I vote for Moving to the burbs!!! I fucking hate to have to haul my ass in a stinking subway to a big fucking polluted city full of people every day.

Why do we all have to cram ourselves in office towers when at the same time guys in fucking Bangalore can work on the same systems as us?

Why not create smaller satellite offices all over the country and go to the nearest?

So... it's clouds all the way up?

Well, I'm sure Obama will gladly accept an informed opinion from a guy named DickBreath... :-p

There's plenty of trash on Slashdot these days, but it's refreshing to read a solid, well written and informative comment like yours.

Thanks.

And then you're exposed to Radon. Not much better.

Or you do like any other civilized country (you know, those who have free healthcare) and you do transactions with a chip card.

Then you must have a pinpad attached to the cash register that communicates with the chip, validates the PIN, and encrypt the transaction before sending it to the cash register attached to it.

The pinpad is owned and controlled by the acquiring company and/or the bank offering the acquiring services, the store can't do anything with it.

That way the general purpose computer masquerading as a cash register can't even log the credit card number because everything is encrypted.

You're right, and I find that quite strange.

Maybe some legislators need an update on the laws of physics, and the facts that they apply to all the car and not just the front seats.

colon? I meant the period!

Sorry for my poor english.

The colon is no longer used, we only put one at the end of each paragraph (procedure).

Parsing XML in COBOL is very easy. You use the XML PARSE command in a loop. Each time the parser finds an XML tag it return control to your program, giving you the tag name, attribute(s) and value. You process it, then call the parser again until the end of the document.

Likewise, generating a complex XML document in COBOL is done by defining the hirarchical structure in a copybook, assigning values, and then calling a single command: XML GENERATE.

It's very easy, and very fast.

Real programmers use KB, not those puny little KiB!

Yes, practical stunts with real cars are cool, but a lot of the action scenes are sped up, and I find that really awful. It's very noticeable and distracting in this movie.

Every time they use this trick it looks like a Buster Keaton scene.

Then clearly the trucks should either:

a) have a lower speed limit than cars
b) have a much smaller cargo weigh limit

But no, I'm sure that as we speak trucking companies are lobying for increased length and weight limits for their trucks (because money!!!) Fuck safety!

Well, I believe that there really was a guy named Jesus who made a lot of fuss a couple of thousands of years ago, he's a real historical figure.

Am I covered now? I'll have eternal life? Please?

Next question?

Hate? Where is the hate in my post?

I said that parents brainwash their children with their religion, is that not so? Where is the choice for that children?

How can HE chose what to believe when his figure of authority (his parents) impose their views on him at an age where he can't form his own opinion?

Personnaly I don't impose anything on my own kids. I answer frankly to any question they ask me, but they'll have to decide what they believe themselves.

I'm mostly atheist, was agnostic for a good part of my life, but these days I'm of the opinion that the idea of a supreme being makes no sense. And if we're in a simulation (a distinct possibility), I would not call the creator of this simulation god, he's just a sentient being probably way out of our understanding, but he's not a god.