Sad but true.

I went to work for a company in 1995 that was still using PDP11 as their primary language on old DEC machines. This was a commercial application suite. They got their spare parts at garage sales in the area (yes that is what they did, literally!). My last project was to read a bunch of old 9 track tapes to try to find the source code for a program that needed to be modified.

I put up with that for 5 months and bailed to a much better, higher paying job using C on AIX. I was never so glad to leave a company!

The Air Force is flying B-52 bombers. Minor typo, but important to those that care.

Recently I read about a pilot that looked in the older logs of the plane he was flying and noticed his Grandfathers signature as pilot in some of the entries!

Does that "University" have an on line program? I have a "friend" that would be very appreciative if ... "they" could get a BS degree documented. ....

Isn't this the same bunch of so called "prophets" that predicted the demise of Java, COBOL, Unix, etc? What have they gotten right?

You forgot the all purpose response -- "yes dear"

I just use them to weight down my recycle bin so it doesn't blow away. I will not give out my address to them.

If you are not sure - read the linked articles. These are employees of a civilian contractor working on NON-classified projects funded by the government. They are NOT government employees.

They object to having a very invasive background check, a check that would not stop even if they left their position, simply because George Bush wanted to be King!

And a group of cheating jerks can "stuff" extra ballots into the box. The people from the other side are given 1 yrs pay to look the other way while it goes on, or are held at gun point till they agree to it.

See Afganistan Election, 2009!

Or Iran ... or ...

Actually Black Box did show how the Optical Scan system could be pwned! Access to the cards that hold the counts, even for a couple of minutes, could result in the election being rigged!

The only good part, is you still have the ballots. Reset the counting machines, use a card that is good, and the election results will actually (more or less) reflect the votes. I say more or less because the ballots are still filled in by Sheeple, and some of them, even after years of doing it, cannot fill out the ballot correctly!

The video is of a turbine with a failure in the system that pitched the blades during high winds. As another poster noted, the blades will still rotate, slowly.

The video shows a catastrophic failure, caused by a failure in the system, not the blades moving too fast. Did the blade fail (separate from the hub) before it hit the pole? Is the quality of the YouTube video good enough to determine?

The entire unit does not move, but the blades move in the wind and that is what the doppler radar picks up. The rotation of the blades around the hub - going first toward, and then away from the radar antenna causes the appearance of a tornado by the radar.

And - yes the unit does not generate power at higher speeds, but the blades still rotate in the wind when shutdown, so having the units shutdown does not eliminate the issue!

I think he wants his $100,000 back because all the people contacted through Craigslist (by his department) didn't get arrested or prosecuted!!!

They were smart enough to post on Craigslist, they were smart enough to avoid the police, and he DIDN'T like that!!!

Hmmm - so here we are on a geek web site and you are worried about the stuff in the mag stripe on you license???

So replace it with "Mickey Mouse" born -- whenever you feel like (as long as its 21 years ago or more).

With people sliding their cards, the bouncers are going to be less likely to actually look at the license!

(Just don't pass it to the police officer that pulls you over with the reader in his car!)

We had a 24 processor AIX machine running our database. During peak periods it was running 90% CPU utilization.

A senior developer (me) looked at the piece of code - rewrote it and now during peak the same CPU only runs 40%!

(The prior programmers were ---- not the best in the world!).

Sometimes throwing hardware at the problem doesn't solve the problem. Running 4 queries and 1 stored procedure to get two integers isn't the smartest way of doing things.