As a parent, I totally accept responsibility for my kids' well-being and health. I am totally guilty of taking my kids through drive-thrus and letting them watch TV. The wife and I have adopted an American suburban, 2-car, 2-income, white-collar lifestyle with the kids also being swept up in the hectic pace that it entails.

By the time one of us gets to the child care center to get them (since the elementary school closes way before COB), they're whining how they're hungry, and on many days we need to get one of them to an after-school sports event. As much as we try to do the right thing, we're so physically and emotionally tired that we give in to doing the easy thing; we get them fast food and let them watch TV for an hour before we really sit down with them for homework time.

So am I an ideal parent? Do I make the absolutely best choices for them? No of course not. Unfortunately we cannot make those decisions in an ideal vacuum. I make decisions that still meet my kids' needs that still balances out with time constraints, external commitments, and, honestly, plain old selfishness to watch out for my own interests.

I am currently running a number of VMs using CentOS KVM with virtual disks being hosted on volumes being managed by LVM. Granted KVM and LVM are separate entities, but they can be made to work together to achieve the same result you mention above. I've backed up and restored VMs a number of times (as validation tests) and it's pretty robust.

Sure, this guy may not want to supersize his smartphone, but he doesn't speak for me or other people who may want the functionality of a smartphone with the usability of a tablet. Either the author doesn't realize different devices fit different needs, or the author wasn't able to think of a more interesting or pressing issue to write about.

The true underlying cause of this problem is that we simply have too many people on this planet all consuming finite resources at a rapid, unsustainable rate. You can't necessarily use technology to help humanity wiggle its way out of this problem. As nice as the Green Revolution was to improve the living standards of people around the world, this created a huge demographic bulge because people didn't realize this event had to be accompanied by a decrease in birth rates.

I know it's easier said than done, but why not start your own company? Hang your own shingle? Granted you'd need an idea and work some long hours to start, but once you get going, wouldn't you rather do what you love and not look over your shoulder for approval from a boss?

He should send his resume to Weyland-Yutani - they might be hiring.

All the movies I've watched on my PCs/iPhone/Amazon Fire have either been via Netflix or video files of ripped disks I already own. And when I did (occasionally) watch DVDs on my PCs I did it via VLC.

All of the content we've watched off of a DVD were played using our home theatre system; I can't imagine there's too much penetration of media PCs.

IANAH, but it's been something I've thought about in the context of our current political climate. We've been taught in school that the casus belli was because of either slavery or "states' rights". Either way, doesn't that mean that the white soldiers of the South were fighting to protect a system that keeps wealth and money in the hands of a few wealthy plantation owners and keeps them down by owning slaves and keeping labor wages down? And this could also be an example of the people with power and money buying off their politicians, having them fight on their behalf for "states' rights." At the end of the day, these poor people fought for a system that kept them (and the slaves) down, and that war destroyed their farms once it was over (assuming they survived and weren't maimed), all in the name of Southern tradition.

I guess there will always be those who don't think for themselves.

FTFY.

I actually have mod points today, and I wish I could mod this up more. I came to this conclusion long ago and I'm glad I'm not alone in this thought.

My 2+yro 14" Vaio is 1366x768 (111.9ppi), and I got it a few months before 1st iPad debuted. I suspect when I'm in the market for a new laptop the resolutions will be at least approaching that for the current iPad. I would imagine that screen would be the standard that everyone *should* be shooting for.

And here I thought the Europeans *just might* be more enlightened than the GOP...

Dear The French: the terrorists don't necessarily want to kill you - they want to just frighten you into doing rash things. Don't fall into their trap and trade freedom for security! Don't give in to them and surrender your freedom... Oh wait what am I saying - they're French - of course they'll surrender...

What about their support infrastructure? I don't care about the physical locations, but I'm wondering about how many UPS banks do they have? How many primary power feeds do they have to each location? How long do the diesel generators last? Electrical transformers? As a customer, I'm not just concerned about scalability and capability - I want to make sure my presence is always available too!

...And risk the possibility of your wife finding your hidden pr0n stash?!