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  1. Re:Linux users should be getting worried. on Microsoft Has Created Its Own FreeBSD (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    Good points. I cut my admin teeth on FreeBSD and later OpenBSD. The world is catching up to me 12 years ago :)

  2. Chrome? Firefox? on Browser Choice May Affect Your Job Prospects · · Score: 1

    I use Lynx you insensitive clod!

  3. Re:The decline and fall of the American Empire on Brown vs. Startup Over a Sandwich · · Score: 1

    For people who think that ordering food delivery is just too much work.

    Sounds like they've found a prospective customer base for Pre Chew Charlie's.

  4. Re:I can hear the criminals conspiring... on Real-Time Gmail Spying a 'Top Priority' For FBI This Year · · Score: 1

    Maybe they should just put a chip in everybody.

    Already done, except they're called mobile phones and people willingly buy them and put them in their pockets and purses.

  5. Re:There's always one way to get games cheap: on The End Is Near for GameStop · · Score: 1

    Skyrim and its (still) full price tag say hi from shelves at Gamestop and Walmart.

  6. Protip on Senators Seek H-1B Cap That Can Reach 300,000 · · Score: 1

    If you're getting crushed by competition in your job field from H1B workers, it's time to find a new field or to start your own business. You're not going to beat back a tide of cheap labor that's backed by Congress and multiple law firms specializing in getting those workers into American jobs.

  7. Surprised at the number in use on Thousands of SCADA Devices Discovered On the Open Internet · · Score: 1

    I thought Recount was a lot more popular than Scada.

  8. Re:One question on The Problem With Internet Dating's Frictionless Market · · Score: 1

    (We've been together 14 years though so I'm not too worried.)

    14 years was when my ex said she wanted to just be free to do random hookups again. Marriage over just like that. YMMV but be warned.

  9. Re:Gaming potential on Disney Wants To Track You With RFID · · Score: 1

    Oooh, am I the only one visualizing RollerCoaster Tycoon: Disney LARP version?

    Visitor #1176675 (Translation Error) has been trapped in It's a Small World for 2 hours.
    Visitor #1176675 (Translation Error) is very unhappy.

    You think that's funny, but I've been stuck on It's a Small World for an extended period of time. The horror...the horror...

  10. Re:Why is this creepy? on Disney Wants To Track You With RFID · · Score: 2

    When it introduces national identity cards with trackers and a law requiring you to carry it at all times, resistance will have been weakened by people's acquiescence in these Disney style schemes.

    They don't need to introduce a tracker law, everyone who has a cellphone already has a tracker on them. Why bother with costly legislation when Americans already willingly purchase trackers?

  11. I'll pass, thanks on Critic Cites Revenge of the Sith As "Generation's Greatest Work of Art · · Score: 1

    "Art critic and University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia Camille Paglia..."

    Yeah, stopped reading right there.

  12. Re:Civil unrest on Complex Systems Theorists Predict We're About One Year From Global Food Riots · · Score: 1

    Nonononono. Rape. Then pillage. THEN burn.

    Look, this is a match, and this is a...

  13. I wouldn't worry about it on Repairing / Establishing Online Reputation? · · Score: 1

    You're not going to find a job in this economy anyway, at least not one that doesn't involve an insulated pizza bag and a magnetic sign for your car.

  14. Re:links on OpenOffice Online Goes Beta · · Score: 1

    That's typical Ars style, a black hole from which visitors can't easily escape.

  15. Re:A Better Link on Internet Archive Challenges Google · · Score: 1

    Not really. It ignores all of the other digitization projects taking place.

  16. Re:Article summary wrong (surprise) on Gilmore Loses Airport ID Case · · Score: 1
    While you could argue that gun ownership does sometimes deter crimes you're really making a stretch when you say that guns on a plane would have stopped the attacks on 9/11.

    Yeah, because a boxcutter is superior to a couple of rounds of frangible ammo at close range. Not.

    The terrorists had superior training in combat and weapons and would have merely massacred all the passengers on the plane before taking the cockpit.

    Didn't happen that way on Flight 93 though, did it? If accounts are correct, it was one trained judoka and a couple of other guys taking on the "superior" terrorists.

    Firearms on aircraft would be a BAD thing except in the hands of fully trained air marshals.

    Time to call BS. Competent trained shooters exist outside the ranks of the US Air Marshals. A single trained shooter may have made a difference. You have zero way of knowing otherwise.

  17. Re:They pay that much for the year? on WSJ's Online Subscriptions Outperform Print · · Score: 1

    It's $215 USD for 56 weeks of the print Journal, 52 + 4 bonus weeks. Or you can stop by the library each weekday morning and read it for free. I've been reading it for twenty years and I always seem to find one or two articles each day that prove useful to me in some fashion.

  18. Obvious choice on Cooler Servers or Cooler Rooms? · · Score: 1

    Cooler beer, of course. Mmm, beer.

  19. Yeah, but... on NNSA Supercomputer Breaks Computing Record · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...will it run NetHack?

  20. I have a question... on Book 'Em, Dano · · Score: 1

    Why is a college president reading I Am Charlotte Simmons, a book about the sex life of a college co-ed? I think the perv-o-meter just hit eleven.

  21. 15% are addicts; in other news... on Only 15% of Gamers are Internet Addicts · · Score: 1

    the other 85% are lying through their teeth.

  22. Just like Apple and FreeBSD on Mozilla Foundation in More Development Trouble · · Score: 2, Funny

    Looks like Mozilla and Firefox are dead too!

    Too bad one of the big commercial software companies haven't developed a browser that integrates well with an operating system...

  23. Re:How many? on Review: Juvenile Felis Catus · · Score: 1

    Two here, a male grey mackerel tabby and a female longhair calico. Both are always eager to be near a warm computer too.

  24. Re:Tough choice on Beatles vs Apple · · Score: 1

    Heh. A Clash reunion would have been worth seeing. What a shame; Joe Strummer is gone and the Eagles are still touring. Life's not fair.

  25. Obligatory Scott Mcnealy Ref on Windows Media Player 10 Reviewed · · Score: 0

    "You have no privacy, get over it."