I was partial to the M2 which was lighter and quieter than the M whilst maintaining a good feel. I still have my Model M but it takes up so much desk real estate there isn't much room for anything else.

Still I think if a tank ran over my Model M there wouldn't be much damage to the tank, with the added bonus of if anyone has a problem with the keyboard being so loud, a good bang on their head with the M silences any complaints. That's why the M is the choice of keyboard worriers everywhere.

Looks like Citrix smells blood.

Is anyone using the Xen hypervisor? I tried it out and it had some interesting features, like a CPU emulation layer, it ran sparc cpu stuff on intel, slowly but I also did not have a huge amount of CPU time to throw at it. Here is the the Xen wiki, from my understanding Amazon, Citrix and Cisco are users of this in their infra.

I'm working a migration project away from VMware, thanks for all the extra work broadcom.

Gotta taste the evidence.

Now who can be sure?

And whilst I agree with you, most people will see him as some sort of elite.

Nope, his notoriety will increase, the criminal record will be ignored and once he gets through the hard times of the hooplah he will be paid even more.

I say this because I have seen this *exact* situation before with a former colleague and it did wonders for his career. He basically did what everyone has thought about and paid for it - those types of experience carry value.

1. Work
2. A.I
3. ????
4. Profit!!!

I was hoping we could call them SnotBots instead of NotBots.

All we really know at this point is there is a discovery about rings in space and it's not about Uranus.

I was invited to talk on a panel with an audience of about 300 or so people discussing government proposals for new surveillance powers. From the back I heard someone yell at the person who invited me to speak "If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear".

I gotta say I've always fucking hated this stupid argument. I answered for him by pointing out that fraud enabled by these legally mandated security holes is borne by citizens just like you, not the government. So the saying should be "If you've got nothing to lose, you've got nothing to fear".

It makes complete sense why it would make you feel that way. It's like the government chucking a tantrum and saying "We're going to make crime illegal", whilst exposing people to more cyber crime.

"We're sorry, your subscription to your phaser service has expired.".

Eon: Greg Bear.

Each citizen carries a marble size computer in their skull as a backup of their mind. You get 2 "reincarnations" (IIRC) and on the third you are committed to The Thistledown's public memory where you become known as a "Ghost" who can still interact with corporeal city residents. Everyone knows if someone's body dies, you simply cut open the back of their skull and retrieve the backup so their body can be restored.

Special Operatives of the city have additional devices where they can download their entire persona into a virtual world where time is accelerated and you can devote thousands of years to solving a single problem and then upload the solution to yourself.

Not a single thing here gives the story away, it's actually a rather insignificant part of the story. Well worth the read.

From the Windows T&C:

Everyone has the same right to impose usage conditions on their works.