Comment: D-Link DIR-655 (Score 1) 398
I like this one. It has good range and is sufficiently configurable to let me run servers at home.
Comment: Sounds like the first spam I received, in 1983 (Score 1) 316
The very first spam I ever saw was an ad for a program to send spam. This was back in 1983, on Uunet.
LA Times defends software patent troll->
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dkegel writes "Remember PanIP, the outfit that was suing e-commerce sites back in 2002 and dropped their suit after the Patent Office invalidated the patents? Well, the LA Times has written a sympathetic story casting him as the underdog.
It seems that the LA columnist isn't aware of the debate over software patents.
I emailed him just now explaining it a bit, linked to ./'s articles and wikipedia's articles on the lawsuits, and suggested he do a followup article showing the other side of the story.
(A few more emails to the guy might help drive the point home, but please don't send him hate mail, he's just a journalist trying to do his job, and vitriol would probably make him think that the Evil Conspiracy Against The Inventor was real and still active.)"
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It seems that the LA columnist isn't aware of the debate over software patents.
I emailed him just now explaining it a bit, linked to
(A few more emails to the guy might help drive the point home, but please don't send him hate mail, he's just a journalist trying to do his job, and vitriol would probably make him think that the Evil Conspiracy Against The Inventor was real and still active.)"
Link to Original Source
Comment: Mono does work with wine... (Score 1) 362
Mono + wine, of late, were starting to be able to run some of the .net apps associated with games. For instance, if you ask it very nicely, mono + wine can run the Need For Speed World launcher/patcher (and was able to do so before .net + wine could).
There are lots of bugs left to fix in mono before it can handle more .net 3-era apps, let alone WPF apps, which would be Really Hard.
Comment: Re:Questions. (Score 4, Insightful) 481
Also, fwiw, it was posted on an fbi site in 2004 as well:
http://waybackmachine.org/20041115000000*/http://foia.fbi.gov/hottel_guy/hottel_guy_part01.pdf
Comment: Science fiction got there first, as usual (Score 1) 320
I read "The Daemon" and "Freedom" ( http://thedaemon.com/ ) in one night each. They give me the same sinking feeling of doom I had back when I first realized how insecure computers were. And they're where I first heard about isobutanol being used as a biofuel.
Comment: Re:Maybe not (Score 2) 103
+1
Ejecta from a collision with early Earth seems the most likely explanation. Pretty cool, but not proof of life coming from elsewhere.
Comment: TFA is BS; Ubuntu is pushing Linux forward nicely (Score 5, Interesting) 778
Really? Bruce Byfield is upset that Ubuntu switched its /etc/init.d handler to upstart?
That's an awfully picky thing to complain about, especially since other distros did, too.
Switching to the Unity shell is a bit edgy, but hey, it's been a while since there's actually been competition in desktops, we could use some.
Most people long ago picked Gnome or KDE, and those projects have to some extent been coasting.
Perhaps Unity will light a fire under Gnome like Chrome did for Firefox...
Comment: It's about time (Score 1) 1026
If California's Metrolink trains took 45 minutes instead of 90 minutes to get from LA to Irvine, I could actually use them.
So about friggin' time. Let's get this show on the road before gasoline hits $6/gallon.