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  1. Re:CC Companies Scotch Mythbusters on CC Companies Scotch Mythbusters Show On RFID Security · · Score: 1

    Behind you are. The correct answer is 42.

  2. You want comedy? on Geoffrey Perkins Is Dead At 55 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The Democratic Party has been an excellent source.
    As Charlie Martin points out:

    this week, it looks like the Obama campaign's "Chicago Rules" have turned out to be bringing a knife to a gunfight.

  3. Re:CC Companies Scotch Mythbusters on CC Companies Scotch Mythbusters Show On RFID Security · · Score: 1

    A man's troubles never end
    When crosses the lips some tragic blend
    Of uisge beatha, though I did halt
    My flirtation with the single malt

  4. With the accompanying /. title: on CC Companies Scotch Mythbusters Show On RFID Security · · Score: 4, Funny

    "CC Companies Irish Mythbusters Show On Security"

  5. Re:Another indicator on Wikipedia Edits Forecast Vice Presidential Picks · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, it was the Gulf War at the Pentagon with the 'za:
    http://tafkac.org/politics/pentagon_pizza.html

  6. Re:So sick of politics on Wikipedia Edits Forecast Vice Presidential Picks · · Score: 1
  7. Re:What's This? on Wikipedia Edits Forecast Vice Presidential Picks · · Score: 4, Funny

    Indeed. They'll just have the staff whip up edits to several other distractor pages.
    Think of the cable news effects.
    Olberman: This just in: Oh My God! Traffic analysis on Wikipedia seems to indicate that Michael Moore might pick me to be his Vice President! I'm going to need a private moment, folks. Excuse me.

  8. non-sequitor... on Will W3C Accept DRM For Webfonts? · · Score: 1

    If we can put a man on the moon, why can't I have a pony?

  9. Re:Doesn't matter to me on Linux Not Supported For Democratic Convention Video · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, no, McCain fondly remembers the neighborhood Linux salesman going door to door, selling those shiny new models.
    He does admit some confusion as to when the company name changed from 'Electrolux', though chalks it up to some re-org that happened during his tenure at the Hanoi Hilton.

  10. Re:...are a person's name and address confidential on UK Gov't Lost Personal Data On 4M People In One Year · · Score: 1

    Excellent.

  11. Re:...are a person's name and address confidential on UK Gov't Lost Personal Data On 4M People In One Year · · Score: 1

    a far greater security threat than a bug in an application

    Wouldn't dispute that a false sense of security is worse than no security at all.
    The reason for the mess with SSNs is that the Federal government under FDR was as safe as Dick Cheney with a loaded firearm:
    http://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Man-History-Great-Depression/dp/0060936428/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219261467&sr=8-1

  12. Telnet? on Firefox To Get a Nag Screen For Upgrades · · Score: 1

    C'mon: OpenSSH

  13. X is bloatware: on Firefox To Get a Nag Screen For Upgrades · · Score: 2, Funny

    lynx

  14. ...are a person's name and address confidential? on UK Gov't Lost Personal Data On 4M People In One Year · · Score: 1

    Well, various politicians need to put on a show of caring about privacy, for one thing.
    For another, it strikes me that your application should not expose any information, except as part of the well-defined UI.
    Just because you cannot connect the dots and do anything nefarious does not preclude a gang of thugs in Zambiniland from unsavory acts.

  15. Re:Stupidity or Malice? on UK Gov't Lost Personal Data On 4M People In One Year · · Score: 1

    Who yo' nanny?

  16. Re:Stupidity or Malice? on UK Gov't Lost Personal Data On 4M People In One Year · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about minimizing the amount of individual data collected?
    In the US, the Fed could leave to the states a vast swath of functions currently bogging down DC, making everyone more secure in a variety of ways.

  17. Re:I was addicted to Atari 2600 on A History of Atari — the Golden Years · · Score: 1

    I'm just glad to hear your joints haven't siezed from all the gaming.

  18. Re:In New Zealand.... on 2008 Is the Coldest Year of the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    Tell that glacier to get back in synch with the narrative!

  19. Re:An easily deflated peddler of liberalism disgui on 2008 Is the Coldest Year of the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    Let's think about the gobbledygook we right, Jared!

    Giving you the benefit of the doubt, and assuming you engaging in steely irony, I can't locate an argument anywhere in your post.

    It couldn't be that some cultures had adopted values that lead to bad decision making, that, would why open up the whole can of worms about cultural worth and thus invite old arguments about cultural superiority.

    He builds this case as a contributing factor in most of the case studies, e.g. Greenland Norse caring too much about retaining European Christian norms rather than cribbing ideas from the Inuit, and freezing to death for their trouble.
    I'm left to wonder if you actually RTFB.

  20. Re:Stupid sunspots...( or lack thereof ) on 2008 Is the Coldest Year of the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    How about we apply some dispassionate brainpower to tidy up a few messes?
    For a really good read, see:
    http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Penguin-Press-Science-Diamond/dp/0140279512/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219365127&sr=8-1

  21. Re:Sometimes the correct answer is the simplest on Why Corporates Hate Perl · · Score: 1

    So, the environments you're in make assertions about source code which are as strong, but conflicting with, Python's.
    OK
    I mainly code Python within emacs, where textual sculpture is trivial.
    Where I fall short of agreeing with anyone is the point where an absolute right answer is proclaimed: these matters are more stylistic than substantial, and mileage varies in a variety of directions.
    Many would contend that the loosy-goosy nature of Perl syntax is in fact the bug. I'd argue that the challenge is more the awsome prevalence of short-cut semantics in Perl. Perl blows away all comers in the number of cunning stunts cooked into environment.

  22. Re:Related to an old joke on Research Suggests Polygamous Men Live Longer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh God, here come the HR jokes...

  23. Re:No major injuries... on Japan Demands Probe of iPod Nano Flameouts · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My reply was an allusion to a Senator Obama remark and the resulting blowback.

  24. Re:Sometimes the correct answer is the simplest on Why Corporates Hate Perl · · Score: 1

    So, the significant whitespace conveys the information formerly within { and }.
    This is only a problem in Python in the rare case that you want to generate some Python code on the fly,
    or the slightly less rare case of wanting to do something on the command line.

  25. Re:Sometimes the correct answer is the simplest on Why Corporates Hate Perl · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is /., where reading TFM is like reading TFA.
    (Confession: I am a documentation geek, and actually do read the stuff. Is this why I have no friends?)