Damn, I didn't read your parent, and that sounded awesome. I went to google maps of McMurdo and was very disappointed to see no street view there.

That's not a stereotype, it's one of the primary characteristics of aspergers and practically part of the definition of the condition.
That's more like saying it's stereotypical to say that black people have dark skin. It's not true in 100% of cases, but a far cry from stereotyping.

Citation? I've never heard of any ban on these in the US. wikipedia seems to indicate there is no such thing except for convicted violent felons.

I'm seeing lots of comments on the security of this, but I'm not seeing how it is insecure. Users can currently install any software they want into their home directory - how is this any different? it goes into a system directory, sure, but that doesn't give the user any more privileges with regard to it.

An possible exception is if the package is setuid root, is runnable by any user, and has some exploit to get the user root. Does this happen? I can't think of what could have this, and it doesn't seem like the package manager should install such things (regardless of known exploitability - bugs do happen) Perhaps if this functionality is applied only to software that does not escalate privileges at all? I would consider that a sensible default, but don't know if that is the case here.

I do something not far off from this, but replace the Xmarks synchronization thing with the portability of the firefox password hasher extension.

1. about the same, make a long master password.
2. use the fiirefox Password Hasher extension: http://wijjo.com/PasswordHasher . It makes a hash using your master password with a site tag to come up with an individual password for each site you're on. So each site doesn't know the password for any other site, and you can either use the extension, or an html file (which calculates the hash with javascript) + copy/paste in order to get the password for any site, portably.

good question. as far as I can tell:

- story about tor on android goes up at http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/10/26/0130200/Anonymous-Browsing-On-Android-Phones-Using-Tor
- story about tor disappears - that url gives "The item you're trying to view either does not exist, or is not viewable to you."
- story about at&t congestion shows up at http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/10/25/1316233/A-Possible-Cause-of-ATampTs-Wireless-Clog-mdash-Configuration-Errors
- comments from tor story are on at&t story
- a few minutes later, the tor story reappears at the url of the at&t story, but now in the mobile section instead of yro. at&t content disappears from that url.
- at&t story appears as a new story at http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/10/26/0152214/A-Possible-Cause-of-ATampTs-Wireless-Clog-mdash-Configuration-Errors

weird.

may I recommend reading the very first sentence of the summary?

wait, sorry, forgot what site I was on for a moment.

I had similar experience. I plugged in something that turned out to be miswired, which blew out my power supply (antec, it was a decent power supply). I had a 6-drive raid5 on it, and it destroyed the controller boards on every drive but one. I advance RMA'd replacement drives (was happy that WD did advance RMA), then spent several days trying controller boards on each drive to get them copied onto new drives. Four drives I copied onto blank ones without too much problem, the fifth would die partway through the copy, but not at a consistent point, so I figured if I tried enough times I would eventually get a run where it stayed alive long enough to copy everything. and after a couple dozen tries, some getting up to 80% or so, average around 30%, I got the whole thing copied, and having 5/6 drives recovered, lost no data. No money, either, except shipping drives back to WD.

I called a couple data recovery places to see how much recovering that might cost - mostly out of curiosity, me being a broke college student. $18,000 - $38,000.

I couldn't even finish the headline before I was laughing out loud, I only got as far as TSA Asked to Ensure Safety and I was gone.

I don't know, I don't think there have been very many FALSE programmers. Not sure whether it's considered a shortage though.

well, yes, if everybody got hit by a bus, then who would be around to remember anybody?

also that would be quite an impressive bus.