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  1. Place a phone by a P.A. system... on Personal Electronics May Indeed Disrupt Avionics · · Score: 1

    Brrrrrrr.....Dut Dut Dut Dut Dut....brrrrrrr

    What a great way to trash a recording.

  2. That means anyone who recieved "GODLIKE" on Man Tries to Patent His "Godly Powers" · · Score: 1

    In Wolfenstein ET has to pay a licensing fee....

  3. The cycle for IT admins on How To Succeed In IT Without Really Trying · · Score: 2

    evaluate, fix, sustain, teach, stagnate, leave....repeat.

    How often you have done that in the past decade is directly proportional to your income. It takes a very dynamic company to repeat this cycle internally for a given IT techie...admins it is difficult. Programmers less so, I saw on organization that purposely shifted people around between functional groups to keep the challenges and ideas fresh. I thought that was smart nerd herding.

  4. Those aren't elements... on Two Elements Added To Periodic Table · · Score: 1

    They are the names of the horses Paul Revere used in his famous "Threaten the British" tour...

  5. And in America....as we are on the slang topic... on Pranksters Post Giant Windows Logo On Hamburg Apple Store · · Score: 1

    Cunt is not an appropriate word to use...but the AC using "faggot" to disapprove of someones post....would be considered a cunt most certainly in the UK. Thoughts?

  6. Depends on thecore values you wish to impart... on Ask Slashdot: Good Homeschool Curriculum For CS?? · · Score: 1

    Some examples:
    Christian Fundamentalist
    CS-323 - Building Algorithms with Bible Verse
    Students will learn how the bible guides all decision making using advanced flow charting methodologies and the New Idea Bible.

    Libertarian Para-Military
    CS-400 Applied Advanced Programming Students will utilize various programming languages to write programs in cryptography and working with munitions students in artillery and rocket trajectory feild computations.

    Environmental Extremist
    CS-410 Advanced Communications Programming
    Students will learn to intercept, decrypt maritime whaling vessel broadcasts and to automate triangulation of fleet positions utilizing a botnet of android telephones.

    Polygamous Patriarchal Cult
    CS-330 - Family Network Security
    Students will learn how to secure a family unit network from outside intrusion and methodologies to destroy all knowledge of security access after turning over the encryptions keys and passwords to the Father.

    Dominant Patriarchal Schizophrenia

    CS-101 Skin Bug Eradication
    Students will cover various methodologies of destroying skin bug infections emanating from INTERNET connected computers.

    Obviously the curriculum is vastly different for each...

  7. Re:Time Is An Illusion on The Importance of Lunch · · Score: 1

    I agree....key is to control the illusion...I make lunch last at least 7 hours out of the work day...sometimes longer, though, I'm not really sure how long exactly...hard to quantify an illusion you know.

  8. When conservatives felt they could bad mouth me... on The Importance of Lunch · · Score: 1

    while I ate lunch with them...I stopped. That was about the time the Iraq war started. IT in Wisconsin went right with the rest of folks and everyday it became a diatribe against "liberals", "taxes" and "guns"...they did it just to drive me away from eating lunch with them. It worked. I have eaten at my desk ever since. I wanted to crack jokes and talk about technology and goofy junk....they wanted to tell me what was wrong with people like me and how we were ruining the country. nice.

  9. If you have 10,000 salesman... on Bees Beat Machines At 'Traveling Salesman' Problem · · Score: 1

    All going to the same places and adding a few in between as they went...then meeting other salesman on the route and each exchange new locations....by the time all the salesman return to the home office all new data would be synced at the bar over stingers.

  10. Peril Sensitive Glasses Now a reality... on Erasing Objects From Video In Real Time · · Score: 1

    Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses.

  11. Re:how many of you sages live in rural areas??? on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    Most people who live in rural areas work in and around agriculture and businesses that support that industry. I grew up in a totally rural state. People did not choose to live there to avoid paying for services....those that did lived in trailer houses with tin foil lined interiors at the ends of two track roads with no electricity....they were CRAAAAZZZZIEESSS...

