Yeah, but you can't really run a temperature controlled fan stoker for a BBQ pit from a tablet either, which is one of the rPi projects I'm considering, being able to have a touchscreen to do the settings and view the temp graphs on would be kind of cool.

LUA Buglight from MS helps a ton in that regard, it's been around since Vista Beta and with it you should be able to find exactly what calls require elevation.

Yes, but in a well managed environment users won't get a UAC prompt because they won't be local admins, if the folks you've trusted enough to grant local admin to are still dumb enough to click ok to a UAC prompt when opening an Office file then there's literally no security system that will help you.

Then you haven't been paying attention, ATS, Redflex, and the other red light camera companies have been getting bad press all over the country, from Florida, to NJ, to Chicago where Redflex personnel bribed officials to get the $2B contract there, and there are public allegations from a former executive that they routinely bribed officials in at least 13 states: California, Washington, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Florida, New Jersey, Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia.

A good friend of mine bought a south korean air rifle, 45 caliber, 1.000fps. He bought it with a few rebuild kits, figures if he every runs out of ammo he can cast bullets and use the air rifle almost indefinitely. He's already taken a Texas deer with it on his property so he knows it's effective. I'm not really into the prepper thing myself but I did love the simplicity of the setup if you are inclined in that direction.

21,200 gallons per day @19knots ~= 46.5gallons/nautical mile or .000042 gallons per ton/mile which is about the most fuel efficient way to transport something ever invented.

That would be incorrect, and switching just 7% of their fuel usage from 1%+ bunker fuel to 0,1% low sulphur fuel is expected to cost Maersk almost a quarter billion dollars, meaning that completely switching to the more processed fuel would cost on the order of $3.8B per year.

When you add in the fact that a warship is supposed to be able to go for at least weeks at a time without any replenishment

Weeks? Try 6+ months for everything but aviation fuel, and even that is around 10-20 days on active war footing (Nimtz class carries enough fuel for ~20 sorties from the full complement of jets)

Hmm, I actually felt bad for the guy who ran the NYC office at my previous employer, he made $115k a year and to be able to afford a three bedroom with a yard he had a two+ hour each way commute to work. He was driving a ten+ year old car and barely managing to save enough to put his kids through school, his own retirement fund was essentially nonexistent. He wasn't wanting for food, but the same salary here in Cleveland has you living fairly well with much more wiggle room.

And you already make 3-4 times what a teacher with an advanced degree does, or a nurse.

In what world? I make less than 150% of the average for a teacher with a masters or an RN in my part of Ohio and I'm pretty highly compensated (technical manager at a larger company) with over 15 years experience in the field. If someone in IT is making 300-400% of those positions then they're either a complete rockstar at a tech firm with tons of free cash or those positions are woefully underpaid in that part of the country and that should probably be fixed.

I learned something today =)

I've been using Debian since forever, but dash must be a good enough copy of bash that it's never come up, heck I even run Debian on my cellphone via chroot!

Uh, the neighborhood parts store is the epitome of the above in my original post, they stock or have access to stock of OEM, non-OEM compatible, and rebuilds for just about everything including cars that are out of manufacturer support. Thanks for supporting my point =)

You know what's funny, you blast systemd as insecure yet it is every init based system with Bash installed (most of them, though certainly not all) that has been a security issue in the last few weeks thanks to shellshock.

You do the same thing you do with mechanical parts, you buy OEM replacement parts (federal requirements require that a certain number of each part be produced for every x vehicles sold), buy a non-OEM compatible part, or you rebuild or replace the failed component. In the case of the computer controlled battery controller you would install a Tesla spare, a rebuilt Tesla part, another electronically controlled fan, or a simple thermostatically controlled fan with sufficient safety margin to not risk an overheating situation but probably at the expense of some driving range. If you think a 70, or even 20 year old ICE car is going to be a daily driver without some combination of the above you've never worked on anything not supported by a current dealer network.

The registry has always been multi-tenant, even on a standard box with one user it's 5-6 files depending on OS version, and on a terminal server there can be hundreds of registry files open at the same time, plus registry redirection and virtualization is already part of App-V.