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  1. Re:Basic economics on IT Positions Some of the Toughest Jobs To Fill In US · · Score: 1

    Sadly, I just get an invisible foot in the rump.

  2. Re:Why? on All Researchers To Be Allocated Unique IDs · · Score: 1

    If you have 20 researchers all named I.P. Freely and are all born on 12/13/1992 then I think there is a bigger problem here.

    Yeah, definitely a potential overflow problem.

  3. Re:Windows 8? on Windows 8: More EULA, Fewer Rights. · · Score: 1

    More likely, the companies using Windows 7 will wait for Windows 9. The ones using XP will upgrade to 7. The only corps that will use W8 are the ones that are currently using Vista.

  4. Re:It won't go away. on What Would a Post-Email World Look Like? · · Score: 1

    Heck, my mother has an email account, and she doesn't even have a computer. Technically, I set it up for her, and she's never even logged onto it, but it was needed to get a price reduction on something.

  5. Re:Why homosexualism but not incest? on 'Eco-Anarchists' Targeting Nuclear and Nanotech Workers · · Score: 1

    Yes, and my neighbor calls himself "The Spawn of Satan," so it must be true!

    Sounds like the brother of one of my neighbors.

  6. Re:In the Shower on Allowing the Mind To Wander Aids Creative Problem Solving · · Score: 1

    I still remember one of the first programs I did in college. There was a bug, and I'd been trying to find it until I went cross-eyed. Finally, I took a break, went to the bathroom, and while crapping I came up with the answer.

  7. Before you pirate this show on Who's Pirating Game of Thrones, and Why? · · Score: 1

    Ask yourself this question. WWJLD? (What would Jamie Lannister do)

  8. Re:Login names lack security on Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies · · Score: 1

    As usual, it's a tradeoff between usability and security. An email based login is much easier to remember, especially for accounts that I access once every 5 months, like those accounts I create to buy crap online. Surprisingly, my bank, though not the best on security, does give me a userid that isn't my email or based on my realname.

  9. Re:Determined to repeat MySpace's mistakes on Facebook Tests the Waters With Paid Perks · · Score: 1

    Not that smart long-term. You can get fatter eating goose eggs for a year than you can eating the whole goose for a few days.

  10. Re:Feelings are more important than science on Positive Bias Could Erode Public Trust In Science · · Score: 1

    Considering that I'm done growing, if I didn't eat more than I grow, I'd die of starvation.

    I'm still growing. Just not vertically.

  11. Re:Bathroom break time folks on Dish Network Announces Prime Time TV With No Ads · · Score: 1

    When I see an ad, I get up and go to the can, simple eh?

    Wow, you must drink more than I do!

  12. Re:We already have driverless cars on How Would Driver-less Cars Change Motoring? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Any municipality that allows cellphone use while driving is, essentially, endorsing driverless cars.

    Or maybe population reduction.

  13. Re:The best part... on Ubuntu Will Soon Ship On 5% of New PCs · · Score: 1

    I've never used one, but a few years ago, I was looking at their site, and their stuff was as expensive as Macs! Which is why I haven't tried them.

  14. Re:Or Object Pascal on Ask Slashdot: What Language Should a Former Coder Dig Into? · · Score: 1

    The syntax was cleaner and easier to understand than the C-like languages, and Borland's Turbo Pascal and Modula-2 were just as capable for most purposes as C.

  15. Re:Or Object Pascal on Ask Slashdot: What Language Should a Former Coder Dig Into? · · Score: 1

    Frankly, I liked the Pascal based languages (Pascal, Modula-2, maybe even Ada), but I agree the lack of popularity was an issue for that reason.

  16. Re:Why do people ask questions like these? on Ask Slashdot: What Language Should a Former Coder Dig Into? · · Score: 1

    Phone apps? Java.

    Or Objective C if you have an iPhone.

  17. Re:Kids shouldn't be playing on Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage · · Score: 1

    I can't put "I played 4 years football" on my resume; it doesn't offer any long term value.

    No, but it does explain a few things. ;)

  18. Re:Moore's Law of Firefox on Mozilla Ponders Major Firefox UI Refresh · · Score: 0

    The Version number doubles every 18 days

    Fixed your post.

  19. Re:Mutually Assured Destruction on Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It · · Score: 1

    That was a strategy?

  20. Re:Of course on Hulu To Require Viewers To Have Cable Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    It's raining out there.

  21. Re:Time of (night) on Fly-By-Wire Contributed To Air France 447 Disaster · · Score: 1

    Seems to me that having a junior on the graveyard on a plane increases the chance of the "graveyard" being literal.

  22. Re:What's Hotmail? on Microsoft Patches Major Hotmail 0-day Flaw After Widespread Exploitation · · Score: 1

    I've tried Hotmail recently, and so far so good for spam. Of course it doesn't get near the use of my gmail, but even light use would have gotten me spam-swamped in the "good old days".

  23. Re:many engineers are religious on Analytic Thinking Can Decrease Religious Belief · · Score: 1

    I don't know about engineers, but based on my experience as a computer programmer, I believe Satan exists.

  24. I thought it already had ads on Steve Jobs' Idea For an Ad-Supported OS · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everytime I turn on my Mac, I get that picture of an apple.

  25. Re:Applying security patches is a good idea? on Microsoft Says Two Basic Security Steps Might Have Stopped Conficker · · Score: 2

    Which is more than you can say for too many of its customers.