Thanks to Rob and the gang for making Slashdot. It's part of my nerd heritage. However, I am happier to hear you are moving on. 15 years at one job? Is this Mad Men or something? WAKE UP TO THE NINETIES!

Whether or not the US is adequately prepared for "cyberwar" is certainly an open question.

However, this article is riddled with neologism ("cyber-space-time" really?) and magical
thinking (e.g. I Ching, synchronicity).

If the Internet really isn't a hardware-software system, what is it? Why not claim it has a soul too
and that we should sing to it?

The real issue is that the Internet infrastructure is public resource controlled by private interests.
That's what makes the DoD's job of defending it difficult. Defense cannot simply issue edicts like
"upgrade all your router firmware right now."

I do not propose we retreat back to a paper-based information system. I propose we go back to clay tablets.

15 years of developing software and I still don't know what P vs. NP means.

Sad, sad old hacker.

And a more thoughtful response to this hoax can be found here:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/132868/20110411/fbi-hottel-memo-reveals-ufo-hoax.htm

Those who forget their UFOlogy are bound to repeat it.

The "Roswell Incident" (AKA the Crash at Corona) is a well-picked over story that goes something like this:

  1) June 14, 1947, New Mexico rancher Brazel reports unexpected mechanical debris on his property.
          He tells a UFO story to the local paper and police.

  2) The cops call the Army, which sends over Major Marcel to collect the "alien artifacts."

  3) The Army issues a press release about the "UFO."

  4) Later, after more careful inspection, the debris is relabeled "as being a weather balloon and its "kite,""

The memo in question is from an FBI investigator Guy Hottel, written several years after this event. As wikipedia notes,
it isn't clear that this memo even refers to the "Roswell incident" at all.

Also, enjoy the retro-scifi techno-jargon contained in the memo:

"It is believed the [Army's radar located on the New Mexico base] interferes with the controlling mechanism of
the saucers."

At best, this memo is a report on hearsay. It is not direct evidence of a cover-up or even of recovered alien craft.
It is, in the neologisms of today, some government dude's blog post.

Don't thank me, Internet. I'm just doing my job.

Gee, why didn't I have this while playing Fallout?

Since Google Maps does not accurately place my house on my street, pizza dude takes an extra 20 minutes to get my food to me.

For the record, it's not that big a street.

Me? I use paper maps.

"like rubbing an amber rod with cat fur"

Dude! I've totally been to that web site!

That article is an opinion piece. Just because that crap is on ZDnet doesn't make it news of nerds.

I like the new L&F -- and I've seen them all.

This almost looks like a professional news site now!

Bill Gates has moved on from Microsoft. Perhaps slashdot should to. Time for a new M$ icon. I suggested an animated one with Balmer monkey dancing.

WHO TOLD YOU TO SIT DOWN?!

This article is yet another example of the media getting science wrong.

And it's great to see that eugenics appeared in the /. comment thread nearly immediately.

"God! is there nothing about Microsoft that is not some sad, hollow sham?"

I don't know. Notepad and freecell are pretty solid.

Good lord, I did not expect so many to come the defense of that grand old dame, X.

Rather than get into an argument on the Internet about Computers, I'll just say that
the Linux desktop remains a beloved canard to me. I do not doubt that others will disagree
with me.

Why does this feel like another awesome WM that will be crowed about forever, used by few and will shortly stop releasing new versions?

I hate X.

Free-nix needs a new GUI and the only way that's going to happen is through a private company. Why?

BECAUSE GUIs ARE HARD.

They are gigantic systems that require a lot of development AND continuing support. Look how long it took Apple to get Mac OS X right.

X is terrible and anything that continues the zombie life of X is bad.

#getoffmylawnyoukids