People who want to store their own projects on their own servers instead of having Crapware bundled with their downloads on SourceForge or who don't like the tedious process of publishing on Github can use this thing and SEO or twitter their way to the mainstream search engines - or maybe they just want to use it internally and don't care about people knowing about their stuff.

As for a federated register, if we look at the existing models (Wikipedia, Apple App Store, Google Play Store) then THAT is the end of OSS. When a small clique decides what is acceptable and what is not then the outcome looks good but that's just because the people or projects that are crushed are lost in the background noise.

Those links are posted by the Praetorians and hide a secret portal leading to a mysterious backdoor. Thanks to CyberBob, I know how it works: hold the left shift key on your keyboard then click directly in the middle of the top loop of the "8". If you do it correctly, you will get to the backdoor and it will be wide open.

Be careful.

They said 'unmanned', not that it did not carry ennemy combattants waiting for a place at Gitmo or in Yemen torture camps.

Now let's see Stallone escape from that one.

I wish I could take back that google search I just did and live in the blissful oblivion of not knowing from what movie that quote came from. Now I'm tainted.

The real "Placebo effect" is me clicking on the dislike button in Pandora.

What is the problem with VMs? I use one all the time when I browse some areas of the internet that I don't want to appear in the history of my main browser.

... lives in Bangalore and is a big fan of Russel Peters. Unless you consider that banking systems are not critical (*cough* RBS)

Wishful thinking.

You can also get a free tattoo in prison, but the available designs are limited to a specific subset based on the color of your skin and/or the number of your street.

That's the difference with Apple customers, who don't admit they're getting royally screwed over on price.

I believe that the only Windows involved in The Lattice is Windows XP, which happens to be the operating system used by the underlying SAN (an EMC Clariion) where all the data of the "known universe" (ours) is stored.

Yes people: your dearest memories could in fact stored on a device running Windows XP. One would need to be both a systems engineer and a neuroscientist to confirm this, but I suspect that the root cause of what we call Alzheimer is the WUAUCLT.EXE agent kicking into high gears and putting pressure on the SAN CPUs, preventing some bits of human memory to be properly serialized and stored.

This sucks but thanks to Windows XP at least we know that if the universe ends up crashing it won't be because the underlying storage infrastructure controller ran out of inodes while there is still plenty of disk space.

Since black is not a color, the meaning of your comment could qualify as a zen riddle. Thank you, this will give me something to ponder next time I'm in line at Starbucks*.

*Now I really want a salted caramel square...

Maybe the problem is that they hired an actress that was 24 years old to play a high school student in the original series. Back then she was young and fresh but since women age faster than men, of course at her 10 years reunion she looks like someone who could have kids in high school herself.

My point is: try installing VMware workstation in a VM created with VMware workstation. It does not work. Ergo, since I can install VMware workstation in the "real world" it means that the "real world" is not a VM running on VMware workstation.

The Lattice HAS to run on ESX or Hyper-V, unless Root has access to a better technology. Maybe Sun LDOMs?

In any event I hope it's not an organic/slimy technology like those pods in Existenz.

Thank you for posting that link. This is fascinating but they left out the most important question: does the Lattice run on ESX or Hyper-V? We already know it can't be VMware workstation because the product won't let one install an hypervisor inside a VM (I tried).