  12. "save script" option... on Take This GUI and Shove It · · Score: 1

    AIX's SMIT was pretty cool back in the day. You could do most things via a GUI but save your commands to use in shell scripts to automate routine tasks outside of the GUI. MS-SQL DBA admin tools as well as Oracle Enterprise Manager all give the ability to generate scripts of GUI action....

  13. Mac-Mini with XBMC....no brainer. on Video Appliance For a Large Library On a Network? · · Score: 1

    I can't believe no one said this already. I use my notebook from time to time when the D-Link Media player I have won't play some format.

  14. Yes. DBA's are no longer needed... on Should Developers Have Access To Production? · · Score: 1

    All we do is run scripts and get in the way of developers trying to "git'r done!".

  15. hotties can hoax... on Girl Quits On Dry Erase Board a Hoax · · Score: 1

    grumpy admins... nnnnot so much...

  16. new meaning for... on Volkswagen Creates Sewage-Powered Beetle · · Score: 1

    bowel movement.

  17. Soon to be forgotten... on The End of Forgetting · · Score: 1

    Fogetfullness...

  18. Re:So, *will* it be missed? on Last Roll of Kodachrome Processed · · Score: 1

    My OM-1 is in my camera bag...meter still works. I shot a couple rolls five years ago. I got it for Graduation in 1980. Great camera. It helped me through school, slide presentation for ornithology field study I did. It got me jobs. PictureMan, Sports writer, photographer, dark room tech at a county weekly and PR work for a big mountain bike race... I shot kodachrome long ago and loved it. It was all good. Now I snap with a iphone, Hipstamatic and Owle Bubo...and have no photo albums anymore...no slide shows...just a facebook of irreverent pictures from a disillusioned middle aged thing. I will miss Kodachrome. Sort of like I miss loved ones that have passed away. Fond memories...and then move on.

  19. Re:reply on "David After Dentist" Made $150k For Family · · Score: 1

    Is this going to be forever?

  20. The Starbucks inside the McDonalds.... on Starbucks Frees Wi-Fi · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Inside the WalMart...Now has free WiFi...??

  21. Re:color? on Hands-On Demo Shows Asus E-Reader Tablet In Action · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Without color this device simply will not attract the "note takers"..." who is the biggest market segment of "note takers" who adopt new devices quickly?

    College students. Ever seen a young person react to monochrome display...?? "Yucky" pretty much sums it up.

    I think it is important to realize that tablet devices are going move quickly beyond the static brick...flexible displays will allow a thin device that has all the characteristics and user experience of a magazine with moving pictures and internet access. Text books, magazines, video, personal apps, media...will all converge...onto one device. Even note taking...

    Why would anyone make a device that dumps itself into a tiny niche market?? The real driving factor that people seem to miss is content. What kind of content does a person want monochrome displays for? Mass Media market content is in color. Digital content cannot be free any longer and the publisher's are all lining up to make sure of it. Mark these words:

    Publisher's are working very hard to reduce the largest expense they have....an expense that drives advertising costs sky high. Printing and paper. Drastically reduce those two things and make money distributing content to mobile multi-function devices...is where publisher's are all going.

  22. color? on Hands-On Demo Shows Asus E-Reader Tablet In Action · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Not interested in gray scale.

  23. Oahe Dam in South Dakota over 9000 ft. wide... on Beaver Dam Visible From Space · · Score: 1

    Considered the worlds largest earthen dam.

  24. Faux News Errors....Hoover NOT widest dam on Beaver Dam Visible From Space · · Score: 1

    Not By a long shot...Oahe Dam in South Dakota on the Missouri River is over 9000 ft wide. hoover a mere 1244

  25. Tell that to the dude.... on The iPad As In-Car Entertainment System Killer · · Score: 1

    With the 42" flat panel in the backseat of his candy apple red Cutlass with the 21" spinners and 2000 watt subwoofer....crazy thing plays music videos going down the street...and crumbles buildings as it goes by...lol