I second this!

I'm the only person I know (at a company with many developers) who does this. My roommate in college got me hooked on it and I've been doing it ever since.... (CMG, is that you? :P)

In response to the OP, as a backend developer, I often work just off my laptop screen, with is a Mac w/ Retina display. When I dock, I have a 22" 1080p monitor and it's "good enough" for me. (I do notice the resolution difference at first, but I adjust to it pretty quickly.)

Yikes! I didn't realize that Brexit had such an impact on the British economy. Or that Fortnight had only turned a buck twenty-five in profit. Must be Hollywood accounting.

Actually, now that I actually did look at the Wikipedia articles, it seems there is no relation between the two.

The reference for this claim is a dead link, however.

I remember Egghead Software, and always wondered if they were related to NewEgg -- though didn't wonder enough to check the Wikipedia page or anything. :-p

I don't have a fancy guide, but what I did with openwrt is I installed dnsmasq as the dns server -- you can tell it where to go for records it doesn't know about, and provide custom entries.

My /etc/dnsmasq.conf looks something like this: http://pastebin.com/34HS7j0X (posted to Pastebin to avoid Slashdot's lameness filter. Which itself is rather lame.)

In my case, I actually redirect them to a locally running dummy webserver so that they immediately get a 404 response. I tail the dns log to see all the requests going through and block anything that doesn't look legit.

Be careful of the log file growing larger than you have space for, particularly if it's going to ram drive.

Can you please provide a citation for this claim? I haven't seen that one yet.

Just wanted to add on this clarification based on my experience just now:

The latest version of HandBrake in Windows 64-bit uses LibDVDNav. You can disable it in the options menu and it will use libdvdread instead. I have not yet tested if placing the latest libdvdcss dll file in the same directory will work or not.

I apologize for not being clearer in my post. I was not making a comment one way or another on sChatwin's rebuttal, but was instead noting that the term "average" was incorrectly defined. My aim was not to discredit the post, and I hope it did not come across that way, but rather to point out and correct an inaccurate statement, in a similar manner of that which sChatwin's post employed.

(Also, just FYI, your post came across rather self-righteous -- you might want to tone that down. :))

Actually, average can mean many things. What you are describing in called the mean. It could also be referring to the mode, which is the most commonly occurring value in a data set. Or perhaps the median, which is the middle value of a data set: half of the population uses less and half uses more. Or any of the numerous ways you can compute an "average." Wikipedia's article provides a good starting point to familiarizing yourself with this topic.

In summary, never assume that you know which method was used to compute an average unless it is explicitly defined. I didn't take the time to examine the original paper to see how wrong the newspaper restatement was, so it is possible that it was better defined there.

to reduce pollution and other environmental problems . . . for one day a week have cereal for breakfast, A PB & J and Banana sandwich for lunch and a plate of pasta for dinner

Let me get this straight. To be eco-friendly, forego natural sources of energy and use factory-produced ones?

That really doesn't seem that much for a whole year. A person can't live more than 4 or 5 days without water, and health professionals recommend people drink 2-3 liters of water per day.

You might want to rethink that. Let's be generous and assume 4 L a day for a year:

4 L * 365.25 days = 1461 L/yr

At 2,500,000 L in an Olympic-sized pool, that only accounts for about 0.058% of the pool's volume.

And that's just drinking water - people also need to bath and use water for cooking.

Indeed, and I don't have a good method for approximating this, though the quantity used in drinking water is such a small fraction of the pool's volume that I wouldn't anticipate these additional activities using a reasonable percentage of the volume. Use your water bills to determine your annual consumption and see for yourself. (Be sure to divide by the number of people in your household!)