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Only thing stopping me from using git or svn is that both solutions keep an additional local copy of all your data (git keeps the whole repository, svn just a copy of your working dir, but both effectively double the storage requirements for a typical photo album).

I could probably live with the additional storage requirements in most circumstances, except that one of the "backups" / "mirrors" is my mother's laptop, with a relatively small HDD.

The solution I'm currently in the process of setting up uses boar to sync several computers (some offsite) with a master repository on my media PC. This has the downside that boar has no networking capabilities, so offsite machines have to be set up to mount a network drive over SSH, which is a bit convoluted with windows. I then set up a scheduled task on the media PC to check the integrity of the repository, and clone it to a separate HDD if it's ok, without propagating deletions.

This solution works for me, though I wish it didn't require so much screwing around with loopback adaptors on the remote machines. Apart from that, though ... it seems acceptable for now.

I think you need more than an oven. I did this last year. This is the way to go. A few pots, some charcoal, and a leaf blower:

https://picasaweb.google.com/102078715126217612220/MeltingHardDrives

The chrome versions are cosmetic only. They still download all the crap

You or the author of chromeblock are wrong: Chromeblock. Apart from that I agree with you.

I bought a QNAP TS-109 about 5 years ago, it worked great as a central storage for everything.... until... its power supply went flaky and couldn't handle the drive anymore. RAID doesn't do you much good when the drive controller goes down. Worse, the TS-109 kept files in some kind of format that was unreadable by Ubuntu, OS-X, Windows, and my local Linux Guru's hobby farm of machines - could see the partitioning, but the data partition was unreadable.

Fear of exactly that is why I'm moving my law firm from our current ReadyNAS units (which are decent and so far dependable) to a stripped down Linux system running software (/dev/md) RAID1 on SATA drives using this:

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&cid=11139380982736363255

I like that I can yank a good drive, hook it up to any off-the-shelf USB-to-SATA adapter, and mount it (via VirtualBox if necessary) from any Linux instance I can throw at it, for data recovery. Plus having a full (well, stripped) Linux stack lets us do other integration stuff, like Hamachi (we don't control the firewall or edge router(s) for our offices, unfortunately).

What - we just had the "omg how do I save my pictures/videos for my great-great-great-grandchildren!?!?" 3-monthly Slashdot story, so now the "aaaargh! I can't let some schmuck discover all the home made porn and paste it all over the interwebs!!!" was overdue?

Seriously, people... HDD tech hasn't changed enough to make the same answers from 5 years ago any different now.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aslashdot.org+how+to+dispose+of+hdd

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Must we go through this every time the Chrome vs Firefox debate appears on /.? Seriously, if you don't like Chrome that's fine, but try not to spread FUD about it.

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Must we go through this every time the Chrome vs Firefox debate appears on /.? Seriously, if you don't like Chrome that's fine, but try not to spread FUD about it.

Yep.

My reasons for moving to chrome:

1. Speed. Every time I move between firefox and chrome, I love how fast chrome is. I'll admit to not trying FF 7 yet, though.
2. Interface. I happen to like the minimalism of chrome. FF has tried to do the same thing, but to me it comes off as the sad afterthought (kind of like tabs in IE...)
3. Performance. FF has crashed on me way too much for me to be happy with it. Even when it doesn't crash, it eats up memory and leaves the rest of my system dying (I tend to leave my browser open almost all the time).

Yes, Firefox has more features than Chrome. I wish that Chrome let addons have more power so that adblock plus actually worked, but I can live without that.

Also, when you're comparing feature sets, don't forget to make minimalism a feature. After all, why would people choose this over this?

Wow, really? You really consider the differences between Chrome and Chromium to be major changes? You're surprised that Adobe, which has always been a closed source company, wants to remain closed source with their plugins and are actually annoyed that Google worked with them to make them more stable for their browser?

Can I get you some cheese with that whine?

I'd like to push my own project for a moment, as I designed it to handle just this problem. It is called Boar, an open source project providing "Simple version control and backup for photos, videos and other binary files". The philosophy is that because human errors are just as problematic (or more) than hardware problems, version control is necessary for all vital data, be it code or baby pictures. And when you have all your files in one large, nice repository, Boar makes it easy to create and maintain _verified_ copies on external HDDs or whatever.

The project page is on google code at http://code.google.com/p/boar/

(I mentioned my project in an earlier answer as well. Sorry for repeating myself, but I really think this project is the solution for a lot of the problems people are talking about here...)

I have a four tier strategy, based on the fact that discs are cheap. I call it 6666 as in 6 inches, 6 feet, 6 miles and 6 thousand miles. I developed it based on a need to backup several hundred GB to few TB of data with respect to the privacy but still allowing sharing with my family.

Tier 1: 6 inches
RAID 1 in my desktop All important files that cannot be duplicated are stored on RAID 1 disk array. If a disk fail I have a local copy immediately available for restore

Tier 2: 6 feet
Local online backup. Each important file is duplicated between my desktop and my file server. On file server the files are stored on a RAID 1 array. If my local desktop break completely (e.g. motherboard burns out and takes the disk controller and disks with it) I have the file server immediately available for restore. The replication is done on a scheduled and manual basis.

Tier 3: 6 miles
All important files are from time to time copied to a portable hard disk that is stored in a safety deposit box. This disk is updated every few weeks/months. If my house burns down I have majority of my data locally available for immediate restore. The data which are not present are restored from the remote backup in tier 4.

Tier 4: 6000 miles
All important files are remotely copied to a file server at my parents house on a different continent. It servers, two purposes. If for some reason my immediate locality is affected by natural disaster (fire, flood, tornado), my files are safe. Also if my parents wants to see my HD videos of my kids, they have them locally available and I don't have to share it with them. The replication is done on manual basis.

I have experimented with many different technologies how to implement this strategy (CrashPlan, HW RAID, SW RAID, rsync, etc.) and this is what I have settled on since it is foolproof, non proprietary and can be implemented (in case of remote backup) by non techie.

Tier 1: SW RAID using mdam on Ubuntu 64b Desktop encrypted using LUKS
Tier 2: SW RAID using mdam on CentOS 64b Server encrypted using LUKS. Populated manually using rsync every time I upload new pictures and videos to server. Home directories and documents are rsynced automatically every few hours.(Before I used CrashPlan)
Tier 3: Truecrypt on portable HDD populated using rsync manually to review changes.
Tier 4: PogoPlug modded using http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=pogoplug+arm+linux&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 to provide remote ssh server and local Samba server. Data are copied manually using rsync every time I update tier 2. The local Samba is used for local sharing of the multimedia (pictures, videos) at the destination. The beauty of this solution is that is is completely plug and play and my parents don't have to know anything about technology. I gave them 2 pieces of hardware (pogoplug and hdd), they plugged in 4 cords at their location (1 network, 1 usb, two power) and I configured their router.

Cost
Tier 1: 1 extra internal HDD (assuming desktop computer is already present)
Tier 2: 1 extra internal HDD (assuming you are already running filer server for your household)
Tier 3: 1 portable HDD
Tier 4: 1 Pogoplug ($30 on sale) + 1 portable HDD

If you start with 3 TB disks in each computer. This solution required 4 extra 3 TB disks + 1 pogoplug and little bit of manual effort.

You are looking for Boar, an open source project providing "Simple version control and backup for photos, videos and other binary files". The philosophy is that version control is necessary for all vital data, be it code or baby pictures. And when you have all your files in one large, nice pile, Boar makes it easy to create and maintain verified copies on external HDDs or whatever. Splitting your data on a bunch of DVDs is a sure way to bring chaos to your files.

