Nah, computer periphials don't make a good AK. Well, maybe a Model M keyboard could be used for a receiver flat. But a shovel could do the job pretty good... (with photo evidence)

Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach: I just got kicked out of the unit. My flight status has been withdrawn. I'm through, Dead Meat!

Pete 'Dead Meat' Thompson: What happened?

Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach: It's my eyes. I've got walleye-vision.

Pete 'Dead Meat' Thompson: Isn't there something that can be done?

Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach: Well, there's a delicate corneal inversion procedure... a multi-opti-pupil-optomy. But, in order to keep from damaging the eye sockets, they've got to go in through the rectum. Ain't no man going to take that route with me!

Unless you have employers asking you to add it to you AS degree curriculum.... at that point it is serving the needs of your community. Which is what us non-research colleges do.

Especially when you are teaching programming in an online environment. I'm teaching a PHP+MySQL class right now, and I have my students discuss the layout of database tables, how they will write the PHP code to solve problems, etc. They aren't posting code - they are posting their thought process and planning. Their fellow students are commenting about pitfalls, bits that are over looked, edge cases, and different ways of tackling the same problem. I think they are learning more or learning better this way, versus a "read the chapter write the little program, repeat" method

Still legal to own full auto. Problem is the government closed new additions to the tax registry and so prices are artificially inflated to 10-20x real value.

Tax registry? Yes... tax. See, the NFA of '34 established a $200 tax on the transfer of full auto and short barrel rifles/shotguns and defined "any other weapons" which are also taxed. When a full auto weapon is made and sold, it is taxed on one of several forms - regular transferable, dealer sample, or LEO/military only. In 1986, the Hughes Amendment stopped *new* additions to the "transferable to civilians" registry. So an M16 that cost about $50 more than an AR-15 (plus the tax stamp fee) now costs $15,000 or so, plus the tax.

What I find sad is that in Miller vs US the federal government argued that since short barrel rifles/shotguns and full auto weapons were not "normal military items" (ie, what would be issued to your average grunt) they weren't protected by the 2nd Amendment, and so taxing them was OK. Of course, what has been issued to the "average grunt" since the 50s? Full auto, or at least burst fire, and the M4 as issued today is also a SBR w/ a barrel length of 10-14" depending on exact configuration....

Who cares? Embrace your inner redneck and use y'all and all y'all

Being able to quickly get the shell of a project working in a new language is a good mark of at least a good programmer. You know how to solve the problem (hopefully with some best practices), you just need to get the syntax working.

Windmills may or may not be better for the environment than nuke power, but the places you can put a nuke power station are more limited compared to where you can put a windmill.

No not spying, just what settings she has available to control access to her posts and such.

When I want to spy on her I just have her log into facebook for me and we sit and look it all over together.

Fortunately, I think the wife and I have done a good job on raising her, so we've never had an issue with her getting involved in anything inappropriate...

Only reason I got onto facebook was to see what my daughter could be doing (in terms of privacy settings, etc). Still no twitter, linked in, etc. But I do have a /. account (obviously), fark.com, a few forums, etc. None using my real name of course.

Guess you could always get your own domain, host it yourself, and install fingerd. Then just tell the folks that think something is wrong to finger you....

I'd say knowing which species of snake live in your area, and how to tell the difference between venomous and non-venomous look-a-likes (coral snake or eastern king snake? water moccasin or banded water snake?) makes you smart - you've prepared yourself for what we referred to as "activities of daily life" when I worked in physical rehab/therapy. Although running across a snake and having to ID it as potentially lethal vs nonlethal isn't a daily occurence (at least I hope not... and I live in the woods).

Being smart and/or intelligent isn't the same as knowing a lot of facts. Google can help you keep a lot of facts at your fingertips. The smart part (or intelligent part) is being able to learn about complex things, applying things you already know to new situations, etc.

Google may ruin a game of Trivial Pursuit (or bar trivia or whatever) but it isn't a substitute for doing a good job planning a process, designing a machine, etc.

Sorta like turnitin.com's business model. Require students to give you their content in order to get a grade, and scrape the web for text content. Sell lookups of newly submitted content against that content archive back to educational institutions. Then start up a pre-processing service for students to check their submissions against first before they submit to the teacher for a grade.

We had 5 1/4" floppy floppies in the 80s. And saved data on audio cassette. And even had 2.88mb 3.5" floppies that weren't floppy. Heck, some of us even had *gasp* hard drives!

I did it by eliminating extra sugar. Doc warned me I was pushing hte pre-diabetic stage with my morning blood sugar.

No more sweet tea, coke, or adding sugar to my coffee. Sucked for about a week, after that, no problems, and I've dropped 30lbs with no real effort other than breaking the sugar habit in that first week.

Quit smoking 2 weeks ago, we'll see how that part goes and if I end up gaining weight back ('cause food will taste better, supposedly, or maybe just noshing as a replacement for having a smoke ... so far hasn't happened)