An "album" is a collection of smaller works. Consider "photo album" (some of which are now online and only virtual), in some cases other types of media are referred to as "albums" when in groups, "album of butterflies" (dead and pressed) for example.
So, no, "album" does not refer to only vinyl records. Only ignorant ass band members think that and started calling it a "tape" or "CD".
That said, "rewind" is sort of funny but makes as much sense as "backtrack" or "back up", both of which refer to physical displacement not a time in a video or audio track.
In other words wireless comes with yet another shitload of back end and expense and pain in the ass when scaled up.
Not really selling the concept there buster.
Wires are probably already in place and fast enough and good enough, and the existing off the shelf switch... now you want to add all that shit? Just so someone can move their laptop around on the desk?
There are 44 wireless access points that I can detect from my apartment living room. One is a business across the interstate (DLOS).
Only two are unsecured.
At my last abode, there were only about 5 unsecured. One person bought a router with wireless and never used it, but was spraying interference all over the place. The SSID was a generic one, so I looked up the manual, logged in with the default password and shut off their wireless. It never came back, so I assume they used a wire and never noticed.
NOT the type of crap I want to be dealing with trying to do actual business.
Well there are other aspects. If you are not the IT guy, you may get one semi-legit answer when some real answer lies underneath.
For example;
Luser: "I want wireless" IT: "No, it's too insecure"
The REAL reason; "no, we do not have a proper policy about computers from home, and your dumb ass will doubtless bring in an infected laptop."
Or: "What, do I look like I have time to help you troubleshoot sitting on the crapper (in a metal box), nor do I want to listen to you bitch about how fast it is and explain simple high-school physics to your retarded ass for failing to understand why the microwave screws up your download."
Wired connections help IT police what goes on on the network. Wireless hurts that to a large degree. EVEN IF it's properly secured, I don't always want to finger-fuck whatever garbage the Lusers may want to try to connect with (looking at YOU iPhone).
So, if you got told "no for security reasons" and you are not in the IT department, they probably think you are too dumb to deal with a wireless card not to be a persistent pain in the ass.
Also, if you have any type of government audit, you have to deal with ignorant auditors that also have old beliefs about wireless networks. IT DOESNT MATTER what you may know about wireless if you deal with one of those bozos.
All of this stuff can quickly make wireless a net-negative for the IT folks around you and get the thing rejected "for security reasons".
There are a bunch of Koreans already here (the smart ones anyway); so it wouldn't be genocide.
GP is just talking about real man to man war Sherman style, in response to a coward's method of sabotage. Maybe you should re-think your moral system if you find destroying equipment used for mostly civilian purposes isn't an act of war, or at the very least, terrorism.
There is one benefit of gold plating, over a number of years gold does not get surface corrosion where copper or other metals do.
I started trimming my stereo wire (regular off the shelf stuff) every time I moved my speakers (about once every two years) and sanding it a bit because there was too much corrosion on the copper end to make a good connection.
The problem is, there's not a whole lot of benefit of gold beyond that, and it's nothing you couldn't solve without gold with a bit of sand paper...
It's important to note, that there is little bacteria can do to become immune to soap as it is chemical reactions.
So, depending on what anti-bacterial agents are in the soap, your view is valid or not. Some manufacturers "tested" their soap against bacteria and if it had an affect, labeled it so.
We give a fark what one rich guy gives to some even richer ho bag? If I want this garbage I will go over to Daily Mail thank you very much.
Yes, the Prez's Blackberry security is a valid thing to talk about on Slashdot, but this submission seems like a setup for political bashing or royals bashing or just plain stupid gossip and simply has no fucking place here.
This is why I will never ever pay for Slashdot.
This is why I block all Slashdot sponsor ads.
This is why Mr Tard-e McTardison samzenpus' submissions are no longer going to be displayed to me.
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Hurricane Katrina demonstrated the long delay in power restoration in action on a small scale. The social and societal impacts that occurred there are likely to be a pretty good analog of what would happen on a larger scale.
With a solar event, there would have to be significant effort to prioritize and then ramp up infrastructure rebuilding for anything, including electrical power.
If it was JUST the transformers, a lot of headway could be made by getting more localized grids online by running the lower voltage on the line. There would be a lot of efficiency loss but it could work.
A lot of what we do is designed to make stuff _cost_effective_ and less on _simply_ _functional_. So there is quite a bit more leeway than what first may appear.
