Absolutely! I'd give a nut to have full-time work in IT making even $20/hr. I've been in the field since the mid-90s and can't find anything but temporary contract jobs, and those are few and far between.

I thought the same thing as I read this. *Another* first-person shooter. Yawn.

Slashdot covered the whole torrid Hans Reiser affair too. I think it's important.

I guess this is what happens when the Devil gets in bed with the Devil. They're both evil & deserve to die.

Not on the 330 Series; those are three-year. When I bought a 520 recently I did a lot of studying first. From what I gather the 520 and the 330 are hardware-identical, but the 520's chips are "binned" as being more reliable, hence the longer warranty. I highly recommend the 520s. Mine's been flawless so far (admittedly only about 6 weeks). I just ordered a new UPS a few minutes ago; they're pretty much needed if you're running and SSD, and advisable even if you aren't.

OCZ's had some troubles recently. I don't know how they can stay in business much longer with DOA rates on some of their products in the range of 40%. That's just embarassingly bad.

The Russians already have proven the ability of a man to live 15 months in space. Mind you, that was in low earth orbit. Still, within Earth's magnetic field.

Going to Mars will require either invulnerable spacemen, or (b) adequate shielding. The current candidate for that is the water needed for the trip.

This is bullshit. Weightlessness is a problem because of atrophy and bone loss, yes. But *The Russians already did that. They sent up guys in a can in orbit for a LONG time* on Mir. Due to bungee cords, they came home fine. The most rational response to their work is to conclude that any manned missions to Mars should have artificial gravity. It's also bullshit because *we already know from plenty of Earth-based observations that radiation is bad!* and that once outside our planet's magnetic field the particles need to be shielded from.

Okay, put a man in a chamber and expose him to high levels of radiation for 18 months? No, you build a spaceship with shielding. But no one loves me. No one listens to me. The goal should be really and truly be boots on Mars, not political grandstanding about nothing.

I love listening to the people in their forties complain. Warms the very cockles of me heart.

You lost me at Metro being "clean and spiffy," but you're right otherwise. I give it one or two years before some bright bulb dreams up an OS or even hardware to force feed advertising to the user, all the while claiming it reduces costs... Consoles already do.

Mod +6 insightful

I use KDE4 and I like it. I will say I agree with the OP that it was a piece of crap early on, and I still miss KDE3.

That's exactly what I was saying, but I got modded down. There were *tons* of tweets from idjit kids promising, "Imma start a riot!" and "Kill that cracker Romney if he wins!".

What will Zippy put his taco sauce on now?

Because it isn't precisely about stopping racism. It's about shutting up the opposition. Somehow, sadly, we've reached a point where any criticism of Dear Leader is automatically racist, but anything said about other groups like Asians, Indians, Jews, or even whites is fair game.

The TSA needs to be abolished. Period.