In that case I retract my comments about barely-contributing and will make it "typical first year contribution." Most of the people working "shifts" in various camps are new to Burning Man. Eventually, most second- or third- year plus Burners will either stop going, or stop trying to build someone else's dream and make their own offshoot camp/project/etc.

I've got news for you though -- most of the people who run big projects (I've been a core part of two Esplanade theme camps, and now helped build an art car (you may have even ridden on it), want people not so much for the on-playa labor but the camp dues. Getting first-year sparkleponies to pay camp dues is a major method of financing for many camps. The Burner Express helps those people get to the playa on a budget while requiring minimal camp management/resources..and not trapping anyone in a vehicle with those people. That makes it so you can get randoms to join your camp and pay dues with less drama.

You really are a tourist, eh? Monday at BM, during breakdown is not really the time you make "new friends"..it's usually a frentic and desperate effort to cleanup moop, burn any burnables, pack up vehicles, etc etc. The only people wandering around looking for "new friends" are tourists who don't have anything to pack up or camp responsibilites to attend to.

Last year, the year you went, DPW advised everyone to get off the playa due to the threat of rain....that's why the line was so long -- there was a massive rush to get off the playa before rain set in. I've been on the playa when it rains -- it's pandemonium, messes up electronics, gets vehicles stuck in playa mud...

After the temple burn, the playa really calms down and the party is over. It's time to leave no trace. Once you've done that, you'll likely be downright exhausted and sitting in the car trying to sleep is really the logical thing to do. Thus, your system doesn't offer much advantages.."pulsing" already is taking care of gas consumption etc. You're just making it so tourists spend less time in exodus. I don't think BMORG will be receptive.

An "idiot" means a stupid person..not just someone you don't like..these people are smart, capable, and have done a lot in both business and for some of them in science as well. You can't be an idiot and succeed like that, and classifying successful people that you don't like as just 'idiots' might make you the same..

This AC nailed it. The OP up above was written by a first-year, barely-contributing Burner. He took the Burner Express...otherwise known as the "Sparkle Pony Express" because people can't bring that much stuff and typically the people on it are tourists -- people with little connection to Burning man, who contribute little, just coming to check out the party and bless us with their presence.

Bennett really has no idea what he's talking about here and very little Burning Man experience...word to the wise, Bennett, you need to join a real camp, and actually contribute to Burning Man..not come up with nonsensical ways of changing traffic management that misses the bottleneck of a 2-lane road entirely.

The "old people" (defined in OP as being past early twenties) at Burning Man include Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Elon Musk, Puff Daddy, Mark Zuckerberg, the Winkelvosses...the list goes on and on....are all these people idiots? They seem to be doing pretty well.

In the entire northern california and Reno area, all car rental companies make you sign an agreement NOT to bring the vehicle to Burning Man. You have to specially request a burning man rental. They make you sign a "cleaning agreement", up the price, and if you bring it back too dusty/etc they pack on more fees. It's a way, especially in Nevada, to profit off of Burning Man and fleece some tourists (a long standing Nevada tradition).

That said, plenty of people carpool..I for example went in an old airport shuttle bus with 16 other people towing a trailer. This is actually very common. The thing is that building a city in the middle of a desert requires people to bring a lot of stuff, so vehicle capacity is limited. Think about how many people you can fit in a sedan..when you factor in, tents, water for a week in the desert (15gallons/person, bulky), clothes, food, etc..really, it's hard to fit more than 3 people, and even that can be a squeeze.

Disclaimer: I have been to Burning Man six times.

From TFA:

Judging by this, the speed is about the same as other comparable SATA III SSD's, with a little bit of a boost but nothing dramatic.

As ineloquently as RabidReindeer may have put it, he's 100% spot on here. I've done security audits for big companies with large teams -- admins insert backdoors al over the place, then their buddies figure out they did it, and instead of being reprimanded they start using it too for convenience. Just because they have a big, publically-traded company doesn't mean the CIO/CISO cares about anything more than compliance on paper.

Nobody responds to my comment about Jon Postel, just my somewhat inaccurate reference to QUANTUM. Does anyone remember IANA?

Yes, my original NSA reference here was inaccurate -- I think I got confuzzled from reading about both of these topics in the same day. QUANTUM injects DNS responses further down the line than the root DNS server. However, things like the so-called "internet kill switch", along with other (at this point theroetical) attacks would be aided by control of the root DNS, and a trusted position on the internet between these servers.

True, but it helps.

There's many, largely political issues this solves aside from the ease-of-exploitation for spying (simple DNS redirect to an attack IP for targeted computers) -- including the U.S's ability to use an internet "killswitch" disabling root DNS servers, and reducing the likelihood of a fragmentation of the DNS system as countries like Iran or Russia seek to create their own DNS system, giving them root control rather than the U.S. They could also arbitrarily decide to start blocking certain DNS entries etc and essentially take those sites "off the internet", or at least make getting to them a hassle.

Basically, no one owns the internet and it is designed to be resilient to any one nation or actor going offline. However, if one nation controls the DNS -- and most users depend on DNS to visit web sites -- one nation exercises greater control over the internet than others.

Palo Alto's parking system, with their colored curbs and byzantine policies on how long you can park at a color and how you have to move to different colors after x amount of hours etc, is really quite a mess IMHO. Personally, I think it's designed to cause out-of-towners to get more parking tickets. If you're parking in a residential area without this, sure, but any area with parking enforcement is a nightmare. So you can park at home -- but then when going to restaurants etc, good luck.

Sixteen years after Jon Postel attempted to bring DNS root zone control authority under IANA, finally, the dream of internationalization of the root DNS/internet infrastructure is becoming a reality. A moment of silence please, for Jon Postel, IANA.

This carries big implications in NSA's spying/QUANTUM program, which use U.S. control of the DNS system to exploit systems.

Palo Alto is more expensive than SF, and Berkeley rents are pretty high -- largely fuelled by student housing demands as UCB expands. San Jose? That's about an hour+ south of SF with absolutely no public transportation taking you to other areas of the Bay.

Plus, your quote about "struggling artists can live elsewhere" is what makes people in SF really hate "techies" -- it's that attitude that is contrary to SF culture.

Disclosure: I live in San Francisco (proper)