You are missing the point of the OP. While not elegantly worded, the original request is valid....

What are your secret CLI commands? These are the things that go INSIDE those bash scripts that make bash useful....Or maybe a bash construct that makes life super easy.

A new F18 HTPC install that I just did has 1897 different commands in /usr/bin, and an F20 upgrade that has been in service for a number of years now has over 3300 "commands" in /usr/bin....While I like to think myself a BASH power user, I am guessing that I actually know only about 10-20% of those commands. I know that many of those commands start GUIs and are probably not useful as CLI. But there may be a nugget of gold in the other 70% that I have missed after all these years.

My list is of useful commands:
- "Handbrake-CLI" for converting videos. It uses ffmpeg under the hood, but I don't need to remember all those parameters...I could just script ffmpeg, but Handbrake-CLI has already done that.
- "netcat" for just about anything over a network
- "flite" (festival) for voice synthesis (although I just discovered espeak)
- "sox" for converting audio files
- "asterisk" for making outgoing voice calls (not strictly CLI, but I can trigger a synthesized outgoing voice call with a bash script)

The one command I haven't found, that I want, is a speech to text command that will output on the stdout.

What you fail to realize is that your $165 plan would NEVER stay at $165...even with the absence of Obamacare. You will be aging. Healthcare costs continue to rise. I would wager that in 15 years your total premium outlay will be less under Obamacare than if you stuck with your $165 plan...especially if you start a family.

This is all about what is best for the American way of life. You will end up winning in the end.

Not sure how this would help anybody but perhaps computer programmer who would no longer need to deal with timezones.

Current Situation:

I need to figure out what timezone, and consequently what time it is where my friend lives in Singapore. But once I know what time it is there, I can pretty much guess what he is doing (02:00 he is probably sleeping...12:00 he is probably lunching...). I know when the "day off period" (ie. weekend) starts.

Under your plan,

I know it is 02:00 everywhere...but what the hell is my friend doing? would need WWW site to tell me the customs in Singapore.

Not to mention humans most places enjoy a 5 day work/ 2 day no work schedule...how would I figure out whether they are working or not? What time does Saturday start?.

Only thing of merit in this plan is the 24 hour clock.

If the FCC/FAA were to allow cellphone calls, I am guessing that the Airlines would install their own cellular antenna's on the planes and your phone would lock onto that. I haven't thought through the details but I am sure there is some way the airlines could make a buck on Roaming charges. The cell antenna to ground link would be out of the normal phone range.

They do that with WIFI today.

The phones automatically adjust their transmit power levels according to the distance to the tower and the messaging between the phones and the towers attempts to keep the RX power levels in a band. The (W)CDMA technologies spread that power over a wide frequency band (spread spectrum) with many phones transmitting in the same band, and each looking like RF noise to the others.

If the towers are 5 miles straight down (flying over a city), or 8-10 miles at some angle to the ground, then the phone is going to be transmitting on maximum power attempting to connect. If the antenna is in the cabin, then the phone is going to be at minimum power.

Looks just like an insect in the way it flies....could it be miniaturized? Most likely...

The innovation is that it can get from point A to point B autonomously in an environment that most other flying objects can't. Using this tech I don't think it would be difficult to let this thing loose at Wall street with instructions to get to the Empire State Building.

Pretty cool indeed. The weak minds are the ones that don't get it....

While it could have been worded better, I did understand the author's intent of the comment.....

A lot of people apparently use Truecrypt 6.0a and earlier. I don't believe sourcecode for those earlier versions has ever been published. That means people could be using a binary that is completely different than the Truecrypt 7...complete with backdoors or other vulnerabilities. No matter how much you analyze Truecrypt 7 software, all Truecrypt 6.0a and earlier versions should be considered vulnerable.

Suffering generally means you are conscious of your predicament and the loss has caused some sort of physical or mental pain that can be quantified. I would argue that very few have suffered....yet. Those that have suffered probably deserve it, at least in my ethical/moral belief system.

The danger in Clapper's mentality, isn't what has already happened, it is the potential for what might happen if a Hitler type figure emerges and decides to make arbitrary lists of "good" and "bad". Then what Clapper is doing today will influence who ends up on the "bad" list and the suffering will begin.

Because if you strap a bomb to it, and then blow it up, someone will complain...

The difficulty of everyday driving is the "predictability" of what will happen on the road. Too many humans are unpredictable on how they will handle a given situation.

Case 1: "the polite driver". This driver will give me the right of way when I shouldn't have it. They may stop and let me make a left turn in front of them at an unmarked crossing when they should just proceed and I will wait until a clear spot. Drives me nuts when people do that as it may cause an accident with a driver behind them not expecting what they will do.

Case 2: "the impatient driver". This guy will make be behind me and make a left turn around me because he thinks I am not moving fast enough. I saw one guy nearly lose the back meter of his car to an oncoming motorist.

Case 3: "the don't know where I am going driver". This guy will suddenly realize that his turn was 10 feet back and make it anyway.

Automation should smooth out all those kinks and make it predictable....the obvious problem is the transition period between mostly human and mostly automated....perhaps designated lanes for automation.

Same thing I do when end up in front of someones Mac which I am not used to....or in front of someone's "themed" Firefox which doesn't have all my bookmarks...or someone else's Windows box that doesn't have all the applications I am used to. I figure it out with the tools I have at hand.

GNOME3 works for me, and I am not the only one who likes it.

If you don't like it, by all means find something you do like....but you will need a better argument than "what do you do when you encounter something different".

I did get used to it, and now I find I like it...With the extensions.gnome.org set of extensions, I find that I can customize it to my liking, and get back some of the old things I like, while keeping a lot of the new.

FWIW, I am sticking with GNOME3, and I am guessing I am not the only one.

Java as an idea was great....write a program that compiles once and the binary can run on anything.

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Java as an implementation has failed miserably for just the reason mentioned by the parent. I have encountered too many apps that won't run unless a specific version of the VM is available.

Then there is Tomcat, evil software container...I have lost too many hours of my life trying to keep that beast happy....just today I got an email from a colleague who wants to restart tomcat weekly because something is causing it to leak file descriptors. More than 1024 files open at the same time...I could probably figure it out, but that would again be more hours lost to java.
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I am waiting for speed caps during peak periods and unlimited data quantities.

Streaming media is only going to grow, and the impact felt by me when my Netflix stream breaks 5 times in 10 mins, is irritating. During peak periods I have no problems with a bandwidth cap to 1 or 2 simultaneous streams.

But I do take issue when ISPs whine about all the bytes downloaded at 3AM when it costs them nothing extra. Don't limit total bytes....but do make sure each customer gets their share of peak.

From the TFA:

Sounds like they get everything they want without much review...

Try that argument the next time you are obnoxious in a bar and they kick you out. There may be a back door to the bar, but just because you use it to enter a second time doesn't mean you get to stay.

If you get a disguise and try to come back through front or back door doesn't entitle you entrance either. I am pretty sure if you keep coming back you are going to end up in a 6x8 cell.