It's a long road back to 1998 or 1999 when I first started reading Slashdot. You'll do well in whatever you put your mind to.

Sounded like they said the sensor noting retraction of the cone dome thing wasn't working so they had to verify visually (that was the camera 62 shot).

because, seriously. Wikipedia is not the reference to end all references. If some dummy changes it and it's wrong, either someone will change it back, or (hopefully) the avalanche of other sources on Paul Revere will remain correct.

I am fond of that distribution - any word on whether it will still be maintained?

I still have a VIC-20 and tape drive. Recently while listening to my cassette copy of the 1812 Overture, I realized that for some reason, when I was a kid, I had saved a BASIC program in the blank space occurring after the music on one side of the tape. I haven't tried to restore it, but the tape is in good shape, and there doesn't seem to be anything preventing reloading the program from tape. I'm guessing it dates from 1984. I have a lot of floppies from the late 80s that I'm sure are still readable, if I can find a working drive.

> But in the case at hand, Netflix and similar get the revenue, but Comcast gets the cost

But wait, isn't Netflix already paying for their outbound bandwidth?

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

If I ever get filthy rich, I'm going to buy a new car. Then, I'm going to buy a Delta 4 rocket and launch my old Mercedes into high orbit. Why? because it would be awesome.

We wouldn't know if they had or not. If a time traveler offed Hitler, the timeline would rebuild and we'd have our memories, just like now, of the "original" events, having no knowledge of the change since we're inside the continuum (so to speak). So they might be constantly screwing with the past and we'll never know.

I've had many bad capacitors on video cards lately. They swell up and burst after a year or two. Cheap components :(

ALL HAIL THE HYPNOTOAD

> And your typical home user won't want it. Wrong. I have a very large family, most of whom are very typical home users, mostly computer illiterate - web, email, videos, and the occasional spreadsheet. My mother wants to surf the net, check her email, watch news video and view whatever pictures and video kids send her. She was always getting viruses on her Windows XP box, and after years of trying to keep her up and running I finally installed Firefox to get her used to the browser, and then a while later installed Ubuntu. I used a theme similar to XP, she loved it, and my workload dropped about 90%. She doesn't know Linux from Windows from a bag of frogs, and doesn't care as long as it works.

I'm still using my 20-year-old LaserJet IIIsi.

Great book about salvaging the S-51, in 1926.

It wasn't caused by two characters, it was caused by the automatic command recognition on the receiving host - typing "LO" listed all the commands that started with those letters, and that caused the overflow.