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  1. Worst TV Show... ever on Concerning The Cancellation of Futurama · · Score: -1, Troll

    Worst TV show, ever.

  2. Re:Information about the gizmo... on Hitachi's Wearable Internet Appliance · · Score: 2

    Input Devices?

    Keyboard? Microphone? etc?

  3. Re:We're using it here...it rocks! on Google's Search Appliance · · Score: 2

    What does it use for storage? Does it have its own drives? Does it talk to a database? Or does it talk to direct attached, SAN or NAS?

  4. My favorite module on Modular Robots · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My favorite module is Keep on the Borderlands. Although, Village of Hamblet come in a close second. Of course, as a purest, I never liked Purple Mountain, the one with the space ship.

  5. Cmd Taco needs a basic grammer course... on Elections on the Internet -- Not Any Time Soon · · Score: 0
    Unfortunately, this is probably all to true.

    ...this is probably all too true.

    Expect more from your editor.

  6. Pr0n on What Kind of Books do You Want? · · Score: 1, Troll

    Pr0n sells. Everything else is a complete waste of time. However, why not mix tech manuals with the Pr0n. Or at least replace the animals on the cover with naked ladies: a different naked lady each time. Here are some titles:

    "Perl 6, and some good Pr0n because God only knows that you'll never get a date with this book."

    "Embedded Systems Programming and Full Frontal Nudity, because this topic is too boring to sell on its own."

    etc.

  7. Suspend on UNIX Process Cryogenics? · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can't just serialize and page out one process. Under every process are a slew of kernel objects and kernel crud including the virtual to physical mappings of your address space. It would be quite a challenge to isolate all of this and somehow persist it.

    To make suspend work, you'd have to dump your entire memory image to disk. Then you swap in the entire image, kernel and user pages alike.

  8. Science by polls? on NASA Asks the Public For Advice On Goals · · Score: 2

    The fact that NASA has been doing "science" based on polls is nothing new. However, I've never seen them be so open about it until now. Where do I check off "stay home and send me the money", because if they are going to let the general public pick the missions, I'd rather just keep my tax dollars.

    Are you bored of brocolli experiments in space too?

  9. Re:Erm, OK, this is bizarre... on FreeBSD 4.5 NOT Released (Updated) · · Score: 4, Troll

    What's bizarre is not so much that this is hoax, but that a website managed by such incompetent idiots can be so successful.

  10. Re:Other rejected titles... on 'Indiana Jones 4' Finally A Go · · Score: 2

    You forgot:

    Raiders of the Lost Prostate.

  11. Catch 22 on Career Path for Embedded Software Developers? · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is a catch 22 with embedded software design in that the development hardware is essentially unavailable outside of the industry. You can't just go buy eval boards on your own.

    However, you can learn to write your own boostrap loader, and you can work with some of the free OS's.

    OS work, porting, bootstrapping and driver engineering force you to work hands on with the hardware. Plus, the components are available off the shelf. I'd get involved in any of the driver or porting projects with NetBSD or Embedded Linux. This will give you a needed skill set for alot of embedded companies that are putting full OS's in their boxes. They are good stepping stones to the "for-loop" OS or the embedded OS's like QNX and VXWorks.

  12. Re:To really be safe... on Export-level Encryption Proves Insufficient · · Score: 2

    No doubt. This discussion is so stupid on so many fronts that it's not even worthy of satire.

    We happily let a guy who looks like the shoe-bomber walk onto our planes, and yet we somehow feel secure by impossing a feeble export law which can only be enforced by the "honor-system".

  13. Wow! on New Thoughts in Public Transportation · · Score: 1, Insightful

    What an idea. We take peoples car's away and replace them with these other cars. But the new cars run on tracks sort of like trains instead of the far less expensive roads that we currently have.

  14. So far so weak on OS X Kernel Overview · · Score: 2

    The disclaimer is out of sync with the substance of the documentation. I found the overview to be nothing more than a entry-level introduction, lacking in many critical details that would prove relevant to somebody actually writing the code. However, to be fair, I've rairly come across a decent kernel developer text, especially where BSD is concerned. The code seems to be the only documentation when it comes to kernel development.

  15. Embedded Linux in my Buick on Embedded Linux On a High Speed Camera · · Score: 2

    What happens when the home directory and NIS server goes down and I'm doing 85mph on the highway? ;)

  16. In other news on Chicago Proposes MAN (Metropolitan Area Network) · · Score: 3, Funny

    The city also came up with a new plan entitled, "hand out of lots of cash to everyone." The plan puts large piles of cash in the hands of anyone who lives in the city. The city doesn't intend to fund the project, rather leave such minor details to the private sector.

  17. You should be fired on Handling Discrimination in the IT Workplace? · · Score: 1
    yet I am more then qualified for my current position according to previous employers


    5 years of admin experience and you don't know the difference between the preposition "than", a word or phrase placed typically before a substantive and indicating the relation of that substantive to a verb, an adjective, or another substantive, and "then", used as an adverb, noun and rarely an adjective.

  18. Re:Another way around it: on DVD Drives Defeat Cactus Data Shield · · Score: 3, Funny
    That's an interesting method. Here's another that I prefer:
    1) Take 'Natalie Imbruglia - White Lillies Island' CD.
    2) Fasten the disc to your car's bumper with a chain.
    3) Drive around until there's nothing left but the chain.

    Then take the chain, wrap it around a rafter in a high ceiling, and hang yourself from it. Do your family a favor and don't mention the CD in your suicide note.

  19. Re:Sounds dangerous... on IBM Builds A Limited Quantum Computer · · Score: 2

    It explodes. Sort of like Michael Jackson standing in a room full of asian women.

  20. Re:The only possibly reason you want Embedded Wind on Red Hat And Lineo Respond To MS Embedded Linux FUD · · Score: 2

    The lowest end storage boxes uses samba. The mid tier and enterprize boxes use either offshoots from the original embedded NT, their own propriatary implementation of CIFS, or the new embedded NT.

  21. Re:The only possibly reason you want Embedded Wind on Red Hat And Lineo Respond To MS Embedded Linux FUD · · Score: 2
    User #1658 Info) But people have cloned most of those for Linux already

    ... sort of. Not suitable for the embedded space. If you want CIFS to work on an embedded file server you are not going to run samba. trust me.

  22. The only possibly reason you want Embedded Windows on Red Hat And Lineo Respond To MS Embedded Linux FUD · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is if you needed to work with some proprietary MS protocol like CIFS, DCOM (embedded DCOM?? ugh), or some other stupid MS thing.

  23. Re:How to classify a VPN? on VPN Clients Not Allowed On Residential Service · · Score: 2

    No doubt. Who cares what the cable company says. Tunnel with SSH. It's encrypted so they will never know.

  24. Re:Fits Are Not Unique on Evidence of Bacterial Life on Europa · · Score: 2

    They have the same problem trying to figure out where the stains in my tub are coming from.

  25. Re:Irresponsible, huh? on Ancient Sunken City Discovered Off Shores of Cuba. Maybe · · Score: 2

    I'm pretty sure it was built by aliens using psionic powers but it would be totally irresponsible to say what it was before we have evidence.