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  1. Re:All our base are belong to whom? on Canadian Music Industry Copyright Class Action Settled · · Score: 1

    Who owns the copyright in Zero Wing, a 1989 scrolling shooter video game developed by Toaplan?

    I would assume that all your copyright are belong to us...

  2. Re:Neat! on PayPal Co-Founder Gives Out $100,000 To Not Go To College · · Score: 1

    Let me rephrase that and change the emphasis as well...

    I should quit my job, uproot my disabled wife from our handicapped-accessible house , and move to another state, across the country from the top specialist in her condition just so my kids can go to college there.

  3. Re:Hold the freaking phone on Lockheed Martin Purchases First Commercial Quantum Computer · · Score: 1

    Also, places like Slashdot don't get every minor update to the state of the art

    Yeah, but a jump from 4 or so qubits to 128 is a quantum leap (pardon the pun), not a minor update.

  4. Re:Neat! on PayPal Co-Founder Gives Out $100,000 To Not Go To College · · Score: 1

    Or-- and heres some genius advice-- move to a state with a decent college, establish residence (I think it takes 6 months in virginia), and go to school there.

    I see.

    I should quit my job, uproot my disabled wife from our handicapped-accessible house, and move to another state, just so my kids can go to college there.

    Yeah, that's some *REAL* genius advice..

  5. Re:I still have a copy of Windows 2 x86 on Windows 1.0: the Power of DOS, Plus Tiled Windows · · Score: 1

    Have Windows 1.03 on 5.25" floppies.

  6. Re:Turbo power on Computer De-Evolution: Awesome Features We've Lost · · Score: 1

    Back in the day, we had a Gateway 486/66DX2. Important note: We had an Adaptec 1542 SCSI adapter in it.

    So we were trying to install SCO Unix on it (this was back when they were stodgy old Santa Cruz, not the SCOundrels). And it consistently failed on the install.

    We called SCO tech support, and they said, "yeah, you're system's too fast, there's a timing loop in the Adaptec driver. Turn off Turbo for the install." We were ROFL because as far as we were concerned, there was no such thing as "too fast" when running Unix on a PC.

    In any case, we did the install, and then used ADB to patch the driver object and the installed kernel (in case of a kernel relink -- this predated dynamic kernel modules).

  7. Re:Neat! on PayPal Co-Founder Gives Out $100,000 To Not Go To College · · Score: 1

    These students should avoid failure by blowing $150k in college to qualify for a entry level job. Much more successful.

    Whenever I see this I have to ask, "what posessed that young student to go to an out-of-state college"?

    Who says it's out of state? University of California costs roughly $30K per year -- in state -- for non-commuter students.

  8. Re:capable for 3 week missions on NASA Rejoins Space Race With Manned Deep Space Craft · · Score: 1

    Ares V wasn't going to be man-rated. The Ares I was, and it would rendezvous with Ares V in orbit.

  9. Re:capable for 3 week missions on NASA Rejoins Space Race With Manned Deep Space Craft · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Next, some one should come up with a rocket that has at least the lift capacity of the old Saturn V. None of the proposed launch vehicles even come close.

    Can someone in the know tell me what was wrong with Ares V (other than it was proposed by the previous Administration)? Ares 1 was a clusterfuck, but Ares V looked like a decent heavy lifter.

  10. Re:Vapor-where? on NASA Rejoins Space Race With Manned Deep Space Craft · · Score: 1

    My guess is that they're defining "Deep Space" as "Anything above LEO"

  11. Re:Easier Way on The Petition to Classify Wikipedia a "World Wonder" · · Score: 2

    [citation needed]

  12. A Haiku on Final Attempts To Contact Mars Spirit Rover Fail · · Score: 1

    A little rover
    Ever to remain on Mars
    You did well, Spirit

  13. Re:3D ruins 2D? on Poor Picture At Your Local Cinema? · · Score: 1

    Wow, where do you live where $12.50 for 3D is considered expensive?

    3D gets a price premium.

    Oh, and in LA and NY (and probably the Bay Area) $12-$15 for *2D* is par for the course. IMAX and 3D cost even more.

  14. Re:Goin' fishin' on Ask Slashdot: What To Do When the Rapture Comes? · · Score: 2

    Thank you. That's one of my favorites.

  15. Re:The Brain on Ask Slashdot: What To Do When the Rapture Comes? · · Score: 2

    Dammit! You've been on that thing for two weeks. Give him a fucking name already!!!

  16. Re:Isn't that expensive? on Space Station Becomes Dark Matter Hunter · · Score: 1

    I imagine this was quite challenging as loss of cooling/superconductivity would result in an explosion

    Sounds rather like this.

  17. Re:My question is on Nano-Viewing Record Broken · · Score: 1

    They just have to breed better sharks.

  18. Re:It can't be any worse than Johnny Mnemonic on Neuromancer Movie Deal Moving Forward · · Score: 1

    Never underestimate the ability of Hollywood to fuck up any source material.

  19. Re:Please on Neuromancer Movie Deal Moving Forward · · Score: 2

    Whoa....

  20. Re:LinkedIn on Massive LinkedIn IPO Raises Dotcom Bubble Concerns · · Score: 1

    This.

    I joined LinkedIn back in 2003 when I was laid off. I hardly use it except to update professional connections, in the event that ever happens again.

  21. Re:ssh is the same on Ask Slashdot: FTP Server Honeypots? · · Score: 1

    Damn. I thought that only worked on Kermit connections.

    +1 Cliff Stoll reference

  22. Re:What Isn't Unconstitutional? on Jeff Bezos Calls Sales Tax Requirements On Amazon Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    IANACL but...

    The "necessary and proper" clause specifically says that its for Section 8, and all other powers authorized by the Constitution.

    However, Amendments (pretty much by definition) supercede anything before them, and it would seem that the 10th pretty much limits the "necessary and proper" to only those explicitly enumerated.

    So the Tenth explicitly puts a strict reading on the Constitution for the powers of the Feds.

  23. Re:What Isn't Unconstitutional? on Jeff Bezos Calls Sales Tax Requirements On Amazon Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Police services are reserved to the States per the 10th Amendment.

  24. Re:What Isn't Unconstitutional? on Jeff Bezos Calls Sales Tax Requirements On Amazon Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    In other words, if the Constitution doesn't SPECIFICALLY allow it, the Federal government can't do it. (At least that's the theory.)

    And that, specifically, IS in the Constitution. The Tenth Amendment says EXACTLY that.

  25. Re:Represented by ... on Righthaven Hit With Class Action Counterclaim · · Score: 1

    The MoFos represented Novell in the SCO suit.