Comment Re:I'm so good (Score 1) 322
the correct German word would be Untermensch.
Comment Re:Like any partially treated wart (Score 1) 275
C) You can renew your copyright for a maximum of 30 years, or until the author's death, whichever comes first.
And that by itself creates another motive for murder (or manslaughter if the person was emotionally distraught, but you get the picture).
Comment Re:Uhm (Score 1) 102
I think Admiral Farragut gets over-quoted. That's the only US Civil War one-line quote I've every really heard, and I hear it all the time. Or I hear it so much that it makes me forget any others...
Comment Re:IT is a customer service group (Score 1) 576
Come on, that's a modification... The real version is actually much funnier (if not as geeky).
Nice google search later, and a close approximation is here.
Steve Bourne Talks About the History of Sh 232
An anonymous reader writes "Steve Bourne, the creator of the Bourne shell, or sh, talks about its history as the default Unix shell of Unix Version 7. Bourne worked on the shell in 1975 and said the process took no more than 6 months. Sh aimed to improve on the Thompson shell. 'I did change the shell so that command scripts could be used as filters. In the original shell this was not really feasible because the standard input for the executing script was the script itself. This change caused quite a disruption to the way people were used to working. I added variables, control flow and command substitution. The case statement allowed strings to be easily matched so that commands could decode their arguments and make decisions based on that. The for loop allowed iteration over a set of strings that were either explicit or by default the arguments that the command was given.
I also added an additional quoting mechanism so that you could do variable substitutions within quotes. It was a significant redesign with some of the original flavor of the Thompson shell still there. Also I eliminated goto in favour of flow control primitives like if and for. This was also considered rather radical departure from the existing practice.
Command substitution was something else I added because that gives you very general mechanism to do string processing; it allows you to get strings back from commands and use them as the text of the script as if you had typed it directly. I think this was a new idea that I, at least, had not seen in scripting languages, except perhaps LISP,' he says."
Utah Trying To Restrict Keyword Advertising ... Again 257
Eric Goldman writes "The Utah legislature has tried to restrict keyword advertising twice before, with disastrous results. In 2004, Utah tried to ban keyword advertising in adware; that law was declared unconstitutional. In 2007, Utah tried to regulate competitive keyword advertising; after a firestorm of protests, Utah repealed the law in 2008. Despite this track record, Utah is trying to regulate keyword advertising a third time. HB 450 would allow trademark owners to block competitors from displaying certain types of keyword ads. In practice, this law is just another attempt by the Utah legislature to enact a law that doesn't help consumers at all but does help trademark owners suppress their online competition."
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