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I always fly with a giant book that I read prominently during takeoff and landing in the hopes that it will take off someone's head in the event of an emergency and I can point at the episode and say "See??? Electronics has nothing to do with it. Fuck your regulations!"

Yeah, man! Fight the power, hit 'em where it hurts. Accept their email and use your electricity and CPU cycles to process it and pipe it to /dev/null. That'll show 'em!

two points about people who have never had a valet key.

They're oblivious to the fact that a proper valet key can LOCK THE FUCKING SEATS. second there's a switch in the glove box that you lock with a key to turn off the electronic trunk release.

Car designers are smarter than you. And unlike you, the people that valet park at the airport probably aren't borrowing your ex-roommate's little sister's 3rd generation hand-me-down Saturn.

Are you kidding me? Have you seen the size of Nevada? Do you know how far Reno is from the Hoover Dam?? 2 seconds on Google would have shown you that Reno is powered by the natural gas fired Frank A. Tracy Generating Station. Furthermore, Clark County has FIVE nat-gas plants AND a coal burner to power Vegas and friends. The vast majority of Hoover power goes to CA and AZ.

Wait a minute, is this proposed legislation or a review of Neal Stephenson's "REAMDE"?

I'd love to see their faces when you tell half of your programming staff that they get paid less than their immediate peers because they chose to live in a less hip ZIP-code. That doesn't go over well.

This is a troll, right? If you think the government is capable of gathering information from MULTIPLE sources and making heads or tails from it, I have a couple of memorial fountains to sell you in lower Manhattan. Likewise, if you think that that 5 websites would have fewer bugs than one website ... How the hell did you get such a low ID anyway?

Not EMC! Had to deal with them on multiple products at my last job and they were horrible. Their own professional services people would tell us so regularly. Their salesmen consistently lied about product capabilities and management at my company ate it up. Millions of dollars were given to them for what amounts to shelfware and their storage was swapped out for Hitachi because it also didn't live up to the promises. But because they're a "partner company" it was the ops department's job to eat as much shit as EMC could spew at us and like it.

Oh fuck that. Define server. # of CPU cores? My i7 blazes past common SPARC machines which are arguably servers. Listening on a port? Better not use standard FTP because your client will be listening for the server to connect to it! Don't get me started on all the ports that Windows opens up without ever asking.

The differences between consumer and business grade are the speed options and the SLA. You want to run a business off your home line? Go ahead, just don't complain when yours is the last one fixed after some kinda failure.

MIS != CS

they eat each other.

If I give $10 they will spend that same money trying to solicit me for more. It's impossible to get them to stop. They can't spend my time.

Funny you should mention billboards. I was visiting friends in SoCal a few months ago and as we were driving to LA from OC traffic suddenly got really thick, from a steady 70mph to around 40. I looked all over for accidents and on-ramps and anything else that might give a reason for the slowdown. Baffled, I asked my friend, "WTF??!" His answer: "It's the digital billboards, everyone slows down to read them. Just watch, the traffic will clear as soon as we get past them."

I went to Linux World in San Jose in 1999. All the distros were there giving away their CDs for free. Some BSD flavor had a booth (which doesn't make a lot of sense at Linux World to begin with) and they wanted $50 for their CDs. That was enough for me.