For some unknown reason, there's a been a recent upsurge in the old telnet-based BBS formerly at bbs.isca.uiowa.edu, now at bbs.iscabbs.com

People from way back are reconnecting again. No where near the 1,500 people who used to be on it in the pre-web days of the internet, but still cool to see +25 users on it again. And nobody knows why, just nostalgia I guess.

ISCA BBS is how I first found out about Slashdot. Damn it's been a long time!

http://www.iscabbs.com/ for more info

On topic only because I used to get to it using PPP over dial-up back in the day. :)

Is this whole damn planet just gonna get stupid now? This is not at all what they showed us in Star Trek. Damn, 40 years ago we are putting people on the moon, now it's just global navel gazing from here on out. Yeee haaawww.

Fuck, we are screwed.

Um, Jake Lloyd has just been cast as Ender for the Ender's Game movie...

I always liked the kid. People gave him way too much crap. Even Harrison Ford has a horrible time acting out George's pathetic writing. What was a little kid supposed to do with that crap?

He definitely played the part of Anakin way better than Hayden Christensen - that guy made a mockery of the whole thing. Whether the writing or the acting, I'm still not sure.

So your grandpa is around 6 then?

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I guess we should have seen that coming, they already own the Apple Records label too. (Never would have drempt of that happening when they were still making the computers out of wood in the 1970s.)

In exchange, they will want the 'Big Apple' to now be known as the 'iApple', but after mass protests in the city they are forced to compromise to 'Bigipple'...

Mod Interesting

Haven't gotten any mod points in years. :(

For way to many years it's been a mess. And these near-daily emergency patches now. WTF is broken in their development/testing process? I don't understand how it can stay so horrid, or why Adobe finds this acceptable...

Even Windows has gotten a lot more secure over the years. But Flash, seems more broken each day.

Anyone have any insight?

I used to be a developer like you, and then I took an arrow to the knee...

I think you're right. I used to be quite against the idea of any kind of IT association was a bad idea, but that was when I was young and dumb and hadn't realized how badly the deck was stacked against us.

Whatever, you sniveling fascist. Come talk to us when you move out of your momma's basement and have a family to feed.

If you don't support American workers getting American jobs, then GTFO of our country. You are nothing more than a traitor to the generations of Americans who have sweated and died to improve the lives of the common person in this country.

Just a few years ago, companies would hire AND train their workers as a long term investment that paid off for the entire society.

You are a short-sighted moron with some disgustingly anti-American values. Go be stupid somewhere else.

Your argument is a fail: In my experience, the best CS people don't even have degrees.

But at least it goes to 11, eh?

No, until it can boot as fast as an archaic Commodore 64 or Apple ][, it's still not fast enough.

Computers today are tens of thousands of times faster than they were in 1982, so why does it take more time to boot a new computer?

Modern-day boot times are atrocious.