That said, a lot of personal flexibility is tied up in job and family. Loss of either or both of those and one becomes instantly much more flexible and mobile where options that are completely unavailable now become viable.
The new IT guy is now the conduit for updates and new software into the company. He'll have to pirate right along with the company when he obviously doesn't want to. So, he'll have to _actively_ _participate_ in the process of getting unlicensed software.
This issue is almost less about what happened before, but more about what will happen with the company in the future.
This all boils down to does the admin have the role of saving the institution from itself or not.
If the admin has this role, it's tyranny of the one. (The asshole admin syndrome.)
If the admin does not have this role, it's stupidity of the top.
Even AS an admin, I would rather let the collection of top managers (who could be educated, or could get other resources) rule over the mid-to-low level asshole that thinks he's protecting something other than his own pride by withholding or not doing shit.
There were lots and lots of ways to provide passwords after being asked in the conference call that would have been secure. Simply saying "hold on, let me email them to you" to the top guy there (and then doing it) would have mitigated any real responsibility. Childs chose to not just do what they wanted in a more secured CYA way, he chose not to do it at all. That crossed the line into hubris, not responsibility.
So screw him. Let him rot. He COULD have just said "here they are, oh, by the way, I quit. When your shit is screwed up because you damaged it, let me know and I will work on contract basis for $1k per hour" and then walked with his reputation to find another job. Instead, he chose to fight a stupid battle and now he'll be unhirable a lot of places. Have fun pumping gas moron.
Look, any way you slice this, Terry Childs held something at ransom or rendered useless that didn't belong to him.
Period. No fucking more arguments about that. The routers were not in his living room, and therefore NOT HIS.
The code, hardware, and configuration all belong to his employer. By withholding information about the configuration, he stole from his employer on the way out.
I don't care if he feels like he was mistreated or they might screw up the network after he left. Maybe if he spent more time not being a shit while he was there, leaving would have been easier. Or, I don't know, acting less like a typical waste of biomass bureaucrat doing nothing but protecting his little fiefdom and doing his job properly.... Making sure the job and one's successors succeed is critical to any IT role (if just for the "hit by a bus" factor) and this guy failed miserably at that.
Let his dumb ass rot in jail. He fucked himself and he deserves what he is getting. Take his car, computers, and 70th level Wizard away too because he represents the WORST qualities of the computer professional he could possibly be.
IE is built into a lot of places in Windows. Help displays, Windows Explorer uses it, etc.
By upgrading, you upgrade those displays too.
IE6 (IIRC) has issues, and probably has unpatched or undiscovered security issues that will root your computer if you run across the wrong stuff.
Even if you never use IE for anything, you should upgrade it and keep it patched. It's free, and doesn't hurt anything and you can continue to use whatever your favorite browser is.
I can confirm that there was a BGP broadcast error early today (9 AM CST more or less) that lasted for about 40 - 60 minutes.
It caused ours and several other companies upstream ISP to go offline in a BGP route flop. The route flop made bad routes for 30 or so second intervals, and then was dropped. Repeating in a cycle (taking the connection down).
Apparently there are corrective measures in the protocol, but a continued error broadcast can make them return.
Depending on your routing setup, you may or may not use BGP, or may or may not have been harmed by the issue. Ours has lots of peering points which may complicate things.
Anyway, this is an interesting event, we thought it was from some idiot typo error at the upstream provider.
Last time I cruised around Blogger (I have one there) it was about 100 to 1 ratio of bots and spammers sites, porn ads, and you name it to real user content.
Very very little actual user updating a blog-type content.
It's about time they started deleting stuff out of there.
When an actual, real live blogger says their content was removed I'll be concerned. Otherwise this is probably just a case of "cleaning up a shithole".
Several of my customers have had problems with their domain names not resolving, which is just a run of the mill reliability problem. Remove OpenDNs and it goes away. Not a biggie.
However, two of them had pop up warnings from Firefox (but not IE for some reason) about a security certificate not matching the domain name, "*.opendns.org" (org? gimmie a fucking break they are selling aggregated data, that is not an "org".) while the users were logging into or just using bank related web sites. Other users on the same network were having no such problems.
Because the sites are hosted on my stuff, they think that MY stuff is off. Even though I can show them the source code and say "ok, where is this pulled from in your HTML?"
