It's definitely easier when you can think of 1 mil = 1 meter at a distance of 1 km

You can do all that with Google Docs, either with Google Apps Script or Google Documents API.

> Stop using cdparanoia - it isn't very good, at all. It tests poorly, we're sad to say.

Really! As the author, I'd love to hear hard specifics. or maybe a bug report.

> You want to use Secure Mode with NO C2, accurate stream, disable cache.

You can't disable the cache on a SATA/PATA ATAPI drive. The whole point of cdparanoia's extensive cache analysis is to figure out a way to defeat the cache because it can't be turned off. There is no FUA bit for optical drives in ATA or MMC.

The 'accurate stream' bit is similarly useless (every manufacturer interprets it differently) and C2 information is similarly untrustworthy.

Plextors are not recommended for error free or fast ripping. They try to implement their own paranoia-like retry algorithm in firmware and do a rather bad job about it. They also lie about error correcting information (you do not get raw data, you get what the drive thinks it has successfully reconstructed). Plextors often look OK on pristine disks, but if you hit a bit error (like on just about any burned disk), you don't know what it's going to do. Plextors are, overall, among the more troublesome drives _unless_ you're using a ripper that does no retry checking (ie, NOT cdparanoia and NOT EAC). If you use iTunes, you want a Plextor. Otherwise, avoid them.

That was true ~15 years ago. Since then, Plextor's firmware gets along very badly with the rippers that try to be frame accurate, because Plextor tries to implement a much lighter-weight more error prone version of the same algo on the drive. The drive still doesn't do a realiable job, and it seriously mucks up the ripper.

A large hardon collider created "glue plasma" matter that is soup/liquid-like collection of particles?
I think I've seen that porn before

Stephen Elop.

Why the fuck is this case still in court and not already dismissed?

http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatically-cut-agencys-cos,19753/

Why would they waste money on Crowdsourcing technology?

Parole is a privilege, not a right. If your privileges are removed from you, you are not being violated.

Apparently they logged http access but not ftp access....

Disclaimer: I've RTFA'ed

The passwords were not stored in plaintext.
However, the web server access logs logged the passwords entered in plaintext. That was what was downloaded from a publically access ftp folder.

Are you stupid or what?
Google does NOT have a patent for using anonymity online.
What Google has is a patent for one method of providing anonymity online.

There are plenty of ways to offer anonymity online, other companies are welcomed to use their own methods. If they want to use Google's methods, they will have to license it from Google.

Says right there: "Its shutdown was caused when one of four coolant pumps for a reactor failed to work."

Could probably have continued operating on the remaining 3 pumps, but was shut down for safety.

A couple of questions for you...

1) Who did you vote for?
2) If that politician you vote for had taken office, how would he or she have prevented TSA from happening?

Just curious

To be precise, they actually have no obligation to host your free speech, especially not in countries where there is no free speech.