It's pretty much Idiocracy: The Early Years.

Yup. I was flipping channels on the (old school) TV a few weeks back and one of those funniest home videos type shows from the US actually had a dedicated "ow my balls" segment although they called it something else.

Slashdot. A site were people think that accusing Texas of bigotry is insightful.

Do you think 'Informative' would be a better moderation?

I'm always surprised to learn about such progressive countries which doesn't have separation of church and state. The fact that an organization have to prove it is a religion on order to issue marriages seems so medieval.

Where did you get the idea that marriages can only be officiated by religious clerics in NZ? That's an assumption you've made all by yourself.

In NZ, individuals can apply to be marriage celebrants, and organisations that "uphold or promotes religious beliefs, or philosophical or humanitarian convictions" can apply to be able to nominate their own celebrants. The article mentions examples like Yoga and Humanist organisations as non religious groups that have already done so.

And you can do the civil office thing too without a celebrant.

Heh, that reminded me of some other 70s 'sci fi' usage of units:

http://galacticafanfic.com/ima...

But is has shown that there isn't anything stopping that kind of person from running the CIA.

But, yeah, time to move on I think. OS/2 is relegated to neckbeard's still maintaining their Amigas and C/64 machines playing block/character graphics games.

I'm still pissed they never finished the PowerPC version!

(Nah not really. I'm just making that up)

What else could you buy at the time that had preemptive multitasking? That was pretty special.

An Amiga? Sure it didn't have memory protection (ie Guru Meditations) but it did have preemptive multitasking.

It's all an evil plot to cross-breed Theo's masturbating monkeys with Bill Gates winged monkeys to produce monkeys who can both simultaneously fly and masturbate.

The last time they tried cross-breeding anything with Bill's winged monkeys they ended up with gargoyles that looked a lot like Steve Ballmer.

Of course Steve Ballmer himself was an earlier result of cross-breeding Mr Blobby and Uncle Fester.

I totally agree with you, but please, spell it 'analyst'.

Position description of a Business Analist: When it comes to business time, someone who gets the big jobs through the back door.

Sounds to me like a polite way of saying "It's it about time that you get the F* out of our country?"

In London? Polite? Nah..... they would've meant something else.

LibreSSL seems to have been immune to somewhere between half and two thirds of OpenSSL vulnerabilities recently. Not perfect, but a significant improvement.

Early on this was mostly due to the amount of outdated crap they deleted (less attack surface area), but as time goes on more and more will hopefully be due to improving the code that was left behind.

There's still a long way to go though.

Here (NZ) they're nominally called 100x50 but the actual dimensions differ for green gauged (94x47) or dressed (90x45).

In most textbooks, the units are metric. This has been the same since I was in school in the 70's. It's just real life that is SI, and for some reason, real life seems to stick better.
Still, there are plenty of things that are in metric units. Engine sizes and soda bottles (but not cans) being the examples that immediately spring to mind.
Oddly enough, most American cars have nuts and bolts that are metric because we want to seem cool and hip, but most Japanese cars (manufactured for the USA) have SI nuts and bolts because they are pandering to Americans.

Are you talking about a different 'SI' that I'm not aware of? Unless someone is being overly pedantic, for day to day usage SI and metric are effectively the same thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

quote:

Although a number of variants of the metric system emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the term is now often used as a synonym for "SI" or the "International System of Units"

Kerberos was not either.

Kerberos is actually a good example of how attitudes at MS have changed over the years.

http://linux.slashdot.org/stor...

MS ended up opening up their extensions so that MIT and Samba etc could implement them freely.

Also as a non Java coder who used to be able to mostly read Java, I found Generics have put a stop to that.

Java might've been kinda sorta easy to read a decade ago, but it isn't now.