>If you're one of those paranoid psychos, then don't give them your life story.
Too bad there's no "Skip this crap" option in their registration screen, huh?
So, the only way to not give them your life story is to lie. I know! Let's make it easy and create a random login generator so I don't have to type more random crap on every computer I use!
And, BTW, if you think I'm paranoid, I'll let you know that I was able to make any changes I wanted [but only did what I asked, of course] to my grandmother's phone line by simply asking her age and full name -- ALL of which are sent to NYT on that page. They only asked to hear a lady's voice, which my mother happily provided. Armed with just a birthdate and name I can make all sorts of changes to your services -- anonymously.
Knowing that, do you want to give me your name and address? If you don't, you should know there's no reason why I'm not working at the NYT right now... I will tell you that were I do work I have access to many, many, many records including Full Names and Birthdates. Feeling uneasy yet? Well, if you trust me, I've never abused those privleges.
>When they change their registration process and perhaps charging for their online content, don't start bitching.
My only bitching will be the fact their site goes offline for everyone. You can't compete in a (literally) Free market by charging infinitely more than your competitors. With the amount of newspapers online right now, and the amount of good content that doesn't come from the NYT, I think they'll end up another salon.
>I think you have a problem understanding the words "very little". In programmer terms, very little != nothing. Cool air is a luxury. It is _not_ penicillin or pasteurized milk.
A luxury?
You might want to take a look at the temperature scale here, and notice when heatstroke occurrs. Notice the words life threatening. To live in an area that can have temperatures of over 130 F will ensure your death.
Being cool, for humans, is simply not a luxury, and our ability to ensure that people don't die in their own homes during a heatwave is one effect of Air Conditioning.
>Some places are just too damned cold.
Yes, well, I wouldn't blame that on air conditioning in general any more than I'd blame music being too loud on stereo equipment in general (for example). Someone's misuse of a product doesn't exclude its proper use.
>Have you never heard of nuclear waste
Yes, I have read that the entire amount of nuclear waste generated on the entire earth will fit in a football field or two. Small price to pay when there's so much unused, and completely uninhabited (by anything) space on this planet. Over time, this extremely small problem will be solved with technology too (slow poke reactors are a very good start). Not that it even matters anyways, because, as I've said, the amounts of waste generated are just too small to care about.
>meltdowns
Again, improper use of a technology does not discount its proper use. Nuclear power is 100% safe and effective when used properly. AFAIK, no 1st world country has ever experienced a massive meltdown.
>thermal pollution?
A problem easily solved with proper foresight into the building of the nuclear power plant.
>Ask your neighbor if he would mind if you built a nuclear power plant across the street from him and begin trucking in uranium
I have been near a local power plant (Pickering, Ontario) and experienced none of this heavy uraniam trucking traffic you speak about. It simply doesn't exist.
>Now ask yourself where all these miracle facilities are for a technology that was born in WWII.
Pickering and Bruce Ontario. Pickering is within a stone's throw of Toronto, Canada's largest city (population wise). The only major complaints from those people are that the Pickering plant could use more safety inspections. Neither of these power plants use WWII technology, which is inherently unsafe. Rather they use the much safer, and well tested over time, CANDU technology. A technology, which, again, when used properly is perfectly safe. However, a CANDU reactor can still melt down, but this virtually requires a forceful amount of ignorance. This design, which us Canadians have sold to many other countries is virtually indestructible.
>Anyone that has a problem with transporting nuclear material and storing substances that will not be safe for thousands of years must be a lunatic.
Your smoke detector contains those substances, but I bet you have one. Mercury and lead will last your lifetime, but you don't see people driving around trying to dig those items up, do you? Has there ever, even once been a serious spill of nuclear material related to a nuclear power plant in a first world country that has caused more devastation than the iginition of a gas tanker train?
You seemed to be scared of something you don't fully understand.
> Let those who produce the waste deal with it and a few attitudes may change.
