FTFA:

Why are you telling Amazon what I am searching for?

We are not telling Amazon what you are searching for. Your anonymity is preserved because we handle the query on your behalf. Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with your data already. You trust us not to screw up on your machine with every update. You trust Debian, and you trust a large swathe of the open source community. And most importantly, you trust us to address it when, being human, we err. In summary – please don’t feed the trolls.

RE: paper guitar

Yes, this, absolutely. I got stuck in a crappy situation once and had to sell my guitar. I didn't want to lose the muscle memory while I got things worked out so I wrapped a piece of cardboard with paper and drew a fretboard on it, marked notes, taped toothpicks under the fretlines and wrapped the whole thing in clear packing tape to prevent wear and decomposition from finger oils. When things got slow at work I'd break it out and jam. Good times.

A good analog does wonders. In this case you don't even need an analog, as you said they can just use a disconnected keyboard and start slowly.

I like where you're going with this. For extra points you could also have him patent the process and sue other educators who attempt similar demonstrations, in whole or in part.

The only response this deserves is LOL, UMADBRO?

Regardless of my beliefs, this is a matter of classification. Going full-on ostrich mode and pretending that these things don't exist is futile. Restricting TLDs is not going to stop people from doing what they want, that's what beheadings are for. You can't outlaw something without first classifying it.

Hire adults. You're set.

If your people don't understand what socially-acceptable behavior is, they are made of suck and bad.

Jailbreaking has added little to my user experience, but being able to display free memory and your IP and whatnot in the statusbar is convenient for mobile dev. It's also nice to be able to SSH into the machine, poke around in app data and SCP it off to your workstation for further pokery on a system with real software.

But yeah, hooray for supposed perfection, hypocrisy inherent in the system, stick it to the man, lol@fanboyz!!11elevenoneone, etc.

I came here to say this. You don't have to bang your head against the wall trying to teach the unwilling. Apply to a junior/community college and teach people who actually want to be there, want it badly enough to pay for the privilege because they want to improve themselves. Sounds a lot more fulfilling to me.

now if only they'll put some damn memory in whatever device they announce. "1 gig of memory!" does not mean 256mb RAM and 768mb swap. that's probably the biggest thing that annoyed me about the n900. it was outdated on release day. (that and the goofy ass 3 row keyboard. guys... splurge for a digit row for christ's sake. let us use something resembling a true qwerty setup. having to pop open a menu or remap the keyboard is a complete fail. use the g1 if you need a reference.)

i will be thinking very hard before i adopt meego. if the device is anemic i'll probably just save my duckets and end up toughing it out with maemo.

this won't stop the illegal alien on his 4th DWI. (5th?)

hefty install cost, monthly fees, and a camera? fuck it. if the judge thinks there's a risk just go ahead and leave them in jail -- maybe release a few nonviolent offenders if there's no room.

i believe that the AC was pointing out that "C" as defined by "the standard" (whether that be ANSI or ISO) is pretty thin in terms in built-ins.

even old hands can find interesting tidbits once in a while though. wanna fuck with someone? include and use this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iso646.h