Comment Re:But.... (Score 1) 740
wait, a Beowulf cluster of Natalie Portman?
Brilliant!
Comment Re:But.... (Score 2) 740
if only they had remembered the hot grits...
Comment Re:That's Archaeocetes! (Score 1) 102
You conjugated wrong.
oh, if I only had a nickel for every time I was told that...
Comment Re:Sure (Score 1) 396
Just to quote wikipedia:
In e-mail and newsgroup usage, another type of signature exists which is independent of one's language. Users can set one or more lines of custom text known as a signature block to be automatically appended to their messages. This text usually includes a name, contact information, and sometimes quotations and ASCII art. A shortened form of a signature block, only including one's name, often with some distinguishing prefix, can be used to simply indicate the end of a post or response. Some web sites also allow graphics to be used. Note, however, that this type of signature is not related to electronic signatures or digital signatures, which are more technical in nature and not directly understandable by humans
Comment Re:troll talk from the_fat_kid (Score 1) 192
I did not "insist on a privacy invading Log-in"
I just think that it's kind of fucked up to post a slur on the entire slashdot user base as an anonymous coward.
But you, I give you credit for at least not being anonymous.
I have no love for Facebook. I have no dog in this fight.
And I can't help but notice that you have given up your privacy, number 574257.
Comment Re:Warning: Cynicism Inside: (Score -1, Troll) 192
Tough talk from an anonymous coward...
Comment Re:Let's see what the constitution says about this (Score 1) 223
I believe they call it the Patriot act.
It has been a decade or more since you(we) had any "constitutional" rights.
you know terror, thinking of the children, ect.
I think that the real crime has happened at a much higher level than the mouth breathers at customs.
Comment Re:Impressive. (Score 1) 196
and the pay.
don't forget the pay.
$20,000 a year. Ouch.
That will help you pay for that degree...
Comment Re:been talk of greenhouses in NYC (Score 1) 196
no, it says that 2 of these would be perfect for the job.
the job is keeping 3 poor people out of your building.
Comment more like (Score 5, Interesting) 329
bad news for Google, who was hoping that I would buy such a thing.
Comment Re:1984 (Score 0, Troll) 154
and good governments don't enshrine and worship the likes of Ronald Reagan.
Comment Re:Reading the article... (Score 2) 303
$250,000 is chump change to a political campaign. Just the Email list with it was worth far more.
Wikipedia says of the campaign,"By April 2012, the campaign had raised more than $38 million."
that's without "RP.com" think of what they could have made with it.
Comment Re:heh heh. (Score 1) 572
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(1996_film)
If they make a movie about it it's not THAT unusual anymore...
Comment Re:How about virtual machines? (Score 1) 572
Mom? is that you?
Ship Anchor, Not Sabotaging Divers, Possibly Responsible For Outage 43
Nerval's Lobster writes "This week, Egypt caught three men in the process of severing an undersea fiber-optic cable. But Telecom Egypt executive manager Mohammed el-Nawawi told the private TV network CBC that the reason for the region's slowdowns was not the alleged saboteurs — it was damage previously caused by a ship. On March 22, cable provider Seacom reported a cut in its Mediterranean cable connecting Southern and Eastern Africa, the Middle East and Asia to Europe; it later suggested that the most likely cause of the incident was a ship anchor, and that traffic was being routed around the cut, through other providers. But repairs to the cable took longer than expected, with the Seacom CEO announcing March 23 that the physical capability to connect additional capacity to services in Europe was "neither adequate nor stable enough," and that it was competing with other providers. The repairs continued through March 27, after faults were found on the restoration system; that same day, Seacom denied that the outage could have been the work of the Egyptian divers, but said that the true cause won't be known for weeks. 'We think it is unlikely that the damage to our system was caused by sabotage,' the CEO wrote in a statement. 'The reasons for this are the specific location, distance from shore, much greater depth, the presence of a large anchored vessel on the fault site which appears to be the cause of the damage and other characteristics of the event.'"
