mhocker - Slashdot User

Comment: Stallman Dialogues (Score 1) 373

by mhocker on Friday October 28, @11:51AM (#37870498) Attached to: The RMS Tour Rider

This is truly hilarious... http://thestallmandialogues.com/

Comment: Sounds convenient to me (Score 1) 262

by mhocker on Sunday October 16, @08:07PM (#37734484) Attached to: Microsoft 'Hut' Opens Outside Seattle Apple Store

I can pick up my new 27" iMac at the Apple store and go get a copy of Windows to run on Boot Camp or VMWare, all without leaving the mall. I think Microsoft has this all figured out!

Comment: So that's what happened to The Register! (Score 1) 141

by mhocker on Monday September 05, @12:31PM (#37309478) Attached to: .UK Registrar Offers To Let Police Close Domain

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/2012220/The-Register-Hacked

Test run?

Comment: Wouldn't this actually INCREASE bandwidth usage? (Score 2) 164

by mhocker on Wednesday March 16 2011, @07:36AM (#35502368) Attached to: US Military Blocks Websites To Free Up Bandwidth

My first thought about what it would be like to be a user in this situation is that, upon seeing the "site blocked" message, I would simply go hunting around for a similar site - maybe MSNBC instead of CNN for example. It's the content I'm looking for after all - news in this case - that matters. I might have to Google around a bit to find that content of course and try a few alternative sites. So wouldn't this approach actually increase the bandwidth usage? As noble as the cause is, this approach doesn't seem very effective to me.

MSDN or not?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 14 2007, @06:33AM

An anonymous reader writes "MSDN and sub sites have vanished... dos'ing or dozing techies? — you decide!"

TGV breaks speed record

Submitted by zeux on Wednesday February 14 2007, @04:50AM

zeux writes "While testing the new Paris — Strasbourg line, the TGV broke a 17 years old speed record (babelfish translation), travelling at 553 km/h (343 mph). The last record, of 515 km/h (320 mph), was set on May, 18th 1990. According to the French National Railroad Company (SNCF) the testing campaign will continue and speeds up to 570 km/h (354 mph) could be atteigned by June of this year."