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Appreciating civil liberties and appreciating civil servants are two unrelated things. If I appreciate one, there's no reason why that should force me to appreciate the other. More…

Oh, I hesitate to get into this discussion but... :-) Almost by definition though child pornography requires the exploitation of someone who can't consent to it - that's really the…

I still have a Mt. Xinu poster they put out in the mid 80s with a BSD X-Wing fighter attacking the AT&T System V Death Star. A more elegant poster, from a more civilized time.

The title makes me immediately think of Robert McElwaine. "REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED"

I remember being an FE at the time and having to work on these beasts. FE uniform at the time was a dress shirt and tie, and working inside one of these things resulted being cover…

Great. It's not like politics in the US doesn't already have a critical issue with being an echo chamber, here now you can ensure your avoidance of co-workers with scary political …

9.0.2 does indeed fix it. I don't have a watch; I almost electrocuted myself a number of years ago wearing a watch with a metal band, so I don't wear one anymore. :)

My iPhone clock is 2 minutes fast. My project is with network timing, so I'm acutely aware of clocks being off, and its driving me crazy.

Why do I get the feeling that secure, easy-to-set-up wifi includes some friendly and numerous connections to google's analytics backends? I don't like google sniffing my search ter…

I refuse to be made to feel quilty because Amazon treats their employees like crap. If Amazon charged more for their products, they wouldn't treat their employees any better than t…

Same here. The Episode IV laserdisc is almost as close as you can easily get to unedited, and even that version has edits. But the two biggies, "Han Shot First" and the stormtroope…

86% of my business calls are unanswered because I don't want to talk to you. So no, I don't want you texting me instead. :)

Tell me where to vote and I will.

I was asking myself the same question. Windows is by far not my primary OS, and I used to know what those variants were, but I don't remember anymore.

Too busy rebundling all the application installers to post updates.

I was super excited when the Leap Motion was announced, and I jumped at the preorder for one. That was however long ago it was, and it's been stored in it's box since. It's very co…

It can't, without meaningless anecdotes the article wouldn't have anything at all to say.

No. Don't waste their time, energy, and money to "network" if you have no intention of taking their offer (if they even make one at all). Arrangements "made and paid for" can be re…

I don't expect much from Politico, but this is pretty low even for them.

I've met him a couple of times at gaming/pinball events. He's definitely one who suffers from being told one too many times that he's a genius. Walter Day is as guilty of that as a…

At the time I was a hardware engineer and I installed and upgraded so many System/34/36/38s I couldn't count them all. It was, by modern standards, dinosaur-era hardware but I love…

A whole new build for a wallpaper?

I sometimes lie awake at night asking myself that very same question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem