Many of them ARE the thugs working for the NSA. This includes, potentially, some of you slashdotters.

Doh. I type faster than I comprehend what I am reading. Sorry.

You are assuming KitKats are made with good chocolate.

I am a programmer, systems administrator, network admin, backup wrangler, system builder, cable installer, help desk, DBA and phone tech. I lso get to do data entry, order processing, filing, and sometimes I take out the trash. I am 'The Computer Guy' at our company. There are many of us out here. We want to do the right things, but cannot focus on any one thing long enough to get it sorted.

Some of us slashdotters DID code this. Very likely. And likely knowing full-well what they were doing.

So these drones are the ones on the lookout for enormous star-goats?

Valar Morghulis
/Valar Doheris

LinkedIn has always seemed shady to me. I joined a few years ago, and got inundated with requests from people who seemed to do nothing with their time but offer to show me how to accumulate linked-in followers. My ex and I were simultaneously suggested to each other as contacts, probably because we still share some friends in common. Neither of us requested anything. I think the whole thing is just another social-media wank-fest, like twitter or google+.

No, you just weren't funny. /not from Kansas //really

If I only had Mod points for you. /well-done

As a life-long citizen of Illinois, I've reached the point of saturation with the asshattery that goes on in Springfield and the true ruling city of the state, Chicago. This kind of thing simply doesn't register any attention anymore. We are numb, beaten into submission.

It's pretty simple: You will not be allowed to fly in any area where the government is flying a drone. Say good bye to whatever is left of civil aviation.

Fortran?! No. CP/M is written in 8080 Assembly code. Later versions took advantage of Z80 op-codes.

Portable hard drives and thumbdrives are often a much better option for transferring large numbers of large files than networks, even very fast ones.