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Comment Re:You keep using that word (Score 1) 479

Note to the press: "Hackers" doesn't mean what you think is means.

As much as I hate it. I think it is time to surrender the word hacker to the criminals. That is what it means to most of the populus, and changing that many minds is probably impossible. It is time to come up with a new word to describe those of us who like to experiment, and find alternate uses for things.

I throw out experimenter, as one possibility... Discuss.

Comment Dead to me (Score 1) 860

For me it was a needed reboot that killed it. I had been installing and configuring the system. Only mildly annoyed by the changes, and trying hard to keep an open mind. When I found that a change I had made didn't really seem to be taking effect. So I thought reboot.
Where the hell is the reboot?
Can anyone find the reboot command?
How about a shutdown command?
What the hell have they done? I can't shutdown or Reboot?
Google to the rescue.

Sorry, but if I have to google to figure out how to shut a system down the system is broken beyond repair.
The machine was for multiple remote users testing on a number of VMs. I could just imagine the hell that awaite me trying to teach endusers to log out cleanly. I ended up putting a logout script on the desktop of every user, and telling them that they would horribly break the system if they didn't use it EVERY SINGLE TIME!!!

Comment Re:Oh NRC... get your crap together (Score 4, Insightful) 135

The problem is that they don't want to allow any new reactors to be built. Also if the existing reactors are shutdown they all end up out of work.
The best solution, as far as any employee of the NRC is concerned, is extend the existing reactors life.

For the record, I am pro Nuclear power.
But I am also cynical as hell.

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