I weep for humanity.

You guys are giving me an anxiety attack. Watching sports is not an intellectual endeavor, it's an emotional exercise which brings up previous feelings of triumph, potentially boosting the participants self esteem and serves as an instrument of social cohesion.

No, it's not sad at all, a little humbling, but it's not really sad. I'm an amateur archivalist, so despite what the article says, I think you can reboot society with far less storage requirements. Originally, I felt that culture would be in flux in any situation where such an archive would be necessary, but my Myspace friends list is a manual interpretation of the trust metric used for Advogato. On Myspace a false positive is called a pretty Nicki, a normal kid on Michael Jackson's friend list. Essentially, her popularity is completely derived from that association. So, by taking the top friends of verified cultural icons, you form a veritable who's who of Myspace, something you can do with the rest of the Internet once you understand the trust metric concept.

Sheldon Cooper, with only two hundred MySpace friends, is a buffoon.

http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1990536&cid=35183580

I write like shit when I'm tired.

I have Linux From Scratch on my Dell Inspiron 1545, the CD needs hammered into place, i have moved source code into the new system, i had trouble copying files to my vfat thumb drive from OBSD, so I used my Mac at work and gave my coworker a list of systems that will help with a command line server, stuff like screen, told him to look for a cli version of pidgin, email, browser, mc, etc. OBSD runs my desktop development environment, including selected bits from gutenberg, tldp, ocw.mit.edu, OBSD documentation, All RFCs, I don't have DMOZ, nor wikipedia, but the LFS system is not complete so there you go. OBSD runs black box, imagemagick, lynx, vlc, xpdf, python 2, wxpython, and some of the above options. Open BSD is chosen for it's stability and lfs for it's flexibility. They compliment each other well. and my desktop is clearly transferable to LFS and vice versa.

I also have the long now foundations rosetta disk http://blog.longnow.org/2008/11/03/macro-to-micro-etching/ on dvd. My friend's list on myspace is an approximation of advogato's trust metric that verifies cultural significance within that web site (it's old right now, almost a photograph, but significant). On my book shelf I have the ashley book of knots and the CRC handbook of chemistry and physics.

I have all of the presidential addresses as well as the us constitution. In a way, in a zombie apocalypse, I carry the sum total of human knowledge as available online.

I still need to write a package manager though.

I'm thinking this article should have been "Obama seeks to solve traveling salesman problem with cross-country high speed rail."

trains would be way easier to secure. hell it's difficult to not justify a safety feature where cars can be locked by security. Both guns and guards are a bit more acceptable as well. Plus, you can't just fly a train into a building either. trains are objectively more secure and a less valuable asset for terrorists. Plus, improving infrastructure is always in the interest of national defense.

I know, it's like they can read our minds!

Samsung delivers!

Hehe, no, what he's saying is that the A+ Certification, in fact, most first level certifications are filled with stuff engineers thought normal people could do and they still tell normal people they can do it, but all added together - everything the engineers thought you could do adds up to too much very quickly.

Incidentally, we've had this turned off on XP at work for some time.

This is Samsung's method for targeting slashdot.

1. Put the engineers in charge of marketing for a day.

2. Have someone assess the marketing value of the mess and write an article.

3. Submit said article to slashdot.

4. ???

5. Profit!!

6. Laugh maniacally as you patent a business method for bypassing adblock via social engineering and interdisciplinary cross-training.