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Comment Soroc (Score 2, Interesting) 94

Soroc Technologies was an early intelligent (well, ok, dumb) terminal company, started back in 1981. Well, they were smart enough to put the cursor where you wanted and do a few other tricks. Anyway, the name came from a night of drinking beer and trying to think up a new company name. They were drinking Coors at the time, and decided that an anagram of Coors would fit the bill. The company still exists, see www.soroc.com, and check out the company logo. Yes, it is the top of the beer can.

This was related to me one night over dinner by the company founder.
Supercomputing

Homebrew Cray-1 140

egil writes "Chris Fenton built his own fully functional 1/10 scale Cray-1 supercomputer. True to the original, it includes the couch-seat, but is also binary compatible with the original. Instead of the power-hungry ECL technology, however, the scale model is built around a Xilinx Spartan-3E 1600 development board. All software is available if you want to build one for your own living room. The largest obstacle in the project is to find original software."

Comment Re:Obviously fake (Score 1) 238

Actually I taught my cat to fetch a dumbbell. Now granted, the dumbbell was the spool from a 35mm roll of film (this was a long time ago, pre-handycam era so sorry, no video), but she would fetch it just the same. I would toss it from the living room into the kitchen where she would run sliding all over the place as it bounced off chair legs. When she caught it she would bring it back and drop it in my shoe and await the next round.

A friend of mine taught cats to do tricks for movies and television, so it is really a bit silly to assume that cats can't learn tricks.

Comment Re:854,000 people currently holding a TS clearance (Score 1) 502

Well, I can assure you that it did not include everyone who was stationed at Utapao. I worked aircraft avionics and certainly saw the "secret recon gear" nearly every day, as did all of the Thai workers, food vendors, house girls, trash collectors, etc. And they certainly did not hold top secret clearances. I had the quite standard secret clearance as did almost everyone who worked on aircraft, and I seriously doubt that all those Thai workers had those clearances either. Certainly the townsfolk working off base did not have any clearances, yet those folks used paper bags made out of recycled secret tech manuals! If you wanted to spy all you had to do was buy something in town and read the bag. You could have found out all about the inner workings of the B52s of the day. I spent most of my military time in SAC, never needed a top secret clearance though I knew some who did, crypto, etc., even though I worked on nuke loaded aircraft.

Nothing personal, but if you got this much wrong, it makes we wonder about your other assertions.

Comment Re:It's been done (Score 1) 53

You rely on computers because dogs cannot detect cancer with sufficient reliability to count on them, day after day, year after year, and their cancer detection accuracy is not all that high to begin with for deep cancers. I taught one to detect breast cancer and I can tell you it is not easy and the accuracy was poor for all of the dogs in the study. The amazing part is that it could be done at all.
Networking

Why Is Connectivity So Cheap In Stockholm? 443

lpress writes "Symmetric, 100 Mbps service in Stockholm, costs $11/month. Conditions in every city are different, but part of the explanation for the low cost is that the city owns a municipal fiber network reaching every block. They lease network access to anyone who would like to offer service. The ISPs, including incumbent telephone and cable companies, compete on an equal footing."
Editorial

Submission + - HardwareLogic Tours ECS' Factory (hardwarelogic.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Most people pry open the packaging holding their motherboard, video card, or other hardware without giving any thought to where it came from, or how it came to be. Today, HardwareLogic takes you on an incredible journey, starting with the birth of a PCB to the final inspection of the finished motherboard.
Yahoo!

Submission + - Yahoo introducing free, unlimited email storage

caffeinemessiah writes: On its mail homepage, Yahoo announces that "free unlimited storage" is on its way for Yahoo Mail. This will apparently include "limitless storage space for photos, attachments, messages, and more". There is also another page with more information about unlimited storage. It seems that they either scooped Google on this one or, thanks to the unlimited attachment feature and tools like the GMail Drive, are about to become the largest public file-sharing site that can penetrate your office firewall.

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