User: aapold

I paired mine with Religion.

On: Best Degree to Pair w/ a B.Sc. in Computer Science?

Now I keep waiting for a Deus ex Machina career salvation. (seriously I did, but that was more by accident, not intent)

Brilliant!

On: TrekUnited Reports Mission Successful at Trek Rallies

(Guiness ad - don't spend 32 million on crap? Brilliant!) If this somehow succeeds it would be like a stroke of genius on the bart of Berman... make the show such so bad no one watched, then pull it back just in time to get it cancelled, all in the interest of getting a fan-funded show, most profitable to the network in history. Now, wonder how much money could be raised to a "let it die" fund.

Re:IPO

On: GQ on Google's Road to Riches

Because it makes a relatively decent assload of money for your employees that have been with you making this happen.

Re:It's only

On: Enterprise Fans Buy Full-Page Ad In LA Times

A future where Berman is not at the helm of a TV show....

and even more dangerous...

On: Cellphone Drivers Drive Like Drunks

posting on slashdot forums from your phone while (swerve) driving.

obsolete

On: Nanotech Brings Battery Life Extender for Mobiles

I mean, we can now get power over networks, so any network capable phone ought to be able to be powered wirelessly. All you gotta do is harness the power of a sticker containing about a half billion RFID tags

Have a set of lights that indicates the traffic...

On: Alek's Christmas Lights Webcam is Back

(not directly controllable, but perhaps pulses or colors as a sort of traffic indicator...

CIFS?

On: GMail Drive Shell Extension

It might be via Common Internet File System... Novell has something similar with Netstorage and Netdrive, both using CIFS...

B(E)=MC^2

On: Caffeinated Beer Becomes a Reality

Or something like that.

Blue Sun...

On: Is Sun Turning against Linux and Red Hat?

And here I thought they were going to form an alliance with IBM and become the Blue Sun corporation....

I find it hard to believe....

On: New Worm Installs Sniffer

""Hamsi" is a small fish, like an anchovy, found in the Black Sea)"

Fish still live in the Black Sea?

unique errors

On: Affinity Engines Says Google Stole Orkut Code

/* I worked for a company that had source code stolen by a former programmer, who went on to produce a very similar product for another company at about half the price. We saw identical functionality, shortcomings, even a case of a same hideously ugly sprite, and after siezing computers gobs of identical source code. Before a judge, they argued that given the same task, identical source code may result. The judge was not a technical judge who listened to arguments on this for about half a year before excusing himself... after a new judge was reassigned I remember we had Plauger lined up to testify on the ridiculousness of this assertion... while examining his copy of the code he also apparently found that identical tasks were producing identical whitespace, thanks to the original programmer's (the guy didn't even limit himself to stealing what he wrote) habit of hitting the spacebar before hitting enter on the end of every line. When this evidence was introduced the other company cut their guy loose and tried to claim ignorance. Not sure what happened there, as by this time it had dragged on long enough that they had to start letting people go, including me, and our company never recovered... */

Coincidence?

On: NASA Abandons SimCIty Microwave Power Concept

The Oil companies get their man in power and we cancel the space solar energy program.

Re:Pics of the kid at school

On: Mutation Creates SuperKid

linked version

Pics of the kid at school

On: Mutation Creates SuperKid

Though it's hard to see the definition inside those school uniforms: http://www.agh2o.org/badlarp/badlarp_files/musclem en.jpg

Patent Open Source?

On: France Considers Open Source

As long as no one patents the idea of switching to open source....

Originally they were going to use Seagulls

On: Trained Rats for Mine Detection

But they got too many false positives. Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine!

Even dogs are getting outsourced...

On: Trained Rats for Mine Detection

Rats don't have a union and get paid 1/10th the food dogs do...

You need protection in Sicily...

On: Technology Spontaneously Combusts In Sicily

Or sometimes things just.... catch fire..... we wouldn't want that now would we?

Re:Chronicles of Amber?

On: Scifi Channel to Make Ringworld Miniseries

You want to see the cheap adaptation of which all other cheap adaptations are but a shadow?

I give thanks....

On: Scifi Channel to Make Ringworld Miniseries

They left Amber off the list. I'd heard they had one in the works and I love amber...

I was hoping for one that took gasoline...

On: Hitachi Shows Off A Fuel-Cell PDA

little intake funnel, exhaust pipe to get it above your head... headphones to deal with the whine... maybe a pull chord to start it up....

Energy Internet Viruses...

On: Building the Energy Internet

Great... now hackers will be able to fry people....

Re:Remember aRexx?

On: Rexx Is Still Strong After 25 years

I remember when we added Arexx support to excellence! and discovered the whole realm of scripting languages, Arexx was terrific.

Monospace Converter... here ya go

On: A History of Every GUI Ever

Here you go:

if(!isset($url))
{
echo '<form action="monospacer.php">';
echo 'Enter URL: <input name="url" size=50>';
echo '<br><br><input type="submit" value="monospace it!">';
}
else
{
$lines = file($url);

foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line)
{
$tokens = explode('<br>', $line);
foreach($tokens as $token_num => $token)
{
echo '<font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">'.$token. '</font><br>';
}
}
}

http://www.agh2o.org/monospacer.php works marginal at best on heavily formatted sites. You can feed it http://www.slashdot.org/search.pl and get something monospaced though.