Comment: Re:Just an idea... (Score 3, Funny) 189
Although true, I don't think calling the FBI "bitches" would be very constructive in this situation.
Comment: startup (Score 1) 506
I know my situation is unique but I found a local govt environment built on legacy tech. I had the opportunity to steer it towards Linux. Find a startup or a datacenter ripe for upgrade (UNIX, netware etc). Also there are a lot of federal positions for UNIX stuff. There will be a lot of Linux opportunities there too.
Comment: Re:Well, there goes *that* heroin shipment (Score 1) 941
anyone that refuses a pat-down is free to leave. Our rights haven't been eroded quite that far yet.
You are incorrect. The law says once you enter the security screening area you may not leave without completing the security screening process. Google around there is a bunch of blogs and articles about people being slapped with fines and what I consider to be unreasonable periods of detention if they refuse to "complete the security screening process" as they are ordered to. They are certainly not free to leave.
"Once a person submits to the screening process, they can not just decide to leave that process," says Sari Koshetz, regional TSA spokesperson, based in Miami. - http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-11-20/business/sfl-airport-scans-pat-downs-refual-20101121_1_tsa-airport-checkpoint-sari-koshetz
There are a lot of examples the above link is just the first one Google ponied up.
Comment: Finally time to annex Canada! (Score 1) 877
It is times like these it is nice that our neighbors to the north don't believe in nukes. Think of the vast expanses of arable land at our grimy little finger tips :-) Oil and wheat for everyone!
Doom Ported to the Web->
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kripkenstein writes "Ever since Id Software released the Doom source code under the GPL, it's been ported to platform after platform. Now, you can play Doom compiled to JavaScript on the web, using standard web technologies like Canvas and without any plugins.
If your browser has trouble running it, here's a screencast."
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If your browser has trouble running it, here's a screencast."
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First 3.0 Kernel Prepatch is out->
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mvar writes "Linus has announced the availability of the 3.0-rc1 kernel prepatch:
Yay! Let the bikeshed painting discussions about version numbering
begin (or at least re-start).
I decided to just bite the bullet, and call the next version 3.0. It
will get released close enough to the 20-year mark, which is excuse
enough for me, although honestly, the real reason is just that I can
no longe rcomfortably count as high as 40.
The whole renumbering was discussed at last years Kernel Summit, and
there was a plan to take it up this year too. But let's face it — what's the point of being in charge if you can't pick the bike shed
color without holding a referendum on it? So I'm just going all
alpha-male, and just renumbering it. You'll like it.
Now, my alpha-maleness sadly does not actually extend to all the
scripts and Makefile rules, so the kernel is fighting back, and is
calling itself 3.0.0-rc1. We'll have the usual 6-7 weeks to wrestle it
into submission, and get scripts etc cleaned up, and the final release
should be just "3.0". The -stable team can use the third number for
their versioning."
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Comment: Re:Good luck. (Score 1) 312
You are comparing a single person to a government that represents billions of people. Using your rationale people in Libya should all sue the hundreds of various companies that manufacture all the military equipment that NATO has been using to blow them up. Silly.
Comment: Re:#1 thing learned from Stuxnet... (Score 1) 125
How to write better detection avoidance considering they wrote it.
Comment: car shopping (Score 0, Troll) 301
I was car shopping last year and I wanted to test drive a Ford Fusion hybrid. Besides the speedometer, all other gauges on the dash are LCD. The salesman was trying to show me some of the features and kept getting lost in the menu system and at one point the dash became completely unresponsive. The salesman looked at me kind of sheepishly and then said occasionally when this happens you just have to turn the car off and let it sit for 10 seconds then turn it back on. At that point I had pretty much made up my mind to NOT buy this car but I kind of felt obligated at that point to finish the test drive so after the "reboot" it worked like he expected it to so he showed me all these neato features. In the car's defense there are some pretty cool display options on that vehicle when it is working correctly. Then he let me get behind the wheel for the driving portion. I went to put the car into reverse to back out of the stall it was in and there was a good sized stainless steel plaque at the base of the shifter on the center console that said "Powered by Microsoft" I just sort of sat there for a second staring at it, and the salesguy asked me if everything was OK. I then just put the car back into park and thanked him for his time and left...true story.
Comment: Re:You don't say (Score 1) 1224
All because people are scared of offending muslims.
"But sir, no one worries about upsetting a droid"
"That's because droids don't pull peoples arms out of their sockets when they lose, wookies are known to do that."