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  1. Symphony, yet, Lotus SmartSuite on IBM Launches Microsoft-Free Linux Virtual Desktop · · Score: 1

    Lotus SmartSuite is STILL languishing. Shame.

  2. Re:God, please let this be true. on Prescription Handguns For the Elderly and Disabled · · Score: 1

    The AARP will be in conniption fits, if the thing automatically calls Medic Alert with: "Help, I've mistaken my Palm Pistol for my insulin injector," or, with, "Help, this thing is really an enigmatic enema..."

  3. Now, one can TALK TO GOD at a MILLION 8 on Electrode Implant Gives Mute Man a (Synthesized) Voice · · Score: 1

    BAUD.

    Imagine being a one-throat Paul Hardcastle, being 25 instruments at once. That could almost be the Borq Queen, except the vocal cords could span space, time, and reach out to beings such as dogs.

    If he goes hunting, he could "talk dog" while on the move. "Rrrrr... Cut 'em off to the left, Tigger!"

    "RRRR-Roger That. Roof!"

    But, Christmas carolling could be quite interesting if an ensemble of such-equipped singers got "jacked" into morphing the Little Drummer Boy to the Little Humpmer Boy "I want you to Hummmmp me til i cu cu cu cu. BEAT on my BUM... Pee on my Drumm..." Or, make "Oh, yah, weeee" emit.

    It's reminding me of the 51 line bus in Alameda, where the androgynous voice (sounds almost like one of the Talosians) announces, "Ahprohching Fiifth and Brawdway"... Hell, that announcing voice ought to be on MUNI in San Fransideshow. It would tickle the tourists someting fierce.

    Now, match that up with the Granny Gun/Palm Pistol:

    http://gizmodo.com/5069173/palm-pistol-grandma-is-going-on-a-toodle-shootin-rampage

    And the AARP will be in conniption fits, if the thing automatically calls Medic Alert with: "Help, I've mistaken my Palm Pistol for my insulin injector," or, with, "Help, this thing is really an enigmatic enema..."

  4. Re:Memory exists to be used Ah, in RAM on Why Use Virtual Memory In Modern Systems? · · Score: 1

    Well, let's very early start the Salacious Santa jingles...

    "Memory exists to be used. If memory is not in use, you are wasting it. The reality is that your system will operate with
    higher performance if unused data is paged out of RAM to disk and the newly freed memory is used for additional disk caching. Vista's memory manager is actually reasonably smart and will only page data out to disk when it really won't be used, or you experience an actual low-memory condition."

    Makes me think:

    Bodies exist to be used. If orifices are not in use, you are wasting them. The sensuality is that your sys stem will operate with higher performance if unused attach points are paged out for RAMMing to di*k and the newly recalled memories used for additional di*k THRASHING.....

    Oh, wait, i'm running out of anal-orgies for comparison...

  5. Re:Virtual Memory v Paging He must be returned on Why Use Virtual Memory In Modern Systems? · · Score: 0

    to the Collective. All units are directed to unify in the task of supplying a Vinculum, um Mac to the lost dro.. umm, Borg.

    (Is there a difference in being ASSIMIlated into the Mac and being assIMMOlated in the ms pc, and EMUlated by the Linuces?)

  6. Re:You want all the instructions before starting. on Doctor Performs Amputation By Text Message · · Score: 1

    THAT was a text(book) operation....

  7. Re:God, please let this be true. on Prescription Handguns For the Elderly and Disabled · · Score: 1

    Why take on Socialized Medicine when we can cry, "SOYLENT GREEN HAS A HOLE NEW MEANing!"?

  8. Re:Do what the rest of us scientists do, publish on Losing My Software Rights? · · Score: 1

    Then, do PARALLEL research.

    Tell the University OR the employer that what you have done (if it is the truth) precedes your mutual conversation. You might be obligated to give them right of first refusal, but if what you find is in the open domain, then if they dick around on advancing an idea you thing should be advanced, build in the ticking time bomb: after so much time, they forfeit any right to restrict you.

