I have been thinking about trying to get a Milky Way composite photo large enough to print and mount as a false-ceiling in my home office. Then have it backlit so the night lighting in the room is worth kicking back every now and then to stare at in wonder.

I have to track a lot of personal passwords and also 200+ passwords for client websites, emails, etc. I use Password Safe and recommend it:

http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/

Hides when minimised and has a useful function that enables it to copy a password and minimise again when you double click a client name (i.e., if you need their main/default password). Quick and easy.

Used to have Filezilla set to remember client passwords until a PDF hole led to a bot stealing Filezilla's password store and auto-hacking a lot of sites that were a serious pain to clean up.

And get the news out in the mainstream press and in the right channels where opportunists will see it (IRC, forums, etc). Would spammers take the risks they do if the penalties were higher and more common?

They should use a system of coloured icons:

  - shape changes (e.g., made a leg skinnier)
  - skin, wrinkles (removing wrinkles or similar)
  - skin, blemishes (airbrushing freckles, moles, arm hairs, etc)

Our current methods (or at least some of them) for detecting exoplanets tend to find us large planets that are close to their respective suns...

In the US, do you have a system where any bank transfers to a new (previously unused) external account must be approved by a time-limited PIN that is sent to you by SMS? Both banks that I use provide this by default.

Has the copyright owner filed to have the image removed (as was likely done by Time) and Flickr denied that request?

Out of mod points, but liked your naming scheme. Nice work, especially with the laptop!

Right, plus 8 copies of the game?

Seven of us played Halo the other night. One Xbox, TV and stereo were already on site. Brought the second Xbox and projector in a small bag. Quick to set up and everyone was in the game and killing away. Of those seven, maybe three of us would have laptops and probably two would've had copies of Halo 3. And who can't shoot and turn around at the same time in a console FPS?!

If you don't like it, don't play it - just wake up to the fact that console gaming is popular, there are reasons for that, and that FPSs can still be great fun without a keyboard/mouse combo (hell, for a long time back in the Doom/Quake days I would play without a mouse and generally win games).

Mountain biking is still a popular sport despite the existence of faster and louder motorbikes. *shrug*

"FPS games on a console are a big bag of fail IMO. Only people who defend them in my experience are ones who haven't spent years using the superior mouse/keyboard combination."

Played FPSs on PC for many years but I'll defend them on console because it's a quick and easy way to get 4-8 people playing a FPS in a room as a social activity. No lugging around PCs, making sure everyone has the right version, stuffing around with networks, etc. Bring along a projector to add to a TV, a second Xbox and controllers, couple of copies of the game and away you go.

Aiming might not be as accurate, but everyone in the game is in that same boat.

Domain names are an incredibly cheap part of setting up a business. Typo should be tough luck, or you have 30 minutes to catch it and adjust.

I run a web business. I have access to hundreds of thousands of customer records, sales data and the like of my various clients. But the last thing I have time/interest for is snooping through their data. And if I had more spare time, I can think of countless things more exciting than trawling their gear maliciously.

That sort of thing might not be the case for all businesses, but in this case you either need to outsource and show some trust, pay up for them to physically visit when required, or keep it in house.

Not to mention, display a good amount of passion in passing on that knowledge and hope some of it rubs off.

(Dangerous mentioning rubbing and passion on /.)

I am hopeless when it comes to remembering to pay bills, usually because I am working too hard instead!

"I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they chose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas."
  - Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy