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  1. 16 Systems a FRAUD?? on The Great Zero Challenge Remains Unaccepted · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Anybody find an archive of the "The Great Zero Challenge"?

    16 Systems website looks like is a web-page assignment from an 1980's HTML tutorial.

    The services listed are BASIC/Javascript end-of-chapter exercises.

  2. Googolomania on Reading Google Chrome's Fine Print · · Score: 2, Funny

    Google: "We can coexist, but only on my terms. The choice is yours: Obey me and live, or disobey and die."

  3. Chicken Dance on Any Suggestions For a Meaningful Geeky Wedding Band? · · Score: 1
    All wedding bands have to play the chicken dance! and line dances.

    ...Uh, yeah.

  4. Hot Air Ducting on Cost-Effective Server Room Air Conditioning? · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Install separate ductwork for hot air expulsion.

    The hot air is expelled from the server cabinets, into the hot air ductwork, and out of the building.

    Don't blow equipment heated air into the air-conditioned facility.

  5. Re:braces && 3 year olds on Best and Worst Coding Standards? · · Score: 2, Funny

    The 3 year olds were at test at Stephens College (Columbia Mo) in their preschool education classes around 1986 or so. There are published papers but I've got no idea where to find them to cite them.

    These 3 year olds were given a 10 minute time out and a grape juicebox. During the timeout, the 3 year olds developed time travel, went back, deleted the test and grape juiceboxes.

  6. Privacy for $$$ on Cell Phones Tracking Nightlife Activity · · Score: 1
    "I know where you were! I know who else is where you were!"

    "I know where you are! I know who else is where you are!"

    "I know who you call! I know who calls you"

    "Now about your text messaging -- Let's talk $$$!

  7. Nanny Verizon on Verizon Cutting Access To Entire Alt.* Usenet Hierarchy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will Verizon make sure all eat right, bathe occasionally, wipe their ass in the proper direction?

  8. Old Idea on Pentagon Wants Kill Switch For Planes · · Score: 1
    During the 1980's, a USAF base commander in Europe wanted a "kill switch" for ALL RF radiators on his base. His vision was a master switch in his base command post that would shutdown all navigational, search, & weather radars, and ATC & command/control radios.

    Years later, the same man proposed all longitudes/latitudes of USAF installations be classified. His vision was GPS could not be used to guide aircraft and missiles to target.

    Nobody explained horseshoes, nuclear weapons & proximity to him.

  9. Extreme Temperature on 'Extreme Programming' Controls Phoenix Mars Lander · · Score: 1

    "the planet's temperature will drop well below the current safe range of minus 170 degrees Fahrenheit to 32 degrees Fahrenheit"

    At least no confusion about those metric and British units.

  10. HUH ????? on Internet-Based Realtors Win Monster Settlement · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I do not understand the point of this.

    Were on-line realtors outselling people standing in the property?

    Was the internet better for buyer/seller?

    Did the online agent get a better commission?

    I thought real estate agents were all about follow the money$$$?

  11. ENDEX on NSA Takes On West Point In Security Exercise · · Score: 2, Informative
    Every agency/party involved in the exercise will publish an ENDEX (End of Exercise) report.

    IF Asked AND IF Unclassified, the agency/party MAY provide a copy of the ENDEX.

    Contact the Acadamies, NSA, even the Departments of Defense, Army, Air Force, Navy.

    ENDEX's have event logs, referee notes, exercise build and teardown plans....

  12. DeVry or Rensselaer???? on For CS Majors, How Important Is the "Where?" · · Score: 1
    By tech school, do you mean DeVry University, or do you mean Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute??

    These are both "Technology" schools.

    DeVry teaches what is needed to graduate. Rensselaer teaches what you need to learn.

    I attended DeVry. I can program, no new algorithms from me.

  13. Conspiracy theorists of the world unite. on US To Employ Overhead Spying Domestically · · Score: 1
    "The government's been in bed with the entire telecommunications industry since the forties. They've infected everything."Enemy of the State

  14. GPS == LEASH on 3G iPhone Going Into Production In May · · Score: 0
    SAFEGUARD AND REVEL PRIVACY!

    GPS is a LEASH!

