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Comment Oblig Dilbert Quote (Score 1) 73

by Spikeorama on Friday July 16, 2010 @03:03PM (#32930076) Attached to: Mozilla Bumps Security Bug Bounty To $3,000

I need to sign up to work on Mozilla products! Boss: "Our goal is to write bug free software. I'll pay a ten-dollar bonus for every bug you find and fix. I hope this drives the right behavior." Wally: "I'm gonna write me a new minivan this afternoon!"

Comment Take the time to use good fonts! (Score 1) 100

by Spikeorama on Friday May 28, 2010 @10:49PM (#32385812) Attached to: STIX Project Releases v1.0 of Its Scientific Fonts Set

I really like it when book or publication authors take the time to use good fonts and make the equations readable. There's nothing that turns me off more when reading a paper and the author has done all the equations in Times with crappy-looking subscripts and superscripts.

Submission + - Cold fusion by US Navy breakthrough

Submitted by

Tjeerd

on Saturday May 05, 2007 @12:04PM

Tjeerd writes: "Gordon's plastic wafer is the product of the latest in a long line of "cold fusion" experiments conducted at the US navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego, California. What makes this one stand out is that it has been published in the respected peer-reviewed journal Naturwissenschaften, which counts Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg and Konrad Lorenz among its eminent past authors (DOI: 10.1007/s00114-007-0221-7). More can be read at New Scientist."

Submission + - AT&T Dumps VOIP Customers

Submitted by Proudrooster on Saturday May 05, 2007 @10:33AM

Proudrooster writes: In the past two-weeks AT&T sent out disconnect letters to VOIP customers in big rude red letters, stating that VOIP service would be suspended in 30-days and permanently disconnected in 60-days. AT&T cited E911 service as the reason. Many AT&T VOIP customers have found that they are unable to transfer their AT&T VOIP phone numbers to a new provider. Further, AT&T is unwilling to provide a forwarding message directing callers to a new phone number for those that are unable to transfer their old AT&T VOIP phone numbers. In effect, AT&T has told many long-term VOIP subscribers, we are turning off your phone in 30-days, goodbye, and good luck. AT&T does not appear a corporation that values customer loyalty, especially of those who hung on during the experimental days of the AT&T VOIP service

Many longterm subscribers are extremely upset at the AT&T cold shoulder and short notice. It is also interesting AT&T is unable overcome this E911 technical hurdle, since AT&T is also the local landline company (SBC/AT&T) in many areas where VOIP cancellation notices are being received.

Comment Liquid Fuel Rocket Engine (Score 1) 535

by Spikeorama on Saturday December 02, 2006 @12:29PM (#17080818) Attached to: What's the Coolest Thing You've Ever Built?

I'm working on a regeneratively cooled LOX/Kerosene rocket engine.
When I was 15, I built a Z-80 computer from my own design. I entered it in the science fair but the judges thought it was a kit so it got disqualified. I guess I did too good of a job wire wrapping it. I'll never forget the experience of hand-entering the bytes for my "operating system" into the EPROM burner at the local computer store. Needless to say, it didn't work the first time...

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