That's been my preferred method since the mid-90's. It also makes fingerprinting the device more difficult if you are jiggling the values between sessions. Now if it were as easy on my Nexus 7s as it's been on the desktop/servers.

Sadly, a spell-chucker (int. sp.) gets you only so far; some need grammatical help as well. I've yet to see that as a browser add-in.

Sorry, but if there's nothing executing in the background, SQL Server Enterprise will see a 3% hit every three seconds on a dual-core Core 2. Even with largish loads it still doesn't spend much time, or effort, just 'hanging-out.' It's when you put it under strain (heavy transactional loads) that it can chew up your resources. And I sure as heck wouldn't be doing load testing on a dual-core Pentium. Load testing should always be done on the target. Anything else just doesn't make sense. In Real Life engineering.

Quite literally, freedom of the press meant the right to own and operate a printing press. There was also a separation in the treatment of libel and slander by printing press owners as opposed to speech. Which is why you still see distinctions in their treatment by law today. And for today, everyone pretty much has a printing press (as I, or at least Slashdot and their hosting company) at hand. Nearly everywhere you want to be (that's a joke).

It isn't open standards, it's that someone is attempting to extract monopoly rents (revenue) from the market using IP; expensive IP at that. Another player enters the market using "good enough" capabilities at a much lower price and whooosh....

Apple is to Betamax as Android is to VHS. [Unlikely I'm the first to posit that historical correlation.] As to the Android tablet vs. Windows Desktop, well that's small 'a' apples to oranges. The price may be comparable, the performance is nowhere the same. Yet. [And never will be which is why I'm trying all sorts of techniques to come up with seamless integration and dynamic loading across the platforms. Pipe dream, but still fun. For certain definitions of fun.]

Naw, you'd probably need a Poisson distribution ;-).

I thought tying smart meters into the internet was an idiotic idea from the beginning as it would be my first hack should I ever work with gangs/drug-users/ordinary-criminals (pick one or several). Given how competent the existing security on the grid already is, well....

On the bright side, now I can think up lovely hacks of the robot internet (stuff the cloud nonsense) which would be even more fun(??)! Picture a worm giving the robotic version of enemas....

That's the first sensible analysis of the requirements yet! Fortunately, unless I'm out in the field, the separation between bed and work is two feet. This has been interesting so far (as witnessed by where this is posted). Nice suggestions all.

It worked out rather well in my case. I was expected to do the chores (cooking, cleaning) from age 6 on with my younger brothers picking up chores as they became capable. [I should also add that I was learning electronic engineering at that age, taught by my mother to my Dad and myself. Lissitude patterns are fun.] Then again, the very first book my mother handed me when I figured out how to read, age 3, was Robert A. Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel."

Further it should be no surprise that I grew up a Libertarian, able to independently function with or without society, and entered the military for a first career. Funny how standards change. In any rational society, your children are inherent labor force for the family unit. Draw your own conclusions from that.

Really depends on if and how your VPN handles DNS leakage. As always, caveat emptor. I picked mine on the basis that I had a choice of whether and how it was handled before I paid.

Proper configuration is the part that kills most servers and it isn't something to take lightly. Distributed Denial of Service (DNS amplification) attacks are enabled by any idiot setting up a DNS server without knowing WTF they are doing. So yeah, go ahead and do it.

The one day I don't have mod-points. +5 ROFLMAO.

On the other hand (I'm also an economist, sue me!), when/if Google were to try this, there would be open rebellion among the interneterati. Not that most people would even notice, but then again, they don't seem to think much, if at all, about the NSA spying scandals either. For those of us that actually might care about this, couple of clicks or one shell-script and we're invisible.

Partially true, at best. If you are serious about using GPU's for anything whose erroneous result can kill people, you don't use consumer-grade GPU cards. I don't know what you have but I only use workstation-grade and then I verify the results, just as I would do with anything hazardous. As an engineer, I can't afford those types of mistakes.

And on the whole database thang? The GPU is chained to a database-eating machine (5.65 GBps SSD array, and yes, that's GigaBytes). Yeah, it can make pretty graphics with the results of a crunching session, but that was not why it was picked. Taking lots of big data and teasing out predictive analytics was the chosen role. 'Sides, I don't twitch right.