My experience working for the USPS was that the images were kept for a very short time (a day or two max) and then deleted. It is possible that law enforcement would be able to get a copy, but they'd have to be quick. In addition, the Postal Inspection Service is pretty serious about postal employees not accessing the mail except as part of doing their jobs, but I don't know whether they give access to law enforcement.

Postcards are *supposed* to have a designated address area, and a designated text area. That being said, people write all over the whole thing. It can lead to some mis-sorted mail if the address recognition software happens to recognize some of the text instead of the address. The post office does indeed collect images of the front (address side) of all mail, that's how it gets sorted. (OCR, and if the computer can't read it, it goes to a graphical display for a human being to decipher).

Movies need more action? Reminds me of http://xkcd.com/311

I picked 1000 because it is the power-of-10 order of magnitude. However, if they were powers of 2, I would have picked 2^12.

My first had 640 KB, the current one has 3110512

I have heard that facebook developers are generally responsive to bug reports, so just file one.

Some people can: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haidinger's_brush

http://xkcd.com/834/

I had a similar issue. I saved all tabs as a bookmarks folder, then opened the folder and saw the number of items.

I generally open tabs until Firefox crashes, then restore with one or two closed.

The limit is given precisely by Shannon's Law, which gives a mathematical limit on the amount of data that can be sent over a given amount of bandwidth. Spectral Efficiency is the amount of bandwidth available in a given wireless spectrum.

That's the premise of the game Unexploded Cow, only instead of interns, it's cows with Mad Cow Disease.

I used to work in a computer lab at the university I went to. We used Ghost to do exactly that. All the computers in the lab (a few hundred PCs) were booted up off a special floppy (or later, cd) that started up Ghost in listen mode. Then, the central server used multicast to send the OS image to all the clients at once. It took less than an hour, and that was with 100Mb/s Ethernet.

No, because it only sends a hash of the data. The other side computes a hash of it's data, and if the hashes match, the transfer is complete. If The hashes don't match, there is a rolling hash that can verify a partial match, and send only the changed data. There's more info here

In addition to the "Retrieve running apps" and "Reorder running apps" permissions, the new version of the facebook app also requests the "Draw over other apps" (aka the "popup" permission). I'm sticking with the old version, which is intrusive enough, thank you very much.

It means feature size. A feature can be part of a transistor, or a circuit trace, or a bunch of other things.