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  1. Ohh on Windows Cheaper When Studied by MSFT Analysts · · Score: 1
    "...was funded and commissioned by our favorite Redmond, WA based software giant."

    Favorite... You must mean Veritas, since /.'ers are irony impaired.

  2. Salesmen on SCO Run-Time Licenses: Get 'em While They're Hot! · · Score: 3, Funny
    The SCO salesmen are busy running around the countryside, sueing people.

    This is SCO's idea of the travelling salesman problem?

  3. No book on Mystery Tiles From Around the World · · Score: 1
    "There is even a Ray Bradbury book, The Toynbee Convector"

    This book, AFAIKT, has absolutely nothing to do with Toynbee tiles...

  4. I MAY HAVE THE SOLUTION on Mystery Tiles From Around the World · · Score: 1

    This is INCREDIBLE and everyone who lives close to one of these tiles should rip it of the ground to see what's under it: The sentence is an anagram... this is what you do: 1) Take the first letter of each sentence in "Toynbee Ideas in Kubrick's 2001 Resurrect Dead On Planet Jupiter" and remember to make 2001 into words as well (two thousands and one.) You should have "tiikttaordopj" 2) Since this is an anagram, we put the word "anagram" at the end, so now we have "tiikttaordopj anagram" (this step is often done as the anagram makers often add the anagram word, for some reason) 3) Scramble the letters correctly, and you get the answer: "Kit atop trojan diagram" So the tile (the kit) is atop of a "trojan diagram"??? I would look under one of those tiles ASAP!

  5. Didn't work on Cybersyn And Early Uniminds · · Score: 2, Interesting
    "...cybernetic principles that was used by Chile's revolutionary government between 1971 and 1973 to provide a real-time, decentralized form of economic analysis in the nationalized sector of the Chilean economy"

    Yeah, but, well, it didn't work. What they got was a real-time view of a country going down the drain.

    I propose tagging the network RTDTDA.NET (Real-Time Down The Drain Analytic Network)

  6. Weapon on FSU Sets 7 World Records In High Magnetics Research · · Score: 0, Troll

    If they get any stronger now, the terrorists may have a great weapon, sucking planes and sea wessels down and under.

  7. Slashdotted on Interview With A Maddog · · Score: 2, Funny

    It appears that tinyminds have tiny computers :-(

  8. Secure my ass on Bruce Schneier on Security Tradeoffs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Security will never be a solved problem, because people are involved. No matter how secure a system is from a technical standpoint, people can ALWAYS circumvent it. It is a mathematical fact. But we can improve immensely, and that is the point of Bruce's book.

  9. Encryption on Is it Just Me, Or Is Our Mainframe Missing? · · Score: 1
    Which is another reminder that not only the communication should be secured, but the physical access to the hardware -and- software, as well.

    Biometrics will help, but I'm afraid there will be some bizarre head'n'thumb-cutting activities in the future...

  10. No way on Amphibious Car Beats Urban Congestion · · Score: 1, Funny

    What about the all the roads getting wet'n'slippery for normal people?

  11. When... on Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...will Mozilla Taurus be released?

  12. SCO Stocks,,, they may have a plan on SCO Invoices For Unix Licenses Get Closer · · Score: 1

    Note that when SCO Mgtmt are selling stocks, that doesn't mean they think they are about too loose. If, instead, they think they are about to win and they see that nobody else thinks that, well... then the plan is too reduce the market value as much as possible. Then, at a well-choosen day, they start buying like hell, pressing the price up... probably the same day they start sending invoices.

  13. Format change on MS vs. Open Source Office Suite Compatibility · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Microsoft will change the format, but they are required to keep it in the open.

    What Microsoft is about to do, is to introduce an enourmously complex, ill-documented format. Just wait'n'see.

  14. The Knuth Way on How Do You Organize Your Data? · · Score: 1

    Computer Scientist Donald Knuth solved this in an interesting way back in the 70's (!) He stopped using email.

  15. Re:Question on Halley's Comet Imaged As Transneptunian Object · · Score: 3, Informative

    The spot was discovered by Robert Hooke in 1664. The spot is HUGE (large enough to hold to Earths) and back in the 15'th centurty it was much brighter. The red spot in the southern hemisphere has been there for about 400 years and is starting for fade.

  16. Pinball on Gyroscope Gives CellPhones 'Tilt Control' · · Score: 1

    Tilting? I guess there'll be an interesting version available for this cellphone's Pinball game!

  17. Whoa on MPlayer 1.0Pre1 Is Here · · Score: 2, Funny
    "one player to rule them all."

    Let us not hope Sauron - err, Bill Gates - gets to it!

  18. Voting on Protests Delay European Software Patent Vote · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Voting 'Yes' for this directive is like voting 'Yes' for Arnold as governor. Crazy.

  19. Satelitte on Origami Helps Cellphone Cameras To Focus · · Score: 3, Interesting
    As an interesting side node, some of the satelittes out there have a surface which was discovered - and first designed - using origami.

    Who said paper is dead?

  20. No? on Gates Says Windows Reliability Is Greater · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Q. Blaster included a message attacking you. Do you take these things personally?

    A. No. "

    He should.

  21. Hey - this is cool! on U.S. Funds Anonymizer for Iranians · · Score: 1
    "Hey, /. is very cool

    Best regards, Iranian under fatwa, Surfing anonymously"

  22. Whoa. Call the NSA. Call the Guiness Book of Rec's on Blaster Writer Caught · · Score: 5, Funny

    The worlds most intelligent bystander has just been identified.

  23. Bill'em on Small Webcasters Sue RIAA · · Score: 1
    "The bill, which still must pass the Senate before Webcasters will see any tangible effect, marks a surprise political victory for a loose Internet community that had never previously launched any concerted political action. "

    The bill should be passed TO the senate... pun intented.

  24. Plan your day! on Learning to Say No in the Workplace? · · Score: 0
    Here's a plan:

    Get up at 2 AM. Work like hell. Get home at 9 PM. Don't forget to f**k your wife. Also, feed the dog.

    That's 19 hours a day. Do so every day.
    That's 133 hours per week.

    Now, do this enable you to catch up or not?

  25. Think about it on Software Patent Demonstrations Taking Off · · Score: 0, Troll

    How many cases of patent cases has there really been throughout the years? In comparisons with the number of patents created each year... almost none. My advice is, don't care. Use the patents as you please... The probability of beeing f***ed over by the legal system is virtually zero.