We, in Canada, take our nuclear waste and bury it up north well away from any person, and well away from the natural habitats of most any kind of living life. I doubt snow cares about nuclear radiation, but we ensure even it doesn't experience any by sheilding any and all nuclear raditiation coming from the waste. I'm more than sure we'd be pleased to take your nuclear waste (if we aren't already) at a cost.
And why the animosity to big cities? I assume you must have quite a lot towards big cities since they tend to generate more waste than they can handle.
I say let the people who understand and can take care of the waste handle it, and let them reap the profits of their work.
>Once again, you fail to realize the correlation between power drain and environmental damage.
Once again, you fail to show anything to back up your baseless ideas. If power drain caused environmental damage, the reverse should be true. In that case, why do lightning strikes not cause life to grow?
>Crank your air conditioning down all the way and leave it there for this month. Check your next electric bill.
Hello, McFly? Cost and environmental damage are unrelated. For the cost of a single 10 ct. diamond I can cause more environmental damage than that diamond will ever cause in its entire lifetime!
>Gee, I wonder how all those electrons were magically produced?
How can you sleep at night knowing people have X-Ray producing TVs on!
> The residents of Paducah, Kentucky found this out not long ago when they discovered that radioactive material had been leaching into the ground.
A search on the internet revealed that these deaths were caused by gross mismanagement of waste at these areas. Even so, the amount of people harmed by this is far less than the effects caused by your coal power.
Not to mention that where you're talking about is a nuclear weapons production plant. These are places creating and designing things that are meant to cause harm and nuclear explosions. I wouldn't live near _any_ place that makes weapons, nuclear or not.
Coal power is a factor in well over 6000 death pear year in the United States alone. Nuclear power can't even begin to touch those numbers. The amount of people killed by Chernobyl (15000), arguably the largest nuclear power accident ever, pales in comparison to the amount of lives lost in just one country over the years since that meltdown due to coal and other unclean power.
>Of course, everybody should be on nuclear power, right?
Hell yes. Statistics show, provably, that nuclear power is the cleanest, safest, and most abundant energy we can produce. Solar cells and wind power (the only two [however, still a bit debateable] safer supplies of energy) are simply insufficient to even run enough power to let people cook their food, unless you want to black out entire cities with solar panels, or risk danger by putting wind generators in the paths of walking humans.
Now that's a really pathetic way to put down someone's opinion. especially when it is so ontopic.
I will so metamoderate that person into non-moderation.
Posting this at +2 again so people can read it:
ou want it cheap on windows too?
Your mission for this year:
- Become proficient in C.
- Port what you need from Linux to Windows (you suggested Linux already does everything you need).
Problem solved.
And sorry to say this, but 99% of the time this is the only way software becomes "cheap", is when someone who wants some software but can't/won't pay for it creates it (or ports it when available). Maybe you'll get lucky and it'll be ported for you, but I doubt it. Its just far easier to set up a linux router for this sort of thing.
Unfortunately, windows is well known as one of the world's biggest "pay" OSes. You just won't find much free (of consequence) for it that didn't exist on another OS first -- even taping a simple phone conversation will cost far more in software than hardware (source: The Screen Savers).
>It's done very little to improve the quality of life for humans
A flat out lie. If you don't feel more comfortable in an air conditioned building, you have some kind of temperature regulation problem, or a problem with dealing with humidity. See a doctor immediately.
>and quite a bit to degrade it.
I'm not even going to mention the huge conspiracy theory that is Freon, but I will ask why you think it degrades life? What, other than Freon, which modern air conditioners no longer use, about air conditioning is inherently bad? That it uses power? Well, BFD! Build a nuclear power plant and all the problems are solved.
>I am by no means an avid environmentalist
In that case, you should have no problem with nuclear power plants -- otherwise you are an environmentalist nutcase and just haven't come out of the closet yet.
>But it's nowhere near a necessity and if humans would tolerate a little discomfort, the Earth might be in much better shape.
