Linus provides 10 funny quotes, mostly developer/linux based funnies.
“Dijkstra probably hates me”
(in kernel/sched.c)
“How should I know if it works? That’s what beta testers are for. I only coded it”
(somewhere in a posting)“I’m an idiot.. At least this one [bug] took about 5 minutes to find..”
(in response to a bug report)
Just as I was about to hit the sack for the night, more gPhone rumors surfaced. This comes from F. Colton, the editor over at India Street, and a fellow who tends to do his research fairly well, in my experience. He reports this morning that Chinese mobile handset manufacturer e28 is going to be a gPhone handset manufacturer.Read the full article at mashable.com
BILK (Beer + Milk) Isn’t Weirdest Of These 10 Beers - Can't forget Beer For The Blind. [Dvorak]
Underfunded NSA Suffers Brownouts - An anonymous reader writes "Almost ten years after the an internal report, and a year after a Baltimore sun story warned that the electrical system at the fort Meade NSA HQ couldn't keep up with the growing electricity demand ... the problem has got worse. The 'NSA has had to resort to partial, rolling brownouts at its computer farms and scheduled power outages and some offices are experiencing significant power disruptions'. NSA director Alexander testified to congress about this problem. It is suggested he wanted to add more than $800 million to the 07 budget. A recent public powerpoint presentation suggested 70% of of all intelligence spending goes to contractors. It also included a graph, without numbers, of this spending. It suggests that US intelligence spending is around $60 billion. An internal survey that showed NSA employees have problems trusting each other."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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