That's better than the one I saw:

True. In my case, even being debt-free (including mortgage paid off) itemizing is a must to get full benefit - any my accountant computes my return both ways to be sure. IANAA but imagine that anyone with a mortgage and/or a few grand in charitable donations should be itemizing, especially if living in a state w/state taxes.

Just remember to deduct that $100 next year (for those that don't know, tax prep fees are deductible).

And to answer the article question, I use an accountant and e-file. I'm debt-free (including my mortgage) so my taxes aren't difficult, excepting some charitable donations, associated tax-credits and dividends, but the $245 I pay is less than my salary for the time I would spent and I like having someone else review my situation to make sure I'm not doing anything stupid.

Comcast, the /. Beta of ISPs. [ okay, perhaps that's a little unfair to Comcast. :-) ]

Don't kid yourself, it would be: apt-get dist-upgrade

He said, prophesying a future Ubuntu release name.

Yup, and I was an admin on one at NASA LaRC from 1988-92. Always wanted to put some fake floaty fish inside the thing, but people have no sense of humor about something that cost ~ $20M.

Okay, while not a jetpack, this thing could send you 100 miles at Mach 7. Obviously, sticking the landing might be rough.

A man with one atomic clock knows the time, a man with two is never sure - every 300 million years or so, sigh.

In other words: You can't argue with stupid.

Of course you realize that, when backing up, it's better to turn and actually look out the back window - right? In addition to directly seeing what's behind you, you also get a better view out the side windows for things that may be moving toward the back of the car...

I added a filter to my Proxomitron proxy to strip out the "autoplay" tag from the audio element on /. pages. (Am considering stripping out the audio element all together.) Regardless of whether this is an April Fools day joke or not, the person who decided to use the "autoplay" tag should be taken out back and beaten into unconsciousness.

Absolutely. Punishment that greatly exceeds the crime is reserved for people that download/copy music or movies or access MIT websites. I mean, let's not get carried away into the absurd.

Ya, like SCO did - oh, wait... :-)

As a programmer, I always remember that Velociraptors dislike goto statements.