Most sites worked, except for a few bank sites. I don't know about you, but SSL is supposed to verify the domain and web server were authorized by the certificate issuing party, as well as make the data flow between the server and computer inspection-proof. OpenDNS tried to get in the way of that. (I don't think it was malicious, THIS time.)
So, OpenDNS not only caused a pain in the ass for me, but also were doing something with SSL certificates when users tried to use SSL on a bank web site.
I found out later, that some idiot IT guy was putting the stuff in because he was too lazy to update his domain controller (or didn't know how). Something he would have not needed to do had he read the instructions in the first place. Typical complicated response to a simple RTFM problem.
"tom1974" your mom is calling. Go see what she wants!
Dude, did you just get off the 4th grade short bus? "Who asked you?" The fucking Slashdot asked me. They posted the article summary, and then put a "reply" link on it.
Take your puerile shit back to 4chan noob.
As for the privacy equation, let's look:
Google (or pick your site/service) monitors what happens on their network. Individuals get a choice for each instance. Clearly stated as their revenue stream (ads).
vs.
OpenDNS monitors everything that happens on your network, their network, and many in between. Reveals data streams that not need to be public. Including leaking what may be internal network hostnames to third parties. Individuals may not get a choice (depending on how OpenDNS got there) and modifying one instance means dorking around with DNS settings. Revenue stream not so clear. This is on top of whatever Google does.
So, for the 'tarded in the audience;
Google or service: X risk.
OpenDNS service: X + Y + Z = risk.
That, in addition to the aforementioned network problems caused by OpenDNS amongst some of my clients, some of whom had problems logging into online banking while using that shit. Look man, I dunno about you, but random problems doing that could be a sign of big big trouble.
Sure, it's a DNS service, one with gotchas on the end that a lot of people have not thought through. If my ISP pulls some man in the middle crap and I sue them over it, they may lose and maybe the feds go after them, maybe they go out of business. OpenDNS does it, and they point to the TOS and walk away.
Use what you like, but don't blame me if someone runs off with your bank account.
Except, OpenDNS is not a budding geek or regular office wank type tool.
It's a tool that requires you to know what you are doing. There are all sorts of subtle problems that can crop up, so I have at this point just simply refused to help any of my clients until they switch back to their regular ISP's DNS. Amazingly, a good 50% of the certificate and "cant find web site" errors go away after that. Imagine!
OpenDNS has the right idea, but it's not ready for the "everyday internet user" crowd yet.
This is without really considering the massive privacy problems with using it.
The friend needs to go back to his theoretical math and stay out of engineering.
Saying "will never get back the energy" is the direct equivalent to saying "you will never make money on it". Unless you want to claim the energy to create the thing was _FREE_. Someone paid for that energy, and then made a profit or broke even doing it. Which then got factored into the retail or wholesale cost of the windmill. So the final cost always includes the energy.
There are plenty of systems out there that do have pay back time. And for those, they generate more energy than they used. WAY more because the cost is not energy completely, it's labor too.
And, even for the ones that don't pay back eventually, there are other fixed costs that would make the "run this with only energy" equation come out positive.
Energy is factored in cost and influences cost but is not all of cost.
The assumption that there is free energy is wrong, therefore the entire argument is wrong.
Furthermore, the "can't possibly" is a really stupid way to say that. Because as with all things there are variables that can be manipulated to end up as a positive. (And have been.)
It would be a much less annoying thing to say if he said "so far they haven't been" which might actually be true.
The refutation goes for that bullshit "Hummer is more efficient than Prius" crap the right-whinger pigs were using a few years back.
If anything, it tells us a lot about the friend's willingness to suck the big cock of republican ideals over using his brain. I know 4th graders with more critical thinking skills than your friend seems to have.
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An "album" is a collection of smaller works. Consider "photo album" (some of which are now online and only virtual), in some cases other types of media are referred to as "albums" when in groups, "album of butterflies" (dead and pressed) for example.
So, no, "album" does not refer to only vinyl records. Only ignorant ass band members think that and started calling it a "tape" or "CD".
That said, "rewind" is sort of funny but makes as much sense as "backtrack" or "back up", both of which refer to physical displacement not a time in a video or audio track.
In other words wireless comes with yet another shitload of back end and expense and pain in the ass when scaled up.
Not really selling the concept there buster.
