Comment The first 5 options... (Score 1) 397
In chronological order:
Effigies and Slogans
Amateur fireworks interspersed with professional fireworks
Home-made fireworks
Quiet evening.
Sorry.. I don't live in Canada.
Comment Re:What is this twitter btw? (Score 2, Insightful) 118
Are any of your friends ones that you don't see regularly? Maybe they just simply want to keep up with you.
Comment When one hates haters (Score 1) 168
That's amusing, considering that your argument is a correlation vs. causation argument in itself.
Comment Re:Free market will kill it (Score 1) 1385
A system like one in Japan or Korea is simply impossible, the resources don't exist.
Then how about completely understanding women?
Comment Admin? (Score 1) 1582
What's this Admin For A Day achievement?
Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 1) 781
Or are there really desktop users that spend all day copying files between hard drives and USB drives?
Yes. Pictures. Videos. "All day" is your hyperbole to make an operation you are ignorant of seem less important.
Comment Re:Oh boy... (Score 1) 951
Exactly. I get mod points the night before this article hits, and I'm not wasting them here. But, hey, it's a great mod trap for everyone else. I'll go mod where the amount of BS from both sides doesn't remind me of a Dirty Jobs episode.
Posted "nymously" so you know I mean it.
Comment Re:What? A puppet for NYCL? (Score 1) 158
Oh wow. Moderators new here?
. <----- joke
<----- whoosh
O <----- moderators
+5 for the opposite puppet joke last year.
Comment What? A puppet for NYCL? (Score -1, Troll) 158
You finally heeded my advice and used a puppet to post your story instead of shameless self-promotion.
But seriously, thanks!
Comment Re:I for one welcome... (Score 1) 785
This entire discussion, even baited with the category, goes by with 600+ comments, and not *one* reference to Hardware?
Submission + - Large Tech Companies Dumping Cubicles
statemachine writes: Intel and Cisco, among other companies, are experimenting with cubeless, open and unassigned seating.
Beginning this month, the chip maker (Intel) will set up three experimental work sites. Open areas, comfortable armchairs, extra conference rooms and tables where people can plop down with laptops will replace the ubiquitous cubes that have been standard issue for decades. Each morning, Intel employees will log onto the corporate network using wireless connections. Their phone numbers will follow them. White boards that employees use to sketch out business plans and project strategies will be outfitted with electronics so drawings and plans can be transferred to laptops and e-mailed to colleagues. "People feel much more comfortable coming up to me. It's more of a friendly atmosphere," Cisco senior manager Ted Baumuller said. "I hope I never have to go back to cubes."
Submission + - Hacker Pleads Guilty to Spreading Botnets (pcworld.com)
An anonymous reader writes: So the guy pleads guilty to infecting 250,000 computers with bots to steal paypal accounts, and is looking at 60 years in prison. Of course this is in California, so he'll probably get a sushi roll and a sharp word and then a government job. If the courts want cybercrime to be taken seriously, they should stop treating computers as if they were the second-class citizens of private property. One count of breaking and entering is typically worth a few months in prison, even in California. Identity theft likewise commands a couple of years. So this fellow should be looking at about a million years in prison, not a mere 60. The fact that computers make these crimes easier to commit does not diminish how offensive they are to society.
Submission + - Call To Halt Donations To Stop Wikipedia Deletions 4
ObsessiveMathsFreak writes: "Howard Tayler, the webcomic artist of Schlock Mercenary fame, is calling on people not to donate money during the latest Wikimedia Foundation fund-raiser, in protest at the "notability purges" taking place throughout Wikipedia, where articles are being removed en-masse by what many see as overzealous admins. The webcomic community in particular has long felt slighted by the application of Wikipedia's contentious Notability policy. Wikinews reporters have recently begun investigating this issue, but are the admins listening? Is Deletionism becoming a dominant ethos on Wikipedia? Are the right people holding the reigns?"
Submission + - Wikipedia Moving to San Francisco
statemachine writes: Jimmy Wales and the Wikimedia Foundation are moving Wikipedia to San Francisco starting in January. Managers are already selecting a site and hiring more people, although some existing employees will be left behind in St. Petersburg, FL. Wales cites "the Internet culture, the great developers and potential partners" for the reasons behind the move. Just down the road from SF in San Mateo, Wales is already running another business, Wikia.
Submission + - Can't take the sky from Myanmar (sfgate.com)
An anonymous reader writes: So with bloggers sending out news from the demonstrations in Burma, the government has shut down the country's two major ISPs and is trying to block mobile phones. Not much they can do about satellite, though.
