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posted by cmn32480 on Monday November 02 2015, @04:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the braaaaaaaaaiiiiiiinnnnnnssssssssss dept.

You can now order zombies using your ride-sharing app. In New York and San Francisco, Lyft has arranged for actors dressed as zombies to appear at your desired location this Halloween. Meanwhile, CareerBuilder has analyzed data about America's 53 largest cities to determine which one is most likely to survive a zombie attack, weighting 8 factors including the percentage of engineers in the population and the number of small arms manufacturers.

Exploiting the popular fascination with zombies has apparently become a new Halloween tradition for everyone from job-finding sites to self-published authors. One blog even notes the number of zombie-themed ebooks in Amazon's Kindle Store has doubled every year since 2011, peaking this year at 15,659 different titles.


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2015, @04:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2015, @04:30PM (#257570)

    The parent should call waitpid, either synchronously or in a SIGCHD handler.

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Monday November 02 2015, @07:13PM

    by Bot (3902) on Monday November 02 2015, @07:13PM (#257646) Journal

    You're sooooo ancient. You probably trip on your own smelly, unkempt, posixly correct beard.

    Now we have systemd. With simple unit descriptions it manages our processes, our services, our filesystems, soon our contacts, our subscription to the gym and our romantic affairs.

    Nothing can go wrong with it, noth£°ç&£&ç NO CARRIER

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  • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Monday November 02 2015, @08:36PM

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Monday November 02 2015, @08:36PM (#257671)

    Reminds me of one of the greatest things I have ever read. I think it was in a book about Perl. "If you fork your children, you must sleep on their zombies when they die."

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