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Their cars aren't on the market yet. They have no data on my driving.

Google Maps — on every Android phone, and on many iPhones as well. If you use it — and many people do — here is, what Google knows about where you've been.

My phone lives in a foil pouch unless I need to make a call.

Let's see you track me when the phone cannot transmit or receive,
motherfuckers.

Then how do you explain the phallic vibrating razor? I think there is a huge untapped market for "immersive" experiences that half the gaming population could enjoy.

Their cars aren't on the market yet. They have no data on my driving.

Google Maps — on every Android phone, and on many iPhones as well. If you use it — and many people do — here is, what Google knows about where you've been.

Pretty big, but not ridiculous. You bring in the printer components on the back of a flatbed truck, assemble it over the construction plot, and then just keep the cement pumping until you're done. Lot's of designs out there, and a few implementations.
https://www.google.com/search?...

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I'm more partial to Tabs Outliner. It's also a separate window, but it's modeless so it just lives to the left of my browser window.

It's still an ugly work-around, but when stuck with Chrome it's better than nothing.

For comparison:

• The average worker in Afghanistan earns about $426 per year.
• There are only about 30 million people living there.
• The US could have paid every single person there like 53x their annual salary (or 4x their salary every year for the 12 years) to be friendly to the US and do whatever we wanted (kill poppies, grow poppies, build pipelines, blow up pipelines, arrest the Taliban, support the Taliban, or whatever the policy makers wanted).

Er, I've had this solution (at least as a UI) in extension form: https://chrome.google.com/webs...

I see a company stepped up to do it. Google decided it wasn't what they wanted to spend their time on, but they were willing to accept it if someone else found it useful enough to do do it. Benjamin said his company will do it, so it should happen.
https://code.google.com/p/chro...

I'm trying to oppose your using a single data point to draw conclusions, by demonstrating that there are other data points that contradict all of your pseudo-scientific babbling about hard-wiring.

Did you even read the article on testosterone in the womb? Have you tried googling it? There is a lot of real science about people being born predisposed to male roles versus female roles. Even explaining why your one son has been feminized.

As far as women in IT, I haven't taken a stand on it. I have only taken a stand on the idiotic notion that culture is the only thing guiding people's choices and that people's natural wiring has nothing to do with it.

What I said he enjoys playing with toys that would be traditionally viewed as "girly" - which of course throws a wrinkle in your whole thesis, so it's easier to subtly call my kid a faggot

I never called your son a faggot. I said feminization. Obviously you're hypersensitive and resentful of how your son has turned out so far. Really. There's nothing wrong with your son being gay (even though I never said he was -- but you need to watch you attitude. You're going to do the exact thing you're so proud that you haven't. You're the one that is going to actively damage him because of your own hostility.).

Your idea of fit and finish is this?! That thing is fugly.

You make some good points, except I think you're confusing "rooting" a device which the OEM locked you out vs what an OEM would do to provide root access. Google DOES provide su, which is the file you use to provide root. OEMs could ship phone with su included. They could get it from the Google code URL below.

What's tricky and risky on some devices, but not others, is getting access to install su if the OEM has not provided it. In other words, su (root) is just like the hotspot feature or any other system-level feature. OEMs can include the standard code to allow it, or they can leave that out of their copy.

Here's su:

http://code.google.com/p/super...

As much as I like what's happening recently, I'm really troubled by the *way* it's happening.

Eric holder just gutted civil forfeiture. That's a good move, should have been repealed 30 years ago, I'm all for it.

Has anyone noticed that a single man who was not elected gets to pick-and-choose which laws he will enforce? Here's a man in the executive branch who decided unilaterally to dump an entire law. The legislature can pass or repeal laws, that's their job. The supreme court can bless or condemn laws, that's their job.

But the executive branch?

Can they just unilaterally pick and choose which laws(*) they will prosecute?

Similarly, Obama told Holder awhile back not to pursue "Defense of marriage" cases. That's fine too, the law should never have been passed and should have been dumped long ago.

Has anyone noticed that this was done by the executive branch all on its own, with no oversight?

I'm troubled by this because everyone accepts the outcome because the results are so good. The ends justify the means in these cases, it's so good to get these laws off the books that we don't notice *how* they got repealed.

