Totally! I *wish* I had more business than I could handle on paper ... but sadly it isn't even a pain in the neck.

I did a summer internship at Apple in the late 80s and I'm sure things have changed quite a bit since then, but still one thing I thought was pretty clever of them as out-in-the-open evil schemes go was that they made it very very easy for employees to have no life outside of work. There was *tons* of social stuff built into work (happy hour every Friday afternoon, off-site stuff like going to a ball game or an amusement park with your group during work hours), and there were showers in the building and sleeping in your cube was tolerated. Adding a nice restaurant seems obvious -- one more thing covered that might otherwise make you leave work.

From Buck Rogers!

Obviously you mean Dot Matrix!

Actually, the Arduino (or at least, the Arduino Uno I'm holding in my hand right now) does have a CE mark on the back. Now this is making me paranoid about some of my own projects! What does CE testing cost?

Why are we talking about the circumference when you can't be any more than one diameter away from any other point on Earth? It's not as if the poll is actually asking you to drill the tunnel, it just wants its length.

Depends how often it takes to count as really using it ... but my DEC RL01 (14" 5 megabyte cartridge drive) still works whenever I spin it up. Those things are built like tanks!

OK then they're not eligible to register either -- so it does seem like a needless extra step. And I'm a little uncomfortable at how easy things get when you ARE registered -- where I live (western Mass.) they don't even ask for ID when I vote. It'd be OK with me if it were a little harder to get in the door, but once you can prove you have a right to be there it doesn't matter whether you remembered to get your name added to a list ahead of time.

2K cache memory for the PDP-11/34a -- it made a *huge* difference!

Aw c'mon, you could totally fit a TCP/IP stack in 48 KB. Pretty much nothing else, but as you say, there's your security for ya!