Exactly how is getting rid of all air conditioning today going to benefit the earth? Considering how long an air conditioner lasts, I doubt its going to do much to landfills. Most parts of an air conditioner are recyclable anyways.
Two, why be in discomfort when it causes little to no environmental harm? You just haven't backed up your theory that well...
>Nevertheless, the petroleum supplies are depleted at an increasing rate so that people can be more comfortable as they sit in traffic with the A/C on full blast.
The majority of time the majority of people sit in air conditioning (by majority I mean 90% or more) is in an air conditioned building. If your local power comes from coal or gas, I feel for you. Not just your environment, but you must be writing some fat checks to the local power authorities!
- Become proficient in C.
- Port what you need from Linux to Windows (you suggested Linux already does everything you need).
Problem solved.
And sorry to say this, but 99% of the time this is the only way software becomes "cheap", is when someone who wants some software but can't/won't pay for it creates it (or ports it when available). Maybe you'll get lucky and it'll be ported for you, but I doubt it. Its just far easier to set up a linux router for this sort of thing.
Unfortunately, windows is well known as one of the world's biggest "pay" OSes. You just won't find much free (of consequence) for it that didn't exist on another OS first -- even taping a simple phone conversation will cost far more in software than hardware (source: The Screen Savers).
It doesn't surprise me, Mr. Turd (or is that Report Turd, or Mr. T?), that you're having trouble reading the article, never mind the fact that its even in the description of this topic; both of which explain in plain english that the searches are being done at airports.
Search deja for "DirecPC FAP" (your idea is part of their Fair Access Policy) and you'll notice exactly how much the users like that idea.
I can tell you that it is certain death for any company that does that. It has to be the most hated way of limiting use of bandwidth known to man. I something that's for sure -- if my provider moved from limiting by total usage to incremental speed decreases I'd quit them that hour.
Next thing you know they'll add remote controlled governors to trucks and force them to go slower and slower depending on how many miles they put on them. Blech! You can keep those heavy handed tactics off my network connection, TYVM.
I'm really, really, really looking hard for some decent Canadian electronica (partly because I'm a nice patriotic guy, and partly to fill my CRTC/SOCAN obligations, if you must ask).
Anyone here have any reccomendations? Preferrably online, but hey, anything's good.
>If you talk about you trying out linux then ok go ahead, but don't complain to me when you rm -rf the wrong place and has to reinstall the os instead of just the user files
Well, I'm not really testing out Linux (I've been using it for over 5 years!:-) but mostly the second kind of testing, which you said...
>On the other hand if you talk about test, as in testing software then you're a fool. Software should be tested running as user, unless it's a tool for root
Look, I've got a box that I like to use to play about with any new software I feel like. This isn't testing for a company, just testing out new stuff for fun. Since I do a lot of DVD and Video Capture work with that machine it gets screwed all the time anyways, not to mention the helluva time I had getting stuff to work properly for video capture as a non-root user (it was a long time since I tried that -- I think it was back in the 2.0 kernel days -- probably worth another look).
As long as the box doesn't set on fire, it doesn't matter to me what it does!:-)
Of course, if I were doing this professionally I'd have no business doing everything as root. But since I'm not and I don't care all that much about the data on this box (it gets wiped pretty often by me anyways) and I don't use anything but non-executable data from this box elsewhere, AND I keep it firewalled away from the world, I doubt there's much for me to worry about...
Yup, you're right. I've not actually installed one, I just know 1F is a HUGE capacitance.
Redoing the calcs for 1F gives us 200 Joules for the car capacitor, which puts our cost/cap ratio comparison at (using your $100 price -- but, BTW, a local shop near me sells them for $79 CDN, but that's a surplus place, though):
Car cap: $0.50 per Joule Camera Flash Caps: $0.76 per Joule.
However, with the camera you get to use the camera for pictures first, which is probably worth $0.26 per Joule:-)
Not to mention that if they're free you can't beat that!
