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  1. Out of solidarity ... on Ukrainian Computer Destruction Championship · · Score: 1

    for my Ukrainian brethren, I too have decided to destro^%^*^&&)(*%$%^#%^%&@$%!@@#_+

  2. What kind of ... on New Anti-Swap CDs Hit Shelves · · Score: 4, Funny

    mark do you think you'll have to make with a Sharpie this time?

  3. Conflict of interest? on W3C Objects To Royalties On ISO Country Codes · · Score: 4, Funny
    In examining the HTTP response headers for this page, I notice the following -

    Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

    Slashdot - objective news source? I think not!

  4. Sad news - Java dead at 8 years old on Java vs .NET · · Score: 1
    Whatever you think of it, there's no denying Java's contribution to acceptance of virtual machines. Truly an American icon.

    Seriously, the article is an example of a stupid editor putting a sensationalist headline on a fairly reasonable article.

  5. And in related news ... on RIAA Offers Amnesty to File Sharers · · Score: 4, Funny

    the state troopers offer amnesty to you for all the speeding you've done up until now that they didn't catch you doing. But if you speed from now on, they might ticket you.

  6. Oh my god ... on Fuel Cells To Appear In Laptops In 2004 · · Score: 1

    the humanity ...

  7. Depth of field on Origami Helps Cellphone Cameras To Focus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The small size of the sensor allows simple fixed-focus optics with practically infinite depth of field. Adding a mechanism for focusing means you also have to add either an automatic or manual way to achieve the correct focus, which doesn't fit well with the form factor or battery usage desired for cell phones. So the application to cell phone cameras has very small benefits with large drawbacks.

  8. Meanwhile ... on Segway Riders Get High on Mount Washington · · Score: 4, Interesting
    the fastest time running up Mount Washington is 58 minutes 20 1/2 seconds -

    Mount Washington Records

    The only thing more pathetic than a clown is a clown riding up Mount Washington on a Segway.

  9. rrm**bullshit**mm on Microsoft vs. Burst.com · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The reason for this mass erasure, it was explained, is that Burst technology was unimpressive and not of interest to Microsoft, and the e-mails were simply not worth keeping. The probability that they all deleted their emails for the exact same period is of approximately the same order as the probability that there actually is Linux code stolen from SCO.

  10. Auerbach? on Auerbach on Internet Cruft · · Score: 1

    What the hell does he know? The Celtics have sucked ever since they lost Larry Bird.

  11. Maybe eWeek could use ... on Los Alamos to Use AMD's Opteron in Linux Clusters · · Score: 1

    some Opteron chips in some Linux **web servers**. Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0126' Include file not found /article2/0,3959,1220701,00.asp, line 891 The include file '/display_industry_brains/0,4302,c=Ziff+Davis+Seni or+IT+%3E+Linux+Unix+and+Open+Source,00.asp' was not found.

  12. Re:SCO and UNIX on SCO Attorney Declares GPL Invalid · · Score: 1
    Sun Microsystems doesn't seem to mind what's happening with SCO. I wonder why?

    That, sir, is known as "innuendo". How would you like it if I said - "mao che minh doesn't seem to mind what's happening with barnyard rape. I wonder why?".

  13. Re: Chasing Amy was top of his game? on Renegade Reverse Engineering - John Woo Style · · Score: 1

    That's how Spike Lee financed his first film.

  14. Re:A P4 could... on Aquarium Modcase · · Score: 4, Funny
    Give a man fried flounder, and you feed him for a day.

    Teach a man to case-mod, and feed him for a lifetime.

  15. No wonder ... on Interview with SLASH'EM Developers · · Score: 2, Insightful
    it has been in development for years.

    The first major challenge has been to design a protocol which is independent of machine architecture and doesn't require much overhead. Harlow settled on RFC 1014. He says, "I'm still working on fine-tuning the protocol to reduce overhead. One obvious improvement would be to move to an asynchronous protocol, rather than the current, simple synchronous protocol."

    Look, nobody's going to care that you shaved 0.2ms off the average case in the protocol if you never release the game.

    "The process is complicated by the fact that we need to be flexible enough that future window interfaces will have everything they need, but not so flexible that an external window interface could be used to cheat when playing with an official binary," says Harlow. "I believe I have achieved the latter, but I'm still a long way off achieving the former."

    Jeez, how about you release the freakin' game already and worry about the future window interfaces as they come up (if ever). You can always do a major release if you need to change interfaces and break stuff.

    At some point, you got to quit dressin' up your baby boy and let him out into the big scary world to find his way.

  16. Laissez-Faire runs amok on Real Money Inside in MMORPGs? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm guessing that players would game the system by forming coalitions where, through some of the player's characters doing suboptimal actions (from the individuals POV), the coalition would make money. Could make a mockery of the game.

  17. I, too ... on IBM Countersues SCO, And More! · · Score: 5, Funny
    have a program that determines if any infringing SCO code is present in your Linux system -

    /usr/bin/false

  18. Yeah, right on Most Sun Employees Own Macs · · Score: 3, Insightful
    So it figures Sun, who Intel likely thinks wouldn't know a good processor if it came up and -- um, processed something, would like Macs.

    Quiz questions -

    Which vendor, Sun or Intel, had a 64-bit processor first? By how many years?

    Measuring a "good processor" isn't just about speed.

  19. I just hope ... on Contiki Ported To x86 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thor Heyerdahl doesn't slap him with a patent suit.

  20. Re:Investors ... on SCO Wants $699 for Linux Systems · · Score: 2, Funny

    What does Sunoco (NYSE:SUN) have to do with this?

  21. Re:In the case of Rush .... on Is Louder Better? · · Score: 1
    No, just a lame joke attempt rebounding on me ...

    Karma: bleeding away

  22. In the case of Rush .... on Is Louder Better? · · Score: 1, Informative

    softer is definitely better. Volume at 0 db is definitely best.

  23. Misnomer? on Disposable Digital Cameras Have Arrived · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why are these called disposable? Won't Ritz just check the battery and put it back out for sale until the mechanicals wear out or electronics fry? Or maybe they'll advertise those as "previously-disposed" cameras? Isn't this actually a form of rental? Maybe consumers feel they are getting a better deal if they "own" the camera.

  24. Just great on Get Your 802.11 Media Fix From SeattleWireless TV · · Score: 1, Interesting

    We already have all these butt-ugly cell-phone towers that enable SUV-driving morons to not pay attention to what they are doing. Now we're going to mess up the skyline with butt-ugly wireless towers that enable pasty-white geeks to get their porn faster instead of going out for a hike in those same goddamn mountains.

  25. Re:Already done on Designing And Building A New Pragmatic Language · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Ruby gives a strange impression. It combines some of Perl's choices (magic variables, regular expressions as part of the syntax rather than as a library, and variable prefixes that look like line noise) with stealing some nice stuff from Smalltalk, and oddly, using end as a block delimiter. It comes across as baroque, not beautiful.

    A pragmatic language should have mature class libraries. (That's pragmatic, isn't it?) Ruby doesn't.