To be specific, in the future we will see the executive branch gutting laws more often, and if people complain they will point to these good results and say "it's OK for us to do this now because no one complained when we did it previously".

This is a troubling turn of events.

(*) I'm making a distinction between pick-and-choose laws, as opposed to pick-and-choose cases, the latter of which is within the discretion of the prosecutor. Yes, there's line, and yes it can be abused.

As much as I like what's happening recently, I'm really troubled by the *way* it's happening.

Eric holder just gutted civil forfeiture. That's a good move, should have been repealed 30 years ago, I'm all for it.

Has anyone noticed that a single man who was not elected gets to pick-and-choose which laws he will enforce? Here's a man in the executive branch who decided unilaterally to dump an entire law. The legislature can pass or repeal laws, that's their job. The supreme court can bless or condemn laws, that's their job.

But the executive branch?

Can they just unilaterally pick and choose which laws(*) they will prosecute?

Similarly, Obama told Holder awhile back not to pursue "Defense of marriage" cases. That's fine too, the law should never have been passed and should have been dumped long ago.

Has anyone noticed that this was done by the executive branch all on its own, with no oversight?

I'm troubled by this because everyone accepts the outcome because the results are so good. The ends justify the means in these cases, it's so good to get these laws off the books that we don't notice *how* they got repealed.

To be specific, in the future we will see the executive branch gutting laws more often, and if people complain they will point to these good results and say "it's OK for us to do this now because no one complained when we did it previously".

This is a troubling turn of events.

(*) I'm making a distinction between pick-and-choose laws, as opposed to pick-and-choose cases, the latter of which is within the discretion of the prosecutor. Yes, there's line, and yes it can be abused.

sorry, this post is just so ignorant. You should look into the actual research on this....

Sorry Coward, I have done plenty of research on the topic and yours is the ignorant post (perhaps explaining why you choose Anonymous Coward). Try Googling testosterone womb and you might learn something.

I suspect that if they took rsyslog and updated to make it work the way journald works that would cause just as much shit in the forums so writing their own version would have made sense. There are a few important reasons for developing the journal solution listed here in the section "Background: syslog" https://docs.google.com/docume...

I understand what you are saying but a lot of the startup/kill scripts are basically the same code for starting, stopping and restarting services etc (a lot of duplicated code in many files) so it makes complete sense to launch all the services etc in a rationalised common way but allow for exceptions to the rule.

It's funny, but there's really three analogies I use to explain the "whats" and "whys" of the hyperloop concept, and one of them is a roller coaster (the other two being the "super-high altitude airplane" analogy and the "building a pipeline" analogy).

Compare a roller coaster ride with going on a train. Are roller coasters built suchly that you have to wait half an hour or more between rides because they haul many hundreds of people at once? Do you have to spend 5 minutes boarding and later 5 minutes disembarking because of the scale? Does a pilot have to take the controls to maintain spacing and occasionally handle the risks of merging traffic and the like? And the tracks massively heavy and expensive to support these giant roller coaster cars?

No, of course not. Roller coasters are well optimized. Roller coaster cars are small, maybe two dozen or so riders at once. Because of this, they load and unload quickly. They're predominantly computer controlled with only a bit of human "central control" to send craft on their way and the like. They're all "expressways", no intersections, so all the computer has to do is make sure that it's not too close to the cars ahead of or behind it. Because the cars are small, the track can be made light, which makes it a lot cheaper.

Hyperloop implements the roller coaster paradigm to a tee.

That said, the current stage they're at, I wouldn't put people on it. They need to make sure that things are going to go as expected. Most of what they're doing is mature tech, but a few of the things, like the air-bearing skis, are going to need a lot of testing to prove their reliability. Right now they need a proof of concept and to iron out the basics. The next step up, where they have to prove the predicted reliability, repeatability, throughput, economics, maintenance etc, that would be more of the stage where an amusement part ride would be a possibility. Though I'd personally prefer that their next testing stage be built as something that, if it goes well, one could just expand into an actual hyperloop route. Maybe several dozen kilometers here - that should be enough room to accelerate up to top speed, coast a bit and deal with some curves and the like, then decelerate back down. And if it works out well, I have trouble picturing that some Vegas casino magnates wouldn't pay to link it up between them and LA. 6-ish billion dollars to enable millions of people in the LA area to pop over to Vegas in half an hour for $20 and unload a couple hundred dollars in the casinos? The amount of additional traffic they'd get would pay that off in a heartbeat.

