Massachusetts was the home of the Pilgrims, that group that got kicked out of England for being too religious. As liberal as most of the northeastern US, and especially Massachusetts, is, there are still a few of these unusual laws floating around.

Heh. Hehe. Heh. Heh.

I am not number 2!

Some of those are computers. Most new televisions and Blu-Ray players run Linux.

Didn't a bunch of Republicans and Democrats make that same promise? What kind of results have we gotten from that?

Boy was I fooled.

Reminds me of a good joke:

In 2010, a COBOL programmer developed a rare fatal disease for which there was no known cure. The programmer was cryogenically frozen, to be revived when a cure had been found.

In the year 9999, the programmer is revived. When he wakes up, he asks the doctors what year it is, and when they tell him, he asks if they finally found a cure for his disease. They answered, "We're sorry, but no, we still haven't found a cure. But it's almost the year 10,000, you see, and you know COBOL..."

You haven't been following mobile phone stories on Slashdot much, have you? For years, you paid the same price for monthly service whether you got a subsidized phone from the carrier, had completed the two-year contract, or didn't get a phone from the carrier at all and brought your own. T-Mobile changed that about 5 years ago, when they started offering a plan that was $20/month cheaper if you didn't have a contract and subsidized phone. Now that T-Mobile is advertising this more, the other carriers are just starting to implement similar plans.

I ran into one really bizarre bug in ActionScript several years ago. I can't remember all the details exactly, but I think that if you try to redeclare a variable as a different type in the same function, the redeclaration is ignored and the type stays the same.

Integer a;
... bunch of code ...
String b;
b = "foo";

That code would give an error about assigning a string to an integer variable. Of all possible ways to handle redeclaring a variable, ActionScript picked the worst.

They probably just look at the number of comments on his rants without reading what the comments are about, coming to the conclusion that he's very popular.

This can only be true if "a while" is "since his last pointless rant got posted to Slashdot".

Well, yeah. Most of us could have told you that as soon as we saw who wrote it.

Hey, I know you! You were featured in that article on The Onion! Wow, it's a huge honor to have such a famous person contribute to Slashdot's discussion.

Absolutely nobody. His house is creepy enough in the middle of the day.

Senator McCarthy may have an objection to this.