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Comment Re:marketshare (Score 2, Informative) 343

That looks like Malware. Stuff that people install voluntarily because of social engineering.

I could put:
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#!/bin/bash
sudo rm -rf /
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I remember reading that it's better practice to write that

sudo rm / -rf

since putting your switches at the end (especially on rm) makes it easier to catch stupid mistakes (like hitting return early).

Not that in your case it's a huge deal.

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Large Hadron Collider Scientist Arrested For al-Qaeda Ties 245

mindbrane writes "A scientist working as a subcontractor on a peripheral LHC project has been arrested as a terrorist. The CBC is running a story outlining the arrest of a man on Thursday in south-east France for suspected al-Qaeda links: 'CERN officials said the man, whose name has not been revealed, was working under contract with an outside institute and said he had no contact with anything that could have been used for terrorism. He had been at CERN since 2003, officials said. ... The news that someone with terrorist connections might have worked at the facility is likely to cause concern because of both the high profile of the giant physics experiment and also the technology in use, which has made some members of the public nervous.'"

Comment Re:We are our own problem. (Score 2, Insightful) 757

If it's too easy, it's not worth doing.

The is a reason why some good software is difficult to use, you have to learn it. You will learn it, because it's worth it.

For an simple example see clicking vs. keyboarding; if you know your keyboard shortcuts you can do a lot of things a lot more quickly. It takes a time investment that a lot of (l)users are not willing to give, but it'll pay off soon enough.

It's a good thing you can't just sit down and work productively with 3dsMax, or emacs, or C, if you could they wouldn't be as good as they are.

Comment Re:Hadoop (Score 1) 53

The day "caffeine" becomes a word that is objectionable to a non-trivial chunk of my customer base is the day I know the PC crazies have won.

It's not just PCs! Have you never seen a Mac-head with a latte?

(I object to the term PC for a computer, it's mostly misleading)

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