Although... hmm, you know, they designed Hyperloop to limit passenger vertical acceleration to 1G and lateral acceleration to 0,5Gs, for reasons of passenger comfort - but not reasons of structural integrity or acceleration capability. So you know, even on actual routes, they actually could potentially let people purchase tickets to a... ahem... less G-force limited experience. ;) It'd require more car spacing, so the tickets would cost more, but when your base price is only $20... Plus, you'd get there a little faster. ;)

Every time it snows the tracks would need to be cleared and that is not a negligible cost.

Do you know how reality works? Snow is light and powdery. A train is big and heavy. They don't clear the tracks for snow. The snow boring train is bought as part of the building cost of the line, and is generally used only for avalanche. They look like https://www.google.com/maps/@6... and are needed because an avalanche is snow, and lots of trees. They don't need it to cut through fallen snow.

I never said that summer traffic was cheap either; you did.

Ah, so when you said "Do you have any idea the cost of keeping a rail line through Siberia, Alaska and Northern BC open during the winter?" you were making a joke, not actually talking about the cost of running it.

If you thought it uneconomical in ideal conditions, why invent lies about the worst running conditions? Didn't think your lies would be read by someone who lives a few miles from the train pictured above, and has friends on the Alaskan rail, and knows more about trains in Alaska than you?

You are lying and making up lies about the high running cost, then telling others to prove you wrong. I don't have to. I can just point it out. Anyone reading this will know

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I don't need to say any more.

If trains were more expensive than boats, why is there discussion on building the line? Because the billionaires are dumber than you? If that were true, why aren't you a billionare? Let me guess, because they are psychopaths, and you are just a benevolent genius.

Well you got the "idiot" part down. Now try working on "savant". I know you thought that the easy part, but that's only proof of your idiocy.

There's a better way to prevent pipes from bursting: use PEX.

Here ya go, AC.

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I can only assume that you'll return the favor. :D

Wow, you don't know much about ICs are made, do you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?f...
Now read that again.
"For the most part we have been in the first generation of materials innovation, just one step removed from alchemy"
Feel silly? You should. Put down that K. Eric Drexler nonsense and wake up.

That Todd Fernandez HOPE09 talk on IC manufacture is AWESOME, thanks!! Yes, I feel silly. That shit is indeed indistinguishable from magick.

But because I am incorrigible and dislike car analogies, I will merely extend my bathroom analogy.

1. harness the properties of useful stuff as cowpies and turds
2. fine-tune the diet to maximize useful properties in turds
2.5 fart on silicon wafers (Atomic Layer Deposition) and poke it onto the surface with photons to make useful patterns (present level of technology)
2.6 Discover more delicate ways to fart and more pokey ways to poke. [...]

IC manufacture will always be about aggregation of functional component layers with successively higher and more conceptual function layers, and 2D lithography is a great way to do it. But the closest Fernandez comes to envisioning the Steelypips is during the QA after the lecture, when he is asked about the future of FIB (Focused Ion Beam) technology and more specifically Electron beam-induced deposition... with its ~0.045nm focus and the ability to deposit ~0.7nm Dippin' Dots, would make it the pokiest way to poke. But most exciting, the possibility to build out in three-dimensions.

But the article is not so concerned with these high level structures, it's firmly at the poop level, a challenges of materials science to improve the desirable properties of graphene to produce turds with more carbon surface area. Better cowpies make better batteries.

To do this you refine the traditional methods of simply incorporating naturally occurring granules of carbon into your poop, which is analogous to the consumption of corn, to a better one where the bonds form structures like dandelion seeds so that the same mass has more surface area.

The superior area:mass ratio is what allows dandelion seeds to float, and mixed materials more chemically reactive. This makes the same volume of poop poopier, it's like turning poop inside out from a lump into a poop flower. That is indistinguishable from magic too -- if you were a classical chemist from the age of alchemy, unaware that your dumps were full of clumps, you'd think this was some kind of amazing Poop-TARDIS.

