Canadians are granted a B-1/B-2 visa at the border (depending on business vs. pleasure); they just don't have to apply in advance.

Source: being a Canadian who has travelled to the US a great deal.

I'll doubleplusgood the Neil Gaiman Sandman recommendation (one of the best series ever), but perhaps more easily approachable (and in the same ballpark of fantasticness) is Fables by Bill Willingham.

I have mod points, I would +6 you if I could.

I use Amaze file manager, and have no complaints.

It's open source, GitHub is here: https://github.com/arpitkh96/AmazeFileManager.

My main issue with systemd is that it is monolithic; it violates the fundamental Unix philosophy in a most egregious way, and whenever anyone comments on this, we are (to quote the GP) "brusquely told that we shouldn't judge it we should just accept it and indeed ought to stop whining and complaining and be grateful someone is generously spending their free time on this problem, because we haven't invested the time to really learn it ourselves and don't know what we're talking about".

We used to have separate, replaceable systems for each aspect of systemd - e.g. if you didn't like syslog, there was syslog-ng, or metalog, or rsyslog; each different and meant for a different purpose. Now, it's "all or nothing" - except that it's becoming progressively more difficult to opt for "nothing" because it's integrating itself into fundamental bits like the kernel and udev.

Second this - the Privacy Commissioner's office in Canada has real teeth.

Yeah, yeah, I know... Don't feed the trolls... but...

Were 35 years in jail an even-remotely-appropriate penalty for what essentially amounts to trespassing and/or mischief, I'd be with you. Him being "held responsible" should have amounted to something like 30 days in jail and a small fine, not a good chunk of his life in prison.

No. Fuck that.

I'm tired of the sentiment that the system is to blame, or "don't hate the player, hate the game". At some point, an individual made the decision to do this. They checked their morals at the door, and decided to abuse their authority for their own personal gain.

While the system is set up to reward that behaviour, it doesn't change the fact that Carmen M Ortiz chose to do this. At some point, we need to hold people who make decisions like this, whether or not the system encourages them to, responsible, and hold them up as the immoral SOBs that they are.

If we don't, the system will never change.

Yes, it would be. Silently failing is one of PHP's most common and egregious sins. I'd rather it fail and fail loudly, so bugs like this can get fixed during development.

Posting to undo mod slipup...

More "funny" April Fools jokes.
Slashdot is more chaff than wheat today.

Yes, they do.

I was contacted by Google solely through my website (which I hadn't updated in about 3 years). Still, they'd found it, using a pretty funky search, and then they emailed me asking if I would like to be interviewed.

As a further indictment of HR drones :-), I aced the technical interviews (including several by phone and about 4 or 5 back-to-back technical interviews onsite), but then they mysteriously "had no projects that matched my skill set" once everything got to HR.

Yep, you can go as old-skool as you like.

I build Flash apps regularly using ant from the command line and VIM for editing.