Probably not, ships are cheaper than trains, but trains are faster, so it would be hard to justify the added expense for non perishable items.

This time I would say the answer is yes. It is great at identifying people suffering from a severe medical condition know as anal-cranial-inversion.

Well the arbitrary low limits on password length is just annoying. Yes I am sure that they want to save a few bytes in the DB but seriously if I really want to I should be able to have Beowulf written in the original Old English as my password if I want. Off by one errors are common so maybe report the bug, but I would also complain about short length allowed.

I like to introduce as much entropy into the system as possible. It is really sad that my bank has a max password length of 24 chars while my credit card offers 32. Also my credit card will allow me to change my username at any time to a string of up to 32 chars. There is the additional security "feature" that they offer of having those silly questions but even there my credit card offers you the option to have more than 3 questions and the answers can be longer than the ones for my bank. So to access my bank account takes something around ~350 bits of randomness yet the credit card requires ~600 bits (these are probably the low end estimates since I am not really sure how to count the security questions so I just added the bit count for a single one). I guess it is because the credit card company gets to eat the losses by default while by default with the bank I get to eat them.

And yes those are actual random bits, not button mashed bits (base 64 encoded enough output from /dev/random).

I've been hearing about this proposed road for close to 20 years now and it is much like flying cars. Everyone likes to propose it but then reality sets in and it is discovered it is a really shitty idea. If it were ever built I would think it would be cool to attempt to drive it, then again I want the Pan-American Highway so I can take drive my car from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina just because.

Mine don't ask if we are there yet but ask when will we get there, my stock response is "Sometime between now and the heat death of the universe."

It has been my experience that the residential plans and service suck while the business class ones are wonderful. I like being able to call up customer service state what I have tried to solve the problem and get them to check the connection from their end instead of endlessly rebooting my equipment again. Granted I don't have comcast in my area but instead have Charter and Frontier. Not being on the same circuit as the rest of the neighborhood with charter is nice as I don't have that shared bandwidth problem. Then toss in that I am free to run servers and a static IP address and the 2.5x to 3x cost is worth it. As an added benefit the business class plans don't seem to have the hidden caps that residential ones do.

Interestingly most people seem to think that those people have some power to actually stop or detain you. I to just keep on walking, the worst that has ever happened is that person at the door yelled "Hey you stop! I need to check your receipt!" If you choose to not stop and they attempt to detain you the law is on your side since you can bring false imprisonment charges against them provided you haven't actually done anything else other than leave or attempt to leave with your legally purchased items.

Given the small size of some nuclear warheads I wonder how difficult it would be to just swap out conventional explosives with nuclear ones on existing precision weapons. Granted these tiny nukes are closer to a dirty bomb than what most people are familiar with when it comes to a nuclear explosion but still a 72 ton blast is at least on the same order of magnitude as one of these guys even if they make up different ends of the order of magnitude, and we don't seem to have problems using the latter ones.

Hey some of us don't shave.

Still sounds better than a lot of what I have gotten. If I get a response it is usually a patronizing letter thanking for my support, even though I disagreed, of their decisions. The worst was the response I got from one of my senators, the senator of small things, that expounded on how wonderful it was l that she didn't have to make a hard decision. Still I refuse to be one of the apathetic Americans even if I know that I probably have a better chance of winning the Powerball and being struck by lightning on the same day, than my opinion making a difference to them.

I didn't know that Mark Pocan was openly gay, then again why would I care. That only makes my comment down the thread even funnier.

Let your congress critter know you want them to support this bill. If you don't know who is yours you can find them here and from their page send them an e-mail or get the number to call their DC or local office. I have already sent an e-mail to my worthless war hawk nuclear football carrying congress critter but I suspect that it will fall on deaf ears. I also contacted my senators but don't expect much from either of them as one avoids controversy like the plague and the other has been hanging low for a while.

You have that wrong. Thomas Massie would be caught in a gay sex scandal, while it would be discovered that Mark Pocan has only been involved in a hetero monogamous relationship. For both of them it would be career ending.

I was just trying to be a pain in the ass, but yes the first modern commercial electric car was produced by GM. On this subject I do wonder if a modern steam vehicle could be built that offers reasonable performance, mileage, and comfort.