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  1. In the very olden days on The Man Who Wrote the Password Rules Regrets Doing So (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I managed to get the root password on a Unix system to include a backspace. Then the login program wouldn't take it.

  2. Sounds like shareholder lawsuit time on Amazon Threatened To Kill Its Whole Foods Deal if the Grocer Started a Bidding War (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    It was Whole Foods' obligation to get the highest price they could. Unless they have proof that they at least did some sort of timely analysis the management could be liable.

  3. Not to worry, Martin Shkreli will buy it and reduce the cost. Oh wait.

  4. Re:Good. Now outlaw IoT. on Intel To Cut IoT Jobs (electronicsweekly.com) · · Score: 1

    But I need my internet-connected toilet.

  5. Yeah, do we now have to say "Hit him upside the head with a clue-by-three-point-five"?

  6. So they will be directing their next films from a carbonite wall?

  7. Re:Global warming. on It's Too Hot For Some Planes To Fly In Phoenix (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I was in Phoenix when they closed the airport due to temperature. I think it was 1990. The problem was their printed charts for how much runway they needed for a certain temperature only went up to about 120F and it was over that, so legally (or insurance-wise) they couldn't fly.

  8. Re:Oh, BULLSHIT! on The Internet Of Things Is Becoming More Difficult To Escape (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I just got a new LG dishwasher. I elected not to get the Wifi enabled model.

  9. Re:BP changes based on body position on Home Blood Pressure Monitors Are Wrong 70 Percent of the Time, Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I took my machine to the doctor's office once to see how accurate it was. Two or three machines in the office kept reading higher than mine. I insisted on having a nurse take it by hand and that one matched my machine almost exactly. They claimed their office machines were calibrated periodically.

  10. Re:Predict Malfunctions on Japan To Launch Self-Navigating Cargo Ships 'By 2025' (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Open the pod bay doors HAR.

  11. Re:Golden Handshakes on Wikimedia Executives Receive Six-figure Golden Handshakes (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    A Golden Shower with a shaky hand?

  12. Re:subject on Before Silicon Valley, New Jersey Was Tech Capital (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The first long distance telephone line was in California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  13. Two guys with the initials on Before Silicon Valley, New Jersey Was Tech Capital (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    H and P.

  14. Is this the company the British Airways outsourced to?

  15. Umm, wouldn't it be 9 times the resolution on UCF Research Could Bring 'Drastically' Higher Resolution To Your Phone and TV (ucf.edu) · · Score: 1

    since screens have 2 dimensions?

  16. Re:Zuck! on When AI Botches Your Medical Diagnosis, Who's To Blame? (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    Blame the Russian Hackers.

  17. Re:Finnanly Plan 9 gets new life! on Google's Upcoming 'Fuchsia' Smartphone OS Dumps Linux, Has a Wild New UI (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I have long thought someone should dust off Inferno and update it for smartphones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  18. Re:Fire on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Handle Interruptions At Work? · · Score: 1

    Ron Swanson? Izzat you?

  19. Re:By shooting the person summarily. on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Handle Interruptions At Work? · · Score: 1

    At a small company I used to work for, when the boss's wife came in we would say "here comes the NMI".

  20. I know a guy who wrote most of a mag tape driver in COBOL with a few calls to assembly language in th 1970s. I think it was on an HP minicomputer.

  21. The article was written by a college compsci professor. Probably never did any real programming.

  22. Re:My answer on Ask Slashdot: Do You Like Functional Programming? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    "being cleaver"

    Beaver? I told you not to hang around with the Eddie Haskell.

  23. Same here, except I think the 026 was the keypunch machine. i was on an IBM 1620 computer. The language was actually called "WITRAN" IIRC, a subset of FORTRAN, and we ran that deck ahead of our programs.

  24. Re:Separation of powers on DOJ: Russian 'Superhacker' Gets 27 Years In Prison (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they can sentence the OP to 20 years of remedial high school civics.

  25. Re:Nukes from North Korea and now this on Researchers Discover New Species of Giant Spider (mentalfloss.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    And Mexico will pay for the Yuge American Spiders.