The degree's subject doesn't matter. Just having one will give him a leg up.

As long as he knows what he's talking about, he should be able to find work at a hosting company which will have plenty of entry- to low-level sys admin type work. Some sort of volunteer work beforehand to prove that he's not totally inept would help, too.

Shared disk does not make I/O happy.

... sys admins, DBAs, and network engineers have it so bad that they cannot even be mentioned by these types of surveys, apparently.

That's more right than you think. One author claims that the average citizen commits three felonies a day without knowing it (due to the byzantine legal code which can be interpreted any number of ways): Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent. It's an interesting read if you're into that sort of thing.

After paying his lawyer and taxes, he'll end up about $20 in the black.

... for the company(s) that make the backup cameras did his job properly.

I'm very glad I wasn't the only one whose first thought was of this show.

The 9th Amendment says plenty. The framers assumed we wouldn't be so asinine as to need every little detail of the limitations of government explicitly delimited.

(Possible) FTL neutrinos, new particle, and the Higgs-Boson on the horizon. It's amazing how many things can get clustered together.

The purchase of newtgingrich.com by a Democratic Super PAC — and the use of it to highlight Newt Gingrich's political weaknesses — is either amusing or a dirty trick

Can't it be both?

NO KILL I

And they'll also have a tenuous grasp of English grammar, at best.

Cryptic? What's so cryptic about the best soda ever created?

I accidentally the whole Windows.

If I remember correctly, the Martian atmosphere is about 1% as dense as ours, so I'm guessing airfoil technology wouldn't work as well there.

It is my own thesis that any great character has elements of the actor's own personality in them. That said, how much of Denny Crane was the real Shatner?