There was a time NASA had better things to do than be concerned about the Social issues and Entertainment industry (and their actors).

Bread and circuses. Your tax dollars at work.

(And of course you all agree do to all humorous comments hitherto.)

Just another useless academic justifying tenure in order to never have to work another day in their life, ever.

How many Angels can dance on the head of a pin?

"Another d-mn'd thick, square book! Always, scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr. Gibbon?"

There are really only 3 professions based on the multi-thousand year long history of people in the world, Doctors, Lawyers and Priests. Everyone else is a craftsman.

As soon as I'm ordained by Microsoft, I can be the latter.

I think "The Mule" would be the first portent of doom.

Programs compiled in 1972 still work on this venerable machine last sold in 2006, end of support in 2010.

One word, Godzirra!

They're like the small kitchen cockroaches in suburbia. You never can get rid of them, so all you can do is mitigate periodically because over time they just repopulate from the outside in the wild (a.k.a. the neighbor's yard) which can be likened to "the cloud". (I use the RAID smoke, not the sticky spray.)

The U.S. Naval Institute's "Proceedings" magazine.

Yes there is an online version, but where else can you clip adverts for rail guns?

Odd no one mentioned this tome by James Desborough and Jonny Nexus.

I too use PClinuxOS. Mainly because of the rolling release and ease of use. Only twice in the last three years have I ever had to do a manual apt-get to fix something.

I DID WHAT I COULD WITH MY GASMASK
by
George Formby

http://www.monologues.co.uk/Co...

I hear it sometimes on the 1920's Radio Network (Run by PBS in some areas).

It needs a song like the original Rosie the Riveter song. What will be the sound effect to replace the original "Bltbltbltbltbltbltblt" noise? A clacking keyboard? The error bell?

Secondly, you need a major war where all the men are gone. Although women can serve in combat jobs, they are still not subject to the draft.

You may like this.

I'm still running Empire on an HP3000, a text game first run in 1973 on an HP2000C at empire.openmpe.com

Command line driven over simple telnet. (If you don't mind lots of typing.)

Recent blog entry on the HP3000 newswire:

http://3000newswire.blogs.com/...

I see more white space, bigger font. Probably that is good for the aging population of Slashdot readers. I suspect the younger generation of computer savvy people does not even know Slashdot exists.