If you were a Christian, you would have to blame God, not Isaac Newton. After all, to believers, it would be God who caused Isaac Newton to be born on Christmas day.

Christians often have problems blaming the wrong person for God's works. For example, blaming Galileo for the heliocentric solar system that God made. How dare God refuse to follow the doctrines of the Medieval church? Galileo did not make the planets orbit the sun, he merely observed it and described it. Or blaming Darwin for evolving all the species of the Earth through the process of natural selection. Darwin did not create all those different animals through the process of evolution, he merely observed it and described it. How dare God ignore the doctrine and belief of fundamentalist Christians?

As a christian, I was in no way offended when I saw the post last week. I thought it was a nice reminder.

Not disagreeing with you over all, but the pull out of troops from Iraq was exactly on the schedule set by the Bush administration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_of_U.S._troops_from_Iraq)

Obama was pretty much locked in to keeping the troops there that long by the departing Bush admin. Obama would have had to re-negotiate the agreement with all the partners to keep the troops longer or to remove them prematurely. And negotiating things is like hard and stuff so you know the Dems weren't going to go there.

Both administrations have pretty much proven that we should have never set foot in Iraq after 9/11. Because we did, we will have to deal with the mess we created (and its consequences) for the next few decades.

Don't store them anywhere.

Just publish them. Never wait. Never hold them back.

There is no longer any benefit or protection afforded by not publishing. If you are accused of having anything, you are already guilty in the eyes of the security police.

Just publish and hope someone, somewhere cares about it.

Cobol had an ANSI standard object oriented implementation before C++ did. C++ was born as an object oriented language, but took a long time to publish an ANSI standard version. This does matter for certain industries who care about support and stability. That is part of the reason why banking, insurance and manufacturing industries still use 'dead' languages like COBOL and C so much more than other languages.

vim! You are a reformed apostate!

How dare you split from the true path of vi? You might as well join be working for the forces of E.

No, following the negative miracle is the correct order. The person whom the negative miracle was inflicted on is merely praying for the intercession of the divine being to stop the causing negative miracles. Literally, they are praying to God, asking God to 'dam' the flow of negative miracles.

So it is not cursing at all unless saying 'Hoover Dam' has become a curse.

Of course, many non-believers use a similar curse phrase that nay lead to confusion. The just and enlightened believers are merely praying for and end to the flood of negative miracles.

They should really be wondering what sins they have committed that lead to divine wrath being brought down upon them, and begin wallowing in guilt, powerless to act.

posting to undo a bad moderation

Exactly! Without viewing the diffs, how would you know which config to choose? I don't want updates overwriting any of my custom configs. Then you have to spend time setting things back the way you want. By showing the diffs, you get to chosse to keep your config pr let the update re-set it.

AT&T has already been given Billions of dollars in tax incentives to deliver fiber optic cable based internet to your house.

According to the incentive plans these high speed internet connections should already be installed and functioning for pretty much every American at speeds averaging 45 Mbps upload and download. Every American taxpayer, that is not a provider of internet infrastructure, has taken on the burden of $2000.00 more in taxes in order to offset the incentives gives to AT&T and the baby bells.

Do you have your low cost, high speed fiber yet?

Wow! whoever is moderating needs a sense of humor overhall. This is considered trolling?

[conspiracy theory]

It's probably an easy way to connect email with phone numbers to help email message to phone message matching algorithms at the NSA.

[/conspiracy theory]

Also the 'T' word: Terrorism.

The point of the torure and the extra judicial imprisonment beyond the norms of warfare is to spread terror and fear in those who are perceived as enemies. In other words, State Sponsored Terrorism.

It does not keep anyone safe. It creates and breeds more hatred and desire for revenge. It isolates the US from allies. It does the exact opposite of ending terroism. Torture is like throwing gasoline on the bonfire of terrorism.

Its like the Republic party, except Republics like elephants I think.

It does always sound like the person speaking has some kind of learning diasability when I hear the term 'democrat party' spoken. It could just be that english is not the speaker's first language.

@plover...

In the Bible, Christ preaches that his followers should pay their taxes. You know 'Render unto Rome what is Rome's...". I believe that fundamentalist christian churches should volutarily be paying taxes, even if the law does not require it.

After all the bible tells them to do it!

Age of the code and the level of patches are two different things

Older code has had more time for vulnerabilities to be found and patched.

Newer code is, well, newer and has had less time for vulnerabilities to be patched.

In general if you want to maximise vulnerability, run the oldest code, but apply no patches. The next most vulnerable general case would be to run the newest code because you are playing with untested fire and risking zero day exploits.

In production systems it is usually best to run code that is old enough to be stable, well tested and well patched.

There are counter examples when a long unknown exploit is discoverd, but the same kind of exploits could live in brand new code as well. However new code could contain some really simple exploits that will be patched pretty quickly. You don't want your production system to be the system opening up the tickets with support that find the exploit is the root cause. Because that means you've got to explain to your customers why their credit card numbers have all been stolen.