The PowerMac 7600? You realize that you gave up on Apple just before they started getting good at making computers again?

Most ISPs around the world are starting to keep fixed IP addresses as an "added extra". It's nothing to do with cable/DSL/fiber.

There's two good reasons: people will pay more for fixed IP addresses and IPv4 addresses are starting to get expensive because they're running out (dynamic IP addresses can let you cram 10%--50% more users into the same address space).

Get a dynamic name instead -- you don't want to enter a number anyway.

I won't believe that until Top Gear stops reporting everything in Miles and Horsepower.

A Mach 6, wind resistance alone is like detonating explosives in the air intakes. Wear is certainly a serious issue.

But that's not what they're looking at in this case -- they're looking at getting the combustion to be stable and controlled. Wear and tear is something to sort out once the vehicle is less experimental.

As far as I can tell, from reading this on other sites, the reproduction involves:

* Machine that was upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard
* Already had the Guest account enabled on Leopard.
* Logs into Guest account (not a remote login but a local, physical login)
* Is hard-booted (after crash, power failure, or power button) from Guest account back into Admin account.

Despite a combination of these steps, people are finding it hard to reproduce. So it's the sort of issue that could fall through the QA cracks.

Copyright and trademarks (particularly "Apple" referring to a computer) can last much longer.

Although in this case, the authorization may just be the annointing from Woz himself.

The following comment was made by krs on another site

To clarify a bit..

TPB has been owned by a company for the last years since the raid so nothing there will really change except the names of the owners. The talk about TPB are going to be a pay site is wrong, the CEO that said that does not know what he is talking about.

Now, the BIG change is that the tracker is going to be outsourced to a new formed company that wont know what they track, just that they connect peers, and the torrent listings will be handed by an other new company that will have torrents but they will not know either content or who is using the torrents. This setup will be practically impossible to take down or find anyone liable to sue.

The 3d party company services will have APIs, so you can on your blog or whatever have your own small torrent listings just as you now pull in twitter feeds. remember how the twitter design totally havoced the iranian attempts to block it as ppl just used another side that pulled in the feeds and read it there instead? well that goes for torrents and TPB to.

All in all, this is not the end of the world as some are seeing it but a rather interesting technical improvement.

And dont worry, not a dime will go to the media industries spectrial prize money what i know of but a really nice fund for doing cool stuff. /krs - co.founder of TPB and PB, not involved in TPB anymore and have no stake in any cash.

I've always considered this argument to be complete B.S.

Corporations have the morality of every individual that comprises them. If corporations act immorally, it's because the people that comprise them are immoral.

People claim: "it was my job" or "everyone else was doing it" or "I had a responsibility to my stock holders". This is just mob-mentality, passing the buck and immoral greed.

We need to stop claiming that corporations are these artificially intelligent puppet-masters that uncontrollably force their employees to do their evil bidding. It only furthers the mental illness people foster that lets them think their evil actions are not their fault.

I completely agree: Bender's Big Score was fantastic. It was a great, densely written, intricate and heartfelt story. Plus, it came with a dash of Torgo's Executive Powder.

The article gives the nod to Lotus 1-2-3 over VisiCalc? Great -- award the theives and ignore the innovations that *actually* changed the world. Nice job.

Yes. For clarity: capitulate means to give up or surrender. Recapitulate would mean to surrender... again. Not really what the iPhone is doing.

Words the summary could have used that would have been better:

- Replay
- Retell
- Recount
- Regurgitate

Words that would have been worse:

- Respank
- Reeviscerate
- Reejaculate
- Reconstitutionalizeate

I look forward to seeing them all used in future summaries.

Australia's WoW servers *are* located on U.S. West Coast. Typical latency is between 200ms and 500ms. You cope.

Actually, the game lets you press buttons latency*seconds before the action can occur -- so you can adapt your playstyle to cope.

The money is for a "Space Policy Unit in the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research". So they're just going to expand an existing department.

The Australian Government has been funding or co-funding astronomy and satellite development for at least 50 years without needing a dedicated "Australian Space Agency". It doesn't look like they're changing anything here.

You're assuming the average Slashdot reader has a clue about how to read a patent. They prefer to look at the title only and then get mad and blame the corporashuns.

That's not a claim. That's the abstract. The real claim requires many more steps to be explicitly followed.

I realize most people don't know how to read a patent but steps of the primary claim are actually:

1. A method for automatically updating software programs on a computer, comprising the steps, of:
- storing an updated version of a program at a designated location in a remote memory that is accessible to the computer;
- launching a current version of the program that is stored in memory of the computer, wherein said current version carries out the following steps independent of functions performed by any resource external to said current version:
- detecting whether a version of the program is stored in the designated location;
- determining whether a detected version of the program stored at the designated location is more recent than the current version of the program which is running;
- replacing the current version of the program with a more recent version that is stored at the designated location; and
- subsequently executing the more recent version of the program on the computer.