If there were one single language to distinguish yourself it might be Swift. it's currenlty apple specific so this will limit your platforms and it's not a sysadmin language. it's an application language. But like perl it is suited for rapid development for small niches like the other languages you know. So you could sell it on a first to market sort of basis that might be consistent with your other skills. The advantage is it's new and thus a level playing field for the short dinosaur arms of an over-the-hill 40 something.

Like most people I thought pythons enforced white space and avoidance of braces and elimination of semicolons was constricting. Then I realized how easy it was to read other people programs. Python used to be even simpler to read when it only provided one idioms for one job (avoiding a dozen way to do the same thing resulting in dialects). Now it's adding new idioms and genres so it's a little more opaque. But it's still easier to read than any language with comparable expressiveness. (Lua is refreshing for similar reasons).

I'm going to create a goatse tone-code emitter and leave it running on the library computer.

it used to be on the internet no one could tell if you are a dog. now they will know.

You are misunderstanding the starting point. The starting point is one mile north of these rings.

They can have copyright protection for as long as they pay the exponentially increasing annual fee. First year is a dollar. Each subsequent year is twice the previous year.

No, they are made by running a tool called a grooving trowel across the surface of the sidewalk. This creates a half inch (or more) deep groove in the concrete, and because the concrete is thinner at the groove, that's where the slab cracks.

I'm sure the publishers of tainted versions of PuTTY also have MD5s I can download and verify against.

Don't you think that a person who is making a malicious version of Putty is also capable of putting MD5 checksums of the malicious code on their download site? Checking MD5 sums against those published by the author is useless. You need to check against publicly verified, independently published checksums.

Um... Duplo

Slashdot doesn't belong to Dice anymore. It's DHI Group now.

I use the "strangers on a train" plug in. It exchanges all your facebook cookies every 5 minutes with another random person. It doesn't hurt your facebook login itself since you still need your password for that. It just scrambles your identity when you press like. If everyone used this then the "likes" would still add up to being meaningful but the user profiles would be completely homogenized and have no tracking value.

I just glad I got the in-school Brawndo concession signed before they took away all the pens.

Odd then that they already use Spinning missiles beacuse they help solve the re-entry problems

phallax ammo needs replenishing, lands somewhere perhaps in the costal town you are shooting over, and can't be run continuously. It cannot deal with non-lethal modes of attack (rubber dingy). it's very expensive. it has the problems of toxicity from DU. And most of all it's short range.