    This way, they should be deprived of being research or patent trolls. If you have a hobby of designing space ships, and if NASA or DOD hire you based on YOUR talent they didn't provide or nurture, but only want capital gain out of your mind or labor, then as long as your hobby never takes company-created (or company client) data, and so long as you can point that what you learn at work IS in the public domain or is extractable (just like most Top Secrets are aggregates of many assembled bits of UNCLAS info, but maybe it is the SOURCES that have more importance than the time-sensitive, expiring supporting data), then you should be free to do what EVER does not fall into the company's current mission statement. If they edit the mission statement to become so nebulous as to act as a dragnet for your brain, then find another employer. Even if it is a competitor. You have to eat, and you should be compelled to go from researcher to shoe-shine boy.

  9. Re:The squish bits and only the squishy bits on Battlestar Galactica Gets Spinoff Prequel Series · · Score: 1

    That might have been them falling prey to the typical demographics satisfaction they have to meet for studios, to gratify the hormones of the 17-35 male, i suppose. Sucks when shows overdo it.

  10. Re:Summary is confused as usual.. This is why on European Police Plan to Remote-Search Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Well, given some of the handling of scoring, it feels like a cross between The Jerry Springer Show and some puppeteers...

  11. Re:The squish bits and only the squishy bits on Battlestar Galactica Gets Spinoff Prequel Series · · Score: 1

    Maybe it was boring to *you*, but all that power-/interpersonal play is what garnered it many awards for sci-fi with brains. And, it strongly commented on the "war" (parenthetically, i write it) without necessarily taking sides. It did so MUCH better than even the original Star Trek. BSG is a lot more visceral, kills off liked or likeable characters...

  12. Re:"recently"?! Sure is. on Battlestar Galactica Gets Spinoff Prequel Series · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Apparently, Slash articles need to have pre-posting supplemental research/vetting/URL-add-ons before going into the wild:

    http://www.galacticawatercooler.com/

    Then, it might have read:

    "Previously-announced BSG-Prequel 'Caprica'green-lighted"

  13. Re:cuz nobody has EVER been able to fool that on Replacing Metal Detectors With Brain Scans · · Score: 1

    But, blending River Dance, Box Cutters, and Stop-Action-A-la-Matrix would lend to some interesting brand of confusion, defusion, infusion, and other ... Well, the Terrorists will probably figure out how to make Scalosian Water and drink it at the scanner station and then... breeze on by...

    Or, more disgustingly but possibly easily, they'll show up with an "incontinence" bag of binary liquid bombs, or shit that is really C-4-impregnated. Or, with fake denture cream, for a mind-blowing experience comes with chewing hard... Whuups, I guess that means the makers of Preparation H will have to create pill-format Preparation H for frequent fliers not permitted to move freely about the cabin...

  14. Re:cuz nobody has EVER been able to fool that on Replacing Metal Detectors With Brain Scans · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or, there could be subliminal/sub-aural phrases such as "The Bush", instead of "Bush"...

    It would be funny if someone could hack the systems and generate lots of erections and pre-coital drainage in the waiting area... It would be... bemoaned, as it ... could.. become...the wading area...

    The men's area could be called... "Area 5.1" (shorter for Area 51, for the obvious dimension."

    The VIP lounge could be called "The SHAPE of Things to COME"....

    Could give a whole new meaning to "The Day they Earth Stood... STEEL"...

    Bumb-sniffing dogs could be "hot on the trail"...

    I guess if everyone got besides themselves (and into others), everyone would qualify -- INstantly -- for a.. bum wrap... after hearing:

    FREEZE: Hands in the air! Face the Mound!

    and face even WORSE problems when in the interrogation rooms of airports, being asked questions such as:

    "How many people are you traversing with? You sat in seat 15-A, next to Mr. X.B. We KNOW you are connected. Tell us, what is the size of her penis? What do you like to smoke?

