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Comment Part of a long lineage of naysayers (Score 2) 119

by cleduc on Sunday March 23, 2008 @01:33PM (#22837332) Attached to: Quantum Computing Not an Imminent Threat To Public Encryption

Heavier-than-air flight is impossible; a train will never go faster than a person can run or the passengers will asphyxiate; there is no reason why anyone would want a computer in the home; etc.

It's a bad idea to discount future technological advances wholesale.

Comment In other news... (Score 5, Funny) 655

by Featureless on Sunday February 13, 2005 @09:14AM (#11658636) Attached to: NASA Says 2005 Could Be Warmest Year Recorded

Nasa says 2005 budget could be lowest recorded.

Journal Journal: James Ewing, Sveasoft, and the GPL 2

Journal by Featureless on Monday September 13, 2004 @02:27PM

If you want to know how a little firmware for a little router can become a very big issue, read on. I'll tell you all about it.

First, though, I'll skip to the good part. James Ewing (of Sveasoft), developer of the now famous Linksys WRT54G firmware fork, is engaging in seriously bad acts, of importance to everyone.

Comment The 102nd dumbest moment goes to Business 2.0 (Score 1) 311

by Alan Hecht on Friday March 15, 2002 @08:55AM (#3167465) Attached to: 101 Dumbest Moments In Business

And the 102nd dumbest moment goes to Business 2.0 for trying to capitalize on the Craig Mundie anti-GPL comment controversy by writing a hatchet article which compares the situation to what is going on in the Lego Mindstorms (tm) community.

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