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  1. Re:Three Letter Animal Names! on Suitable Naming Conventions For Workstations? · · Score: 1

    What's a GNU? Not UNIX? Which is a twisty horned African antelope? Er, Maybe UNIX is a twisted operating system subverted by a GNU.

  2. River names on Suitable Naming Conventions For Workstations? · · Score: 1

    The server was named after a main river (Columbia). Tributaries that produced fish (deschutes, snake, johnday, hood) were production machines and dammed rivers (whitesalmon) that had no runs were isolated testbeds.
    This was in 1995-2000, So YMMV.

  3. Re:On a galactic note... on Is Jupiter Earth's Cosmic Protector? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Got that covered.

  4. I can hardly wait on Recovery.gov To Get $18 Million Redesign · · Score: 1

    to see how their "innovative and interactive technologies" plays on dialup.

    Still waiting for *ANY* high speed services that isn't satellite in my rural area.
    Didn't *WE* (USGOV) pay the telecoms to provide this to rural areas?
    Oh Right, If anyone in the county can get broadband, you have it in the eyes of the telecoms.

  5. Re:They would be better off using snopes.com. on UK Police Told To Use Wikipedia When Preparing For Court · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And the parent post isn't tagged +5 funny?

  6. Re:Flyin Cars on Why Our "Amazing" Science Fiction Future Fizzled · · Score: 1

    Until flying vehicles have zero input into it's in-flight profile, no one is safe.
    It has to offer the functionality of a taxi.
    The question is:
    Do you trust something you can't control?
    Do you trust cab drivers?
    Sounds like a recipe^W business plan
    for another wave of anti-anxiety drugs from the pharma overlords.
     

  7. Re:24/7 anyone? on Sony CEO Proposes "Guardrails For the Internet" · · Score: 1

    It does, for me and you.

  8. Re:Hackers. on College Papers Won't Rewrite History For Alumni · · Score: 1

    I wAS iT tWICE, aWSDOME@!

  9. Re:No. on Russia To Save Its ISS Modules · · Score: 1

    NASA simply needs to return to them to the manufacture, postage paid by customer, on failure.

  10. Re:betwin Ouch! on Using 1 Gaming Computer For 2 People? · · Score: 1

    $99 a seat! See all comments above for cheaper solution.

  11. betwin on Using 1 Gaming Computer For 2 People? · · Score: 1

    Try betwin. I used it to share my laptop with my daughter while in the field.
    You can download a demo that is time limited, you have to restart it after one Hr.
    Unfortunately, I don't know how much $$$ the full version is.

  12. Re:Oh Oh Oh Google killer on Wolfram Alpha Launches Tonight, On Camera · · Score: 1

    "Exit status" should be modded +1 funny or -1 clueless.

  13. porn=carbon black on Wolfram Alpha Launches Tonight, On Camera · · Score: 1

    According to WA's synomyn network, Porn == carbon black.
    Gotta get me some of that sweet carbon black.

  14. Re:Google Killer on Wolfram Alpha Launches Tonight, On Camera · · Score: 1

    Same problem here, but the number I randomly picked:
    factor 109209230128309074371234792349928379879847989823741
    is hung as well.

  15. Re:About WOW and a game like rogue on A History of Rogue · · Score: 1

    I hacked rogue on my Tek 6205 UTek/UNIX workstation / 4027A graphics terminal to display
    8 color programmed character graphics. My Nurse was quite fetching.
    It rocked in 1988.

  16. Re:Nonsense. on ARM — Heretic In the Church of Intel, Moore's Law · · Score: 5, Funny

    Religion, politics, benchmarks, the check is in the mail, I won't cum in your mouth.

  17. Re:Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers on Old Computers Resurrected As Instruments At Bletchley Park · · Score: 1

    While at Portland State University in 1975, A friend, Rodney Grimes ( a guy who could recite Pi to 1000 digits )
    composed a asr33 drum solo for 3 TTY's on paper tape that played Iron Butterfly's In-a-gadda-divida.
    It was incomprehensible, but amusing to watch.
    Fun was cutting out paper dolls and obscene messages on a IBM 1403 which usually jammed the printer.

  18. Re:Computers...Made in China? on Inside Factory China · · Score: 1

    Heh, When I was in Pingtung Taiwan, I saw an old woman assembling a basket of CD spindle motors. In front of her shop, On the sidewalk.

