What are you looking for, some fancy machine learning algorithm to compare the files? Just make the assignments something that doesn't have an answer available and be done with it.

Don't get me wrong, I love open source, and custom guitars are really cool, but what in the world is the point? A quick internet search brings up schematics for every meaningful electric guitar built in the past 50 years. Have you invented a new way to wrap the pickup coils, or invented a new way to wire up volume knobs? It isn't like Fender and Gibson have a monopoly, and wood does grow on trees. You can shape the thing any way you want with tools available at any hardware store. Are you really obsessed with a license for something that anybody could build using commodity parts? I suggest just take pictures of your process and put it in a blog with blueprints or something.

Would the world end instantly if forced to make quality products? It seems like almost all companies compete by making their products cheaper. This means reducing quality and selling space for ads and other crapware. Stickers have never helped sell a computer, for the simple reason that for all of the product's useful life a sticker only shows how obsolete you are. I have owned computers with stickers: windows 98, Y2k, Celeron, etc. How many of these stickers influenced ANYONE who was looking for a new computer. On the other hand, yes I paid more for a mac. No cool stickers. However, it makes quite an impression when you trip on the power cord and nothing bad happens due to the magsafe. Buy whatever you want I guess.

How much are they paying to keep track of this? I'm sure at least one person out there is in charge of this. THAT sounds like a good place to save some money!

What are they even thinking saving it for historical significance? Why don't they just enjoy it or sell it off to high bidders? What a waste. Are we saving it for when humans are really screwed during the apocalypse? Are we waiting until we are responsible enough to handle Gizmo-gremlin pets? I personally would be much more excited about drinking the real historical item, rather than a recreation. How are they even going to advertise the replica? "This whiskey tastes as close as we could to a famous historical stash, which we destroyed in an anal-retentive attempt to preserve history."

It won't take too much technology to reproduce Hawking's voice saying "I told you so"

I don't want to seem like a total pessimist, but I don't care at all what happens to the human race. If every human dies because of a meteor or something, the universe won't even notice. I think it is a bit premature, since we have never publicly met any others, to believe that our species is worthy of being preserved and expanded beyond earth. Thanks for the books, Hawking, but there has to be higher priority things to do.

Really? $20 off on a product I've never heard of? I try to stay positive when I think of Kmart's future, but I don't think anyone is going to be waiting in line at midnight for this thing. This is the same company that a few years ago had such a bad reputation that it's stock was selling for a third of what its real estate was worth.

So, we are ending "combat operations" but keeping the soldiers with guns there? It's only slightly comforting to hear that nothing has changed in the military since I got out (Only in an "at least it isn't me" way). This used to be the trick they would pull on all the missions I was on. When people get tired, just tell them it's almost over, whether it really is or not. Since I'm allowed to think now, what does an end to combat operations really mean? It sounds like they are just going to end combat pay.

I didn't think of this one. Google now wants to see everything you print too? George Carlin was right when he said we would eventually trade all of our freedom in exchange for new toys.

They cant rent it, or they would have to keep the prices the same. With "buying" they can lower the price later and screw existing customers. It feels a whole lot different to buy something and see the price go down than it does to pay higher rent than someone with the same toy.

I don't support it either way. Maybe we should be complaining about the cell phone towers and transmission infrastructure not being open instead.

I agree, ballsy. I say do the crawling anyway! It is obvious that the information has value, and is publicly available. In the intelligence world this kind of stuff is known as "open-source intelligence" and is where an estimated 80% of info is found. I hope the guy didn't sign the agreement. If so, he is probably the only person prohibited from doing the same thing again.

This book uses programmed learning that goes step by step through everything you will need and more. It is designed for self study. There is also a sequel book that goes into some much higher stuff. I used just this book as preparation for classes requiring calc 3 as a prerequisite.

I'm sorry for calling you a moron, but I wouldn't feel better calling you a novice. Is the little oatmeal homepage the site you are having trouble with? Well, how about some free advice so you don't have to deal with anymore SEO fraudsters. If you have 41k inbound links and you still have a pagerank of 0, I'll bet you have been blacklisted or sandboxed. Second, it doesn't really help your site to have the entire first page of your HTML consisting of ASCII art including profanity. Third, you have almost no meaningful text or alt text on your images. I don't blame you for being skeptical of professional SEOs, since most of them suck. How long are you going to blame Microsoft for your problems?

You sound like an absolute moron. Although it is a perfectly human reaction to support the search engine where you rank higher, you need to get a clue. I am a professional SEO, and hundreds of my client sites rank higher in Bing and Yahoo than they do in Google. Search engines are designed for different reasons, and Google is optimized for making money. This means that the advertising on Google gets a lot of click fraud. This still makes money for Google, so what do you expect? The sites above you on Bing might just be there for different reasons.