http://xkcd.com/1215/

Huh? I've had my old GoPhone SIM card (still branded as Cingular Wireless) in my N900 for years without any problems. I just swapped it out of my old clamshell and into the N900.

If one pass of RC4 is too weak, just run it through again to make it ultra encrypted! :)

Mr. President, we must not allow... an Internet air gap!

My bachelors from a state school cost me about $4000/year or under $20000 total. Easily payable from working just part time during summer break. This includes dorm room (only un-air conditioned dormitory left at Texas A&M,) an incomplete but adequate amount of textbooks, and a very large amount of 10 cent ramen noodle packets.

So with no financial help from parents and without any student loans, I was still able to get a degree from a real college. And now I have a proper education as well as this little piece of paper that so many jobs demand.

The odd names of Ubuntu releases significantly help narrow Google search results. For a Linux distribution that uses alphabetically sequential animal names, I always assumed that they would use "penguin" when they got to the letter P. However, their usage of "pangolin" for the latest release turns out to be a far better choice. When I recently ran into a RAID bug, my Google for "pangolin" included far fewer results and allowed me to find the fix much faster than a more popular name would have allowed.

We just need to get to Tau Alpha C. I've heard the aliens there like to hitch-hike on star ships and can help us jump across galaxies with merely thought alone.

I am a voter in Lamar's district (San Antonio, TX) and have been voting against him for the last 12+ years. He runs as a republican in a very "safe" republican district - no democrat will ever fill his spot.

The best way to vote against him is to vote in the republican primary for another republican, in this case Richard Morgan. Unfortunately, my vote + my families vote + my other friends that I almost have drag to the polling booth don't seem to make much of a dent.

Although a number of things contribute, the popularity of a language certainly increases a perceived animosity. Heck, look at PHP.

And, for those two languages, the ability of the user to shoot themselves in the foot probably doesn't help either.

This app should be installed by default on all NFC phones. Maybe it will help highlight the gross stupidity of using contactless credit cards.

Does anyone else think that having to have 16 GB of ram to prevent your word processor from crashing is a bit excessive?

I also prefer the daylight color temperature of 5000-6000K. Because hospitals and medical facilities use this range, some people associate this color light with sterile
clean rooms, or worse, sickness and death.

Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation causes your worst fears to come true.

The Art of Unix Programming by ESR
http://catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/
ISBN: 978-0131429017