CanvasBlock? :) They say it has stability problems but I'm sure those will get ironed out (possibly through an actual plugin rather than a greasemonkey script) when the need arises

A proof that video quality does have long term effects: http://www.xkcd.com/598/

I used to run a catchall, but nowadays my domain receives on average ten thousand spam mails a day, and 97% of it has a randomly generated user name part, like istinsunbonnetsamuel@mydomain, carrilloeddypedagogytruillo@mydomain, etc. So now I do like you do, but with a white list of user names. Anyone sending a mail to a nonexistent address gets his IP blacklisted for a few minutes. This IP blacklisting cuts down about 40% of mails sent to legitimate addresses. Mail forged to appear sent from my domain makes up 20%, and spamassassin removes the remaining 30% of spam (the rest, 0.1% of the total, is legitimate mail).

Sorry but you are wrong. In the first part of your comment, the three cases (boy boy, boy girl and girl boy) are equally likely.

If you don't make the "one of the children is a boy" hypothesis, then these three cases all have 25% probability, and girl-girl has 25% probability as well.

You're right that same sex (girl girl + boy boy = 25% + 25%) and different sex (girl boy + boy girl = 25% + 25%) both have probability 50%.

But the problem says *knowing that one of the children is a boy*, what's the probability the other also is, i.e. what's the probability of the boy boy case assuming we aren't in the girl girl case. That gives 25% divided by 75%. IOW, knowing that one of the children is a boy, we're in case boy boy with probability 33%, boy girl with probability 33% and girl boy with probability 33%.

In the second part of your comment you're counting twice the families that have two boys, both born on a Tuesday, which is why you get probability 14/28=50% instead of 13/27.

What you said about the Monty Hall problem is correct.

I don't think chat networks like Yahoo, MSN chat (or whatever it's called today), ICQ encrypt the passwords...

Sorry, replying to myself but I forgot this: All window managers I've tested (kde's, gnome's and ion) lets you set a keyboard shortcut to put a window full screen, i.e. hiding window decorations and task bars for when I want a window completely full screen, whether the application supports it or not.

I constantly need to see many windows at a time... When coding I often need a documentation window, when designing a webpage I need to see the webpage while I type the source, when making a document I need to see the rendered version, when following instructions from a webpage for doing something in a terminal I need to see those two simultaneously, etc. Also I like keeping that IRC window at the back and just showing the last line below other windows so I can see what people are talking about without interrupting my work.

I only ever maximise windows when browsing the web or doing something in the terminal that doesn't require looking at documentation...

Ah, this. :)

That video got deleted for not complying to site rules or something. What was it?

Someone posted this in the previous H.264 versus Ogg story, which gives a data point including screenshots pointing to ogg being better: http://people.xiph.org/~greg/video/ytcompare/comparison.html

Changing the rule name would break existing configuration files changing the rule score and/or description (like in that comment).

And the fact that it won't look at what's on the clipboard, and use those dimensions when I go to file->new

Shift-control-V creates a new buffer with the content (and dimensions) of the clipboard. If you want a *blank* new buffer of the same size as the copied object, do shift-control-V and then control-dot to erase the image (I'm not sure what's the need for this but as you can see it's easy to do)

you got it backward - it should be tail -f | grep -v

It's made from the painting "L'origine du monde" ("The origin of the world", hence the power button). You can read about it by searching "L'origine du monde" on wikipedia (WARNING - Even MORE NSFW because they have the painting without that power button!)
So, the original painter probably wanted to say that everything in our world comes from a woman's vagina, (and in more than one way! I let you find other interpretations of that ;) ), in a very provocative way.

The "turn on" (sexually) aspect of the "power button" was (probably) not meant in the original painting, however.