So much sarcasm, must resist feeding trolls. Ahh well, yes Virtual Boy, it's what I get for phone posting. /. groupthink just hasn't caught up with the reality of the automatic misrepresentations that said virtual presence devices present. Blame the mods for modding it up, don't attack someone's credibility solely for underrated bumps to your virtual ego.

It's the green party, as in the color of the money. You can vote in politics, but a thousand dollars with a note about your interests to a congressperson is likely to go a lot further.

Ok, well I have to take some blame because I was involved in this, but while working for a major retailer I was one of two engineers fixing the power going to a pair of 6509's. They had redundant power supplies, and both the backups were bad. I had sent them both back, and received the RMA units the same day. After scheduling the change, and getting all the paperwork filled out we were ready to begin. Because we anticipated issues with at least one of the units, anything in this Datacenter seemed to be cursed, we called in a proactive ticket with Cisco. As we lined up the 30 amp plug and had it seated in the plug housing (attached to a local UPS) the engineer I was working with began inserting the 20 pound power supply into the chassis.

Just as he was sliding it I noticed THE CABLE HOUSING WAS SLIDING OUT OF THE POWER SUPPLY!!! I was starting to shout for him to stop and the two exposed solder points contacted the outside of the power supply. Needless to say, milliseconds later, Sparky (who hadn't checked the screw that held the housing in place on the power supply) was cowering in the corner, the operator on duty ran in the DC and had to yell over our now popped ears what the fuck just happened. Occording to her it was a very large bang, to me it was like a lightning bolt in front of my eyes.

I was already reaching for the leather strap to yank him off it, when I saw he was on the ground and the UPS had locally blown it's fuse. Thankfully he wasn't hurt, and it only took me about 36 hours of explaining to TAC what happened to get the unit back up to 100%. Before that night I never thought I'd call and say, "The unit arc'ed out and I watched it ground through the chassis... we're gonna need some parts." From now on I write the instructions such that it's painfully fucking obvious "DON'T FLIP THE POWER TO THE ON POSITION ON THE FEED UNTIL THE UNIT IS SECURE!!!"

Sparky doesn't do IT anymore.

It's been around longer than that see: stereogram my grandmother has some stills from before the turn of the century (20th) that can be viewed on an old brass unit that looks like something you would take to an opera.

Either you're lying or nobody is listening. I've mentioned this on the ISSA forums, on linkedin lists and on Slashdot multiple times. Wikileaks has an agenda. Cryptome, read it, learn it, love it. And for the hate of Cthulu if I see a stereotypical "Cryptome is a lying pack of liars" I'll scream.

This is exactly the sort of thing they want to happen, it's not an accident. To put on the WL hat: It's a horrific display of global politics, built on lies. To look at it from the outside in, it's a terrible setback to a slow development of what might someday have been a democratic upheaval. Now bloodshed may be the only option. See: the Ivory Coast.

Nintendo pulled the Visual Boy because of this effect. I hate the feeling my eyes get while watching isometric 3d projections. It's unnatural, and I swear viewing all those 3d stills when I was a kid with the goggles didn't help.

Trolling, for the truth. Linux advocates: learn to laugh at yourself, or you'll just get made fun of even more.

(RedHat->CentOS user since Halloween.)

Either you're lying or nobody is listening. I've mentioned this on the ISSA forums, on linkedin lists and on Slashdot multiple times. Wikileaks has an agenda. Cryptome, read it, learn it, love it. And for the hate of Cthulu if I see a stereotypical "Cryptome is a lying pack of liars" I'll scream.

This is exactly the sort of thing they want to happen, it's not an accident. To put on the WL hat: It's a horrific display of global politics, built on lies. To look at it from the outside in, it's a terrible setback to a slow development of what might someday have been a democratic upheaval. Now bloodshed may be the only option. See: the Ivory Coast.

ROFLMDAO the image is the epitome of the Ubuntu install. Get it loaded up, try to play your music off your mp3 player while finishing it up and you get the damn codec error.

We need to learn from the pragmatists. Shuttles don't work.

The buran was mothballed after 1 successful, UNMANNED!!!!, re-entry. CLUE BAT MEET NASA.

I'm actually incredibly proud of our nation's ability to get shit into space without NASA.

My father in law works for one of these companies, guess what, they care about budgets and maximizing profit and still get to space on a schedule.

Nasa was something to behold when we threw hundreds of billions at it to develop technologies nobody was sure about. It's place is now as a pillar of what not to do, since NASA managed to do what it did in spite of itself.

Stallman Eats his Keyboard, sounds like a few million hits on Youtube.

Halloween was 1994 wasn't it? I mean, even if you only take into account attempts to monetize Linux the OSS movement started to become popularized at least 16 years ago. RMS wrote the Gnu manifesto 25 years ago, one could argue it all started then....

I wrote a letter to my congressman saying as much.

It's still a last mile problem. How many people have more than a Duopoly to choose from?

Does it really cost $70 a month to service my traffic?

I know it doesn't. The cable infrastructure I'm running over hasn't been upgraded in several decades, how bout you? When is the last time you saw a truck pulling new infrastructure in your neighborhood?

Jeezus mod parent up, this is a legitimate question that needs to be covered in any Net Neutrality agreement. This is how it all fucking started, it's like everyone forgot about Mae West.