Considering the rules in Australia allow for something like 10% misread (so you are going 10% slower than the speedo says), I think that yes, he is claiming that exactly. I had my speedo re-tuned to match my GPS, but it was reading about 6kph over - doing 106 per speedo was actually 100 per road.

I regularly make the run along the B400 to see the family (regularly - about once every month). I always plug in the GPS, but it's more for watching my speed and that I always turn it on than anything else. Recently decided to let it have its head, figured I could always turn around if necessary - shaved a full half hour off the otherwise 12 hour trip (you know, when there is a blue and white behind you :P) because it took me off the highway.

I'm not saying your friend was correct - generally I will stick to the highway anyway, but this crap about lots of traffic is pretty rubbish - at 3 in the morning even the B12 is pretty dead, despite it being a main run for trucks doing the Sydney/Albury to Adelaide trip, you could be bleeding out for hours before someone sees you. It's not quite the M31, despite being remote that one you'd be hard pressed to bury a body before someone drove past, but major roads in Australia can still be pretty "cut off" from it all.

All that said, if you're not at least checking a gregories or your google maps before you go, you're a fucking moron to do anything big out here with no prep and nothing but your phone.

PBX developer who doesn't actually use the phone for communication purposes. This may explain a few things about my local Xen box ;)

The whole point is to engage in defence in depth - FreeBSD offers kern.securelevel to prevent you from being able to write to the file system, or change firewall rules. We have anti rootkit checking programs (do most people make regular use of rkhunter or anything similar?) Further, you need to encrypt and safely store backups. No password logging program is going to lift them from the hashes you got from the borrowed backup drives. Probably 60% of engagements I have been involved in managed to lift a backup drive from the environment, permitting only the tiniest changes to be made to live servers, thus minimising our risk of breaking things, and a (potential) black-hat's chance of being caught.

Making the hashes harder to crack makes it harder to crack into the server, live or from backups. You'd be surprised how many people forget backups.

It's not even that - I do it when I call a client on my way to a site (if it's not in the address book). You google the name and the word contact, google returns you the phone number but not much (if any) of the surrounding information, so you dial the number.

If a moderately intelligent tech is doing it that way, of course the masses are. Remove the phone number from public access, do what others suggest and set up a 900 number that costs to call, and go from there.

Your logic needs to be checked. Someone has gone to the effort of writing down all of Newtons work, annotated and bound into a big textbook. Someone has gone to all the effort of putting together a wikipedia entry on virtualisation and have even included an entire page worth of software comparisons. You don't see an "advanced user" getting shitty when someone says "on this particular hardware configuration every third packet gets dropped when using a virtual interface for 802.1q" because clearly that person has been working at it for a while. On the other hand, if someone asked on slashdot "how do I determine the length of the longest side in a right angled triangle" they would be shouted down for the same reason a lot of people are shouting down the OP. These are basics you can either look up, or pay someone to teach you (i.e. school/ university). Most of us have at least gone to the effort of reading the 500 page manual, because someone wrote it to make our job easier.

The culmination of knowledge on the internet should not be a bunch of people telling you the answer. Expert systems and other forms of AI make it easier to look up the answer (i.e. google) which should see, if nothing else, a reduction in basics questions.

Unfortunately this is not the case and there is a particularly large rise in questions like this - particularly amongst the currently-in-school generation of "first world" learners. My citation? Every day experience consulting into schools for OLPC-style deployments.

Canker or not you are dealing with a culture who have, well, read a 500 page manual or three. I don't see that it's a big deal to expect the same from others if I had to do it - of course I was doing it before a widespread internet connection was available, but I don't feel that times have changed that much we should not have to learn for ourselves.

Completely un thread related - if they seriously fed you that line of bullshit, make a complaint, the bastards get away with this crap far too often. If your iMac didn't come with system disks (i.e. it came with Lion/ Mountain Lion) they should have been able to show you the command+option+r internet based recovery system - no need to purchase more of their shit.

Maximum refresh rate is often significantly lower than a monitor would provide. TV shows/movies/etc. are generally 24hz, so the TV doesn't need to provide higher, whilst most monitors are 60hz min. Tried using a cheapish 3D TV for stereo 3D output from a AMD card once - horrid.

I hate the language as much as the next guy, but there is a good book floating around, Invent your own computer games with Python or something like that. As abhorrent as I am about a language that enforces where I put my tabs and returns, that book has been good for quite a few of my minions so far.

Do what we've always done - 10 year old jumps between a PC, Mac, (3)DS, iPad, HTC, and occasionally a Linux box when she wants to play a game against her big brother. She's got lots to learn, sure, but she's also had the ability for the last 4 years to use each of those devices for the appropriate purpose, swapping between some of them (upgrades and otherwise - most of the equipment is second hand bar the DS and iPad) depending on what she wants/ who is using them (e.g. Office is on PC and Mac, she can game from the DS or iPad, and she uses both the android phones and iPad for apps and various other bits).

I just don't see the point of locking any child in to one platform, whether you think they are fisher price, evil, or tha bestest open sauce thing evar.

It'd be great to have an automated version of Buzzword Bingo using the Kinect's voice recognition; you could track all of the buzzwords thrown around an office during the day instead of just one meeting/event.

You mean like how there's *always* been a human in charge when they've had an accident?

What known issues? I haven't run in to any in the past few years and I've been installing the devices into enterprise for at least that long. The only thing I've ever had "trouble" with is getting certificates issued for 2-factor auth, not that you can't do it it's just a manual process somewhat.