    Flying could become a ... hair-rowing ex-spear-e-ince...

  15. Re:Summary is confused as usual.. This is why on European Police Plan to Remote-Search Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    No, butt, King Kong might be outed after having her annual anu-brasion treatment.

  16. Re:Monopoloy, then will they have union at on Windows Drops Below 90% Market Share · · Score: 1

    Sector 001? Will they become a "DO-Awe-Pole-EE"?

    Which will blow the wrist hairs of the other like Data did the Borg Queen?

    Might be neat if Apple starts selling Vinculums with every shiny new Mac. Wait... the... Mac... IS a Vinculum, hehehehe. Their Vinculum might bring more order to the CHAOS of the windows Vinculum...

  17. Re:Not a problem... Maybe this is a task for... on Teacher Sells Ads On Tests · · Score: 2, Funny

    "If because of your teachers' responding to budgetary shortfalls you are developing a calculus, ZAPP'm, with...

    Ad-Subtract?

    Now, Deluxe Edition: Add-Subtract"

  18. Re:Good news... But, it's still to early to dance on Windows Drops Below 90% Market Share · · Score: 0

    But, it's still to early to dance a jig over ms going down to 90%. When the windoze-only apps get native counterparts in Linux AND Mac, and THESE two both/each have 12% of the market, then it's time to arrange dancing dates, and maybe warm up for the dance-a-thon.

  19. Re:Summary is confused as usual.. This is why on European Police Plan to Remote-Search Hard Drives · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Slashdot will NEVER be considered a legitimate source of "journalism", and why reputable news reporting outlets will regard /. as a nerd/geek/weirdo tecchie haven not to be confused with, say, other tech coverage outlets.

    Shouldn't it be infuriating, outrageous for reports to be willfully or negligently taken out of context? Or, is this, alas, what it takes to lure readers, so that VA or /. can garner ad revenue?

    I wonder if the incoming administration will -- while not addressing the content of readers -- impose upon site administrators who repost or repurpose non-original material to not use free speech to jingoistically or confusingly restate news. It shouldn't *take* a tech-savvy White House to impose such "suggestions". Hell, VA (not Langley, but the site holders, lest there be confusion, hehehe) should impose it.

    Me, i find there to be a woeful lacking in the vetting of posts that get "outed".

    (Speaking out to damage my Karma a little more every time...)

  20. Re:All the more reason... That is PROBABLY on European Police Plan to Remote-Search Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    why the various world governments have not killed or illegalized Linux and Open Source operating systems. One might wonder whether msoft has even got a hand in saying whether or not the Linux Kernel gets "rooted", since, after all, ms willingly or begrudgingly supports NSA intrusion into the kernel to nail the truly deserving, and to spy on anyone deemed a "person of interest"....

    But, it's still to early to dance a jig over ms going down to 90%. When the windoze-only apps get native counterparts in Linux AND Mac, and THESE two both/each have 12% of the market, then it's time to arrange dancing dates, and maybe warm up for the dance-a-thon.

    But, really, that will have to start with defibullating (sp?) Korea, Japan, and Asia to ween them a few percentages down from addiction to windows. If South America and MORE of Europe legitimize their distrust of an "American-based company" having and providing access to not only the local but to the US government, then they can try to politically shift their efforts even MORE into Linux (and Mac?) just to at least rid themselves of ms.

    There will still be backdoors, but then staying off line as much as possible, and booby-trapping (with finger-wrecking charges, or just (legally and more safe) intrusion detection means to punish snoops who snoop on non-criminals.

  21. Re:OT but I don't care... HEY! I have an idea: on Groklaw's PJ Says SCO's Demise Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Jeesus, some people (like whomever modded me off-topic) just hate to have (or let others in on) fun. Don't you realize that LAUGHING or helping someone laugh is a lot more healthier than disparaging a single person? Not as if i'm a politician with so much power over others that i MUST be under scrutiny for the good of the public.

