Anything in the name of racism and classism. Right?

You know, it may be the case that the Jews in government do look out for each other, but that doesn't necessarily extend to all Jews; in fact, it's just as likely that all members of the government cover each others' asses equally, Jew or not.

Likewise, gang members looking out for each other doesn't extend to them looking out for members of other gangs. The implication you're making is akin to saying black people can't be racist, or that all white people are.

On one hand, he's mostly correct about the correlation. On the other, he's way off base with regard to causation. Jews aren't bad people, they're just Jews.

Time and time again, posters on Slashdot talk about the 'fictitious' threat of terrorism that government uses as the excuse for encroachments on perceived liberties.

How many people died in terrorist attacks last year? How many died in the hands of various authoritarian regimes?

I think even the most cursory review of history shows which threat deserves more attention.

You, the posters are the reason why an actual coordinated attack within a 'safe' democratic country is news on Slashdot.

We're the reason why coordinated attacks are rare enough to be newsworthy and why rushing in with a gun now counts as a coordinated attack? I think you give us too much credit.

I think they picked the Czar they did for his marketing skills, not his medical skills.

You need a larger C: drive.

Windows doesn't have enough space for your temp directory for the code base you are working on.

Waterfall vs Agile. Waterfall, you get the spec, go and code. Agile you get lucky to code a couple of hours a day, the rest is ALL spec gathering, and then you stay up all night for the sprint right before you submit the code for user acceptance testing.

The current firmware update ships as a bootable ISO. Burn it to a CD/DVD (or a flash drive if you can work it out), hold down "option" at boot, and you'll be looking at a DOS prompt in no time. I verified this two days ago when I misread the firmware version on the website and downloaded an updater for the version I already had.

I remember, back in the early 80s, some friends and I pooled our allowance, bought an Atari joystick, then tried to make an adapter for the 9-pin Apple IIe joystick connector- not realizing the reason the Apple joysticks were so damn expensive was because they were analog.

Not for my last 6 computers have I seen a 9 pin serial port.

The world's biggest Lego Land. Do they sing "Everything is Awesome!" while they work?

Very true. Multiculturalism and pluralism, like urban living, requires liberty and individualism.

The way I usually put it is "limited but strong"./ Limited in topics they can intervene on, strong enough to defend their competency.

True. I'm puzzled that no one has sued the bastard. I doubt there was ever a more blatant case of breach of fiduciary duty.

No. I was explaining, to you, how clicking an icon and typing into the command line are not the same. It's really not my fault you missed that.

No, it's not. Dragging the icon for the image into the icon for the image viewer is exactly the same, in that you're specifying "open this file with that application". Doublie-clicking is most certainly not the same, especially when Windows defaults to "hide known file extenstions" and your malicious application is named "bigboobies.jpg.exe" with an icon that looks like a thumbnail of some boobs. The user sees "bigboobies.jpg", thoughtlessly ignores that no other legitimate images on their system show a file extension, and double clicks it; the malicious application now executes. Hell, if known extensions are hidden, simply naming it bigboobies.exe and giving it a titillating icon would fool 99% of users, even power users.

Here's why:

Typing "image_viewer.exe bigboobies.jpg" would launch image_viewer.exe, which would then tell you the file was not found. Dragging the icon of the "image" to the icon for "image_viewer.exe" or typing "image_viewer.exe bigboobies.jpg.exe", were you not to notice the ".exe" at the end, would launch image_viewer.exe, which would then complain that the file you fed it was not an image. Double-clicking an icon triggers the default action for the file type of the file the icon belongs to; in other words, if it's a sneakily-named executable, it executes it.