As someone who writes analysis code for the readings collected by smart meters, do you know how easy it is to isolate unusual activity by studying the averages versus actuals on a system like this and then send a few men out to do an inspection in a specific area versus the fleet of vehicles needed (carbon footprint) to read all those meters?

And I'm not going to go into the privacy concerns cos smart meters only relay usage, they know nothing about their installed locations.

I think this is about pot myself.

No but I would still forward it to an office of the military (who the hell handles this sort of thing? JAG?)

Better to say you were doing 3 months for possession, or that you took the time off to get a sex change.

I can't help myself ;) I thought it was hilarious ;)

lmfao, that's funny.

idk, if this is coming from some place like Dell or HP, I might trust it, depends on the specs. HP does that for you if the server is rigged enough, their diagnostics put a full load on the CPU/RAM (and by inheritance, the rest of the basic subsystems that deal with CPU/RAM) but not the hard drives for up to 24 hours before shipping. On average it's 6-8 hours of dedicated testing.

So if it came completely prebuilt from a big shop, I would trust it...

I'm gonna guess fileoverflow or serverdiskoverflow ...

Sadly I haz no modpoints, this was teh funniez

In addition to this, some of these will be a wonderous godsend

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So your aspiration in life is to work at McDonalds and hope to serve Bill Gates? Wow, what an aspiration...

Because not all extensions can be "disabled" from the UI. Then there's others, like Java, which don't remove old versions... go figure.

I'm considering buying the iPad, have been. I want two for my house. I'll likely purchase an iPad before I purchase any other Apple computing device aside from the two iPhones my wife and I carry.

You were saying?

Oh that's right, YOU'RE A TROLL! Begone forthwith

Oh, btw, the customer loves it!

I absolutely love to hear those words. Makes everything else worth it.

yeah, I'm about 3 years into mine, figure I got another 18 months tops, but I really want something with a better resolution than what I have now so I figure I'll see what's going on in mid-Feb.

Keep up with the pricewatching ... I'm still listening ;)

Then you missed out on a lot of fun stuff. What was nice was setting up a productive city and letting it run till like 30000 years into the future, then wiping everything, plowing all the ground, dropping down for the water tables, making your own islands, setting up arcologies and just goofing off...

Which seems to imply a further dimension that we have no control of nor hope of obtaining, since we are bound to the dimensions in which we exist. Some (many?) would say that it points to the existence of a higher power (deity) and so it is an interesting thought experiment. Where would such event that was not subject to the laws of thermodynamics have its origin?