  19. Re:I didn't know Feinstein was a Republican.... on Senator Diane Feinstein Trying to Kill Net Neutrality · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not a Cal. resident?

    Out of State:

    Thank you for sending me your electronic mail message. I appreciate your taking the time to share your thoughts with me.

    Because of the volume of e-mail that is received by my office, we can only respond to email that includes a California postal address. Please resend the text of your e-mail message, including your postal address, and I will respond to you as soon as possible.

    Should you need additional information about the Congress, or my offices in Washington and California, please visit my homepage on the World Wide Web. The address is http://feinstein.senate.gov./

    Thank you again for contacting me, and I hope you will continue to do so in the future.

    Sincerely,

    Dianne Feinstein
    United States Senator

  20. Re:Diagnostic page returning errors on Google Search Flagging Everything As Potentially Harmful · · Score: 1

    This problem hasn't escaped the notice of the people at SANS:

      Google Search Engine's Malware Detection Broken
    Published: 2009-01-31,
    Last Updated: 2009-01-31 15:06:18 UTC
    by John Bambenek (Version: 1)
    3 comment(s)

    As of right now, it appears any google search you do will come up with all the same results as before. What has changed is that it appears to be reporting that every site might contain malware (i.e. it shows the "This site may harm your computer" warning with every result). Apparently it has been happening for about the last 15 minutes. So things are going a little haywire there and I'm sure it'll be fixed shortly. Bottom line, there is no massive web-based attack going on.

    The interesting backstory to this is that I discovered this problem with Twitter. Specifically, I use TweetDeck and noticed that all the sudden "harm", "malware", "harmful" and "google" just jumped to the top of the trending list. I took a look and found out about the problem and confirmed it for myself. I'm still somewhat skeptical of using Twitter trends to get hard-core intelligence about what is going on around you, but it certainly does point out some things to look at, even for information security professionals.

    UPDATE X1: It appears international versions of Google search are also impacted.

  21. Re:The YouTube model can work on After Monty Python Goes YouTube, Big Jump In DVD Sales · · Score: 0, Troll

    Probably redundant but I didn't go deep enough to see is someone countered your argument.

    1) Monty Python ran on PUBLIC TV (PBS), Paid for by degenerates and liberal elite degenerate socialites.
    2) There was nothing else on at 10:30 PM on a Saturday.
    3) They had boobies.

       

  22. Re:Prosecute the parents on 6-Year-Old Says Grand Theft Auto Taught Him To Drive · · Score: 1

    I don't want to be "ruled" by "you", Whoever "you" are.
    I think getting stoned and laid are perfectly normal activities, unlike trying to screw your fellow man, hurt the world and sequester all you can in a big, stupid, zero sum game.
    Fuck "you".

  23. Re:Amazing on Mars Phoenix Lander's Ovens Were Destined To Fail · · Score: 1

    This sounds like the classic, if apocryphal, ISO 9000 process written by a noticed to termination and pissed employee.
    "Floppy disks are to be soaked in warm, 96 deg water before shipping"
    Same shit, developed without reviewing the processes and executing same without thought.
    Idiots!

  24. Having worked on DO-178B level B project on Secure OS Gets Highest NSA Rating, Goes Commercial · · Score: 1

    The DO-178B standard specifies the engineering procedures and tasks that must be followed
    to achieve certification to the level specified by and required by the FAA.
    The three lower levels (B,C,D) are a subset of level "A" certification.
    Level A states that failure of a level A system will result in loss of the aircraft.
    Level B failure will cause disruption of flight and difficulties for the pilot.
    Level C will cause additional workload for the flight crew.
    Level D failure will not affect the flight crew, This includes in-flight entertainment...

    Level A and B requirements includes detailed design documents that explain the purpose
    of every line of code (prior to coding), code coverage with full conditional execution and
    hundreds of other requirements that I've forgotten. IMHO, A DO-178B level A
    O/S would take a department of 10-20 engineers 4-5 years.

  25. Does anyone trust these guys? on US Army To Develop "Thought Helmets" · · Score: 1

    Dr. Elmar Schmeisser and Dr. Mike D'Zmura?!?
    Didn't they learn from Ford Prefect?