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Comment Re:No, Salaries (Score 1) 321

It would be nice if there was some socially accepted graceful way to either turn down such a promotion, or better still have it reversed when you realize you've been over-promoted.

At a couple of places I've worked at in the past, that was called "staff". Basically, an ex-manager would work for someone high up in the organization, just as he did when he was a manager, he just wouldn't manage anybody. Like all such euphemisms, though, it didn't take long for everyone figure out what "staff" really means.

Comment Re:No (Score 2) 126

Sorry to gloat, but now that the Superbowl is over I'd like to point out that I was absolutely right about Wolfram Alpha having a 50/50 chance of predicting the winner. And not only did Wolfram Alpha fail to predict the coin toss, it also failed to predict that the coin would be tossed twice. Clearly, Wolfram needs to develop a new kind of (computer) science.

Comment Re:Is it really that hard to figure out? (Score 1) 503

Linux users have the option of choosing a different desktop environment or window manager.

I predict that 2014 will be the Year of the Linux Desktops. ;-)

unlike on Windows or OS X, where there is only one path forward, at best having some kludge solution that may or may not be reliable.

As a recent victim of Windows 8, I've just tried the"Start 8" add-on, and it looks promising. I hear that "Classic Shell" also is good. So, it looks like we have multiple paths forward. I don't know if the add-on approach is what you mean by "kludge", but that seems to be quite popular in other cases, e.g. Firefox. Since I'm used to the Windows 7 interface nd basically like it, it's nice to have a form of choice that helps me get back to where I once belonged.

OTOH, every time I try out a Linux distro, one of the first questions to think about is "Gnome or KDE"? I've tried both in the past, and I still don't know the answer to that question - even for just me. Sometimes having only one path forward (with some options) ain't all bad.

Comment Re:Replusive (Score 1) 505

You can endlessly polish your elegant solutions for decades (see Hurd) while the rest of the world happily uses "technologies that are just barely able to solve the problem".

Which got me thinking...since the Mythbusters recently proved that you can polish a "Hurd", I guess the GNU folks can retire their experiment now.

Comment Re:I think other comments are missing the point (Score 1) 96

It sounds like an external password database was hacked and all the usernames + 'yahoo.com' and the matching passwords were tried against Yahoo Mail.

It doesn't seem like Yahoo could have done anything more about this. It is a case of password reuse, not Yahoo's password storage.

Right. Evidently it's easier to go for knee-jerk Yahoo bashing than to read TFA. I wonder if the folks who do that also save time and energy by reusing passwords? ;-)

Comment Not around here (Score 3, Funny) 388

the opinions and rhetoric on either side has only grown more strident and inflexible

It's a good thing that doesn't happen around here. Luckily, extreme opinions here are moderated by moderate moderators whose moderation moderately moderates the most immoderate opinions and rhetoric, no mater how strident and inflexible they may be modulated.

leaving no room for nuanced opinions or the possibility that Snowden perhaps is neither a traitor nor a hero but something else entirely

Can Snowden be called anything but a first-class patriotic hero of the highest order? Say what you will, but I, for one, ain't ever gonna buy it.

(Note for immoderate moderators: the preceding was satire, not trolling. Please don't take it personally.)

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