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  1. Re:Movies on 'Nuclear Free' Maryland City Grants Waiver For HP · · Score: 1

    You mean Idiocracy.

  2. Re:Best Pratices on Employees Admit They'd Walk Out With Stolen Data If Fired · · Score: 1

    Not to mention: would you really trust documentation written by employees who know they're living on borrowed time?

  3. Re:Because programmers use them or they don't on Why Do Programming Languages Succeed Or Fail? · · Score: 1

    They say the exact same thing, but the first example has gotten rid of "THEN" and "END IF", which add no meaning whatsoever and mostly just clutter things up. Which is why, IMHO, Python is a superior language to Basic.

    I find explicit block markers to be useful when searching for the beginning and end of a long block. This applies whether the markers are THEN, ELSE, and ENDIF or { and }.

  4. Re:1 of my favorite Antenna channels on Grad Student Wins Alan Alda's Flame Challenge · · Score: 1

    The present is simply future history.

  5. Re:Pfffffttttttttt on US CIO/CTO: Idea of Hiring COBOL Coders Laughable · · Score: 3, Funny

    You don't want to know where Grace Hopper keeps her beard.

  6. Explorer? on Depressed People Surf the Web Differently · · Score: 1

    Were the depressed people more likely to be using Internet Explorer?

  7. CA? on Amazon Poised To Get Cut of CA Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    I read the headline as: "Amazon Poised to Get Cut of Certificate Authority Sales Taxes".

  8. Re:How does SDI work? on Sidestepping Tactical Nuclear Weapons Limits With Strategic Bombs · · Score: 1

    It replaced the earlier technology of launching surface-to-air missiles to destroy the incoming warheads, which could only be controlled accurately by 14-year-old boys.

  9. Faster elevators? on New York City Pushes Plan To Prevent Cyberattacks On Elevators, Boilers · · Score: 1

    I see faster elevators as a good thing. It would help people get where they're going more quickly.

  10. Re:Some power companies sell it, I have it at home on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Heavy-Duty, Full-Home Surge Protection? · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but I don't want to pay the power company $10/month for something I would rather pay a fixed cost for and own myself.

  11. Re:It's a foregone conclusion on How Romanian Fortune Tellers Used Google To Fleece Victims · · Score: 1

    I think it's a legacy version of Microsoft Money.

  12. Re:If You're Going To Make Promises ... on Macbook Owner With Defective GPU Beats Apple In Court · · Score: 1

    This could easily be resolved by writing a polite letter to Steve Jobs. Oh, wait...

  13. Re:Common knowledge? on Documentation As a Bug-Finding Tool · · Score: 1

    Clearly nobody wrote a functional spec in advance to document the requirement for new programmers. When the company finally discovered the buggy programmers, they wisely decided it was better to factor them out late than never.

  14. Re:dead link on Quantum Random Numbers · · Score: 1

    That would be Formula 409, not 503.

  15. School for hackers? on Etsy Hacker Grants Support Female Programmers · · Score: 1

    First clue you're not cut out to be a hacker: you have to take hacking classes.

  16. Re:SURPRISE SURPRISE SURPRISE!!! on OLPC Project Disappoints In Peru · · Score: 1

    Last year's calculus and physics textbooks are obsolete? I didn't realize gravity had been updated that much since 2011.

  17. Re:Sci-Fi is Reel again on After 60 Years, Tape Reinserts Itself · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you got exactly what you wanted: a year's worth of backup tapes.

  18. Re:Physical Seizures? on Microsoft Leads Sting Operation Against Zeus Botnets · · Score: 1

    When non-government representatives set foot on what is essentially an alleged crime scene, they could tamper with the evidence and/or taint the crime scene (even inadvertently). Having LEO on the scene is no guarantee this won't happen.

  19. Re:Naturally on Congress Capitulates To TSA; Refuses To Let Bruce Schneier Testify · · Score: 1

    If he was wearing glasses at the time, he could have gotten away with carrying four bottles of saline. When asked why he could have pointed to his glasses: "Four-eyes!"

  20. Re:Remote Death Packet... on RDP Proof-of-Concept Exploit Triggers Blue Screen of Death · · Score: 1

    An hour after being hacked by Chinese researchers, you're hungry for data again. It's known as a having a "SYN-ACK Attack".

  21. Re:There is one business ... actually, two ... on Ask Slashdot: Do You Find Self Tracking Useful Like Stephen Wolfram Does? · · Score: 1

    Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich.

  22. Blockbuster on Warner Bros: New Program To Digitize Your DVDs · · Score: 1

    They can set up shop in all the old Blockbuster stores that are about to close.

  23. Miami Vice? on Virginia High Court Rejects Case Against Climatologist Michael Mann · · Score: 1

    What, no Miami Vice reference?

  24. Regular gun on Speech-Jamming Gun Silences From 30 Meters · · Score: 1

    Surely a regular gun can be used to accomplish all of these same things.

  25. Re:Body language is an effective tool on How To Sneak In To a Security Conference · · Score: 1

    Just make sure to ditch the three-piece suit first.