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  1. The reason coax won't win on Verizon To Use New Tech With Old Cables · · Score: 1

    Interference.

    Once fiber becomes easy and cheap enough to run in the home for most people, it will take over for the mere fact that there's no electrical interference, like there is for coax and CAT5/5e/6.

    Then, coax will become useful for another purpose: being used as pull cable for running the fiber in an existing home.

  2. 8800 on NASA Names New Spacecraft 'Altair' · · Score: 1

    Does it run BASIC?

  3. RT on Personal Ticket Tracking System for Admins? · · Score: 1

    RT: Request Tracker is pretty good.

  4. Price on A 1.2 Petabyte Hard Drive? · · Score: 5, Funny
    the cost would probably be in the range of $750 each

    Is that before or after rebate?


  5. Pictures? on Continued Success for Space Elevator Tests · · Score: 1

    Does anyone have _real_ pictures of a space elevator in action? I see references to short runs done in real life, but never any good pictures.

  6. PBS? on Soap Opera for Luring Women to Tech is a Flop · · Score: 1

    Did PBS turn them down? I mean, that would be something... if even PBS doesn't want it. I thought PBS's motto was "if we don't do it, who will?"

  7. Go After The Administrators on UCLA Students Urged to Expose 'Radical' Professors · · Score: 1

    The radical professors are _allowed_ to be there by the incompetent administrators of our universities. I mean, the stupidity has reach epidemic proportions. If you saw "Stupid In America" on 20/20 the other week, you know what I mean.

    Think of it this way. If you go to McDonald's (food jokes aside), and you get consistently bad service, unclean tables, and horrific restrooms, who's to blame? It's the manager, of course. If you go the post office, and it's really slow, it's because the manager is not running a tight ship. Well, in the academic world, the administrators are the managers, and they need a serious kick in the ass by Donald Trump.

  8. Re:I like the new Daleks on Dr. Who on Sci-Fi Channel in March · · Score: 1
    They look like they are ready to provide for all of our food mixing and toilet plunging needs.
    I always fancied them as salt and pepper shakers.
  9. Media Bubble on Spam is Dead · · Score: 1
    I got almost a third more spam in 05 than 04. I guess I exist outside the bell curve on this one.


    Nah, you just live outside of the media bubble.
  10. James Bond got it right on On the Matter of Slashdot Story Selection · · Score: 1

    I think you should have some kind of painful feedback on the submitter's mouse, kind of like the videogame battle in Never Say Never Again. It would be proportional to the number of stories they submit within a 24-hour period.

  11. Natural vision loss on Computers, Long Hours and Vision Problems? · · Score: 1

    You've aged 10 years since you started "computing", and I assume you started no earlier than a teenager. People naturally lose their vision over time. It's part of aging.

    If teenagers start losing their vision after 10 years of "computing" (that is, they start at 5 years old), then we've got a problem.

  12. Cover? on Bill Gates, Time Magazine "Person of the Year" · · Score: 1

    What's a cover? Is it something like a home page?

    For that matter, what's a magazine? A new kind of blog??

  13. Re:Educational tool? on Film Documents Software Creation · · Score: 1

    That's what Office Space is for.

  14. Time spans on Humanity Responsible For Current Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Some scientists are always saying things like humans have been around for one million years, and that's just a blip in the timeline of the Earth or universe. Those comments are just meant to show how tiny and insignificant man is.

    But when it comes to global warming... oh, no! 5,000 years is suddenly significant. 650,000 years is suddenly a huge stretch of time that, without a doubt, shows their conclusion.

  15. Re:It still sucks on Sneak Peek at IBM 'Viper' DB2 Release · · Score: 1

    >The differences between oracle & db2 for transactional apps are mostly:

    And don't forget:

    o DB2 has a different locking model that has lock escalation, which causes frequent deadlocks (i.e. on concurrent DDL).

    o DB2 does not expose many statistics for tuning in an easy-to-use format like Oracle does (V$ tables). Sure, you can set event monitors, but they are cumbersome, and they don't provide enough information. And where are the timed event (or wait) statistics?

    o DB2's Java-based tools are slow and bulky.

    o DB2 doesn't expose space usage statistics for objects such as tables and indexes. The documentation literally says to _calculate_ the object size!

  16. Slashdotisans must be conflicted... on Using Copyrights To Fight Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    copyright abuse, force-feeding views, and the possibility of turning to open-source text books... all in one story!

  17. Hell yeah! on Can iTunes Resurrect Old Time TV? · · Score: 1

    Nick-at-Nite, and even TV Land, are showing shows from the 70's, 80's, and 90's. Now there's no place to turn for quality programming from the 50's and 60's!

  18. Is this a government on Estonian Internet Voting Called a Success · · Score: 1

    ...or a dot-com?

  19. Re:See, 6 hours. on American Workers: Lazy or Creative? · · Score: 1

    The Europeans are kicking our asses

    How are they "kicking our asses"?

  20. Re:Pass me the crackpipe, please on Will AJAX Threaten Windows Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Here's some food for thought: imagine a simple instant messaging program

    I think you hit the nail right on the head, here. AJAX is great for applications where the majority of data is flowing in one direction, like when the user wants to peruse a gigantic geographical database.

  21. Re:The biggest annoyance with DevStudio on Visual Studio Hacks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Interesting, but I think I still prefer CTRL-F, enter text, , , F3.

  22. Re:You missed one on 29 Vector Drawing Programs · · Score: 1

    And here's the Windows port: echo. >file.svg

  23. Tiny icon representations on Getting A Handle On Vista · · Score: 1

    Is the feature that does "tiny representations of a document itself" similar to what Virtual PC shows in the Console, for running virtual machines?

  24. Re:I was wondering what SVG was on Inkscape 0.42: The Ultimate Answer · · Score: 1

    Welcome to 1961.

  25. OSL Leeches? on Drupal Needs a New Home · · Score: 1

    A lot of "successful" sites seem to be hosted at OSL. But really, how successful are these sites if they can't even raise $3,000 for a new server (before posting on Slashdot)? And how would tuition-payers at Oregon State University feel about funding such a service (yes, yes, they would probably say "open-what?" but once you explain it...) There are a lot of benefits of making a business out of this software stuff.