Being as even smitty knew I was making a joke, I think you would do well to follow your own advice. Really, I didn't expect to find someone else here on slashdot with whom I have more communication difficulties than smitty, but here you are.

I didn't realize that fashion critique now counts as geek humor.

Do you mean they were on Mitt Romney aircraft? Holy shit, the conspiracy is deeper than we thought!

Don't most people look like that after a long session with C++?

Beyond that though this kind of snarkiness towards a celebrity (who lacks a {D} after their name) is beneath you. Or are you saying he is some kind of stealth Obama donor - perhaps a union boss in disguise or something?

This site was driving itself into the ground before it was bought by dice (as part of a package deal, no less).

On the plus side though, dice cares so little about it that you could probably buy it very cheaply. Maybe offer to take the CEO to a nice lunch and he might sign it over to you.

Actually my experience - using Firefox in Linux - has not changed much in some time, and I am glad to say that. Indeed it generally does tend to only get worse around here but it has been quite some time since I noticed any changes.

I will say that when I used konqueror I found that even very simple tasks like changing my account settings could have catastrophic results leading to browser crash.

Every journal I am aware of that uses any kind of peer review process does this. This system, however, is a lot cheaper. I recently publised in PLoS ONE and I had to pay around $1,500 for that. I really hope these guys can keep their publication costs down and manage to acquire some prestige so they get indexed in relevant places.

Some journals have tried that - look at the institutional memberships at PLoS (my institution is not a member) and BioMedCentral for example - the problem with that though is that memberships like that would usually be paid for by the school libraries and quite nearly every school in this country is trying to reduce their library expenditures.

Indeed, although enforcement is pretty well impossible. The best way to encourage responsible gun ownership is to truly throw the book at hacks who are careless with their weapons.

If someone breaks into your house, steals your gun safe, takes it home and rips it to shreds with a torch to get out your gun and then goes out and kills someone with it, you couldn't have reasonably done more and the person who stole it should be solely responsible. However if you leave your loaded gun on the kitchen table and someone picks it up and fires off a round it should be treated as if the gun was in your own hand.

I know that there are plenty of responsible gun owners in this country who do not aspire to be murderers. They keep their guns locked away when they are not shooting them and they should not be punished for being responsible. However there are unfortunately far too many irresponsible owners who through laziness, stupidity, or whatever else, end up catalyzing injuries and death. The latter group deserves to go to jail when their mismanaged weapons become instruments of injury and death in any hand.

Odd that you mention slashcode. I remember someone else brought it up in a discussion I was in a few weeks back, and I pointed out that the latest slashcode is at least three years old

. Hell, not only is it old but the last comment on it was from a friend of yours who has not worked for slashdot for some time.

While I for one don't really care if they ever release a newer version of it, I do think it would be interesting to know how much of the available slashcode is still used to run this site.

No, I just thought I'd see what your latest favorite conspiracy theory was. Even if I used it in every conversation I have with you between now and the end of time I still wouldn't be able to raise it as many times against Obama as you have.

That said I am impressed that you are still beating this dead horsefly. I really expected you would have abandoned it before now and moved on to some other fabulous allegation you could provide no factual support to.

Sure. Sure, you are.

I noticed that Mallard Fillmore is going bananas over headstart, maybe you can find justification for impeachment in that?

Are you telling me that Packard-Bell is back in business?

Sure, but what is not clear is how much of the poster's time would be consumed by this. Is the son capable of managing this on his own (the abstract suggests the answer may be no)? If the dad has to put time into this then you need to estimate what his time is worth - in particular the opportunity cost of him not being available to do other fatherly stuff.

Sure, you can replace a PS or HD for less than the annual savings, but what if something bigger than that goes out? You are also ignoring the value of your time, as you would put a fair bit of time in to recovering from either of those losses.

That said, I run my own home server, but it's not something I do to save money. I run my own server because it allows me to configure it exactly how I want it configured and I know exactly how it is managed.