Well, yeah, but you would also have the rest of the universe rushing at you, and you would be saying "ah, so that's where we're going!"

The link "water is much more of an issue" is broken (the "www." portion should be dropped). This link works: water is much more of an issue.

You're absolutely right. Just a few weeks ago I decided to look into backing up my home storage to tape. The tapes themselves weren't terribly expensive, but the drives... couldn't believe what they cost. And it didn't look like eBay had any deals on them either (or, at least, not at prices I'm willing to pay).

I think $200-$250 would be a better price point, but I would certainly go for one at $300, even if it was an LTO-5 drive.

Interesting, I didn't realize Fixnum supported a base argument for to_s. Something new, everyday :)

An article I read about the sapphire producer claimed that the primary reason it wasn't used for the iPhone was that they simply couldn't get the yields needed to support the volume.

http://online.wsj.com/articles...

There's a paywall, but googling the title in a private window might get you a good link (worked for me).

That's correct. It's in the "universe" repo, which is community maintained, so it's not Canonical's responsibility to keep it updated. It's up to the package maintainer(s) to back-port security fixes, and I don't think anyone has volunteered to take that on.

Haha, nice, I was thinking the same thing.

Nah, not at all. He was simultaneously writing a commentary on the effects of the new Common Core standards of teaching. ;)

Exactly. Or, maybe they received a bulk of requests, each for a specific piece of data.

I love that add-on because I keep forgetting I have it installed, then, out of the blue, BAM!, a sentence no longer makes sense but is much more fun: "Hospitals now delivering babies in my butt, film at 11!".

There's no need to install Ansible on the remote systems, only on the machine running the playbooks. All Ansible activity is run over SSH and has no remote dependencies.

Also keep in mind that Eich was given only 4 days to create the language. I agree that things should have been fixed long ago, while the changes would have been less disruptive.

Nice, you now have Karnal knowledge!

But you wouldn't need to re-write all of the flash memory if it is encrypted and the key is properly wiped. Without the key it might as well be random data. The trick would be to make sure that the original key isn't still lurking on one of the chips, but I'd like to think that people far smarter than me worked that part out.

I would agree with that. "Fabrication" was used in the article, and was probably a bit of a stretch. I have no idea if there was intent to deceive at the NOAA, and am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.