I'm hoping that Jamie and Adam can talk Grant Imahara into building a robot that can review your posts for spelling errors.

>And don't forget HIPPA,

I think you meant to say HIPAA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Insurance_Portability_and_Accountability_Act

>sign a NDA in which it is clearly said that they will not attempt to hack/perform wrongly

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

>Nah, the Architect said something about "This will be the Nth time we've destroyed [Zion.]" It was a single digit number, something like 4, 6, or 7.

The Architect: Denial is the most predictable of all human responses. But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0234215/quotes

>Nah, the Architect said something about "This will be the Nth time we've destroyed [Zion.]" It was a single digit number, something like 4, 6, or 7.

"The Architect: Denial is the most predictable of all human responses. But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0234215/quotes

Every accident would be avoidable if you drive at 5 km/hr, no matter what the conditions are.

O RLY? So this accident could have been avoided if the doctor was driving at 5km/hr?
Semi Loses Tire, Causes Fatal Crash
http://www.wisn.com/news/14548863/detail.html

>...and go home completely frustrated and hating life.
>...And when they're done, they have to launch the VM on a computer with a whole gigabyte of ram.

Use some of your hard-earned take-home pay to buy some RAM from eBay for your work PC and then kwitcher bitchin. I've done it. It's far better to spend $40 for RAM that will go into your employer's PC than to spend $40 on ACE inhibitors (beta blockers, etc.)

>Radar O'Reilly supposedly mailed home a whole Jeep one piece at a time.

So I guess that wouldn't qualify as a case of the "five finger discount"...

like that ISA C&C controller written for DOS 3 that runs a $75,000 piece of machinery

I'm pretty sure you meant to say "CNC"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnc

From the fine article:

The good news, of course, is that no one was hurt, and virtually everything the burglar took is replaceable. One exception: On my son's computer, but never backed up, was one of the greatest documents ever, something he would have cherished all his life. He had meticulously kept a running list of every movie he had ever seen, hundreds and hundreds, with his comments on each. It's gone -- a reminder of the new reality that computers and Facebook have created, a world in which a document meant to last a lifetime can disappear in an instant, and a photograph meant as an impulsive gloat lives forever.

How is it that someone has a laptop where important files (files other than the OS and apps that can be re-installed from original media) aren't backed-up to removable media or a service like Carbonite, Mozy, etc.? This isn't 1995 when "backup" meant inserting and removing multiple 1.44MB floppies.

...and get 50 billion quid in compensation.

Would that be 50 thousand million quid or 50 million million quid? We've seen here on /. the importance of keeping "Metric" vs. "US" straight. :^)

Those whose nearest neighbor is 200 km away and own cattle stations larger than some US states. The kind of people who aren't even connected to the electricity grid but rather generate their own power via generators/solar.

Shouldn't that "kind of people" be outside minding the livestock on their Rhode Island-sized ranch, keeping an eye on the generator and watching for dingo attacks instead of updating their Facebook page?

Or with a sniper rifle.

Or poisoned.

Or run over with a stolen car.

Or rolled in your bedsheets and defenestrated.

Or by injecting your significant other with a deadly STD.

Or releasing anthrax on your ventilation system.

Or bombing your car.

Or nuking from orbit - it's the only way to be sure.

"Everyone using linux, run this command nao:"

No.

"Everyone using linux, sudo run this command nao:"

Ok.

>I'm 32 years old. I have a 1200 ft^2 house that will be paid for next year. My parents had a 3000 ft^2 house that they never finished paying off.

You need to include a little background on the houses for the comparison to be worth anything. The square footage is not enough to compare two different houses. For example, if I limited my search to the Milwaukee area, I could probably find a 1200 sq ft house (probably withing walking distance of Northridge) that I could purchase with my Visa card. I could also find a 3000 sq ft house (Brookfield, Whitefolks Bay, something with a view of Lake Michigan, etc.) that would be outside of my price range even though I make good money for this corner of the state and have no debt other than my current home.

If you and your parents did not reside in the same area, then your comparison holds very little water.