Wires are probably already in place and fast enough and good enough, and the existing off the shelf switch... now you want to add all that shit? Just so someone can move their laptop around on the desk?
There are 44 wireless access points that I can detect from my apartment living room. One is a business across the interstate (DLOS).
Only two are unsecured.
At my last abode, there were only about 5 unsecured. One person bought a router with wireless and never used it, but was spraying interference all over the place. The SSID was a generic one, so I looked up the manual, logged in with the default password and shut off their wireless. It never came back, so I assume they used a wire and never noticed.
NOT the type of crap I want to be dealing with trying to do actual business.
Well there are other aspects. If you are not the IT guy, you may get one semi-legit answer when some real answer lies underneath.
For example;
Luser: "I want wireless" IT: "No, it's too insecure"
The REAL reason; "no, we do not have a proper policy about computers from home, and your dumb ass will doubtless bring in an infected laptop."
Or: "What, do I look like I have time to help you troubleshoot sitting on the crapper (in a metal box), nor do I want to listen to you bitch about how fast it is and explain simple high-school physics to your retarded ass for failing to understand why the microwave screws up your download."
Wired connections help IT police what goes on on the network. Wireless hurts that to a large degree. EVEN IF it's properly secured, I don't always want to finger-fuck whatever garbage the Lusers may want to try to connect with (looking at YOU iPhone).
So, if you got told "no for security reasons" and you are not in the IT department, they probably think you are too dumb to deal with a wireless card not to be a persistent pain in the ass.
Also, if you have any type of government audit, you have to deal with ignorant auditors that also have old beliefs about wireless networks. IT DOESNT MATTER what you may know about wireless if you deal with one of those bozos.
All of this stuff can quickly make wireless a net-negative for the IT folks around you and get the thing rejected "for security reasons".
There are a bunch of Koreans already here (the smart ones anyway); so it wouldn't be genocide.
GP is just talking about real man to man war Sherman style, in response to a coward's method of sabotage. Maybe you should re-think your moral system if you find destroying equipment used for mostly civilian purposes isn't an act of war, or at the very least, terrorism.
There is one benefit of gold plating, over a number of years gold does not get surface corrosion where copper or other metals do.
I started trimming my stereo wire (regular off the shelf stuff) every time I moved my speakers (about once every two years) and sanding it a bit because there was too much corrosion on the copper end to make a good connection.
The problem is, there's not a whole lot of benefit of gold beyond that, and it's nothing you couldn't solve without gold with a bit of sand paper...
Soap, by it's very nature is "anti-bacterial"
It's important to note, that there is little bacteria can do to become immune to soap as it is chemical reactions.
So, depending on what anti-bacterial agents are in the soap, your view is valid or not. Some manufacturers "tested" their soap against bacteria and if it had an affect, labeled it so.
Congrats, noob. You just discovered "war is hell".
Relax dude, it's just Gilligan moving the stick out further to catch more crabs.
The key difference here is the state is acting to take the servers, data, and equipment.
In the case of spam black holes, users are voluntarily deciding to participate in the list activity and ignore emails.
Sort of like, say, you jerk off a lot, which is fine. So the guy across the street thinks he can jerk you off and you don't like it.
Sorta like that.
FOAD spammer moron.
We give a fark what one rich guy gives to some even richer ho bag? If I want this garbage I will go over to Daily Mail thank you very much.
Yes, the Prez's Blackberry security is a valid thing to talk about on Slashdot, but this submission seems like a setup for political bashing or royals bashing or just plain stupid gossip and simply has no fucking place here.
This is why I will never ever pay for Slashdot.
This is why I block all Slashdot sponsor ads.
This is why Mr Tard-e McTardison samzenpus' submissions are no longer going to be displayed to me.
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Yeah, the court of "Wondering if they are hot or not".
Hurricane Katrina demonstrated the long delay in power restoration in action on a small scale. The social and societal impacts that occurred there are likely to be a pretty good analog of what would happen on a larger scale.
With a solar event, there would have to be significant effort to prioritize and then ramp up infrastructure rebuilding for anything, including electrical power.
If it was JUST the transformers, a lot of headway could be made by getting more localized grids online by running the lower voltage on the line. There would be a lot of efficiency loss but it could work.
A lot of what we do is designed to make stuff _cost_effective_ and less on _simply_ _functional_. So there is quite a bit more leeway than what first may appear.
