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A sword is probably the last thing you'd expect to find on a hike -- especially one that's more than a millennium old.
But that's what happened to a man in Norway who recently stumbled across a 1,200-year-old Viking sword while walking an ancient route.
The find, which dates from approximately 750 A.D. and is in exceptionally good condition, was announced by Hordaland County Council.
County Conservator Per Morten Ekerhovd described the discovery as "quite extraordinary."
What will future hikers think of our civilization when they stumble across our CueCats lying, discarded, under rocks?
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by crb3 on Saturday October 24 2015, @02:57PM
> What will future hikers think of our civilization when they stumble across our CueCats lying, discarded, under rocks?
Not bloody likely. The 'responsible' (I'm being charitable here) company had them smashed and trashed at the local Radio Shack and everywhere else I looked.
So their initial market plan of aggregating all your online/catalog purchase data by middlemanning their servers didn't work. They still could have leveraged the scanner distribution they had by cooperating with open-sourcers to make the things ubiquitous, and recouped with a 'new - improved' V2 that improved the robustness of the scanning and overcame the red-blindness of the first model. Nope -- they demanded success on their own terms or not at all, and that's what they got, so they expunged the remaining hardware and went home.
I have three of the things. I wrote code to do command-line and CGI barcode scanning and entering into a PSQL db, thinking to increment my way into a decent home/soho kitchen/lab/bookshelf inventory system and Perl-DBI experience all at once, but halted that when I found that they'd gone unavailable so there wasn't going to be a userbase for anything I created. No, nobody's gonna find any CueCats by the roadside.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Saturday October 24 2015, @03:02PM
I did something similar. I had 2-3 of the things and wrote code thinking I'd make an accurate catalog of my books. Typical me, once I got the code working I never got around to scanning more than 10% of my books.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.