The project page is on google code at http://code.google.com/p/boar/

Disclaimer: I'm the author of Boar, and I think that absolutely everyone who values their files should use it. Or something similar, although I haven't found anything else that fits my needs.

As you mentioned Chrome makes all uncommon plugins click to play by default (you can even see an explicit note about this on the Java website.

For what it's worth Chrome has a general click to play feature but you need to enable it in chrome://flags/ , restart and then enable the newly available option in the general plugin preferences.

I must have a problem expressing myself, for you are accusing me of not liking standards when I do know they are what makes the web today manageable. And I respect and love them.

Well, all major "things" in the internet, those who make it working and useful, have been brought to us with that "theoretical, academical process" you dislike. It's your right, of course.

Please cite me ONE of my sentences that can be construed to mean that I dislike that process. I bet you can't. I do like and respect that process. However I do believe that people should be allowed to use the implementations as they see fit. I don't believe everyone should be restrained from using anything that hasn't been published in a final state.

What you are pushing forward is known as "act soon, fix later" because "there's no time" or because "we need it yesterday". This is what I personally dislike a lot.

That's absolutely not what I am pushing forward. If something works in ALL browsers and is a part of a draft standard and is widely used, I think it's a safe bet that it won't disappear from browsers overnight. It's also a safe bet that it won't disappear from the standard. So I think it's a safe bet that you won't have to fix it later. As a result, I think it would be silly to not use said features, just because "but the standard is in a draft state".

You say all browsers support the "interim HTML5".
Have you tried this site with ALL your browsers? Also the mobile ones?
Each of them only partially supports one of the intermediate drafts. Which is a two level uncertainty. And what about this one?
You surely know about the "cross browser" issues with Javascript. It started with two different implementations of a non-standardized scripting language. There are still hundreds of lines of code being run in almost all web pages just to cope with it.
And if you think about the big mess all the current browsers are doing with the mature HTML4 and CSS2, you can imagine how messy the scenario will be with HTML5. Web sites will still need to support all those dialects and variants of the HTML5, if they want to show the intended way.

No, all browsers don't support everything, this is true. However there is a sizeable subset of HTML5 and CSS3 that is supported by all latest versions of all browsers. I find it silly to advise people not to use that subset. So I do and I advise people to use it.

Look, a stupid bug is not being fixed in any open source browser. It's about a core HTML4 element which has forced hundreds of HTML publishers to look for partial workarounds.

Sure, but the world is not all black and white. I'm advocating a particular shade of gray, that is all. Of course, don't use something that is broken in most browsers. And no, there will never be a time when all bugs will be fixed and all implementations will be alike. Hopefully, that will never happen. So we'll always have to cope with cross-browser compatibility issues. This is the reality of life. You may live in a w3c smelling ivory tower of cross-browser compatibility heaven, but I do build websites in the meantime. So I cope with it.

So, in my humble opinion, standards matter. And also a lot.

In mine too.

Well, all major "things" in the internet, those who make it working and useful, have been brought to us with that "theoretical, academical process" you dislike. It's your right, of course.
What you are pushing forward is known as "act soon, fix later" because "there's no time" or because "we need it yesterday". This is what I personally dislike a lot.
You say all browsers support the "interim HTML5".
Have you tried this site with ALL your browsers? Also the mobile ones?
Each of them only partially supports one of the intermediate drafts. Which is a two level uncertainty. And what about this one?
You surely know about the "cross browser" issues with Javascript. It started with two different implementations of a non-standardized scripting language. There are still hundreds of lines of code being run in almost all web pages just to cope with it.
And if you think about the big mess all the current browsers are doing with the mature HTML4 and CSS2, you can imagine how messy the scenario will be with HTML5. Web sites will still need to support all those dialects and variants of the HTML5, if they want to show the intended way.
Look, a stupid bug is not being fixed in any open source browser. It's about a core HTML4 element which has forced hundreds of HTML publishers to look for partial workarounds.