    I thought i was being funny. Maybe YOU don't know the issues of facebook for f/b users who hated "their" view of their profiles changing. There is a parallel here.

    Besides, last week i saw to my dismay, LOTS of what qualified as "redundant" comments -- as many as 20 in a sub-200-comment topic -- and virtually NONE was marked redundant. This tells me i have one or more foes who sign up looking to slam-dunk/grind or agitate people.

    Slashdot's moderation systems asks people to concentrate on being positive. Apparently, slashdot doesn't seem to track and reign in people who "stalk" or abuse karma/moderation points.

    If i am so worthy of being bitch-slapped/fucked with and having my scores capriciously capped, slashed and turned from a positive rating/description to redundant/off-topic/troll, then WHY is my Karma never changing. Is that, too, another issue with Slashdot's karma and scoring systems? That could very well BE why these pages are being reshuffled. Maybe slashdot's core controllers are finally sick and tired of cowardly stalkers who never get listed as foe/hater, and gleefully do damage to people.

    I virtually NEVER attack specific people here. I don't mod people, mainly because MY sense of humor often is at variance with others', and so, who am i to say what IS humor to a broad spectrum of readers here. It makes me feel good, and my day a few notches better when someone takes their time to comment back and on the occasion when they mod me up, or at least find some way to avoid undercutting me. Undercutting is, to me, a vindictive, petty way to suppress someone, literally censor them, by forcing others to have to read below -1 just to sleuth out player-hate victims.

    This isn't a grouse: it's what i see/feel going on. I at first hated the new layouts, and to some extent thought the previous was better, but now, if the long range goal is to bury player haters, i whole-heartedly hope VA/slash adopt a player-hater tracker!

  22. Re:Not in this economy. Could also do a shortcut? on IT Job Without a Degree? · · Score: 1

    How about networking with many people, so many people that literally a company can be formed. Have some real, usable products with real world solutions. He could post himself to IT Czar. Others could be the HR, Payroll, R&D and other roles-takers. But, he could name his own price, so to speak.

    Hell, they might even get some VC funding where VCs might be looking for aggressive new upstarts that have their act together. Or, alternatively, a bigger, frightened company might buy them just to hoard them, or to shut them down. They all might get 1 or 2 years salary to work or to not compete. Might beat unemployment compensation.

  23. Re:OT but I don't care... HEY! I have an idea: on Groklaw's PJ Says SCO's Demise Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 1, Funny

    Let's create a Slug-In (Slash-plug-in) that links our content to Facebook, then create a group called:

    "One Million Slashers Against the "NEW" Slashdot Layout", LOL!

    Hell, we might even be able to "share"/donate karma, and overrule the SlashLords who engage in or idly stand by while ogres abuse the moderation and scoring system out of retribution and user-burying (in a "don't feed the trolls" mentality)...

    But, first, the Slug-In Plug-In. But, i wonder if Facebook could be slashdotted, or if Slashdot could be "faced", hehehe...

  24. Re:In other words... worse than zombies... on Groklaw's PJ Says SCO's Demise Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 2, Insightful

    they are worse than Cylons. They seem to be "killable", but keep replicating. Hell, they don't even improve models. You need to find the Resurrection Ship and put a nuke in its colon.... preferably making it a HUGE swollen colon, that no deep space Ben-Gay nor Preparation H can favorabley re-sequence...

    SCO should be SCO^3, which could stand for: "Self-Contained Organism, Secreting Copies Over Secret Channel Outputs"

    Or, SCO could be a tag/jingle for: "Semi-Conjugative Ogres: Screwing Companies Over"

  25. Re:the short hairs. WHAT kind of ridiculous entry on Rewriting a Software Product After Quitting a Job? · · Score: 1

    methods?

    Like:

    Bwokk bwokk bwookk?

    Kwehhh kwehh kwehh?

    Cocka-doodle-doo?

    But, if Asian cell phones can do it, then a text/char input field can. SKIM/SCIM for cells & for windows, anyone?