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  1. Re:Of course they are not in the TechCrunch audien on US CIO/CTO: Idea of Hiring COBOL Coders Laughable · · Score: 2

    I'm 45+, you insensitive clod(s)!

    AFAIK, I've only done COBOL once, for a diesel sequencer IIRC. Most of the rest has been c and c++

  2. Re:Wait, what now? on Free Desktop Software Development Dead In Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    About the same, which is why we *pretend* to be in the USA when we order. See http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/05/26/0411202/australian-it-price-hike-inquiry-kicks-off-submissions-wanted for more.

  3. Re:Wait, what now? on Free Desktop Software Development Dead In Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Or do the cheap and less elegant solution of asking your users to go to Sun and install it (and provide a link). If your user's a corporate, then their COE likely has it already. These days, a lot of home environment's have it. Not quite so brilliant these days, Sun.

  4. Re:Just go to store.apple.com on Ask Slashdot: How To Shop For a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    If she's asking for advice on laptops, chances are she's not that computer literate. Less questions to answer later with a MBP.

  5. Re:I'll counter on Britain Bringing Out 'Sonic Gun' For Olympics Security · · Score: 1

    Will the phaser wielding security guys wear red shirts?

  6. Is that... on The 30 Best Features of Windows · · Score: 1

    You can use it to download Ubuntu.
    You can buy an iMac online with it
    You can buy an ICS phone with it.

    You can safely stop using it now, you've got enough stuff to replace it.

  7. Why does it matter? on Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore · · Score: 1

    People know what they represent, there's no need to alter them to something that they aren't going to know. (Although microsorft do this anyway - hey! its a new version! Lets change everything, and move it)

  8. Re:Makes no sense on Only 22% of California 8th Graders Pass National Science Test · · Score: 1

    That isn't what I said, or even what I implied. I'm not saying that a good memory implies critical thinking, rather that the ability of critical thinking would mean the test would pose no problems for you^H someone who had these abilities.

  9. Re:Makes no sense on Only 22% of California 8th Graders Pass National Science Test · · Score: 1

    tl;dr: If everyone around you is doing good, and you're sinking like a stone... the problem is with you, not everyone else.

    I'd say the problem is that the test scores are rather irrelevant in the way of measuring critical thinking skills.

    If you have critical thinking skills, do you think you'd have any problem acing a test like this?

  10. Re:National Science Tests on Only 22% of California 8th Graders Pass National Science Test · · Score: 1

    Call it the Atlantean Party

  11. Re:Would have gotten a FP except on DDR4 RAM To Hit Devices Next Year · · Score: 1

    And yet, you are asking questions that you could very well test yourself.

  12. Let's evolve a mesh type system... on Government Asks When It Can Shut Down Wireless Communications · · Score: 1

    One that the authorities can't shut down (as easily)

  13. not paper. on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Printing Digital Photos? · · Score: 1

    Keep them on disk, *but* keep backing them up to your latest disk, and make sure the format is something you can still view, and hopefully edit. When that test fails, update the format. Cloud backup might be good for offsite protection.

  14. I thought... on The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent a Box Office Record · · Score: 1

    Looking at this title that it was about a movie called "Pirates".

  15. Re:Rather good outcome on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    Well, they don't dump it direct to bloodstream, but subcutaneously. It would still mean trouble, but you could likely counteract it in time. Glucose tabs + glucagen pen. (I am not a doctor, but am diabetes 2, insulin dependent)

    Reading about pumps, they often communicate with meter wirelessly. Wonder what the airlines say about that?

  16. Re:Murder in the interest of public safety... on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    If only they made insulin pumps to be resistant to this, the way they make planes resistant to mobile phones. Wait, you mean they don't make planes resistant? Damn!

  17. Re:new slogan on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    Kill them all, god will know his own... - Pope something, around the time of the inquisition. And now, we have an inquisition by another name.

  18. Re:what's the difference on End of Windows XP Support Era Signals Beginning of Security Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Seems like you answered the question with Linux. And you turn a computer that ran like a dog into one that runs like a greyhound. :^)

  19. Re:what's the difference on End of Windows XP Support Era Signals Beginning of Security Nightmare · · Score: 1

    A better question is how many users are there on 9.2 compared to XP? Someone else can be your google bitch, I can't be arsed looking it up.

  20. Re:WTF? on UK Man Jailed For 'Offensive Tweets' · · Score: 1

    What did he say, anyway? Parent article didn't say. The medium (twitter) doesn't really matter, except it might affect jurisdiction.

  21. Re:I've seen that movie... on The Pirate Bay Plans Servers In the Sky · · Score: 1

    Who would have thought this post could go so long without being modded flamebait?

    But I admit to liking your sig.

  22. Re:Scrabble on Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language · · Score: 1

    Removal of tongue and hands. Let's see them commit grammatical errors if they cannot speak or write.

  23. Re:Some Advice on Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language · · Score: 1

    If they really cheated, they'd googlebomb[1] something else onto first page of google for a search of their name.

    [1] probably not quite the right term for this, but you get it.

  24. Re:The lesson here isn't about free speech on Man Ordered To Apologize To Wife On Facebook · · Score: 1

    If you do it right, the 'apology' can be a new level of insult - one the judge can't even touch.

  25. Re:Adobe complaining about bloat? on A Rant Against Splash Screens · · Score: 1

    Or don't put data on them you care about. You install applications on them off the corporate network[1], day to day data (source code) from your repository, email is on the Exchange server (or Gmail, or whatever), keep documents on corporate network, or cloud, or Records Management.
    You might want to consider keeping a spare SSD or 3 in the office.
    [1] if there are a few of you with the same, make a COE that suits you exactly.