So, in my humble opinion, standards matter. And also a lot.

You can do this today, using Google's privacy dashboard which lists most of the information they've collected.

If you want to download anything, head on over to dataliberation.org where:

The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products. We do this because we believe that you should be able to export any data that you create in (or import into) a product. We help and consult other engineering teams within Google on how to "liberate" their products. This is our mission statement:

Users should be able to control the data they store in any of Google's products. Our team's goal is to make it easier to move data in and out.

Thats not the reason Android feels laggy. It is due to the fact that the UI is not full hardware accelerated.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6914

An example of that can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZEdxqZt6uw

You are woefully uneducated. I suggest you use your google-fu on other ways HIV is transmitted.

Yes, sex with an infected partner. And sharing of needles, blood transfusions, and babies born from infected mothers, to name a few.

Looks like it's time for everybody to build a node (like so) to join a new free internet, free from all the paranoia and injustice.

You might even choose to put less information on every page and break down your site into more smaller pages. Try to do that with JavaScript or CSS.

Have you ever seen a shebang (#!) in URLs on, say, Twitter or any Gawker Media site? That symbolizes an AJAX site. AJAX sites load the HTML page and a script, and then the script decides what information to pull from the server. It could make that decision by sniffing the window width and height, converting that to ems, and using that to estimate what level of detail will fit above the fold.

Interesting point. Are we able to do the same with Google and have them print out everything they have on you? http://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/address.html if you want the European offices to place your request.

I tried Google build your own laptop, but I didn't find the "three instructions" you mentioned. The closest I found to "six appropriate components" was this tutorial mentioning a "barebook", a bundle of a motherboard, case, screen, keyboard, and trackpad. One problem with buying a barebook and matching parts, or with mail ordering any laptop for that matter, is that you don't get to try the screen, keyboard, and trackpad before you commit to buying it. But it's worse with barebooks because most brick-and-mortar stores that I've been in don't appear to sell barebooks and thus don't have any completed floor models on display.

Completely correct.

The same thing goes for Google: you may not have an account with them, but chances are they have a lot of your e-mail (people you correspond with use Google Mail). Use Google's search engine? They have your queries. If you post to Usenet, they have those posts, too. And I am sure they collect data through ads on non-Google sites, too. It is their stated mission to "Googleâ(TM)s mission is to organize the worldâs information and make it universally accessible", and they're very good at it.

A lot of people don't realize, or vaguely know but don't quite grasp just how much of what they consider private is collected by companies like Google and Facebook. Asking for a copy of what they know about you and receiving several hundred pages in return really drives the point home.

Here are some links from this very article comments, collected for your (in)covenience.

I hope you can find which one corresponds to which one of the points you all keep repeating.

Hmmm, let's look up the definition:

free mar-ket

noun

An economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses

Please enlighten us about the competition part and explain how it works when one "privately owned business" owns 95% of it.

With a pencil-and-paper-based system, you need to distract a great number of people *on election day*

Hmmm, wrong! Your rose-tinted-glasses view of paper votes clashes with reality.

As long as you can raise doubt about the accuracy of votes you can request a recount. Good luck with keeping supervision on all ballot boxes for all time after the election until the last recount is done.

I can' t understand how slashdotters keep raising the same theoretical objections to electronic voting while they disregard the observed facts. Guys, this is religion! Slashdot dogma says electronic voting is bad, paper voting is perfect. This is stupid.

I'm all for researching possible attacks on electronic ballots, but as a means to perfect the system, not as an argument to pretend there are no possible ways to improve it. So, is there a way to insert an "inexpensive electronic device" into a ballot? Simple solution, remove all unused connectors from the circuit boards. For every vulnerability there's a solution.

Vulnerabilities in electronic votes are the equivalent of butterfly ballots and hanging chads. If only people had shown the same determination to find all possible modes of failure in the paper system used in the Florida 2000 election...

