You bet! I only use double-ROT13 now (quad-ROT13 for important stuff).

But I have to kill it externally by the time I remember that I needed to use '-e' (which, to their credit, is on page 2 of the manual). B-P

I know I shouldn't. But every time I use it, I get trapped and have to pull up another xterm/console to kill it. It wouldn't be so bad if the "quit" commands were the first thing in the man page. And why ^A? I use ^A for 'start-of-line' all the time, and get annoyed when I realize it didn't work after I finished my paragraph. Now, ^X^C (no), F10 (no), ~. (no), M:q! (no), ^Q (no), M-F4 (no) argh!

I'm in your camp. Although 99% of my Dream Machine works fine, it stopped keeping time shortly after the warranty ran out. Not just keeping bad time, but actively resisting me trying to set it correctly! I'm guessing the RTC chip is broken somewhere, but that 1% brokenness has reduced its usefulness to being an iPhone-charging-picture frame. Blah.

Flash has 1 transistor per cell (1, 2 or 3 bits). HDDs have 1 transistor per 10^10 bits or so. (Plus the interface transistors in both technologies.)

I demand to know which multiple of 23.2 is the multiplying factor!

When I programmed against OpenSSL, first I made my own API wrapper so I'd never have to read the OpenSSL doc(s) again....

It's when a cat files a false affidavit.

Last time I went to Weird Stuff they had a huge stack of 1U, 8GB DRAM Dell servers for about $150 each.

I don't think a "Blue Book" system could ever work:

• Used IT equipment comes in bursts: imagine thousands of the same model of car in the same color/options all appearing at the dealership at once. Supply is grossly disconnected from demand. Pricing could never equilibriate.
• Computing power is still growing too fast: yesterday's servers consume too much resource per unit of work/infrastructure to justify using them. Witness the secondary price above—less than 1/20th of the original purchase price, but when networking, rack space, storage and power are included, the capital cost, even if zero, would still likely be too high.

I read "ribbon haters" and thought "hey, there are still people who use typewriters?"

Unless someone has plausably measured the curvature of the universe to be !=0 without telling me, the "singularity" can still be infinite in extent.

The word typically translated "day" or "days" in Genesis is originally "Yowm" (root meaning "hot"). Strong's translates this variously as "period"—it's a very general term that I usually read as "era".

My limited understanding is that most of Jesus' contemporaries believed in an ancient universe. It was Ussher's bestseller that, ahem, fixed that problem.

Concordance here.

Ingenious inventions here.

Remarkably, the oldest baryons in the* universe are in your head.

* From your reference frame. And only by a nanosecond or so.