Don't use random hot spots. It's like safe sex, only for your computer. Stay away from sketchy connections.

I see the mods are still not bothering to read the moderation guidelines after all these years.
I think it's time for some *real* flamebait - /. jumped the shark when Rob left. I think it's time I take the hint and bail myself.

I have played with touchscreens, but give me a solid feeling keyboard with LOTS of space any day. I'm still using my Model M from 1995, and got 2 spares for it now, in case it ever wears out.

Sadly true. Most people don't even know the default port for SSH, SMTP or even freaking HTTP! How are you supposed to manage servers if you don't even know your default ports?
Or even the commands to FIND what's listening?

Only if it got the Beltway too - otherwise, well, it could go both ways.

Yes, it's actually really common.
I started looking into myself recently, since it's basically like a tweaky syntax of Perl (to me, anyhow) but with a simpler web output.
Still seems pretty lame though.

Then it's unlikely to be subpoena'd, isn't it?

No, I think I'd rather get an extra ticket or two than deal with a case like the most recent one, with an officer shouting "stop trying to take my weapon" while I'm cuffed facedown on the ground.

Yet another Obama crony with a very loose grasp on the law.

What is cool? Programming isn't cool. Programmers aren't cool. Being a guitar player in a great band is probably cool. Being a chick magnet might be cool. When has being a Java dev gotten anybody laid?

The only people who care about how "cool" a language is are posers. A professional developer is going to choose the tool that is going to let him/her build what he/she wants with the least fuss. For a lot of today's applications, that tool may well be Java.

What's uncool is a skill that won't get you a job. Java can get you a job, help you buy a car, a house, live your life.

Or just drive the damn car.

I swear, I'm SO sick of this driverless car crap. I don't want one, I don't want to share roads with one, I don't want to even see them.
It's bad enough dealing with humans, the last thing I want is this.

We HAVE a way to get around without you having to drive. It's called public transportation. Get on a damn bus, taxi, or train.

I was expecting a troll - got a hilarious troll-tolling site instead. Very nice :)

I gotta agree. I mean, we know that they just made a sphere and mapped the photos onto it as a texture, but I would have preferred them to use either no star map or whatever was visible in the real photos.

NASA doing crappy CGI just makes it harder to convince people of the real stuff.

Yup, same here. I never *chose* to be a programmer, I wanted to work on AI/robotics. It just sorta happened, and I got out of that field *fast*.

IT in general - just - kids, don't do it. When you do good work, they want to lay you off or outsource you. When you screw up, everyone hates you.

My kids saw my work and decided to go into autos and welding. Says it all right there.

Yup, that's exactly what I was referring to. The paper white is actually quite nice.