In Canada it is illegal to index anything by SIN/SSN. You must always have a unique key that isn't the SIN/SSN -- this is (very likely) why schoolchildren and college/university students are given student IDs.
I would have thought the US would have similar laws. I guess not...
>The likelyhood of screwing something up as root is much higher. Additionally, if you are logged in as root, processes that run wild can easily take down the whole system.
Agreed, of course.
>Conversely, sinse you are the one starting with a questionable premise, why _would_ you?
Well, because I'm lazy and its a home machine -- It just doesn't have that much important stuff on it. Its for surfing the web, watching TV, playing MP3s and movies. All of which I can fix in a heartbeat. Although, it sure would be a bummer if an app locked up the machine while I was watching TV or a movie.
Elsewhere, I'm normally much more careful. Normally... >:-D
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>If you're one of those paranoid psychos, then don't give them your life story.
Too bad there's no "Skip this crap" option in their registration screen, huh?
So, the only way to not give them your life story is to lie. I know! Let's make it easy and create a random login generator so I don't have to type more random crap on every computer I use!
And, BTW, if you think I'm paranoid, I'll let you know that I was able to make any changes I wanted [but only did what I asked, of course] to my grandmother's phone line by simply asking her age and full name -- ALL of which are sent to NYT on that page. They only asked to hear a lady's voice, which my mother happily provided. Armed with just a birthdate and name I can make all sorts of changes to your services -- anonymously.
Knowing that, do you want to give me your name and address? If you don't, you should know there's no reason why I'm not working at the NYT right now... I will tell you that were I do work I have access to many, many, many records including Full Names and Birthdates. Feeling uneasy yet? Well, if you trust me, I've never abused those privleges.
>When they change their registration process and perhaps charging for their online content, don't start bitching.
My only bitching will be the fact their site goes offline for everyone. You can't compete in a (literally) Free market by charging infinitely more than your competitors. With the amount of newspapers online right now, and the amount of good content that doesn't come from the NYT, I think they'll end up another salon.
>Unless they're stupid fuckers who check to make sure your zipcode is in your state
That's the only reason why Beverly Hills, 90210 didn't suck. I suppose you could forget what state that's in...
>I think you have a problem understanding the words "very little". In programmer terms, very little != nothing. Cool air is a luxury. It is _not_ penicillin or pasteurized milk.
A luxury?
You might want to take a look at the temperature scale here, and notice when heatstroke occurrs. Notice the words life threatening. To live in an area that can have temperatures of over 130 F will ensure your death.
Being cool, for humans, is simply not a luxury, and our ability to ensure that people don't die in their own homes during a heatwave is one effect of Air Conditioning.
>Some places are just too damned cold.
Yes, well, I wouldn't blame that on air conditioning in general any more than I'd blame music being too loud on stereo equipment in general (for example). Someone's misuse of a product doesn't exclude its proper use.
>Have you never heard of nuclear waste
Yes, I have read that the entire amount of nuclear waste generated on the entire earth will fit in a football field or two. Small price to pay when there's so much unused, and completely uninhabited (by anything) space on this planet. Over time, this extremely small problem will be solved with technology too (slow poke reactors are a very good start). Not that it even matters anyways, because, as I've said, the amounts of waste generated are just too small to care about.
>meltdowns
Again, improper use of a technology does not discount its proper use. Nuclear power is 100% safe and effective when used properly. AFAIK, no 1st world country has ever experienced a massive meltdown.
>thermal pollution?
A problem easily solved with proper foresight into the building of the nuclear power plant.
>Ask your neighbor if he would mind if you built a nuclear power plant across the street from him and begin trucking in uranium
I have been near a local power plant (Pickering, Ontario) and experienced none of this heavy uraniam trucking traffic you speak about. It simply doesn't exist.
>Now ask yourself where all these miracle facilities are for a technology that was born in WWII.
