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  1. Lets see if there's parity.... on White House Confirms Chinese Cyberattack · · Score: 2, Insightful

    .... between what happens to the chinese perpetrators and what has happened to Gary McKinnon over the years!

  2. What's that noise..... on Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It · · Score: 1

    ... Why It's Darl McBride and SCO coming back in zombie form..

  3. Not just de-mining... on Trained Rats for Mine Detection · · Score: 1

    Ordinary domesticated rats have been trained to go through stud walling and tortuously complex runs following their owners' tapping on the outer plasterboard and pulling with them a trace string which is then used to pull in a UTP / Telephone /Mains /antenna/ wtf cable. simplifies a complex expensive and time consuming process.

  4. Re:Someone has to say it on Linus Not The Father Of Linux, According to Report · · Score: 1

    doesn't bother me, I'm spartacus!

  5. Re:Summary of competition (HP calculators) on TI Launches Three New Graphing Calculators · · Score: 1

    strange no mention of the HP41C?

  6. Re:I always thought on Electric Grid is a Vast Machine · · Score: 1

    Ah but the net reaches off the planet, to satellites, ISS, etc. so it has a bigger diameter

  7. Couple of good technical articles.. on Shortwave Radio and The PC · · Score: 1

    ..on this receiver, and the dirt on the underlying technology in Electronics and Wireless World, earlier this year. I've a list of URLs somewhere I can post for folks who are interested.

  8. Quick power supply regulation test for CRTs.. on Shopping for a New Monitor? · · Score: 1

    Flash up a spreadsheet/wordprocessor, flick between select all and select none, to make the screen flash black/white. If the power supply regulation is good then bumping up and down the beam current in this way wont cause the vertical size of the raster to change by more than about a mm, if the raster stretches by more than +- 3->5mm, pick another monitor.

  9. Re:Trying to force the issue? on Yet Another Amazon Patent · · Score: 1

    William of Occham, popularly referred to as william of Occam is going to be pleased, somebody else has patented his razor! This post uses only recycled pixels

  10. Re:Are we writing a paper for him? on Who is Responsible? The Developer? The User? · · Score: 1

    hear hear.. I don't mind my students doing it this way and on /. he'll get a lot more and varied opinions to consider than he would working alone or ina small group

  11. Re:Check out the used computer shops in your area. on Keyboard Video Mouse (KVM) Switches · · Score: 1

    I too used a plain wafer switch, but had to run diodes across the +5V lines to the keyboard, so that the kbd in use always got power, 2 years now and no problems