Its a good practice to install the applications on the device's internal memory instead of installing it on a removable memory. The advantage of having portable memory cards is that you can plug the card into different devices if you want to share what's on them. However if you have some device specific applications on them, you won't be able to use those apps if your card is being used in a different device.

But was she a prototype? But I forget, we are on slashdot and usually the only girlfriends for Slashdotters tend to be prototypes with no further developments .

If you know its gonna be two hours, its not that random.

Don't do it unless you know the efficiency of this heat engine. Something tells me that a micro engine (or an array of those micro engines) wouldn't help you much.

If you were to check the flash drives partitioning, you'll see that it has two separate partitions. The section with encryption program is on the primary partition of the flash drive. When the program executes, you get access to the other partition.

Now I've mounted those drives under Linux by bypassing the login process. Instead of mounting sdc1 (assuming sdc is your encrypted flash drive), you mount sdc2. What I've learnt is that the drive isn't encrypted at all - nor password protected. If you can find a way to format the first partition, you pretty much kill the password protection that comes with the flash drive. The "protected" partition just becomes the default partition when the primary one is unavailable.

TrueCrypt or any other data encryption method is the right way to actually secure your data

Apparently Santa can't be tracked in English - perhaps Norad's been taken over by non-English speaking saboteurs.

Selecting a language besides English gives the exact location of Santa.

When I selected Deutsch, here's what I got:

Willkommen beim NORAD-Programm zur Ortung des Weihnachtsmanns

Aktuelle Position Charleston, West Virginia, United States

Der Weihnachtsmann hält als nächstes in: Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States: 01:10

You don't have to compromise on quantity even if you preserve the quality. Heck, I medium roast the raw beans every weekend, and grind it before brewing - but still I drink about 2 pots/day.

But your system admin survives on that stuff. Would you want a your system admin to go nuts because he didn't get his 3 cups of coffee before lunch?

Does role-playing and fantasy mean nothing to you?

Their cat jumped on the bed.

Come back in 2150 C.E. and somebody can show you one. If you were alive till 2150, the folks showing you that sensor would be impressed too :)

For all you know, it might be dressing up as the Flying Spaghetti Monster for the holiday party. With all those tentacles, the octopus doesn't have to worry about getting the costume for pasta part. All it needs is something that'd form the meatball part of its costume - thus the coconut.

Could be a group of 1.5 people as well.