Changing the transparency does not mean there are two colors. In fact, the LCD doesn't play with the color at all, just the polarization.

Oh, and I got the joke

Well... I suppose you COULD do it like that... but my way, you get to play with lasers!

A laser aimed at the string can pick up the vibrations. Immunity gone.

When you apply electricity to the liquid crystal, the color appears. When you remove it, the color disappears. It's quite simple, really.

King Joulian says he expands the mostest and has a magentically attractive mating dance.

What about "other peoples code" did you not understand. I'm not talking about reading my own code.

yes everyone gets burned by that one time. then it's a non-issue.

If there were one single language to distinguish yourself it might be Swift. it's currenlty apple specific so this will limit your platforms and it's not a sysadmin language. it's an application language. But like perl it is suited for rapid development for small niches like the other languages you know. So you could sell it on a first to market sort of basis that might be consistent with your other skills. The advantage is it's new and thus a level playing field for the short dinosaur arms of an over-the-hill 40 something.

Like most people I thought pythons enforced white space and avoidance of braces and elimination of semicolons was constricting. Then I realized how easy it was to read other people programs. Python used to be even simpler to read when it only provided one idioms for one job (avoiding a dozen way to do the same thing resulting in dialects). Now it's adding new idioms and genres so it's a little more opaque. But it's still easier to read than any language with comparable expressiveness. (Lua is refreshing for similar reasons).

I'm going to create a goatse tone-code emitter and leave it running on the library computer.

it used to be on the internet no one could tell if you are a dog. now they will know.

You are misunderstanding the starting point. The starting point is one mile north of these rings.

They can have copyright protection for as long as they pay the exponentially increasing annual fee. First year is a dollar. Each subsequent year is twice the previous year.

No, they are made by running a tool called a grooving trowel across the surface of the sidewalk. This creates a half inch (or more) deep groove in the concrete, and because the concrete is thinner at the groove, that's where the slab cracks.

I'm sure the publishers of tainted versions of PuTTY also have MD5s I can download and verify against.

Don't you think that a person who is making a malicious version of Putty is also capable of putting MD5 checksums of the malicious code on their download site? Checking MD5 sums against those published by the author is useless. You need to check against publicly verified, independently published checksums.