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  1. Not for me on The Rise of Casual and Mobile Gaming · · Score: 2, Funny

    Needs to have at least a Super Nailgun to get me to try it..

  2. Re:The Future of Wireless on Wireless LAN Equipment Shipments Up · · Score: 1

    "You can fly in a helicopter at 300 mph+ and sustain an Internet Connection."

    Ummm, no you can not.

    The maximum forward speed of a helicopter is limited to about 250 mph (402 km/h).

    http://www.aerospaceweb.org/design/helicopter/velo city.shtml

  3. Re:Or DON'T build it! on A Mighty Wind · · Score: 1

    New Cape Cod

    Red Peters and The Alan Pinchloaf Singers

    If you're fond of gay bars and crowded malls
    girls with tattoos and men who shave their balls
    you're sure to fall in love with new Cape Cod

    Spend your time in traffic on a quaint Falmouth street
    nude beach in Truro makes you want to beat your meat
    you're gonna fall in love with new Cape Cod

    bridge
    Asshole tourists that will aggravate you
    Dinks from Long Island you know they suck too
    getting mugged one early Sunday morn
    reminds you of the slum where you were born

    Pick-up a hitchhiker along the way
    have him spend an evening, you'll end up gay
    you're sure to fall in love with new Cape Cod

    (flourish)

    if you drop your wallet down in old Provincetown
    kick it to Hyannis before you bend down

    you're sure to fall in love with new Cape Cod.
    you're sure to fall in love with new Cape Cod.

  4. Re:It is a sad trend on Down and Out in White-Collar America · · Score: 1

    "thoroughly research Wonder Bread's history of its management's dealings with labor before i buy a loaf;"

    Wonder Bread? You can squeze a loaf of that stuff into a lump the size of a golf ball; it is mostly air whipped into the dough to make it look bigger than the other brands. Make it look bigger and us Americans will buy it.

  5. Apple? on Implementing WiFi in the Real World · · Score: 1

    "The only product that met our needs was Apple's AirPort Extreme base station." "There's only one major caveat on the AirPort: You'll need a Mac to configure it."

    Ahh, another blatently subliminal attempt to get me to buy an Apple, eh? (Still not taking the hook.) Fwiw, I live in a 80 unit condo that supplies us with free wireless as part of the association fee, I get about 14 kb/s throughput on ftp downloads. Great while relaxing on the beach with a laptop, as well as using it for my home pc.

  6. Only regulation uniforms on Which Red Hat Should Be Worn in the Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    may be worn on the Enteprise, per order of Captain Picard. Red Hats are strictly prohibited. And the ship is running Free BSD, fyi.

  7. Re:Why? on Maine Completes Largest To-Scale Solar System Model · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Why? Sure, I could make a 40 mile scale model of the solar system, but I have to ask, why?:

    Beat's pickin' potatoes and you have to pay for the Coffee Brandy up here. Takes your mind off the mosquitos?

  8. Seems odd on Maine Completes Largest To-Scale Solar System Model · · Score: 5, Funny

    "That Earth is located at Percy's Auto Sales (1.0 mile from Sun)..."

    (Percy's must have pretty damn good air-conditioning)..

  9. Fire in the hole... on Novell Claims Ownership of UNIX System V · · Score: 1

    "SCO is not the owner of the UNIX copyrights. Not only would a quick check of U.S. Copyright Office records reveal this fact, but a review of the asset transfer agreement between Novell and SCO confirms it."

    Well, this changes everything! Lmao, go Novel! Appears that the SCO webcast isn't working, but the stock has dropped since the open. This is really good news for the Linux communuty.

  10. Re:Bandwidth? on Canadian Telco Telus Moves All Call Traffic to the Net · · Score: 1

    A standard T1 line is 1.544 mb/s which is divided into 24 voice channels of 64 kb/s each. Due to signaling constrains (on hook, off hook) this brings useable voice bandwidth down to about 56 kbs per voice channel.

  11. Re:Kilogram? on The Changing Definition Of 'Kilogram' · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hah, yeah, true, probably due to Autodesk/Autocad defaults. When I need a metric equavalent, I just measure it with my digital calipers in english, then hit the in/mm button to see the metric equavalent.Metric is much easier to work with, though.

  12. Re:It was Wile E Coyote on Investigating Artificial Black Holes · · Score: 1

    Actually, no we are both wrong, the Acme Portable hole (tunnel) was from the 1949 cartoon, "Fast and Furry-ous" where Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner were first introduced on the screen. TULTW Wile E Coyote's Bio It sounds like Sid Markus (Hole Idea) borrowed the idea from Chuck Jones (RR/coyote) while both were at Warner Brothers. Either way, they were both really funny guys that entertained millions for decades.

  13. Re:Apple did this on Microsoft's Software Philanthropy: The Goodwill Ploy · · Score: 1

    Lucent didn't invent Unix, gifted inventors at Bell Labs did.

    I worked at Bell Labs for 23 years, when AT&T divested we all became Lucent Technologies (some times shown with Bell labs innovations under it).

  14. It was Wile E Coyote on Investigating Artificial Black Holes · · Score: 5, Informative

    I remember years ago watching a cartoon in which an inventor had managed to create 'portable holes.

