I must have missed the part of the story where the whole movie was ruined and they had to throw out the footage and start again from scratch. Or are you claiming that the unauthorized upload ruined the movie, causing it to be really bad? That actually makes more sense. X-Men: Origins was terrible.

Spoken like someone with the cranial structure of a Neanderthal.

FTFY

But how do you save it to a write only location? Easy, just use syslog and send it to a remote server.

And where do you keep the private key? Oh, easy, just dump it in /etc. That can't possibly be a problem.

No, you own the government. And it's not one of those limited liability deals either. You have part ownership of all the public lands and assets, and part ownership of the debt too. That's not to say that selling off everyone's houses is a wise plan for debt reduction, but at some point the hyperbole has to stop.

Tree planters (in Canada, at least) use Silvicool tarps too keep caches of seedings from cooking in the sun. They're a white tarp with aluminized Mylar on one side. I can attest that they're really quite effective.

Odd. While the link told me what a snow rake is, I had to google around for a half an hour to find out why I'd want one. For those people living in wintery places with sane building codes, the problem is this: US roofs are apparently designed for a ground snow load of 0.45 kPa (10 pounds per sq foot) to 1.4 kPa (30 psf). Canadian roofs seem to be designed for loads between 5-20 kPa (100-400 psf).

The moral of the story is to design your house for the 30 year snowfall.

But I *am* better. My Mac usage is probably coincidental.

This is not actually true. Business will upgrade if there's a business case for it. If the vendor will continue to support a twenty year old app? Great. Otherwise, they'll solve the problem some other way.

I even have an anecdote. I worked at a sawmill that kept a DOS machine around to download data from the hand held timber moisture meter. It was probably a really expensive instrument when it was purchased, but was old, and the manufacturer had never made Windows drivers. So the DOS machine was considered a business necessity. However, new moisture meters are only $500, which is substantially less than the cost of maintaining an old computer and software.

And then realize that the majority of the code that runs important systems was written by engineers, analysts, scientists and various technicians. It's the depth of knowledge in a particular problem domain that makes the programmer valuable. Expert programmers have their place, but that place is usually just cleaning up after the people who write design the software that solves the problem in the first place. In a sense, this also suggests a solution for the OP. Pick an industry and get familiar with it. You won't be very useful to a potential employer if you can't even comprehend the problem they're trying to solve. If you have time before graduation, look into getting a minor. Something like a GIS, physic, or chemistry minor can pay real dividends.

Augh! Comma splice! Will the horror's never end?

You had to pay for parking? When my daughter was born they gave me a voucher for parking. And I agree, it would be really weird to have to pay thousands for basic medical care. Or to not be able to quit a job for fear of losing health insurance.

Not my country. Canada was literally partied into existence. The founding fathers showed up in Charlottetown with a ship load of champagne to talk about confederation. You know, just in case they could find something to celebrate.

Is that World War II run backwards? Starts with an atomic bomb and ends with a retreat from Poland?