Actually... I've had the kde screensaver crash on me at some point which effectively unlocked my machine.

Also, I've seen notifications come through the lock which allowed you to task-switch out of the lock. I believe I once had this on OS X lion as well, although it could have been an earlier version.

Even without the power a bayonet will do that to you

No, I don't think we should give up. I am just trying to point out that making people aware of this has more effect than refusing to use these services.

People are not aware that this happens and/or is possible.

Even besides that. It doesn't matter if you're ok or not. Even if you don't share your information, if one of your friends has your information on a phone and shares this with facebook it will still be shared...

Regardless of whether you've ever consented to share it with facebook or anything else.

EXTERMINATE!

Most of the times they screw up when tapping blood from me so I would have more faith in a robot

Both Oracle and Postgres have some merits.

Personally I would say, if you need more modern features/possibilities, go for Postgres.
If you don't like to do things manually (materialized views for example), use Oracle.

That thing looks like it's at least 20 kilo's, not a very comfortable hike I imagine. Cool that you can but I would imagine it needs a little bit of slimming down before you can conveniently take it with you.

Maybe I'll consider taking a look at iOS 7 once the jailbreak is available. Till that time... no way. iOS might be slick and snappy but it's also damn unusable for the power user.

I think you forgot about the twitter button

It could still be a great device if they'd simply fix the software

The bluetooth transfer idea is quite useful assuming it's used in a smart way. Having a screen where you can see your latest mails, messages, stock info, etc... all the time even in the bright sun could be useful.

Especially if it works for a much longer time than your phone will. I still see potential, but I have a lot of doubt that they'll use it.

I agree. Everyone can learn to write basic programs. That isn't to say that everyone can become a good programmer.

100 byte chunks would work just as well, but with a smart raid card and 2GB raid cache the difference in execution time is fairly low actually. When creating this I did try 1k blocks first and it didn't have any noticable (i.e. wall clock) slowdowns in the long run and did give me a few false positives.

YMMV though, for my use case this was useful. For you that might be different

Indeed, I once created a dedup script which basically did that.

1. compare the file sizes
2. compare the first 1MB of the file
3. compare the last 1MB of the file
4. compare the middle 1MB in the file

It's not a 100% foolproof solution but it was more than enough for my use case at that time and much faster than getting checksums.

Unfortunately Ghostery and/or Adblock are not always an option.

My bank (ABN-AMRO) has recently updated their website and with that added Omniture tracking to all pages. If you use Ghostery (as I do) the site just stops functioning entirely and the entire Internet banking system doesn't work anymore.

So unless I permit Omniture to see everything what I am doing and effectively giving them access to my bank account including transferring money to other accounts... I cannot access my Internet banking system anymore.

BIG FAIL from the ABN-AMRO in my book. If you're going to use tracking/analytics software like this, make sure your website keeps working if it's not available...