    A cellphone is a communications device, NOT a personal location device. If somebody needs to find me, I will tell them. My choice!

    Admittedly, an emergency location device is convenient, but best kept on a separate, tightly controlled system.

  15. Broadband is NOT utility! on US Broadband Policy Called "Magical Thinking" · · Score: 1
    "high-speed Internet connections are considered entertainment and not essential"

    Defining high-speed Internet connections as a utility (necessary for education maybe) would lead to a public-private cooperative to get broadband into more residences.

    Connectivity could be satellite, cable (DOCSIS), or ADSL.

    Parents would be responsible for children surfing the web.

  16. Meanwhile, back at the Ranch (USA) on Australian WiMax Pioneer Calls It a Disaster · · Score: 2, Insightful
    If you build it, they will come. OR NOT.

    ISPs losing interest in citywide wireless coverage.

    http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/23/1213255/

    Is patience in order?

    In the '90s I could not drive from Oklahoma City to Dallas and keep cellphone service during the entire trip. If I was in an area not serviced by my cellphone provider, I had to "force" roaming by turning my Motorola flipphone off and on, then wait.

    AT&T saw no future for data networks and the Internet!r

  17. Attract Attention on Scholarships From FOSS Organizations? · · Score: 1
    1. Publish programs/functions/classes with comments/documentation. This demonstrates competence and confidence.

    2. Publish in c/c++/Ada/Java (NO scripting languages). Again, this demonstrates competence.

    3. Participate in HELP FORUMS! Again, this demonstrates competence.

    4. Accept criticism graciously. Be mature. Be relevant and succinct in all replies. Ignore slams. Competence and acceptance will expand.

  18. "It's about who controls the information." on Jonathan Zittrain On the Future of the Internet · · Score: 1
    This is about who is in control.

    Democracy only works when somebody disagrees.

    Universal agreement (or disagreement) has a negative effect on growth.

    Quote: Sneakers

  19. Ready Set Go on Cyber Storm II Set To Begin · · Score: 3, Funny
    The call-lists are up-to-date. The start/stop dates are set. Did we forget anything?

    Our recent unknown intruder penetrated using the superuser account, giving him access to our whole system.

    LET THE GAMES BEGIN.

    I still feel I forgot something.

  20. Show The Problem! on Student Faces Expulsion for Facebook Study Group · · Score: 1
    FACEBOOK is an open medium. Email and IM would be more private.

    Is there a link so we can see what this discussion is about?

    What was the student's question?

    What was the reply?

    Were cheatin allegations precedented by other events?

  21. Everything Changes // S*** happens. on Open US GPS Data? · · Score: 1
    I ran a technical library.

    I was constantly fighting for new editions, renewing subscriptions, more information.

    Maps were a constant headache, especially in urban/suburban areas.

  22. USAF ASAT Success in 1985 on US Claims Satellite Shoot-Down Success · · Score: 1
    The USAF launched a missile from an F-15 fighter and successfully killed a satellite in 1985. The program was cancelled in 1988, probably due to some arms treaty.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-satellite_weapon/

  23. Cheap Rhetoric on Computer Models Find Patterns In Asymmetric Threats · · Score: 1

    Nuff Said.

  24. Alarm Sensors on Nanowires Allow For Electricity-Generating Clothing · · Score: 5, Interesting
    This would make outstanding surface alarm matrix.

    Woven into carpet, or embedded into a concrete/asphalt surface, with proper processing, this system could discriminate footsteps, vehicles, even seismic activity.

  25. Barn Dance on Writers Strike Officially Over · · Score: 1
    Now the writers will spend the next two years practicing for their trade. The last strike got us "Cops", "Survivor", and "Cheaters"!

    I predict "The O.C. Hillbillies", "Gomer Pyle, SEAL", and "CIA:BO: Culinary Institution Arts: Bake-Off".

    "Original" products will be out in 2011.