I'm thinking the best way would be an overflow in an array that flips the most significant digit of the target zip code. But I'm not a coder, so someone else can steal my idea.

An interestingly enough, that 1% of the people drive the continual development of those advanced tools.

I don't think it's that 99% of people don't use them, I think it's that 99% of documents don't use them, but for the ones that do, they're very important.

Would you like to know more?

I'm pretty sure that's what happened in starship troopers, the movie if not the book.

Ignoring the possibility that by the time we have space battles, we won't be able to eliminate our exposed profile by hiding in a convenient dimension somewhere

it'll definitely blow that Diet Coke / Mentos video out of the water...

I would guess that most hard core Linux users are out of the scope of this discussion, since there's no chance they'd buy Microsoft wares anyway.

I just watched a news report talking about a golf course here in residential New Jersey that's having their own private hunters come in and thin the population. They've got three weeks scheduled a few weeks apart, and they have optional dates scheduled after that.

Needless to say, the people who previously paid high prices for course-side houses are a bit nervous ;-)

The laws of thermodynamics disagree with you.

Frankly, I find it amazing that Usenet is still on anyone's radar. Even the alt.binaries groups. It's been a long time since I've found an ISP that includes a free usenet server. The reliable ones are the ones that you have to pay for, and honestly, if you're going to pay to pirate things, you're probably doing it wrong.

Until what point? You can't consistently say "increase the temperature to decrease the MTBF".

You'll end up with molten slag.

You know, very technically speaking, solar power IS nuclear power...

"maybe there's water"

I"we think there's water"

"we're pretty sure there's ice"

"the ice is probably water"

"there's definitely water in the ice"

"this ice is entirely water"

"this ice is Disani"

"Evian. '72, I suspect"

My only wish is that eSATA was supported on more servers. Sometimes the best way to transfer data between two places that don't have a lot of bandwidth is sneakernet. USB2 is much better than USB1.1, but eSATA across the board would be great.

USB3 is welcome. It'll probably be forever before it's standard on servers, though.

Yes, it can be a PITA. It can also allow you to authenticate against a centralized...well, pretty much anything....I use Active Directory.

The "dangers" are far outweighed by the advantages. I quit using slackware once I got to around 30 servers; I wasn't willing to continue to administer users the way I had been. I switched to CentOS and have been very happy since then. I miss the simplicity of Slackware, but that same simplicity precluded it from my network.