At work I have to use Windows. (At home I use a MacBook Pro so there are basically no danger keys.) While currently I only have the keycaps for F1 and INS removed, in the past I have also pulled F12, caps lock, and the Windows/menu keys. I just leave them in a small plastic bag next to the keyboard.

I don't know how you missed the Windows menu key, since it yanks focus away from your current program if it gets tapped by accident, then you have to waste time getting back to normal. It's almost as bad as F1.

The insert key is bad if you have an editor that tries to implement "overwrite mode" in a mouse-based text editor, which is pretty silly. It can also rarely get engaged by pressing the keypad zero key under certain conditions. (like with the shift key hald down, I think)

Actually there is one important danger key with OS X. I don't know why UI implementers insist on being able to do all sorts of file manipulation functions in contexts where you are supposed to be selecting or viewing a file (instead of, you know, switching to the file manager program), but they do. Windows goes out of its way to support moving and deleting files when you need to select a file, and various OS X programs insist on deleting a file whenever you hit command-delete (aka command-backspace).

The problem is that command-plus and command-minus are used for zoom in and out. (Very useful in the Preview.app image viewer.) Be off by one key when zooming in, and your file is suddenly moved to the trash, and its window (if it has one) closes. In a file viewer program. WITH NO UNDO AVAILABLE. WTF. Now you get to fish it out and put it back where it belongs. At least it also insists on playing a (non-configurable!) sound when it does that, so you can have some idea that something has happened.

Any comment from the emacs development team about that? They can't let the feature gap get wider!

I wouldn't underestimate them. They could make it impossible for the enemy to shoot, possibly bringing the whole city down for maintenance. Or just change things around that the enemy gets lost.

Apparently because it's some sort of "drop off" safe.

That still doesn't explain why people in this sort of industry think you need Microsoft freaking Windows for a simple UI screen. Perhaps they are using Visual Basic? (rolls eyes)

This is 2015, folks, this is the kind of crap you can do with a Raspberry Pi, and if it's long-term support you want, you will still be able to get boards ten years from now, at most needing software changes in the form of a few different kernel drivers.

If they had used a Mac instead, Jeff Goldblum would get the safe to hack YOU! (In Soviet Russia, of course!)

I suspect that all the automatic exploits on SSH these days are expecting x86, if for no other reason than that the botnet people don't want to have to support too many architectures. I have an old Mac G3 (the blue tower) running 10.4 that I am still using as an internet server (I plan to retire it in a few months when other stuff isn't a priority), and every now and then SSH is wedged and won't connect remotely. I suspect one of those "automatic exploits" every now and then manages to hit a bug in that version of SSH which locks it up without a proper crash.

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If this is true, you needed to be modded up. EDS is the IT services company that was started by H. Ross Perot, and if they're only asking it for the customer-facing people, then why the fuck hasn't it already been in place for years?

But TFA says "R&D", which doesn't sound like the kind of stuff I would expect from the EDS folks.

If they are doing that, then they are definitely being assholes. If they don't have to proxy the connection, then it's not costing them bandwidth. If they are running a service to let you find or connect to your box (due to stuff like not being on a static IP), that's a little bit of effort on their part, but not much.

If their only contribution is requiring you to go to a web site to connect to a box when you could have reached it directly with older client software by typing in its IP address, fuck them.

When they originally announced the SLS and Orion, they were planning to shut down ISS to pay for it. At the same time, ISS was going to be its main destination.

He3 isn't even usable in first-generation nuclear fusion, it's one of the less easy things to fuse. We probably won't even be able to begin using it until 25 years after we do finally get fusion working. Suggesting that He3 is a good reason to go back to the moon right now, especially as the first reason, is the clearest sign of a true space-nutter.

I think "copper top" jokes from The Matrix are more applicable here.