The Steelypips I envision in GP can maneuver an individual atom into place, stand back and examine their work (a form of electron tunneling that does not destroy the specimen) and decide, "let's put it there instead."

A feat analogous to bending over and farting out a candle across the stage. To this day it is always done with trickery.

I'm not familiar with the area, but it's Silver Springs, north of Washington, DC. Here's Woodside Park, and the Discovery Building (labelled "Discovery Communications" on Google's map) is just a few blocks to the SE. I'm guessing that their house is probably to the south of downtown Silver Springs in the residential area that starts beyond the downtown. There are plenty of sidewalks, bus stops, etc.

Unless Silver Springs is some kind of special crime hell-hole that's very well disguised, I really don't see the problem for a ten-year-old with 6-year-old in tow. The streetview shots look utterly mundane. Well-marked crosswalks, plenty of streetlights, well-maintained, good visibility, modern buildings, trees, people going about their ordinary daily business. If the parents were sending them through some kind of questionable slum neighbourhood late at night, maybe there would be cause for concern, but I don't see it.

That is harder than you might think. From Smarter than us ( https://drive.google.com/file/... ):

"Why aren’t they a solution at all? It’s because these empowered
humans are part of a decision-making system (the AI proposes cer-
tain approaches, and the humans accept or reject them), and the hu-
mans are the slow and increasingly inefficient part of it. As AI power
increases, it will quickly become evident that those organizations that
wait for a human to give the green light are at a great disadvantage.
Little by little (or blindingly quickly, depending on how the game
plays out), humans will be compelled to turn more and more of their
decision making over to the AI. Inevitably, the humans will be out of
the loop for all but a few key decisions.

Moreover, humans may no longer be able to make sensible de-
cisions, because they will no longer understand the forces at their
disposal. Since their role is so reduced, they will no longer compre-
hend what their decisions really entail. This has already happened
with automatic pilots and automated stock-trading algorithms: these
programs occasionally encounter unexpected situations where hu-
mans must override, correct, or rewrite them. But these overseers,
who haven’t been following the intricacies of the algorithm’s decision
process and who don’t have hands-on experience of the situation, are
often at a complete loss as to what to do—and the plane or the stock
market crashes. "

"Consider an AI that is tasked with enhancing shareholder value
for a company, but whose every decision must be ratified by the (hu-
man) CEO. The AI naturally believes that its own plans are the most
effective way of increasing the value of the company. (If it didn’t be-
lieve that, it would search for other plans.) Therefore, from its per-
spective, shareholder value is enhanced by the CEO agreeing to what-
ever the AI wants to do. Thus it will be compelled, by its own pro-
gramming, to present its plans in such a way as to ensure maximum
likelihood of CEO agreement. It will do all it can do to seduce, trick,
or influence the CEO into agreement. Ensuring that it does not do so
brings us right back to the problem of precisely constructing the right
goals for the AI, so that it doesn’t simply find a loophole in whatever
security mechanisms we’ve come up with."

FHSS patent: 1942: http://www.google.com/patents/..., Lamarr/Antheil.
Wasn't actually implemented by the US Navy until after the patent expired.

I would recommend that anyone thinking about machine intelligence read Smarter Than Us by Stuart Armstrong. You can get pay what you want for it from https://intelligence.org/smart... or since it is CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, you can also just download it https://drive.google.com/file/...

The book contains the following summary:

1. There are no convincing reasons to assume computers will remain unable to accomplish anything that humans can.
2. Once computers achieve something at a human level, they typically achieve it at a much higher level soon thereafter.
3. An AI need only be superhuman in one of a few select domains for it to become incredibly powerful (or empower its controllers).
4. To be safe, an AI will likely need to be given an extremely precise and complete definition of proper behavior, but it is very hard to do so.
5. The relevant experts do not seem poised to solve this problem.
6. The AI field continues to be dominated by those invested in increasing the power of AI rather than making it safer.

The only one of those statements I have much doubt about is 4. Even if the AIs are safe, they still probably will not be under human control.

Until it's on a store shelf it isn't for sale. It was never advertized as a consumer product. It wasn't even promoted. To get it you had to go out of your way to even find out where you were supposed to get the damn thing.

