Probably. Excuse my slashdotness for not RTFA. But the fact that somebody even suggested it..

Ok, seriously seriously. I ask this honest question: Is a big percentage of American people really stupid and paranoid like that? Students can't bring pencils to schools? What should they bring, then, their PSPs?

Don't allow the TSA extreme measures to force you into extreme measures; don't let them force you into accepting racism *again*

What say you to 6%?
http://www.loonwatch.com/2010/01/not-all-terrorists-are-muslims/
Or perhaps 0.4%?
http://www.loonwatch.com/2010/01/terrorism-in-europe/

What say you to 6%?
http://www.loonwatch.com/2010/01/not-all-terrorists-are-muslims/
Or perhaps 0.4%?
http://www.loonwatch.com/2010/01/terrorism-in-europe/

Yes, we really know that. But there is always room for geek humor.

Well, at least she was nice enough to close the TCP Connection at the end of her statement with a FIN. So to her I say "FIN ACK"

So they're gonna sue the canaries and birds?

The Wheel: It's tired of getting reinvented.

Supercomputers.

You're delusional if you think that's a good solution for a widely-deployed piece of software.

The soldiers are fighting for your freedoms? That's funny; those who are trying to take your freedom live in the US, not Afghanistan.

What, and get back to waiting until it is supported and/or rewriting image tools to accommodate the new type? I've just had the (dis)pleasure of programmatically converting JPEG2000 images to JPEG and bitmaps, and I sure as hell don't want to waste more time writing yet another converter for a type that will be useless 4 months after I finish coding it.
And really, who cares about a wee bit increase in compression rate? Computers are getting faster, networks are getting faster and grander in bandwidth, and deadlines are growing smaller.

His comment is proof enough that he should be nowhere near the controls of this Command Post.

Nerd Wars going global. I don't see any other explanation.