That said, a lot of personal flexibility is tied up in job and family. Loss of either or both of those and one becomes instantly much more flexible and mobile where options that are completely unavailable now become viable.
Well you forgot one important thing.
The new IT guy is now the conduit for updates and new software into the company. He'll have to pirate right along with the company when he obviously doesn't want to. So, he'll have to _actively_ _participate_ in the process of getting unlicensed software.
This issue is almost less about what happened before, but more about what will happen with the company in the future.
This all boils down to does the admin have the role of saving the institution from itself or not.
If the admin has this role, it's tyranny of the one. (The asshole admin syndrome.)
If the admin does not have this role, it's stupidity of the top.
Even AS an admin, I would rather let the collection of top managers (who could be educated, or could get other resources) rule over the mid-to-low level asshole that thinks he's protecting something other than his own pride by withholding or not doing shit.
There were lots and lots of ways to provide passwords after being asked in the conference call that would have been secure. Simply saying "hold on, let me email them to you" to the top guy there (and then doing it) would have mitigated any real responsibility. Childs chose to not just do what they wanted in a more secured CYA way, he chose not to do it at all. That crossed the line into hubris, not responsibility.
So screw him. Let him rot. He COULD have just said "here they are, oh, by the way, I quit. When your shit is screwed up because you damaged it, let me know and I will work on contract basis for $1k per hour" and then walked with his reputation to find another job. Instead, he chose to fight a stupid battle and now he'll be unhirable a lot of places. Have fun pumping gas moron.
looking like insufferable, arrogant assholes.
Look, any way you slice this, Terry Childs held something at ransom or rendered useless that didn't belong to him.
Period. No fucking more arguments about that. The routers were not in his living room, and therefore NOT HIS.
The code, hardware, and configuration all belong to his employer. By withholding information about the configuration, he stole from his employer on the way out.
I don't care if he feels like he was mistreated or they might screw up the network after he left. Maybe if he spent more time not being a shit while he was there, leaving would have been easier. Or, I don't know, acting less like a typical waste of biomass bureaucrat doing nothing but protecting his little fiefdom and doing his job properly.... Making sure the job and one's successors succeed is critical to any IT role (if just for the "hit by a bus" factor) and this guy failed miserably at that.
Let his dumb ass rot in jail. He fucked himself and he deserves what he is getting. Take his car, computers, and 70th level Wizard away too because he represents the WORST qualities of the computer professional he could possibly be.
IE is built into a lot of places in Windows. Help displays, Windows Explorer uses it, etc.
By upgrading, you upgrade those displays too.
IE6 (IIRC) has issues, and probably has unpatched or undiscovered security issues that will root your computer if you run across the wrong stuff.
Even if you never use IE for anything, you should upgrade it and keep it patched. It's free, and doesn't hurt anything and you can continue to use whatever your favorite browser is.
I can confirm that there was a BGP broadcast error early today (9 AM CST more or less) that lasted for about 40 - 60 minutes.
It caused ours and several other companies upstream ISP to go offline in a BGP route flop. The route flop made bad routes for 30 or so second intervals, and then was dropped. Repeating in a cycle (taking the connection down).
Apparently there are corrective measures in the protocol, but a continued error broadcast can make them return.
Depending on your routing setup, you may or may not use BGP, or may or may not have been harmed by the issue. Ours has lots of peering points which may complicate things.
Anyway, this is an interesting event, we thought it was from some idiot typo error at the upstream provider.
They just need industrial space. It just so happens that paper mills, like data centers need a lot of electricity.
Which is cheap if your grid is fed by a hydroelectric dam (Summa, Finland area does have hydro-power).
Lots of paper mills have gone out of business in the last decade, changing paper use habits has caused this.
Last time I cruised around Blogger (I have one there) it was about 100 to 1 ratio of bots and spammers sites, porn ads, and you name it to real user content.
Very very little actual user updating a blog-type content.
It's about time they started deleting stuff out of there.
When an actual, real live blogger says their content was removed I'll be concerned. Otherwise this is probably just a case of "cleaning up a shithole".
Specifically, highjacking SSL sessions.
Several of my customers have had problems with their domain names not resolving, which is just a run of the mill reliability problem. Remove OpenDNs and it goes away. Not a biggie.
