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Russia's New Official Holiday — Programmer's Day 306

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday September 12, 2009 @12:15PM from the feel-free-to-take-sunday-off dept.

Glyn Moody writes "Russia's president, Dmitry Medvedev, has decreed a new holiday for his country: Programmer's Day. Appropriately enough, it will be celebrated on the 256th day of the year: September 13th (September 12th for a leap year). Do programmers deserve their own holiday ahead of other professions? Should the rest of the world follow suit?"

Comment Your privacy (Score 1) 230

by drsmall17 on Monday February 23, 2009 @08:59AM (#26956295) Attached to: European Crackdown On Skype "Loophole"

"Who Poses the Greatest Threat To Your Privacy?" ... without a doubt, Your Government. This probably would not be a problem had Skype instituted peer to peer encryption with either openSSL or GnuPG keys.

Comment No crashes here.. (Score 1) 480

by drsmall17 on Thursday January 01, 2009 @09:43PM (#26295601) Attached to: Anyone Besides Zune Owners With New Year's Crashes?

1 system running ArchLinux and 3 machines running Ubuntu 7.04 survived the leap second :)

20:41:38 up 61 days, 5:26, 0 users, load average: 0.07, 0.08, 0.09
20:41:47 up 56 days, 17 min, 0 users, load average: 0.05, 0.03, 0.00
20:42:04 up 21 days, 11:31, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.37, 0.49
20:42:17 up 4 days, 6:08, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.06, 0.02

Comment Retarded (Score 5, Interesting) 369

by drsmall17 on Thursday January 01, 2009 @02:33PM (#26291971) Attached to: Security Checkpoints Predict What You Will Do

This is retarded. Suppose I have to go to the bathroom and look nervous like I won't make it time? I'll probably set off the scanner as a suspected terrorist.

Comment Let them stalk me... (Score 1) 395

by drsmall17 on Saturday October 25, 2008 @03:55PM (#25511407) Attached to: Packs of Robots Will Hunt Down Uncooperative Humans

I carry a baseball bat.

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