I mean, of course, 660. Getting over a bout of food poisoning that seems to be affecting my focus more than I thought it was.

If I read this right, wouldn't "sudo find / -type f | sudo xargs chmod 440" at a command line render the system completely immune to any further tampering?

The Yellowstone supervolcano killed ME in both 2004 AND 2008, you insensitive clod!

But you know we'll just reclassify those guys as enemy combatants, prod the 24 hour news cycle with some photo of some new thing Justin Bieber is doing and SQUIRREL!

Problem solved.

Then the kids would have their own damned jobs to go to

To dubstep, with penises flapping around to the beat of the music!

Seriously, how is Yahoo still a thing, anyway? The last time they were actually useful was in the '90's!

as the nook reader is slightly better than the kindle reader on android.

That's the only thing I use it for. I rarely buy real books these days.

"Trusted Malware Suppliers"

You mean, like SONY?

No, I remember that Thufir drank the stuff, and the red lips were a trademark of the Mentat.

However, in the book, they drank it because they *BELIEVED* it helped (placebo effect). It was never explicitly stated that it did help.

My prius cost me $6000 used. There were $3000 used models available, but they were all Gen 1 and didn't have their battery packs replaced.

That's what over-the-air updates are for.

WTF do you need a /48 for? A /64 isn't big enough for you?

You want my credit card number? Just convince Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon to have a netflix-exclusive video lovechild. Boom. Done. Don't need to know anything about it. Do this, and I'm sold.

Seems like those nice people did a pretty good job of keeping you away from the drop bears, based on the fact that you still seem to have all your entrails. Be easy for a drop bear to get a fella' as he's staggering back from the bar...

If they're going to be like that about it, how's about setting up a copyright-free car project that you could build down at the local makerspace? You could probably do something on the order of complexity of the Ariel Atom without too much difficulty, and pull in an engine from a local junkyard. If that's what it takes to own your own car in this day and age, the guys the automakers are cock-blocking are more than capable of coming up with the designs.