Damn, that was well written.

I think it's a bit funny (and appropriate?) that the Japanese song sounds (to my ear) so much like a Vocaloid. That said, to someone that doesn't speak the language a well-written bit of singing from one of those sounds pretty damn good.

Keep in mind a file with 755 will be examined and run based on the magic number at the front of the file.

Even shell scripts. #! is actually a 16-bit magic number, that also happens to be a comment in almost every scripting language.

Go ahead - chmod +x a random non-executable file and try to run it. You'll probably get something enligthening: "invalid file (bad magic number): Exec format error"

Because a proper user is going to run iterm2 after logging in and never touch finder again...

That's the fault of your file browser.

In all of these cases that's true - it's not Windows or OSX doing it, but Explorer or Finder (or thunar or whatever you're using on Mint)

You could theoretically do some packet inspection on the handshake and send a spoofed RST if you see something during the exchange you don't like.

I've only ever dug into the certificate exchange portion of the handshake. I'm assuming the cipher negotiation is also in the clear.

Sure, if there's a competitive reason to do so.

After all, they do the same for power/data/audio connectors too. (or at least they did.. *cough*nokia*cough* )

So... someone started a really big Civ V game. This is hardly news, even for nerds.

Not if it's integral.

I've heard this too, though on mine it was only audible when amplified to absurd levels (well, relatively).

Have you ever had a computer that made odd sounds though the speakers when you move the mouse cursor? In my case, it was a very similar sound. Again, quiet - but if you have it loud enough or it's otherwise quiet enough, you can hear it.

I believe this was a Sansa e200r. It didn't have an SD card, but flash memory - in either case still a lot of digital signaling.

Nope, because the image data is already pulled from the CCD and has undergone some minimal processing before writes to the SD card start to happen, so I don't expect RFI from the SD card circuits to matter.

SD cards are commonly used in handheld recorders, in very close proximity to some sensitive condenser microphones.

Maybe I'm lucky and mine is just quiet - I don't hear any noise even when I record at 96khz and play at 11khz... but I can certainly see this having an affect.

... derp, I was thinking of adblock. No idea if adaway works.

Doesn't work on kitkat, even rooted.

That's less for comfort and more for not breaking the engine. Generators tend to have a coolant heater as well.

If the coolant system is frozen, it doesn't work, and the "ambient" heat transfer from the engine to the auxiliary equipment isn't fast enough. The engine will damage itself before the coolant system is thawed enough to begin functioning.

That certainly was a fun experience. I use the term "fun" loosely.

One of the trees in the front yard exploded. The trunk just... blew. Wood shards everywhere. Not to mention all the transformer lightshows to rival a 4th of July celebration!