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  1. Re:What Languages? on What Programming Languages Should You Learn Next? · · Score: 1

    XSS

  2. Re:Wrong Question on What Programming Languages Should You Learn Next? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Learn LISP!

    It has a funny name, and carries the mystique and credibility you seek. Nothing says "way old school" and "MIT Wizard" like piles of LISP with your tag on them. Of course, you'll have to leave vim behind - there is only one, true tool for the LISPer, now that dedicated machines like Symbolics are all in the museums.

    The opportunities here are boundless - there are whole categories of libraries for HTTP and HTML that simple don't exist yet! If that seems to trivial a challenge, why not look into one of the projects to write and OS in LISP?

  3. Re:The true reason for this... on UK Reconsiders 1986 Decision To Ban Astronauts · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oi, what was all the extra letters in "Ronoldo", anyways?

  4. Band Astronauts? on UK Reconsiders 1986 Decision To Ban Astronauts · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why not? They banded my little tabby here - and I got 'er back after she run off once, when the man who pours linseed oil into the duck's carcasses forgot to slam the lid shut on th eold coal-chute. That's another story there, that is. But it worked for my tabby, and I hear there gonna' band schoolchildren, too. That'll show 'em. Something to find the criminals in jeans, they're saying on Sky. An Astronaut ought to be easier to band than a tabby. And I bet they don't sit under the couch, trying to rub the thing off over their ears all night long, either!

    What? You said "ban"? What's that, then? Well, If they're Astronauts or not, I don't think we should let foreigners in, if they can't respect our ways, now. They're no better than the rest of us and that's the truth.

  5. Re:How backward! on UK Reconsiders 1986 Decision To Ban Astronauts · · Score: 3, Funny

    We're to busy coming up with the next "Reality Show" craze - and training amateur porn stars.
    But I repeat myself...

  6. Re:Tea on UK Reconsiders 1986 Decision To Ban Astronauts · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What explains the Indian Astronauts? Many cannot do without a cuppa.

  7. Re:The true reason for this... on UK Reconsiders 1986 Decision To Ban Astronauts · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ban or no ban, they ain't drinkin' in this pub!

    All that bragging and dragging their heavy kit about. Not to mention the naf hissing sound from the pressure suits - and the smell. Did you ever?

    I think that the ban is good for Britain. Next, I think it's time to exclude those blokes who Google the answers to the pub quiz on their mobiles, under the tables.

  8. OK OK, Microsoft! on Yahoo!/Microsoft Execs Meet For Round Two · · Score: 1

    "We get it! We'll take it with the lubrication, now!"

  9. Damned With Faint Praise? on Fingerprint-Protected USB Sticks Cracked · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "They do not provide any significant level of protection. We can only recommend that these products not be purchased."

    You seldom get such unflinching prose in a review.

  10. Re:And? on FBI Hid Patriot Act Abuses · · Score: 1

    I wonder how full of Hanssen's that place is?

    Only now, it's not for the COBN3Ts... But rather, evil banks and corporations.

  11. In Soviet Amerika on FBI Hid Patriot Act Abuses · · Score: 2, Funny

    Patriot Act hides FBI Abuse!

    Oh, those cagey bees! The party has found you.

    Can we just start calling the FBI by it's proper name? Is that Stasi, NKVD or the KGB.

  12. Re:I tried to visit once on The National Cryptologic Museum · · Score: 1

    Now we will have to kill you.

  13. Nice shooting, Kid! on Israelis Sue Government For Laser Cannons · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now, don't get cocky...

  14. Re:The questions are interesting... on Air Force Cyber Command General Answers Slashdot Questions · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Many big-wigs will read what you post here -- and a lot of them are interested in what you say and may even use your suggestions to help set future recruiting and operational policies.

    You are now on our watch-list, "citizen".

  15. Re:The questions are interesting... on Air Force Cyber Command General Answers Slashdot Questions · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Content free?

    I'm in the Big Brother database, now...

  16. Remnants on Ancient Bones of Small Humans Discovered In Palau · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the third age...

  17. MS COO - Exec VP of SALES was Wal*Mart EVP/CIO on Linux PCs Discontinued at Wal-Mart Stores · · Score: 1
    Kevin Turner. The connections run thick and deep.

    Prior to Microsoft, Turner worked nearly 20 years at Wal-Mart Stores Inc., where he started as a cashier while going to college. Upon graduating from college he held various leadership positions within Wal-Mart including most recently as president and chief executive officer of SAM'S CLUB, with over 46 million members and over $37.1 billion in annual sales. Before this role, Turner worked 13 years in the IT department where achieved the level of executive vice president and chief information officer for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., in which he oversaw all information systems and IT operations for the company worldwide.
    IT was/is how Wal*Mart executed on its inventory logistics and pricing strategies, that allowed them to dominate.

  18. Mike Rowe? on The Dirty Jobs of IT · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would this then, be a description of Mike Rowe Soft?

    Jus' wonderin'...

  19. Re:I Think Windows Lacks Features on Windows 7 Eyed For Antitrust Violations · · Score: 1

    On reflection, I think that OSX 10.5 is in the running for this.

  20. Re:I Think Windows Lacks Features on Windows 7 Eyed For Antitrust Violations · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think that there should be a Software Industry "Glass Turd" award - for the most over promised, under delivered, and basically mis-applied software product of the year.

    I know it's a tall order - like ID-ing the ugliest warthog.

    The name "Glass Turd" is, of course, a loving reference to Windows Vista. Polished to gleaming, transparent perfection! "It's so pretty, I feel bad about hating it..."

    The runner-up could get a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate Edition, installed on the computer of his choice. The Winner would have a copy of the same, installed on the computer that the winner used the most!

  21. Dextre? on Endeavour Crew to Assemble Giant Robot, in Space · · Score: 1

    C'mon! What about Brave Raydeen or Gaiking?

    Gigantor, anyone?

  22. Lou Dobbs? Is that You! on Counterfeit Chips Raise New Terror, Hacking Fears · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Clearly, this is the agenda of the piece. PopMech has been a fan press for the US arm industry since its inception "Look! A dive-bomber that will send Tojo to his divine reward!".

    They have seeded stories from Military and "Intelligence" sources for years.

  23. Re:The Counterfeit Bolt Problem on Counterfeit Chips Raise New Terror, Hacking Fears · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There is a way to test bolts for strength, but it's expensive.

    More expensive than wrongful-death compensation? Someone must have amortized this.

  24. ARRRGH! TERROR! on Counterfeit Chips Raise New Terror, Hacking Fears · · Score: 5, Insightful

    EVERYTHING is now a "terror threat".

    Do you suppose someone figured out that "terror" is a funding goldmine? That the way to ride this gravy-train was to pump up the volume on the "terror" megaphone?

    It's pretty funny - 'til the unintended consequences land you "in internal exile", or "extraordinary rendition".

  25. You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all.. on Why Aren't More Linux Users Gamers? · · Score: 5, Funny

    alike.

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    You are in a twisty maze of little passages, all alike.

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    it is pitch dark, you are likely to be eaten by a grue.

    [DAMN!]