I encrypt a single device. (My laptop hard drive.) There are partitions laid out on top of that, including root, home, swap -- the usual. External devices are generally unencrypted. It seems like the most obvious way to do encrypted storage for my purposes. I don't have to fuss with making sure data lands on an encrypted spot (swap is a famous gotcha), but it's still just one key to remember. I'm surprised it's not listed.

Is that actually an unusual setup, or did that option just get left out as an oversight?

Was that a Freudian slip (s/problem/program/) or did I mis-parse that sentence?

So, unless Oklahoma is in unrecoverable ruins, that's Kohath: 1, pclminion: 0.

I couldn't stop seeing that, either. Frankly, it would have been more interesting, and I'm not much of a biology enthusiast.

Good points. I mean, they sounded pretty good when Penn and Teller were making them. I don't think you parroted them correctly, though.

Penn made the point that if we treat animals with the same respect and rights as people (which PETA seeks), it would make sense to give them the same responsibilities, and cited obscenity and sanitation codes as an example, which most animals would be completely unprepared to follow. I'm fairly sure PETA doesn't go around saying animals should have to obey our laws, though.

"Bullshit!" is a great show, I think, but it sounds like you watched an episode, half-remembered it, and regurgitated what you remembered as the main points.

(Oh, it looks like PETA was season 2, episode 1, if anyone else wants to check it out.)

In the bathroom, I might be showering, shaving, or shitting, but I'm not just sitting around wishing I had something to do until my official bathroom time is up. I'm busy. I'm pretty sure that's normal. The old idea of a TV or phone or microwave in the bathroom is comical, but that is not actually my favorite room in the house to hang out.

Wait ... I didn't see this gem:

What the hell?

Jr. only has to walk as far as the nearest neighbor's house, where he will find a USB phone charger.

Assuming you've managed to find all the USB chargers in the house.

Exactly what I thought. Autism diagnosis rates are going up. Shockingly, if you put two people who like to analyze things in charge of a kid, they might be more likely to get him diagnosed. It could be true and have nothing to do with genetics, and very little to do with autism.

That's assuming the "theory" (hypothesis?) isn't just completely made up sensationalist crap, which most of the high-rated comments so far suggest it is. I haven't read TFA, but I don't think it looks worthwhile at this point.

Perhaps it is about propriety. My understanding is that you won't get in trouble for downloading (personal gain), but for uploading (giving to the community). If someone really thinks that sharing content with others is morally or ethically a good thing to do, then it stands to reason that giving up the practice because of intimidation just wouldn't be, well, proper.

Not that every torrenter is a saint. The motivation might just be "fuck the man", which amounts to the same thing in a perverse way. Of course, there's always ignorance. The fact that an activity is a bad idea doesn't seem to prevent large numbers of people from engaging in it. (Smoking, any number of bad driving habits, unprotected sex, being belligerent to police, posting compromising photos online, developing in Flash ...)

Really? *whips out phone* Wow, cool! I had no idea Transdroid had a built in bar code scanner. Thanks!

You and I are at a bar. You look away, and I pour my beer all over you. You turn to me, see that my glass is suddenly empty, there's no one else around, etc. You accuse me of pouring a beer on you.

"Nope. God did it." Since you can't disprove that, both of our hypotheses are a matter of faith, and therefore equally valid, right?

(Answer: No. One is supported by evidence, while the other has no evidence, therefore one hypothesis is more likely. Whether the other can be disproven is irrelevant to that fact.)

That's not surprising at all. Here, am I talking politics or electronics?

"Just spend enough to make it work. What's the most common solution? Let's do that."
"I want to spend as much money as necessary to get what I'm told is the best and shiniest system possible."

Then there are the Linux libertarians: disgusted by the major parties, trying hard (sometimes too hard) not to become cynical about their tiny minority. "Of course it's a viable solution! People will get it someday..."

Couldn't have said it better than Zencyde. Respect.

I could post with the same title, but my decrepit old computer is tasked with content acquisition. It polls an RSS feed periodically for new torrent files. When the download is complete, it is made available over HTTP on the LAN, so technically I stream content to whatever computer I happen to be sitting in front of. I can't speak for all content, but for what I want to watch, it's pretty reliable.

The automation is important for me. I have a crappy DSL connection, but as long as I don't end up staring at a progress meter, it doesn't stress me. (It's fine for web browsing -- even while the torrents are running.) Since I know the acquisition is going to happen, I don't worry about checking to see if something new is out yet. It will get here when it gets here. When I want to veg for a while, I just check my content listing page and see what I have lined up to watch.

My goal when I was setting up the system was to provide a more enjoyable service than Hulu. The target demographic is women who live with me. (Audience size is one.) I haven't seen my girlfriend check Hulu in months. I do see her commandeer my laptop and check my server for new stuff on a daily basis. It gives me warm fuzzies.

Oh, and since it seems to be the poll question, I've never paid for cable TV. It's just not in the budget.

I viewed the conversation on this topic mostly to see the revulsion at that series of words. There isn't enough. I would be pissed to see that statement anywhere, and probably mention something about fact-checking. It's on the front page of slashdot. There's no way timothy didn't look at it, recognize that it is a bald faced lie and that everyone here would know it, and endorse it anyway. What the hell?

FTP hasn't evolved. It's been replaced. As others have pointed out, there's https for the masses, and sftp for the ssh-inclined. There's bit torrent for efficiently distributing load. If you want to talk about history, great. If you want to claim that FTP is a good protocol today, I disagree. If you want to tell me that it's secure, you can just get fucked.