I would suggest that the number of positive responses to the polls that ask "are you going to commit vote fraud this year?" is a statistically-accurate sampling of the actual in-person voter fraud.

--Joe
(0 respondants out of N gave a positive response to a question we didn't ask, which is within the poll's margin of error for the vanishingly small fraction of fraud)

It's a great passtime.

Not to mention you keep up to date with your tetnus shots if you leave the hooks attached.

--Joe

Lawyers (and the court) don't like it when a propspective juror asserts a particular layman's interpretation of legal language, without the expertise and knowledge to include relevant case law and history. They don't like it because it makes it too easy for a party to say "See, Juror X didn't follow the court's instructions on what the law is".

Which is exactly the problem that Samsung has with Mr Hogan's statements on what it takes to be prior art.

But yes, it will keep you out of the jury pool. Alternatively, you could just state that your are in favor of the death penalty for all criminals, including traffic violations.

--Joe

This gravitational attraction is creating the centripetal acceleration that creates a closed orbital loop. There is no centrifugal force, only the intertial tendency to move in a straight line.

--Joe

Too bad IBM isn't sponsoring this research.

I think I still have an IDE drive with Warp on it somewhere around here.

OMG, YOU"RE RITE!!! There's these huge BLACK regions all over the place! Google must be covering up hundreds of thousands of planets. Or maybe that's where the UFOs are.

Or maybe it's just that there's a lot of empty space out there.

--Joe

Yep, do it like auto racing.

There's "street legal" (nothing by-prescription), "stock" (allow some drugs, more or less like today), "top fuel" (Any drugs are allowed), "supermodified" (passive non-drug improvements are allowed. If Tommy Johns surgery makes you a better pitcher, go for it. Want to stretch the webbing between your fingers to swim faster, fine), and "funnycar" (Look, I've cut off my legs and replaced them with carbon-fiber springs. I can run a 2-second 40.)

--Joe

If this had happened inside a closed-source project, we never would have seen these 0xB16B00B5, so this is a good thing. Kidding aside, They might have been noticed in a hex dump by some hackers, but more likely it would have stayed an inside joke among the developer who put the value in, and the other 2 people he told.

But it happened in Linux. Somebody noticed it. And it was very quickly determined exactly WHERE the code had come from, WHO put it there, and WHEN. And it was removed quickly.

Next time a closed-source advocate mentions "you don't know where the open source code is written", point this out. You know more about who wrote this code than you possibly could about any closed-source.

Hmm, I wonder...
# grep \xB1\x6B\x00\xB5 windows.vhd

--Joe

Dangit, couldn't you have waited to post the slashdot article until I had ordered mine?

--Joe

See the big greenish one below you? That's the second biggest source of radiation in your life.

--Joe

C++ is equal to C in the context of the current expression (atom).

Or don't you understand the difference between preincrement and postincrement?

The fact that ++i and i++ can be interchanged in many contexts is an optimizer feature.

int main(void) { int C=11; if (C==C++) printf("They are equal\n"); }

--Joe

Yet another person who doesn't understand antitrust law.

A party that has monopoly power in one market MUST NOT take actions (even in another market) that unfairly sustain that monopoly, or extend that monopoly to other competitive markets.

--Joe

1440 bits could fit on even the oldest flopy disks.

If you don't think that the reason your company doesn't have a development team is important to this question, you're wrong.

You will not get better results by outsourcing development. There are *different* issues with outsourcing. You still have to manage them, define concrete requirements, run independent test/QA, deal with the legal contracts, handle 13.5-hour timezone differences (which makes meetings a royal PITA), etc. I'm not an accountant, but when I add all of those costs up, the $20/hour saved may not be worth it.

Is the company not willing to pay developers properly? MAYBE you'll find cheaper programmers overseas (but see above)

Is the company not wanting to invest in the next product by hiring developers to build it? In that case, you (in IT) would be well-advised to look for a company that will exist a year from now.

--Joe

Name one filesystem that does protect data integrity in memory.

If bytes can't move from the CPU's ALUs to the spinning rust without damage, there is no way to safely store your data.

--Joe