Perhaps they want to run the machine and observe its operation.

Sorry, but your claim about warlike human societies is controversial, as has been amply documented by Ryan and Jetha in "Sex at Dawn." I don't have my copy at hand, but this ancient warlike humans meme is a myth they dissected and disposed of in the book. See Ch. 13, "The Never-Ending Battle over Prehistoric War." For one thing, the earth was sparsely populated in antiquity. Most human communities simply did not interact with humans from other communities. Hard to start a war without an enemy. A large part of the book ("The Way We Weren't") concerns itself with showing some accepted anthropological wisdom is just plain wrong.

Get a job on Wall Street and steal money from old retirees. You'll have enough for your dream house in no time.

Hmm. With tongue planted in cheek, what did you use for the length of a day, which is slowly increasing, due to tidal acceleration? If I make the simplistic assumption of a linear increase of +1.70 ± 0.05 ms/cy over a time span of 2^64 seconds, the total increase in the length of a day is given by 0.0017*2^64/(100*365.2425*24*3600) 9937419 years (100*365.2425*24*3600 is the number of seconds in a century with accounting for leap years). This obviously cannot be the case. We have no idea what the date will be 2^64 seconds from now, never mind that no humans will be around to record it.

This is good on Lion and Snow Leopard AFAIK: networksetup -getdnsservers Ethernet Wi-Fi

This command has extensive help: networksetup -help

I use networksetup every day. I have numerous makefile targets that change my network settings based on my location. I'm a a road warrior changing networks frequently and using a VPN and ssh to connect to the corporate network.

I have PhD in physics and mathematics. In a utopian USA, the idea of educating more scientists and engineers might be workable. In the current political climate, are you kidding me? Science is a dirty word for half the politicians in Washington, DC. I'm all for better science education. I'm not so sure the majority of my fellow citizens want that, though.

I am typing this in Shanghai. My company is a microcosm of what is wrong with the USA. We're selling high technology to a Chinese company, and we've been hiring high school grads in our US location to do work that previously required a college degree. I've been watching americans and europeans selling their souls to Chinese businessman in the hotel lobby for two months now. This is where the action is. The US is a fading light. China is a pollution-spewing industrial juggernaut.

You are flunking basic evolutionary theory, slashdot. Organisms do not evolve, populations do. Ontogenesis is not evolution. Lamarck was wrong.

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/misconceptions_faq.php#a4

Bacteria are prokaryotic. Human cells are eukaryotic. So we're a colony of mostly prokaryotes, if we're just counting cells. The eukaryotic human cells win the total mass race, however.

Removing all road signs and warning signals is know to make the roads safer. This has been done in several localities in Europe. Removing all the distractions makes people pay more attention to driving and to the road. This concept and the psychology of driving and traffic safety are described at length in a nice article in Atlantic Monthly by John Staddon, a psychologist.

Netbooks have been selling like hotcakes. Wired is on the beat.

You've got it backwards. Asthma is linked with excessive cleanliness. People who are raised on farms and exposed to a lot o dirt don't get asthma. Google "hygiene hypothesis asthma" sometime.

I had the same thought. More time outside the home also exposes the child to more dirt, more bacteria, and more of the tiny little worms out there. The beneficial effect of this exposure is known as the hygiene hypothesis. Kids who grow up on farms and poor people living off the land don't get asthma and a whole host of immune system disorders. There was a recent article by Jane Brody in the New York Times about the hygiene hypothesis.

Basically, a little dirt is good for you.

Uhhm, Jamie Zawinski blogged about this on Feb 11, slashdot. In case anyone was interested. He runs a club in SF; he received a shakedown from Yelp!

Perhaps most bad reviews come from picky eaters?

Online reviews simply are not trustworthy. No review is, really. You can't tell me what I like, and vice versa. We can probably agree that rats should not be running around the restaurant. We cannot agree on the proper seasoning levels and the drinks. Who knows what happened to your dish before it came out of the kitchen? If you dine out, you regularly place blind trust in the servers and the cooks. Why then compound this by trusting some guy with a yelp! account, who could be a shill?

Bonjour for windows is Apple's port of zero configuration networking for windows. My debian etch box at home has some zeroconf networking; it's called avahi.

Zeroconf is a good thing and should be embraced. There's a book on zeroconf by Daniel Steinberg and Stuart Cheshire, published by O'Reilly.