More or less, this is how homeschooling works for thousands of students nationwide. Parents aren't really teachers, they're facilitators.

To me it just doesn't make logical sense to have a $50/hour doctor doing appendectomies when a $25/hour tech could do the job just as well.

what are you smoking? there's a damn good reason you don't have people with a bachelor's degree doing surgery! (nurses make $25-$30/hour) there are so many things that can go wrong, so many complications, so many drug interactions and allergies...

your example only holds if the technician is working on a live circuit where people DIE if he messes up!

over short distances...

bash $ -d /proc/[1-9]* | wc -l
204

While I love me some /dev/zero, zeroing out most flash chips just forces an erase next time you want to write a block. Most flash starts out at 1 and write operations only write the zero. Smart chips don't erase unless they have to. There's also wear leveling to account for. What you really need is a utility to tell the flash to erase itself.

I'm not a privacy lawyer, but how is running tcpdump while connected to a WiFi hotspot a crime? Is there case law to back this up?

I can tell you right now that the telcos monitor your wireless traffic all day long without batting an eye.

The MBR should've been tossed a long time ago. Extented partitions are an annoyance I have to deal with on a continual basis. On the other hand, I'm used to the MBR way of doing things. I setup a 6TB array the other day and kept trying to get fdisk -l to show me the size of my partition. What the heck... Every time I ran it I was annoyed that it was showing my 2TB. I knew from a technical standpoint that fdisk doesn't support GUID, but my fingers were so used to typing that command to see the partition size.

What I want to know is... why are hard drives stuck at 2TB? Did we reach some theoretical limit? Does the laws of physics start to fail at higher data densities? Don't get me wrong, I love my 2TB hard drive, but I want more!

My wife got into the better SAT prep courses at her high school by forcing her way in (there was some entry test she didn't quite pass). I'm glad she did because she was national merit!

Advanced classes should always be easy to get into!

I got one of those this time around... It took forever!

You really think the senate is going to do anything after the house passes their bill verbatim and the President signs it into law? The Senate may be many things, but they are most definitely not the House's lap dogs.

From what I understand, the US has very little interest in the Caspian Sea. It's the EU that gets its oil from that region.

Good to know... I could've sworn that one of the older tutorials used to recommend tabs over spaces.

For your second point...
What happens when you put tabs after the start of the line to make columns? Spaces would stay lined up as long as you use a fixed width font. Tabs cause the column spacing to change (when you change the tab size) depending on how much text is in each column.

I do prefer tabs for the other two stated reasons; also GNUmake forces the issue, and Python recommends the use of tabs.