I have a multi user OS, and i like using it that way.

Amen, brother. But we are hitting hard times; network-manager, those power-manager widgets in Gnome/KDE, Bluez, etc. all have one thing in common: for some reason, they assume that on one computer, there is a single user logged in, running a single desktop environment and probably can get root privileges. Come on, no network until X is up and somebody is logged in? No pairing with another Bluetooth device (other than through strange hacking) if you only have text console? Power-Management (which should be a system service) managed by a GUI app? I have nothing against graphical shells for those purposes, but the real work should be done by some kind of daemon, enforcing a system wide policy and accepting "suggestions" from user applications, with D-Bus there even is a thing that could accomplish that. But those freedesktop.org stuff is always extremely, well, desktop centric, enforcing a single user policy wherever I meet it. Scary.

Frankly, I give a shit if the S.S. can read the information on my phone if they detain me. First, in order for me to be detained by the S.S., I'd have to be in a pretty precarious situation in the first place. I'm waiting for the "first they came for the _____" responses. The reality is, the S.S. doesn't give a damn about the average person. They're concerned with counterfeiters and threats to dignitaries and the President. If having the information off the phone helps them capture counterfeiters and helps to uncover terroristic plots against US dignitaries, fine by me.

It took some time for me until I recognized what kind of organization you are referring to with the abbreviation SS.

True random means that each item in your possibility list has equal chances of occurring. If your possibility list is the numbers 1-10, then each number would have exactly a 10% chance of occurring, in order to be truly random.

perl -le '$v = 0; sub random {$v=($v+1)%10;return $v}'

Perfectly random?

You apparently never studied RF physics. 88.1 mHz to 107.9 mHz requires a much smaller antenna than anything in the gHz-plus range. Add to that the fact that the FM band only spans 20mHz so you don't need a very agile tuner.

Frequencies at that range require an extremely large antenna (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_low_frequency). You apparently never studied SI units.

git. In a way, it brings version control full circle back to RCS with its local revisions in RCS/ or $foo,v. Instead of having to create a dedicated repository anywhere, you just do "git init" and have it right there, residing neatly in ./.git/.

Actually, this is not true at least here in germany, although widely believed. There is no need for any local merchant to accept a return without a valid reason (broken device). Your wife not accepting your new purple shirt is not a valid reason in this context. Most shops do this anyway, but only on a voluntary basis.

I agree. I also use a perl script to expand tinyurls to their full form in IRC and IM logfiles. Why introduce another (possibly weak) link into the, well, link chain?

So, it should be able to run User Mode Linux?

Try transferring a larger directory structure (e.g. using rsync) without harming owner and permission data.

Depends on the country you reside in. In germany, there is something called "Recht am eigenen Bild". It is forbidden to publish pictures of people without their explicit permission. There are exceptions of course for public figures and situations where the individual person is just a minor aspect of the picture taken.

Same here. I created to Perl script to create LaTeX invoices from gnucash: http://stefans.datenbruch.de/gnucash/gc2latex.shtml

Woosh! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Glove#In_popular_culture

She also played herself in a hilarious episode of The Big Bang Theory. "It's hot in here, must be summer!"

We now have this new thing called "HTTPS" that can prevent such things.

I wished Michael Bay did it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRS90V8BQGo