Comment There Ought To Be a Cheaper Way (Score -1, Offtopic) 79
...to get our hands on good cheese.
Comment Where Do I Sign Up? (Score 0) 99
A central government with no de facto legislative authority? Sounds good to me -- where do I sign up?
From California with love,
N.a.J.
From California with love,
N.a.J.
Comment What's The Criterion? (Score 0) 609
If you want a good programmer, pick the one who knows math. If you want a good software designer, pick the one who can lie convincingly to damagement.
Hope this helps.
N.a.J.
Hope this helps.
N.a.J.
Comment How Soon Until We Have a List (Score 0) 3
...of the seven words you can never say on a Googlephone?
Just wondering.
Comment Re:easy. (Score 0) 695
>create a guest account
. . . and charge 'em five bucks each time they bug you. Problem solved.
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. . . and charge 'em five bucks each time they bug you. Problem solved.
93
Comment Destined for Failure (Score 0) 252
There's just no way the average teenager could not find a means of disabling the GPS feature, or befriending a nerd capable of accomplishing the same.
Still, nice work if you can get it.
Not a Jew
Still, nice work if you can get it.
Not a Jew
Comment Not Severe Enough (Score 0) 607
As anyone who's sat through a half hour of his program can attest, Steven Colbert is not an influenza virus, he is a plague.
Comment The Verdict Comes In (Score -1, Troll) 125
And this, my friends, is why CalTech is the better of the two institutions of postsecondary education.
Also, the cheerleaders at the Rose Bowl always fall for the frog trick.
Not A Jew
Also, the cheerleaders at the Rose Bowl always fall for the frog trick.
Not A Jew
MIT Tracking Campus Net Connections Since 1999 125
An anonymous reader writes "MIT has been monitoring student internet connections for the past decade without telling them. There is no official policy and no student input." The Tech article says, though, that the record keeping is fairly limited in its scope (connection information is collected, but not the data transferred) and duration (three days, for on-campus connections).
College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior 1079
FutureDomain writes "The Boston College Campus Police have seized the electronics of a computer science student for allegedly sending an email outing another student. The probable cause? The search warrant application states that he is 'a computer science major' and he uses 'two different operating systems for hiding his illegal activity. One is the regular B.C. operating system and the other is a black screen with white font which he uses prompt commands on.' The EFF is currently representing him."
Comment United Airlines at Their Best (Score 1) 16
Another satisfied customer.
Submission + - Pro Video Game Leagues: Another Economic Casualty (nytimes.com)
Anonymusing writes: Not long ago, professional video gamer Emmanuel Rodriguez earned a base $30K salary plus prizewinnings in the Championship Gaming Series. However, with the economy suffering, sponsors like DirecTV and News Corporation are backing out, leaving Rodriguez with a more typical job for a 23-year-old: store clerk. The only pro gamer league left is Major League Gaming, though it expects to turn a profit this year — some of its players earn more than six figures from the $1 million in prizes given throughout the season, while others are putting off college to work on their gaming careers.
Comment Re:wow (Score 0, Flamebait) 483
Shut the fuck up. Harlan is a pioneer, and he stands head and shoulders with the founding fathers of the genre: Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov, to speak nothing of Verne et al before them. It's about time one of the living legends of speculative fiction made some noise about just how badly publishers and their lackeys screw authors.
Thank you and good night.
Not A Jew
Thank you and good night.
Not A Jew
Comment Nice, but fluffy story (Score 1) 221
This is a fantastic story, but the article is almost entirely fluff: anyone care to explain /how/ a [brown?] recluse spider bite's neurotoxic venom induces nerve growth? Just curious.
Not a Jew
Not a Jew
Comment Executives Can't Operate a Calendar (Score 1) 798
April Fool's Day isn't for two more weeks -- I say somebody screwed up.
Not A Jew
Not A Jew
