...we can extrapolate that nobody will upgrade to Windows 20.

...slashdot editors are stockpiling dupes! What about stockpiling memory you too ? It could help...

Call me old fashioned (and it wouldn't be the first time), but I will stick to vi, thank you!

"The same oil and gas drilling techniques that reliably reach kilometer-deep wells can be adapted to host nuclear reactors"

Who wrote this never looked at the borehole diameter of an oil well...

...to snake oil.

...if professional cryptographers lose their password, he is in good company....
Better to take advantage of the oblig xkcd suggestion!

...after an awful travel with them. Never again.

...Ebay will be filled with tons of useless hardware. The shutdown of most infrastructures will probably bring electricity for free to people, just like it happens here.

If it happens, be suspicious if somebody from Seattle is knocking at your door....

If I remember correctly, around 2000 Siemens-Fujitsu was testing a "vertical" chip for supercomputers, but I think it never reached the market.

“When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.” (The Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance).

Millions will set their clocks back an hour tonight for Daylight Saving Time — only to set them forward an hour six months later.

Actually, millions will exit from Daylight Saving Time period, to enter regular solar time.

> I heard it was

You mean: I smelled...

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"

What has Amazon to do with this ?!?