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  1. Intel Marketing on Intel Plans to Overhaul Chip Architecture · · Score: 1

    "Now with more flubber!" Yeesh.

  2. Open Excel and let the fun begin! on Establishing an IT Budget for a Small Business? · · Score: 1
    Dollars to outfit the staff to do the fundamental tasks that there position requires. (READ: a networked-computer and software.) Beyond that, you're in the project-based arena to justify costs. Corporate Finance

    Hardly exhaustive, but that link should get you started.

  3. Re:Hypocritical? on Google Urged to Drop Images · · Score: 1
    If he doesn't want to "provide any easy assistance to anyone who wants to interfere with the site", then why is he publically pointing out the weak spots of their security?

    Maybe because he wants to land an additional budget appropriationin order to secure the site? Nah.

  4. Re:Bad trend on Yahoo! Search Providing Support to Wikipedia · · Score: 1
    I could decide to submit my own interpretations on string theory, despite my knowing nothing about string theory and having no credentials on that subject at all.

    Did you stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night?

  5. Six, count 'em six.... on Mozilla Firefox 1.02 Released · · Score: 2
    Mozilla Firefox entries in the "Add/Remove Programs" dialog: 0.8, 0.9, 0.9.3, 1.0, 1.0.1 and 1.0.2.

    <sigh>

    Don't give me that "edit the registry" b.s. either. I know how to do it but I choose not to. I want another dozen entries first before I take a screen shot and send it back to them.

  6. Havard President Lawrence Summers on Women Leaving I.T. · · Score: 1
    has some interesting ideas on this subject. Larry, care to chime in here?

    What Larry said.

  7. As a Chicagoan on Chicago To Consider City-Wide Wireless Network · · Score: 1

    To me, it looks like this is just more of Mayor Daley's posturing against Govenor Rob Blagojevich. Just another chapter in the rich history that is Chicago politics. I'll believe it when I see it. Or more accurately, can access it (freely). Luke.....

  8. I smell a ... on Bill Gates in 1983 Teen Beat Magazine · · Score: 1

    Fark PhotoShop contest!

  9. This is a bad thing? on No Warrant Needed For GPS Tracking By Police · · Score: 1
    museumpeace: ... I don't buy it. Yesterday in Massachusetts, a snow plow operator, too dumb to know his truck had GPS, exposed himself to a woman at a coffee shop, hopped back in his truck and was apprehended in minutes because the state troopers, knowing only the location of the coffee shop and that it was a snow plow operator, could find his exact whereabouts.

    And apprehending a person who indecently expose himself in is a bad thing? Sounds like a pretty legitimate use to me!

  10. Re:F/OSS officially supported by US gov't. on U.S. Army Research Lab Opens BRL-CAD Source · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And the site you linked to (gocc.gov) is running Plone, one of the best open source content management systems out there, IMHO.

  11. All Your Base Belong To Us on The Illiteracy of Corporate American E-Mail · · Score: 1

    Somebody set us up the bomb.

  12. Only 4 million per day? on Gates 'World's Most-Spammed Man' · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hmmm, I would have thought more considering all the unpatched Windows boxes out there.

  13. Mark Twain on Netscape Reborn? · · Score: 1

    Ah, Mark Twain, we hardly knwew thee. Oh wait, nevermind. "The reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated."

  14. Did anyone see... on Earth Simulator, G5 Cluster Drop In 'Top 500' List · · Score: 1
    ... the No. 1 entry under the "Not Ready In Time" header? Oak Ridge is planning something in 2008 that has an estimated R-Max of 10,500. (And, no, that's not a typo!) It's a little short on details, unfortunately.

    Surely someone here knows a little more. Details? Is it for real?

  15. Re:Like a bridge over troubled waters.... on The End of Encryption? · · Score: 1

    Well, Garfunkel has been out of (meaningful) work for a while now!

  16. Re:pot calling on 4 New "Extremely Critical" IE Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    From the article:
    The following browsers are not affected:
    * Mozilla Firefox 0.9 and later
    * Mozilla 1.7
    * Opera 7.52

    Looks like the most recent versions have been fixed.

  17. In Other News... on 4 New "Extremely Critical" IE Vulnerabilities · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's Tuesday.

  18. WWWSD? on Korean Bipedal Robot Kit · · Score: 0

    What would Will Smith do? Kill it.

  19. Re:in any case on GIF Slips Away From Unisys; Your Move, IBM · · Score: 1

    Open up this link [mozilla.org] in anything but IE (I tested it with Mozilla and Opera) to see some 8-bit alpha. And a cool little demo to boot. Oh no, I think there's a problem with it. I moved the sun directly over of the bird and now there's no shadow! Please help.

  20. Shouldn't they... on UN Takes Aim At Spam Epidemic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    be stopping real travesties like war and disease?

  21. Re:Fired? on AOL Employee Arrested in Spam Scheme · · Score: 2, Informative

    Virginia (among others) is a state where "employment-at-will" prevails. That means he can be fired at anytime for any reason, thus his punishment. Surely, he was terminated from AOL for good cause after an internal investigation fingered him. But he isn't guilty in a legal sense and that's what the proceedings before him will determine. But you don't have to be legally convicted of anything in order to be terminated. Also, IANAL.

  22. No. 9? on Sneak Peek at Paul Allen's Sci-Fi Museum · · Score: 1

    What movie is picture No. 9 from?

  23. Re:Back to Intel Fanboy on Xeon vs. Opteron Performance Benchmarks · · Score: 2, Informative
    Alright I have had about 3 AMD processors die on me. I have owned about 4 Intel processors all the way back from original Pentium. Not one has ever had a problem. Now... given this kind of statistics, as sad as it may sound I'd say I am willing to pay anything for an Intel just to avoid the headaches.

    That is an interesting use of the word statistics. In order to determine if your next processor is likely to break, you should look at thousands or hundereds of thousands of Intel procs and AMD procs. Your 7 processor study is inherently flawed.

    Actually, one can start to get a statistically significant result at around as little as 30 data points depending on a few factors.

    For giggles, let's take a large population (the MS Windows install base: ~300M) and if I wanted to be 95 percent (SixSigma!) sure that I calculated within a confidence interval of plus/minus 5 points, how many must I sample? Thousands? Hundreds of thousands?

    Nope, a scant 384! A generally accepted confidence interval is +/-4 at 95% and you see this used in several polls. To get to that level, I'd need to sample only 600 of the 300,000,000 population.

    See for yourself.

  24. Re:Yep on Simpson's Cast On Bravo This Sunday · · Score: 1

    If I were you I would embrace the freedoms that allow you to get "high" and come back to /. to pontificate. ;-) Kidding! Seriously though, I have always had an uneasiness with the term "Homeland Security". It reminds me too much of Der Fatherland.

  25. James Lipton impersonation on Simpson's Cast On Bravo This Sunday · · Score: 1

    Has anyone seen BOB ODENKIRK do his stand-up impersonation of James Lipton? Best. Impersonation. Ever.

    "I would just like to thank my wife for doing me the small favor of... redefining the universe."