Pickering and Bruce Ontario. Pickering is within a stone's throw of Toronto, Canada's largest city (population wise). The only major complaints from those people are that the Pickering plant could use more safety inspections. Neither of these power plants use WWII technology, which is inherently unsafe. Rather they use the much safer, and well tested over time, CANDU technology. A technology, which, again, when used properly is perfectly safe. However, a CANDU reactor can still melt down, but this virtually requires a forceful amount of ignorance. This design, which us Canadians have sold to many other countries is virtually indestructible.
>Anyone that has a problem with transporting nuclear material and storing substances that will not be safe for thousands of years must be a lunatic.
Your smoke detector contains those substances, but I bet you have one. Mercury and lead will last your lifetime, but you don't see people driving around trying to dig those items up, do you? Has there ever, even once been a serious spill of nuclear material related to a nuclear power plant in a first world country that has caused more devastation than the iginition of a gas tanker train?
You seemed to be scared of something you don't fully understand.
> Let those who produce the waste deal with it and a few attitudes may change.
We, in Canada, take our nuclear waste and bury it up north well away from any person, and well away from the natural habitats of most any kind of living life. I doubt snow cares about nuclear radiation, but we ensure even it doesn't experience any by sheilding any and all nuclear raditiation coming from the waste. I'm more than sure we'd be pleased to take your nuclear waste (if we aren't already) at a cost.
And why the animosity to big cities? I assume you must have quite a lot towards big cities since they tend to generate more waste than they can handle.
I say let the people who understand and can take care of the waste handle it, and let them reap the profits of their work.
>Once again, you fail to realize the correlation between power drain and environmental damage.
Once again, you fail to show anything to back up your baseless ideas. If power drain caused environmental damage, the reverse should be true. In that case, why do lightning strikes not cause life to grow?
>Crank your air conditioning down all the way and leave it there for this month. Check your next electric bill.
Hello, McFly? Cost and environmental damage are unrelated. For the cost of a single 10 ct. diamond I can cause more environmental damage than that diamond will ever cause in its entire lifetime!
>Gee, I wonder how all those electrons were magically produced?
How can you sleep at night knowing people have X-Ray producing TVs on!
> The residents of Paducah, Kentucky found this out not long ago when they discovered that radioactive material had been leaching into the ground.
A search on the internet revealed that these deaths were caused by gross mismanagement of waste at these areas. Even so, the amount of people harmed by this is far less than the effects caused by your coal power.
Not to mention that where you're talking about is a nuclear weapons production plant. These are places creating and designing things that are meant to cause harm and nuclear explosions. I wouldn't live near _any_ place that makes weapons, nuclear or not.
Coal power is a factor in well over 6000 death pear year in the United States alone. Nuclear power can't even begin to touch those numbers. The amount of people killed by Chernobyl (15000), arguably the largest nuclear power accident ever, pales in comparison to the amount of lives lost in just one country over the years since that meltdown due to coal and other unclean power.
>Of course, everybody should be on nuclear power, right?
Hell yes. Statistics show, provably, that nuclear power is the cleanest, safest, and most abundant energy we can produce. Solar cells and wind power (the only two [however, still a bit debateable] safer supplies of energy) are simply insufficient to even run enough power to let people cook their food, unless you want to black out entire cities with solar panels, or risk danger by putting wind generators in the paths of walking humans.
Now that's a really pathetic way to put down someone's opinion. especially when it is so ontopic.
I will so metamoderate that person into non-moderation.
Posting this at +2 again so people can read it:
ou want it cheap on windows too?
Your mission for this year:
- Become proficient in C.
- Port what you need from Linux to Windows (you suggested Linux already does everything you need).
Problem solved.
And sorry to say this, but 99% of the time this is the only way software becomes "cheap", is when someone who wants some software but can't/won't pay for it creates it (or ports it when available). Maybe you'll get lucky and it'll be ported for you, but I doubt it. Its just far easier to set up a linux router for this sort of thing.
