Slashdot deals is at least as valuable to me as Amazon and e-bay. In fact it has a few added benefits of only display things of relative geekiness that might interest me, rather than Amazon who tend to display every related item i might have ever clicked on in the last 5 years. Also Slashdot deals will show you prices that guarantee you can buy the same item somewhere else for 20% less.
Neither do i disable advertising. Flooding the internet with my inane preference tracking cookies to be stored and backed up on hundreds of servers is the surest way to overwhelm the probabilistic failure rate of raid 6 and force manufactures back to offering 5 year warranties standard. - C'mon people, help keep Slashdot free - Clickit!

There are some things even an irrevocable bad karma cannot endure. Perhaps Leonard can invoke some Systemd magic?

I suppose that once you allow scientists to stand trial for their inability to predict earthquakes, the slippery slope logic kicks in. It seems witches have legal status as do witch hunts.
Since this occurred in Canaduh, can we conclude that no animals were harmed in the fictional display of logic?

The real breakthrough in the design was removing the requirement to hit the ANY key to continue.
Also took a while for the lawyers to agree about the "Are you sure?"

If the intent is to avoid false readings wouldn't it make sense *NOT* to put this thing next to a nuclear reactor?

It's just you.

Well, it got me for sure. I even thought of a few outrageous arguments to fuel the flames. But I gotta go eat dinner and this whole thing really on the lame side. So maybe I'll move on to something else.

True, but Evangelicals, like Roman Catholics do believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is God, was sacrificed, and rose from the dead.
So, using obscure, unknowable minor points to discredit the major tenets of faith becomes rather comical to watch over and over again. So, I say a "religious worldview" is kind of self defeating to begin with. Philosophy is a walk on the slippery rocks, but it's better than drowning in an ocean of statistical data.

Learning to accept the things you will not change because of laziness and stupidity is an important lesson that the previous generation has passed on. Leadership by example at its finest.

Unfortunately their teachers never have any experience other than spending their entire lives in liberal school, so don't expect the grinder to produce anything but chop meat.
Seriously, programmers need to learn math.

Microsoft never developed the integrated "on error - SHIP IT" compiler options.

Just because you spent hundreds of billions on rickety architecture doesn't mean we have to use it. To paraphrase Richard Nixon - "My DNS server entries mean whatever I choose them to mean" in fact, the whole .gov and .mil arena can be routed to goat.se in minutes and there is nothing you can do to stop it.
In other words, the internet exists by the consent of the governed. It's our internet, and we'll do as we please.

A good disaster recovery plan gives executives something to discuss with the managers while the techs execute the drill. Of course the nonsense mentioned in the summary was written by an exec.
Write yours first and you will avoid a lot of pain. Seriously, doesn't everyone have contingency plans?

I mean, there are some things even Fascist, over reaching, bureaucracies wont stoop to.

It's not your fault, the insinuations of my statement cover philosophy where even I fear to tread. So no, I don't intend to punish anyone. Rather, I simply can't stomach a plus 5 insightful mod from a stooge whose knowledge of the subject matter stopped accumulating at the age of 14. Of course the consensus of the Slashmob results in -1 for me -fuckem.
Perhaps for my next rant we can debate why even the Catholic church no longer murders heretics, while many governments of the world kill regularly despite their holy documents holding the right to life inalienable. Besides, it's clear to me the parent doesn't mean to TAX the church, He means simply to seize its accumulated wealth which was acquired by the consent of its governed.
Finally, I had asked people to compare the young earthers to welfare hood rats. As you can see the responders knee jerked response was predictable, leading me to believe that if you know a lot of stupid people, perhaps there is a reason for that as well.