User: What goes up

I was wrong

On: Oracle Breakable After All

It actually received 3 Offtopic moderations at the same time. I received the following moderations (in order). The times given are the times the e-mails were received.

Insightful (+1) @ 12:50 p.m.
Offtopic (-1) @ 12:50 p.m.
Offtopic (-1) @ 12:50 p.m.
Offtopic (-1) @ 12:50 p.m.

Now for part two I will set the messaging to "Web messages" and see if this makes any difference.

Re:The first Slashdot troll post investigation

On: Oracle Breakable After All

This is a test of the moderation being done to this thread. I have messaging enabled for moderations, and I will report how this post gets moderated. I hypothesize that this post will receive 2 (-1, Offtopic) moderations at the same time, bringing it to -1.

Only a matter of time

On: KaZaa Suspends Downloads

One by one, all the file sharing services will succumb to legal pressures and get shut down. I wish I could defend them, but as much as I hate to admit it, trading of copyrighted material is quite illegal.

I just wish all the record labels would agree on a pay service that gives me (legal) access to almost any music title out there.

I can dream, can't I?

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Mr. Taco, tear down this wall!!!

Re:What about this:

On: 4th Computer Chess Tournament

The Deep Blue computer by IBM was a parallel chess computer. Here is an excerpt from IBM's web page:

The latest iteration of the Deep Blue computer is a 32-node IBM RS/6000 SP high-performance computer, which utilizes the new Power Two Super Chip processors (P2SC). Each node of the SP employs a single microchannel card containing 8 dedicated VLSI chess processors, for a total of 256 processors working in tandem.

If you are referring to a geographically distributed system, similar to distributed.net, I don't think that would work in a chess program. Chess computers require fast communication between processors, which the internet does not provide.
--- Mr Taco, tear down this wall!!!