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Comment: Re:Keep them busy. (Score 4, Funny) 245  Dunno, but I
managed to keep one on the line for almost an hour before I had
to go get my kid from a football game. I even gave clues that I
wasn't on windows - he wanted me to start task manager, I
brought up top and read him the output. When I got to the Zombie
Processes part, I freaked out.  Finally had to go, so I
confessed that I had been screwing with him, and felt it was my
duty to keep him on the phone as long as possible to keep him
from harming someone clueless. He called me a "miserable son of
a bitch" and slammed the phone down.  Wish I had some way of
recording stuff like this...  Comment: Re:Just let them test
out! (Score 1) 307  Don't feel bad. One of my students has
already taken an Objective C class here, but since he changed
his degree track he is now being forced to take "intro to
programming concepts".. because the Objective C class has been
replaced with (back to) C++ and the de