The red herrings and ignorance are rampant here today. So according to you, they can only carry "convenience foods", but not nutritional foods. And ignoring that, the majority of the poor live near grocery stores. The majority of the poor live in dense urban centers.

Dense urban centers don't generally have grocery stores. There are converted ice-cream trucks that distribute produce in Detroit, because there is a not a single supermarket chain that has seen fit to open a location in the entire city.

And bodegas carry convenience foods, because Twinkies stay edible a lot longer than fresh fruits and vegetables.

If this keeps up, they might even consider introducing innovations like "maintenance contracts" on their server systems, so you can replace a power supply on a three year old machine without scouring eBay for parts.

Bastards.

If only the company who commissioned this survey happened to sell a bunch of account and identity management tools.... Oh, they do? What luck!

It's almost like shuttling weak students who are afraid of math and science into teacher training programs was a BAD idea.

(Disclaimer: I'm employed by a college with a tremendous population of education majors.)

"Cognitive skills are at a premium, and they are unevenly distributed."

So are physical skills. Which is why there are only a couple hundred guys in the world good enough at catching a football to do it for a living.

Life is unfair and uneven.

I sync Evolution with a Samsung Epix running Windows Mobile 6.5. Works fine, at least with the USB cable - I haven't tried Bluetooth.

I'm running Debian Squeeze.

--saint

Because, of course, all those baby boomers were completely uneducated.

Judging by what a complete goddamned nightmare they're handing off to my generation, I don't really find it difficult to believe.

--saint

According to Marty, when asked about IPv6 support at this year's EDUCAUSE Security conference, Snort will happily inspect IPv6 traffic if you configure the HOME_NET to be an IPv6 network.

There's no explicit option to turn it on, because it shifts from v4 to v6 when the rest of the configuration is set up properly. This subtlety seems to elude people. Well, either that or the guy who initially wrote the software doesn't know how it works.

--saint

Snort is nowhere near dead - it's still used in tons of production environments, especially in higher ed (where we've always got plenty of Unix nerds on hand, and never have any money).

I would imagine Marty's objections probably have something to do with his desire to move people from Snort to the commercial IDS offerings from Sourcefire. That easy upsell doesn't exist if people start off on another product.

--saint

I ride a bike to work, year-round, in sunny Buffalo. Winters aren't bad, just dress appropriately for the temperature and get some studded tires for traction.

--saint

Like many higher education institutions, the college I work for has IT lumped in with the library and reporting to a common vice-president, who reports to the senior academic VP.

It makes things... interesting. While librarians and IT people are both concerned with the information flow within in the college, our technophilia and their technophobia are not often compatible.

--saint

Sheesh, offtopic already? How about if I say "Go Habs!" I hate the Pens, anyway.

--saint

The most amazing thing about the Jersey Devil is how it appears fierce, and then utterly vanishes once they playoffs start.

--saint

Tumours? Does this only work on Canadian cancer patients?

--saint