Yes, it's very well hidden, on the "devices" page in the Google Play store: https://play.google.com/store/..., right below the Nest devices and right above Chromebooks.

Until it's on a store shelf it isn't for sale.

If I see a $1500 charge on my credit card, it's for sale.

If there is an online retail shopping site, it's for sale. Glass Explore

Probably useless for most people reading this, but my favourite-ever electronics store must be the utterly one-off R. F. Potts in Derby, UK. The shop is absolutely tiny, but chock-full of stuff both new and old - with incredibly helpful and knowledgeable staff. Weird, obscure component is buggered, and you need a new one? Hand it over, and they'll find a replacement from the wall of drawers behind the counter - then charge you something like 20p for it. They also have a wide range of old computer parts and random reclaimed mechanisms from things - one of their front windows is always filled with inspiration for stuff to build.

It's probably Derby's engineering heritage that allows it to keep going - with Rolls Royce aero engines and Bombardier trains based nearby, there must be plenty of engineers mucking around with stuff in their spare time...

I only wish they'd open a branch in Seattle, where I live now! A trip to a Radio Shack a few years ago for components was most disappointing.

Dont forget taxi drivers do this as well. This is not Ubers fault, but im glad its easier to track them down since you have all of their information in electronic form. You know why? Because who remembers the taxi number of the cab you just got out of, especially if youre drunk.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

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http://www.gatestoneinstitute....

https://www.google.com/maps/d/...

http://www.thatslife.com.au/Ar...

A lot of results for quoted text.

You may want to read Richard Feynman's "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" (Or watch the movie "Infinity", with Matthew Broderick as the famous bongo player if that's more your thing) for another example of this. Being able to apply research skills isn't something unique to any one field, and having only one patient to worry about can make things a lot clearer.

The GDP/capita kept growing until much after that.
http://www.google.com/publicda...

Until 1995. Guess what happened in 1995? Kobe earthquake.

When Google's Project Tango is ready and the hardware is shipped in phones, Google cardboard will have positional tracking. And since it has a camera, you can use it both for virtual reality and enhanced reality apps. You will be able to run around with the headset (as opposed to Occulus Rift where you are tethered).

If your phone has Project Tango hardware and a good amoled screen with high resolution, and if the manufacturer implements a high refresh rate, you will have a lot of what the Occulus Rift has in terms of image quality, but without the limitations. And you have to have a phone anyway this days, so it is just a matter of dropping a few more bucks for the extra hardware.

..for example the Bewan iBox stores wlan passwords and remote access keys in plaintext, which can be dumped from internal network by anyone. Here is my notes on the topic which I did report to CERT-FI in 12/2010.

"the claim that this can work against all Microsoft Wireless Keyboards is 100% BS, and has been since 2007, when the issue was first uncovered; covered in depth by Schneier, and remedied in all versions of the Microsoft Wireless Keyboard created since then, which use at minimum 128-bit AES; NOT XOR."

The only meaningful hits on 'schneier microsoft wireless keyboard' is just a few broken links to a Dreamlab study: http://www.google.com/search?q...,

Those were using a 27 MHz transmitter (near field, i suppose) and an association process that at least uses a different xor key each time. TFA claims that the newer 2.4 GHz keyboards always use the same xor key, 0xCD. TFA mentions at least two recent keyboard models that use this protocol. (Maybe I overlooked other ones)

It seems that there is only the MS "2000 AES for business" keyboard that is explicitly marketed as using AES. http://www.microsoft.com/hardw...

Chrome has a Windows installer that does not require elevation. The single-user installer unpacks to a directory in the user's personal profile and runs from there.

Since it cannot install the updater service without admin privileges, Chrome cannot upgrade seamlessly---the browser must be running to detect the update, so it must be restarted afterward. I suspect this is why the standalone installer is not the default option and not widely advertised.

The latest version is always linked at https://support.google.com/ins... if you need to grab a copy.

I read that title as meaning you'd implemented web based tools with go.

Download.com is crap.

Sadly open source isn't immune to this crap with SourceForge now doing this stupid shit of bundling malware, adware, toolbar hijacks, etc. Especially when you have yahoo's like FileZilla's admin approving(!) of this irresponsibility !?

