Comment Re:Maybe for parking (Score 1) 144
1) Open parking lot that provides open spot information to aware vehicles.
2) Sell video footage of spectacular crashes as multiple drivers race to the same spot.
3) Profit!
Not at all like UUIDs. UUIDs are gobally unique, SKUs denote a class of items, of which there can be many items of each SKU/class.
I picked up two Core i5 based Chromeboxes (from the Google Dev conf) on Craigslist for $200 each. Seemed like a bargain. One's running Crubuntu, and the other is awaiting me having time to flash a new bios so I can run straight Ubuntu.
The seagate 3TB that just failed on me was my backup drive.
Now, I didn't lose any current data, but all my time-machine backups are gone, poof...
Wow. Just wow. I guess you could go with things like 'battery horse staple
Secret questions make plenty of sense:
What high school did you attend? ljdf1243097dsafnllsdfj12342341
Who was your favorite teacher? 9f1301d6eab107a1d0bd
I run my own email server, so adding Google into the mix lengthens the chain of trust, not shortens it.
Of course, a registrar would probably be less likely to be socially engineered to changing the domain ownership of gmail.com than my domain, but I do use a good registrar (gandi.net) and do have two-factor auth turned on.
Not having a girlfriend isn't abnormal, more than 50% of the population doesn't have a (romantic) girlfriend...
I've rooted the control systems for the Hubble Space Telescope...
IIRC, Backblaze was running all around the bay area (and farther afield) buying external drives at Costco and shucking the external cases.
Feinstein has been a fucktard for years. Somewhere I still have her letter back to me saying that while she likes hearing from her constituents she still had to support the "flag abuse amendment".
She apparently confuses freedom and symbols of freedom...
No, the problem is the "other side" is -even-more-evil...
As opposed to just letting the rich do that...at least if enough people get pissed, the pols can be voted out. That can happen with the rich as well, but well violent revolution is so disruptive...
Ha Ha, you'd be really pissed if you were an investor in the company I work for. I've got 2x 27" Dell's, and the conference rooms have 70" Sharp displays.
No _known_ dog: http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Rat_Things_(Snow_Crash)
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