Terminator X talks with his hands!

It's hard to believe now, but Slashdot used to be able to do this too. Of course these days the slashdot effect would be lucky to bring up a few ads for lawn care and hip replacements.

If something "bad" as simple as my cat took a dump on the carpet happened, that's not going on FB.

Yes, that's what Twitter is for.

Fuck Forbes, they supported SCO back in the mid-00s and portrayed Linux users and supporters as a bunch of communists. Forbes gets filtered by my mental adblock way before it gets loaded by my browser.

As I understand it, this is why Terminator X prefers to use video chat.

I downloaded a map of the section of Manhattan where I live, and it's a massive .png file -- 73MB, about 12000x8000, and looks very frameable.

I'm in favor of a fast, cheap, reliable payment system, and that aspect of bitcoin is certainly appealing. But I'm totally against the speculative aspect of bitcoin (which is what I believe 99% of its proponents are *really* interested in). 80% of bitcoins are held by 1% of wallets, and the holders of these wallets are dearly hoping that the general public will buy into the idea of bitcoin with "real" money. Sorry, it ain't gonna be my real money.

That's probably true, but I was interested to read this quote from the Cisco CEO in the nytimes article about the layoffs:

Yes.......that.......sounds........pretty.........plausible.

In that video, 3-4 seconds = 1 day of actual elapsed time. So maybe after the drop fell, there was some human intervention to move the clamp up slightly, but the intervention isn't visible in this video?

Emacs with Gnus is a nice low-bandwidth way to check your feeds. I'm not kidding either.

Perhaps I'm not being anthropocentric enough, but does anyone really think that life began on Earth? Perhaps there's no evidence yet to prove otherwise, but just on an intellectual level, it seems roughly similar to claiming that the universe revolves around us, or to expecting that alien life forms will be carbon-based, with arms and legs, symmetrical bodies, a tendency to post as anonymous cowards, etc...

My understanding of "homebrew" is that it's really a code word for cracking the platform, i.e. providing a way for users to play games on the console without owning a physical copy of the game. So in that light I can understand why Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft would be trying to make it go away.

I'm sure that people in the homebrew community would disagree with this, but for every enthusiast, there are probably 100 or 1000 people who would like to build a huge library of free games, enabled by a hack developed by one of the enthusiasts. And this would easily explain the interest in closed platforms.

There are 4 phone booths left in Manhattan, according to this article. All of them in pretty out-of-the-way places.

I've certainly never seen one that I can remember, after 13 years living here. Plenty of pay phones, but no phone booths.

I distinctly remember an occasion about 5 years ago when I logged in to my office PC (running XP) from home, I believe using Citrix. That was in the morning, to get something done early. I did my stuff, then closed the Citrix session and headed in to the office -- but that didn't terminate the session, it just paused it. At my desk, for some reason I opened that Citrix session again, this time from my desktop PC itself. For about a second I saw a "two mirrors facing each other" type of thing, as it tried to show my desktop in a window on my desktop, and another one inside of that one, etc. Then XP blue-screened. It didn't seem like a hardware thing, and that's about the only blue-screen I can remember.

Still running XP at work, but now it's the 64-bit edition...