At least Git hasn't been effected (yet)

No they didn't, this slashdot 'report' looks like nothing but a cynical attempt to impart positive spin to Microsofts' failure to address the patch. Since when did slashdot become a PR arm of the Microsoft organization?

"Firstly, just to make this absolutely clear, the ahcache.sys/NtApphelpCacheControl issue was reported to Microsoft on September 30. You can see this in the "Reported" label on the left hand panel of this bug. This initial report also included the 90-day disclosure deadline statement that you can see above, which in this instance has passed." ref

Vendor-Microsoft
Product-Windows-Kernel Severity-High Finder-forshaw
Reported-2014-Sep-30
CCProjectZeroMembers
Deadline-90
MSRC-20544
PublicOn-2014-Dec-29
Deadline-Exceeded

Wait, I know. How about a movie starring Ben "the insurance duck" Aflack called something like The Social Network? I'm thinking Oscars for sure!

The main reason to upgrade is for development, as well as the desire to be able to install my own CA (without having the constant "network may be monitored by third party" warning*)

Anyhow, this prompted me to have another look, and finally typed in the correct set of keywords to bring me to an explanation to sideload the OTA update - obviously my google foo has been weak, as I always seemed to find instructions on flash the firmware rather than updating. Anyhow, once I had 5.0 installed, it immediately gave me an update for 5.0.1, so I can only assume that you can't go from 4.4.4 to 5.0.1 without 5.0, and they've remove 5.0 from being received OTA, so unless you're happy using adb, then you're SOL.

* And if anyone is remotely interested - you still get the retarded "A third party is capable of monitoring your network activity..." warning, because it won't allow me to trust my own CA that I installed on my own device.

Indeed. Comment #25 on Google's vulnerability tracker on the issue confirms that Microsoft was informed September 30, 2014. There seems to be a lot of other comments stacked up too, that page is a good read.

As usual, the second link in google answers exactly why.

Lower solar radiation probably played a role but mainly the 8000 ppm is probably wrong:

Plimer's stated value of 4000 ppmv or greater is taken from Robert Berner's GEOCARB, a well-known geochemical model of ancient CO2. As the Ordovician was so long ago, there are huge uncertainties for that time period (according to the model, CO2 was between an incredible 2400 and 9000 ppmv.) Crucially, GEOCARB has a 10 million year timestep, leading Berner to explicitly advise against using his model to estimate Late Ordovician CO2 levels due its inability to account for short-term CO2 fluctuations. He noted that "exact values of CO2... should not be taken literally."

I vote for a cartoon of Mohammed and his six-year-old bride Aisha on the front cover.

To be fair, the marriage wasn't actually consummated until Aisha was nine.

The worse thing being, she complained she couldn't even feel it.

I vote for a cartoon of Mohammed and his six-year-old bride Aisha on the front cover.

To be fair, the marriage wasn't actually consummated until Aisha was nine.

Yeah, that's what makes his behavior AOK! Not to mention him getting his adopted son to divorce his daughter-in-law so that he could marry her himself. The latter actually caused even more controversy in Arab circles than did the former.

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You get the idea. Even if you are acquitted of having any illicit files on your computer, what's it worth it to you to risk that they might find you guilty, or even that they might seize your computer for a few years while the other guy is on trial? Or just the increased cost in bandwidth, electricity, and wear and tear on your hard drive?

(for the humor-impaired moderators: all those links are safe for work)

pussies
boobies
hot naked chicks
naked kid pictures

You get the idea. Even if you are acquitted of having any illicit files on your computer, what's it worth it to you to risk that they might find you guilty, or even that they might seize your computer for a few years while the other guy is on trial? Or just the increased cost in bandwidth, electricity, and wear and tear on your hard drive?

(for the humor-impaired moderators: all those links are safe for work)

pussies
boobies
hot naked chicks
naked kid pictures

You get the idea. Even if you are acquitted of having any illicit files on your computer, what's it worth it to you to risk that they might find you guilty, or even that they might seize your computer for a few years while the other guy is on trial? Or just the increased cost in bandwidth, electricity, and wear and tear on your hard drive?

(for the humor-impaired moderators: all those links are safe for work)