Maybe that's why nobody likes hipsters?

Glasses, normal or Google, have to be worn in order to fulfill their function. And wearing glasses no matter how expensive they are is more uncomfortable than not wearing glasses. The same reason many people can't seem to like 3D cinema, they simply don't like wearing glasses.

And you will never will be.

Don't forget that you will need a good workbench and a good chair. And lots of shelves! Heating (in case it's not inside your house or apartment) and a sink in the actual lab is nice, too.

It may be conceivable but it's not true. I know because I live in Germany, and I know for a fact that "FernwÃrme" is not done with nuclear plants (besides nobody would want it) and it's not done anymore since the 60s. Every home and every building has their own central heating unit here. The only thing that was heated by a nuclear plant besides the rivers in Germany that I know of is an open air bath next to the Neckarwestheim reactors, of which one of the two going to be shut down because of the events in Japan, too by the way.

I live near 5 nuclear plants (120km radius), of which one (KKW Stade) has been taken off the net a few years back. Now my government is going to shut down two more plants (Krümmel and Brunsbüttel) because of the INES 6 event in Fukushima. And I can tell you that with each reactor shutting down I feel more relieved.

The big irony is that it's going to make no difference to the supply of electric energy in my country. That's all bullshit lies. Germany is going to export a little less electricty to other countries now. Which means the electricity cartel is making a little less money. Crocodile's tears.

That's either a lie or a weird joke. In France and Germany you do not buy hot water from nuclear plants. Almost everyone heats up their water in their home using central heating that runs on gas.

You really don't know? It's complicated to get it error-free onto your PC! Red Book has no reliable error detection mechanism like Yellow Book.

So why should I buy an Audio CD if I'm never going to listen to it anyway? But only rip it once or twice. They're simply a nuisance compared to downloaded music files. Please, go listen to some vinyl, grandpa.

Oh, just wait a minute there? Aren't we?

MP3 doesn't use fixed linear quantization. So the whole concept of using a lossy codec on 24bit audio is shady. The bitdepth for a given sample depends on what the encoder thought was the enough. And so MP3s or AAC in that respect can be decoded to 16bit or 24bit, but what dynamic range the audio really maintened is not up to the decoder anymore.

Yet I heard a rumor Apple already uses 24bit sources to convert to AAC, but the audible benefits are non-existant, as there are no audible benefits from switching from 16 bit to 24 bit PCM for listening. 16bit sourced AAC is different to 24bit sourced AAC, but 24bit sourced AAC has a lesser dynamic range than the original, in fact it should come very close to the dynamic range of a 16 bit sourced AAC file.

The only benefit is that when you already have 24 bit lossless files in your data center it would be totally superfluous to quantizie them to 16bit before the lossy encoding, since all modern lossy encoders that are relevant accept 24 bit input.

Just because what they did may be legal, although I have my strong doubts it actually was, doesn't mean that they are not black-hat hackers. They obviously have no morals, thus they are a black-hatted.

No, sorry. System encryption always needs a device/disk driver in the OS. The decryption code does not run on top of the kernel like a rootkit.

Sure, of course. All you said.

For a system drive you have to at least install the OS before being able to encrypt it with TrueCrypt or its fork DiskCryptor.

That's not a problem if you don't save any personal data to the drive after installing the OS and before a system encryption, but nevertheless this depends on how wide you define personal data. Is the choice of OS, any registry key, choice of software, isn't that personal information, too?

I believe I'm going to need it for real this time.

Won't it get bullied?