I'll add that if you get a Mac with the Fusion Drive setup (or reconfigure your Mac to use that feature), things are even nicer, as you no longer have to manually shuffle your "hot" data onto or off of the SSD drive. Instead, whatever data you access often will automatically migrate to the SSD, and "cold" data that you don't access often will automatically migrate to the spinning disk (if necessary). Works great!

(Note that this does mean that if either the SSD or the spinning disk die, you've probably lost your data on both drives -- but that's what backups are for. Pay another $60 for a basic external drive for Time Machine to use, and you're golden)

ROFL.... "my mistake was the computer's fault, your mistake was a sign of your intellectual inadequacy".

Or perhaps the OP also has a virtual keyboard (or some other not-terribly-bright auto-correct mechanism) that auto-converted a slight misspelling of "their" (e.g. "ther") into "there" and wasn't noticed in time.

But don't let that stop you from telling the OP how superior your language skills are to his. You clearly are a prodigy, that's why you get to post to Slashdot.

Ok! Ok! I must have, I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit. I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail.

If you can think of a way to strengthen all of the links simultaneously, by all means post it and/or start a company and get rich selling your perfect-security technique.

If, on the other hand, you can't, then strengthening the links one at a time may be the best we can do. Unless you think it's better to leave them unnecessarily weak?

Can you provide a reference for this? Because I can't find any evidence that it actually happened. (I know some old men volunteered to go, but I can't find any evidence that TEPCO took them up on their offer)

Sure we have (by approximation, anyway):

1. Astronauts living in the Space Station start losing bone and muscle mass after a few weeks.
2. Researchers living in isolated conditions in Antarctica start suffering depression and other mental problems after a few months.
3. Volunteers living in BioSphere 2 found that their biological life support systems failed and they had to 'abandon ship' after 24 months.

Note that all three of the above represent "easy" scenarios, where help and/or an emergency return to Earth is always minutes, hours, or days away. On Mars (or en route to Mars), help from or escape to Earth would not be a likely option.

Why bother with VR goggles? Cut out the middleman/women and just develop a headset that directly stimulates the user's brain's reward center. With that you can corner not only the porn market but the cocaine/marijuana market and the flappy-bird market as well.

An excellent refutation of a point that was never made. No one would trust closed-source *BitCoin* software. Hell, a lot of people don't trust open-source BitCoin software, which they can audit as thoroughly as they want.

Tell me, does being an obnoxious prick on the Internet improve your life in any tangible way?

Recently? I was under the impression that this was how MacOS/X (and indeed most non-ancient flavors of *nix) had always worked. Was I mistaken about that?

Given that Tesla, Inc. knows the position of all its cars at all times, what is the benefit of stealing one? If you then drive it for any length of time, the police will track it to your location and arrest you. OTOH, you could try to sell it for parts, but I doubt the Tesla parts market is large enough to do that anonymously; most likely anyone interested in buying said parts would know they were stolen and would report you to the police.

I'd say the killer feature is pure remote management. You don't need to physically manage your systems anymore.

I'm the opposite. I can't stand lacking the ability to dig in and change software when I don't like the way it works. It's rare that I actually do, but there's a huge freedom I get from knowing that when I need to extend the software, I can.

It's common for commercial software to not do what I want it to, either. I'd love to have a working amazon instant video client for my Android phone.

Stateful editing is a bit tricky to get used to, but once you've wrapped your mind around it there's a payoff: In command mode you have (at least) 26 commonly used commands available to you via a single keystroke.

In an editor without states, you either have to hold down the command key (or some other meta-key) to indicate that what you're about to type is a command and not a literal letter, or you have to (horrors!) use the mouse. Either way, it's slower than just being able to press a single key to activate each command.

Do people in fact still argue about vim vs emacs?

It seems to me the the vim-vs-emacs wars ended in a stalemate decades ago, and everybody who participated is resigned to the fact that nobody will ever switch from one to the other. Meanwhile, all the young'ns are using IDEs anyway, and have only a vague idea what vim or emacs is, so they don't really care enough to argue about which is better.

You have to admit, that would be a pretty good explanation for why they can't find it.... ;)