Its called demographic profiling, and its been used since advertising began. Google has already mastered it with their adwords product. Their level of demographic profiling is in fact what is scaring the likes of Rupert Murdoch, because they cannot effectively compete in the online advertising space. This is the logic behind them wanting Google to compensate them.

For what its worth, I did some research and purchased one of these recently. One of the things I heard about these brother printers is that the toner is detected by a light sensor in the toner cartridge. If you cover up the "window" in the toner cartridge after the printer tells you the toner is out, you will actually get to use all of the toner until you start mis-printing. From what I understand you can get hundreds more pages out of a toner cartridge this way.

And currently these are marked down for sub-$100 at amazon.com for anyone who is interested.

... where by "he" you mean the PD himself.

Look, public defenders almost *always* encourage their clients to settle, because their compensation structure incentivizes them that way. PDs barely make ends meet, and they get compensated by the number of cases they take on, with very little marginal compensation for taking a case to trial. So they wind up taking on 50, 100 cases at a time. The faster they can get rid of you, the faster they can take on another case.

Notice that the merits of your case didn't appear in the above reasoning chain.

Of course if the client insists on going to trial, the PD is legally obliged to do so--but how many criminal defendants know enough AND have the cojones to argue with their lawyer when their liberty is at stake?

The PD compensation system is b0rkd, and innocent people are in jail because of it.

WD-40 is good stuff but for really stuck/rusty machinery, Zepreserve is better. No connection to Zep, Inc., I just work at a place that harvests and processes salt and so have to deal with a whole lot of rusty machinery.

Yes, and this is indistinguishable from the concept of "a server," which makes the "cloud" part of "private cloud" even more meaningless than usual. As I said.

Cloud services usually refer to dealing with an API to interact with computing resources (processing power, data storage) without having to manage those resources discretely. An amorphous 'cloud' of servers is quite a different concept than one static server (or even several load-balanced servers). The actual physical location of your data and the servers you use to interact with it will change as the computing needs change. Inidividual servers don't matter and can be replaced/added/removed as load dictates.

It's more of a philosophy in datacenter and service design than it is an actual product. A 'private cloud' means you do all this in-house for yourself, instead of a service provider.

Take a look at Amazon's EC2 or Google's App Engine. There's more to it than just running your code on a bunch of identical servers.

I read it as an implied attack on anarcho-capitalism, which is not the United States' economic model.

Yeah, there's really no excuse for not having keyboard/mouse support in console games. Any of the modern consoles have USB ports AND wireless capabilities (unadulterated BT in some cases), and two of them have integrated web browsers! I can only assume that they feel the need to preserve the marketing BS that their unique, revolutionary, miraculous cancer-curing, baby-kissing, joy-giving controllers are so spectacular that there's no need for any alternative; a message that would be utterly obliterated if mouse/keyboard users were permitted to compete head-to-head in FPSes with controller-wielding kool-aid swillers.

(1) If noscript has an exploit (which is unlikely to be exploited anyway given the limited target population), do you really think a windows update or real time antivirus is really going to be able to catch it faster/better?

(2) Malicious jpegs (AFAIK) were patched 5 years ago (i.e. covered in service packs since)

I know very few people, even in IT, who have full-featured back-ups of their home systems. Even fewer have easy, convenient remote access to their data.

Using online apps with online data services give you both of these things 99% of the time. They are a better option (assuming they have the features you need) than running things locally for the vast majority of people. Yes SaaS/cloud services might screw up, but the chances of them doing so are far lower than the chances of YOU screwing up.

You are basing your decision based on anecdotes, not on statistics or evidence. Gmail's backup system is better than yours. Their remote access is better than yours. Use the brain your ancestors evolved for you. It can reason based on probabilities rather than bullshit if you let it.

You don't have to calculate Felipe Calderon's CURP, just look it up on e-mexico.gob.mx

Here it is: CAHF620818HMNLNL09

If you know that being on call is a requirement of the job, then you should demand a higher base salary to begin with.

The theory of special relativity and of general relativity existed before there was any experimental proof.

I think when you are dealing with theoretical physics, if you can get a mathematical model to "work," then it is a theory. Like String Theory.

Over the years I have got a few letters informing me that I was part of some class for some lawsuit, and everyone that I ever heard results back from the payout was always some insignificant discount or coupon for my next purchase from the same company. The lawyers make millions, and I get a $100 discount off the purchase of a new car or something of that nature.

One of these class action suits that contacted me was filed because a finance company used false names in their collection letters. The name of the person "signing" the collection letter was just an internal code to mark the level of escalation in the collection process. But somebody felt compelled not only to sue the company for using a false name at the bottom of a collection letter, they also felt compelled to make it a class action. The only point was to make the lawyers rich.