WTF does this have to do with news for nerds

You've obviously never watched a veteran typewriter tech perform a PM on one of those beasts. Even though I was a sysadmin in charge of a school's worth of systems at a major US university, I watched, fascinated, as a greybeard put a Selectric through its paces-- adjusting this, oiling that. I decided right there that if I had been born 50 years earlier, that's what I'd be doing for a living.

AddBlock+ Not sure how you're on slashdot and don't yet know about it.

Some people choose not to block ads.

No, he's blocking posts made by people with Attention Deficit Disorder. Makes reading /. go much quicker.

Those cameras are useless anyway. Nobody drives in New York City-- there's too much traffic.

Down's syndrome is caused by the presence of an extra chromosome.

It's an extra copy of chromosome 21, not a new and unique chromosome.

THAT is additional genetic information right there.

No. Having two copies of the same book on your shelf doesn't give you additional information-- it just crowds the other books.

And as some kind of strange kickback to the democrats, for the first time ever, my job would not tell anyone what the new rates were until the middle of November (actually the day after the mid-term elections.) We normally got this type of info in October.

It works both ways. My credit card company didn't inform me about all the great new consumer-protection features that the Democrats forced them to offer (no APR spikes when making a late payment, reasonable late fees, etc.) until after the 2010 elections. Even though they took effect before the elections. In fact, the letter they sent was even dated October, but postmarked in the middle of November.

<breathless>JavaScript pages should now load 12% faster than in previous versions, and Chrome 10 beats IE9 by at least 50% in a JavaScript benchmark.</breathless>

I just came in my pants! 12% faster!

vim? svelt? Puhleez. When not using ed(1), Real Unix vets use Bostic's One True vi, not some fagged-up Vegas showplace of an editor like vim.

I know my trip to Paris it was incredibly helpful (couldn't have done it without it)

I used to take my horse and buggy into Paris, and it was really sad to see all those empty cafes and taxis and stores because there weren't any tourists because smarthpones hadn't been invented yet.

Come on, you really could have gone to Paris without your smartphone. All it requires is planning and foresight. Oh, right! That's pre-smartphone thinking!

I'm sure I'd look really happy at my crap-paying government job if a guy named Boris (or Chen or Ahmed) had handed me a big fat sack of cash in return for a few secrets.

How Do You Visualize 100 GB of Google Text Data?

Easy:

$$$$$$$$$$

Why can't they make a game to encourage people to WASH THEIR FUCKING HANDS after they use the toilet. (Or, do Japanese people never wash their hands?)