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  1. Cp-dependent variables? on What's Your College Major Worth? · · Score: 1

    Aren't co-dependent variables the kind that go on daytime TV shows?

  2. Re:Linux 300 on Linus Renames 2.6.40 Kernel To Linux 3.0, Announces Release Candidate · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that be Spartans, prepare for twelve-year old boys!

  3. Re:Next we will all be required to be chipped on Mandatory Automotive Black Boxes May Be On the Way · · Score: 1

    Zoloto never mentioned installing devices in cars but merely spoke of obeying traffic laws.

  4. Re:Not where I work... on Why IT Needs To Change for Gen Z · · Score: 1

    You're kidding, right? Why don't I ask Gisele Bundchen to drop Tom Brady and give me a try?

  5. Re:Why Gen Z Needs To Change for Work on Why IT Needs To Change for Gen Z · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he's an Arthur C. Clarke fan!

  6. Re:That's exactly what I'm saying. on Why IT Needs To Change for Gen Z · · Score: 1

    Darn right it won't be the IT person.

  7. Re:Not where I work... on Why IT Needs To Change for Gen Z · · Score: 1

    I don't do Facebook, but I do use LaTeX. I can then use dvipdfm to convert the results to pdf, and then transfer that to a work machine for printing.

  8. Re:Not where I work... on Why IT Needs To Change for Gen Z · · Score: 1

    Our corporate machines don't have LaTeX. As a math instructor, I like LaTeX.

  9. Re:WHy are you majoring in GCCCS... on Professor Questions Sink-Or-Swim Intro To CS Courses · · Score: 1

    Yeah, why not just download gcc?

  10. Re:really? on Amazon Servers Used In Sony Playstation Hack · · Score: 1

    This occurred at a Safeway.

  11. Re:really? on Amazon Servers Used In Sony Playstation Hack · · Score: 1

    And the cloud services were paid for with a Visa gift card that was bought with cash.

    The last time I purchased a Visa gift card with cash, I had to show ID.

  12. Re:My... My... My... on Disney Seeks Trademark On 'Seal Team 6' · · Score: 1

    Why would a mouse own a cat? :-)

  13. Re:some Computer Science class are a poor fit for on Western Washington Univ. Considers Cutting Computer Science · · Score: 1

    And some math courses are a poor fit for history jobs. Computer science isn't IT.

  14. Re:CS Degree? Are you insane? on Western Washington Univ. Considers Cutting Computer Science · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that plumbing is nonproductive? The GP might not be discussing the price of legal services, but their value.

  15. Re:If you steal a laptop on O'Reilly Author's Laptop Rescued By 'Twitter Posse' and Prey · · Score: 1

    How does NTFS per file encryption work if I boot the disk in a Linux box?

  16. Obligatory Knuth on Algorithm Glitch Voids Outcome of US Green Card Lottery · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random The Art of Computer Programming, Vol 2 (emphasis in original)

  17. All together now . . . on Dutch Provider KPN Under Fire Over DPI · · Score: 1

    Commenting before you RTFA should be illegal.

    You must be new here, and now just because you have a seven-digit ID.

  18. Re:And this is a surprise? on Win 7's Malware Infection Rate Climbs, XP's Falls · · Score: 1

    Pandering to stupidity is not a solution.

  19. Re:RTFA on Win 7's Malware Infection Rate Climbs, XP's Falls · · Score: 1

    As opposed to a Malicious Software Fashioning Tool (MSFT)? One would think that Microsoft would be more careful about acronyms.

  20. Re:And this is a surprise? on Win 7's Malware Infection Rate Climbs, XP's Falls · · Score: 1

    We Windows users DO NOT WANT and have no desire for alt tabbing all over the damned place.

    So who has to alt tab? I have a small display of my 12 desktops. I can see which ones are running emacs, firefox, or a terminal.

  21. Re:And this is a surprise? on Win 7's Malware Infection Rate Climbs, XP's Falls · · Score: 1

    But perhaps part of the point is that his parents don't need root access in Ubuntu. Perhaps you should disallow root access for the average Windows user to achieve a fair comparison.

  22. Re:Business 101 on Developer Blames Apple For Ruining eBook Business · · Score: 1

    And what does it cost Apple to allow publishers to sell ebooks for the iPad?

  23. Re:Macs will be a closed platform in the end on Apple To Distribute OS X Lion via the Mac App Store · · Score: 2

    No, he's saying that there are millions of Mac users, and that "saying thousandsis a cheap attack on Apple.

  24. I'm impressed on Startup Wants To Put 64-Cores In Your Smartphone · · Score: 1

    That's a lot of cores for a smart phone.

  25. Tau? on Blue Gene/P Reaches Sixty-Trillionth of Pi Squared · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because it's so hard to calculate 2*pi given pi (to how ever ma).y decimal places.