Comment: Nice beginning (Score 1) 278
I would LOVE it if every single story about every penny spent by the US Gov't started out with that phrase: "Despite massive budget deficits,..."
"I'm a Mac" Not Really A Mac->
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Descalzo writes "In light of all the recent 'false advertisement' stories that have been cropping up lately, here's one that's not getting enough traction. Remember all those Mac vs PC TV spots? Well it turns out that the person who says, "I'm a Mac" is not really a Mac at all; he's actor Justin Long. He was paid to pretend to be a Mac, and even offered discounts at Apple Stores. He admits all this on the Ellen DeGeneres show! It turns out the PC guy really was a PC."
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Comment: Re:Nokia n900 (Score 1) 359
Just seeing the contortions you guys go through to make backticks and tildes work makes me wonder how many months you wasted figuring that bit out. You could have been doing something useful/valuable instead.
I wasted 0.000004 months figuring that out.
You'd have saved that time by learning better scripting skills. Backticks have been deprecated for a long time (ambiguous nesting - use $(blah) instead), and I don't know where you'd NEED to use a tilde (bare "cd" takes you $HOME).
I also wish you people would learn to use blockquote.
Does it really only take 0.000004 months to learn better scripting skills? I guess it might, for all I know. I haven't written a line of code in many, many moons. And notice how I learned how to use blockquote! Another 0.000004 months put to good use!
Comment: Re:Nokia n900 (Score 1) 359
I wasted 0.000004 months figuring that out. I was about to waste 0.000009 more months figuring out what I could have done with 10 seconds that could have been so much more useful, but I'm burning daylight.
Comment: Why is this Amazon's fault? (Score 1) 377
Kudos to Amazon for trying to save their customers' money. And isn't this the states' fault anyway? They wrote the crappy tax code, didn't they?
Comment: Hidden photo? (Score 1) 475
What's that flash at about 6:32 or 6:33? Subliminal messages!
Comment: Re:Nokia USA: N900? Oops sorry, 404. (Score 1) 139
Try Dell (where I got mine) or Amazon. It'll likely be cheaper anyway. Or eBay.
Comment: Re:Loser's identity was already blown before Gizmo (Score 1) 853
Is it important that this wasn't a "leak"? This dingdong who leaves his phone out was not risking anything to get the information out there. He was a dumdum who left his phone at a bar after getting too loaded and showing it off to some honeys. Why is it so important to protect his identity?
But they do seem to be protecting the identity of the true leaker, the guy who found the phone, realized what he had, and gave it to the news outlet that would be best suited for publishing.
Comment: Re:lol (Score 0) 121
That's high latency.
Comment: Re:They're smoking that wacky weed again. (Score 2, Informative) 139
Can someone please tell me what things like that damn suitability matrix have to do with suitability to work? Such as sexual orientation, traffic tickets, bad checks, eviction, incest, and bestiality have to do with ability to Science?
Just in case someone missed calmofthestorm's sarcasm, the suitability matrix he refers to (and the whole idea of background checks) has nothing to do with Science, and everything to do with trustworthiness.