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  1. Re:Shrimp free zone? on Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone · · Score: 1

    There are allergies and there are allergies. None are pleasant, but some (like allergies to peanuts) can lead to anaphylaxis and death.

  2. Re:How unfortunate... on FCC Preparing Transition To VoIP Telephone Network · · Score: 2, Funny

    We leave DOS attack on POTS to telemarketers, charity solicitations, and pollsters.

  3. Re:Why are you surprised? on Microsoft Applies For Patent On Tufte's Sparklines · · Score: 1

    You do not need to patent an invention in order to avoid being sued. It suffices to publish the invention in a broad venue to document it, so it can be cited as prior art.

  4. Re:New internet on Secret UK Plan To Appoint "Pirate Finder General" · · Score: 1

    kheldan - is it ok if we are afraid of some of the people in our government? and if they are afraid of some of us? I am sure we can satisfy that statement easily.

  5. Re:I love slashdot. on High-Temp Superconductors To Connect Power Grids · · Score: 1

    The superconductor's cable carrier limits its capacity so not as interrupt the TV signals of its neighbors.

  6. Re:OpenOffice variant? on IBM Policy Switches From MS Office To OO.o · · Score: 2, Informative

    Lotus Symphony also reads some of the old Lotus Smartsuite formats, at least the last generation of them (like .123). I realize this isn't a big deal for most individuals, but in an organization that still has old Smartsuite files floating around, it is useful.

  7. Re:OpenOffice variant? Shades of the infobox on IBM Policy Switches From MS Office To OO.o · · Score: 4, Informative

    A version of the infobox (a flexible properties panel that can stay open while you move around in the document) exists in the Mac version of Microsoft Office and in Apple's iWork suite.

  8. Re:Success! on Initial Tests Fail To Find Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    As Adam says: "failure is always an option".

  9. Re:Does this work as an alternative JDK/JRE? on Open source Java? · · Score: 1

    I do not know the current status, but when it left IBM Research, it did not have the full Java libraries as part of the open source package (one of the reasons it was called an RVM).

  10. Re:I was under the impression... on Open source Java? · · Score: 1
    The Jikes Research Virtual Machine is an open testbed to prototype virtual machine technologies and experiment with a large variety of design alternatives. The system is licensed under the CPL. The initial Jikes RVM infrastructure was independently developed as part of the Jalapeño research project at the IBM Research. In 2001, IBM donated the software to the community.

    Jikes RVM runs on IA-32 and PowerPC running Linux, AIX, and OS X. The Jikes RVM is implemented in Java and is self-hosted.

    There are additional details on freshmeat.net.

  11. Re:Backing Away? on Apple Backing Away From FireWire · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sounds to me like "market segmentation" in corporate buzzspeak. Who buys shuffles and IPOD minis? Are they mainly Windows users, users of older Macs (who cannot use USB), or users of newer Macs (who can use USB)? If most are Windows users and new Mac users (and you are trying to cut costs), then you pick USB as the default cable.

  12. Re:Nice to see on ACM to Honor TCP/IP Creators with Turing Award · · Score: 1
    There are some pure theory types, but look behind some of the names, even many of the theory types have had huge practical contributions:

    1966 A.J. Perlis - compiler construction
    1967 Maurice V. Wilkes - builder and designer of the EDSAC, the first computer with an internally stored program.
    1968 Richard Hamming - error correcting codes
    1969 John McCarthy - (citation missing, but how about Lisp?)
    1972 E.W. Dijkstra - Algol
    1977 John Backus - FORTRAN
    1979 Kenneth E. Iverson - APL
    1981 Edgar F. Codd - relational database
    1983 Ken Thompson and Dennis M. Ritchie - Unix
    1984 Niklaus Wirth - EULER, ALGOL-W, MODULA and PASCAL
    1987 John Cocke - compiler optimization and RISC
    1988 Ivan Sutherland - Sketchpad
    1990 Fernando J. Corbato - timesharing and Multics
    1992 Butler W. Lampson - personal workstations
    1997 Douglas Engelbart - pretty much everything from the mouse on...
    1998 James Gray - database and transaction processing
    2001 Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard - OO programming and Simula
    2002 Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir, Leonard M. Adleman - public key cryptography
    2003 Alan Kay - Smalltalk

  13. Re:Don't forget sub-domains! on Gmail Under Trademark Dispute · · Score: 1

    how about user@google.net?