The ALT text is always the same as the title of the page except without the "xkcd: " at the beginning.

The Atari Lynx doesn't have a keyboard. I always heard that it was a Atari Portfolio but in recent years people have disputed that.

HTTP uses streams (TCP), not datagrams (UDP). So the browser never sees re-tries. Just time-outs. And the proxy is using the same protocols as the browser.

You linked to just https://www.google.com/. Did you think that we didn't know about search engines or something?

I'mm surprised that no one has mentioned that this is the way the Daleks worked in the original Doctor Who Dalek serial. They ran off of the static electricity in the metal floors of their city. They defeat one Dalek by laying a cloak on the floor and getting it to run (roll?) over it. By their second serial they got radio dishes on their backs that received transitted power which allowed them to roam the Earth.
(not sure where this power was transmitted from; the individual small flying saucers or some off-screen mother ship)
After the second serial the producers/writters just seemed to forget the power problem altogether.

I hope no highway bandits have watched 1960's Doctor Who.

In all fairness, here's the best the Commies have to offer:
M.O.O.D.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3Oqz5WjDPI

And here's the Atarians best attempt at a Wolfenstein 3D clone:
Project-M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3-J2-VeoH8

You be the judge.

BCD ("Binary Coded Decimal") is just storing a decimal digit in each nybble. So instead of 0-255 you get 0-99 values in each byte. So it's just as "integer" as regular binary. And even the lowly 6502 can do BCD math "in hardware".

It's THAC0; To Hit AC 0. "AC" refers to "Armour Class". It's an attempt by post-Gygax TSR to dumb-down AD&D; replacing the "Attack Matrix" with a simple base number that you subtract the target's AC from. AC10 is the base AC for un-armoured characters that aren't hiding behind cover from ranged attacks or utilising their super-speed/agility to dodge attacks.

And "+5 to THAC0" would be a penalty since you need to roll a number on a 20-sided die equal to or greater than the THAC0 to "hit" (i.e. hurt) your target. Rather you'd say "+5 To Hit" to indicate that 5 would be added to your die roll.
(allowing you to hit someone with AC0 even if your THAC0 was 25 by rolling a 20!)

To be fair, Slashdot seemed to delete the indentations that make sense of what
the OR and AND bolean operators apply to.  Just go to the document he linked to
and it will make much more sense.
(why does Slashdot not support PRE or XMP tags?!?)

P.S. Just discovered "Code" mode:

(and (or (= (string-length "hello world") (string->number "11"))
         (string=? "hello world" "good morning"))
     (>= (+ (string-length "hello world") 60) 80))

P.P.S. Is there anyway to make this code appear corectly other than than
       posting in "Code" mode?

Acording to O'Reily's "Unix in a Nutshell", ex (and hence vi), sed and ed support the \number feature. I know from experience that vim and GNU emacs support it. In fact, GNU emacs's "dired" ("directory editor") feature lets you re-name files automatically; allowing you to convert floating point numbers in file names to fixed point (so they sort corectly) and corecting extentions (e.g. /\(.*\)\.jpe/\1\.jpeg/).
(n.b. you have to put back-slashes before parenthese to make them meta-characters in emacs)

"Co2 crowd"? What does Cobalt have to do with anything?

What's with all of the hard line breaks in the original article? I end up with the last word (or so) of every sentence on a line by itself. They put a <BR> at the end of every physical line of the source HTML.

It's rasterised vs. vector! Unless the image is B&W (or any two colours) it's stored as packed-pixel these days. Multi-bitmap "planar" image formats (like Amiga's IFF:ILBM) got left behind in the 80's. Even SuperVGA cards only use planar modes when eulating an actual VGA chip or EGA card.
(it's surprising how incompatible SuperVGA modes are with regular EGA/VGA modes)

Rogue is a graphical/visual interface. You can see all the monsters/items/landscape features laid out graphically on any text terminal. A non-graphical "text" RPG would be like Zork or some other so-called "text adventure" where you have to picture the lay-out of the game world in your mind.

And doesn't Rogue pre-date curses?
(as in it just reads /etc/termcap and outputs the escape/control codes itself)

Really, "depressed" and "depression" aren't both just forms of the word "depress"? They just happen to look alike? Wow.