I'm fairly sure the bible never commands anybody to kill non-believers.

Let's do a simple search for that, shall we?

Google 'killing bible' and click a link. I'd say any link, but why not click the first?

Murder in the Bible

Read and weep...

Texas police wouldn't have been so stupid, the ATF who thought they were bad ass on the other hand, fucked it up royally. In Texas, lawmen are smart enough to realize they other guy not only probably has a gun, its probably bigger too. You tend to be much less of an asshole when you aren't given a massive advantage.

So the google search http://www.google.com/search?q=texas+police+brutality will come up empty?

"A stunning incident of police brutality in Paris, Texas, was caught on tape and has led to ramifications. ..."

"CNN reports that police are accused of having robbed at least 150 drivers in Tenaha, Texas. The amount stolen is close to ..."

"Beatings by police officers are not new; the new twist to this old story is how modern technology is giving us all a bird's eye view of what cops ..."

Yup, an armed society is a polite society. Please ignore the thug in uniform.

(3) is actually not even Samsung's shop, but a section in a bigger electronics store and decorations are all around that store.

<conspiracy>September 23rd: these conveniently framed pics appear on the net. September 24th: Apple opens a new store in Italy. Coincidence?</conspiracy>

Example, I like to just click the arrow in the addressbar and select www.slashdot.org rather than typing it manually every single time. Chrome has a weird way to hide bookmarks and when you launch them they replace of your current page instead of opening them in a new tab.

Have you considered making the bookmark bar always visible (Ctrl+Shift+B). It would pretty much give you want you want - single-click to all your frequently visited websites.

. IE 9 has smooth fluid graphics too if you have a great GPU which is really nice. Slashdot flickers on my desktop under Chrome if I hit up or down on my arrow keys.

It's not really about graphics perf - IE has smooth scrolling, while Chrome just jumps up & down by 50 pixels or so when you scroll with arrows. No idea why they don't let you smooth-scrolling, since their engine can handle it just fine. There is a bug for that in the tracker, and it looks like they're gearing up to finally fix it.

One thing that I personally can't stand in IE is the lag it has between clicking in the address bar and when it lets you start typing. Not only it's noticeable, but if you do that after opening a new tab, it's actually possible to click before it navigates that tab to whatever your default is (even if it's about:blank), in which case anything you typed up until that moment is overwritten. That seems to be gone in IE10 (the version that's in Win8 DP), so I might reconsider. But for now it's a major annoyance.

Point 1 - The premise that we are entering a "Post-PC" era requires some evidence to back the theory. TFA didn't provide anything, other than a reference to Newegg pulling out of their IPO in May 2011. And even with that statement, Kevin Purdy says, "What happened? The internal factors are unknown." That does not provide sufficient data to support his premise. Shame on you, Kevin Purdy, for your sensationalism.

Point 2 - Newegg.com sells a great deal more than just PC parts. Even if Kevin Purdy's apocalypse were to occur, Newegg has a great deal of other business to support their profits margins. Last time I checked, you can buy phones, tablets and ultrathin laptops from Newegg.com.

Point 3 - There is sufficient evidence that we are, in fact, in the midst of a PC expansion. Nvidia just made the claim that PC sales will overtake consoles by 2014, Microsoft believes in the prominence of the PC, Michael Dell comments on his predictions, Epic thinks the PC has been 2nd fiddle to the console for too long, and MaximumPC has an article showing the results of a Baird survey relevant to the issue.

Will some people buy phones, tablets and laptops (ultrathin or otherwise) instead of a PC? They have been for years, why would that change now?

Will the PC market dry up and force PC Enthusiasts into a world of non-replaceable component devices, where we will be forced to feed on the scraps of outdated machines? Doubtful. I point to the Audiophile market as a comparative case study, where you can spend an incredible amount of money on components that some might argue have been replaced by smaller and better integrated devices. I suspect the home built PC market will survive phones, tablets and ultrathin laptops, just as it survived Dell, Gateway, Micron, Acer, et al.

