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  1. Alpine/iPod integration on iRiver Announces 40G Player & Previews 2004 Line · · Score: 5, Informative

    Alpine has announced that they will demonstrating at CES the first solution that allows users to connect/control their iPod through their in-car system. They'll be able to view playlist, artists, songs, etc. through the Alpine's receiver buttons. And the connector will also charge the iPod. To get more info, write to ipodready@alpine-usa.com.

  2. Both of them were custom built on A Look Inside Virginia Tech's New Super Computer · · Score: 1

    According to http://www.top500.org/list/2003/11/, number 1 and 2 were built all the way back in 2002. But neither uses off the shelf hardware. Both were custom built.

  3. Let me amplify: Why the hell ... on A Look Inside Virginia Tech's New Super Computer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    hasn't anyone else built one yet? The proof-of-concept is done, and let's face it, $5.2 million is tissue money for some companies. Don't they want their own 10 teraflop supercomputer?

  4. Looks like an ad? No, it looks like an ... on A Look Inside Virginia Tech's New Super Computer · · Score: 5, Insightful
    extremely convincing ad.

    Virginia Tech put together a spectacular number 3 ranked supercomputer for a (comparative) pittance in a (comparative) heartbeat. They did it with Apple's latest/greatest. Is it surprising that Apple wants this story told? I'm just shocked that they aren't filling the airwaves with the story (at the very least on every news program that PHBs watch).

  5. The page fails on Netscape 4.x on Microsoft Rolls Out New Anti-Linux Ad Campaign · · Score: 1

    Because there doesn't seem to be the referenced file http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/css/mscorp.css. Oh well, now I'll never know what they were lying about.

  6. You could more easily argue that ... on Interview with Bruce Sterling · · Score: 1

    the rise of Christianity was the cause of the decline of the Roman empire. Romans from the Republic through the Empire loved sculptures, friezes, drawings, plays and festivals all of which could be considered pornographic.

  7. The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse on Interview with Bruce Sterling · · Score: 4, Insightful
    That's funny, but the thing that's peculiar about it is there was always a dark side. There was always the porn/mafia/drug dealer/pedophilia aspect -- the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

    Wow. I hadn't recognized that pr0n is not only comparable to organized crime, drug dealing and child abuse but was also an explicit indicator of the end times. I was thought it was one of the main reasons there WAS an internet in the first place.

  8. iTunes firewall exception question on Windows XP SP2 Beta Reviewed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Does it default allowed or denied? The screenshot shows it checked (allowed) but did it come that way?

  9. Back to blue on Getting Over the Stigma of a Previous Job? · · Score: 1
    When you first posted, it was still showing neutral.gif. Now, it is fan.gif blue.

    And again, thank you.

  10. I'm flattered, but ... on Getting Over the Stigma of a Previous Job? · · Score: 1

    you should check your preferences. You've got a clear grey dot (neutral.gif) right now and you're not on my friends list at the moment.

  11. I'm not even sure of your nom de /. on Getting Over the Stigma of a Previous Job? · · Score: 1

    Obviously you don't work with me. I was just wondering what situation led to you not being allowed into the US? Will having this /. "conversation" with you lead to my being put on an enemy combatants list? Is that John Ashcroft at the door?

  12. Not allowed into the US? on Getting Over the Stigma of a Previous Job? · · Score: 1

    Okay, Frymaster (if that is your real name): Why is it that you're not allowed into the United States?

  13. Just leave out that time period on Getting Over the Stigma of a Previous Job? · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Working for SCO? No, of course not. What was I doing during that time period? Heroin. Lots of heroin"

    At least that's something respectable.

  14. Just English and French? on Shatner to Record Another Album · · Score: 3, Funny

    Considering the fact that he starred in one of the greatest all Esperanto movies ever created, I'd have thought that he'd mention the universal language as well.

  15. First "announced", then "expected to unveil" on iPod Jr. Rumors Become More Substantial · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Interesting how something that is initially described as fait accompli is then described as "expected to unveil".

    I'm not saying Apple isn't going to have them. I'm just saying this is another glorified rumor (or rumour since it's a UK site).

  16. One iPod to rule them all? on A Look Back at Apple's 2003 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Forged in the firewire of Mount Doom

  17. The Panther is hungry on A Look Back at Apple's 2003 · · Score: 3, Funny
    It can't wait to go hunting after that long delayed Longhorn.

    Fortunately for all of us, it lives in peace with the penguins and daemons of the wild.

  18. You're NOT supposed to pick up tiger scat? on New CIA Tech Museum: Spy Scat and Robo-Fish · · Score: 2, Funny
    That goes so far in explaining the guests reactions at my last three dinner parties. Thank you /. for helping me through this whole socialization process.

    By the way, is that limited to tiger scat? Are there acceptable scats to pick up, paw through, wear at a business casual dinner party?

  19. AI Robots aren't enough on A.I. Helicopter? · · Score: 4, Funny
    AI Robots that time travel and try to kill John Conner aren't bad enough. Self-replicating nanobots overrunning the planet aren't bad enough. Computers that can lip read and know that you're going to shut them down so they send one of the pods to kill your fellow astronaut and then won't open the pod bay door aren't bad enough.Computers that can read our minds isn't bad enough.

    Let's build AI helicopters that can track our every move and when the signal comes, march us forward towards the waiting pods where our bioelectric energy will fuel the Robot Overlords rule.

    Okay, really, this time I'm getting my family and heading for the hills. Who's with me?

  20. Now I'll have to stay out even longer ... on Global Dimming · · Score: 1

    to get that even Atom tan.

  21. The important element: WMA on Off-The-Shelf Online Music Stores · · Score: 4, Insightful
    LoudEye does all the work, Microsoft gets check after check for licensing WMA technology and their monopoly is extended once again. Oh, and their highly restrictive DMA grasps tighter at the throats of users around the world.

    I'm looking forward to it.

  22. High level of consistency? on Microsoft's New Core OS Team Learning from Linux · · Score: 0, Troll

    Microsoft doesn't need to study anybody to maintain a high level of consistency as regards the kernel. It is consistently bloated and buggy. It's first thing on the requirements doc and they keep up the effort every single day.

  23. ..if you leave the front door open... on Server CE Database Development with .NET · · Score: 2, Funny
    let's face it, no matter how well you write your app, it won't be secure if you leave the front door open.

    It will be secure if you leave the front door open, but have a tiger pit cleverly disguised just inside the doorway.

    Thieves tend to go to the path of least resistance, and unless they see one of their criminal compatriots plummeting into the tiger pit, or hear the horrible screams that follow, this is their most likely point of attack.

    Or was that just a metaphor?

  24. Does it NEED a password/pin? on DoCoMo Starts Cell Phone Smart Card Trial · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that this is like the speed-pass thing, which just involves swiping and has no other actions. And there is no mention of passwords/pins in the article.

  25. The quote is: on U.S. Spam Law to Take Effect Jan. 1 · · Score: 1
    "We're not going to some white collar resort prison. No, no, no! We're going to federal POUND ME IN THE ASS prison!"

    Office Space (1999)