That was not fair! I should have been done with my five-minute /. break an hour ago!

In other words, thank you for the Mechanical Watch link. That professor is amazing.

Opportunity. Curiosity is on the other side of Mars, nuturing holes in its wheels and looking for cats to kill.

You completely proved Cardoor's point.

OK, I'll bite. :)

Standardizing on tabs helps mitigate this, as everyone sees what they like to see (I se tabstop=4 in vim on my vertical monitor, my emac-using coworker likes tabs to look like 8 spaces on his widescreen monitor), yet indentation level 3 is represented by 3 of something, not 12 (as I would have it) or 24 (as Stas would have it) of something.

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.

Then why isn't there "major problems" with CentOS / RHEL which are on the majority of computers connected to the internet? Because they are running an Apache webserver instead of a Gnome desktop?

The truth is, Linux computers are heavily represented on the internet yet we still don't see anything significant in the way of Linux malware.

I had this at work today. Somebody arbitrarily decided to store 3 months worth of hourly MySQL backups. Never mind that they were being stored on the MySQL server itself (some backup!) but each backup was over 1 GiB - that is 30 GiB per day. 30 * 90 = 2700 GiB on a server with a 2 TiB hard drive that was already half full.

I enjoyed cleaning up that mess, but I as usual people with no technical knowledge continue to make technical decisions.

Actually, the original code has been removed from all the repositories. There is no way to get to the code any more.

Do you only use languages that let you choose the language keywords? Surely there is leeway in how much bending to your will that you demand of a language.

If you indent your C, PHP, Java, or whatever else sanely, then you will have no issues with Python indentation rules. They are just the sane C rules, but enforced.

I think that you underestimate the techinical challenges to do what you are suggesting! There is not quite as much ice as you might expect, nor is there heat to melt it, nor are there nutrients for the bacteria. Ecosystems take eons to develop.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

I see, thanks. I noticed about a dozen other bright folks had the same concern here, and the vacuum was mentioned.

Thanks, Jesse. I posted a review of the Leather Ducky on GH, but the images are gone due to their famous crash some time back:
http://geekhack.org/index.php?...

I'll fix those images sometime.

If you ever do want to sell or otherwise be rid of some of the hardware in those pictures, please do get in contact with me! My Gmail username is the same as my Slashdot username. Thanks!

You might have notice that the person held the TPS tile by the corners, not the edges. Had he touched the middle of the tile, where he had hit it with the torch, he would have been severely burned. The amazing property of the tile is that it would maintain a high thermal gradient, so one part of it would be super hot but just 1 cm away it would be cool enough to handle. This is related to thermal conductivity as you mention, but it is not the heat transfer property that you imply (like 80 degree water scalding blesh but 80 degree air not scalding).