Cake or princess? The cake is a lie!

In the words of my ex (and also by use of, extending the amount of information you can track down about me) "Guard your innards!"

I've been lurking on this interwebs thing since the very late 80s, and I rarely leave a trail wider than I intended. Everything I do and say is effectively done through an alias, and I have one of those for each way I want to be perceived.

e.g. My most open information is tied to one of two IDs, "blackhawk-666" (and variants), and "ivan.hawkes@gmail.com", and yet a google of either will bring you up 54 pages or 397 pages - mostly programming related information. Anything you find on these two searches is likely to be true, and that includes my address, which lately I've not been so concerned about hiding. You ruffling through any mail I was too careless to shred, soak and then burn on an open fire is not my concern.

I hold other aliases which I use for when I don't want to be associated with the main branch of information kruft I leave in my wake. These are usually provided for me by hotmail aliases or one of about 50 user account variants ("Passwords are hard!").

I don't encrypt my conversations or go to great lengths to try and hide because I prefer to hide in plain sight...rig

"I fought the law and the law won, I fought the law and the law won." - The Clash

I'm starting a pool to guess how many uses before the game is erased and replaced with porn. Put me down for 3.

That, and you're getting a healthy dose of dopamine courtesy of the hard exercise.

I think the problem with your argument is assuming tool-makers are low skilled. It actually takes a lot of technical skill and craft to be able to perform the job well. Unskilled labour is the sort of work you see on an assembly line where a person can be trained for the job in hours or days at most.

There was also an impedance mismatch between the two examples you choose - one being of a paper whose meaning is insignificant to all but a few bored conference members vs a fighter pilot in a truly dangerous situation where every last thing needs to go right.

Had you instead chosen an example of a surgeon vs the person who screws caps onto toothpaste containers (now generally done by machine) then your result would have been completely different.

Not worth explaining why I didn't like it, just that I thought it was second rate TV even compared to the original Stargate and other spin-offs.

London is done in meters, or it was when I sold my flat there.

This is why I insist on doing all of my reading in Runic :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_alphabet

Over here in Australia we are dangling a larger carrot in front of the consumer's face. Aussies love their sports, and so channel Nine (I think) is now broadcasting large amounts of sport in 3D for the punters.

Given the availability of 3D content to many over here it will be interesting to see how our market goes in comparison to the US / UK.