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Comment Re:Honestly, after 25+ years, I've had it with Lin (Score 1) 74

"Every day, we stray further from Unix"

Uh, which Unix? Xenix? Ultrix? SunOS? Solaris? IRIX? HP-UX? AIX? UnixWare? BSD? SVR4?

But I understand your pain. My favorite Fortran-66 standards-compliant source code subroutine can no longer be compiled on any system that I have tried. Maybe *BSD will do the trick.

Comment Re:Don't blame the pilot prematurely (Score 5, Informative) 54

Godfrey is notorious for making all kinds of assertions that are provably wrong. In his root cause analysis of AI 171, he directly quotes an FAA Advisory Circular that is publicly available, except when you read it, the cited text doesn't exist. Total fabrication. Thomas, who by his own admission is technically illiterate, nevertheless slaps Godfrey on the back and says, "Good work Richard!" Total balderdash.

Comment Chinese are wimps (Score 1) 184

I would occasionally submit timecards recording over 100 hours per week, and I had a guy working for me who recorded 16 hours per day for an entire week. HR would come back screaming that there was an error, please fix. Nope - It was accurate. My boss would chide us and say we shouldn't be doing that. Of course we ignored him. Those were good times.

Comment Remember SCO? (Score 3, Interesting) 82

Back in 2003, SCO sent letters to all its System V Unix source code licensees demanding certification in writing that they were in compliance. When Daimler Chrysler failed to respond (due to SCO having an out-of-date mailing address in the intervening 16 years) SCO filed a lawsuit. How did that turn out?

Broadcom might find it informative to check out case 07-11337 in Delaware bankruptcy court. Still pending after 18 years.

Comment Re:Do it because you enjoy it (Score 4, Interesting) 32

YT is great. It hosts my videos, operates a forum for comments, and provides all sorts of analytics, in return for which I don't have to pay a single sheckel. I have no interest in monetization (and would be resentful if it tried to do so), in return for which YT does not insert ads into my content. If YT makes billions in return, that OK by me. Just don't let it show up on my tax return.

Comment Language Lab (Score 2) 192

The coolest piece of tech at my HS was this room where they had stations set up for each student, who would don headphones and listen to a language tape (I was taking French, and the other choices were Spanish and German) and recite back into a microphone, and the teacher would randomly connect, listen, and tell you how bad you were speaking. Overall, pretty useless.

Computers were "in the air" but not a thing yet.

Comment How to disable? (Score 5, Interesting) 55

Back when Slashdot introduced new features, it offered a way out. To this day, I append ?nobeta=1 to the URL, and voila! New features gone.

When Google introduce AI results to its search queries, it offered a way out. I now include &udm=14, and voila! AI results gone.

What will Apple offer?

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