I do my gaming on my PS3. Mainly because I can't rent PC games the way that I can rent PS3 games.

HUH?
I switched back to PC gaming in 2009. I had resisted Steam due to their DRM but I could resist no longer when games I wanted to play became available for under $10. Now I rarely play games on my PS3 except for exclusives (God of War, Resistance, Little Big Planet). It gets used to stream from my media server. I tried many different server oriented OS's and ended up with a Windows 7 Ultimate PC with the media serving software I wanted installed.

a cheap netbook is probably sufficient to handle the demands of a small number of users wanting to access files.

Which brings me to your next statement. Today's consumer is quickly becoming more interested in accessing multimedia from a central PC. They don't know from PC/Server but they do know they can have a movie on one PC and watch it on another. I doubt your netbook would stand up to that punishment. Especially if more than one movie was streamed. I did use an old PC but I ordered RAM, HDD and CPU upgrades from...wait for it...Newegg.

I think you forget what facebook is tracking - such as you, on every website with a facebook like button across the web.

No they don't. Of course, then Google does...

Games, Strategies, and Managers: How Managers Can Use Game Theory to Make Better Business Decisions

by John McMillan

http://books.google.com/books?id=c24CPx9R0PYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=games+managers&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false

You mean something like Backrub.stanford.edu?

[0004] Searching online for various media such as video, audio, and still images is known. Further, searching for such media on a user's local hard drive is also known. For example, programs such as Microsoft's Media Center.RTM., Google.RTM., Yahoo.RTM., Youtube.RTM., OSX.RTM., iTunes.RTM., Windows.RTM., and TIVO.RTM., all include integrated search mechanisms to locate specific data.

[0005] However, each of these programs compartmentalizes the search process to specific kinds of data. For example, iTunes.com.RTM. locates all media stored or available within the iTunes.RTM. system, which is a small subset of all the video, images, and audio available online. iTunes.RTM. also only searches for data stored in its own format, and does not search a users locally or remotely stored available data. Youtube.RTM. only searches for videos on Youtube.RTM.. Windows.RTM. only searches for data on the user's internal and external hard drives. Yahoo.RTM. only searches the internet and not the user's hard drive or local media storage devices. Google.RTM., while providing a mechanism to search both the internet and the user's hard drive, cannot search both the internet and the user's hard drive simultaneously and provide a single set of search results. Further, Google only allows searches dedicated to video, audio, or images, and does not provide a mechanism for searching for all media types at the same time.

[0006] Thus, there does not exist a system that searches all known media sources, both local and remote, and presents to a user a consolidated list of search results that is grouped according to media content and filtered and sorted according to the user's preferences.

A quick Google search for Trains shows relevant webpages, images, videos, and news articles. I'm pretty sure they've done this for awhile now, though I couldn't prove it.

Does Google Shopping not display results from multiple sources as well? This search for "White Album" by The Beatles turns up a number of different media from a wide variety of sources. Google Product Search started as "Froogle" back in 2002. Anyone with any kind of web tv could have used it "on a television".

No, I want to play full scale thermonuclear war.

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=multi+touch&t=weekly#

Not knowing exactly what level of knowledge you're starting from... One of my first game purchases was Patton Versus Rommel, which included some artificial smarts. The liner notes included a reference to his second book The Art of Computer Design, [PDF] and based on the context, I hoped it might include at least introductory pointers to game AI. Nope. There's also Chris Crawford on Game Design, [Google Books]. It does include some high level designs, which may or may not be what you're looking for.

Not knowing exactly what level of knowledge you're starting from... One of my first game purchases was Patton Versus Rommel, which included some artificial smarts. The liner notes included a reference to his second book The Art of Computer Design, [PDF] and based on the context, I hoped it might include at least introductory pointers to game AI. Nope. There's also Chris Crawford on Game Design, [Google Books]. It does include some high level designs, which may or may not be what you're looking for.

