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  1. It's a different plot really. on Are Mobile Phones Wiping Out Bees? · · Score: 1
  2. Use them around the house. on Fun and Profit With Obsolete Computers · · Score: 1

    I was running my webserver on an IBM thinkpad, P90 with 32Megs and 1gig harddrive but I just found an old rack mount server which is an old Pentium 133 with the F00F bug, it has 32Meg and a 4 gig drive. It's used to feed static web pages and as a picture and file server. It's a generic rack mount of some sort. Eventually it will get gutted and made into a more modern media server with a terabyte of storage. Unless someone offers me 10k.

    The Thinkpad may be left unmolested though I'm considering making it a digital picture frame.

  3. Re:My connection works just fine on National Projects Aim to Reboot the Internet · · Score: 1

    Make those people cease to exist and I'll be happy.

  4. Re:Previously Patented Work? on Oil Soaked Servers Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more along the lines of chloroflorocarbons but perfluoroethane might work.

  5. Re:Well, Theo is something of an asshat on GPL Code Found In OpenBSD Wireless Driver · · Score: 1

    He likes to attack the messenger in those posts. I have no familiarity with BSD. I thought it to have good security from comments by friends. If this is any indication of the team behind it I'll stick with the GPL stuff.

  6. Unless the whole building meets the governments on Paint Provides Network Protection · · Score: 1

    TEMPEST specification it's a misleading lie.

    http://www.fas.org/irp/program/security/tempest.ht m

  7. Re:Interesting, but on Java-Based x86 Emulator · · Score: 1

    Why Java? Qemu works as does VMWare and others....

  8. Re:Information free on World's First Polymorphic Computer · · Score: 1


    This presentation has more information. It was developed *with* DARPA and Raytheon sponsored work
    http://www.it.lth.se/courses/DARK/novelarchitectur es/monarch-overview.pdf
    "Leverage DARPA-sponsored DIVA Project results, Raytheon IRAD-sponsored HPPS and Mercury Stream Co-procesing Engine"

    Some explainations of the concepts
    http://www.mil-embedded.com/columns/industry_analy sis/2005/10/Dingee/

    Just the core design has functions a stock CPU would lack. Also not that before it's even built they have to design in certain stock features that have nothing to do with how it works but are needed for any aerospace part then you get to design the guts to fit in with that. There would probably be a nuclear hardened version as well.

    'leverage' is corprat speak for exploit, stupid PCism.

  9. So I take it you were for unification? on Researchers Scheming to Rebuild Internet From Scratch · · Score: 1

    I'd prefer a brown coat.

  10. Torchedwood! on BBC Strikes Deal With YouTube · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's what British TV is all about, no plot nor continuing story line, lesbian non-sex scenes, gay non-sex scenes, badly CGI's monsters, really bad, Christian bad and did I mention the bad writing?

    It should have been aborted in the womb!!!!

  11. Re:I've got a bad feeling about this on Star Trek To Return Christmas 2008 · · Score: 1

    . After the exposure of what they did to Will Wheaton and others, their arrogance towards the fans in the past and in that statement wrt canon, their incompetence at managinge Gene's legacy I'm done with it.

    They finally made me not want to bother anymore. I won't spend a damn dime on anything else they produce.

  12. Re:porn? on New Technology Could Lead To 3D Printers · · Score: 1

    Well it's still not Bubblegum crisis's instantly expanding plastic penises that can knock out tanks.

    Darnit.

  13. Re:However on DRM Causes Piracy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Samuel Z. Arkov http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0035098/

    Whip up a poster and title and see who wanted some of that. :)

    And the Toxic Avenger also was made that way.

  14. Re:You're Looking at it the Wong Way on Are Unfinished Products Now the Norm? · · Score: 1

    I agree. You can look at the current state of the printer market and see loads of crap that consumes vast quantites of supplies and fall apart in a couple years. But those manufacturers are the only ones left in the market.

    I still have a dot matrix printer that functions flawlessly and is over 20 years old. That company no longer produces printers.

    I think it happens to all industries when the profit margin is marginal. They'll dump it on the market and get new funding then fix the complaints as they happen.

    I'm seeing that with several routers that started out great but now release buggy crap.

  15. Re:MLM on Selling Homeowners a Solar Dream · · Score: 1

    I'd get a better rate of return if I took out a load for the device and the maintainence over it's life expectancy.

    It would be a sucky rate of return but better than a MLM. That's More Losers and Morons for those who a byte.

  16. Re:personal experience at IYD.com on Some Hope During Registerfly's Meltdown · · Score: 1

    I've had dyndns for a long time now and used it for free for a while. I've registered one domain now and have had no issues.

  17. A stepmom who hates her stepkid? on A Unique Perspective on a 'Game-Related' Tragedy · · Score: 1

    I've experienced this in real life and heard of it so many times I know the genesis of the fairy tale. It's not an insight into the kids life it's an insight into that woman and what story she's willing to tell to damage the kid's reputation.

  18. Re:With some work, ergs in out on Cold Fusion Scientist Exonerated · · Score: 1

    They'd need to be one way valves and the suction would pull the passengers through them....

    GET BUSY WITH THAT NOW!!!

  19. Re:Odd. on Cold Fusion Scientist Exonerated · · Score: 1

    It looked like Putterman had an agenda other than scientific truth and caused quite a bit of trouble.

  20. Re:Odd. on Cold Fusion Scientist Exonerated · · Score: 1

    I'd say hopeful. Out of how many thousands of students you'd hope for one to solve the insovable.

  21. Re:Odd. on Cold Fusion Scientist Exonerated · · Score: 1

    It does cure cancer but you have to remove the aflatoxin first.

  22. Linus is right. on Godwin's Law Invoked in Linus/Gnome Spat · · Score: 1

    I quit using Guhnome because it's not configurable and features were being deleted at a rapid rate. It's unusable to me now. The same rot is creeping to KDE. I'm currently using KDE and am tired of the hidden and undocumented configuration settings but even with that it's better than guhnome.

  23. Re:Geez... are people really that malleable? on Blackberry Owners Chained to Work · · Score: 1

    Tell them they can wrap it in aluminum foil to stop the evil mind controlrays making them overwork.

  24. Print media with a clue? on Stem Cell Research Paper Recalled · · Score: 1

    I'm boggled there's a published popular print medium that has employed on staff someone who could spot that.

    I'm hoping it wasn't the doctor from India who does the floors at night.

  25. Google should just make Belgium go dark. on Google News Found Guilty of Copyright Violation · · Score: 1

    If you can't trust them in one area why trust them at all. Why take a chance? Just flush the cache and don't spider the entire country ever again. Of course you also don't want to have the cache tainted by them so you block anyone who even thinks of having Belgium URLs or content on their site.

    Google should have done this to the pr0n industry as well. ..."Of course you can _opt in_ for a small fee"...