"- Maybe his academic degrees are actually worthless (he doesn't say what fields they are in)."

From TFA, "He has a bachelor of science degree in education and two masters degrees: in education and educational psychology.

He's unfortunately reinforcing a stereotype about educational degrees.

We really can't assume it was Iranians that did the deed. If you were Chinese or Russian intelligence, don't you think you'd have assets in Iran, working with the Iranians, learning everything possible about the US assets flying overhead - and trying with all your might to knock them out of the sky?

Anecdote time: I've found memory management to be significantly improved in Vista and 7 over XP.

We get data dumps in .mhtml files that we have to open in Excel. At about 50 megs we reached the upper-limit of the file size we could open in a reasonable amount of time on XP, but Vista and 7 don't have a problem. On XP it can take 30 minutes for the largest files, on Vista or Win 7 it takes 30 seconds. Same version of Office, identical hardware (ok, SIMILAR hardware, ymmv).

How about we use them to launch things into orbit? Since, you know, we could really use something like that.

Why not do it yourself? One answer would be reports. There are standards for properly publishing your family history - and getting the footnotes and the TOC and indexes right takes a lot of work. There's a lot to be said for having a program that automatically gets those right after you've compiled the data.

There's also a stack of standard report types that you'd have to reproduce if you wanted to roll your own program and then share the results. Take a look at the report list for The Master Genealogist

Are you serious about Israel invading Iran? Have you ever looked at a map?

If the US were to invade, there wouldn't be any Israeli involvement because none would be needed or wanted.

As for Israel invading? That's seriously daft. Israel's population is less than a tenth of Iran's and they are separated by 500 miles and two sovereign nations.

Israel has about as much ability to invade Iran as the state of Iowa.

If Iran IS invaded, they won't be getting any Chinese assistance for pretty much the same reason. China has no ability to project that much power that far away from home and they have historically shied away from that sort of thing anyway.

I suspect you are the type of person who sees Mossad agents behind your favorite football team's losses.

I have the reverse setup and - just to trade anecdote for anecdote, it solved a sound problem I could not otherwise resolve.

I wanted to do what you do - linux host and windows vm, but Ubuntu installed on the hardware would not deliver sound through HDMI - which was a requirement for me. Reversing the setup allowed Windows to handle the HDMI interface and Ubuntu could make use of it.

That was 18 months ago. I assume Ubuntu has fixed that problem by now.

I'll third that (or fourth - wherever we are now).

I've been running virtualbox for a year now. On an underpowered physical machine I've been running an ubuntu web server machine and an ubuntu desktop machine on top of win 7.

Easy to set up and back up.

Upgrades haven't been completely seamless, though. Neither has transferring a VM to a new physical machine (lost a network interface), but it was fairly trivial to fix. Otherwise it's been perfect.

Good catch.

In re-reading the sentence I quoted, the statement "most of that is used to blow up party balloons" must apply to the mere 2% that is the lighter-than-air market rather than the 98% "other".

Which means that my conclusion about demand elasticity is probably 180 degrees wrong.

From TFA:

"Currently, the lighter-than-air market uses only two per cent of all the helium bought in the world. Most of that is used to blow up party balloons. "

Based on that I would expect the demand for party balloons would drop very quickly as the price of helium rises. That would allow plenty of helium to shift to airships.

You've cut off all their feet!

But that just encrypts the fs. Does that satisfy the law?

Wouldn't you still need to encrypt it at the db level?

No need to be a jerk, dude. Some of us are on company networks and don't recognize stormfront as a racist site - but our proxies do.

Thanks dickhead.

Or how about you try to be helpful instead of snarky and give a one-line summary definition:

Reliance-based estoppels—These involve one party relying on something the other party has done or said.