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  1. Re: Blame Canada! on Krebs on Microsoft Suspending "Patch Tuesday" Emails and Blaming Canada · · Score: 1

    On the plus side, though, they did give us Terrence and Phillip.

  2. Re:Best DOS game... on FreeDOS Is 20 Years Old · · Score: 1

    I seem to recall that someone did a FOSS port of KQ IV for Windows.

  3. How often do they commit misconduct? on How Often Do Economists Commit Misconduct? · · Score: 2

    Every time one of them opens his/her mouth.

  4. You'll want either AT&T or T-Mobile. on Ask Slashdot: SIM-Card Solutions In North America? · · Score: 5, Informative

    T-Mobile has a pay-as-you go SIM. I think AT&T does, too.

    T-Mobile's is cheaper, but they have coverage issues (may not be a problem, depending on where you go).

    See also this story.

  5. Re:Uh, sure.. on Ask Slashdot: Correlation Between Text Editor and Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    The main problem I have with Eclipse is its insistence on putting absolute paths into .project and .cproject files.

    Makes it difficult to clone a project, or have it in source control.

  6. Use of malicious filenames is at least 30 yrs old on Exploiting Wildcards On Linux/Unix · · Score: 3, Funny

    Back in '83, a friend challenged me to remove a file name "-rf *, without causing collateral damage.

  7. Re:Doesn't give warm fuzzies on Hospitals Begin Data-Mining Patients · · Score: 1

    Now that would be great! Kind of like the way that RMS turned copyright against itself with the GPL

  8. Re:We'll be overrun by double-wides! on A Physicist Says He Can Tornado-Proof the Midwest With 1,000-Foot Walls · · Score: 1

    Besides, the trailer parks will spontaneously generate tornadoes, inside the walls.

  9. Re:"an industry luminary" on The Security Industry Is Failing Miserably At Fixing Underlying Dangers · · Score: 4, Informative

    Uh, Gene *IS* an expert. He was one of the first guys to dissect the Morris worm, for example. He's been around from the beginning.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Spafford

    Maybe you should go FIND a fuck to give.

  10. Re:It's all politics on The Revolutionary American Weapons of War That Never Happened · · Score: 3, Informative

    I worked Crusader for a while. I seem to recall that it was designed for Cold War, specifically a REFORGER scenario.

    The collapse of the Warsaw Pact, and specifically the fall of the Soviet Union kind of made it useless, because it was too heavy to fight anywhere else.

  11. The more things change.... on Overeager Compilers Can Open Security Holes In Your Code · · Score: 1
  12. Re:NOOOOOOOO!!!!! on Draper Labs Develops Low Cost Probe To Orbit, Land On Europa For NASA · · Score: 1

    Not in the book. The PC addendum was only for the movie.

    In the book there was no Cold War subplot.

  13. Re:what's the point anymore on Unisys Phasing Out Decades-Old Mainframe Processor For x86 · · Score: 1

    Is Plus a derivative of SPRITE? When I interviewed at Burroughs back in '84, they were all excited about their new language SPRITE.

  14. Re:They come by it naturally.... on The FBI's Jargon List: Internet Acronyms Galore · · Score: 1

    Welll played, hubie. Well played indeed.

  15. Re:The FBI can EKTE my FIENSA and BODPEOW on The FBI's Jargon List: Internet Acronyms Galore · · Score: 1

    Only when I'm bouncing around somewhere....

  16. Re:They come by it naturally.... on The FBI's Jargon List: Internet Acronyms Galore · · Score: 1

    That list is missing "TLA".

  17. Re:Groklaw on Chinese Gov't Reveals Microsoft's Secret List of Android-Killer Patents · · Score: 2

    She didn't shut down because of MOG or any of the SCOundrel's shennanigans.

    PJ shut down because of the NSA. OK, technically, it was because of the Lavabit fiasco.

    She felt that she could no longer offer confidentiality to sources, and shut down to avoid putting them at risk.

  18. Re:Ocean of what on NASA's Horizons Spacecraft To Probe Pluto Moon For Underground Ocean · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, just kuiper mouth shut if you're going to be critical!

  19. Re:Difficult to estimate the age on Why the Moon's New Birthday Means the Earth Is Older Than We Thought · · Score: 2

    Interplanetary News Agency report:

    Today, Terra said, "Those damned paparazzi! How did they find my actual birth certficate!" When questioned, Luna (Terra's long time companion) had no comment.

  20. Re: poorly on How Tim Cook Is Filling Steve Jobs's Shoes · · Score: 1

    Only for devices that could not upgrade to iOS 7 (e.g. iPhone 3 family and earlier). iPhone 4 would not let you get that upgrade.

  21. Re:Stay in the basement! on California Whooping Cough Cases "an Epidemic" · · Score: 1

    WTF do you mean "troll"?

    I actually did have it.

  22. Re: poorly on How Tim Cook Is Filling Steve Jobs's Shoes · · Score: 1

    Updating to iOS7 was the ONLY way to get the SSL/TLS bug fixed, so yeah, it was pretty much forced.

    I know that's the only reason that *I* updated.

  23. Re:Stay in the basement! on California Whooping Cough Cases "an Epidemic" · · Score: 2, Informative

    I actually *had* pertussis back in 2001 (my '60s vintage vaccine wore off). It is horrible, I was coughing to the point of vomiting.

    I hope the anti-vaxxers all get it and drop dead from it.

  24. Re:"Obama has said he welcomes a debate " on US Pushing Local Police To Keep Quiet On Cell-Phone Surveillance Technology · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Obama is a politician. By definition, when he opens his mouth, he's lying.*

    * DISCLAIMER: This also applies to Boehner, Pelosi, Cantor, Reid, McConnell and any other politician.

  25. Re:Let gay men donate on Human Blood Substitute Could Help Meet Donor Blood Shortfall · · Score: 1

    Really? ISTR that the last time I donated, there was a question about taking and/or giving money for sex.