The instruments were definitely cured and dried. The rest of the stuff, who knows.

Certain types of agricultural products are to be destroyed instead of stored as evidence. Invasive species and some other stuff are on that menu. In this case, they probably didn't see any criminal intent and/or it "had" to be destroyed, not kept.

Not sure why this is on ./

The dude does have a very legitimate beef though, considering he's taken these around to probably dozens of countries and crossed several hundred borders with them. He apparently had some "raw" material with him to make new flutes, but that wood typically needs to be completely dry and aged. Either way the carved flutes were likely sealed and shouldn't have been destroyed without a very, very good reason, which I doubt the CBP had.

I haven't had to use the iCloud for anything. I don't have an iPhone. That would piss me off if I did though.

What you listed: Fahrenheit 451, To Kill A Mockingbird, In The Heat of the Night, Huckleberry Finn, Cryptonomicon, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, A Wrinkle In Time, When Rabbit Howls

All good stuff here. I'd add on the Bible, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (or On the Road), Animal Farm, Brave New World, 1984.

I'd also add some books *not* to read: Catcher in the Rye, Girl of the Limberlost

If someone recommend CitR to you, you can question their taste from then until they die. If someone tells you it changed their life, I'd just stop talking to them.

Came here to say this. Haven't had a peep of any issues, and it's made my laptops perform better (battery, wifi) in a few ways. Definitely nothing negative about it from my POV.

I don't even think I've used the desktop or phone app. That said, I don't know why you'd want to use Evernote as a calendar/organizer. It's great for taking notes but worthless as a calendar as far as I can tell. Is there some type of integration app I'm unaware of?

Netbooks got turfed about 3 years ago. You can get the new version of those 11" Airs, Surface Pros, Android type tablets with a full keyboard. They are more expensive than the netbooks were in general, but they are there. Same with the resolution. You can get better than 1366x768, but you have to pony up for it. Netbooks generally had bad resolution anyway, so you're not losing much there. Get a chromebook and slap a big SD card in it. USB 3, HDMI, 12/32 GB SSD, real keyboard are all included. Those are typically sub $300, though the resolution on the cheapest ones is going to be a pain point for you with the same resolution you dislike.

I'm not aware of a pdf editing document, at least not in the vein of Acrobat. There are apps that let you split PDFs, highlight text, annotate stuff, et al.

Easiest way to print via Android is Google Cloud print. 2nd easiest is wireless printing (download app from manufacturer).

You can run quicken on Android. There is a native app for that. For normal taxes, the easiest option is likely something Turbotax online.

I doubt many people could get away with using an Android tablet/pc for business work, but it should work in a pinch for almost any home user.

Windows 8 lets you do all of those OOB except the miniature programs. I want to arrange icons in a meaningful way on a desktop, both programs and functions. - same as Win 7. You can lay them out how you want.

I want to extend the right click context menu - same as Win 7-zip managed to add itself to my context menu. I rarely add anything to it but it's clearly possible

I want to be able to have a variety of windows of various sizes open, not just full, 1/4, 3/4. - same as Win 7. You can manually resize windows. Using the snap feature obviously is going to change that, and the Metro app annoyingly default to full screen. I avoid that by not using them.

I'd like to be able to type the first X letters of a program, have a self-shrinking list of all executable on my computer narrow down as I type (the start menu functionality) - same as Win 7. Hit the windows key and start typing.

Maybe I was missing something but a lot of that list is unnecessary criticism. There are plenty of valid criticisms of Windows 8 and 8.1, but 95% of it can simply be bypassed by choosing "boot to desktop" or just hitting the desktop tile when you log in. It's dumb it came to that but should hardly be that much of a detriment to a Slashdotter.

Goon on Stanford for confirming this, but it should have been pretty evident how easily the metadata can be used to identify people for a while now. The fact the NSA said it couldn't be used to do so should lead one to believe the opposite right off the bat.

You're telling me the largest single discretionaru expenditure point of the government, the DoD, can't fork out minimum wage for Info Sec interns? Jesus the least I got when interning in college was $12 an hour. The other positions paid me $19 or $20 WHILE I got course credit. I know guys that interned with some bigger companies pulling down almost twice that.
Good luck with this approach DHS. Not like there is any competition out there...

Probably a third world, war-torn country if I had to guess

Slashdot is an American website. Might as well get used to it.

Yeah that's pretty much the only issue I have with it. I'd love to test drive it, sans proprietary apps that likely cost money and I wouldn't use, and see and it works.