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  1. Heh, I started as an Operator on One-a-Day-Compiles: Good Enough For Government Work In 1983 · · Score: 1

    When I moved into programming, I was allowed into the datacenter after 5PM after bosses and coworkers were no longer around to complain and could submit my own decks and retreive my own reports. Two finger keypunching the code revisions was also de rigeur. I sure miss the steel forms ruler I was given after helping out after hours one night. Thankfully I still have my Green card (it is yellow) carefully re-inforeced with scotch tape (this was before duct tape became wildly popular amongst the geek set). Eye reading assembly from SOC7 hex dumps, good times, good times. Also used PANVALET on 3270 terminals to code and had to enter changes from the bottom up or the system would get confused about line numbers after an insert/delete and did horrible things to the cardfile. Still make changes bottom up to this day, once bitten twice shy.

  2. Re:Could they.... on US and UK Governments Advise Avoiding Internet Explorer Until Bug Fixed · · Score: 2

    Couldn't they have just said "Don't use Microsoft Products, anytime, anywhere, ever?" That's so much easier.

    FTFY

  3. Re:Pseudoscience? on Australian Exploration Company Believes It May Have Found MH370 Wreckage · · Score: 1

    you left out inverting the power feed to the deflector dish

  4. Re:What an Ass, a troll got em by the short hairs on Peoria Mayor Sends Police To Track Down Twitter Parodist · · Score: 2

    So a "true" impersonation of a public official would be allowed? Does it require poorly applied makup, a badly tailored suit and accepting bribes from local busnessmen?

  5. Re:Is it even legal for a judge to sign a warrant. on Peoria Mayor Sends Police To Track Down Twitter Parodist · · Score: 1

    I imagine the "site" would be a bar, jawboning with his buddies.

  6. Re:In Communist America on Peoria Mayor Sends Police To Track Down Twitter Parodist · · Score: 1

    Sam Adams aint a particularly bad beer, certainly nor one deserving of a scathing article. Now if you want to bad mouth Pabst Blue Ribbon ...

  7. Re:Just on Plant Breeders Release 'Open Source Seeds' · · Score: 1

    Is that a GM (gentoo modified) hard kernel?

  8. Re:Oh boy, a deluge of misrepresentation on IRS Misses XP Deadline, Pays Microsoft Millions For Patches · · Score: 1

    Anybody with physical access to a machine, essentially has absolute power over it. and how many employees can resist thesdirens call of dancing bunnies and weatherbug?

  9. Re:see where your taxes go on IRS Misses XP Deadline, Pays Microsoft Millions For Patches · · Score: 1

    I dont think there is much R&D done at the infernal Revenue. Isolate the XP machines to a quarrantine VLAN and lock the switch port to the MAC address. Not that I think that an IT staff that dug this hole is competent to ameliorate the consequences. I doubt they can even SPELL Network Access Control let alone deploy it.

  10. Cavity searches for the IRS on IRS Misses XP Deadline, Pays Microsoft Millions For Patches · · Score: 2

    Seems only fair given how they treat the average citizen (i,e. non-politicians, non-moguls)

  11. Re:Noise, noise, noise! on The Connected Home's Battle of the Bulbs · · Score: 1

    adblock plus custom entry "http://slashdot.org/*.mp3*"

  12. Re:So far away on The 3D Economy — What Happens When Everyone Prints Their Own Shoes? · · Score: 1

    So THAT'S where the horrible smell is coming from, I shuda paid more attention to the cheeto crumbs in the tire treads.

  13. Re:hhvm on Facebook To Begin Deploying Btrfs · · Score: 1

    http://hhvm.com/ from TFSite "an open-source virtual machine designed for executing programs written in Hack and PHP. HHVM uses a just-in-time (JIT) compilation approach to achieve superior performance while maintaining the development flexibility that PHP provides."

  14. Re:Orange alert?! on Face Masks Provide Chinese With False Hope Against Pollution · · Score: 1

    > you can cave it into the air
    Stalagmites are optional

  15. Re:Slashdot, vous êtes en violation on Quebec Language Police Target Store Owner's Facebook Page · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    TS;DR (Too Stupid; Didnt Read) How would one say "Sit on it and rotate, hoser" in Quebec-ese?

  16. Re:List of WP8 security and privacy fails on Lumia Phones Leaking Private Data To Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Windows phone 8 is designed to violate your privacy at every turn while locking you into their curated app store.

    How well is their cancer cure rated?
    Can I still work on the C-123 I bought at a Military surplus auction and stay healthy?

  17. Re:WTF #28 on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 1

    Sorry no mod points, excellent John Ringo Paladin series quote.

  18. Re:conduit in anticipation on New Home Automation? · · Score: 1

    neighbors are almost always idiiots regardless of the number/agehealth of their offspring or their usage of FCC certified products.

  19. Re:NSA has no borders on Canada Quietly Offering Sanctuary To Data From the US · · Score: 1

    the "thought" is that Cisco was being forced to write compromised code...

    far more likely they offered Pakastani pre-comprimised code as an "upgrade" option for 30% off their uneasonable retail price to all government agencies

  20. Re:You Know They'll Roll Over! on Canada Quietly Offering Sanctuary To Data From the US · · Score: 1

    Godspeed.

    One has to wonder, would a meth-addicted God be better or worse than the incomptetent one currently holding sway?

  21. Re:Appropriate Supreme Court Quote on Court Rules Against Online Anonymity · · Score: 1, Informative

    Corporations ARE the governent. Welcome to America.

  22. Re:Poor tracking on Real-Time Face Substitution in Javascript · · Score: 1

    Remaining in Mom's basement doesn't seem to an egregiously burdensome pre-requisite.

  23. pogoplug $16 on Backdoor Discovered In Netgear and Linkys Routers · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Emacs is awesome!! on Emacs Needs To Move To GitHub, Says ESR · · Score: 1

    I'm glad you like it, but I don't like key combinations like f-a-n-t-a-s-t-i-c.

    hmmm, what would the actual result of that metakey sequence be?

  25. Re:What's bzr? on Emacs Needs To Move To GitHub, Says ESR · · Score: 1

    260 char path?!?, the 80's called, they want their asinine name limitations back. I lost a years worth of coding history to a backup program that silently truncated fie paths it was supposed to be archiving. If they give such a rats ass about it use a vchar[2048] field. Hopefully it will at least produce a warning that the brain dead field length is too small.