as it applies to anyone else, then you have a very distorted view of teaching.

    Wonder where i learned that?

  20. terrorism is about creating fear on Webcomic Author Deemed a Terrorist Threat · · Score: 1

    So if someone gets scared, i guess you're a terrorist. I'd say, "Laugh, it's a joke", but it's a more realistic definition that i've seen put forward lately...

  21. Re:Breaking News on Netcraft Shows Smartech Running Ohio Election Servers · · Score: 1

    It's actually kind of sad. Carter was probably the most intelligent president in US history. He just sucked as president. I can't say it was all his fault, but things were better when he took office than when he left and things were much, MUCH better after four years of Reagan.

    Say what you want about Carter as president. He's the best ex-president we've had since Teddy Rosevelt.

  22. aol on Can Apple Penetrate the Corporation? · · Score: 1

    Believe it or not, AOL had a huge Macintosh contingent. Among their server developers it was something like 75% using one as their primary machine. Of course, there was a PC (mostly Dells) on the desktop as well. I really missed giving mine up when i left.

    markus

  23. blur THIS! on Google to Blur Sensitive India Sites · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah? Then blur this! -- SIGFING. Except on BSD where it's SIGBIRD.

  24. Re:The NEW 640k quote... on Spam Volume Jumps 35% In November · · Score: 1

    "Two years from now, spam will be solved" - Bill Gates

    Yes, but this time, he'll always be right.

  25. differing ideas of simplicity on Norman & Spolsky - Simplicity is Out · · Score: 1

    So, what do people mean when they ask for simplicity? One-button operation, of course, but with all of their favorite features.

    Actually, no, i don't think simplicity is one-button operation. It's having a control do one very simple thing. My camera has a separate button for its manual focus and macro functions because it's simpler to use that way rather than have a single button sometimes mean manual focus and sometimes mean macro.