Considering a near three-decade long history of Multi touch RnD (starting with University of Toronto, followed by Bell Labs and Xerox, et al...) a patent awarded to apple would be quite a spit in the face of everyone who made the technology possible in the first place.

Not only is TFA (and even TFS) clearly about trademarks and not patents but Apple do have a patent on multitouch.

Oops... mis-copied the link: Here is the Google Trends on the term "multi-touch" (again note that the iPhone is circa 2007.)

Considering a near three-decade long history of Multi touch RnD (starting with University of Toronto, followed by Bell Labs and Xerox, et al...) a patent awarded to apple would be quite a spit in the face of everyone who made the technology possible in the first place.

It used to be that wealthy families sent their children to college so they'd have a leg up on the proletariat's children.

According to The Screwing of the Average Man, the rush to college started after WWII. All the male veterans who were trained as warriors came home to dismal job prospects... They said, "okay we fought your stupid war you politicos better take care of us". Rather than have a bunch of rebellious unemployed PTSD'd ex-military roaming the streets, Congress sent them to college with the GI Bill. College costs immediately started to spiral out of control.

While you go to high school for a grade (because you have to, and social pressures make it difficult to do the right thing, which is drop out and educate yourself), in college you get to choose what you want to learn about. That kind of choice is valuable, at least.

"We will eventually need to shift to a shorter work-week for the same relative pay or we'll need to find new areas for expansion in space. The alternative is to jump back to feudalism prior to the black death when labor was cheap and most people worked as serfs barely scratching out a living."

Stuff on other alternatives put together by me, starting with a "basic income":

"The Richest Man in the World: A parable about structural unemployment and a basic income "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p14bAe6AzhA
"A parable about robotics, abundance, technological change, unemployment, happiness, and a basic income."

"Five Interwoven Economies: Subsistence, Gift, Exchange, Planned, and Theft"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vK-M_e0JoY
"This video presents a simplified education model about socioeconomics and technological change. It discusses five interwoven economies (subsistence, gift, exchange, planned, and theft) and how the balance will shift with cultural changes and technological changes. It suggests that things like a basic income, better planning, improved subsistence, and an expanded gift economy can compensate in part for an exchange economy that is having problems."

"Beyond a Jobless Recovery: A heterodox perspective on 21st century economics"
http://knol.google.com/k/beyond-a-jobless-recovery
"This article explores the issue of a "Jobless Recovery" mainly from a heterodox economic perspective. It emphasizes the implications of ideas by Marshall Brain and others that improvements in robotics, automation, design, and voluntary social networks are fundamentally changing the structure of the economic landscape. It outlines towards the end four major alternatives to mainstream economic practice (a basic income, a gift economy, stronger local subsistence economies, and resource-based planning). These alternatives could be used in combination to address what, even as far back as 1964, has been described as a breaking "income-through-jobs link". This link between jobs and income is breaking because of the declining value of most paid human labor relative to capital investments in automation and better design. Or, as is now the case, the value of paid human labor like at some newspapers or universities is also declining relative to the output of voluntary social networks such as for digital content production (like represented by this document). It is suggested that we will need to fundamentally reevaluate our economic theories and practices to adjust to these new realities emerging from exponential trends in technology and society."

See also Marshall Brain's writings and Martin Ford's.

> Linus may be a great programmer, but the Linux kernel development community most certainly formed in spite of his attitude toward his own community, not because of it.

"This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and
I'd like to know what features most people would want."
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/msg/b813d52cbc5a044b

That looks pretty good attitude to me. And Linus has called my code worthless also, but it was for a reason so I don't mind.

I don't see why you can't roll up the two. Certainly, it would save a lot of time and effort, and after it worked you wouldn't be appreciably worse off when they eventually fire you.

Did you see those paparazzi bikini pics on GIS? MILF-tastic!