However, two of them had pop up warnings from Firefox (but not IE for some reason) about a security certificate not matching the domain name, "*.opendns.org" (org? gimmie a fucking break they are selling aggregated data, that is not an "org".) while the users were logging into or just using bank related web sites. Other users on the same network were having no such problems.
Because the sites are hosted on my stuff, they think that MY stuff is off. Even though I can show them the source code and say "ok, where is this pulled from in your HTML?"
Most sites worked, except for a few bank sites. I don't know about you, but SSL is supposed to verify the domain and web server were authorized by the certificate issuing party, as well as make the data flow between the server and computer inspection-proof. OpenDNS tried to get in the way of that. (I don't think it was malicious, THIS time.)
So, OpenDNS not only caused a pain in the ass for me, but also were doing something with SSL certificates when users tried to use SSL on a bank web site.
I found out later, that some idiot IT guy was putting the stuff in because he was too lazy to update his domain controller (or didn't know how). Something he would have not needed to do had he read the instructions in the first place. Typical complicated response to a simple RTFM problem.
"tom1974" your mom is calling. Go see what she wants!
Dude, did you just get off the 4th grade short bus? "Who asked you?" The fucking Slashdot asked me. They posted the article summary, and then put a "reply" link on it.
Take your puerile shit back to 4chan noob.
As for the privacy equation, let's look:
Google (or pick your site/service) monitors what happens on their network. Individuals get a choice for each instance. Clearly stated as their revenue stream (ads).
vs.
OpenDNS monitors everything that happens on your network, their network, and many in between. Reveals data streams that not need to be public. Including leaking what may be internal network hostnames to third parties. Individuals may not get a choice (depending on how OpenDNS got there) and modifying one instance means dorking around with DNS settings. Revenue stream not so clear. This is on top of whatever Google does.
So, for the 'tarded in the audience;
Google or service: X risk.
OpenDNS service: X + Y + Z = risk.
That, in addition to the aforementioned network problems caused by OpenDNS amongst some of my clients, some of whom had problems logging into online banking while using that shit. Look man, I dunno about you, but random problems doing that could be a sign of big big trouble.
Sure, it's a DNS service, one with gotchas on the end that a lot of people have not thought through. If my ISP pulls some man in the middle crap and I sue them over it, they may lose and maybe the feds go after them, maybe they go out of business. OpenDNS does it, and they point to the TOS and walk away.
Use what you like, but don't blame me if someone runs off with your bank account.
Except, OpenDNS is not a budding geek or regular office wank type tool.
It's a tool that requires you to know what you are doing. There are all sorts of subtle problems that can crop up, so I have at this point just simply refused to help any of my clients until they switch back to their regular ISP's DNS. Amazingly, a good 50% of the certificate and "cant find web site" errors go away after that. Imagine!
OpenDNS has the right idea, but it's not ready for the "everyday internet user" crowd yet.
This is without really considering the massive privacy problems with using it.
The friend needs to go back to his theoretical math and stay out of engineering.
Saying "will never get back the energy" is the direct equivalent to saying "you will never make money on it". Unless you want to claim the energy to create the thing was _FREE_. Someone paid for that energy, and then made a profit or broke even doing it. Which then got factored into the retail or wholesale cost of the windmill. So the final cost always includes the energy.
There are plenty of systems out there that do have pay back time. And for those, they generate more energy than they used. WAY more because the cost is not energy completely, it's labor too.
And, even for the ones that don't pay back eventually, there are other fixed costs that would make the "run this with only energy" equation come out positive.
Energy is factored in cost and influences cost but is not all of cost.
The assumption that there is free energy is wrong, therefore the entire argument is wrong.
Furthermore, the "can't possibly" is a really stupid way to say that. Because as with all things there are variables that can be manipulated to end up as a positive. (And have been.)
It would be a much less annoying thing to say if he said "so far they haven't been" which might actually be true.
The refutation goes for that bullshit "Hummer is more efficient than Prius" crap the right-whinger pigs were using a few years back.
If anything, it tells us a lot about the friend's willingness to suck the big cock of republican ideals over using his brain. I know 4th graders with more critical thinking skills than your friend seems to have.
So again, send him back to his math.
Useful for distinguishing between the insufferable nerds that don't know they are insufferable and the ones that are worth spending time with.
First mention of keyboard layouts tells you spend your time elsewhere or this unwashed creep will cause all your OTHER friends to stay away.