If PC gamers work together more than console gamers, based on my very limited experience in this field, I should never ever play a co-op game on a console, I guess.

Easy solution:

1) You need to have local mini-queues. If any of them slows down, that's tough luck for the two people in that queue, but it does not affect the others.
2) A line should feed a maximum of five cashiers. Have more cashiers than that? The system is still better.

Of course, real life issues like space-saving and people not getting the system will break it anyway. Been there, seen that.

> c] lawmakers passing laws that actually benefit a majority of people, not just a small minority.

While I am agreeing with most of what you said, and while I am pretty sure that requiring electric cars to make loud noises, let me just venture a guess:

You are male, white, able-bodied, in your 20ies to 40ies, earn/have enough money for a comfortable living and you don't have much respect or regard for the need of others who are less fortunate than you.

While I agree with most of what you said (and I lost a friend Acting Correctly to a car), I am not sure maintaining the level of noise is the right thing to do.

Assuming you live in the USA, things like educating drivers so they can do more than drive in a circle, requiring regular mandatory technical checks of all cars and other things that seem painfully obvious would do more good than a beeping car.

And if you are honest, being able to hear those cars would not have helped in situation 2 & 3. And it's not certain that it would have helped in situation 1.

You can make Turing machines with wires, water and lava. So it's actually Turing complete several times over :)

If we remember basic CS, a Turing machine does not have to be efficient, it just needs to be _able_ to do everything _in theory_.

That's interesting, I didn't know. I guess that's one of the advantages of running XFS on a SSD :p

(Yes, yes, TRIM is still not supported. I will either re-TRIM the disk manually or cycle it out if it really starts breaking)

I will rush to execute a pre-compiled binary from a self-admitted hacker/cracker group. Sounds like a great plan ;)

Anyone with less scruples and/or more time to poke stuff: Is Fritz!Box affected? I expect them to and want to call customer support, tomorrow :)

Shady accounting to force you to upgrade does not make Dropbox any more interesting, imo.

I will check out CrashPlan, though. Thanks :)

Yes. How does that make it a FLOSS solution, though?

Neither U1 nor Dropbox are FLOSS. You can host neither yourself. I don't want pictures of my family floating around third party sites. And I don't want to pay anyone else for what is basically a backed-up hard drive. I can do that myself. I just need something my mom can use, too.

You are still giving away your photos to a third party. Plus, you are limited to 1 GB of space or you need to buy extra. I would rather invest that money into my own gear than hand it over to someone else. Especially since half a dozen people would need accounts, which adds up quickly.

Yes, and I am using that. Yet, it's not for my mom. Joey Hess built a file tracker on top of git. I will need to look at that again, as well.

I'll have a look, thanks :)

Basically, I am looking for something that will not only back up my photos (and track file renaming/moving), but also offers me the option to sync photos between PCs. Think my sister automagically sharing pictures of her children with my mom, etc. Finally, it should run on Linux and Windows and either be really easy to use or just work in the background.

Also, I want a pony.

I am constantly amazed that there isn't _something_ which offers this. After all, I can not be the only one with those problems, can I?

Wait... it's still funny.