Bogota hired a few hundred mimes about 6 years ago to make fun of people breaking traffic laws. It was reported to be quite effective actually as the people were more apt to change their behavior because of shame then because of fines. Probably much cheaper than radar as well.

Kitchen PC is the best use that I can see for it. Hook up a 7" usb touchscreen monitor, and use it to browse recipes online in the ki.

Videos, pictures, and text is fantastic, and I'm glad you're capturing that. However, our most personal recording device is our brain as it captures emotions as well. I'd encourage her to make something for each of your daughters. It doesn't matter what it is, a drawing ,a knick knack, a story in a bound book, a little table, it doesn't matter a bit. It just has to be a thing that will be there and remind them of her. Digital information is great, and I love technology as much as the last person on /. but they are no substitute for memories brought on by something tangible that you can hold and was created by someone.

I can see where they could use stored electricity to shut engines off when landing to reduce noise, charge at the gate, and take off without engines as well.

That alone wouldn't affect efficiency necessarily, but would probably allow the use of louder engine types that might be able to reduce efficiency, and it would reduce the opposition to airports allowing them to be placed in better locations.

The earth is flat though! It's not the earth, but space that's curved due to the influence of gravity, causing the edges of the earth to meet. I don't get why otherwise reasonable people don't understand this.

The Nexus One is pretty great in data centers. It kills pretty much all of the background noise. The Motorolla S9-HD headset however, while fantastic for music, is pretty much worthless in the data center or if you have your windows down in the car.

That's because the Nebraska Oranges are in such high demand that the farmers don't sell locally. Where do you think frozen orange juice comes from?

I made the mistake of moving a massive amount of files from one server to another with teracopy. When the move failed due to a dropped network connection, teracopy deleted all of the files in the queue, including those that it had failed to copy to the server.

Really? Where did you find a phone with a built in CD player? I want one! :-)

I remember DVD's, They made such pretty coffee coasters after I ripped all of their video to my media server.

I found some amazing compatibility the other day. I needed some files off of a hard drive for my old toshiba laptop.

The toshiba was an x86 core solo dual-booting the Windows 7 RC and Ubuntu 9.04. I threw it into my desktop with an i7 920 (64bit quad core) processor, Raedon 5770, ect, basically a bunch of hardware that didn't exist the last time the drive was booted.

Windows crashed on startup and wouldn't boot, but I was shocked when Ubuntu booted perfectly, connected to the network, and everything seemed to just work.

This is fantastic news! We can start charging people for incompetence then! We're going to be rich.

And no, I don't mean we, the United States, I mean we, as in Slashdot and it's editors!

Well, that went right over your head. Look up the history of the word "grok".

It may be that he knew exactly what he was saying, and his sentence would have been the same irrespective of whether he used that first word or... that other word I can't quite remember. Regardless, my point still stands.