Unfortunately, windows is well known as one of the world's biggest "pay" OSes. You just won't find much free (of consequence) for it that didn't exist on another OS first -- even taping a simple phone conversation will cost far more in software than hardware (source: The Screen Savers).
I wish you good luck on your search, though!
>It's done very little to improve the quality of life for humans
A flat out lie. If you don't feel more comfortable in an air conditioned building, you have some kind of temperature regulation problem, or a problem with dealing with humidity. See a doctor immediately.
>and quite a bit to degrade it.
I'm not even going to mention the huge conspiracy theory that is Freon, but I will ask why you think it degrades life? What, other than Freon, which modern air conditioners no longer use, about air conditioning is inherently bad? That it uses power? Well, BFD! Build a nuclear power plant and all the problems are solved.
>I am by no means an avid environmentalist
In that case, you should have no problem with nuclear power plants -- otherwise you are an environmentalist nutcase and just haven't come out of the closet yet.
>But it's nowhere near a necessity and if humans would tolerate a little discomfort, the Earth might be in much better shape.
Exactly how is getting rid of all air conditioning today going to benefit the earth? Considering how long an air conditioner lasts, I doubt its going to do much to landfills. Most parts of an air conditioner are recyclable anyways.
Two, why be in discomfort when it causes little to no environmental harm? You just haven't backed up your theory that well...
>Nevertheless, the petroleum supplies are depleted at an increasing rate so that people can be more comfortable as they sit in traffic with the A/C on full blast.
The majority of time the majority of people sit in air conditioning (by majority I mean 90% or more) is in an air conditioned building. If your local power comes from coal or gas, I feel for you. Not just your environment, but you must be writing some fat checks to the local power authorities!
Heh, think that's bad?
You'd be amazed at the places still running old apache versions despite the ominous warnings!
(Yes, I found the lwn link very ironic too, but not as funny as this)
>i dont appreciate gay viruses
Well, in that case, do you prefer viruses that are straight or sad?
You want it cheap on windows too?
Your mission for this year:
- Become proficient in C.
- Port what you need from Linux to Windows (you suggested Linux already does everything you need).
Problem solved.
And sorry to say this, but 99% of the time this is the only way software becomes "cheap", is when someone who wants some software but can't/won't pay for it creates it (or ports it when available). Maybe you'll get lucky and it'll be ported for you, but I doubt it. Its just far easier to set up a linux router for this sort of thing.
Unfortunately, windows is well known as one of the world's biggest "pay" OSes. You just won't find much free (of consequence) for it that didn't exist on another OS first -- even taping a simple phone conversation will cost far more in software than hardware (source: The Screen Savers).
I wish you good luck on your search, though!
>Quality over quantity?
100%, I totally agree.
That's why I am always careful to keep a couple of +4s or +5s in my short list.
>Where are all these searches being done at?
It doesn't surprise me, Mr. Turd (or is that Report Turd, or Mr. T?), that you're having trouble reading the article, never mind the fact that its even in the description of this topic; both of which explain in plain english that the searches are being done at airports.
>Wouldn't be quite so funny if it was a kit car that comes in 5,000 pieces that runs linux, now would it?
Not so funny, but it would make it onto slashdot in a heartbeat.
You think that's bad?
Try this!
(Mostly work safe -- strange for rotten.com)
here
>although I am amazed by the fact that they found the post button
Do I get a prize?
Search deja for "DirecPC FAP" (your idea is part of their Fair Access Policy) and you'll notice exactly how much the users like that idea.
I can tell you that it is certain death for any company that does that. It has to be the most hated way of limiting use of bandwidth known to man. I something that's for sure -- if my provider moved from limiting by total usage to incremental speed decreases I'd quit them that hour.
Next thing you know they'll add remote controlled governors to trucks and force them to go slower and slower depending on how many miles they put on them. Blech! You can keep those heavy handed tactics off my network connection, TYVM.
