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Comment Reminds me of a Steve Martin line... (Score 1) 535

Hannah Stubbs: The books...
Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli: You have something against books?
Hannah Stubbs: I have nothing against books! I am curious about the books in your trunk.
Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli: You see, I was thinking of writing my story, so I bought this one on how to do it.
Hannah Stubbs: Why do you need 25 copies of it?
Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli: In case I want to read it more than once...

Comment Re:Perl - the COBOL of scripting languages (Score 5, Insightful) 187

All I'll say to that is that the entire computing world does not revolve around websites... or programming certification mills. =] Perl is the duct tape that holds the networked world together... and it's not dying any more than actual duct tape is. It's a refined tool used by professionals to do the jobs that have always needed done in a minimum of time and that don't cater to the latest buzz word laden development methodology.

Comment Re:Perl - the COBOL of scripting languages (Score 4, Insightful) 187

Excellent troll... really first rate. Did you get federal funding from the Ministry of Trolling for that gem? I've been working professionally in unix/linux environments for about 12 years and believe me perl is still quite alive and well doing real work in lots of different kinds of companies. Php is somewhat painful to code in by comparison but both have their place. Except for java.. it has no sane place but you still find it in use everywhere which just goes to show anything can succeed in this world with enough marketing dollars behind it.

Comment Re:Better not use WEP either. (Score 2) 964

Of course, if you limit the MAC addresses of computers that your router will offer addresses to, it doesn't REALLY matter what kind of password you put on your network. This is a very simple and secure method,

Not true... The people who can crack your wep key can also wirelessly sniff your network and spoof a legit mac address. That part of the network conversation isn't encrypted.

Comment Re:Kidney shortage (Score 1) 147

As I understand it... it's not up to you. The medical system has standards for such things and they won't accept an organ from a person after they are so old because of a much higher risk of the transplant failing.

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