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  1. What impact will this have on Lindows Ordered To Stop Using Lindows Name · · Score: 1

    How many Lindow's users are there in Sweden and Finland? Any?
    How many Wal-marts?

  2. Re:+5, Ironic on Lindows Ordered To Stop Using Lindows Name · · Score: 1

    Kind of like how the judges in the US are not affected any way in Finland or Sweden?

  3. Slow Glass on Scientists Freeze Pulse Of Light · · Score: 1

    This is science fiction come true. Bob Shaw's, "The Light of Other Days" has the concept of slow glass which would transmit light so slowly that it could be used to view the past.

    Now it can be done!

  4. Re:Bummer on Emachines 64-bit Athlons Now On Sale · · Score: 1

    RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 3 will work on this architecture just fine.

  5. Re:Subscription on Redhat Reports 90% Return Subscription Rate · · Score: 1

    The two RedHat tech's I dealt with were surprisingly bright. But I agree that it's more of an insurance policy.

  6. problem description on Swedish Student Partly Solves 16th Hilbert Problem · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's a description of the problem from
    http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/hilbert/toc.html
    snip...A thorough investigation of the relative position of the separate branches when their number is the maximum seems to me to be of very great interest, and not less so the corresponding investigation as to the number, form, and position of the sheets of an algebraic surface in space...

    Can someone please post graphical, dumbed down representation of this problem so we can better understand it?

  7. air force shot down flight 93; another memory hole on Memory Holes and the Internet (updated) · · Score: 1

    On September 11th, it was reported that Rueter's and other news outfits that observers witnessed something to the effect of a missle being shot at Flight 93 prior to it crashing in Pennsylvania. Within an hour, these stories were pulled.
    Multiple witnesses described a streak across the sky momentents before the plane crashed. This was instantly covered up.

  8. from Lord of the Flies parody on Simpsons Fan Creates Real Tomacco Plant · · Score: 1

    "Tastes like...burning" -Ralph Wiggum

  9. No new tech? on More on the Orbital Space Plane · · Score: 2, Insightful


    The main reason I love NASA is for the technologies they develop. This project is deliberately designed not to create new technologies. Don't get me wrong, I think they'll come up with great combinations of existing technologies, but this really re-characterizes NASA as an engineering entity rather than a scientific one.

    I guess, they've developed enough for the military at this point, and they now have to wait for the funding/need to fuel the scientific advancement aspect of there organization.

  10. repeat on MIT Roofnet · · Score: 1

    Wow, a MIT CS student reproduced something. This is news.

  11. finally on A Gene Causing Dyslexia Found · · Score: 0

    ...gnitanicaf

  12. Build your own fire hazzard on Build Your Own Lava Lamp · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now I can build something that:

    o has no documentation about it's foundation
    o is a potential fire hazzard

    and pay more than what a well engineered alternative would cost.

    Sounds like M$ to me.

  13. How are people celebrating? on Debian: A Brief Retrospective · · Score: 0

    Months back, I recall seeing a post that someone wanted to plan ahead and make this a big birthday party but so far the party seems a little lacking. Or is that what the blaster worm was all about?

  14. software used in the design there of on The Biggest and Baddest Backyard Roller Coaster · · Score: 0

    Judging from his resume, he probably used some software to model the design of this ride. I wonder if he paid the license fees for this software or just roped it from his last employer. Perhaps the stuff under the "skills" section is open source, eg. "PRO-Mechanica Static Stress Analysis"...doesn't sound free. It just goes to show: we need an open source solution to theme park ride design. I'll get started on that.

  15. workforce darwinism is good for code on Down and Out in White-Collar America · · Score: 0, Troll

    Linux is growing but unfortunately all of those people who got their msce's and then IT jobs 4 years ago are now looking at different career paths. maybe they can use visualbasic to write a job search client?