Has been mentioned, here's a couple that haven't been:
Arling and Cameron.
TRS-80
And a bonus one: Adult (have fun finding it!).
I'm really, really, really looking hard for some decent Canadian electronica (partly because I'm a nice patriotic guy, and partly to fill my CRTC/SOCAN obligations, if you must ask).
Anyone here have any reccomendations? Preferrably online, but hey, anything's good.
Thanks!
>If you talk about you trying out linux then ok go ahead, but don't complain to me when you rm -rf the wrong place and has to reinstall the os instead of just the user files
:-) but mostly the second kind of testing, which you said...
:-)
Well, I'm not really testing out Linux (I've been using it for over 5 years!
>On the other hand if you talk about test, as in testing software then you're a fool. Software should be tested running as user, unless it's a tool for root
Look, I've got a box that I like to use to play about with any new software I feel like. This isn't testing for a company, just testing out new stuff for fun. Since I do a lot of DVD and Video Capture work with that machine it gets screwed all the time anyways, not to mention the helluva time I had getting stuff to work properly for video capture as a non-root user (it was a long time since I tried that -- I think it was back in the 2.0 kernel days -- probably worth another look).
As long as the box doesn't set on fire, it doesn't matter to me what it does!
Of course, if I were doing this professionally I'd have no business doing everything as root. But since I'm not and I don't care all that much about the data on this box (it gets wiped pretty often by me anyways) and I don't use anything but non-executable data from this box elsewhere, AND I keep it firewalled away from the world, I doubt there's much for me to worry about...
Yup, you're right. I've not actually installed one, I just know 1F is a HUGE capacitance.
:-)
Redoing the calcs for 1F gives us 200 Joules for the car capacitor, which puts our cost/cap ratio comparison at (using your $100 price -- but, BTW, a local shop near me sells them for $79 CDN, but that's a surplus place, though):
Car cap: $0.50 per Joule
Camera Flash Caps: $0.76 per Joule.
However, with the camera you get to use the camera for pictures first, which is probably worth $0.26 per Joule
Not to mention that if they're free you can't beat that!
>Now if only somebody could tell me why my +50 karma was replaced by "Karma: Excellent"
:-)
Beats me, but why not try this for now?
In Canada it is illegal to index anything by SIN/SSN. You must always have a unique key that isn't the SIN/SSN -- this is (very likely) why schoolchildren and college/university students are given student IDs.
I would have thought the US would have similar laws. I guess not...
>Am I missing something, or is his time worth nothing?
.1 F.
Yes, you are missing something.
Car audio capacitor: 16-20 volts @
Camera flash capacitor: 330 volts @ 120 uF.
Now lets see, using the formula E = 1/2 * U^2 * C, how many joules are in each capacitor.
Car audio capacitor: E = 20 Joules
Flash capacitor: E = 6.534 Joules
Car Cap: $40 or $2 per joule.
Disposable camera: $5 or $0.76 per joule.
Camera caps are far cheaper, and this guy got them for free.
>he'll be looking in the junk yard for a new dash and console before he can even THINK about trading in this car.
No he won't, because I'd buy a car this cool in a heartbeat.
SO THERE.
Who says you have to quit counting?
I'm at 49 right now and I think I'll make a note of it in my journal.
>The likelyhood of screwing something up as root is much higher. Additionally, if you are logged in as root, processes that run wild can easily take down the whole system.
Agreed, of course.
>Conversely, sinse you are the one starting with a questionable premise, why _would_ you?
Well, because I'm lazy and its a home machine -- It just doesn't have that much important stuff on it. Its for surfing the web, watching TV, playing MP3s and movies. All of which I can fix in a heartbeat. Although, it sure would be a bummer if an app locked up the machine while I was watching TV or a movie.
Elsewhere, I'm normally much more careful. Normally... >:-D
Too late. :)
Now, where's the one made by China Labs I remember from the early 90's?