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  1. OK, obvious question on Boardroom Spying Debacle at HP · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Keyworth was asked to resign but has refused to do so. HP said it will not renominate him to its xxx-member board."

    Just where are HP getting their board members?

  2. Meanwhile, on eBay on SGI Announces MIPS and IRIX End of Production · · Score: 2, Insightful

    204 items found for SGI.

    Good times for collectors.

  3. Re:no good solution for now on Will Solve Captcha for Money? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of course!

  4. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong... on Will Solve Captcha for Money? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dear Sir:

    I am Dr Joseph Mugambe. I have come into the possession
    of US $20 Million dollars but need to solve the captcha
    below. If you help me, I will forward to you ONE HALF of
    the moneys.

    Yours very sincerely,

  5. Re:no good solution for now on Will Solve Captcha for Money? · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's a tortoise?

  6. Re:Or just go to the library? on Google to Sell Old News Articles · · Score: 1

    Washington Post - $3.95
    San Francisco Chronicle - free
    Rocky Mountain News - $2.95
    Time - free
    Atlanta Journal - $5.95
    Chicago Tribune - some weird-ass phish trying to get my library card

  7. Re:The Segway on The Segway, Five Years Later · · Score: 1

    Biking also solves the problem that I have of finding time to exercise.

    I found in college that I could bike year-round in snow and rain with a lightweight coverall that I took off and stuffed in my knapsack. I live to far from work, and no shower, to bike now.

  8. Urban dictionary on Mining Neologisms from Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    This is what the Urban Dictionary is for.

  9. Re:Ignore that man on Who (Really) Writes Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia needs both the small content contributors and the style editors. But it will get the gigabytes of content regardless of what Wales says. He is doing the right thing by showing appreciation of the editors, since they are what make it a real encyclopedia instead of, umm, slashdot.

  10. Re:Moo on DSL Surcharge Plan Abandoned by Major Carriers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Let's try an experiment in letting market forces rule. I set up a PBX and connect up the 6 houses in my neighborhood. I get a bill from the phone company and apportion it based on fixed cost + per minute to the folks using the phone. I will also provide backup VOIP for when the phone goes out or all lines are busy, and a UPS for power outages. My guess is that I have just cut our phone bills in half.

    The experiment is to see how many days it takes for the government and phone company to come out and cut the wires and arrest me.

  11. Re:Approved by administrators before publishing ? on Not As Wiki As It Used To Be · · Score: 1

    Are you sure it wasn't for the "no advertising, no self-promotion" rule? I have deleted references to major companies from Wikipedia pages that were clearly just inserted as free advertising. Your game looks OK, and you already link it in every /. post, isn't that enough?

  12. Conspiracy!!! on Bloggers 1, Smoke-Filled Room 0 · · Score: 1

    It looks like someone has also put a secret hold on the porkbusters website!

  13. Re:picking on OpenGL Distilled · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Use selection mode instead of feedback mode and render at the coordinates. The hit records will indicate the rendered objects and their depths.

  14. Re:Actually it is more accurate than not on US Government Restricting Research Libraries · · Score: 2, Informative

    "under the guise of budgetary constraint"

    There has been a report from the CRS or GAO, I forget which, that the closings will increase costs to the EPA, due to the reduced availability and longer waits for materials that they need. SO I would give this one full marks.

  15. Re:Misconception 11 on Misconceptions About the GPL · · Score: 1

    Why not ask RMS?

    "An application program running on the GNU kernel we release will be a separate program from the GNU kernel. (Likewise, if you make kernel extensions that are at all reasonable to call clean and general-purpose.)"

    What the FAQ is saying is that you can't force anybody to become a distributor just because they have the code. A user does not have to be a distributor. Point #8 is that distributors have an obligation to distribute source to anyone who asks.

  16. Re:You're incorrect on Misconceptions About the GPL · · Score: 1

    If you take someone else's GPL code, remove their copyright, and distribute it as your own, then you are a crook. What's to argue?

  17. Re:Only Thing Missing Was A Cavity Search on Do Not Flush Your iPod · · Score: 1

    ... and the song it was playing was "The Ticking Clock".

  18. Re:Obvious solution to this problem on Patent Law Ruling Threatens FOSS · · Score: 1

    You can copyleft and assign ownership to FSF. They have the legal muscle.

  19. Re:It's back on the list *now*... on Evolution No Longer Worth Learning, Says Government · · Score: 1

    So why don't we find the author of the pdf?

    <pdf:Author>OPE</pdf:Author>
    <pdf:Producer>Acrobat PDFWriter 4.05 for Windows NT</pdf:Producer>
    <pdf:ModDate>2006-05-02T09:15:53-03:00</pdf:ModDat e>
    <pdf:Sponsor>Opus Dei</pdf:Sponsor>

    OK. I made up the last one, but the rest are in the pdf.
    OPE = Office of Postsecondary Education, at www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/

  20. Re:Stupid on IAU Demotes Pluto to 'Dwarf Planet' Status · · Score: 1

    Apatosaurus was first. Brontosaurus was made up by someone at Yale who put unrelated fossil bones together, some from an apatosaurus, and claimed to have discovered a new dinosaur.

    Not sure why the IAU gets to decide what a planet is. There seems to be useful no scientific distinction between a planet and a planetoid. Popular meaning should prevail.

  21. Re:Nice headline on IBM to Buy ISS for $1.3 Billion · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes. NASA gets $1.3B up front, but wait til they start getting the IBM service bills. Travel time alone ...

  22. Re:Theres motherf*ckin snakes in the Court!!! on SCO Lawyers Ambush IBM Witness · · Score: 4, Funny

    You missed "due to", "on having all" and "1980s". Please turn in your grammar Nazi swastika.

  23. Re:retained a lawyer? on Execs at AOL Approved Release of Private Data? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The Nuremberg Defense. At some point, people are personally responsible for the things that they do regardless of whether they were following orders.

    At a former job, we got a contract with the Navy to put our computer system on an aircraft carrier. One employee quit rather than work on a system that would be used to help kill people. Although I didn't have any qualms about that particular application, I understood her stand.

  24. Re:Market News Writing Computers Also on Algorithmic Investors on Wallstreet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Are these the same guys who figured out how to recover energy from magnetic fields? If they've broken the laws of statistics, physics should be a piece of cake.

  25. Re:Hi, you're wrong on iPods at War · · Score: 1

    I bet outlawing alcohol completely would lower motor vehicle deaths even more. I know, let's make it a constitutional amendment. What could go wrong?