    That was Wile E. Coyote in the Roadrunner, first introduced in the 1952 cartoon "Beep Beep".

    I think the Acme corporation has the patent on them, along with Jet powered Roller Skates, Coyote-sized Slingshots, Dehydrated Boulders, Do-It-Yourself Tornadoes, spring-loaded Boxing Gloves, dropping Anvils from Tightropes, Jet-propelled Pogo sticks and Unicycles, and Fake Railroad Crossings.

  15. Apple did this on Microsoft's Software Philanthropy: The Goodwill Ploy · · Score: 1

    YEARs ago and no one complained except the kids that learned on them is school and then found out that most companies use MS word, excell, and power point exclusively. Even Lucent (which invented the Unix operating system BTW) switched over to MS. And the documentation and support for Linux is so poor (as in incorrect, vague, or non-existant) that it just plain sucks to to try and learn or use for novices. MSoft may not be the best, but is the standard in most major companies until the above problems are fixed it will remain so.

  16. Re:Spam = /dev/null on Bayesian Filtering For Dummies · · Score: 1

    I use Mozzilla Firebird, browser only..

  17. Spam = /dev/null on Bayesian Filtering For Dummies · · Score: 1

    Bayesian filtering could stop all the spam that easily? This is great! Where can I download a filter like this? And back in the mid to late 80's or so, at least around Bell Labs where I worked, SPAM stood for Stupid People Asking for Money, when did that change?

  18. Re:Lucent v. Cisco on Non-Competes Might Mean Loss Of Benefits · · Score: 1
    I'm not sure what happened on appeal.
    Lucent lost.
    From http://www.eagletribune.com/news/stories/20000802/ BU_002.htm
    Wednesday, August 2, 2000 Judge declines to block Lucent workers' defections to Cisco

    A federal court judge has declined to issue an injunction blocking 10 former Lucent employees at the company's North Andover plant from taking jobs at rival Cisco Systems' new facility in Salem, N.H., according to published reports. The Boston Globe reported today that U.S. District Court Judge Edward F. Harrington found there was a lack of evidence to show that any of the former Lucent workers disclosed proprietary or confidential information when they defected to Cisco Systems. "There is no evidence that defendants have caused (Lucent) any actual harm,'' the judge ruled. In making his ruling, Judge Harrington said the technology that Cisco will manufacture at its new plant in Salem "is a much more highly developed and complex product'' than Lucent's. In May, Cisco announced that it would buy the 674,000-square-foot building and 110 acres off Northeastern Boulevard in Salem, site of the former Compaq Computer Co. plant. Cisco will use the new plant to build a system that allows data to flow through a single fiber line using several colors in the light spectrum -- a technology acquired through Cisco's acquisition of Pirelli Optical Systems. Lucent sued its former employees back in June after they left work at the 5,500-person plant in North Andover. They're being defended in the suit by Cisco, which plans to open its Salem plant in October.
  19. Re:I'd tell you on Do You Know UNIX Secrets? · · Score: 1

    Why not just call Dennis Ritchie and ask him?

  20. Re:RFID tags that record? on RFID Tags in Euro Banknotes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    According to the article, "Data can only be written on the chip's ROM during production, and not after it is out "in the wild". However, bank databases could, in theory at least, record bill serial numbers along with the transactions they were in.

  21. Re:Aibo? Asimov? on Survey of Linux-Based Gadgets & Devices · · Score: 4, Funny

    32 megs not enough for you?
    Well, yeah, but only if you stick a memory stick up its ass but they are real slow when used for for dynamic ram..

  22. Re:Aibo? Asimov? on Survey of Linux-Based Gadgets & Devices · · Score: 4, Funny

    Aibo's don't have enough memory to run linux, but if they did I can imagine tens of thousands of them wandering the streets looking for 802.11b hotspots, finally converging in one area where their "owners" would arive and order espresso, pizzas, etc. I think the mp3 player in the Honda Element run's linux, though.

  23. But the company cares about privacy...? on Databases and Privacy · · Score: 1
    ..the company does care about privacy; any consumer can call the company and have his or her data suppressed.

    Just thinking about how much this information is worth (especially if it's linked to a social security number) should make all of us very uncomfortable...
  24. Re:Without the PC, Microsoft is helpless on T-Mobile Dumps MS SmartPhone · · Score: 1

    All the following projects have been canceled: - Windows/Mips - Windows/PowerPC - Windows/Alpha - "HomeR" Project - Modular Windows - "Otto" Project (SW for cars; 1992) - MMOSA (Set-Top-boxes Operating System - WebTV - Blackbird/Internet Studio (1995) - proprietary MSN (Microsoft should have become the sole ISP, remember?) - COOl (C++ Object Orientated Language) - PenWindows - Microsoft Bob - Ultimate TV - Hailstorm (2001 - 2002)

    You forgot the I-loo..

  25. Re:so, 6 standards? on Blue-Laser DVD Formats Wars · · Score: 1

    DVD+R is backward compatible with consumer dvd players while DVD-R is not. www.dvdrw.com has a good faq. No idea on the blue types though.